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Speaker 1: So when the doctor looks at you and goes Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees's shoulder is never going to be the same. What

430
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Speaker 1: are you supposed to look at him and say, no,

431
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fine. Or when someone in the college draft,

432
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Speaker 1: like this is one of the best players in the draft.

433
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Speaker 1: It's like the doctor looks at you, he's got a

434
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: degenerate knee. No, he's gonna be okay, we'll we'll just

435
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: ice it and do extra rehab. No, it's very, very

436
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: hard to overrule the doctor when it comes to one

437
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: thing with a little thing, right, you know, he's had

438
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 1: some shoulder stiffness or whatever. The doctor's like, I don't

439
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: really see anything, and you're like, let's risk it. It's

440
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: another thing when a documented major injury happens and you

441
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: got a question like is it worth it? It's why

442
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: you got to rely on the doctor. I mean, let's

443
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: face it, most of these teams that live in major

444
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,479
Speaker 1: cities have the best surgeons that they're relying on for

445
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: this information. Not because these surgeons want to be involved

446
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 1: with these teams. So when they give you the thumbs

447
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: up or thumbs down, you kind of just got to

448
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: roll with it. When he gives you the thumbs down,

449
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: and to me, his physical and any team that obviously

450
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Speaker 1: would sign him to a contract, the physical would be enormous,

451
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: and even then it's kind of taking educated guesses. And

452
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: the other guy is clearly Justin Fields, and I have

453
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: no clue what his market's gonna be. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: see some people like you get a one, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a first round pick for Justin Fields. If the

456
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bear's got a first round pick for Justin Fields,

457
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Paul should pick Justin Fields up on his shoulders

458
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: and carry him to that city. He is going into

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Speaker 1: the fourth year of his rookie deal. I don't envision

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Speaker 1: anyone that would pick up the fifth year of that

461
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Speaker 1: rookie deal right now. So you're getting a guy essentially

462
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Speaker 1: on a one year contract who hasn't even remotely come

463
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Speaker 1: close to proving that he can throw from within the pocket.

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Speaker 1: You're basically just taking an athlete who's played a bunch,

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Speaker 1: and he makes a decent amount of money because he

466
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Speaker 1: was a relatively high pick now just because I don't

467
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Speaker 1: think he's gonna go for a first round pick. That's

468
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Speaker 1: not the way the world works. All it takes is

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Speaker 1: two people interested in the services, and let's face it,

470
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Speaker 1: teams get desperate when it comes to quarterbacks. If I

471
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Speaker 1: had to guess right, now I would say a second

472
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Speaker 1: round pick. And honestly, if the Bears got a second

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Speaker 1: round pick for him, especially having the number one overall

474
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Speaker 1: pick and the fleecing that they got of the Carolina Panthers,

475
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Speaker 1: that they should be doing cartwheels. So that would be

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Speaker 1: my educated guests as of February eighteenth, on what Justin

477
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Speaker 1: Fields gets traded for. But he's getting traded Caleb william

478
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: is going to be the quarterback for the Chicago Bears.

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00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: I feel ninety nine point nine percent sure on that one. Now,

480
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: I guess they could like another guy in the draft.

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Speaker 1: But what I do feel extremely confident, I'd put it

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Speaker 1: at one hundred is that Justin Field's not go me

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Speaker 1: on a team. And then with both those quarterbacks the

484
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, I read us a headline today there was

485
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: an article in like the Pittsburgh Zett that there's like

486
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 1: arguments internally about Mason Rudolph and Kenny Pickett who should

487
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: be the starter. I have a rule, if you're arguing

488
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: over who should be my starting quarterback for twenty twenty four,

489
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph or Kenny Pickett, you probably need to get

490
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Speaker 1: a new quarterback. It's probably time to bring another guy in.

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Speaker 1: And I do wonder the two guys that we just

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Speaker 1: named Kirk Cousins depending on his number, would that be

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Speaker 1: of interest to them? And you know, I do think

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Speaker 1: when you look, they hired Arthur Smith, who do you

495
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: have a lot of success with in Tennessee a mobile quarterback? Now,

496
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: the one thing with Tanny Hill is Tannyhill was a

497
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: much better pocket passer than justin fields. But maybe Arthur Smith.

