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Speaker 1: story obviously the Packers clinch. Uh well, we'll dive into

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Speaker 1: in sports, he's like, oh, yeah, quarterback, is he that good?

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Speaker 1: And one thing that clearly helped Kirk Cousins and his

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Speaker 1: thing I will not do is act whether they play

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, whether they play the Chiefs, whoever their matchup is.

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Speaker 1: Come playoff time, I will not say like the Patriots

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Speaker 1: got no shot of The Patriots are gonna get worked

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Speaker 1: and they may end up losing one of these games

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Speaker 1: by ten points. Honestly, it kind of feels inevitable. Especially

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Speaker 1: Edelman is just not right. So even his fronus and

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Speaker 1: his his willingness to do whatever. I mean, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to drag that guy off the field. But it's

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Speaker 1: just gonna be difficult. But it's fun to watch a

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Speaker 1: champion get pressed. I saw it earlier this year when

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Speaker 1: the Warriors were playing the Houston Rockets. Kevin Durant went

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Speaker 1: out and their championship blood just ranked through their bodies

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Speaker 1: and they broke the Rockets, and the Patriots kind of

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Speaker 1: done the Bills, because the Bills at one point had

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Speaker 1: to be thinking like, we're gonna win this freaking game.

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Speaker 1: How could they not? I'm thinking that on my couch,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills are gonna go to over to Foxborough?

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Speaker 1: And when I mean it crossed my mind, like am

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Speaker 1: I watching this? Especially when they call the touchdown to

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Speaker 1: the offensive lineman. How often do the New England Patriots

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Speaker 1: get New England patrioted like that? That's a classic Patriot call.

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Speaker 1: You just like, what a perfect play call, a little

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Speaker 1: trickeration in a big spot. You're like, God, this is

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Speaker 1: this is high level ship. And then you think, well,

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Speaker 1: Brian day Ball, the offensive coordinator for the Bills, he's

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Speaker 1: a Patriot guy. Sean McDermott, Andy Reid, Ron rivera high

451
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Speaker 1: level smart guy like you. To beat the Patriots or

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Speaker 1: even have a chance, you gotta have high level coaches,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills highlight I mean clearly big time coaching

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Speaker 1: going on in that operation. They just don't quite have

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Speaker 1: the talent where the Patriots are just gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of wear them out as the game went on.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if wear them outs the right term,

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Speaker 1: just they just beat them. They're Patriots just a little better.

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Speaker 1: But the bills are coming, and hopefully the Patriots, if

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Speaker 1: they can sustain this for a couple more years, the

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Speaker 1: bills can be good and we get a little rivalry

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Speaker 1: here because because that was really fun. I was talking

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Speaker 1: to a buddy in the NFL. He's he's older, he's

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Speaker 1: an executive, and he's been in the league for since

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Speaker 1: the early nineties, so thirty plus years. And he gave

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Speaker 1: me a line when we were on the phone a

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Speaker 1: couple of months ago. It's always fun. You know. I

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Speaker 1: have some friends in the NFL that you know, drive

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Speaker 1: super late because you know they're driving from city to

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Speaker 1: city or doing something, and they always know that they

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Speaker 1: can call me at like eleven o'clock their time because

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Speaker 1: I'll just be up. So let's get some good talks,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes late at night. And this guy told me,

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Speaker 1: this guy has been a part of Super Bowl teams

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Speaker 1: and he's won a lot, really successful career. He said

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Speaker 1: that his team's kind of having a rough year, and

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Speaker 1: he was like, I believe, more than ever, more than

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Speaker 1: ever before, how important chemistry is the winning The chemistry

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Speaker 1: in your locker room, the cohesion and chemistry of your

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Speaker 1: coaching staff and your players, but specifically the bond of

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Speaker 1: your players, how close they are, how tight they are,

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Speaker 1: is a team. And I think the best example right

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Speaker 1: is the Patriots, how close Brady Edelman, mccordy Slater, their

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Speaker 1: their core guys is really tight. And I think another

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Speaker 1: good example this year for an up and coming team

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Speaker 1: is the Niners that they have a special chemistry in

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Speaker 1: their locker room. I also think it works for any

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Speaker 1: walk of life. I've been in businesses, only been in

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Speaker 1: a couple When I worked in the NFL. You know,

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Speaker 1: when our staff when I first got there, from Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid to Howie, we had a bunch of young guys,

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Speaker 1: Veach and Lewis Riddick, and we were just pretty close.

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Speaker 1: I mean we all we had, I mean the majority

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Speaker 1: of our guys. We had a ton of guys under thirty, uh,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah. It was really cool. It was I got

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Speaker 1: really lucky that I have a lot of friends still

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Speaker 1: that work in the league and they're gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for a long time and one days, I mean multiple

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Speaker 1: couple of them should be there in their early thirties,

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Speaker 1: should be GMS. One day. Then I was lucky. I

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Speaker 1: went to an organization had a lot of young people,

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Speaker 1: and I was in my mid twenties. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: anyone in Philly and just young, cool, aspirational and you

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Speaker 1: see what they've done. How he wanted Super Bowl. Lewis

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Speaker 1: one of the best guys on you Know on on

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Speaker 1: tv D, same with Daniel Jeremiah, you got Veach now

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Speaker 1: runs the Chiefs with Andy, Sean McDermott, Naggie. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we just had a ton of person that Do Staley,

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Speaker 1: who I loved use, but it was just it was special.

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Speaker 1: We had a really good chemistry in that first year

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Speaker 1: Michael Vick made the playoffs and thinks deteriorated just naturally.

