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Speaker 1: Andrew just did. I will start with his question. Longtime listener,

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Speaker 1: enjoyer of Tito's and a Panthers fan. I'm also an

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Speaker 1: enjoyer of Tito's, not a Panthers fan, though I'm recording

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Speaker 1: this on Saturday morning. Baker Mayfield, well, I mean, let's

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Speaker 1: a way to get out of there. Thanks, man, can't

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Speaker 1: wait for the start of the season. Agree, There's something

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Speaker 1: you know. I've been going to these NFL I mean

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Speaker 1: NFL I've been going to forty Niner practice and you know,

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Speaker 1: you get home, you turn on NFL network. In the background,

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Speaker 1: they're all over. You know, football hard knocks started the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game. Though, I did feel for the

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Speaker 1: first time Thursday night, seeing Belichick, Friday night, Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: it felt like football was back. And I'm not gonna lie,

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Speaker 1: it felt great. I mean, I know it's still kind

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Speaker 1: anything else, it felt right. You know, football is in

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Speaker 1: he's kind of stuck. They have a five year contract.

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Speaker 1: there's no room, like, there's no place to put it in. Two,

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Speaker 1: Once the if the game and the team is good,

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Speaker 1: my logic on I didn't bet my life savings so

424
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: if this does not work out. It felt like everyone

425
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 1: was playing the hits and I, you know, with bitcoin,

426
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: it just wasn't gonna get in on bitcoin. Not that

427
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: I don't believe in it, just I haven't invested in

428
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: anything in it, though I do believe in it, like

429
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: I think bitcoin probably works. Uh. I do regret not

430
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: buying Ethereum when it was a thousand dollars, and I

431
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of parallels the guy that

432
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,199
Speaker 1: that started and oh, I guess he doesn't own it

433
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 1: because anyone can own it, but the brains behind Cardono,

434
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we're a guy that created ethereum. So

435
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: it's similar logic there. Uh. I'm not some crypto uh

436
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: historian here, It's there's some gut feel there's just I've

437
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: heard people talk about it over the years that gave

438
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: me some confidence in taking a swing. That's what I'm doing,

439
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: taking a swing, because ultimately I believe that some of

440
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: the staying power in crypto makes some sense about the

441
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: ability to do everything online in terms of just the

442
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: ease of some of these financial transactions that are such

443
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: a pain in the ask. Now, then in ten twenty

444
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,439
Speaker 1: years could transition that way. It might be might be

445
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: less time. Uh, And I just went with something a

446
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: little more off the beaten path that I do think

447
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,199
Speaker 1: a guy that started one of the big boys is behind.

448
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: So I said, why not? And I don't think you

449
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: should do this. I guess it was my logic at first,

450
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: because you know, when you see bitcoin at thirty thou dollars,

451
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: it makes you you would never buy a stock that's

452
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: thirty dollars, right, but in bitcoin you can buy fractions

453
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Speaker 1: of it, and that that I just I mean, at

454
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: the time when bitcoin was coming and I was starting

455
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: to buy, it was like eighty thou dollars, so I

456
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do that. And then even Ethereum was like,

457
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: which god, I'm kicking myself. It was a thousand dollars.

458
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Speaker 1: Even if you just put you know, a thousand dollars

459
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: you would have doubled your money. It's almost it was

460
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: when I look yesterday. Uh but yeah, this is not

461
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: not telling anyone recommending anything. I just did myself, took

462
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: a swing. That's that was my ultimate logic with the

463
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: crypto space as something to get aggressive with. That could

464
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: be boom or bust. I'm okay with it going to

465
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Speaker 1: zero and disappearing. I don't think it's going to but

466
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: that's I play a stock market a little bit differently

467
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: than crypto. A lot of people have been down on

468
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,479
Speaker 1: the Falcons, but I think they can be a sleeper

469
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: team this year. How do you feel about Arthur Arthur

470
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: Smith and Terry Fotto's approach on the big cap season.

471
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: I have a hard time seeing them be very good. Um,

472
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: you know, I just I don't believe in their offensive line.

473
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: Mariota's are starting quarterback. Their defense was horrendous last year.

474
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Speaker 1: I I if I had to bet right now, I

475
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Speaker 1: think they're drafting near the top five. I think they're

476
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Speaker 1: aft to near the top five more likely than being

477
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 1: a sleeper team. To make some noise. Why is everyone

478
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 1: always glass half empty on the Patriots every year at

479
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: the same merrygo around where people should on the Patriots

480
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: and they end up being fine. Do you think this

481
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: year will be any different? I don't think that was

482
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: the case last year. I think most people were like,

483
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, Belichick's gonna be piste off. He's got all

484
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: these guys returning that missed the two thousand twenty season

485
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: because they opted out. Uh, Mac Jones is gonna be

486
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: a huge upgrade over what Cam was in two thousand twenty.

