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Speaker 1: Happy Friday? Happy Fugazi Friday. Here was the plan. We

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Speaker 1: had some moving parts. What I ended up doing is

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Speaker 1: TJ Watt signed a big contract, so I did a

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Speaker 1: my reaction to TJ Watt, the Steelers, how it impacts

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Speaker 1: just a lot of different angles from the Steeler standpoint,

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Speaker 1: some breaking news. I was at my desk and I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's react. TJ. Watt signs as Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter put it another record breaking deal for the second

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Speaker 1: time in his a illustrious career, making a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: well over one hundred million dollars. He becomes the third

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Speaker 1: big name pass rusher this offseason Miles Garrett, Max Crosby

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Speaker 1: like quarterback on defense. Once you have a great one,

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Speaker 1: And I've been saying this for a while that the

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Speaker 1: moment this offseason played out the way it did with

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Speaker 1: was clear that the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Mike Tomlin era,

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Speaker 1: put all their chips in the middle of the in

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Speaker 1: the table for this kind of operation. You trade Meeka Fitzpatrick,

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Speaker 1: you sign Darius Slay to go with Jalen Ramsey, you

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Speaker 1: just change everything as a move to like, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do everything we can to win. And I think we

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Speaker 1: all agree that even if they're better, we've seen the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, like what is their ceiling? It's

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Speaker 1: not to me super Bowl? But can they win a

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Speaker 1: playoff game? Can they be a lot more competitive down

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Speaker 1: the stretch and in January? And I think if you

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Speaker 1: probably polled Tomlin in the group internally, they would say,

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Speaker 1: we feel a lot better about our team. TJ had

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Speaker 1: he's their team captain, he's the heartbeat of the franchise.

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Speaker 1: Cam Hayward said this sometime over the last week. He

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers post Roethlisberger, you think TJ. Watt. I

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Speaker 1: think over the last five seasons, no player has more sacks.

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Speaker 1: When he is you know, healthy and playing well. He

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Speaker 1: and as long as he's playing at a high level,

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Speaker 1: had two options with TJ. You either give me a number.

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Speaker 1: It became this, well over one hundred million dollars in guarantees.

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Right, Some franchises like Lamar Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: two ones, two two's and just start over tank this year.

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Speaker 1: It just completely suck. But the Steelers, they don't play

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Speaker 1: we got work down the stretch, but hey, are one

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Speaker 1: part of sports now. I mean, so many basketball teams

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Speaker 1: It's like, for whatever reason, over the last several years,

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Speaker 1: The speed, the way he plays, he just destroys everybody

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Speaker 1: I mean in Micah's number because it's a longer term extension.

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Speaker 1: wants one hundred and forty million dollars guaranteed. So it's like, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: Look at these numbers, go you know, if Jalen Carter

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Speaker 1: Mike Florio thinks this collusion thing is going to end

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Speaker 1: the NFL. All I'd noticed when I watch you know,

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Speaker 1: these player contracts is everyone keeps getting more and more money,

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Speaker 1: and it's never been a better time. Obviously, quarterbacks are

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Speaker 1: pay the premium. We have so many guys pass rushers, tackles,

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Speaker 1: why receivers in quarterbacks just making an insane amount of money. Hell,

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Speaker 1: have TJ not there doing a holdout being a situation

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Speaker 1: mean the forty nine Ers always have a hole down

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Speaker 1: back in the day, not that they didn't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of juice, but one politics doesn't pay. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so many of these politicians that's like their job. They

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Speaker 1: go in poor and come out rich. Doesn't quite make sense.

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Speaker 1: But uh, I don't know. I think politics is a

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Speaker 1: fucking joke. Uh hey, John, another question. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: it's not it impacts our lives, but these people that

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Speaker 1: get up in arms, it's like, I just I don't

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Speaker 1: respect these people. I mean I really, I just don't.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I honestly, I think in the football

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Speaker 1: community the respect for most politicians is pretty low. It's

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Speaker 1: it's really low. And I would say that in most

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Speaker 1: industries now you need them sometimes obviously you gotta do

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Speaker 1: what you do. But you know, in football, you know,

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Speaker 1: for political stuff, the league office handles a lot of that,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes your team president if you're trying to get

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Speaker 1: a stadium that the coaches, they don't deal with any

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Speaker 1: of that bullshit. We talk about gms and owners in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. How does your knowledge? How to your knowledge

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Speaker 1: does the league look at Mickey Loomis and Gail Benson?