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Speaker 1: It's just happens. I mean, it's more probably players. But

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Speaker 1: then when I worked in radio, when I first got there,

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Speaker 1: we were crushing in the Bay Area, really good chemistry

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Speaker 1: as just a station. I think this works for any

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Speaker 1: walk of life. I really do. You guys know, when

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Speaker 1: you like the people you're working with, whether it's cubicle jobs,

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Speaker 1: whether it's sales jobs, whatever you do, it makes work

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Speaker 1: more fun and even like in your losses, you have

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Speaker 1: a bad quarter, it makes it easier to bounce back.

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Speaker 1: No different football. If you truly like each other and

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Speaker 1: have a good bond, it's easier to handle a loss.

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Speaker 1: You notice the teams that splinter, the Browns, they're not friends,

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Speaker 1: they're fake friends. And the Niners in rams game, to me,

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Speaker 1: really spoke to that with the Niners, truly have hung

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Speaker 1: your hat on now again they got they have really

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Speaker 1: talented players. George Kittle's become I don't know a top

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Speaker 1: five or six non quarterback in the league. Uh that

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Speaker 1: they have, Richard Truman's a pro bowler, Buckner and Armstead

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Speaker 1: or asked kickers Nick Bosa big time? Uh, Emmanuel Sanders

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Speaker 1: is good, Deebo Samuels like they got, Jimmy's playing well,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shannon has star coach. Like they got talent. You

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Speaker 1: gotta have talent. This is pro sports. But I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you I on my other podcast, and again my other podcast,

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Speaker 1: Guy Habrman, why when we left radio, why I still

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Speaker 1: do it. If you haven't subscribed, you'll subscribe. You can

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Speaker 1: find it on Apple. Because we like each other. I

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Speaker 1: like working with them. I don't want to do a

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Speaker 1: podcast with some random guy. Maybe we could make more money,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but we on the podcast we do

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Speaker 1: it ourselves. I like working with them. That's why we

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Speaker 1: do it. That's why we had a radio. I enjoy

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Speaker 1: working with them. I just it makes it more fun

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, we know what makes each other tick.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to work together. And I think the forty

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Speaker 1: Niners we interviewed Kittle and McGlinchey in the off season,

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Speaker 1: and you could just tell, like, these guys are pretty type.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about those two, but their

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Speaker 1: whole units. Like these guys, now, I didn't think they

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Speaker 1: were gonna be this good, but you could tell if

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Speaker 1: something was brewing. And the Rams, who are still really talented.

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Speaker 1: I mean I left that game thinking and I tweeted

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Speaker 1: this in the middle of the game. I don't think

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Speaker 1: people quite understand if Todd Gurley was still Todd Gurley

555
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Speaker 1: from two years ago, where it looked like, is this

556
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Speaker 1: guy the best running back in the league, because I'd

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Speaker 1: watched him kick the Niners ass, kick the NFC West ass,

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Speaker 1: just kick ass those long runs. The guy had elite

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Speaker 1: top end speed, he could catch the ball really well,

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Speaker 1: I thought his vision and once McVeigh got there, he

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Speaker 1: became a much more complete player. It was like this

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Speaker 1: guy is dominant. Well he's not anymore. He's an average

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Speaker 1: player at best, but they still have I mean golf,

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Speaker 1: golf gets shipped on and I'm hard on him sometimes too,

565
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Speaker 1: but he's still a top fifteen quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup really good player. Robert Woods. I once compared

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Speaker 1: me to Reggie Wayne in a draft meeting, and you

568
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Speaker 1: know his time has gone on. I don't look still bad.

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Speaker 1: He's really good. Higbie and Gerald Everard, who's banged up

570
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: like they got weapons everywhere. Aaron Donald truly, pound for pound,

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Speaker 1: one of the best players I've ever seen. Here's the kicker. Though.

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Speaker 1: They trade for Jalen Ramsey mid season, a little bit

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Speaker 1: like an NBA type trade, like you trade for James Harden,

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Speaker 1: you trade for Kyrie, trade for Kevin Durant. In the NBA,

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Speaker 1: it's easy, you just trade for the talent and you

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Speaker 1: figured out later. In the NFL, it's risky, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's why Belichick has always when he

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Speaker 1: makes trades, they've always been low. He's always paid a

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Speaker 1: limited amount. He never trades like his two first round

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Speaker 1: picks for Randy Moss. He trades a fourth round pick

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Speaker 1: for Randy Moss. He gets you know, he gets players

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Speaker 1: when he can acquire them for cheap. Oh, yeah you can.

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Speaker 1: We'll trade you Jamie Collins for a second round pick

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get him back. Right. He does stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, And they traded They paid an absolute premium

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Speaker 1: from Jalen Ramsey, who is an elite player. He made

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Speaker 1: a pick in that game that was just stupid. He

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Speaker 1: is a freak show. But he's a questionable not a

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Speaker 1: bad guy. I just don't know if he's the easiest

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Speaker 1: guy in on your locker room. And they did it

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Speaker 1: before with Marcus Peters. Where their chemistry is a little

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Speaker 1: they don't value it as much were they I'm watching

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Speaker 1: them relative to the rest of the league. They're more

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Speaker 1: talented than Seattle. I can say that confidently. They have

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Speaker 1: much better play now. Russell's the wild card, but Jared's

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Speaker 1: good enough, you know, to win ten plus games easy.

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Speaker 1: And you watch that game, the play that ultimately determined

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Speaker 1: the game. Third and six team, Jimmy Garoppolo hits Emmanuel

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Speaker 1: Sanders for I don't know, like forty six yards I

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Speaker 1: think it was. And listen, we can break down the coverages.

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Speaker 1: I could text Todd Bowls or Sean McDermott, and like,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about a guy playing flat footed

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Speaker 1: when he's in cover to blah blah blah regard it

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Speaker 1: was it was a safety's fault. Jalen Ramsey couldn't have

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Speaker 1: thrown the safety under the bus fast enough when a

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Speaker 1: microphone got to his face. Couldn't have done it quick enough.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I'd say one thing, You know,

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Speaker 1: if that's just a free agent safety that they signed

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Speaker 1: mid season, who cares. It's Taylor Ramp, a second round

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Speaker 1: pick who's gonna be playing behind him for a long time.