487
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: I picked him to make the playoffs, thought they would

488
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 1: be good on defense. I thought Bill Bill would be

489
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: just a man on a vengeance tour, and he was,

490
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: and he won eleven games, he made the playoffs. I

491
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: think this year is a lot different. Matt Patricia's the

492
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: fucking offensive coordinator. Say that out loud? How could any

493
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: human take that? Seriously? They can't and they won't and

494
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: they don't, and that's why they are shorting the Patriots.

495
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: But I think, I don't want to say universally, I

496
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: think people were rooting against them last year. But I

497
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: most level headed, non biased people thought the Patriots are

498
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 1: gonna be very competitive last year, and they were, especially

499
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: they started, weren't they didn't they start one and four?

500
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: So I I I don't think it was universally last

501
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: year like it is now, and I think right now

502
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: is strictly because of Matt Patricia. If Josh McDaniels was

503
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, I think a lot of people would

504
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: be like, Yeah, they're gonna be solid again, They're gonna

505
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: win ten games. But I when you see that guy

506
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: calling offensive plays, I don't know what to tell you.

507
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: How can anyone go, yeah, Matt Patricia if he was

508
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: a free agent, how many teams would hire him as

509
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator? College and pro? The answer is zero?

510
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: It's zero, not one. So I there's a difference with

511
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: glass half full or glass half empty in this situation.

512
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: I think this situation is pretty unique to the Patriots

513
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: last twenty years. I've think sometimes they have been undervalued

514
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: because people go, oh, they're not gonna be as good

515
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: this year. That is not the case this year. To me,

516
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: it's strictly that. I think it's their offensive coordinator. Okay,

517
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: last thing, is there something happening weird with Lamar's contract.

518
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: I'm a Ravens fan who was skeptical of Lamar, but

519
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: he's obviously proven to be a special player. It seems

520
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: like the Ravens want this deal done, but with no agent,

521
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: the whole situation seems a bit off. Is it just

522
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: a matter of time? Lamar wanting more than Kyler and Deshaun.

523
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Speaker 1: I have to think the Ravens would back up the

524
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: Brinks truck for him. Lamar is a great player and

525
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: good guy, but isn't it kind of in a weird

526
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: spot with no agent? Yeah? I think the thing that

527
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: would benefit Lamar with an agent would simply be Lamar,

528
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: we are not taking snaps until they give us a

529
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: piece of paper and we sign it with a large

530
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: sum of money. We we cannot risk in practice someone

531
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: falling on your foot, you slipping and tearing an a

532
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: C L anything that we're just not doing. Now, all

533
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: holdings are not created equal, right. What Kareem Hunt was

534
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: doing is like what are you doing? Bro? But when Deebo,

535
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,719
Speaker 1: Samuel and t J. Watt held in, we we go.

536
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: We get it. They're elite players. They deserve some coin.

537
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: To me, that is Lamar Jackson. You do not practice,

538
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: because if you practice, what leverage you're giving all the leverage?

539
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: Like what's the Ravens rush? Because any team would gladly

540
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: just play things out. I would much rather play things

541
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: out than pay you, even if you are a great player.

542
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: It allows me some cat cat flexibility. What's Lamar's fifth

543
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: year option this year? Like twenty five million dollars? I think,

544
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: so I'm with you. I think Lamar his lack of

545
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned as I've gotten older. Like when

546
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties, I was very I didn't

547
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: have any leverage in any of my jobs, so I

548
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: was always hesitant too. You know, I guess you'd say

549
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: stand up for yourself, like, go, this makes no sense,

550
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: I deserve more money, or I won't do this because

551
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: you were so worried about kind of getting pushed around,

552
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: where if you even if I was young and had leverage,

553
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have got that much

554
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: more aggressive. And that's where I do think it's a

555
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: hard position for a guy that's twenty five years old,

556
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: who was a high character guy to start kind of

557
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: like demanding some ship he clearly isn't and he's kind

558
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: of getting pushed around by the Ravens without them pushing

559
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: him around. And that's where an asient goes, this is bullshit.

560
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: This guy resurrected your franchise John Harbot, you were going

561
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: to get fired. He John Harbot was fired until Lamar

562
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: Jackson came around saved his career. And now here's the thing.

563
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: They're paying Lamar Jackson twenty three million dollars this year.

564
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: We can argue as Lamart whatever, he's definitely worth more

565
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: than any three million dollars based on the quarterback pay scale.

566
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: So I think the thing that he misses out most

567
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: with an agent is someone that's unemotional can fight for you.

568
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing anyone listening to this probably

569
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: over thirty five, over forty, the longer you're in business,

570
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: the more you're like, I don't give a ship. I'll

571
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: say whatever I believe because it's sucking my money. I

572
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: deserve this, I'll negotiate this. Now, you don't deserve anything

573
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: you get. You deserve what you negotiate. And the older

574
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: you get, I think you realize that it is it's

575
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: easier to be much less. I'm not emotional with business.