498
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean part of hiring these guys and paying a

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Speaker 1: coordinator like Arthur Smith a couple million dollars, guy's got

500
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: a big ego. The guy believes in what he can do.

501
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: And we can talk about his Atlanta experience. A coordinator.

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00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Just because you're a good coordinator, I don't even judge

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Speaker 1: your head coaching. Like he look at how bad his

504
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 1: offense was, probably overwhelmed. Not a good head coach. But

505
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: I've seen him be a coordinator and he was really good.

506
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: So if he is interested in justin fields, then the

507
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers should be interested in justin fields. And like

508
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Speaker 1: I said, if your argument is Kenny Pickett or Mason Rudolph,

509
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: probably time to get a new quarterback. We mentioned this earlier.

510
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: But big name players are gonna get traded. The question

511
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: is just who and when it's gonna happen all over

512
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: the league, and the teams that are most likely to

513
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: get rid of guys, especially like damn, that guy got traded,

514
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: are teams with new coaches. Now, I think the Raiders

515
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: in New England are a little unique because the guys

516
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: they hired were on the staff. So like when you

517
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: look at the Raiders, Devonte Adams or Max Chrisby, obviously

518
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: he's not getting traded. When you look at the Patriots,

519
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: you convinced me now their roster is not that great,

520
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: especially with big name guys. But like Mac Jones, probably

521
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: get traded for a bag of balls, right, But think

522
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: about all the other teams with outsider head coaches. Everyone's

523
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: gonna be on the table. That's just the way it works,

524
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: and you won't know it. Like it's impossible to guess

525
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: if you told me the Seattle Seahawks traded DK Metcalf

526
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: for a first round pick. You know again, I don't.

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00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's gonna happen. But when you get

528
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: a new head coach with a new vision and new

529
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: coaching staff, they bring in all these different ideas and

530
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: maybe philosophically where they've learned, they don't view it the

531
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: same and everything's gonna be on the table. This is

532
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: the way it works. So I think those are the

533
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: teams I remember being in the league when we'd go

534
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: to the combine. You would target those teams to go

535
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: who on their roster is of interest to us, especially

536
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: a guy that doesn't feel like it's gonna fit their

537
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: scheme moving forward, and then you talk to him about trades.

538
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: It's why it happens all the time when a new

539
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: coach comes in that a quote unquote big name from

540
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: that team is no longer on that team. Now, it

541
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee it. I wouldn't operate that way, but that's

542
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: not the way the league works. So I would say

543
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: you look around the league at some of the new

544
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: coaches in the new spots, like I would say, their

545
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: players are going to be available. You know, you would

546
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: call if you have interested in some guys at Seattle,

547
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: like they're not trading Jackson Smith and Jigba or Witherspoon,

548
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: but if you got some interest some other guys, like

549
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: give him a bucking buzz, give them a call. Carolina.

550
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, Derek Brown, Brian Burns, Like, hey,

551
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: you want these guys still, because if you don't, we

552
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: got some interest. You need some picks. You need to

553
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: restart your operation Atlanta, like you're gonna keep all those

554
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: offensive players or you want to get rid one to

555
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: help out your defense or help out your line, because hey,

556
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: we'd be interested in this guy. And then it gets

557
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: back to like, well, what are you willing to pay?

558
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: Like is Kyle Pitts on the table? Like I've not

559
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: given a first round pick for him? But could I

560
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: give a two on three for the guy and maybe

561
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: kind of strike oil. The other thing that's big this

562
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: time of year's extensions is you know the fourth year guys,

563
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: so you have your first round picks, right, Trevor Lawrence

564
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: is not gonna get an extension this offseason. Doesn't make

565
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: any sense, especially at the price points and which quarterbacks

566
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: you are signing for him or the Jacks. It makes

567
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: most sense for everybody. Let's just play out this year,

568
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: his fourth year and see where we're at at the

569
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: end of the season. But there are a lot of

570
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: guys in that draft class who are gonna want to

571
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: get paid and who I would imagine if they don't

572
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: get paid, are gonna either do a holdout or hold in.