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Speaker 1: So like Jalen Ramp, when you sign up for a

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Speaker 1: guy that mixed it up in Jacksonville and now is

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Speaker 1: not the easiest guy to deal with in l A,

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Speaker 1: this is what you get. You get a team that's

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Speaker 1: a little underachieving. Because the first last couple of years

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Speaker 1: the Rams had a good thing going. It was positivity,

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Speaker 1: Sean Sean McVeigh. But their team. I followed Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: and and Whitworth on on social media. They're always like

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Speaker 1: Witworth will be out to dinner with his four kids

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Speaker 1: and his wife and there will be Goff and Cooper Cup.

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Speaker 1: It's like, these guys really like each other. When you

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Speaker 1: throw a Jalen Ramsey into big time chemistry, even if

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Speaker 1: your team struggle a little bit, he usually doesn't get better.

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Speaker 1: You know. Now, again his talent, you always, in theory

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Speaker 1: trade for the talent. But when the Bears traded for

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Speaker 1: Kleil Mack, you know what, Khalil Mack is a great teammate,

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Speaker 1: someone that people love, someone that his teammates like. So

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Speaker 1: if you are gonna trade that much, it's much easier

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Speaker 1: to do. Now. You can't pick and choose when guys

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Speaker 1: become available, and usually high character, good players like Khalil

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Speaker 1: Mack never become available. Typically it's the Jalen Ramsey Odell Beckham's.

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Speaker 1: Just know though, when you trade for those type guys,

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Speaker 1: it can throw a wrench and everything you got going on.

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Speaker 1: And now they're kind of stuck with him. Now, if

635
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: you are going to be quote unquote stuck with the guy,

636
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: you do want to be stuck with an elite talent.

637
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: You could argue, should they just trade Jalen Ramsey this

638
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: offseason and tried to get like their two ones back

639
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: to some other team. Maybe they could do that. I'm

640
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: being dead serious and people tweeted me all the time,

641
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: should the forty Niners this offseason go trade their first

642
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: round pick for Odell Beckham? And I'd say I was

643
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: the guy leading the charge thinking that they should trade

644
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: for Odell Beckham. Last year I said that they should

645
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: trade the number two overall pick for him. Well I

646
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: was wrong, they got It's perfectly worked out, Nick Bosa.

647
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have him for the number two pick.

648
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: Would I trade Let's say the Niners win the Super Bowl?

649
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: Best case? Would you trade pick thirty two for Odell Beckham?

650
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: If someone asked me that, And I'm an Odell Beckham fan,

651
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: and I would lean on the side. You know, he

652
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: just keeps being in these losing situations. Here's what I

653
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: do know. When he's in losing situations, he doesn't handle

654
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: it that well. So it's it's easy to be a

655
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: front runner when times are being good. How do you

656
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: act when times are bad? I saw Kyle Shanahan ak

657
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: when times were bad. He was great. I saw Jimmy

658
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: Garoppolo and his A c L tour. He was great

659
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: working with Mike Shannon. I saw Richard Truman last year

660
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: when the team sucked and he was battling back from

661
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: an achilles injury. He was great, kept his head up.

662
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: It's positive. He's not a front runner. He's a winner,

663
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: like is Odell back up a front runner a little bit,

664
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Speaker 1: I think, so, I don't think I do that deal.

665
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: If you would have six months ago, if you would

666
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: have said that to John Middlecoff and you know O

667
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: t A S in two thousand nineteen, I would have

668
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: looked at you like your nuts. But the more I

669
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: think about it and talking this exact how how much

670
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: chemistry matters. There's a reason Bill is very careful about

671
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: his acquisitions. And I think the Rams who did things

672
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: for business reasons, and I get why they did it,

673
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: and they were super aggressive, but I think they got

674
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: bit by the chemistry book. Okay, let's get two Cowboys Eagles.

675
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: And I was on a text read last night. We're

676
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: just was several NFL fans but all complaining, just can

677
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: we stop hearing about the Cowboys? And I'm with them.

678
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm tired of it. Though, working in this business,

679
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: I get it. They moved the needle like the Yankees,

680
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: you know, like Lebron James. They I get why they're

681
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: talked about so much. I think the problem is the

682
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: Yankees win every year, you know, and they they earned

683
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: it by winning all these Super Bowl or excuse me,

684
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: all these World Series. Even the Lakers in my adult

685
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: life starting in like two thousand, they I mean, I

686
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: was a high school kid, but they won multiple championships.

687
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: Check Kobe. They won again with Kobe and Powe there,

688
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: you know, might win again with Lebron, Like, I get it.

689
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: The Cowboys they haven't been to an NFC title game since.

690
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: But Jerry's an all time great businessman. And that's why

691
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: I like talking about Jerry more about business than this

692
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: football team, because let's let's call a spade to spade.

693
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: Their football operations, not their business and their marketing and

694
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: their their market cap and their valuation and all that

695
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: bullshit that really a Cowboy fan doesn't care about. He

696
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: just wants his team to win. Like all that stuff

697
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: is cool unless you're losing. You know. It's like, well,

698
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: the Raiders, you know, their valuation over the last ten

699
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: years is doubled under Mark Davis. Well, yeah, they've they've

700
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: had one good season since. Who cares, Like everyone's valuation

701
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: is going up? Look at the media writes, this isn't

702
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: that complicated to figure out. Do you win like you

703
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,919
Speaker 1: think Patriot fans truly care like how much the team

704
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: is worth for Robert Craft. No, they take pride in

705
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: winning six championships and going to the a f C

706
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,959
Speaker 1: Championship every year. And the Eagles are just a better

707
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: run football operation they have been over the last twenty

708
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: years under Randy and then now again with Howie and Doug.

