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Speaker 2: I'm going to be a wild card in a segment
Speaker 2: and a question about wildcards. As you see my incredible
Speaker 2: resume on the bottom right about, it's just these flag
Speaker 2: football curator of Angry Runs, I know. I think the
Speaker 2: biggest wildcard is the curator of the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 3: I think it's Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: I think it's a new head coach of the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bears who we have never seen.
Speaker 3: Be a head coach. We don't know much about. We
Speaker 3: just got the pictures and the stiff tie.
Speaker 2: And the smile and a really really talented roster.
Speaker 3: So if you've been reading the Caleb Williams article that.
Speaker 2: Came out from ESPN and based on social media, you
Speaker 2: have been. It was really weird last year for Caleb,
Speaker 2: really weird, really dysfunctional. I don't think that Caleb Williams,
Speaker 2: Matt ebra Flu's memory is year from now will be
Speaker 2: wonderful or even existing at all.
Speaker 3: He has been spoon fed. If you want to look down.
Speaker 2: On the Bears and disparage them about how they handle quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: I don't blame you. But since he has been arrived
Speaker 2: as a bear. Calebims has been spoon fed everything you
Speaker 2: can possibly need in terms of the front office, in
Speaker 2: terms of leadership, in terms of the general manager, including
Speaker 2: a very brash, young, very expensive coach that in years past,
Speaker 2: I promise you was a Chicago guy, they would have
Speaker 2: never hired Ben Johnson. They hired him for Caleb. They're
Speaker 2: drafting for Caleb. So can Ben Johnson make it work?
Speaker 2: I have no idea McCarthy. Sure, there's questions, but I
Speaker 2: actually think the biggest question of all is in his
Speaker 2: own Division A team he will play at least twice
Speaker 2: this year, and I think it's.
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson Giants.
Speaker 2: Aside in Cleveland Browns is the most interesting by far
Speaker 2: because they have four dudes.
Speaker 3: You're not going to start the season of four quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: So they got Joe Flacco, who's Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett
Speaker 2: who started twenty five games in the league, a third
Speaker 2: round rookie, and a fifth round rookie.
Speaker 3: One of them has to go.
Speaker 2: So my movie, it's out up for this cump petition
Speaker 2: would be get Out, Oh, get out. You can't all
Speaker 2: beyond the roster.
Speaker 3: Now. Get Out is a very loaded film. With a
Speaker 3: lot of messages.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying necessarily translate to this quarterback competition, but
Speaker 2: I will say one of those guys has got to
Speaker 2: be taken down to the basement and get lobottomized by
Speaker 2: Bradley Whitberd because.
Speaker 3: They don't all fit on the team.
Speaker 2: So who is going to get out and who is
Speaker 2: going to stay?
Speaker 3: Jordan Peele, we love you. But that's my movie title.
Speaker 3: I'm super happy for brock Purty.
Speaker 2: It's a cool story. You can make a Disney movie
Speaker 2: about it. It's amazing, all very very positive. I'm happy
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 3: You look at it. One hundred and eighty one million
Speaker 3: guaranteed and not the no trade. He just has everything.
Speaker 2: Now, is there anything in this for brock Purty that
Speaker 2: is not wonderful and great?
Speaker 3: Everything changed, His whole.
Speaker 2: Life is different, The whole team is different, His whole
Speaker 2: world is different.
Speaker 3: Grant Cone run a great piece on this for SI.
Speaker 2: He is now the seventh highest paid player in the league.
Speaker 3: He's maybe the seventh best player on the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: This whole dar of like, Wow, we have this quarterback
Speaker 2: who makes as much as a long snapper, and it's
Speaker 2: such a sweet little story and let's talk all about
Speaker 2: it and charm me in a mister irrelevant. That has
Speaker 2: all gone now, it's expectations now. It's like, that's all
Speaker 2: that sweet little montage we went through with you is done.