573
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: And I think you can start right away with the

574
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: Jamar Chases, the Jalen Waddles, the Patricks Retains, the DeVante

575
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: Smiths and Michael Parsons. Those guys gonna want to get

576
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: broken off. And this is where it gets complicated, is

577
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: like you can draw a hard line and go, we

578
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: don't negotiate after the third year bringing non quarterback if

579
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: you're on a first round contract, right because we have

580
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: the fifth year option. Like that's what the forty nine

581
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: ers told Brandon Ayuke this offseason. Nick Bosa did not

582
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: sign his contract till after his fourth year. He did

583
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: not get a contract after year three, So Brandon Ayuk,

584
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: you just kind of have to wait. And I think

585
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: that gets very complicated. You either have a hardline stance.

586
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: Most people are kind of open minded, willing to do

587
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: whatever if it in terms of what they're willing to

588
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: do with their guy when they're willing to do it.

589
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: But the other thing is these guys that are not

590
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: first round picks. If you're a second round pick to

591
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick, you're eligible to be extended. Look

592
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: the Eagles last year, they extended Jalen Hurts after his

593
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: third season. Now do they regret that? Would he have

594
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: made less if they were trying to extend him right now?

595
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: You could argue that till we're blowing the face, because

596
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: I I don't imagine he would want to take any

597
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: less right now. He'd be like, well, I would pro

598
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: bowler again, look at my stats, even though it's like, well,

599
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: he didn't quite look like what you look like. But

600
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: this is where it gets very complicated. These agents are good.

601
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: Everything's based on presses, everything's based on these previous contracts.

602
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: That's where it's a lot like real estate. Right if

603
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: every home in your cul de sac is of similar

604
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: size and selling for a million dollars, you can't put

605
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: your home on the market for two million dollars and

606
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: expect it to sell. Just like if you're trying to

607
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: buy it, you can't expect to get that house for

608
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: six hundred grand. Like the price is kind of established,

609
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: give or take a little bit, and extending those guys, Listen,

610
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: you either feel good about it or you don't. Like

611
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: you feel very good about Micah Parsons and Jalen Waddle

612
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: and Jamar Chase and Patrick shtain like, these guys are

613
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: high end players. If you even have to hesitate, not

614
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: worth it. But if that guy goes on to have

615
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: a good season, Brandon Ayuk like, well, now he's you

616
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: probably could have got him last year eighteen nineteen million

617
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: dollars a year. He's probably thinking twenty four million dollars

618
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: a year. So you got to decide were going to

619
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: pay him that much money? Would we be willing to

620
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,479
Speaker 1: trade him for our first round pick and use that

621
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: pick on a player. It just there are no right

622
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: or wrong answers right now. You have to entertain every

623
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: idea and kind of go from there. I love this

624
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: time of year. It really is hard to beat the transactions,

625
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: the strategy behind everything, right from free agency to the draft.

626
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: There's a marketplace and everything has a dollar sign either

627
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: how much I have to pay a player, how much

628
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: draft capital I have to use to acquire a player.

629
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: And the best people at play in the market are

630
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: usually the best teams, and the teams that have no

631
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: clue what they're doing are usually like which is ironic

632
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: because David Tepper is a great stock trader. Look at

633
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: what he traded last year. For Bryce. I think he'd

634
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: like a redo on that bad boy Steve Sarkisian. Details

635
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: of his contract came out. He has basically paid this

636
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: upcoming year ten point three million, and through ten for

637
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: excuse me, through two thousand and thirty. That ten million

638
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: dollars goes up one hundred grand every year, so by

639
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirty he is making ten point nine

640
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: million dollars. He gets two cars, a private jet, game tickets,

641
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: and a country club membership. Now that country club membership

642
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: for you golfers. Austin Country Club is where the match

643
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: Play PJ Tour used to be. I googled it yesterday

644
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: has a seventeen year wait list. Well, if you're the

645
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: head coach of the University of Texas, you don't wait.

646
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: You just get the membership for free and you jump

647
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: the fucking line. I think he's a good example, and

648
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: I've been very very hard on sark Who listen. I've

649
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: always acknowledged he's a good offensive coach. I just never viewed.

