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Speaker 1: What is going on everybody? John middletof bringing out podcast,

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Speaker 1: Sitting here on Thursday, getting ready for these championship games.

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Speaker 1: Can't freaking wait. Watch the Chiefs and the Titans game,

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Speaker 1: the Niners and the Packers game from week ten, and

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Speaker 1: I think week twelve was the Packer game, and I

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Speaker 1: watched them both back in the last basically day. So

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Speaker 1: we'll have some thoughts obviously on the games, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Who has the most pressure coming up

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Speaker 1: this weekend? Championship weekend. We only got three more football

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Speaker 1: games left this season, three more games, these two games

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Speaker 1: and then the Super Bowl. So soaked this bad boy

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Speaker 1: in because we got a long off season, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Houston Astros. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: long summer. It's gonna be long. We're gonna miss football.

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Speaker 1: But the the thing is that we'll keep on going.

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Speaker 1: And we got Combine and then the draft and free agency.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of takes, so I'll keep you entertained.

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Speaker 1: But the actual games, which we all love the most,

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Speaker 1: that's why we uh, you know, like football or like sports.

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Speaker 1: The games we only we only have sixty what one

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Speaker 1: twenty during the math here one eighty. We don't. We

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Speaker 1: got a hundred eighty minutes left of football for the

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Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen s last twenty season. Uh so enjoy

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Speaker 1: it while you can. And then, uh obviously Middlecoff mail

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Speaker 1: bag and the podcast. I got a bunch of questions

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Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff dm slide up in Instagram, and I

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Speaker 1: will answer your questions here on the podcast. But I

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Speaker 1: want to start with this. The coaching profession is pretty unique.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think most people, if you're listening to me,

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Speaker 1: wherever you live. Maybe you left for college and then

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Speaker 1: maybe you're from that area where you live, maybe you're not.

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Speaker 1: But once you get a good job and you know,

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Speaker 1: people like to get situated. I know me, I went

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Speaker 1: then from there I went to Fresno State. So really,

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Speaker 1: spent my entire life from Sacramento area down to cow

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Speaker 1: or four hundred mile radius, but obviously not even that

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Speaker 1: three hundred miles, maybe two hundred, you know, it's four

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Speaker 1: And then I got a job in Philly and I

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Speaker 1: And scouting can be a little bit different than coaching,

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Speaker 1: but coaching is truly crazy. Like think how many people

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Speaker 1: Part of it is just uncomfortable, and I'm not comfortable

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Speaker 1: terms of you're always moving. It's one thing like like

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Speaker 1: is kind of ironic because Jason Garrett, who did not

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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, LSU realize this guy's a stud.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even know how many plays this guy

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Speaker 1: And let's call a spade a spade. If the Panthers

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Speaker 1: just seen it for three or four years. These young,

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Speaker 1: But when you look, you go. They got DJ Moore,

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Speaker 1: kind of had this gut feeling, Uh, this is just

426
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Speaker 1: She's might win the Super Bowl and then Rogers like

427
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Speaker 1: this would be a big moment in his career, big

428
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Speaker 1: underdog playing in San Francisco, the team that passed him

429
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Speaker 1: for Alex Smith. He's a northern California guy. I'd say

430
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Speaker 1: his family and everyone will be at the game, but hell,

431
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Speaker 1: they don't talk, so maybe they'll buy their own tickets

432
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,439
Speaker 1: on Sea geek or something. But I think those two

433
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Speaker 1: guys are just in a class by themselves coming into

434
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Okay, let's dive into the games, and we'll

435
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Speaker 1: start with the morning game, the a f C game,

436
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Speaker 1: Titans against the Chiefs at Arrowhead minus seven and a half.

437
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: I rewatched the game today and uh, I remember watching

438
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Speaker 1: it live. There was some crazy place. Mahomes was fresh

439
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: off the injury, and he was slinging it around. I mean,

440
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Speaker 1: the I always look at it like this. In basketball,

441
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,120
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple, like how do you determine who's gonna

442
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: win a series? Who has the best player. It's just

443
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 1: it's just black and white. Who has the best player.

444
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: You got Michael, you got Lebron, you got Kevin Durant.