709
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: You know, no one should be shocked. And I was

710
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: thinking about Jason Garrett. We've all probably been there and

711
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: maybe had a dune door, maybe had it come the

712
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: other way. When you know, you know, and I think

713
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: it's I'm talking specifically in a personal relationship, mainly with

714
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: the with the opposite sex. Now I means two doesn't

715
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: have to be the opposite sex with someone you like, right,

716
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: And you get into a position the older you get.

717
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: You know, when you're young, you're not really thinking like this.

718
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: But once you get past like or something, when I

719
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: marry this person, and a lot of times, you know,

720
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fish in the seat. You realize, yeah,

721
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if she's the one, well the quicker.

722
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: What you know that, I mean, truly know that, uh

723
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: you know that there's a balance. Sometimes you know it,

724
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: but you're like, you know, she's really hot and I'm

725
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: having a good time and this is fun. I'm talking

726
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: like something that gets really really serious and you know

727
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: you're not gonna marry her. It takes. It's hard to

728
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: break up with someone, just like it sucks to get

729
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: broken up with I mean it sucks. It really sucks,

730
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: especially when you like them. You may not want to

731
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: marry them. It's been the rest of your life with them,

732
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: but you really like them. We've all had it happened

733
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: to us and against us. It stinks. But the quicker

734
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: you do it, when you know, the easier. It makes

735
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: everything big picture And clearly Jerry knew last year that

736
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett wasn't the guy. He can say whatever he wants.

737
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: I always say, don't people on Twitter and social media

738
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: judge all these words. They don't mean shit. I judge

739
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: humans off actions. Jerry Jones made him play out his

740
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: contract or coach out his contract on the last season,

741
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: like Jeffrey Lurry last year extended how he and Doug.

742
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: So Jeffrey Lowry, the owner clearly believes in how he

743
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: and Dug rightfully, so he should Jerry Jones, I don't care.

744
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: I think Jason Garrett's a Super Bowl winner. You know,

745
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 1: can't win the Super Bowl. I think he's the next

746
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: Tom Landry. He can say all that stuff which he's

747
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: been saying for the years. He showed his actions last

748
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: year when he didn't extend Jason Garrett coach this season

749
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: with no contract for next That is unheard of in

750
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. Onheard of, which kind of crazy. I mean,

751
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: most humans and normal, normal positions and businesses do it.

752
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: But I understand in pro sports when you need the

753
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: coach to earn the respect of your players, that matters.

754
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: But Jerry didn't even care. Why would Jerry care. Everyone

755
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: knows he's the boss, and really the last month they've

756
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: been pretty lifeless to go. And I'd understand Dax injured,

757
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: his shoulder was messed up, he didn't play very well,

758
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: But that was just that was a culmination yesterday of

759
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones knowing he knew it. He should have done

760
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: it last year and maybe he wouldn't be in this

761
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: position because Stephen Jones said this offseason, I think there's

762
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: our most talented team since the mid nineties. I agreed.

763
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: Hell I I'm the one with Vega in my face.

764
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna win the NFC because I

765
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: thought the team was stacked, and for some reason, I

766
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: kind of believed in Jason Garrett. I was an idiot.

767
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's terrible. He's awful. I mean, he's beyond mediocre.

768
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: He's just he's not a good coach. And Doug took

769
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: him to the shed. Of course, Doug beat him that.

770
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: Doug's a better coach. Doug's a far vastly superior in

771
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 1: game play caller, mainly because Doug actually calls the plage

772
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: Jason no longer does. And just you watch the Eagles

773
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: over the last three years, they just play harder, more consistently,

774
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: beat good teams, win big games. Cowboys just don't. It's

775
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: really period, point blank, end of story. And Jerry Jones,

776
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: through his actions, validated what everyone was thinking about Jason.

777
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: He's not good enough because they didn't extend him. And

778
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: you can say, oh, we're just trying to make him

779
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: prove it. Bullshit. You knew what you were doing because

780
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: you had questions, and when you had questions, just like

781
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: in a relationship, you should just end it. It would

782
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: have been better for everyone and you wouldn't delayed the inevitable,

783
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: because that's ultimately, when you don't break up with that

784
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: person or they don't they string you along, you're just

785
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 1: delaying the inevitable. It's only going to get worse because

786
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: you spend more time together. You know, you just you

787
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: just gotta break it off. And Jerry Jones, you could argue,

788
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: let's I admire Jerry Jones is one of the truly

789
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: great American businessmen in the history of this great country.

790
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: But he created the situation. He played a huge role,

791
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: and not just that game in Philly, but this overall season.

792
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: Now that I kind of thought back on it, by

793
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 1: the way he handled Jason's contract situation, and you could

794
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: make the argument that that Jerry Jones, even at his

795
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: old age and this talented roster that he held put together,

796
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: cost the Cowboys a chance to add a Super Bowl

797
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: this year. Let's dive into Baker Mayfield. And this is

798
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: the best way I can describe it. Whatever you do

799
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: for a job, if you're you know, non like minimum

800
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: wage burger flipper or something. If you've got a job

801
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: and it pays relatively well whatever industry you work in,

802
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: typically you hang your hat on something right. If you're

803
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: like the I T guy in every company, we all

804
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: know him. They do something we can't do or else

805
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be so dependent on them. They can fix

806
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: our phones, our computers, ship we know nothing about. Just

807
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: like the number one sales guy in your company, if

808
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: you have you know that type company, he usually has

809
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: something special that he brings the table. One, his relationships

810
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: that he has other people, maybe his ability to be social.