650
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: I just looked at his resume. He wasn't a very

651
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: successful coach till this season. Where in this new world

652
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: we live in, stuff has changed. Nil has a huge

653
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: impact when you're at a program that can afford to

654
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: cut enormous checks, you should never suck and you should

655
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: compete for championships. And that's what I would imagine he'll

656
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: do moving forward, because his roster is going to be

657
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: so good because of the nil money behind the University

658
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 1: of Texas. But here's the one thing that I will

659
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: acknowledge that is cool. Listen, I've been fired before, I've

660
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: had had no money before. Like we all, anyone worth

661
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: their salt, goes through shitty times. And depending on the

662
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: industry you're in, like some of you may never be fired.

663
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: You change jobs, but you like you hate it. Maybe

664
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: you get a new boss, maybe you are an entrepreneur.

665
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: Maybe you've gone bankrupt, maybe you went belly up during COVID.

666
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: It sucks, But the worst times in your life professionally

667
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: do not define you. I've always believed they actually make you,

668
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: because when things are going good, I don't care who

669
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: you are unless you're like Nick Saban. Most people are

670
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna be a little happier. Most people are gonna be

671
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: a little more optimistic. It is hard to keep on

672
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 1: moving forward in the lowest points in time in your life,

673
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: personally or professionally and Sark a lot like Lane Kiffen

674
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: are two good examples. Now they were saved by Nick Saban,

675
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: And I think when you think of Saban's legacy, you

676
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: think of all the championships, and rightfully so, the greatest

677
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: college coach of all time. But I think in my

678
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: adult life he took the two most toxic assistant coaches.

679
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen was fired on the tarmac and was a laughingstock.

680
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: Sark was run out of USC because he was drunk

681
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: at team meetings. Like it just doesn't get any worse

682
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: than those two guys, and he resurrected their careers, and

683
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: he didn't resurrect their careers, like just got him back

684
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: working again. In twenty twenty four, they make it combined

685
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. You could argue Sark in Nil might

686
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: have the best job in all of college football Ohio State, Georgia,

687
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean USC. There would be some other guys, but

688
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: you could easily make the argument. In this world that

689
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: we live in college football, it doesn't get any better

690
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: than the University of Texas. Look at his fucking contract.

691
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: So listen, when you go through the shitty times, Like

692
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: I said, I've been fired twice. It sucks, but like

693
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 1: you realize the next day, the sun comes up, people

694
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: keep going to work. The world moves on. You do

695
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: need help, and most of us need someone to extend

696
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: a hand. You cannot do it yourself. And they were

697
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: both very lucky. Now they were both represented by Jimmy Sexton.

698
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: But Nick his willingness to open his doors, and he

699
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: did it to countless people and change their careers. And

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00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: when you think about, like one knock for Belichick, isn't

701
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: just that he couldn't win with Tom Brady, It's why

702
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: did all of his assistants suck? Why were they all terrible?

703
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: How's that fucking possible? They all suck? They all are

704
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,919
Speaker 1: just like run out of the building. Even a guy

705
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: that actually wasn't a terrible coach, Brian Flores, hated to

706
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: it couldn't be like, couldn't function with his offensive coaches.

707
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: The stories in that building with that guy, it was

708
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: like Jesus, now he's a really good defensive coach. So

709
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: their team was credible, unlike Josh or Patricia. But like,

710
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: why do you guys all try to act like this guy?

711
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: Yet all these guys go to Saban and in a

712
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,959
Speaker 1: weird way because he's so crazy, but so is Bill.

713
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: They like keep their own personal kind of flavor to

714
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: it all, but kind of use his model of the structure.

715
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: And then they go on to succeed. And I'm four

716
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: second chances, like, we all make mistakes. I've done a

717
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: lot of stupid shit in my life. I'd say ninety

718
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: five percent of it. I wasn't caught. I didn't get

719
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: in trouble easily could have brought countless times in my youth.

720
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: Look back, like like a lot of people like how

721
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: did I get away with that? Sometimes if you're not

722
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: mature enough to handle some of these situations, you go

723
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: belly up. And that's what happened to Lane and Sark

724
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: and they were both disastrous and then Nick Saban changed

725
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: their lives and now they're easily like Lane Kiffen has

726
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: turned Ole Miss into an sec power. Sark is gonna

727
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: be one of the teams that everyone bets on to

728
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: win the National Championship next year. So incredible story. But

729
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: I really think that's a feather in the cap of

730
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. Okay, let's do the middle Cooff mail bag

731
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in those direct messages.