576
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: I'm not emotional with any of this stuff. I say

577
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: it all the time, Like I was thinking about this

578
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: the other day. My love of sports is nowhere near

579
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: what it used to be. And it would be. You'd

580
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: be hard pressed to meet any human being from like

581
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: ten years old too, probably my mid twenties that love

582
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: sports more than me. But it's become my business. It's

583
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: become the way that I earned cash, and the better

584
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: it go is the more cash iron and I become.

585
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: I still like watching football, but my relationship with it

586
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: with has changed so much because it's all about how

587
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: I make money. And it's cool, like, you know, I

588
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: got to do what I love and intertwine it with

589
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: the way that I, you know, have a job. But

590
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: when anything becomes a job, you just and the longer

591
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: you do it, you become unemotional about it. It's why

592
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: a lot of older players go, I've learned it's a business.

593
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: It numbs you. And I was not numb about sports

594
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: when I was eighteen years old or twenty two. It

595
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: was my life. It was my passion and it's still

596
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean a passion for me. But it's money comes first.

597
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,719
Speaker 1: You know, this is this podcast is my life in

598
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: terms of how I'm gonna pay my mortgage, say my

599
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: kids to college. You know, put chicken on my table. Literally,

600
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna barbecue some chicken this weekend. But you just

601
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: it's it's hard when you're young. It really is. Most

602
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: people are not super cutthroat, elite Steve jobs when they're

603
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: twenty years old. It's just not the case. It's much

604
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: easier to fight for yourself the older you get, because

605
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: you realize, like, who gives a ship. The only person

606
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: fighting for me is me. If I shattered my leg,

607
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: they've thrown me to the to the side without hesitation.

608
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: If I stopped producing, they cut this podcast in a heartbeat.

609
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: This is the way the world works. And you become numb.

610
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: Do it. It makes you better, It makes you It

611
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: hardens your ability to fight for yourself. And I think

612
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: Lamar is in a very precarious situation right now and

613
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: he just needs someone who's unemotional to fight for him.

614
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: That goes it, looks at John Harbaugh and Steve Bashotti

615
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: and say this is bullshit, this, this is ridiculous. One dude,

616
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: try to sleep with every massage therapist in the state

617
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: of Texas. Another guy, you can't pay him, literally, you

618
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: can't pay him to watch film. And they got to

619
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: combine two million, seventy million. It's like four in a

620
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed. And my guy who was drafted the

621
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 1: end of the first round. Those two guys were high

622
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: first round picks and they've already made a bunch of

623
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: money before they even got their contract held. The Shin

624
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: already got a second contract and they ripped it up

625
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: and they gave him a third and my guy, super

626
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: high character resurrect your franchise one an m v P

627
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: is one playoff game. Uh, fantastic human being. Everyone loves him.

628
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: He's always just incredible with the microphones on of being

629
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: happy and positive. He's everything you want. And you guys

630
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: are paying him his fifth year option because you're, let's

631
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: face it, kind of bullying him because it's he's in

632
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: like he's practicing right now for you. How are you

633
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: allowing this to happen even if the contract is signed

634
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: next week or two weeks. Honestly, they took advantage of

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Speaker 1: the situation, and Lamar's like being taken advantage of because

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Speaker 1: doesn't anyone to fight for him. Now, I'm all for

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Speaker 1: not having an agent like Bobby Wagner or Richard Sherman.

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Speaker 1: Those guys are older and they become hardened by experience

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Speaker 1: of seeing guys get caught, guys get screw rude, I

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Speaker 1: got no problem. I negotiate for myself. It gets my

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Speaker 1: juice flown. I like doing it. I had an agent

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Speaker 1: in my late twenties early thirties for radio stuff. It

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Speaker 1: was a waste of money. I remember my boss telling me,

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Speaker 1: and this is nowhere or this is for like eight

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Speaker 1: th dollars, Like, hey, I would have given you the

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Speaker 1: same if you wouldn't negotiate it yourself. I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: a waste of giving some guys some points? This is

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Speaker 1: And it was a learning experience for me. But Lamar,

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Speaker 1: like if I was if I didn't have a hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty million dollars and I knew I could get a

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five eighty million dollars, I have no

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Speaker 1: problem giving someone a couple of points to get that

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Speaker 1: deal done and fight for me. That's a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: So I I think the situation is Uh is very

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Speaker 1: pro Ravens right now. And you know Lamar every snappy

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Speaker 1: takes for him in these practices, I I do believe

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Speaker 1: he is risking way too much. Appreciate everyone listening to

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff, Slide in those d

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Speaker 1: m s. Share with your friends, Share with your enemies,

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Speaker 1: talk soon, and that Beata, say the volume