445
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 1: You're gonna win most series. Now in the finals, you know,

446
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: the Warriors had like three they had Lebron but the

447
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 1: Warriors had so they were so deep it wasn't really fair.

448
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,679
Speaker 1: But I'd say if you just follow that mindset in basketball,

449
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,920
Speaker 1: who has the best player, like in baseball, who's got

450
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: the best pitching? In football, who has the best coach,

451
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: Who has the best quarterback? I think that favors Kansas City,

452
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: who is the best quarterback? Not even close. You take

453
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Speaker 1: my homes coach Andy though. As I said, I think

454
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Speaker 1: Raybels an up and coming uh modern day Parcels. I'm

455
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: big fan. I think he's going to be a stud

456
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: for a long time. People forget last year they were again,

457
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: I mean they were in week seventeen win or get in.

458
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: Their problem was that Marcus Mariote had gotten hurt and

459
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Speaker 1: the remember they had to start playing gabber like. Titans

460
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 1: have been good now for a couple of years. So

461
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of rabel uh rewatching that game. Henry

462
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: had a big touchdown run. Tanny Hill made some plays.

463
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: An underrated part about tanny Hill and I think he

464
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Speaker 1: actually might be the most underrated runner in the league

465
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Speaker 1: at quarterback because he's big, he can run, and he's

466
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Speaker 1: pretty physical and if they get Derrick Henry running, they

467
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Speaker 1: can make place. It's just that simple, like he makes

468
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: them go. When Derrick Henry goes, they have a chance.

469
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Speaker 1: As we've seen these last couple of games. Now, is

470
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Speaker 1: he gonna run for a hundred and eighty plush yards

471
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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. I would doubt that. I think that

472
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: run comes to an end. Now there's a major question

473
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Speaker 1: mark with Chris Jones, who in that game against the

474
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Speaker 1: Titans forced the fumble that yeah, forced a fumble that

475
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Speaker 1: ended up leading to a touchdown, so I guess it

476
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: led to a field goal. But he played a huge role.

477
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Speaker 1: He's arguably the Chief's most talented defensive player. Maybe it's

478
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Speaker 1: Frank Clark, maybe tiny badger, but I just say pure talent,

479
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Speaker 1: pure attribute, Like he's the most dominant of the group. Now,

480
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Speaker 1: he couldn't go last week because he couldn't fire off

481
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Speaker 1: the calf. I think he hurt this calf, like in

482
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: the locker room screwing around, which is not ideal. If

483
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Speaker 1: he was healthy, I don't even I wouldn't even question

484
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Speaker 1: I'd be the Chiefs. I do think you have to

485
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Speaker 1: uh acknowledge that the Titans are the hottest team in

486
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Speaker 1: all of football. They had to win to get in

487
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,959
Speaker 1: Week seventeen. They go to New England and win, they

488
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Speaker 1: go to Baltimore and win, and they've already beat the Chiefs,

489
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Speaker 1: so they are not coming into this game afraid. Uh,

490
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: you know. I I text him back and forth with

491
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: the GM just telling him congrats, and I think his

492
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: response was simple, like our guys belief, you know. And

493
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: I think that belief is strong. Obviously, John Robinsons put

494
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: together a good team. He has a good code. I

495
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: don't think there are while it's a seven and a

496
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 1: half and that's a huge number in ANFC Championship game.

497
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: They do have talent. I mean their front seven is

498
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: good on defense, where Shaun Evans is a really good player,

499
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: the guy from Bama who has become a much more

500
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: complete player. He had a touchdown in the UH in

501
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: the game on a fumble. But that they got really

502
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Speaker 1: good players. Their downfall, I would say the last several

503
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: years has been corners because they have good safety play.