732
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: It's from Brett when you described Andy Reid's work ethic,

733
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: can you give us examples. I'm always curious about the

734
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: habits that set greatness apart. One big advantage I think

735
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: there is for certain people I definitely don't fall into

736
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: this category is when you don't need a lot of sleep,

737
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: right like Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan. We're

738
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: notorious for not needing a lot of sleep and still

739
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: having energy and having the you know, your brain pistons

740
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders. Coach Reid, I feel I could

741
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: work on football for eighteen plus hours a day. He

742
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 1: didn't need that much sleep, so he was just constantly

743
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: And this is why I always say, when you do

744
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: what you like to do, it is so much easier

745
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: to work longer. And the people that like what they

746
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: like to do are just going to work longer on

747
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: their craft than someone that doesn't. Just basic like the

748
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: way we're wired. So you get these football coaches who

749
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: are addicted to football, and obviously Andy's more talented than

750
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: most guys. Then he doesn't need much sleep, so he's

751
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: not sleeping that much and he's just constantly working on football.

752
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: He's not like dicking around in the office during the

753
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: game week, right, He's just constantly watching film and they

754
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: just I don't even know how much to describe it.

755
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: Beside that's like I sat next to him when he

756
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: was doing this. I just know he was awake a lot.

757
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: I never went to the office during the season when

758
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. It's impossible to beat him into the office,

759
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. I've actually heard Spagnola's a lot like that, right.

760
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: One thing I heard about Gruden is like Gruden did

761
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: do the you know, super early whatever. It was four

762
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: four thirty, but he was also pooped out by like

763
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: seven o'clock at night. I've always heard this about Belichick. Right,

764
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: They're pooping out at seven o'clock at night, and I can't.

765
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I can't if I'm getting up at four or five

766
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: in the morning, I think I'm not gonna have a

767
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: lot of energy by the time we get to eight

768
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Some guys do, but by the end of

769
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: Saban like he was like seven to nine guy, the Belichick,

770
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: the Andy Reid, and I listen, a lot of younger

771
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: coaches are like this too. But it's the it's their

772
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: competitive stamina is elite their competitive stamina, and in football,

773
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: that means constantly watching football, but not just watching it,

774
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: like being unable to understand what you're watching. So if

775
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: you are super tired and not a guy that can't

776
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: function on no sleep, it's kind of a waste of time.

777
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: So it's to me it's a huge advantage for him.

778
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: He just needs less sleep. That's the thing about football.

779
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're a coach, you're not digging ditches

780
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: or whatever. You're just kind of sitting there with a

781
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: clicker in your hand the majority of the season, evaluating

782
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: your team, evaluating the other team in a dark room

783
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: at six in the morning or eight o'clock at night.

784
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: So when I talk about that, like work, ethic just

785
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: means the ability to watch tape NonStop. For the mailbag

786
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: thought on this list, a lot of people don't give

787
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: credit where credit is due. So this list is twenty

788
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: twenty four head coaching higher grades. Harbaugh A agreed, Dave

789
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: Canalis B plus, Raheem B McDonald B, Antonio Pierce B minus,

790
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: Callahan B minus, Mayo C plus dan QUINND plus. This

791
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 1: is of CBS Sports. How could canalist be a B plus.

792
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: How's that possible? He's a lifetime position coach. Did Pete

793
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: Carroll never wouldn't make him a coordinator? And then he goes,

794
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: he did have a really good year one year, and

795
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: you're giving him a B plus. I would just give

796
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: like a passing grade. But how could you even give

797
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: You couldn't give a fail, but you couldn't give an

798
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: A or B. H all the shit who gives? I

799
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: just don't care. I think that's why I like the

800
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: podcast space. I don't have to do any of this stuff,

801
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: like I don't know. I mean, I like Mike McDonald

802
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: a lot. He was arguably the best coordinator in the

803
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: league who wasn't a head coach. Is he gonna be

804
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: a good head coach? I got no freaking clue. He

805
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: could be the next peat Carroll or it could be

806
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: the next bat Patricia dan Quinn's better than a D plus.