811
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just the ultimate closer. And when it comes

812
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: to athletes in the pros, for the most part, besides

813
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, trying to think of like an all around

814
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: elite like ray Lewis and his prime or you know,

815
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: a gronk there there, there's a small percentage of guys

816
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: that could quote unquote do it all. Most guys hang

817
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: their hat on something that separates them that makes them

818
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: a really good player. And it's why we talk in

819
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: scouting strengths and weaknesses. It's why we try to focus

820
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 1: in on our weakness and find out if that weakness

821
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be a detriment to a guy's success. Like

822
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: it's hard, you can't play corner if you run a

823
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: four seven impossible, won't happen. Now. You could get buy

824
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: in certain schemes if you run a four or five eight,

825
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: But if you run four seven, I don't care what

826
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: they're asking. Do you got no shot? Right, But you

827
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: can play wide receiver at four seven. But there are

828
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: things we're gonna talk about Michael Thomas a little bit later.

829
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas run a four or five seven. So he's

830
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: not the fastest guy in the world. He's not gonna

831
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 1: run by the Tyreek Hills, right, it's not his deal.

832
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: But you know what he can do. He's tough as hell.

833
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: He's catching Gradius his elite. He catches everything. His ball

834
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: skills are top notch. Davante Adams same thing, Jujue, same thing.

835
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: So when I look at Baker Mayfield, you go he's

836
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: got a lot of weaknesses. One, he's a midget for

837
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: NFL standards. He's a blow average athlete. He is not

838
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: like physically just even in his small size. Like when

839
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: you look at Kyler, you look like a little tank, right,

840
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: he's super yoke. Baker Mayfield looks fat and chubby. But

841
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: coming out of Oklahoma, the one thing Young has had

842
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: on even in Oklahoma, which I didn't think was a

843
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: big deal. Colin didn't Colin and proven right the immaturity stuff,

844
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: clearly that was a problem. His accuracy, though in college,

845
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: was elite. His comparison, best case scenario was Drew Brees.

846
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: I thought, like, this guy is gonna succeed. Now. I

847
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: don't know if I would have taken him number one overall,

848
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: but I got it. You know, he's got like this

849
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: Brett Farve personality, you know, kind of a gun slinging

850
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: crazy guy, but he's super accurate. I'm like this guy,

851
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: you can't fail. It's impossible to fail when you're accurate. Well,

852
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: here's this issue. Do you know what the issue right

853
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: now with Baker Mayfield is he's no longer accurate. He's

854
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: six on the season, and his balls inside the pocket

855
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: file over the place. His wide receivers are constantly having

856
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: to adjust in the middle of the air. Again, when

857
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: you watch Drew Brees, who's the highest end of this

858
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: obviously pinpoint accuracy hitting guys in stride, and you know

859
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: in Philip Rivers and his Prime, Peyton Manning and his

860
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: prime talking about the guys with average Alex Smith, if

861
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: you got to be if you're short, if you're not

862
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: a great athlete. You can't run around. You better be accurate,

863
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: because if you're not accurate and you have Baker Mayfield's

864
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: physical characteristics, I'm not even talking about the mature already,

865
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: the work ethic, because I I don't know anyone in Cleveland.

866
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: I don't even pretend to know. I'm just all giving

867
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: the benefit doubt. The guy's working hard, but his accuracy

868
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: right now is below average. It's not good enough when

869
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: you're the note. He's going to fail if this continues,

870
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: because this year was a failure. He failed. He was awful.

871
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: He didn't just regress. He was just a bad player,

872
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: you know. One. I don't think he regrets that much.

873
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he was that good his first year.

874
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: I think it got a little overhyped. My main issue though,

875
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: second year, full time starter, entire offseason to grind. He

876
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: can't complete basic routes, and then the tough stuff he

877
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: has no chance. And then whenever he has to leave

878
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: the pocket, he can't do that because he can't run away.

879
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: And then he gets a lot of balls batted down

880
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: because he's short. So you go, this is trending, and

881
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: not in a bad way, not in the wrong way.

882
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: In an area that's going to be a complete disaster.

883
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: This thing is trending of being a major, major bust

884
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: as the number one overall pick. So if you're the

885
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: Cleveland Bounds and you've done a disservice by making Freddy

886
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: Kitchens a first time play caller just last year when

887
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: everyone got fired, to become the head coach who's not

888
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: helping him out. You, Oh, Baker Mayfield, you owe your

889
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: organization like you have to get this fixed. If you're

890
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: John Dorsey, to me, the you can make a big

891
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: deal about Freddy Kitchens and the Jarvis two weeks ago

892
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: and then Odell last weekend. Whatever you know, football competitive environment,

893
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of alpha males, people screaming each other. You know,

894
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: when you you ever noticed when you see you see

895
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: the viral video of Kyle Shanahan, not the one the

896
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: forty Niners posted, but the raw one that Fox posted

897
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: him swearing left and right. It's it's football people. The

898
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: F words use like the it's just it's normal. That's

899
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: that weird. Crazy things happen. I've heard some good stories.

900
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm at liberty to say if

901
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: coaches shoving player, I mean it getting pretty crazy. I mean,

902
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: it's it's the NFL. It's a lot of money on

903
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: the line, a lot of alpha's, a lot of egoes. Whatever.

904
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: That doesn't bother me. My issue is just sixty passer

905
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 1: in two thousand nine. If he's got in in modern

906
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: day NFL, maybe that flew in like the eighties, that

907
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: might as well be if you factor in inflation to

908
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: what if we went back to the eighties, that's he

909
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: might as well be a pastor. That is atrocious watching

910
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: him against the Ravens. He's not a good player. And

911
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: I'm not anti Baker Mayfield. I loved him coming out.

912
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: And again I used this sounds kind of blasphemous right now,

913
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: sound nuts. I used, like, this guy can be Drew Brees.