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Speaker 1: Are they good and well respected or are they a

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Speaker 1: clown show? What's up? Love the pot New Orleans native

448
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Speaker 1: born and rays I feel like a lot of broadcasters

449
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Speaker 1: forget about the length of time the Saints dominated and

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Speaker 1: now we are consistently shit on. I get it, trust me,

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Speaker 1: since Drew and Breeze have since Drew and Sean have left,

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Speaker 1: But why is Tyler Shuck and Kellen Moore getting swept

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Speaker 1: under the rug? Kellen Moore just won the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: great co selling a lot of other NFL films. Analysts

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Speaker 1: said He's really good. Shuck had the second best film

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Speaker 1: coming out of the draft. I know the quarterback sucked,

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Speaker 1: class sucked compared to last year. Also, I hear what

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Speaker 1: you're saying. I think you know it's funny, like was

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Speaker 1: the Patriots a well run organization or did like Bill

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Speaker 1: and Tom know what they were doing right now? Obviously

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Speaker 1: they got Vabel now maybe they can run. But if

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Speaker 1: you just gave Robert Kraft some random coach, he's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna suck. Like the owners a lot of times have

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. I mean they do once

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Speaker 1: they get the right guy, they support them. But if

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Speaker 1: you gave Jeffrey Luriy the wrong coach, he will lose. Right,

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Speaker 1: if you give Robert Kraft the wrong coach, he will

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Speaker 1: lose I've seen Jed Yorke look smart with Jim Harbaugh

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Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan and look like an idiot with Jim

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Speaker 1: Tom Sula and Mike Singletary. So I don't care who

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Speaker 1: you are as an owner, Stan Cronkey, Like the Rams

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Speaker 1: are well run. Why Sean mcvay's their coach? If they

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Speaker 1: had hired Joe Judge right, everyone thought the Giants were

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Speaker 1: one of the model organizations for about a decade with

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Speaker 1: Tom Kaughlin and Eli Manning. Look what they've been for

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Speaker 1: the last seven eight nine years. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: very very coach dependent. And when you had Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: he's really good. Looks he goes to the Broncos, They're

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Speaker 1: immediately good. So like this Mickey Loomis know what he's doing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's he had a front row seat working

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Speaker 1: hand in hand with Sean. But like if he doesn't,

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Speaker 1: if you give him Dennis Allen, he's gonna suck. Is

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore a good head coach? I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. To me, the Tyler Shuck thing, history would

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Speaker 1: say that guys like him are not gonna be good players.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he played in college for seven years. Like

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry called me old school, archaic way of thinking,

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Speaker 1: but he was in like the same recruiting class as

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Speaker 1: brock Purty love the show. Should the Rams and the

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Speaker 1: Rams fans be worried that they're starting left tackle? They

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Speaker 1: just paid now his blood clots and the right tackle

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Speaker 1: got a complete shoulder clean out and was not active

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Speaker 1: during mini camp last year, we started out without our

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Speaker 1: starting tackles and went one to three. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: fun is I think I'm gonna do some like division

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Speaker 1: previews over the next couple of weeks. And I think

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Speaker 1: if you just ask most people, the Rams get a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit, and rightfully so for how good they

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Speaker 1: looked against the Eagles. Right, they were right there. They

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Speaker 1: could have easily beat the team that dominated Washington, dominated

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. They were playing really well at the last

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Speaker 1: point of the season, and even the previous year, they

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Speaker 1: easily could have beat the I think did they play

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Speaker 1: the Lions? Did they play? No? I forget did they

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Speaker 1: play the Lions? Yeah they did in the first round, right,

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm getting that wrong, but whoever they played, I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure they did two years ago. They've won twenty

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Speaker 1: games the last two years ten and ten. I think

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Speaker 1: that sometimes we talk about them in the offseason like

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Speaker 1: they're the Lions or the Eagles, like they've been rattling