Speaker 2: Now we have to remember that there are only three
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the NFL who threw more interceptions in brock
Speaker 2: Party last year, he was fifteenth in touchdown paces passed.
Speaker 2: He was seventeenth in completion percentage. That's all fine. It's
Speaker 2: like a car that's just sort of decent and gets
Speaker 2: you from here to there, but you don't care because
Speaker 2: the cars three you just have to make insurance payments.
Speaker 3: That's it. This is now an aston Martin, this is
Speaker 3: a Bentley.
Speaker 2: This is you have to compete with those we showed
Speaker 2: those highest earning players. Those guys are Patrick Mahomes, who
Speaker 2: is the face of the league, Josh Allen, who's the MVP,
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow, who completely annihilated everyone last year, and then
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, who was constantly looked at as you are
Speaker 2: the one who was promised. So this is like the
Speaker 2: green day time of your life, something unpredictable like that
Speaker 2: was a wonderful full phase for brock Perdy and he
Speaker 2: went to a Super Bowl. Now it's like, go kill
Speaker 2: it because all those.
Speaker 3: Reasons the Niners were good because of your old contract.
Speaker 2: If they're not good now, that new contract will be blamed.
Speaker 3: Everything that they have done for the last three or
Speaker 3: four years is now flipped.
Speaker 2: They would build their whole roster because we have the
Speaker 2: cheapest quarterback in the league. Now they have to build
Speaker 2: their whole roster as we have one of the most
Speaker 2: expensive quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 3: Of course guys are going to go. It's guys. They
Speaker 3: had a.
Speaker 2: Window and they didn't cash it in. That's how this works.
Speaker 2: And it's like his deal was not like.
Speaker 1: A c De Strouds deal or Caleb Williams rookie deal.
Speaker 2: It was like he made long Snapper money. It was
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. They won the lottery in the draft with
Speaker 2: a seventh round pick. They had a few years to
Speaker 2: cash it in and they didn't do it because they
Speaker 2: lost to the Chiefs. So now it's like John Lynch
Speaker 2: has to go to work and build his team like
Speaker 2: most teams. Sorry, you have a really expensive quarterback.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2: I don't know when I see guys leaving there's no
Speaker 2: one who absolutely breaks my I like those guys. I
Speaker 2: like Drake Greenlaw. I like Deebo Fine. I think Deebo
Speaker 2: is time to go. I know Drake green Law had
Speaker 2: a huge injury. I'm not seeing names there with that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, I don't think Kyle Shanahanck can put
Speaker 2: a team together.
Speaker 3: I think this is a six and the left. I
Speaker 3: don't think that at all.
Speaker 2: But again, there's no filler seasons for brock Perdy. Now
Speaker 2: you have to be exceptional. There's no passenger stuff. There's
Speaker 2: no hand at to McCaffrey be exceptional. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he has that in him or not, but they
Speaker 2: don't have a choice, and I don't know.
Speaker 3: I keep saying.
Speaker 2: Engaging you as a fan West because I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: I hate so much. I detest the state of paying quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I think it is so stupid. I hate that there's
Speaker 2: not a middle class. I hate this attitude of well,
Speaker 2: you have to pay him, that's the going rate, and
Speaker 2: I understand that it is. But when I see that
Speaker 2: he is making money similar to Josh Allen and his
Speaker 2: name is brock perty it's ludicrous. He's a nice quarterback,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I hate that there is no
Speaker 2: reasonable thing about how about we just pay him thirty
Speaker 2: one million out No, it has to be all the
Speaker 2: way up there or nothing. And that's where we're at.
Speaker 2: Only those teams Josh Allen Bengals. Those teams sometimes they
Speaker 2: can win because their quarterbacks that good. I don't know
Speaker 2: if the Niners is. I think this is very good
Speaker 2: news because there's one thing that is bigger than your team,
Speaker 2: than our teams, and it.
Speaker 3: Is our country. And I like the idea of.
