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Speaker 1: What is going on everybody? John Middle coop Freeing Out Podcast.

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Speaker 1: How are y'all doing? Everyone, have a good weekend, Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 1: get some presents, uh, eat some food, and uh watch

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Speaker 1: some football. That's what we all do over the holidays.

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Speaker 1: Big show coming up. I am, I just hit record.

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Speaker 1: There's about thirteen minutes left in this game. Dicks just

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Speaker 1: we're We're just gonna record this bad boy. But I

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Speaker 1: have a lot coming up. Some thoughts on the a

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Speaker 1: whole Jacksonville and the draft stuff, the Miami Dolphins bench

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Speaker 1: two in the middle of the game, Cliff Kingsbury failed again,

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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer, Dwayne Haskins cut will dive into it all,

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Speaker 1: and of course the Middlecoff mail back at John Middlecoff,

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Speaker 1: people leave some new reviews. Very cool. Well let's start

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Speaker 1: with the Monday night football game, and let's start on

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Speaker 1: the positive note. The Bills have become a powerhouse. And

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Speaker 1: I talked about it last week that the most important

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Speaker 1: last week and he's like, how can these billionaires that

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Speaker 1: are so successful in other lines of work consistently screw

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Speaker 1: up their football teams? Because I'm like, well, if you

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Speaker 1: have a big time product or a big time idea,

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Speaker 1: your hires don't always dictate your success. Maybe you're a

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Speaker 1: The Crafts were in the commercial real estate business. You

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Speaker 1: the idea or the company, it's not gonna make or

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Speaker 1: or draft the wrong quarterback, I got no fucking chance none.

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Speaker 1: I will not win in football. And you can throw

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Speaker 1: the GM in there too, But a lot of times

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Speaker 1: different jobs. I know it's probably different now with Corona,

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Speaker 1: But with the Bills, and I talked about this last week,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are for real. They're twelve and three and

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Speaker 1: let them start over together. Why doesn't Belichick go somewhere

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Speaker 1: he's ninety. What's he gonna do with this team? Even

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Speaker 1: What is the point of Belichick sticking this out so

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Speaker 1: in the offense. It wasn't like got his arm strength.

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Speaker 1: Brady's arms fine, it says the offense and him on

424
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Speaker 1: the same page with Breeze, it's physical attributes. The problem

425
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Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning when he fell apart, it was physical attributes.

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Speaker 1: And I had someone tweet me like, you know, Peyton

427
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Speaker 1: Manning in two thousands sixteen won the Super Bowl. You

428
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Speaker 1: know what I saw that Denver Bronco team for years

429
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Speaker 1: it live. I was doing Raiders post game. I saw

430
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Speaker 1: him play that they used to joint practice against the Niners.

431
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Speaker 1: That defense is and the chance is kind a good defense,

432
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Speaker 1: dramatically better. I mean Von Miller, Hall of Famer, Derek Wolfe,

433
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Speaker 1: Malik Jackson, DeMarcus where Danny Trevathan all their corners from

434
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Speaker 1: a key to leave to Roby to Chris Harris is

435
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Speaker 1: a better team. Their defense was elite, was elite, and

436
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Speaker 1: they barely got in with Peyton, and they barely wanted

437
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Speaker 1: all with Peyton. The margin Frere against Rogers against Tampa

438
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Speaker 1: Bay and against Russell Wilson is not going to be

439
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Speaker 1: the same for them. So I'm out on the Saints

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Speaker 1: because the other teams, the Bears, the Cardinal of the Rams,

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Speaker 1: like we're all out on them. They cannot win the NFC.

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Speaker 1: So I got three teams. The Saints could win the NFC.

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Speaker 1: But Drew Brees is not good enough. He's old, he's

444
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Speaker 1: banged up, his arm doesn't work. It's just it's over.

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Speaker 1: I get Kamar School scored fifteen touchdowns on Christmas, Like,

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Speaker 1: I just don't view them as a team that can

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Speaker 1: win the NFC. Not with that Drew Brees. Clearly, Taysom

448
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Speaker 1: Hill is not like as smart as Drew in terms

449
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: of manipulating the defense, but he has a way better arm.

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Speaker 1: They're just kind of stuck in no man's land. Probably

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Speaker 1: win a playoff game, maybe, but I I can't see

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Speaker 1: them winning multiple playoff games for that version of Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: especially if they have to go outside at Seattle at

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Speaker 1: green Bay. No telling stock. So my three teams, and

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Speaker 1: I think we all agree here. The green Bay Packers

456
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Speaker 1: right now were the best team in the NFC. Their

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Speaker 1: offenses elite, the Kyle Shanahan, it's really Mike Shanahan's offense,

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Speaker 1: which Lafleur runs, which McVeigh runs, which the Vikings have

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Speaker 1: been running with Kirk Cousins, which you know Arthur Smith

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Speaker 1: runs parts of it with the zone run scheme. But

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Speaker 1: the true offense, which the Packers, the Rams and the

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Speaker 1: Niners truly run, and and Cousins and the Vikings have

463
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Speaker 1: run the last couple of years, is unstoppable with the guy.

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Speaker 1: That's good because we've seen good players in this offense, right,

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff when he was better a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo in two thousand nineteen, Matt shob Uh Cousins,

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Speaker 1: and it's gone well. Goff got to Super Bowl, Jimmy

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Speaker 1: gott Super Bowl. Shob In that offense with Houston was

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Speaker 1: putting up a lot of points. Matt Ryan is the

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Speaker 1: best of that group. One an m VP got to

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We have never ever seen a guy like

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. It's a cheap code. It is a cheap

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Speaker 1: code when you can run the ball like that and

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Speaker 1: get the play action boots that are just gonna be

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Speaker 1: wide open. And then he also gets to integrate some

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Speaker 1: of the plays that he's always run. But the base

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Speaker 1: of that offense is the Shanahan offense and Aaron Rodgers

478
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Speaker 1: has embraced it and they've kicked the ship out of people.

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Speaker 1: They score play days in the sun, in the rain,

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Speaker 1: in the snow, it don't matter because they have got

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Speaker 1: the best wide receiver in the league. They have a

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Speaker 1: dominant run game. Why because the run scheme works and

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Speaker 1: they have one of the best quarterbacks ever. So to me,

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Speaker 1: if their defense plays well, and I have a buddy

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Speaker 1: in the league that has advanced scout them several times

486
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Speaker 1: over the you know, the decade, it's just people talk

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Speaker 1: a lot of crap about their defense. But they do

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Speaker 1: have individual free players like He's like Jay's Alexander Baller,

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Speaker 1: Savage the young safety coming on Baller, Darius Smith, Baller,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Clark Baller. So yeah, they're linebacking plays not great.

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Speaker 1: They have four premium players on defense out of the eleven,

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Speaker 1: and two of them are dbs that can pick the

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Speaker 1: ball off the cover, guys that can make plays, and

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Speaker 1: the others are pass rushers. Definitely is so it's like

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Speaker 1: they're coming on that. They to me are the clear favorite,

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Speaker 1: mainly because of the offense and they're winning games in

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Speaker 1: the snow, it's a rap. It's over then would be

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Speaker 1: Seattle now as their defense benefited a little. They played

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Speaker 1: the Jets, they played a crappy Niners team like a

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Speaker 1: month ago. They played golf with a broken finger. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite as good as just look,

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Speaker 1: but it's clearly not as bad as it was in

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Speaker 1: the first half of the season. And we know when

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Speaker 1: Seattle plays good defense with this version of Russell this

505
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Speaker 1: like last half of the decade, they're an elite team.

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Speaker 1: So if they play good defense. Jamal Adams has changed

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Speaker 1: their team dun laps helping the past rush and their

508
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Speaker 1: defense just looks. One thing they always do, whether they're

509
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Speaker 1: giving up points or not, they hit you right in

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Speaker 1: the mouth. They try to knock you to the ground.