807
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: How could you have a guy who's been to a

808
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl way below all these other guys? Were he

809
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: Morrise listen, he was a good higher like everyone really

810
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: likes him. Guy was running out of Tampa because he

811
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: was parting with the players. Now he was young. I

812
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: think these exercises are so fucking dumb, at least with

813
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: a player. I'm just trying to pick. Like, if the

814
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 1: Chargers signed Saquon Barkley, he'd be like, ah, probably gonna

815
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Harball likes to run the ball.

816
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: He's a good fit. He's gonna know him from the

817
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: Big Ten. Like I like that signing, Like it's easy

818
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: when a guy signs to NO, Like I like that

819
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: sign it doesn't mean it's gonna work out. But you

820
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: have no clue with the coach none Mike Shanahan and

821
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: won multiple Super Bowls, went to Washington, it was a disaster.

822
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: I thought John Gruden was gonna be pretty good. It

823
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: was also not great. So you just these head coaching

824
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: Remember Doug Peterson was the worst head coaching hire ever

825
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: beat Belichick in Super Bowl. This is so stupid these guys.

826
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: I just I don't play in that kind of world.

827
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: So it's hard for me even to like have a comment.

828
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: I just don't care. I think there are relevance, they

829
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: just don't mean anything. Is there precingent for teams front

830
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: loading contracts? Often they push cap hits down the road,

831
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,959
Speaker 1: But what about the opposite Joe Burrow's new contract doesn't

832
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: really affect the cap until after twenty five. If the

833
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: Bengals wanted to resign Higgins and have money available for

834
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: Chase in future years, could they give Higgins a front

835
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: loaded contract? Not sure how this would work, Yeah, I mean,

836
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened. I think a lot of teams

837
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: really value flexibility. So when you frontload a contract, like

838
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: let's say you put like thirty million dollars on the

839
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 1: books this upcoming year to give the majority of the contract,

840
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: I think it limits your ability to be flexible as

841
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: things arise. And that's why teams always liked the backloaded

842
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: flexibility because I can always keep kicking the can down

843
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: the road, and you can't do that when you front load.

844
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: So technically you one could, right, like the Houston Texans

845
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: could sign someone. You know, they got eighty plus million

846
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: dollars in cap space. If they wanted to sign t Higgins,

847
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: he if he hit the market, you could give him

848
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: forty million dollars this next year, right and shorten the contract.

849
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just trying to talk it out loud.

850
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why teams don't do that. I would

851
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: be the combine. Maybe we'll talk to a GM and

852
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: ask him that's that's a good question. Sort of an

853
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: anecdote followed by a question. I went to high school

854
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: in southern California, played football for D one Southern Section Football.

855
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: We played Oaks Christian my junior year. They had Michael Pittman,

856
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: Matt Carral Colby Parkinson. Pittman had five hundred total yards

857
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: and five touchdowns. Somehow my school won the game. I

858
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: don't think that was all in one game, or was it.

859
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it was all in one game.

860
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: If that's true, that's insane. The next year we played

861
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: Modern Day and they had Saint Brown go for two

862
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards and a couple scores. We lost by

863
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: forty What wide receiver, body type archetype is your favorite

864
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: to watch play? If there was a soul wondering, I

865
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: had one catch for twenty hundred yards of my Parksteak career.

866
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny when people say I always find

867
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: this like with people dating, like I have a type.

868
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: I never understood that I have a type, Like I

869
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: just kind of like, like I would be open to

870
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: date anybody who I thought was attractive, whether she's you know,

871
00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: got brown hair, blonde hair, tall, short. I've never been

872
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: one to have a type. I've never quite understood that, honestly,

873
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: I never have. Like I'd be open minded to anything.