Speaker 2: Amateur players who've been playing flag football for a while
Speaker 2: and they've been stewards of the sport, and that's great
Speaker 2: getting to showcase in the Olympics.
Speaker 3: I think they deserve that.
Speaker 2: However, I am not gonna sit here idly by and
Speaker 2: watch the United States of America lose in football to
Speaker 2: another country.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I don't care what kind of football it is, tackle football,
Speaker 2: flag football. And I will bring your attention to the
Speaker 2: reason why I feel this way. Because everyone wants to
Speaker 2: talk about the nineteen ninety two Dream Team and we've
Speaker 2: all done it.
Speaker 3: I will bring your attention.
Speaker 2: To the nineteen eighty eight men's Olympic basketball team, which
Speaker 2: is the last team to feature non professionals. You got
Speaker 2: Danny Manning and David Robinson and JR. Reid before they
Speaker 2: were pros guys. They took the bronze in the eighty eights.
Speaker 2: They lost in basketball. Not only lost, they lost to
Speaker 2: the Russians. Nay, they lost to the Soviets. The kamis
Speaker 2: the Reds going out there with those guys. Two different
Speaker 2: guys named Charles Smith, including the one who lost fifty
Speaker 2: seven straight layups against the Bulls, and legend has it
Speaker 2: is still shooting laups in Madison Square Garden. They had
Speaker 2: a guy who's literally name was Bimbo. And we said enough,
Speaker 2: we're not losing to anybody. We're gonna unleash the hounds
Speaker 2: and hit you with Ewing and Jordan and bird and magic.
Speaker 2: You send the amateurs there to protect the pros. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take a loss from somebody. We're gonna lose the Angolo,
Speaker 2: We're gonna lose the Madagascar.
Speaker 3: We're gonna lose the fleep in Canada. I will not
Speaker 3: stand for it.
Speaker 2: Unleash hell give them Lamar Jackson breaking the pocket and
Speaker 2: throwing a seventy yards to Jamar Chase in the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone, and the United States of America
Speaker 2: will win via the NFL firepower.
Speaker 3: That's my message to you, Kyle.
Speaker 2: Is this a win for the NFL or a win
Speaker 2: for the Eagles or a win for everyone? Man? It's
Speaker 2: man and womankind, society, planet Earth. It's also a huge surprise.
Speaker 2: I did not think it was going to go this way,
Speaker 2: and I was not alone. I thought all the momentum
Speaker 2: was going towards banning this thing, not a football play
Speaker 2: on and on and on.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm genuinely, genuinely happy that I think justice
Speaker 2: was served and they're going to get to keep it.
Speaker 2: And there's people who are whining about it and people
Speaker 2: are throwing fits. I like how the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 2: are handling it. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, also in the NFC,
Speaker 2: also likely playoff team. They go out on social media
Speaker 2: and they start saying like, we're ready, can we bring
Speaker 2: a look at this? So they got Vita Vea and
Speaker 2: then they got Desmond Watson who's four hundred and seventy pounds,
Speaker 2: and it's like the tweet says it right there from
Speaker 2: Trevis Sikima. The league didn't ban the toush push, so
Speaker 2: the Bucks did it themselves. They're batting down the hatches,
Speaker 2: the backing down, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: They are ready to.
Speaker 2: Stop this thing, unlike the Packers who are now the
Speaker 2: bullseye of the tush push and who play the Eagles
Speaker 2: week ten at Lambo National Television, and I hope the
Speaker 2: Eagles run at fifty times and the only time they
Speaker 2: don't run is when they get to the goal line
Speaker 2: and headed to their new running back aj Dillon, who's
Speaker 2: an ex Packer. That's going to be the one to
Speaker 2: watch now because of this. Is the Chiefs dynasty still alive?