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Speaker 1: That's just Pete Carroll. They are a physical defense. So

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Speaker 1: if they're playing like if they're making plays on the

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Speaker 1: ball and actually getting to the quarterback and then playing

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Speaker 1: like that, they're gonna be really hard to beat. Russell's

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Speaker 1: elite uh. And we know that just that franchise has

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Speaker 1: a lot of equity in the playoffs. They're used to

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Speaker 1: playing in playoff games, they want a playoff game last year. Now,

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Speaker 1: granted Carson Wentz got hurt, but still and they they

519
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Speaker 1: played Green Bay a lot over the years, So if

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Speaker 1: that matchup happens, that to me is very very intriguing.

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Speaker 1: And the last team is is Tampa because a lot

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Speaker 1: like the Saints. I know the Saints have beat him twice.

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Speaker 1: I just trust Brady and they're gonna have to play

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Speaker 1: on the road to go to Green Bay to go

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Speaker 1: and like he's playing the cold for five years despite

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Speaker 1: being from California, he went to ann Arbor, spend twenty

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Speaker 1: years in New you know, New England. He thrives in

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Speaker 1: the cold. He he lives for. And then what do

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Speaker 1: they do well? They play good defense, so if their

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Speaker 1: offense can just get on the same page. And I

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Speaker 1: have not even put that much stock into the game

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Speaker 1: against Detroit because that was about as gutless of an

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Speaker 1: effort as you'll ever see. Detroit Lions quit. I mean

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Speaker 1: I don't use that term lightly because most guys, even

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Speaker 1: when you're quitting, you might just be bad. They quit,

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Speaker 1: they were over it. Maybe their team just sucks. They

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Speaker 1: had coaches, like fifteen coaches got Corona, they're like three

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Speaker 1: guys coaching, but Tampa beat the breaks off them. I

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Speaker 1: just think you see, like Tampa is a team and

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Speaker 1: the Saints would be too if I just trusted Drew Brees.

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Speaker 1: I just don't I saw it last year when he

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Speaker 1: was health here, he didn't have rib injuries. He had

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Speaker 1: the finger injury, and he came back from it. He

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Speaker 1: got beat in the playoffs by Minnesota. How is it

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Speaker 1: gonna win playoff games at Seattle at Green Bay Attle?

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Speaker 1: I don't see it. I just do not see it.

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Speaker 1: But I think Tampa would be the one, the other

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Speaker 1: team that could give Seattle and give green Bay just

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Speaker 1: in problems. Obviously they beat Green Bay, but I think

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Speaker 1: you gotta throw all the games. I'm just saying their personnel,

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Speaker 1: their style of play, their their their quarterback who was

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Speaker 1: just gonna be licking his lips if he goes to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay and his ten degrees and snowing, he lived

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Speaker 1: with it. I think I may think that many snow games.

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Speaker 1: Just wanted his career in January and Foxboro not an issue.

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Speaker 1: So I think the hierarchy is clear. It's green Bay,

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Speaker 1: it is Seattle, and in his Tampa are my three

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Speaker 1: teams that could win the NFC. I just don't have

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Speaker 1: the sames there with Drew Brees and his his arm.

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Speaker 1: That's just shot. Okay, let's talk about a theme that

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Speaker 1: we've been hammering home now for the last I don't know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ever since the Jets. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've been flirting with it for a while, but now

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Speaker 1: they've won multiple games. And I joked about this on

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Speaker 1: my other podcast with Guy is that? And I enjoy

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Speaker 1: doing it. I like using the word. I think it's

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Speaker 1: funny and it's a fun talking point when a team's

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Speaker 1: losing and there's a big time prospect in a draft.

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Speaker 1: But the word tanking and the NFL do not exist.

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Speaker 1: There is no such thing. Now you could, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: even say throw. We've seen it before with the team

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Speaker 1: that is the one seed, the Napoleon uh Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: when they arrested everyone because of the playoff positioning. It

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Speaker 1: it actually works in the opposite in the NFL. You're

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Speaker 1: so good you rest people week sixteen or seventeen to

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Speaker 1: go into the playoffs. But the inverse is not like

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Speaker 1: teams are never trying to lose, no matter how terrible

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Speaker 1: you are. And I was hoping the nine would lose

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Speaker 1: out to get like a top seven pick. They beat

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsberry, who just will get into here in a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But tanking in the end of it exists

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Speaker 1: in basketball. We we saw it, We've seen it countless times,

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Speaker 1: tons of teams have done it. And the major differences

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Speaker 1: in football than in basketball. I think it would be

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Speaker 1: more rampant in basketball if there was no lottery. The

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Speaker 1: thing in football, if you have the worst record, you

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Speaker 1: get the number one overall pick. Even when Sam Hinky

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Speaker 1: was doing that, how many times you get the number

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Speaker 1: one pick? Was it once with Ben Simmons. Other than

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Speaker 1: that he drafted like third a lot. He didn't get

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Speaker 1: the number one picked that often. He got the third

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Speaker 1: pick a lot. Now he upped his odds. He was

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Speaker 1: playing a math game. But unlike if the Jets had

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Speaker 1: gone Owen sixteen, they would have got the number one

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Speaker 1: pick if you had the worst record in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Now the lottery is even crazier. It's not as conducive

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Speaker 1: to get in the top pick. But back when Key

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Speaker 1: was doing it is the reason they change some of

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Speaker 1: the lottery odds. You still didn't you weren't you know

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Speaker 1: setting Stone to get the pick. You were just guaranteed

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Speaker 1: the top three pick. Now I think it's a top

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Speaker 1: four pick. But in the NFL, like you have the

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Speaker 1: second worst record, you get the second pick. Like that's

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Speaker 1: but that's not how coaches think because Adam Gaze does

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Speaker 1: not care. Right, he does not care about Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: Rumors are I heard someone told me this. I think

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Speaker 1: Adam Gates has told people this. Albert Brier wrote it

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna be on Bill Belichick staff. We'll see

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Speaker 1: Belichick likes him. I guess I don't know. Time will

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Speaker 1: tell on that one. But I don't think Gas is

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Speaker 1: that terrible. I was talking on social media. It would

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Speaker 1: have been Sunday night. Like Joe Banner, who was the

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Speaker 1: president when I was with the Eagles, he tweeted something

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Speaker 1: yesterday that he called Adam Gaze the worst coach to

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Speaker 1: ever get a second job. I said, hold up, pump

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Speaker 1: the fucking brakes there. That ain't close to true. Pat

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Speaker 1: Shermer is dramatically worse than Adam Gates. Check the records

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Speaker 1: Chip Kelly when he got fired from Philadelphia and got

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Speaker 1: his second job the Niners. That is one of the biggest.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what to call it. Just I

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Speaker 1: don't give a ship seasons. I'm not even gonna try

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Speaker 1: seasons you'll ever see. Uh. Hugh Jackson has got the

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Speaker 1: second job. He won one game in like two years

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Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. There are worst retreads that Adam Gates.

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Speaker 1: If Adam Gates had a healthy roster this year, maybe

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Speaker 1: win six or seven games. No, I don't think Adam

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Speaker 1: Gates is that good, but he's definitely not the worst

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Speaker 1: re tread by a mile of all time. Pat Shermer

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Speaker 1: is dramatically worse. Chip Kelly mailed it in. Hugh Jackson

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Speaker 1: spinks Hugh Jackson out of the league. Hugh Jackson went

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Speaker 1: from a head coaching candidate that multiple teams want to

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Speaker 1: getting the Cleveland Browns job to being out of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone listening to this thin because

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Speaker 1: that's that crazy. Now shouldn't be a quarterback coach or

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Speaker 1: something for sure. But he's out of the league. Part

636
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: of that's probably because he's getting paid, but still, uh.

637
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Speaker 1: And ultimately I compared to the dating a little bit.

638
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Speaker 1: We love it. I love it. I love the draft.

639
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this today. I think I like

640
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: the draft so much. It's kind of why I like

641
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: the stock market. I like values on things and different

642
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: people plays different values, maneuvering your ability to buy something.