914
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: He couldn't be anything further from Drew Brees. Then when

915
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: you factor in the way people talk about Drew Brees,

916
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: the maturity, the leadership players when they retire, they cried

917
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: talking about Drew Baker doesn't have that going on. But

918
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: before we can even work and even worry about that stuff,

919
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: the leadership, the being the quarterback, the just the galvanizing personality,

920
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: because we've seen, you know, Rogers, it's not him but

921
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: Rod Baker Mayfield's best day, don't hold a candle to

922
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Roger Rogers physical capabilities, worst day. So Baker just in

923
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: a vacuum to even have a chance, to me, has

924
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: to be like sixty eight percent passer. He he has

925
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 1: to be now. He couple he made a couple throws

926
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: in the Ravens game, but they were you know, kind

927
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: of hollowed down double digits. It didn't really matter when

928
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: it's mattered, he's been awful. So that to me is

929
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: why Freddy Kitchens cannot come back to this football team.

930
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: Because when you draft a guy number one overall, you

931
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: are saying this guy is gonna be a transcendent player.

932
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: This guy has m v P ceiling. Say what you

933
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: want about Cam Newton. He had an up and down career.

934
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: His ceiling was as high as the sky, and for

935
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: one year he hit it. M v P let his

936
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: team the super Bowl. Multiple other seasons where I wouldn't

937
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: say he hit a ceiling, but had great years playoffs.

938
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: It was clear, like that's number one overall pick. You

939
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: don't need to be a former NFL scout to watch

940
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and gut, do you know what number one

941
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: overall pick you go middlecoff if you compared with Drew Brees,

942
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: Drew Brees one in the second round. Yeah, Like that's

943
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: why when you take a guy with a lower ceiling

944
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: at number one overall and then he's not a good player,

945
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: it looks that much worse, like Mitch Robinsky. Is that

946
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: a swing in a miss? Of course it is. But

947
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: when you see Mitch run around, or you see Mitch

948
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: fling an eight yard bomb that he overthrows a guy

949
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: by ten yards, you go, yeah, there's some physical characteristics there.

950
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: Baker doesn't possess those. So Jimmy Haslum, John Dorsey, they

951
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,439
Speaker 1: screwed this thing up higher and Freddy, but they better

952
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: go in the lab. They better have a long top,

953
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: because they have. If this doesn't change this season at

954
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: whatever they end up with, seven and nine is gonna

955
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: look good to compare to what it can be, because

956
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: he is. He's a bad player right now. You know,

957
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: maybe some of you guys did so well in college

958
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: you got to pick where you into work. You know,

959
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 1: I didn't really know any of those. Maybe my buddies

960
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: were too dumb, but guys that just were, you know,

961
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: elite students that had Goldman Sacks or Google or whoever

962
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: coming after them, like they were being recruited almost like

963
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: a high school player, but out of college into the workforce.

964
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: Most of us, like I went to become a g

965
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: a because it was really the only option I had

966
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: to get into football, and then I was gonna work

967
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL by whoever offered me a job, and

968
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: the Eagles I had. You know, they offered me a job,

969
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,240
Speaker 1: but it was thirty dollars or whatever might even be less.

970
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: It was ugly, I'll tell you that, and no health benefits.

971
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: I didn't have a choice, like I just I said

972
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: yes on the spot. Yeah, I'm in right most people,

973
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: if you want to if you want to work for

974
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: a company and they offer you a job right out

975
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: of college, you just say yes, even though I guess

976
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: in football, because it's a little more of a public company,

977
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 1: you know who's working there, so you have an idea

978
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: of who you're gonna work with, but you don't really

979
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: determine who's gonna hire you. You know, you can be

980
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: active and reach out and call people and send letters,

981
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: but there is some randomness to it to it all

982
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: for us young people, and obviously in football when you

983
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 1: get drafted, you have no control. You have even less

984
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: control because you can even if you don't like have

985
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: any leverage coming out of college, you can always say

986
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: no to jobs. You can be like, well, I don't

987
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel right. In the NFL, if the Bengals

988
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: take you, you know, the the Bucks take you, if

989
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: the Jets take you, you just say yes. I mean,

990
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: you just go play. Right if if the Lakers draft

991
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: you or the Timberwolves draft yed, you just go play

992
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Same thing with baseball, at least coming

993
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: out of college. But Michael Thomas should be thank his

994
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: lucky stars that at the end of the day he

995
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: fell in the draft and a big reason he fell.

996
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: And this is I mentioned this a little earlier. It's

997
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: not necessarily right, but it is what it is. Analytic.

998
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: Twitter loves to act like analytics aren't used, Like what

999
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: do you think the forty are dash is, say analytic

1000
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: x hoss. He ran a four or five seven, And

1001
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: anytime you run a four or five seven you're kind

1002
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: of perceived as being a little slower, which is stupid.

1003
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you're watching Davantae Adams on Monday Night football.

1004
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: He's a four or five eight guy or whatever too.

1005
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: He's moving around just fine, like you can play fast

1006
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: and not run as fast before he but that hurt

1007
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: him and that's why he felt a little bit in

1008
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: the draft. And maybe there were other stuff I don't know,

1009
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: have to text my scouting buddies, like the in depth

1010
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: scouting report, but I just I can google his forty time.

1011
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: And this guy was clearly a pretty talented player because

1012
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: he went in the second round and he ran in

1013
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: the high four fives. But it's the best thing that

1014
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: ever happened to his career. He ends up with Sean Payton,

1015
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: he ends up with a peak of his powers, Drew Brees,

1016
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: and he deserves a lot of credit because through fifteen

1017
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: games in two thousand nineteen, he has a hundred and

1018
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: forty five catches in nine touchdowns. He has an unstoppable

1019
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: force right now, an absolute badass. And I watched him

1020
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 1: on the field with Drew Brees after they beat the Titans,

1021
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: and Drew walks over he's being interviewed and they give

1022
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: Drew the bye, and Drew basically said, like, this guy

1023
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: works his ask off. This guy does everything when no

1024
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 1: one's looking. This is because of the work. He puts

1025
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: in Monday through Saturday, like most people, like any successful

1026
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: like you watch Colin. Colin has been doing this for

1027
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: thirty years, like bar stools now Big Portnoy had been

1028
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: putting in the Times. He's like the early two thousand's.