874
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: I've dated people that look completely different than the other

875
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: and like no different with players like I really I

876
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: love watching Deebo Samuel play, just like I love watching

877
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: Davante Adams play. They couldn't be any more opposite. I

878
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:27,879
Speaker 1: just like good players. I don't necessarily have I would

879
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 1: say a favorite. I guess I would be more inclined

880
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: to watch more physical players. That's a huge element of

881
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: the sport which I enjoy is the physical element, right

882
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, Deebo, Samuel d K you know, can t

883
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: o forever, break tackles, run through guys, makes it happen

884
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: after the catch. But I'm also a sucker for just

885
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: an incredible route runner, right like I loved Marvin Harrison,

886
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: I like Brandon Ayuklot's why Davante Adams becomes such a

887
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: great player. Now, He's kind of a combination because he's

888
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: strong too. But like when you can just get open

889
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: at ease against anybody and then it's like, what the

890
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: fuck's Tyreek Hill never seen anything like that. He's a

891
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: great route runner, and he's got incredible speed and he's strong. So,

892
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm open to whatever it. Honestly don't

893
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: really have a favorite. Currently listening to the February fourteenth broadcast,

894
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: Romo did basically know what was up. The Chiefs didn't

895
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: call a timeout toward the end of overtime one because

896
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: they were gonna let it run to the second overtime.

897
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: The three timeouts were for the entirety of the next

898
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: four overtime periods. I know Romo probably didn't know all

899
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: the details, but he got it pretty much correct. It

900
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: doesn't there aren't four quarters left. It's not. It's not

901
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have a scoreless game four more quarters.

902
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: It's a drive by drive game, even on that first

903
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: drive for the forty nine ers, like, getting a score

904
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: is pretty essential, so using the timeouts. Everyone acknowledges Romo

905
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: didn't really know the rules. Most people didn't. Let's be real,

906
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: but to keep the timeouts for the second quarter, what

907
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: are we talking. You can use a timeout in the

908
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: playoff overtime to me strategically whenever you want. You don't

909
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: look at it like a game, right, you don't want

910
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: to use a timeout in the third quarter of a

911
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,479
Speaker 1: regular game, because you might need them in the fourth quarter,

912
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: especially toward the end of the game. To me, in

913
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: that playoff overtime, you are allowed to use a timeout

914
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 1: whenever you want, whenever you have three of them. It'd

915
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: be one thing if you only have one. You have

916
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: three timeouts, three for a game that honestly probably is

917
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: just gonna be a couple of possessions total, not even

918
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: just two possessions for you like total. So if you

919
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: want to use a timeout, use the freaking timeout. The

920
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 1: NFL s is it coming to an end? And with

921
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: the disinterest we both share in the NBA, do you

922
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: know what's crazy? Is the majority of my life. I

923
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: watched the dunk contest and the three point Contest. I didn't.

924
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I saw it a couple times last night,

925
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: and the guy and I went right by it. I

926
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: have no clue who was even in the dunk contest,

927
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: because I know that more than likely nobody I ever

928
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: heard of talk about an event that used to be

929
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: incredible that's now you can't pay a guy like me

930
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: who's grown up on it to even click on it.

931
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy, I certainly hope you cover baseball because there

932
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: are a few podcasts that do. That's not happening either,

933
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: and that has to do more. It's just it's not

934
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: a podcast sport it really. I mean, I'm a I

935
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: like baseball. I covered a lot, like the NBA, probably

936
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: though I'm not or excuse like I fall the NBA,

937
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: like I know what's going on, just like I'll fall baseball.

938
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm not watching the games during the regular season. Tell

939
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: me when the playoffs come, then I'll pay attention. But

940
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm not. We're not talking baseball on this podcast. And

941
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by the Dodgers the Yankees, like I love

942
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: the business behind it, but like, it's just not gonna

943
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: get covered here. And again, I don't cover sports, you know,

944
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: or cover or anything. I just talk about what I

945
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 1: want to talk about, and baseball is just not something

946
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,359
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna spend much time on. Beside, like if

947
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: someone hit ninety home runs, you know, something historic happens,

948
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: obviously we might mention it. But with Manfred declaring his

949
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: absence at the end of the twenty ninth season, what

950
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: major changes, I mean, it's I don't even I honestly

951
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: don't care. I said this forever when everyone pushed back

952
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: against the runner at second in extra innings and people

953
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: are like, this is not fundamental part of the game, Like,

954
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: who gives a shit? No one wants to watch an

955
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: eighteen inning game, not a soul. I've seen the parks,

956
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: you know, at twelve o'clock at night, it's it's ninety

957
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: people are there. So it's like, I think they made

958
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: some of those smart moves. Speed up the game, try

959
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: to get more action, ban the shift, a lot of

960
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: baseball talk. I have been a Colts fan since I

961
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: was seven, which was way before Peyton Manning. I was

962
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: very disappointed by the selection of Richardson because I have

963
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: never seen a quarterback play thirteen college games, be inaccurate,

964
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: be a runner, and do well in the NFL. But

965
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: here's my question, why do so many assume that just

966
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: because a quarterback is drafted high, he is a franchise quarterback.