Speaker 2: Or did the Eagles end it? I mean they got
Speaker 2: They didn't just lose the Super Bowl. We saw Brady
Speaker 2: lose super Bowls. They got thumped. They did not show
Speaker 2: up for that Super Bowl. They didn't belong on the
Speaker 2: field that day. During the dynasties we've seen, you know,
Speaker 2: we know Montana never lost one, Brady lost them, but
Speaker 2: in every single one it was this dramatic thing. And
Speaker 2: then the one they actually were getting thumped, they came
Speaker 2: back from twenty.
Speaker 3: Eight to three.
Speaker 2: So is the Chiefs dynasty still alive or did the
Speaker 2: Eagles break it? I think I don't think a dynasty
Speaker 2: survived that type of ass whooping. And as far as villainry,
Speaker 2: I think that I think that.
Speaker 3: The Eagles ended the villains.
Speaker 2: I think the Chiefs were the villains in the eyes
Speaker 2: of so many and the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Became heroes for destroying them. Look forward to.
Speaker 2: This season, though, it's going to be different because I
Speaker 2: look to Nick Sirianni, who looks like a villain. He
Speaker 2: reminds me of actually Joel's performance and the Bear like.
Speaker 2: Some people just want to punch through the screen and
Speaker 2: destroy him. But Nick Sirianni now has a cause where
Speaker 2: they tried to take his weapon from him. And let's
Speaker 2: not forget Nick Sirianni also has bleep you money now
Speaker 2: on the sideline, he has job security, he has insecurity
Speaker 2: with the play, he has money. Nick Sirianni is going
Speaker 2: to be an absolute feast of content next year, and
Speaker 2: if it goes to making him a villain, I don't
Speaker 2: think he gives a damn. My takeaway is the Titans
Speaker 2: have zero primetime games, zero and I'd like to say I.
Speaker 3: Can't believe it.
Speaker 2: But I can completely believe it because this is not
Speaker 2: only a franchise is routinely disrespected. Batman is by far
Speaker 2: the most overlooked, underrepresented, disrespected, number one overall pit quarterback
Speaker 2: in my lifetime.
Speaker 3: Understand this cam Ward, who is.
Speaker 2: Big and strong and cool and friendly and professional and
Speaker 2: has a very interesting backstory.
Speaker 3: Is getting nothing. You will not see him.
Speaker 2: In primetime because he's the quarterback of the Titans.
Speaker 3: And I have comps for you here, I have comps.
Speaker 2: You might say, well, you know it's a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 2: a big deal. Last year Caleb Williams number one overall
Speaker 2: pick three primetime games. And you might say, well, in
Speaker 2: Chicago's a big media market. Okay, how about Bryce Young,
Speaker 2: he plays for Carolina. He got two primetime games as
Speaker 2: a number one overall pick quarterback.
Speaker 3: Go back a year.
Speaker 2: Before that, even Trevor Lawrence media market thirty two as the.
Speaker 3: Number one overall pick quarterback. He got a primetime game.
Speaker 3: And this cam Ward is saying, why don't you love me?
Speaker 3: You can't even toss.
Speaker 2: Me the back end of a primetime doubleheader that starts
Speaker 2: at ten am.
Speaker 3: Eastern, And no, we will watch anyone. Just give me
Speaker 3: a chance here.
Speaker 2: You can't just just give.
Speaker 3: Me a charity Thursday night game.
Speaker 2: It's like you literally don't remember the Titans.
Speaker 3: And I don't know what cam Mored ever did.
Speaker 2: To anybody to make him so unlikable, so uninteresting. We
Speaker 2: would rather give ten primetime games to the Shador Sanders
Speaker 2: deal one to cam Ward, who was drafted five thousand
Speaker 2: picks ahead of him. I want to see this guy,
Speaker 2: but apparently no one else does.
Speaker 3: Get to the wildcard round. Cam maybe so wow. You
Speaker 3: know what it'll be Saturday at one pm. They'll bury it.
Speaker 3: Trust me, it'll be the worst time slot.
Speaker 2: Cam Ward could get the Titans to the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: and they will put it at like a ten am
Speaker 2: kickoff Pacific on a random Saturday.
Speaker 3: That's what you have to do.
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