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Speaker 1: off thirteen fourteen to fifteen wins. They're not the betting

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Speaker 1: favorite to win the division. So I think the Rams

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Speaker 1: very top heavy. They're very dependent on like four or

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Speaker 1: five guys. Now, granted those guys when Stafford's playing, when

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Speaker 1: Pooka's playing, when Versus and Fisk are playing, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be good, but they are not to me some like

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Speaker 1: Eagles when the Lions are healthy. The Ravens like that

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Speaker 1: their roster is not quite that. They do have a

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Speaker 1: lot of young ascending talent, but they are a couple

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Speaker 1: injuries away. Like you said, from being in that they've

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Speaker 1: started really slow the last couple of years. Their talent

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Speaker 1: that they get by a lot with tough. They're tough

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Speaker 1: on defense. Now the young guys in the front is good.

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Speaker 1: They're coaching with Sean is elite, and Stafford on individual

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Speaker 1: games can go toe to toe with anybody. But now

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Speaker 1: they add Davante offensively, they should be better or just

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Speaker 1: more dynamic. But Cooper Cupp was actually sneaky, more productive

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Speaker 1: than you realized last year. So I don't care who

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Speaker 1: you are. If I if your tackles and listen, we

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Speaker 1: got It's July seventeenth, so we'll see what happens over

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Speaker 1: the next They don't play a game for almost two months.

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Speaker 1: If I take anyone starting two tackles away, I'm again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. These guys both might be ready to play.

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Speaker 1: But in a game, you could be playing a team

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Speaker 1: that wins three or four games, let alone a playoff team,

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Speaker 1: you might you can easily lose that game. So offensive

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Speaker 1: line depth, the amount of good offensive line that has

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Speaker 1: come into the league over the last decade is diminished

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Speaker 1: relative to what it used to be. So most teams,

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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't say the Rams you know, have some

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Speaker 1: like superior offensive line, though Ryan Windell Forrest State guy

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Speaker 1: their offensive line coach. I was just dming with his wife, Meredith,

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Speaker 1: who when I was at Fresno was worked with us

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Speaker 1: in recruiting. She lives in LA because I was texting her.

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Speaker 1: She DM me congrats on the baby, and I she

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Speaker 1: laughed at the picture I reposted to McVeigh. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: how does he look so good? Is he on botox?

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Speaker 1: She's like he just he works out and he eats

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Speaker 1: really healthy, but he looks the same like his picture

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Speaker 1: year one, year nine. But Ryan Windell, who was top

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Speaker 1: by Pat Hill in college, went on to play in

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Speaker 1: the NFL as an undrafted free agent, started in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the Patriots, and he learned from Dante

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Speaker 1: Scarneki is a really good offensive line coach. I mean

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Speaker 1: really good. He's a guy that probably more people should

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Speaker 1: talk about I think internally. I mean, Sean knows how

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Speaker 1: good he has it. Ryan's a really really smart, tough guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, ask Tom bra I know you can't ask

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Neither can I don't know the guy. But

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Speaker 1: if you did ask Tom Brady or Belichick about Ryan Wendell,

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Speaker 1: the way they would speak about him would be really,

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Speaker 1: really highly So I think that's offensive line coaching is

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Speaker 1: pretty important. Like I've seen it forever with the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers, I'm like, beside Trent Williams, who are some

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Speaker 1: of these guys? How are you competing at the highest

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Speaker 1: level with this group? It's like I think Kyle would

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Speaker 1: tell you, Chris Forrester is pretty elite as John and

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Speaker 1: our scheme, it's no different. McVeigh like our scheme. Now.

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Speaker 1: The difference is Kyle avoids the pass as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: McVeigh likes to mcveigh's like kind of like a forty

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Speaker 1: year old in shape, Andy Reid, if you could, if

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Speaker 1: McVeigh had to pick a game plan ten, you know,

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Speaker 1: like the NFC Championship five years ago when Kyle and

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo threw it eight times or ten times like

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Speaker 1: Harbaugh two years ago with JJ McCarthy against Penn State.