967
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: We take those guys like Richardson, Fields and Darnold and

968
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: annoint them franchise quarterbacks just because of the drafted position.

969
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 1: I did a check one time looking at quarterbacks draft

970
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: in the first two rounds since twenty ten, and I

971
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: believe came up with less than twenty percent end up

972
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,720
Speaker 1: being average. But everything I read is Richardson. It showed

973
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,280
Speaker 1: great promise or he was the best player on the field,

974
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: but then why don't they produce? I would think it

975
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: should be the other way around. Don't expect much to

976
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: be shocked if they become good again, No running quarterback

977
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 1: has ever won a Super Bowl. Well, Steve Young did,

978
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: but he was a passer by then. Quarterback don't usually

979
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: get more accurate in the NFL. Josh Allen, did I

980
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying? I mean, what are they supposed

981
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,240
Speaker 1: to say? This guy sucks? He's never gonna be anything

982
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: like what's the take's supposed to be on Anthony Richardson.

983
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: We'll see, which I guess a lot of people have,

984
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: but that would be my take. We'll see. He definitely

985
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: physically is a freak show, but he played in four

986
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: or five games and ended up with a sling, so

987
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: it's a lot of unknown to me. The cool thing

988
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: though about the Richardson situation is how good your coaches like.

989
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: Your coach has proven he can win with randoms, So

990
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: if they can just get I think that's a huge factor.

991
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: Can he stay on the field though, I mean he took.

992
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: Some of his injuries were like innocuous hits. The concussion

993
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 1: he barely got touched. The shoulder injury, it wasn't even

994
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: a violent tackle. That's what would concern me. Before we

995
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: even get into the plank. We have no clue. Can

996
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 1: you play seventeen straight games? Let's let's do that first.

997
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: If Anthony Rigson had played this whole season, are they

998
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? Probably not because of the ups and

999
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: downs that he would have had. He was such a

1000
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: wrong run it like Minshew is a better player right now, obviously,

1001
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: but for you guys to be a consistent winning franchise,

1002
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: like he's gotta be good, We're just solid. Like you

1003
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: don't need him to be Josh Allen, can you just

1004
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: be like a top twelve player, Like you said, running

1005
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: is not not really what you do in the playoffs.

1006
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: Got a pass. Gotta pass to win. So I hear

1007
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I think anyone smart would just have

1008
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: a will see I don't think look at what he

1009
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 1: did and however many snaps he played, which wasn't much,

1010
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: I don't feel great one way or the other. I

1011
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't say, like, I'm betting against him, and I wouldn't

1012
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: fucking throw my mortgage on the guy. I would say

1013
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: he's just an unknown, an unknown with a lot more

1014
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: questions than answers, for sure. So if anything, you would

1015
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: probably lean negative because historically would show you a lot

1016
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: more questions than answers. When you're an NFL player, usually

1017
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: don't turn out to be stud players, And the number

1018
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: one thing you have to be able to do is

1019
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: get on the field. If you're not on the field,

1020
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: you're useless, just a reality of the game. If you're

1021
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: injured all the time, you just you're useless. I mean,

1022
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: that's just that's the bottom line of the industry. You've

1023
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: got to be able to stay on the field and

1024
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:32,720
Speaker 1: then from there obviously improve. But usually talented guys, coachable guys,

1025
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that love football. If they're on

1026
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: the field, a lot will improve, especially when you have

1027
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: the physical gifts. But to me, the biggest question with them,

1028
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: like how many games he played over the last like

1029
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 1: three years total of like fifteen games, eighteen games? The

1030
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: NFL season is seventeen. Now, how many games the Colts

1031
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 1: play this year? They played seventeen and they make the playoffs. No,

1032
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: they lost in Week eight. Ten they played seventeen eight.

1033
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: The guy play say eventeen games, it's like twenty twenty.

1034
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: So I hear it the volume