643
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: And that's ultimately what you're doing with the draft pick,

644
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Speaker 1: trading up and down to get a player, knowing what

645
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Speaker 1: the guy is gonna cost. But that's really more past

646
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Speaker 1: like the top five. When we just think the top

647
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Speaker 1: couple picks, especially in a good quarterback draft, we think

648
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks going one too right. And I saw listen to

649
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Speaker 1: this guy. You know, I'm hit or miss with him.

650
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 1: But Florio had a really good tweet. He tweeted that

651
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: for as much as hype as we put it into

652
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, they get drafted one or two. Look at

653
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen and two thousand sixteen, because in two

654
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Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, Jamis went one and Mariota went to I

655
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: was doing a radio show at the time, and I'd

656
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: have on from Joe Klatt to New Haizel to just

657
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: people left and right that watched Marcus Mariota. Now here's

658
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: the thing, Like I watched the league much more than

659
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys that fall college football. I

660
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: also understand because I talked like scouts the way that

661
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: it's viewed a little bit differently. I think analysts in college,

662
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: in college basketball and in football throw these comparisons. You

663
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't just walk into a draft room and say this

664
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Speaker 1: guy Steve Young, and that was a name getting thrown out.

665
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: With Marcus Mariota. I was like, you know, Steve's like

666
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Speaker 1: a top eight quarterback of all time. I don't think

667
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: Marks mariotas that he's thrown The guy's wide open. But

668
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Speaker 1: that was just a name getting thrown around. Everyone thought

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Speaker 1: Mark Marioda is gonna be really good. Jamis Winston who

670
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: had some falls but was a really good pocket quarterback,

671
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Speaker 1: explosive arm. Neither one of them got extended. Neither one

672
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: of them is on their original team. The next year

673
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: was Goff and Wentz that went dramatically better than Winston

674
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Speaker 1: and Mariota. Golf and Wentz both got massive extensions after

675
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: their third year. Golf or Goth led his team to

676
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Is third year. Wentz almost had um

677
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Speaker 1: I guess the year before an m v P type

678
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: season and got injured. They both looked like the extensions.

679
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: The Golf extension might have been a little Bowl, but

680
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: the Wentz one made sense. GoF has been atrocis this

681
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: year as one of the highest paid players in the league.

682
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Speaker 1: He's now hurt and went Scott benched all four of

683
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: those guys. One guy is injured and not good, the

684
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Speaker 1: other guy's benched. Mariota is a backup who had actually

685
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Speaker 1: played pretty well in the Charger game that he played,

686
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Speaker 1: and Jamis is a one million dollar backup right now

687
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: who actually isn't the backup because when Drew Brees got hurt,

688
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: he maintained the backup and takes the hill played. I

689
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: think we gotta be very, very careful. I'm saying this

690
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: over and over. The Trevor Lawrence hype right now is

691
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Speaker 1: better than he is as a player, like the Trevor

692
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 1: Lawrence hype has exceeded his ability because his hype couldn't

693
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Speaker 1: be any stronger. I think he's the most hype player.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a more hype player, equally as hyped

695
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Speaker 1: than Andrew Luck. But Andrew Luck was better than Trevor Lawrence,

696
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Speaker 1: so if they're hypes are equal, like Trevor Lawrences hype

697
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: is just out of control, So anything less for Trevor

698
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Speaker 1: Lawrence to be like seven eight time Pro bowler is

699
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Speaker 1: gonna be a massive disappointment. The one thing with Luck,

700
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Speaker 1: like once he got to the league, playoffs, Pro Bowls,

701
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Speaker 1: Bang Bang boom with Grigson and Chuck Bogano, Pro Bowl Playoff,

702
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, Playoff, Pro Bowl, an f C Championship game.

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Speaker 1: That's what Luck did. Like, that's that's the hype on

704
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Speaker 1: this guy. And I see it was Zack Wilson, Zach Wilson,

705
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: and someone in the league told me he's like sixunds

706
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: justin field. It's kind of a raw product. Is someone

707
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: like a Josh Allen, you know that's gonna need a

708
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: little work. Not different than Josh Allen, but you know

709
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Speaker 1: what I mean, Like he's gonna need to get to

710
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: the league and just need to work. The other thing

711
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Speaker 1: is like, what's gonna happen next year without O T

712
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Speaker 1: A s. Are they going to exist? So we got

713
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Speaker 1: to be very careful because they were just time and

714
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: time again we see these results. Guy gets drafted one

715
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: or two can't miss star and that's not typically how

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Speaker 1: it turns out. Jameis Winston, no Mariota hell though, Jared

717
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: Goff of course not Carson Wentz not giving up, but

718
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: this year did not go well. That was back to

719
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Speaker 1: back years one to one too and two of them.

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Speaker 1: The second time go around, Goff and Wentz got historic cash.

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Speaker 1: What would the Rams do to not have paid Jared Goff?

722
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Speaker 1: What would they have do to have a do over

723
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Speaker 1: on that one? I'll tell you they'd give anything. Same

724
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Speaker 1: with Todd Gurley. So we just have to realize the

725
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Speaker 1: draft is fans. I love the draft, Obsessed with the Draft.

726
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Speaker 1: I've basically made a career kind of talking about it,

727
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Speaker 1: working in it. Uh, It's my favorite thing to talk

728
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Speaker 1: about in football. Beside this is the games on Sunday.

729
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: The draft, college football. How guys are gonna project, but

730
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Speaker 1: most of them will not become the way we talk

731
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Speaker 1: about him leading up to them coming to the league.

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Speaker 1: They just will not. History shows us that most guys

733
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Speaker 1: are not Pro bowlers right. Think about in the a

734
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Speaker 1: f C, Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson are probably gonna

735
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Speaker 1: take a Pro Bowl spot for the next six or

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Speaker 1: seven years. So if you're gonna go to the a

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Speaker 1: f C, Like if Josh Allen just maintains this, even

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Speaker 1: Lamar kind of be right there, like it's you're not

739
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: gonna go to Pro Bowls. So Trevor Lawrence like, it's

740
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Speaker 1: gonna be very difficult for him to just go to

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowls. Right if Zach Wilson is on, Let's say

742
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Speaker 1: they trade armed and he goes on the jet. It's

743
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Speaker 1: why the Jets situation with Sam Donald, I tipped my hat.

744
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: Remember I talked about within the last month, like he's

745
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: got to show something. He's got a draw a line

746
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Speaker 1: in the sand. And I give him credit. He just

747
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: kept swinging, kept swinging, kept swinging, because you just you

748
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: can't let the outside noise dictate you. You can't let

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Speaker 1: previous things impact you moving forward. You have to control

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Speaker 1: your own destiny as much as you can. And he

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Speaker 1: showed a lot of toughness in these last couple of weeks.

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00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: He showed a lot of moxie. He hasn't turned the

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00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: ball over, He's thrown some touchdowns, he's made some plays.

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Speaker 1: He's impressed. So to me, he's impressed. If maybe they

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00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: do want one of these other quarterbacks, so what they

756
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: trade them? More teams are gonna be interested in now,

757
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: say they want to keep him. Whoever the new coaches,

758
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. You know this guy showed a lot

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Speaker 1: of heart towards the end of the season, nothing to

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Speaker 1: play for beside refusing to go winless, and they started

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Speaker 1: winning games and kind of dominated, right, I mean, they

762
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Speaker 1: beat the crap out of the Rams a week ago.

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00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,240
Speaker 1: They shoved the Browns around, and the quarterbacks playing well.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, he was number

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Speaker 1: three overall pick. So it's not like, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: just a mid round guy that's kind of shown himself,

767
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Speaker 1: like the Jags have had a couple of times, right,

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Speaker 1: it's not one of those. It was a third pick

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Speaker 1: in the draft, a guy that ultimately, and I know

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Speaker 1: it's a different regime. The Jets traded up from six

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Speaker 1: to three to get from sc highly touted prospect. Most

772
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Speaker 1: people I know in the league loved him. Daniel Jeremiah

773
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Speaker 1: loved him. I liked him a lot too, and I

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Speaker 1: still think there's something there. Now, it's complicated. This, This

775
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Speaker 1: is not if you want to sit the little kid

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Speaker 1: table and just talk about we'll keep him or don't keep.