504
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: Right now, it's corners and what does the Chiefs have

505
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: a plethora of wide receivers from Tyreeke too Hardeman to

506
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: Sammy to whoever they're throwing out there is making place,

507
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: and they have the ultimate playmaker at quarterback, and they

508
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: were an offsides last year from d Ford from being

509
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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. Now, I don't know if this

510
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Speaker 1: team is quite as good. The offense last year was

511
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Speaker 1: probably more potent. The defense this year is better, but

512
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: missing Chris Jones is a big deal, and people forget

513
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: like that defense played pretty good in the championship game

514
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Speaker 1: against the Patriot. It's but I listen, call me a homer,

515
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: call me biased. I'm going with Kansas City. I think

516
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: this is their time. Uh, they finally make the super Bowl,

517
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Speaker 1: and I just think that they would have a very

518
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Speaker 1: very good chance if they win this game to win

519
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: the whole thing, especially if it's a good weather in Miami,

520
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: because they're a good weather team and you put them

521
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: in a good weather situation, they can score on anybody. Hell,

522
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: they scored fifty one straight points last year or last

523
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: week in the cold. I think the Titans have been

524
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: an incredible story and they have nothing to be ashamed

525
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: of even if they were to get blown out in

526
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Speaker 1: this game, because there are points in time in that

527
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Speaker 1: game Week ten that the Chiefs could have ended up

528
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: beating him by twenty points, but it didn't quite swing

529
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: and then they ended up losing. You know that they

530
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: ended up losing the game, which is still a pretty

531
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: wild game watching it back. But when you when you

532
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: just look at this offense, it's too potent. They got

533
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 1: to be riding an all time high last week, like

534
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: we can do anything. And I also think when you

535
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: lose to a team in the ray sular season and

536
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: then you see him again the playoffs, not that you

537
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: need like you don't need not the coach read some

538
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: New Rockney given New Rockney speeches. Anyway, that's not really

539
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: his style. Like he likes mature guys that are badasses

540
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: and they can get themselves up for games. But think

541
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: how much easier it is when you're trying to get

542
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: a team ready and they're gonna be focused in the playoffs.

543
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: But that team has beat you in the regular season.

544
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: And that it happened to the Packers too, Like you

545
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: don't need as many Rale rock speeches that way, you

546
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: just throw on the tape we lost. They beat us,

547
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: and this ain't the NBA. We ain't throwing the game.

548
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: We tried to win and they beat us. So I

549
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: the number I struggle with both these numbers. Uh, it's

550
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: probably why every time I gamble I lose. I would

551
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: tell I would be tempted to take the Chiefs minus

552
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: seven and a half. But like I said, the Titans

553
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: are the hottest team in the league. The thing is,

554
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: while they are super hot and their defense has been

555
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, and they put up an incredible game

556
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: plan last week against Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes at Lamar Jackson,

557
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: you can't the game plan was forced Pat Lamar Jackson

558
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: to throw. That ain't gonna work against Andy and Pat

559
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: Mahomes that they they would they would sell their you know,

560
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: they'll do anything for you to force them to throw.

561
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: That's what they want to do. So how do you

562
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: stop them? And you watch that game going back today,

563
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: it was like there were guys open all day long

564
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: and Mahomes can find them because their corners aren't that great.

565
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: And that's to me the ultimate the difference. So I

566
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs to win the a f C and

567
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: then the NFC. You watch that game back and it

568
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: was it was borderline over at halftime. It was twenty

569
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: to nothing, and then the Niners hit Kittle, they got

570
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: another field goal, and then they hit Kittle for a

571
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: big play midway through the third quarter and it was

572
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: like twenty nine nothing. I mean, it was just the

573
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: route was on And I think while you'd be like, well,

574
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: your buys on this one too. Yeah, I mean I've

575
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: watched the Niners pretty closely, but they're just more talented

576
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: than the Packers. I like their coach more. If you

577
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: did the coach quarterback thing, you'd go, well, I'm taking

578
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan over the floor, and obviously you take Rogers

579
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: over Jimmy, But I think the Kyle thing is a huge,

580
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: huge thing because I think Kyle is dramatically better than

581
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: Matt the floor. Now, if somehow and I wrote about

582
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: that this week on The Athletic, if the Packers can

583
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: muddy up the game and keep it low scoring, that

584
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: is their only chance. They don't score many points. They

585
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: win a lot of close games and they got good players,

586
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: but they're not scoring like the Niners game that they

587
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: beat the Saints, like they don't even have that in