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Speaker 1: I guess harball was suspended, but they didn't throw it

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Speaker 1: in the second half and JJ, I forget the exact

578
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Speaker 1: like eight attempts, five attempts, ten attempts, whatever it was. Harball,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan, those guys live like if they

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Speaker 1: could win a game with throwing like less than five

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Speaker 1: passes and just run the ball down your throat and

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Speaker 1: physically embarrass you, they would play like that, where Andy like,

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Speaker 1: if he could choose, he would be the opposite. He'd

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Speaker 1: rather score fifty, throw it fifty times, throw like ten,

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Speaker 1: all go specials at mcveigh's. That which is kind of

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Speaker 1: weird because McVeigh came up with Gruden and the Shanahans,

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Speaker 1: which actually are much more old school running the ball.

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Speaker 1: I thought Gruden maybe just because I had forgotten he

589
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Speaker 1: had been out of coaching for a while. On TV,

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Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, this guy's like a passing game guy,

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Speaker 1: and then you watch him. Groodon wants to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: Grooden wants to play old school football. And I just

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Speaker 1: think that you are who you are, so your personnel

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Speaker 1: really dictates. Obviously Sean can adapt when needed, but like

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Speaker 1: we all have things we lean on in whatever we do,

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Speaker 1: and he leans on the bass. Why he loves Stafford

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Speaker 1: A question for the pod. You were talking about all

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Speaker 1: the college quarterbacks other than Manning. I was talking about

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Speaker 1: the SEC guys. I wasn't talking about them all, but

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Speaker 1: the SEC guys. What about Riola at Nebraska? His only

601
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: started in one year, but he flashed some great stuff.

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Speaker 1: My buddy is a diehard Nebraska fan, so I watched

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Speaker 1: him quite a bit. I really think he and Matt

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Speaker 1: Ruhle are going to put together a great season. Wanted

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Speaker 1: to hear your opinion. Well, like anybody, I was excited

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Speaker 1: to watch him play. He I mean, I either are

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Speaker 1: certain players in college or you know, I don't follow

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Speaker 1: Like some of you guys, if you're a big college

609
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Speaker 1: football fan, you're probably a little more dialed in on

610
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Speaker 1: college recruiting. And certain guys like arch Manning, you knew

611
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Speaker 1: that name when the kid was fifteen years old. But

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Speaker 1: for the most part, there are a lot of recruits

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Speaker 1: you're like, never heard of this guy, right, And Riola

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Speaker 1: is a guy that I had heard of at like

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Speaker 1: sixteen years old. Started in Arizona, transferred to Georgia. He

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Speaker 1: was going to go to Georgia, and then he goes

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Speaker 1: to Ohio State. Then it's Nebraska. Obviously, Nebraska paid millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars, and I was excited to watch him play.

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Speaker 1: Pretty underwhelmed, in fairness to Dylan Riola, his dad, Dominic Royola.

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Speaker 1: This center for the Lions. Football's hard and being a

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Speaker 1: true freshman playing quarterback in the Big Ten, a conference

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Speaker 1: that is really good on defense. I thought he was

623
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Speaker 1: not good last year and kind of self destructed at times.

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Speaker 1: There was just like a instinctive aspect to his game.

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Speaker 1: Now you bring in day Holgerson, who might not be

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Speaker 1: the greatest head coach, dynamic offensive mind, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be fascinating one thing that I'm

628
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Speaker 1: just very interested in moving forward with college. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: this with Colin. When you give a guy like Riola

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Speaker 1: whatever he's making cup several million dollars a year. Now,

631
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Speaker 1: he grew up rich anyway, but regardless, you give him

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Right, I'll give you an example, Derek Carr.