1029
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: Stuff doesn't just happen overnight. Michael Thomas. I can't imagine

1030
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: what he's like to grind or what his work ethic

1031
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: is like in practice. And he's obviously physically gifted or whatever,

1032
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: but he also benefits. And he even he mentioned this

1033
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: when whoever was the sideline reporter hands in the mic back.

1034
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: He's like, I get to I get to practice and

1035
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: watch this guy work every day, pointed Drew Brees. Think

1036
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 1: of the benefit of that for Michael Thomas. So, Michael

1037
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: Thomas has a trajectory right now that headed straight toward

1038
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. His numbers are historic. I mean literally,

1039
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: he just broke gets in the season. He still has

1040
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: a game left, but he really benefits, just like all

1041
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: players do, from going into specific situations. He went with

1042
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: an established all time great coach with If Sean Payton

1043
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: were to win another Super Bowl, he'll be in the

1044
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Obviously, Breeze, a Hall of Famer and

1045
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: just the organization. Someone corrected me on d MS. I

1046
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 1: guess I was calling it New Orleans. It's New Orleans.

1047
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna call them the Saints, and the Saints

1048
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: now are one of the model organizations in all of football,

1049
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: come a long way since Katrina and being a laughing

1050
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: stock to what Breeze and Sean Payton have now established there.

1051
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: And Michael Thomas has really benefited now again he deserves

1052
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: a ton of credit. But to think, and the thing

1053
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,240
Speaker 1: with the NFL is your situation. Like when Peyton Manning

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00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: signed with the Broncos, wherever he was gonna go, they

1055
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: were gonna win. Like he was at the peak of

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00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: his powers coming back off the injury. He was just

1057
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: a master of his craft. But when you're twenty one

1058
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:57,280
Speaker 1: twenty two years old, you're pretty your success is predicated

1059
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: on who you're playing with and who's coaching you. Like

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00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams, another Juju Smith fell in the draft. Do

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Speaker 1: do you think that they landed in good spots? The

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00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Michael Thomas fell in

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Speaker 1: the draft to the New Orleans Saints. When I first

1064
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 1: got to Philly DeShawn Jackson and falling to the Philadelphia

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00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: Eagles and Andy Reid. Sometimes falling in the draft is

1066
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: not always the worst thing you do is not gonna

1067
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: fall in the draft this year, Joe Burrow, you know

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00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: where he's gonna end up the Cincinnati Bengals. You know

1069
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,280
Speaker 1: where ideally you don't want to end up the Cincinnati Bengals. Now,

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00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: you can be such a great talent now in fairness,

1071
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: like when A. J. Green got to the Bengals, they

1072
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: had a credible organization with Marvin Lewis, had a good

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00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: team around him. He was a great talent and had

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00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: a lot of success. But you you see a lot

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00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: of players waste in bad spots because when you don't win,

1076
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: when your quarterback sucks. As a wide receiver, you're not

1077
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman, where if you're a defensive end, even

1078
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: if your team sucks, you can still stand out. It's

1079
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: really hard to stand out as a wide receiver if

1080
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks thinks, if your offensive coordinators thinks, if your

1081
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: team's a nightmare in Michael Thomas uh deserves all the

1082
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: credit he's getting, and I think he should always, you know,

1083
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: think back and thank his lucky stars that you know,

1084
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: maybe he ran a little slower in the draft, but

1085
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: it led him to the Saints and let him become

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00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: really rich, and it led him to potentially become a

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00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Let's go rapid fire. Just things I

1088
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 1: saw around the league. Uh, Sunday and maybe even Saturday too.

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00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: The Dolphins forward four last eight games just absolute hat

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00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: tipped and Brian Flores turns out that guy is the

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00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: better of the two defensive coordinators that left Belichick in

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00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: a two year span. He every single human alive would

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00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: take Brian Flores as her coach over Matt Patricia. He's

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00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: done a good job. You know. With Ryan Fitzpatrick, they

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00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: traded for Rosen, they were tanking that they are respectable.

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00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: There there four and four over their last eight games,

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00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: and they've they just passed the eye test. I mean

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00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 1: they play hard. Ryan Fitzpatrick makes play that they're enjoyable.

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00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: How about the Falcons five and two down the stretch? Uh?

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00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: Is dan Quinn saving his job? Is he a one

1101
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: percent lock to be fired? I would say I thought yeah,

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00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 1: But every week that goes by, I don't know beat

1103
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: the Niners. I don't even know who the Falcons just played,

1104
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: but they won another game Jacksonville. I nick Raiders somehow

1105
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: still alive. They needed seven things to happen on Sunday,

1106
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: and they all did, and they need five more things

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00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: to happen this Sunday. The problem for them is one

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00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: they play at Denver. Denver's actually played well the second

1109
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: half of the season under Vick fan Jioe too is

1110
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: Derrick Carter does not play well in games under fifty.

1111
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,439
Speaker 1: It's gonna be in the forties, and you just never

1112
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 1: know at any moment they can snow or whatever. He's

1113
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: not a cold weather quarterback. And three, some of the

1114
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,240
Speaker 1: teams they need to win, like the Texans. The Texans

1115
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: might when they play in the afternoon, might have nothing

1116
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: to play for. The Ravens have already announced that r

1117
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: G three is starting the game and they're gonna sit

1118
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: every you know, several starters as they should. They had

1119
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: a bunch of injury scares late in that game, and

1120
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Speaker 1: they have the one seed clinched, so the Raiders aren't

1121
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna make the play up. I just don't think they're

1122
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: gonna win in Denver. But they went to seven and nine,

1123
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: and I tweeted once upon a time they want sniff.