588
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: the bag. You can't get into a shootout with the Niners,

589
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: but they're more potent. Like you watch the Vikings last

590
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: week when the Niners just kind of put them into

591
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: headlock and one to ten and ran the ball down

592
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: their throat. That's gonna be a little more difficult to

593
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: do one because once they got like, you can't force

594
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: the Packers to throw. Well, they do have Aaron Rodgers

595
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: that the Niners game plan was stop the run, forced

596
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: Cousins to throw. That that's not the plan here because

597
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: rogers can kill you. Now their issue is beside Davante,

598
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: they're not as potent. They got the wizard, second year guy,

599
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: not bad. Jimmy shell of himself can still function. That's

600
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: about it. Now they are they're running backs and Aaron

601
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: Jones a good player. The problem is the Niner shut

602
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: down everyone and you could be like, well, Middlecoff. They

603
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: gave up a lot more points the last five or

604
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: six games of the season. Well, you know who's back

605
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: all their defensive players, Quasky Tart back, DeFord back, Kwan

606
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: Alexander back. Look what they did to Minnesota, they smothered him.

607
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for a Kello Weatherspoon who got benched

608
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: after he got smoked on the three plays by Digs,

609
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: would the Vikings have scored a touchdown? Maybe not think

610
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: about that. The one touchdown they scored came on a

611
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: guy that lasted one series. Literally they yanked him out

612
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: of the game, and he's been yanked out of several games,

613
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: and he I would imagine he is not starting this week.

614
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: Kyle Won't refuses to say, and you know the gamesmanship,

615
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: but look, Mosley will start. And Mosley, I mean, he's

616
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: not Richard Sherman, but he's better than a Kella Weatherspion.

617
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: And the Niners their defense is so freaking good that

618
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: if the game does stay low scoring, it gives the

619
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: Packers a chance to win, but it's still favorites the Niners.

620
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: I just the only scenario I see the forty Niners

621
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: losing this game would be Jimmy throwing a couple of

622
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: picks and maybe they have a fumble. Like a three

623
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: or four turnover game, and the Packers only maybe have one.

624
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: The turnover differential would have to be like three because

625
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: the Packers aren't as talented. Now. The Packers have a

626
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: couple of talented guys on defense with Zadarius Smith, Preston Smith,

627
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark, Jay or Alexander the Savage the rookie. Yeah.

628
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: I like a lot of their defensive pieces, but the

629
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: forty Niners aren't predicated on offense because they scheme the offense,

630
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: their coaches elite. They are just they'll do whatever it

631
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 1: takes to for it to work. Like they aren't tied

632
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: to one play. I saw George Kittle talking about it.

633
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, we can run deep routes and

634
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: throw double passes like we did against New Orleans. New Orleans,

635
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: excuse me or run power down your throat until you

636
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: say uncle, Like, we'll do whatever it takes. That that's

637
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Speaker 1: where they are kind of like New England, Like they

638
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: do have a like a base offense. It's the zone

639
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: running scheme, like that's their base offense. But they'll run

640
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: any play that works. Kyle is not tied to any

641
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: individual play, like he'll run if you'll give him the slant,

642
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: they'll just run the slant slant all the way down

643
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: the field. If you take it away, then they'll run

644
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: something for Kittle, and then they'll run a double reverse,

645
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: and then they'll run a quick screen. They don't there's

646
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason. I mean, there is a rhyme

647
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: or reason their offense, but there's not. Every play is

648
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: always available because they'll do whatever it takes. To work.

649
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: What kind of Peyton Manning ish even though they have

650
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: like a defined scheme, whatever you give them, they'll just

651
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: they'll bludge in you with it. He has no problem,

652
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: like he has no ego as a play caller. That's

653
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: really what makes Kyle great. And I talked to a

654
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: buddy in the league. They gave La Floor a lot

655
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: of credit. He's like, they've done a much better job

656
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: at committee to the run this year and becoming a

657
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: more balanced offense because they've had to because beside Davante Adams,

658
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: they don't have the you know, the horses. But back

659
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: to what I said, like it's hard to run it

660
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: on the Niners. You just there's not much not much daylight.