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Speaker 1: When Derek Carr got to Fresno State while his brother

634
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Speaker 1: wasn't like obviously you know, he wasn't his brother's money

635
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Speaker 1: wasn't his. He did show up driving a Hummer, right,

636
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Speaker 1: So like the brother, they're family's so close, it's basically

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00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: all under the same umbrella. But Derek shows up driving

638
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: a hummer. A lot of other guys driving hoop ties

639
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: and shit at Fresno State. But Derek gets the same

640
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: scholarship and the same lifestyle as everyone else on campus,

641
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: has college roommates when he gets to Fresno State, like

642
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: anyone else, No different than Matt Lioner would have, or

643
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: Cam Newton or whoever right forever in college football. Now,

644
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: when I pay a guy like Riola all this money,

645
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, I talk to people, they say a lot

646
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks live in a huge house kind of

647
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: by themselves that they're not necessarily living with their teammates,

648
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: so you're kind of out of touch. There has to

649
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: be a little resentment. If I'm like a third year guy,

650
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: I will say, I'm like a guard or a defensive tackle,

651
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: and I'm a guy in Nebraska. I'm one of the

652
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: best players. I'm making some nil, but I'm gonna be

653
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: one day, probably like a second, third, fourth round pick.

654
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm an NFL player one day I'm one of our

655
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: best players, just a high level guy. Wouldn't I resent

656
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: that a little bit? I have no problem if you

657
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: come in you're making a lot of money and you're good,

658
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: but like, I'm busting my ass and I'm watching you

659
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: making all this money and you suck. I just think

660
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: that these things get weird. I think there's a lot

661
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: of pressure on Riola being good. If he's not, like

662
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: you could argue that program could kind of crumble. They

663
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: went all in on the guy, and they treated him

664
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: like he's like Luca or something. It's like, well, that's

665
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: fine as long as he's a good player. Listen, we

666
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: can debate quinn Ewers all we want. You have you

667
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: have put quinn Ewers on a good team. He's good

668
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: enough to win you a bunch of games. Carson Back,

669
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: same thing. Again. We can nitpick these guys all we want. Like,

670
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: I've seen Carson Back on a really good team win

671
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: a lot of games. I watched for you, a whole

672
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: of fucking you know, melt like a like putting an

673
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: ice cube in you know, in Arizona summer day. And

674
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's no disputing his physical characteristics. But

675
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: one thing we've seen now time and time again college

676
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: football definitely the NFL is like just having a huge

677
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: arm or being able to run, like you gotta be

678
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: able to play quarterback. And maybe the hype, maybe the offense.

679
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was. I was down on

680
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: the experience. Now, like I said, new Dana came in

681
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: at the end and took over. But get an off

682
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,479
Speaker 1: season with him. Uh, excited to watch just the whole

683
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: thing kind of come together or not. I mean, it's

684
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Speaker 1: going to be a rule. Riola are going to be

685
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: a big college football story this year. I have a

686
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: question regarding Lamar, Jalen and Josh and all the quarterbacks

687
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: that run, why is it when a quarterback throws for

688
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred yards and rushes for five hundred. We

689
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: treat the guy like a scrub, but the four thousand

690
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: yard passers some barely have over two hundred yards on

691
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Speaker 1: the ground. Why is it that, after the likes of

692
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton Michael Vick, is in to discuss total yards

693
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: to make it fair for everyone who isn't just passing. Also,

694
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: please explain the Josh over Lamar MVP. Lamar had the

695
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: first team All Pro but lost the MVP to the

696
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: second team All Pro Josh Allen won more or win?

697
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: That important? If Lamar had almost seven hundred more yards. Yeah,

698
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think people were gonna be hard

699
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: pressed with a guy who had crumbled before like a

700
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: cookie in the playoffs giving his third MVP. I think

701
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: that played a huge factor. They're just like, we're gonna

702
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: make this guy a third MVP, and we've watched him

703
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: in the playoffs crumble like a cookie. Now last year

704
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: was his best showing in the playoffs, that second half

705
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: against the Bills. But I think people and I would

706
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: have had a hard time, like Google some of the

707
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: three time MVPs, right, the Brady's, the Mannings, the Farves,

708
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: like it would have been not saying that he doesn't

709
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: deserve another MVP sometime in his career. And I understand

710
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: it's a regular season award, but let's face it, there

711
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of different variables there. Listen, you could

712
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: argue a lot of different things, like why do I

713
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: get an if I throw ten interceptions on the season

714
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: if four of them bounce off my wide receiver's hands,

715
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: how is that my fault? Now? I think you could counter, well,

716
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: it's like, what about the five that were dropped by dbs?

717
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: Right now? In this one, it's very black and white.