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Speaker 1: You got a factor in the money, so you know,

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Speaker 1: trade him. You get a rookie guy on a four

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Speaker 1: year contract with a fifth year option. Sam Donald's going

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Speaker 1: into his fourth year. I mean you gotta pick up

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Speaker 1: his fifth year option. I mean he's close to a contract.

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Speaker 1: If you want to set the big kids table and

783
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Speaker 1: talk about football, that plays a huge role. So there

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Speaker 1: are several variables in this situation. But I think we

785
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: gotta be careful of like Zach Wilson could be really

786
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: good or it could just be average, because most guys

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Speaker 1: that get drafted just turn out to be average, right,

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Speaker 1: And I like Jack Wilson, but I'm just being real here.

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald we know as a functional NFL quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: I think he has the upside to be a lot better.

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Speaker 1: And he was a top pick. So the next head coach,

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Speaker 1: whoever that is, and Joe Douglas by far, is his

793
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Speaker 1: biggest move. His then bi biggest move will be to

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Speaker 1: decide what to do with Sam Donald and what to

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Speaker 1: do with the number two pick. But his biggest move,

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Speaker 1: it will be the biggest move of his career, and

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00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: it might not be just solely on him. That the

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Speaker 1: Johnson family might have. I mean they will have a

799
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: huge role. They cut the checks, but hopefully they let

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Speaker 1: him pick the coach and they're on board with and

801
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: in agreement with could make or break his career. He

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Speaker 1: gets it right, he gets his just solid guy. They're

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Speaker 1: off and running. He gets an above average guy, like

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Speaker 1: he finds the next McVeigh, Kyle, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, whatever.

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00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: When they just first got their jobs. It'll be on

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00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: like Donkey Kong. But he hires the wrong guy. He

807
00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: hires his, you know, Chip Kelly, he hires his. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of guys that were good. Hired

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00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson was you know, people wanted him. You make

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Speaker 1: a move like that, Cliff Kingsbury, it could send you

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Speaker 1: down the wrong path fast. And if you hire a

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00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: bad coach, it's a rap. Right. You hired Pat Shermer,

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00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: like you know, it's over. If I was him, I'd

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Speaker 1: just be looking to get solid. Could I get wrong?

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Speaker 1: The Ron Rivera Maybe that's Robert sala Is? This is

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Speaker 1: this cycles Ron Rivera, right, Josh McDaniel, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the right answers. You never know when

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Speaker 1: the guy's hired. But the hiring for Joe Douglas and

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets will make or break the franchise

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Speaker 1: of his head coach. Okay, let's talk about something that

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Speaker 1: that I try to live my life by and it's

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Speaker 1: something that I think these if you follow this, you'll

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Speaker 1: be disappointed a lot less because I try to judge everyone.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this a million times on this podcast

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00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: by your actions, not your words. Your words, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, mean little to me unless you're like my mom,

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Speaker 1: my brother, girlfriend, wife, or whatever, right like that, any

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Speaker 1: business situation, any element of life. I try to judge

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Speaker 1: people on their actions, not by their words, and I

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Speaker 1: think if you follow that, you won't be disappointed. That

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Speaker 1: often why I don't get that caught up, like people

832
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: freak out back and forth, like politicians, especially on Twitter,

833
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: like everything they say doesn't ever come true. Like I

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Speaker 1: I live in California, this progressive left area. They claim

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Speaker 1: to love poor people, they claim to care about the

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Speaker 1: middle class. I've had a front row seat that ain't true.

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Speaker 1: We leave the country in poor people. We're taking out,

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Speaker 1: wiping out the middle class right now, destroying them. But

839
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Speaker 1: if you watch politicians go on you know, the local

840
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: news and talk about these restrictions and the state of this,

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Speaker 1: you know of the area, We got your back, we

842
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: care about you, it's like, well, it's not. The actions

843
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: are not adding up to reality. So your words to me,

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Speaker 1: and it's like this a lot. In any public job,

845
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Speaker 1: words are often hollow, they don't actually mean anything. So

846
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: I say this all the time with coaches. I don't

847
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: put that much stock into most things coaches say publicly,

848
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: especially about anything that's kind of on the fence, a

849
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: players status, who's starting, who a coach really likes, because

850
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: I've seen and been around a lot of these guys

851
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: and no people just throughout the you know, the last

852
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: decade that are saying one thing on television and then

853
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: he texts people and be like, yeah, that's not true.

854
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: I can't stand the guy. This guy wants to get

855
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: rid of this player. Oh he hates his quarterback. Happens

856
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: all the time. So the Miami Dolphins can say whatever

857
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: they want about Tuataga Bay Law. They can say they're

858
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: glad they picked them, which how could they be. We

859
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: all have the evidence. If they could do it over

860
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: right now, they would take Justin Herbert and they can

861
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: say they really believe in them. And Brian Flores, who

862
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: I commend, he has operated the to a situation like this.

863
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: You never see in modern day football a guy like

864
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: twa consistently getting benched. That doesn't happen anymore. Honestly, it's refreshing.

865
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: He's treating the player like he would any other position.

866
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: But they clearly have a major red flag on too.

867
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: Twice twice in the last six games, Two has been

868
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: yanked twice. It didn't happen once, It's happened twice, and

869
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick immediately went in and the offense was better.

870
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: It's not debatable or even arguable in my opinion right

871
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,439
Speaker 1: now that two gives the Miami Dolphins a better chance

872
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: to win. I just saw against the Oakland Raiders or

873
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday night, every quarterback shreds them.

874
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: Why they're defense. This is historically terrible, I mean awful.

875
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: Every quarterback. Average quarterbacks destroyed them. Good quarterbacks dominate them.

876
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: In rookie quarterbacks, I saw Justin Herbert kick their ass.

877
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: TA couldn't throw for over hunred yards, had to be

878
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: benched in a game against Arguably you can look at

879
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: different numbers. In my opinion that they're as bad as

880
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: any defense in the league. Got yanked, could not not

881
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: only not move the ball, couldn't score points. That Patrick

882
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: goes in there boom start moving up and down, so

883
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and listen. I don't expect them to say, listen,

884
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: if we could, if we could have a do over

885
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: audios to a just like I don't expect politicians to

886
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: be like, you know what, I really don't give a

887
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: shit about the poor people. I just say that to

888
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: get votes. They're never gonna say that ever, and clearly

889
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: the politicians actually impacts human beings. We're just talking about

890
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 1: football here, but we are talking about the most important

891
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: position in the sport of football, and that's quarterback. And

892
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: they have themselves a quarterback problem. They consistently yanked this

893
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: guy out of the game. And then the eye test.

894
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: You don't have to be Bill Walsh er Bill Parcels

895
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: to go. You know, something's kind of missing, like I'm

896
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: not really seeing it, the arm, the movement, like it's

897
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: just all kind of men. I watched Burrow when I

898
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: went God that passes the eye test. His team stinks

899
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: past the eye test. Herbert, he actually has talent around him,

900
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: shatters records, broke the rookie quarterback touchdown record, and every

901
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: game he's liable to throw multiple touchdowns, deep bombs, make

902
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: plays with his legs, extended plays. Been a stud. I

903
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: mean the eye test, the stats test, the all twenty

904
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: two tests, you name, he passes them all to it.

905
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: It's like, well, me sitting on my couch, or me

906
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: texts who my buddies in the league, we're all kind

907
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: of lukewarm or red flagging it. Something's just he had,

908
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, his first couple of games. It looks like

909
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: he was making strides and then he takes a huge

910
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: step back, and then you go, well, he doesn't have

911
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: the offensive weapons, is running backs, He's got a wide

912
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: receiver out. Then Fitzpatrick comes in, no big deal, drives

913
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: him right down the field, scores a touchdown, hitting dimes

914
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: all over the place, push them the ball down the field.

915
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: Why Raiders defense is horrendous? You should expose them. I'm

916
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: not sure what the Dolphins do. The Texans pick who

917
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: I thought they were a lock to beat the Bengals,

918
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: somehow lose that game, and now that picks top five.