661
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: But like I said, if Rogers, there is pressure on

662
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: him just to play well, because that's what happens when

663
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: you're a superstar player and you make thirty five million

664
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Speaker 1: dollars a year. That's why you're one of the most

665
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: famous guys in the league. And if he were to

666
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: upset this Niners team and have one of his great

667
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: all time games, it'd be one of his most legendary performances.

668
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: And I'm a Rogers guy, I think he's one of

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Speaker 1: the best five or six quarterbacks. Ever, clearly you'd be

670
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: an idiot to argue anything else. He's an elite player.

671
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: But I think this is tough man. I don't know

672
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: if he's coming to a gunfight with a knife, but

673
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: maybe he's got a gun. He I just don't think

674
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: he has that many bullets, and so when he shoots,

675
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: he better make sure he hits because if he misses,

676
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: he'll run out of bullets and they'll be screwed. And

677
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: it can snowball on you with the Niners because they're

678
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: so talented, their defense is so relentless, and they could

679
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: score in bunches, even though like you would say, well,

680
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: who's their best offensive player beside Kittle, And you're like Deebo,

681
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like they got Julio Jones and

682
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Out there. But this is gonna be very,

683
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: very tough for the Packers. So you know, maybe I'm

684
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: being a homer here. I like the Niners. I mean,

685
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: I've taken their favorite by over a touchdown. I'm going

686
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: Niners chief super Bowl, and uh, I don't even you know,

687
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start there with who

688
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: I'd be rooting for. But that would be, uh, that

689
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: would be my perfect super Bowl. If you asked John,

690
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: if you gotta start the season, who would you want

691
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, I'd be like, Niners, Chiefs, And

692
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: that's we're sixty minutes away from that, so that's my pick.

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Speaker 1: I'm going Niners. I'm going Chiefe. Okay, let's dive into

694
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: the Middlecoff mail Bag said about that time, Joe Burrow

695
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: reminds me of Russell Wilson. He avoid sacks like a

696
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: magician behind the line and throws an awesome deep ball.

697
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: Do you see him having success in the next level?

698
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: Granted he's going to the Bengals most likely, keep it up,

699
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: boss I, I I do. I mean I I think he's

700
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: got a couple of things going for him. One, he's

701
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: really accurate, and if you're gonna succeed at quarterback, you

702
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: gotta be accurate. The other thing is in two thousand twenty,

703
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: the days of Ellies and the Mannings and the Flaccos

704
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: and the Rivers is dead. The league is not producing

705
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: offensive lineman so but it is producing defensive lineman Every year,

706
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: Chase Young's and Bossa's and Chris Jones and Buckner's and

707
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: you know the Simmons guy for the Titans, and the

708
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 1: za Darius Smith's and those type guys are just coming

709
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: in the league. Yet. Do you notice how many offensive

710
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: linemen are going really high in the draft. There's not

711
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: five mcglincheys every year, There's like one. So you have

712
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: to be able to move around for to be a

713
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: good quarterback. It's Jared Goff's downfall. He can't really move,

714
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: and Burrow is accurate and he can move. So I

715
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: do think he fits the modern day, you know, kind

716
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: of prototype of what we're looking for going forward. Now,

717
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: like you said, the Bengals, who's he throwing it to?

718
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: They do have Joe Mixon, they do have an offensive

719
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: head coach. But it's gonna be it's gonna be difficult.

720
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: I know Saban is supposed to hate L s U.

721
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: But Saban has to love that game. Last night I

722
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: thought about so some of these are a little older,

723
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: but he's he coached at L s U, won a

724
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: championship at L s U. And so do you have

725
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: any ties to L s U. Obviously some of his

726
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: former players, like the Booger, not his Booger. I think

727
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: Booger was this guy. I think Marcus spears that whole

728
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 1: crew of guys. But at Alabama there is rival at

729
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: Ogeron talks some ship after they beat him. But it's

730
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: not like he's gonna root for Clemson because Clemson has

731
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: beat him a couple of times in the National Championship.