718
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I ran, I threw for thirty eight

719
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: hundred yards and I ran for another seven hundred, Yet

720
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: some guy throws for forty five hundred and doesn't run

721
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: at all. It's the Jalen thing because I'd be like, well,

722
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 1: Jalen only threw eighteen touchdowns, right, It's like, well, yeah,

723
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: he runs for fourteen, so it's like he accounted for

724
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: well over thirty. These are questions that are just never

725
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna get answered. How does guaranteed money, signing bonuses incentives

726
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: per year affect the salary cap? Does the cap limit

727
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: include incentives and bonuses? Do teams often have leftover or

728
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: unspent money on the cap at the end of the year,

729
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: do unfulfilled player incentives. How does that all work? The

730
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: bonus stuff, I think carries over to the next year,

731
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: because obviously, if you have a million dollars worth a

732
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: cap space and have to pay out ten million dollars

733
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: worth the bonuses, it'd be impossible and it's a hard cap,

734
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: so it carries over to the following year. Guaranteed money, obviously,

735
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: by definition, is the money you know you have to

736
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: pay a guy. But you can manipulate the salary cap

737
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: by putting if I give you, let's use trace myth.

738
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Speaker 1: I give Tray Smith seventy million dollars guaranteed. Well, if

739
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: I give him a four year contract, right, and that's

740
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: either an extension, so it's actually I have him in

741
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: a contract for five years, or in his situation he

742
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: was on a franchise tag, so it's just it's just

743
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: in the next four years. I can give him all

744
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: of that money upfront. I give him a signing bonus

745
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: a seventy million, and then I can distribute that over

746
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: the life of the contract however I want, right, It's

747
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: why you see a lot of guys sign contract extensions

748
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: and their salary cap number goes down because if I

749
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: give you a thirty, a fifty, whatever, a million dollar bonus,

750
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: I can then manipulate it and amortize it for you.

751
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: Accounting majors the salary cap. But it's why you know,

752
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: in these other contracts, specifically basketball, when I give a

753
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 1: guy two hundred million dollars over five years, it's forty

754
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: million dollars every year, or maybe thirty eight, thirty nine,

755
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: forty forty one, forty two. Right, However, it is football

756
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: is never like that. It's it's why you have to

757
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: treat the salary cap like a puzzle and use the

758
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: guaranteed money to your advantage. Now, the more and more

759
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: you want to give out in upfront signing bonuses, the

760
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: more and more cap you can create. So the more

761
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: an owner is willing to pay cash on individual years,

762
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: the more they can load up their team. Right, not

763
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: guaranteed to work. No one spent more actual cash in

764
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: bonuses than Jimmy Haslam over the last four years. But

765
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: I think like second and third, we're like the Eagles

766
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers who have won a lot,

767
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: they have spent a lot of money over the last

768
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: several years up front, giving out bonuses and manipulating the

769
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: salary cap. And there are a lot of teams that

770
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: are somewhere in the middle. They're like, yeah, we'll kind

771
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: of do it and kind of not do it. I

772
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: would say this, like, I think it's easy to go, Well,

773
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you just you have so much money. I

774
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 1: think some people try it and then at backfires, you're like,

775
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: what am I doing this for? And football more than

776
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: basketball or baseball, Like if I do sign Aaron Judge

777
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: or Paul Schemes or whoever in baseball, unless they get injured,

778
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna be good. Right in basketball, if

779
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: I get jokicch or whoever is guaranteed. In football, it's

780
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: like some guys fall off a cliff, some guys get

781
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: an injury, or never the same. They're just feels like

782
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: there are a lot more variables because of the physicality

783
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 1: of the sport and the coaching scheme turnover that they're

784
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: just they're more variables than any other sport. And I

785
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: think teams get hesitant to try to manipulate it with

786
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: money because if backfire sometimes then it feels like you

787
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,439
Speaker 1: wasted it. Once you get burned, right if you're like, God,

788
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: I spent Let's just say I'm an owner, and I'm like,

789
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, typically I would have given X in bonuses,

790
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: and this year I gave seventy five million dollars more

791
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: because we got aggressive, and then all of a sudden