919
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they take a quarterback because I don't

920
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: know if any quarterback beside Trevor Lawrence is a lot

921
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: to be better than two. Uh, but you don't need

922
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: like what the Dolphins tell you is irrelevant. Their actions

923
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: are telling you everything. They don't really believe in this guy.

924
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: They don't think he's good enough in certain games to win,

925
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: and they consistently yank him out. And they'll never admit this,

926
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: but they don't need to. We already know if they

927
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: could have a do over, they would have taken the

928
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Oregan quarterback, not the Alabama quarterback. I think you could

929
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: also say, if if we all could have a do

930
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: over and the draft happened again, is he a lock

931
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: to go in the top ten. I'm not saying he's

932
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: like a third or fourth rounder, but is that a

933
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: top ten pick? Now? It's early and they're limited, but Fitzpatrick,

934
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: who is like the all time Bridge quarterback, doesn't seem

935
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: to be limited. He figures it out well. And this

936
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: is what I got back to when people keep acting

937
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: asking me about mac Jones. Alabama has become an all

938
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: star team. They just signed six five star players. I

939
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,240
Speaker 1: think it was like an Alabama record for five different states.

940
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: He is playing offensively. Last year played with Nagi Harris,

941
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: who's gonna go on the top sixty picks, played with

942
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 1: four wide receivers all top fifteen picks, played with several

943
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: offensive linemen that were first or second round picks. It

944
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: does not get any better than that. For the collegiate level.

945
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: He's playing an Alabama's team in the peak of their

946
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: offensive power seven eight years ago. Defensive power, they've shifted.

947
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: They are now offense an elite on offense. When they

948
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: signed a recruit at wide receiver, running back, there's a

949
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: decent chance that guy's going really high in the draft.

950
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: And we've seen recently those guys go and contribute and

951
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: play really well in the pros. The wide receivers, the

952
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: running backs, the lineman, the tight ends, the quarterback. I

953
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: don't know. And I think when we evaluate Mac Jones,

954
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: you gotta realize that, like, is it just way easier

955
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: at Alabama just because the guys you're playing with. If

956
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: I go play a pickup game at the y m

957
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: c A and I roll and I roll up and

958
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: there is a team that's just running everyone off the court,

959
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: and they got five guys that all played Division one

960
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: basketball and I did not play Division one basketball. But

961
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: I roll up with four NBA players for NBA players,

962
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: I roll up with just NBA starters. You know what

963
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna kick the ship out of

964
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: that team with five Division one guys and me, who

965
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: is not gonna he as good as one of those

966
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: guys on the other team. I'm gonna stay on the

967
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: court for as long as my teammates want to stay

968
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: on the court. Why because I'm on an All star

969
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: team for y m c A Not fair, not fair

970
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: at all. Every time to A stepped on the field,

971
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: he had a better team. And I heard Michael Lombardi

972
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: say this on his podcast, and it is kind of

973
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: interesting because I was a huge uh. I wouldn't say Hayter,

974
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: but I didn't see it with Jalen Hurts. I thought

975
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: he was more of a running back. But when you

976
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: just watch the physical gifts of Jalen Hurts on a

977
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: football field, and you watch the physical gifts of Jalen

978
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: of to a tongue of voloa, and remember to H

979
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: came in for Jalen in the National Championship. Jalen ultimately

980
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: transferred because Bam was choosing to H and that was

981
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: the right decision. Tool was a better pocket pastor. But

982
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: you watch you can't like we don't care in the

983
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: scouting community, stats and all that stuff, like your physical

984
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: attributes have to translate. It's why people love Josh Allen,

985
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: It's why people love Justin Herbert to why people like

986
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: these talented physical gifts. That doesn't always work, we said

987
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: Christian Hackenburg. But I'm going Jalen Hurts. If I just

988
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: put Jalen Hurts in his three or four games he's

989
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: played and two of this season, Jalen's physical attributes are

990
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: superior to to us. Throws a stronger ball, he moves

991
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: faster in the game. This is not two thousand one.

992
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: This is not pocket quarterbacks, aren't I need guys to

993
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: move around. Most of my offensive lineman now in the

994
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: modern day NFL stink. Anthony Moonios and Larry Allen ain't

995
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: walking through that fucking door. But all these every team

996
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: is like multiple Fletcher Coxes. So I need my quarterback

997
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: to make place and to it has a really good

998
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: pocket presence. But I'm watching Jalen Hurts and go got

999
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: that guy. If I didn't know anything about the two guys, nothing,

1000
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: and I just you just sat me down. I had

1001
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: never heard of either, and you just gave me a

1002
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: couple of games to watch him, I'd go I'd rather

1003
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: have the Jalen guy, which is crazy to say. I'm

1004
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: not trying to like act like I thought that three

1005
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: or four months ago. I didn't, but people like I

1006
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: change my opinion football. And this is why I talk

1007
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: about football and the draft like it's like the stock market.

1008
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: If a stock starts plummeting, you go the other way,

1009
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: you get away from it. Same thing with football. Guys.

1010
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: Improved guys get worse, and plus college players once they

1011
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: get to the league, then you can truly evaluate them.

1012
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: It's why I've always heard rumors the way Belichick scot

1013
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: through the draft, and maybe he's James is a little bit.

1014
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: Is he like he tries to watch old film because

1015
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: then he can put them against like two year old

1016
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 1: film against guys that he's seen play in the league. Right,

1017
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: So it's like he watches instead of watching two thousand

1018
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: twenty film, he'll go back and watch two thousand nineteen

1019
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,240
Speaker 1: film on a prospect because he knows the two thousand

1020
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: nineteen players that are now in the NFL, so we

1021
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: can kind of gauge. And I'm not saying Belichick is

1022
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,240
Speaker 1: the perfect drafter, but the hardest part about college scouting

1023
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: is just not knowing how that guy is gonna look

1024
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: in the league you think you know, and we've been

1025
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: doing it right since the history of football. They've been

1026
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: playing college football and still people swinging they miss. And

1027
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying two us a miss, but Jalen just

1028
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. If you just got the great Coat

1029
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: Seals of the world, just go all twenty two, you go, well,

1030
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: this guy is much more physically gifted, not even Klaus.

1031
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,919
Speaker 1: So I just the Dolphins can say whatever they want.

1032
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm judging them on their actions. They benched him twice

1033
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: and they gotta be leary of them. I'm not gonna

1034
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: try to take a victory lap. And I won't spend

1035
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: too much time on this because I'm not always right.

1036
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: You know, when I talk about coaches and hiring, I

1037
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: had red flag Matt Lafleur, and he's turned out to

1038
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: be really good. And clearly he's a really smart guy.

1039
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I've watched a lot of his press conferences,

1040
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: but I think the best thing he does is he

1041
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: runs a high level offense, and he runs a physical offense.

1042
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, he wants to hit

1043
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: you right in the mouth with the way he plays.

1044
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: So does Sean McVeigh. So does Kyle Shanahan. It's why

1045
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,480
Speaker 1: they can get into these games when they have injuries,

1046
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: when things aren't going well, and they're just involved. The

1047
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: game's close. Right. Last year Aaron Rodgers didn't play well,

1048
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: but they ran the ball well. That running backs play well,

1049
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: and they can play soft teams and they can play

1050
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: physical teams. It translates, I'm not a huge fan of

1051
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: the spread offense, like the true spread offense. What Cliff

1052
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: Kingsbury does. And listen, Cliff, like, you kind of are

1053
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: who your record says you are, or your resume says

1054
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: you are. If you're forty years old and I go

1055
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,479
Speaker 1: and you're trying to get hired, and I go, okay,

1056
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: hamm me your resume, and you just haven't been doing

1057
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: anything for the last ten years. I'd go, what's your deal?