1124
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: Four wins that still gets retweeted, and it's fun for

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00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: Raider fans. I get it, but I still don't think

1126
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: they're good. But they didn't win seven games, so it's

1127
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: a lot better than four. Uh. Albert Breer wrote something

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00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: today in his MMQB about mcveigh's a lot more involved

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00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: in the defense. It looks like he's gonna get rid

1130
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: of Wade Phillips. I don't know. I don't know anyone

1131
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: in l A, so I don't know if there's a

1132
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: riff there if Wade who loves his money. I mean,

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00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 1: I think Wade makes like two and a half million

1134
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Wade probably thinks he's worth about five.

1135
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: I bet he's asking for a huge rais and McVeigh

1136
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: is now dabbling in defense. I guess which is a

1137
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: little weird. Is he gonna trade for Steve Belichick or

1138
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: not trade for Steve Belichick? My hope, by way too

1139
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: early prediction, he goes and hire Steve's Belichick. I have

1140
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: no clue who John McVeigh would hire as his defensive coordinator.

1141
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 1: It was an easy one with Wade Phillips, an older guy,

1142
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: veteran guy. Now, I don't know, are the Texans good?

1143
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: I asked myself that every every week, you know will

1144
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: Fullers now hurt. That's a big blow. I think Bill O'Brien,

1145
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: who's just kind of a whoos as a coach, he

1146
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: just never has the balls to pull the trigger when

1147
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: it matters the most. Like he'll make a crazy trade,

1148
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: but he won't go for it in a big spot

1149
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: or challenge in a big spot as he did in Tampa.

1150
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: But they won the division. I think for the third

1151
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: year in a row. Their headed to the playoffs. Are

1152
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: hosting the playoff game Jamis. I've never quite experienced anything

1153
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: like Jamis. On Saturday morning, he threw a pick on

1154
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: his first past of the game. I think in the

1155
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: first half he had three picks. He finished the game

1156
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: with four. But anyone that watched that game, I think

1157
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: would attest he had to have hit I'd say between

1158
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: eight to ten, including the picks Texans in their hands.

1159
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: In their hands, he could have thrown eight picks, no problem.

1160
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: He's thirty one eight. I don't even know who they

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00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: played this week. I will be shocked, let me repeat shocked,

1162
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Speaker 1: if he doesn't get to that thirty mark. The thirty thirty,

1163
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: the thirty thirty club. I'd have to google it to

1164
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: know if it's even the first. I'd imagine in modern history.

1165
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: Is the first thirty thirty guy for sure, because he's

1166
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: not bad. He makes plays, he makes winning plays, but

1167
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: he just got he turns the ball over. Luck. T J.

1168
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: Watt and the Steelers pass rushers having a hell of

1169
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: a season. Fourteen sacks, seven force fumbles to interceptions. I

1170
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna win the Defensive Player of

1171
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: the Year award, but he's definitely throwing his hat in

1172
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: the ring. The Chiefs are hot, five straight games of

1173
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: the defense holding opponents under twenty points. Obviously, Mr Bisk

1174
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: excuse that because he doesn't score at all and they

1175
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: only scored three points. But Teacher playing well. Mahomes is

1176
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: getting the swag back Hills dominating Kelsey's dominating Honey Badgers

1177
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: dominating their defensive lines. Coming on, they claim terrell Sugs

1178
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: their other young corners are playing well. They are to me,

1179
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're even the sleeper. I mean,

1180
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: they got their defending m v P and the guy

1181
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: they were in the a f C Championship last year,

1182
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: but they would be my not so sexy. I think

1183
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: most people picking the Ravens. I think the Chiefs could

1184
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: win the a f C. Mr Sskey stinks. Under no circumstances,

1185
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: if you're Ryan Pace, can you pick up the fifth

1186
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: year option. It's it's an easy, no brainer move. You

1187
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: decline the option and you look to cut this offseason

1188
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: and acquire Dalton, Rivers, Brady. I don't care who. Obviously

1189
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: you'd acquire any of those guys, but you got upgrade.

1190
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: You can't roll the season back with Mr Whisky. That's

1191
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: that's unacceptable. Mike McCarthy interviewed for the Carolina Panthers. He's

1192
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: been making a huge media push, uh, saying how much

1193
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: he's into analytics, saying how open minded he is, Like

1194
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,439
Speaker 1: he he understands what's going on right now. I think

1195
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: when the dust settles, he ends up landing a head

1196
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: coaching job. Just all of the experience, uh. I mean,

1197
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: his resume speaks for itself. Been at the Super Bowl one,

1198
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of playoff games, I mean, won a Super Bowl, UH.

1199
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: Coach a ton of good players, multiple generations of players. Um.

1200
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: You know, especially if he takes the attack of the

1201
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: tactic that you know, I've learned a lot everything he's

1202
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: learned from in this offseason looking in the mirror, and

1203
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna benefit him greatly. And other than that,

1204
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:06,920
Speaker 1: maybe I won't. Maybe I'll save a huge do a

1205
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: huge middlecoff mail bag. On Friday, We're already in an hour.

1206
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: It's it's Christmas. Uh, enjoy Christmas, Enjoy your loved ones.

1207
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: You know, you just you know. I lost my dad

1208
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. You just never know,

1209
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: you know who's gonna leave the family as time goes on.

1210
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: So this is a special time to be with your family.

1211
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: And UH love Christmas man, Uh and enjoy everyone listening.

1212
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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, appreciate everyone making the show go as

1213
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: it does, and uh thankful for all you guys. Merry Christmas,

1214
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,439
Speaker 1: Happy Honka, and see you guys at the latest week