792
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: we win six games. I'm like, what a waste of

793
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: fucking money, and then my franchise getting shit on that

794
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: whole time too. As a season approaches, what defines a

795
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: great NFL season? Is the league better served by dominant

796
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: teams and many mediocre ones, or by upsets and parody

797
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: which traditional powerhouse is struggling. I'm a lifelong football fan

798
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: hoping to see the likes of the Lions, Bills, and

799
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: Bears succeed. As just a sports fan, I think it's

800
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: very very well defined in most lanes what works right,

801
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: Even if we want to go to individual sports. I

802
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: talk about all I'm not even a UFC guy. When

803
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: are they at their best when they have an absolute

804
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: rock star superstar boxing? Same thing, Give me Mike Tyson

805
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: over ten good boxers. Basketball one not even debatable. The

806
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,320
Speaker 1: best teams in the biggest markets are when the league

807
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: is thriving the most same thing with baseball. World Series

808
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: smoked the NBA Finals, not by accident. It was the

809
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: Yankees versus the Dodgers. Football is the one sport that

810
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: it truly doesn't matter. I mean it really doesn't whether

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Speaker 1: it's Lions versus the Chiefs, or you know, the Giants

812
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: versus the Steelers at Pittsburgh a smaller market, the Cowboys

813
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: versus the Jets. There's no obviously that would never happen.

814
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: But my point is the markets truly don't matter in football.

815
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: And because of the nature of the sport. You know,

816
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: I think this number has changed a little bit, but

817
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: at one point in time, it was like eighty eighty

818
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: five percent of games are one score going into the

819
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. A lot of football games in the NFL

820
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: College is different, are just by nature close. So I

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00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: don't think there is to get a good season, you

822
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: need close, exciting games. But I don't think we're in

823
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: this sport as determined by colleges. Right. College is like Indiana,

824
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: that's not going to work on a yearly basis. Right,

825
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: you need the Ohio States, you need the Michigan's, you

826
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: need the Georgia's, the LSUS, the Florida's, the Ohio States.

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00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: I already said that twice, but that's how I mean.

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Speaker 1: Ohio State's the biggest brand in the Texas sc Oregon.

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00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: Like it's important, you know, in the NFL, if like

830
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, let's just say they had a season from

831
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: hell and went six and eleven. Like the Niners, they

832
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: just lost all these close games. It was the opposite

833
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: of last year. Blew them all, had some injuries. It

834
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: was a disaster, which big picture, it actually wouldn't because

835
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: they'd get a high pick and they kind of get

836
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: to reset. But let's just use that example, and the Chiefs,

837
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: which are the biggest brand in the league, they would

838
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: get flexed out of some of their games and they

839
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: would just pivot to whoever's playing. Well, okay, the Broncos

840
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: are in first place, their games would get flexed into

841
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: the better games, right or the Patriots now are a

842
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: eleven win team. Their teams, they would get flexed into

843
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: the games. You would ride the Bills, you'd ride you

844
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: just pivot where you just The Thunder had a remarkable season.

845
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: They won like sixty seven games, they won the NBA Championship,

846
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: and they just don't move the needle. I mean that

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Speaker 1: they were historically low rated. In the same with the Pacers,

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Speaker 1: even though the Pacers have much more history like when

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00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: I was a kid. My point is that the football

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Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily matter as long as the games are good.

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Speaker 1: Question for the bag. Longtime Bucks fan and really excited,

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00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: what would you say are some of your favorite I

853
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: get asked this all the time. Your favorite jerseys? Maybe

854
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: a top three? I said this the other day on

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Speaker 1: the mail bag. I'm not a like. I don't. It's

856
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 1: just one element of the sport, of the conversation around

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00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: the sport that I just paid no attention to. I

858
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: don't own jerseys. Obviously, there are some jerseys that are

859
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,240
Speaker 1: easy to make fun of, like some of the color

860
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: rush on Amazon Prime Thursday Night Football. Like I'd rather

861
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: just have you play the traditional jersey. But I've never

862
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: been like the Raiders and the Steelers are so much

863
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: obviously the Jags can feel a little you know, franchises

864
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm more of a traditional guy like