1058
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 1: If I'm hiring a football coach, I go, where you

1059
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:53,959
Speaker 1: been coaching? He's like, well, I've been the head coach

1060
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: at a major university for the last eux or seven years. Oh,

1061
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: you win a lot of games. Actually was under five? Uh,

1062
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: that ain't good. Like eventually, you are what your resume

1063
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: says you are as a coach, what your record says

1064
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: you are, so when they hired Cliff Kingsbury, and listen,

1065
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: I'm not anti Cliff Kingsbury as a person. I'll say

1066
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: over and over. I had friends that went in that

1067
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: did that area when he was a Texas tech and

1068
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: they swore by. They say he's a great guy. He's

1069
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 1: a grinder. I think when you're that good looking, tall,

1070
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: skinny quarterback, we naturally think like partier. He's actually the

1071
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: opposite of that. I know he's I've heard stories, a

1072
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: big time worker. Dad was a marine. I respect Cliff Kingsbury.

1073
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: I despised his offense and we saw it on Saturday

1074
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: when he was playing the forty Niners. They were rolling

1075
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: out a bunch of backups and they hit him fucking

1076
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: directly in the teeth, and they shoved him around and

1077
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,399
Speaker 1: they absolutely punked the Arizona Cardinals in a must win game.

1078
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: Because ultimately NFL football, as the season goes on, you

1079
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: have to be physical, you have to be able to

1080
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: impose your will, and that style of their the way

1081
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: they play, that ain't it. And at the end of

1082
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: the day, the NFC West for the foreseeable future with Seattle,

1083
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: the Rams and the forty Niners is gonna be a

1084
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: grown ass man's division. And if you're gonna play the

1085
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: soft style, I don't know if it's true. It sounds true.

1086
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: Maybe he's never lost to him to to the Arizona

1087
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: Cardinals since he's been there, but Cliff Kingsbury obviously has

1088
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: beat him three times, plays him this week. Kyle Shanahan's

1089
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:33,919
Speaker 1: three and one against him. It's just it's very, very

1090
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 1: difficult to win when you run a soft ass offense.

1091
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: And Kyler I think he's banged up, he's dinged up.

1092
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: He's just small. Small guys, you know, are getting thrown

1093
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: around by guys six three three pounds. You know, it's

1094
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: it's hard to play the whole season. Right watching we're

1095
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: watching Cam Newton's he's in his early thirties and his

1096
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: body has given out and he's taken ten a decade

1097
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: of pounding. Kyler is on your two and you already

1098
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: see him wearing out. So listen. I I had the

1099
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,919
Speaker 1: Cardinals red flag from the jump. They got to eight

1100
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: wins because early in the season Kyler was magnificent. He's

1101
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: a fantastic talent. I love Buddha Baker. Buddha Baker is

1102
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players in the league. I despise

1103
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: everything there is on a Cardinal stand for though. I

1104
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: just I don't take that offense seriously. I even watched him,

1105
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: I go, I don't even think this is some dynamic

1106
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. It feels like he's just running plays and

1107
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: like the leaked playbook that he thinks will work, there's

1108
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: not like a rhyme or reason to it. Because the

1109
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: night Robert Salo was like, yeah, we know this is coming, Bro,

1110
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: this is not gonna work. We are more physical than you.

1111
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna hit you right in the numbers and you're

1112
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do anything. We're gonna dominate

1113
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: you with the line of scrimmage. And your best asset

1114
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: is your quarterback running around. You keep asking him to throw.

1115
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: Like sometimes in a game, especially that magnitude where you're

1116
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: playing for the playoffs, as the Cardinals are in war

1117
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: against the Niners, you gotta kind of throw out the

1118
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: game plan once you know you're down by seven points

1119
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and just start running the best

1120
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: plays possible. And their best option to win against the

1121
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: Niners would have had just Kyler Murray run around and run.

1122
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: They kept making him throw, and you couldn't really throw

1123
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: the run game. They had an injury and it just

1124
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: didn't work. And I just you hired a guy that

1125
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: wasn't used to winning. So now I can't be shocked

1126
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: when he's not getting over the hump with a team

1127
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: that should be in the playoffs in the NFL. And

1128
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: maybe they catch a break with Jared goff Out and

1129
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 1: they're able to beat the Rams. I still think the Rams,

1130
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: probably the random quarterbacks still beat him. I know Kyler's

1131
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: health is a little in doubt this week too, But

1132
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: if I was bet on that game, I was just

1133
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna take the more physical team because I saw the

1134
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: Niners will C. J. Bethter kick their ass, I mean

1135
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: shove them, punk them all game long. So the Rams,

1136
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: who like the Niners, are a very physical team, have

1137
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: a very physical defense, actually have better players than Niners

1138
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: right now on defense because all the injuries. How do

1139
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: I not like the Rams in that game? Then they

1140
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: just scored twelve points against I think he scored twelve

1141
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: points against the Rams. Now can the Ram score twenty

1142
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: with this random guy from the a F. I don't

1143
01:00:11,520 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: know the Ram starter Walford. I had never heard of

1144
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: about him. I texted a buddy that does the SEC

1145
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: that I went through Wake Forest and he's like, yeah,

1146
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: the guys like your size. And then I had a

1147
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: buddy in the league that worked for the a F

1148
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: team say he's actually a pretty good player. Uh, we'll see.

1149
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna lead the Rams because I will never

1150
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: bet on soft teams. You know, in in January football,

1151
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: that is just that's a losing philosophy. Okay, let's hit

1152
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: on a couple of stories really quick. One thing that

1153
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: made the rounds on Sunday morning was Urban Meyer. Obviously

1154
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: a name that I've been talking about for a while

1155
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: with the Chargers Schefter and Albert Breer, and people are

1156
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: writing about him that you know, teams are interested obviously.

1157
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: You know he's one of the better coaches college coaches

1158
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: of all time time. Uh, it's clear he's gonna have

1159
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: offers to coach and Jacksonville. Does that make a lot

1160
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: of sense. They have the number one overall pick. Uh,

1161
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:10,920
Speaker 1: they have a bunch of cap space, they have some

1162
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: good young players. It's in Florida, so you get no

1163
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: state income tax. He's coaching Florida before. He's kind of

1164
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: a legend down there. You know the Chargers, would they

1165
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: be willing to pay huge money? They have a star quarterback.

1166
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: He works for Fox in l A. I just think

1167
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: those two jobs make a lot of sense for him

1168
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: if there, If they're interested, you could say and listen.

1169
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: One thing I read uh Stewart mandel Right for The

1170
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: Athletic wrote a piece on the stress and how it

1171
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: got to urban and he's never covered in all his

1172
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: years covering football, a guy that's worse at losing. And

1173
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: you lose more in college than you do in you know,

1174
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: you lose more in the pros than you do in college.

1175
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 1: I think he had like multiple thirteen in one season

1176
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: at Florida, lost nine games total little Ohio State. Like

1177
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: he didn't lose a lot at Florida or Ohio State.

1178
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, it's way less stressful in the NFL.

1179
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: It's just football. In the pros, you're or in the college,

1180
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: you're recruiting literally part of your stresses that lose that

1181
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: loss and gonna cause us recruits, especially if we lose

1182
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: inside our conference to Michigan to Alabama obviously didn't never

1183
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: lost to Michigan, Wisconsin. Whoever is that guy gonna go

1184
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: to the other program and it got to him. And

1185
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 1: clearly in some of these other articles I read Mike Sando, like,

1186
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: listen Urban's past. He is not squeaky clean. Aaron Hernandez

1187
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: was killing people on his watch, and there were rumors

1188
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: that like they covered it up not. I don't think

1189
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: he knew that he was killing people, but he knew

1190
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: shady ship was going down, that whole team was full

1191
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: of guys that were getting into a ton of trouble.