732
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: I think he was probably indifferent. I think he was

733
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Speaker 1: just watching them going well, l s U was losing

734
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: the quarterback, They're screwed, and then it turns out their

735
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators gone and Joe Brady has gone. So good

736
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: luck Idio. But not like anyone in Louisiana will even care.

737
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: Next year, they'll be so happy their national championship and Clemson.

738
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: I think he's looking more Clemson, like, how am I

739
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: going to beat this team next year in the National Championship?

740
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: Because I plan on seeing you in the National Championship.

741
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: My buddies and I are having have been arguing who's

742
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: a better Heisman season, Cam Newton or Joe Burrow. Just

743
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: curious your thoughts. I'd have to look back at the

744
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: Cam numbers. I would say what Cam did just in

745
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: a vacuum of he didn't have this much talent around him,

746
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: was really, really impressive here, he would be. The knock

747
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: on Brady was that he played with Chase who will

748
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 1: be a top ten pick. Jefferson will be a top

749
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: twenty pick. The running back, you know, he's a running

750
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: backs will go in the second or third round, but

751
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: he'll be a starting NFL player. Moss Kid will get

752
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: drafted late. They got some other weapons. All these guys

753
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: are getting drafted. How many guys on Cam's offense at

754
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: skill guys got drafted. So I think they were both really,

755
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: really impressive. I mean, Brady just what he was doing

756
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: was doing the freakiest ship we've ever seen, run around,

757
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: throwing deep bombs, hitting guys in the hands. It was crazy.

758
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: So I maybe recency biased. I mean, I can barely

759
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: remember two years ago. I'd have to go back and

760
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: like YouTube Cam, I wasn't living and dying with the

761
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: SEC like kind of we are now just as football fans,

762
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: we watch a lot more SEC football. So I'll give

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00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: Joe Brady the nudge. But I Cam season was a

764
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: dominant force, so I'm not I'm not anti Cam trying

765
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: to diminish him. How do you think the Cowboys should

766
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: draft play free agency this year to help them win

767
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Well, they gotta figure out how much

768
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna pay dec. They gotta keep a Mari. They

769
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: need some more pieces on defense, um, and they should.

770
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: Just One big thing is they got a lot of

771
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: piece already on their team. They see Mike McCarthy be

772
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: a lot better than Jason Garrett. If Mike McCarthy can

773
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: be really good, which you know, I think they hired

774
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: me to be really good, keeping killing Kellen Moore on

775
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: the staff as the offensive coordinator, then they should be

776
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: a playoff team, simple, period, point blank. With the roster

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00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: they have and with Mike McCarthy, if he was like

778
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy the first seven or eight years in Green Bay,

779
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: not the last couple, they should be a playoff team.

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00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: He loved the podcast founded on Accident last fall and

781
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: if listed ever since. Well, you know, sometimes better to

782
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: be lucky than good, right. I'm Packer fan from Minnesota,

783
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: and after watching Sunday's game, I have curious your thoughts

784
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: on a couple of things. One, what should they go

785
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: for in the draft. I think they should probably use

786
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: lineman and a wide receiver. Defense is probably number one,

787
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: But is there something else that is just as big?

788
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: Wide receiver for sure. Am I the only one that

789
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: thinks Matt Laflour should be in serious consideration for coach

790
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: the year considering what he's had to work with going

791
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: thirteen and three. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what Matt

792
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: Laflelour has done right because they don't score that many points.

793
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: But after breaking down the roster, they don't have that

794
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: much talent. They got Rodgers, they got Davonte. Offensive lines

795
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: average CU you know back here. I think they got

796
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: the rookie left guard Jenkins is good. Centers okay, the

797
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: right side is pretty average. Jones is solid. Devant's a stud.

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00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: Rogers an all time great. So yeah, and he's the

799
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: offensive play caller. Now. Rogers has a big influence on

800
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: it too. But maybe I was too hard on Matt Lafleura.

801
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: Now do I think Matt Laflor's Kyle Shanahan. No, I don't,

802
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: And maybe it's I'm letting my biases from what people

803
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,760
Speaker 1: have talked said about him. And I like Matt Lafleur

804
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: when I watched him coach. When I went to the

805
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans practice two years ago when I was in Nashville.