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00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: I just like stuff that I grew up on. In

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00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: terms of the jersey. It's why I have a lot

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Speaker 1: of respect for Penn State, Alabama USC. I just and

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00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: I got no problem with Oregon. But jerseys are just

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00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: not something I spend any time thinking about. Truly, How

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00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: would the Niners or Commanders operate at all without Jennings

871
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: or McLaurin next season. Don't they have to pay these guys,

872
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: they don't have a choice. Well, Terry McLaurin accounted for

873
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: thirteen touchdowns. Thirteen touchdowns, so if he disappears, where are

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00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: you making that up fro him? I'm not saying he's

875
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: going to disappear, but that's pretty important. Juwan Jennings accounted

876
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: for twenty seven catches in a season where they lost Auk.

877
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: They had a lot of wide receiver issues, and their

878
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: offense was actually pretty good. They just were bad in

879
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 1: the red zone. But he was extremely productive for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I both guys have leverage. The forty nine ers,

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00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: you know, I people think they're gonna suck. I just

882
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: look at their schedule. I think it would be. I mean,

883
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: they're the betting favorite for a reason, but he is

884
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: their top wide receiver at least going in early in

885
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: the season until Ricky Piersall. Now, I would say the

886
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: difference Terry mclaurin's a true one, right or true one?

887
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: I mean Obviously he's not as good as some of

888
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: the true ones, but he's a guy that if your

889
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: team's good, you can rely on him to ride him right.

890
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 1: And obviously the quarterback in him have an excellent rapport

891
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: and he's their top option, even trading for Deebo. He's

892
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: a better player than Deebo. The forty nine ers, you

893
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: would say, is like, well, George Kittle's better than Juwan Jennings,

894
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: and if McCaffrey's healthy, he is as well. So I

895
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Speaker 1: guess it'd be easier for the forty nine ers to

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Speaker 1: get by for a minute, but I think both guys

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Speaker 1: would be a problem. Okay, we'll end on this college

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00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 1: football head coaching USGA JIN rankings. This means the handicap

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Speaker 1: for the different college coaches. The best handicap Trey Lamb

900
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: is a plus one to three at Tulsa. Dilfer is

901
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: a point seven. Now, in fairness, Dilfer was a scratch

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00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: before he got into coaching. Most of these guys are coaches.

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00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: I would say, in a perfect world, if you told me,

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Speaker 1: what would you like your college football coach? If you're

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00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: at a Power five program, his handicap tod be you

906
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: would like him to be decent because recruiting boosters is important,

907
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: Recruiting people money around the program is important. So he's

908
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: got to be able to play golf. To me, somewhere

909
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: between like a ten and fifteen. I would say, if

910
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: you're a single digit, might be playing little too much.

911
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: Of all the guys at the top program like Hugh

912
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: Freeze seven, Lincoln Riley nine, like that's I would say

913
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Speaker 1: you could even go seven to fifteen. Kirby Smart is

914
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Speaker 1: a twelve, Belichick is a twelve, Ryan Day is a twelve.

915
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,240
Speaker 1: I would say ten to twelve is my sweet spot.

916
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: Like my coach has a little personality, can socialize, get out,

917
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: takes it seriously, likes to compete, but also is it

918
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: spending in so much time on the driving rains that

919
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: he's trying to become a four? Now, A lot of

920
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: these guys they play probably a lot in the summer

921
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Speaker 1: in the offseason, and they don't play it all in

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Speaker 1: the fall. But so of all the guys running big programs,

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Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze has the best. Shane beemers a nine, PJ

924
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: Flex and eleven. Dan Mullen he's at UNLV is a twelve,

925
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: but he's been he's been in the media for a

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Speaker 1: little while. I would pay to watch Belichick versus Ryan Day,

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Speaker 1: or Belichick versus Kirby in just a matchplay scenario. I

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Speaker 1: think that would if we put that thing on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: it'd probably do pretty well. Brian Kelly's a fourteen, Whittingham's

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Speaker 1: a fourteen. Good golf in Utah. I enjoyed that graphic.

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Speaker 1: So have a good weekend. Talk to everyone later studio.

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Speaker 1: The volume