1192
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: He didn't care trying to win, which again I'm pro

1193
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:56,760
Speaker 1: trying to win too. I don't. I don't look at

1194
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: football from immortal standpoint. But Urban makes himself about to

1195
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: be this moral high horse guy and then at Ohio

1196
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: State that situation with the assistant coach. So he's got

1197
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: some baggage, but the owners ain't gonna give a shit

1198
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: about that. If he wants to coach, he's gonna get

1199
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: a job. Jacksonville are the Chargers, right, Texans? All these

1200
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: teams would take him. He would just not go to

1201
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: the Texans, he wouldn't go to the Lions, he wouldn't

1202
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: go to the Falcons. I I would imagine to me

1203
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers and Jacksonville makes sense for him. Now the

1204
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars like they don't have a GM, and rumors

1205
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: are that Trent Balky, who's done this before an interim GM,

1206
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: became the main GM, Like, I don't know if he

1207
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: becomes a GM in Jacksonville, Urban ain't take Urban ain't

1208
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,960
Speaker 1: working with or for Trent Balky. At least I would

1209
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: be floored. Trent Bulky had one of the most I

1210
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:55,959
Speaker 1: would say public just ugly relationship divorces coaching GM situations

1211
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 1: we've seen in my lifetime with Harball to Let's go

1212
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: actually makes a lot of sense. He's really good as

1213
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: a general manager. The irony is that the Chargers might

1214
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: end up going seven and nine? Does that save Anthony

1215
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: Lynn his job? We all know Dean Spanos loves to

1216
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: save a buck. But Urban Meyer, like, I don't think

1217
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: it's fake, But it's also not fake that two teams

1218
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: are in the in the mix, Well, what does two

1219
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: teams mean? Means a bidding game. Uh, they want to

1220
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: up the price. Everyone wants to coach, but everyone they

1221
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: love their money. And that's what the agent does. You

1222
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: pay your agent, that's what his job is to do

1223
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: to get you the most amount of money. But these

1224
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: coaches all claim does not care about money that much,

1225
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: And actually, I don't think a lot of them, like

1226
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: do spend that much money like most of us would

1227
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: if we had unlimited amounts of money like they do.

1228
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: But they sure love getting those huge salaries. It's more

1229
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: about a respect thing. And then the other big story

1230
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: Monday was Dwayne Haskins was cut and uh, listen, I

1231
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: I'm matured a lot in my early to mid twenties.

1232
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: I feel like I've matured in my thirties, like you're

1233
01:04:57,360 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: always should be maturing and growing. That's human nature. So

1234
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: young players, they get drafted high with a lot of money,

1235
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: like it's he's not the first immature player, he won't

1236
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: be the last. I have a hard time though, when

1237
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: he spent the last really two years, but the last

1238
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,640
Speaker 1: year with Alex playing, sitting next to Alex Smith, the

1239
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: guy almost lost his leg. He is probably one of

1240
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: the highest character guys in Like League history. He's beloved

1241
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: by every coach and teammate he's ever had. Like you

1242
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: got to sit next to him, just follow his fucking lead.

1243
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: It's not that complicated. Your head coach is battling cancer.

1244
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: Who again, Rivera is one of the higher character, more

1245
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: respected guys in the league, and you couldn't figure it out,

1246
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:40,919
Speaker 1: like as Coward would saying like that's a you problem,

1247
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: Like that's on Dwayne Haskins. You're not good. As DC

1248
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: Rivers said, the moment your problems outweigh your play, you're gone.

1249
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,360
Speaker 1: If you're playing out, where's your problems? You're okay. Dwayne

1250
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: haskins play is atrocious. He's an awful football player, and

1251
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: he's just a painting their ass. Nothing crazy eazy, But

1252
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: you don't usually see a guy drafted fift in the

1253
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: draft within two years. He didn't even finish his second season.

1254
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: Cut and not because he killed someone, not because he

1255
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: got caught with cocaine, not because he hit his girlfriend,

1256
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: not like the legitimate, not because he was had a

1257
01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: mug shot for doing those things, just because they could

1258
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: stand him. He didn't want to look at him anymore.

1259
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: They thought he was kind of a clown, an immature

1260
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:29,800
Speaker 1: clown who's clearly not that good. I'll never say a

1261
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Speaker 1: guy's careers over, but his careers in major trouble. Okay,

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: let's bang out a couple of Middlecoff mail bags at

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01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff Instagram handle y'all know the drill. If you don't,

1264
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: just shoot me a d M and I'll read your

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Speaker 1: question here. Sean from Sean Hi John the Pod. I

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01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: think an underdiscussed part of penalties in the NFL are

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01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: first downs. They result in graphics on TV always show

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01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: penalty yardage, but early first downs. As the rules evolved

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01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: the favor of the offense and it becomes more difficult

1270
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: to play defense, do you think the league will review

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01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: automatic first downs by penalty? Nothing is worse than getting

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01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:15,439
Speaker 1: a team on third and seventeen and then getting pop

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01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: for a defensive hold or legal hands of the face

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01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: five yard penalty automatic first down. I I tend to agree.

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01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: I despise. I think pass interference. You know on some

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01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: of the there was a play in the Raider game

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01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: where I got like sixty yards. It wouldn't bother me

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01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: if you just went fifteen yards and you just gave

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01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: an automatic, automatic first down on that. But I'm with you.

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01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: I I've never been a big fan of defensive holding

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01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: being an automatic first down. It's third and twelve and

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01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: I get a five yard holding penalty, and so automatic

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01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: first down. I'm with you. Uh, Clearly, I don't think

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01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: the competition committee is in the mood to change it. UM.

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01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if head coaches will change it, because

1286
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: they'll always go, well, what if we're on the other

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01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: side of the US down? But there there should definitely

1288
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: be a new statistic. How many of these penalties resulted

1289
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: in first downs? That's a that's a great point, and

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Speaker 1: I've never thought about that, even though I do think

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01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: of I hate defensive holding, I hate sixty yard pass interferences. Um,

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01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: But it doesn't feel like it's gonna change anytime soon.

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01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:23,719
Speaker 1: Maybe a dumb mail bag question, but here we go, Well,

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01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: I'll judge if it's dumb or not. They say there

1295
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 1: aren't any dumb questions, just dumb people. I struggle with insomnia,

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01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: and every week there's a restless night or two followed

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01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: by a day of inefficiency. This take ambient. This got

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01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: me thinking of how often we see players have inexplicably,

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: inexplicably bad games, whether it's players dropping passes, tripping over

1300
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 1: their feet, making bone head throws to your knowledge, how

1301
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: often are we seeing players struggle from ailments that don't

1302
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:55,719
Speaker 1: necessarily qualify for injury report, such as bad sleep, hangover,

1303
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: too much spicy food, get a little the ships. Uh.

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01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: And if this is something that players do deal with,

1305
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: would it make sense to avoid one of these players

1306
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: sit sleepy Dak Prescott for a well rested Andy Dalton.

1307
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 1: And if players don't deal with things like sleeplessness, can

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01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 1: you tell me, uh what they're taking so I can

1309
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: get some too? Yeah, I mean, I just think we're

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01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: all humans, and every guy you know reacts differently to alcohol.

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01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 1: Some people get more hungover than others. Anyone can eat

1312
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: bad food and be messed up. Some people sleep differently

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01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: than others. I know, I need eight hours of sleep.

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01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: You know, you read about Tiger Woods or Kobe or

1315
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: Michael Jordans, those those guys don't need much sleep. You know.

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 1: Coaches like I was around Andy Reid, you didn't need

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01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: that much sleep. Even Pat Hill never stopped having energy.

1318
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,679
Speaker 1: So Jim Harbaugh the dudes like bouncing off the walls

1319
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: when he was with the Niners. So it's just I

1320
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:57,080
Speaker 1: just think some guys are wired differently than others. And

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01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: I do think that the whoops and the different tracking out,

1322
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,759
Speaker 1: especially with contact tracing, but just the bracelets they're wearing.

1323
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 1: There's technology for sleep, but there's gonna be elements of

1324
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: like if you're really hungover, I don't think you would tell.

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01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 1: You're not probably not gonna be hungover on the night

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01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: of a game or day of a game. But like

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01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: you maybe have a bad practice, You're not gonna tell

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01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: the coach, Like, you know, I had too many vodka

1329
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: SODA's last night. Now, I do think if you had

1330
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 1: bad food and had food poisoning, you would tell people.

1331
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: But you know, they deal with stuff just like we do.

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01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: You're sitting at your desk or you know, whatever your

1333
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: business is, Your issues are their issues. We're all humans,

1334
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: and their issues are you know, twenty seven years old

1335
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: and rich. So they can get into a lot. So

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01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: they would do just what you would do. You know,

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01:10:46,160 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: it's not really that different. Now, there's an element of discipline, right,

1338
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: So if you have insomnia, you would the thing with football,

1339
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: you have access to the best trainers and the best doctors.

1340
01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: So maybe they I don't know much about insomnia, but

1341
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 1: I've had leaping issues before. Can they get you on

1342
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 1: sleeping pills? You know? Can we take some ambient just

1343
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: meltonin not not strong enough, not work? So you know,

1344
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 1: if you're eating the wrong food's gonna get you on

1345
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: the right diet. I just think they're trying constantly trying

1346
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: to improve. And as a player, you have this earning

1347
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: power for in your twenties and your thirties, you need

1348
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:24,599
Speaker 1: I think a lot of guys, the mature ones, try

1349
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: to maximize that. How can I put my body in

1350
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: the best position to make money, which is play well.

1351
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:34,600
Speaker 1: Do the Bears have any realistic chance to beat the

1352
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: Packers or should I pray for a Cardinals loss? I

1353
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:40,760
Speaker 1: asked somebody on the Bears, I said, do you guys

1354
01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: got a shot? Can you beat him? He said yes,

1355
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 1: but they're fucking good those I think that was his

1356
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: exact response. Uh, the Packers are really good. You know.

1357
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:51,760
Speaker 1: There's just I don't think Naggies beat him in his

1358
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,559
Speaker 1: three years there, off top of my head. First year

1359
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 1: he lost twice. Last year, I think he lost twice,

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: and obviously this year he lost to him earlier in

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01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: this season. So I it's gonna be tough. They're gonna

1362
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: need Mitch to play the best game of his career, Like,

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01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: under no circumstances can Mitch make one of these bone

1364
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,519
Speaker 1: head red zone turnovers. He did it against the Vikings.

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01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: He did it against the Jags. It didn't matter against

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01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: the Jacks because they blew them out. But he's not

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01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do that. They're gonna need an

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01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: incredible performance by the defense. So is it a winnable game?

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01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: Of course, it's the NFL. Maybe Rogers throws a bad pick,

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01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: Maybe you gonna pick six. You know you're gonna need

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01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,639
Speaker 1: some help, You're gonna need to play well. And yeah,

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01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: it's just it's winnable. But I actually think Arison was

1373
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: gonna lose. I feel as if most balls GoF throws

1374
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: are at the knees or below, receivers are constantly reaching

1375
01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: and can't catch the ball and stride. Lastly, if you're

1376
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: the Rams front office, are you sold that he is

1377
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the future one percent? Not? I think

1378
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: the shitty part. If you're in the Rams McVeigh him,

1379
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:03,720
Speaker 1: a scout, a coach, you're kind of stuck with him.

1380
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the team for the next couple

1381
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 1: of years because of his money. He's just not very good.

1382
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know the exact reason he was

1383
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: better two years ago. He was and I know he

1384
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: got hurt in that game, but he was awful all

1385
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:21,440
Speaker 1: season balls, skipping, missing guys wide open, throwing awful picks.

1386
01:13:21,479 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: He had a horrendous season awful. I know his numbers

1387
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: probably weren't as bad as I mean, they weren't as

1388
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,759
Speaker 1: bad as wins, but he was playing with woods, Cup

1389
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: Everett like. His guys were good, the run games good,

1390
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: and his numbers consistently sucked. Let's let's pull it up

1391
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 1: here on the old I got a little external external monitor,

1392
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 1: so I got a nice big monitor to look, and

1393
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,480
Speaker 1: let's see Jared Goff's stat line this year. Twenty touchdowns,

1394
01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 1: thirteen picks. His career year was so the Super Bowl

1395
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: year he was third two and twelve. Mcveigh's first year,

1396
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: he's twenty eight and seven. Last year he wasn't that good,

1397
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 1: two and sixteen. This year, twenty and thirteen. So he's

1398
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 1: just he hasn't been very good the last two years.

1399
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: And they've had a good team. Their defense is good,

1400
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: their run games good. It's him, he's the problem. I'm

1401
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: a cow guy, not actually I'm a cow poly guy,

1402
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 1: but I root for cow football. I root for Jared Goff,

1403
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 1: but I just I don't think he's very good. Now

1404
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 1: that the Jags have secured the number one pick. What

1405
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the Steelers trying to get Gardner?

1406
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,840
Speaker 1: Minshew is Ben's back up until Ben retires. Then Mitch,

1407
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: you can start until the Steelers can get someone better.

1408
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: Minshew is solid and has been productive NFL quarterback. What

1409
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 1: do you think? I wouldn't be opposed to that, But

1410
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: I think Gardner Minshew was much better last year than

1411
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: he was this year. Pull up his stat page. I'd

1412
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 1: be lying if I said I watched a lot of

1413
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,960
Speaker 1: Jaguar football. I did not. But Gardner was good last year.

1414
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: He and I watched a decent amount of him play

1415
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: last year. So in two thousand nineteen through touchdowns, six picks.

1416
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: He was good this year actually statistically six sixteen touchdowns,

1417
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: five picks. Yeah, he's productive. It can't it's got to

1418
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,879
Speaker 1: be better than the Mason Rudolph's. Yeah, I I wouldn't

1419
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: be opposed to that. I mean, Mitch, she was gonna

1420
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 1: play in the league for a while. He's just kind

1421
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 1: of a runaround gun slinger, good backup, high character. People

1422
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: like him, So yeah, I'm not Maybe I was kind

1423
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: of underselling him his numbers, actually, I mean career, he's

1424
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: three seven touchdowns, eleven picks. Holy shit, he's He's a

1425
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:41,200
Speaker 1: little better than I thought. What do you think of

1426
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 1: Rosen's chances of succeeding with the Niners. San Francisco has

1427
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: a great system for him and stresses the run game

1428
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: and could make up for his obvious lack of mobility.

1429
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: He has talent and with a positive culture. Lynch Lynch,

1430
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: Shanahanna set, I think it could be a good fit. Thoughts.

1431
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I'm a total Bruin Homer. Some I'm rooting

1432
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: for the guy. Yeah, I mean he could become the backup,

1433
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, whether they trade for Matt Stafford, whether they

1434
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, draft a guy and trade Jimmy, whether they

1435
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: keep Jimmy and he's the backup. I think Josh Rosen

1436
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: this offseason is gonna be on the Niners unless something

1437
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: weird happens in a couple of weeks that he's here

1438
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: and have a chance around Kyle Shanahan and to learn

1439
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: this offense. And yeah, I like Josh Rosen a lot

1440
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: coming out. Now I've changed my tune. I don't do

1441
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: guys that aren't mobile, but you can get away with

1442
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: it a little bit in this offense, like The reason

1443
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: Jared Goff is losing is not because he's not mobile, right,

1444
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: because he's not hitting guys in their hands like like

1445
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:40,639
Speaker 1: the person said a couple of UH emails ago, he's

1446
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: skipping balls. It's like he's Greg Maddox trying to work

1447
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,920
Speaker 1: the bottom of the zone like bro throw a fucking

1448
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 1: high fastball. But he can't because I think when he does,

1449
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 1: the ball floats on him and he throws interceptions. So yeah,

1450
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: I i'd say Josh rosen is uh is redeemable, if

1451
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,679
Speaker 1: that's fair to say. Appreciate everyone listening. Have a good

1452
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 1: New Year's week, and Uh, I'll be back. I guess

1453
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: later this week. I have to look in. Is New

1454
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:10,760
Speaker 1: Year's on Friday? I think that's the case. Huh. New

1455
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 1: Year's is Friday, so New Year's Eve. But it's probably

1456
01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: not a normal New Year's Eve, not as many normal

1457
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve parties. So maybe i'll put it out Thursday.

1458
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird week. Well we'll see. I'll

1459
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: be in touch, as they say, but have a good week.

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Speaker 1: Audios