806
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: It was impressive. He was on guys, so I don't

807
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: think like he doesn't have actually some ship to him.

808
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: I was more impressed at practice watching him get on

809
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: guys than I ever am in his press conference setting. Now,

810
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: in fairness, not everyone's comfortable on a press conference setting.

811
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Speaker 1: Not everyone's bill parcels, you know, in front of a camera, right,

812
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: just a huge personality. Some guys don't like it, you know,

813
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: some guys are comfortable like Mike. Watched Mike McCarthy in

814
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: the press conference. That's not really his setting. That's not

815
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: where he thrives. Mike McCarthy drives in a film room,

816
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: in a meeting room, in a practice setting. So maybe

817
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: maybe I am too hard and maybe I need to

818
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: revalue he beats Kyle Shanahan. I'll be the first to

819
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: say I was dead wrong. Been a Packer fan, been

820
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: a lifelong Packer fan, been listening for about a year now.

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Speaker 1: I'm skeptical about the Packers chance this week. I think

822
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: they are clear underdog. Who do you think is a

823
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: bigger priority for the Niners to stop Adams or Jones?

824
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Speaker 1: I think, uh, it's Jones because if you can run

825
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: the ball on the Niners, you have a chance. If

826
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Speaker 1: you can commit to the run and you can slow

827
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: the game down, you have a chance. So if the

828
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna win this game, to be Aaron Jones

829
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: gonna have to run for like a hundred yards, maybe

830
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: not a hundred, but like and just have multiple drives

831
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: where he can get them, multiple first dounds, and just

832
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: keep the ball where the defense out. It's like Devonte

833
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: is gonna get his because you can put DeVante in

834
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 1: the slot, or you can put them Richard doesn't travel,

835
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: so you can just put Davante on the other side

836
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: or in the slot. And so I I would say

837
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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. My question is if the Patriots let Brady walk,

838
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: who will be understander for them next year? Is it Stidham? Ready,

839
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: I get this question a lot. I don't know. I

840
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,479
Speaker 1: really don't. I'd be a little surprised if it's stid

841
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: him because if you think about it, when Brady Wally

842
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: pipped Bledsoe blitz of that hurt. So it's not like Blo.

843
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: Belichick went into the season with Brady starting, Like, would

844
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 1: Belichick go in with a pretty good team with Stidham starting? No? Now,

845
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Speaker 1: who would he sign? Would he signed Philip Rivers. Cam

846
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: Newton was cut when he signed Cam Newton Drew Brees outside.

847
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: I hate that. Would he draft a guy? I don't know.

848
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: It's a million dollar question. I think it's really hard

849
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: because we go, Oh, Kyle Shanahan likes this type quarterback.

850
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: Oh Andy Reid likes this type quarterback. Well, Belichick likes Brady.

851
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: He said, Brady, So can you find another Tom Brady

852
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 1: than that? Who's uh, how's Belichick in to replace Tom Brady?

853
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: What he's gonna loo for another time Brady? But who's

854
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: the other time Brady? I don't know. It's it's the

855
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: toughest question to answer. If Brady does leave, what are

856
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: they gonna do? I really have no clue. I would

857
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: be a little surprised if Stidham, if Brady leaves in

858
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: the next two months, you know, it would be like

859
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: in March if he start like they would find another quarterback.

860
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: I'm interested in your path becoming an NFL scout. What

861
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: was the area of study in first job out of school? Well,

862
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: I was a business major. School meant nothing for me. Uh,

863
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 1: not a big school guy. I was a big sports guy.

864
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: It was while I was at cal Poly I started

865
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: working on the football program, and that led me to

866
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: get a job with President State. For those of you

867
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: who listen to this, you've heard this story. So I

868
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: just got involved in college football. But there's no class

869
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: I took that helped me at all. My the coolest

870
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: class I took at cal Poly was sports journalism, and

871
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: they like my sophomore year and I started writing a

872
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: column for the newspaper. It was actually cool because cal

873
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,919
Speaker 1: Poly was not like an Alabama or an sc where

874
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: there was all this competition to do this type job.

875
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: I was the only guy. They're like, hey, you want

876
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: to write a column? Like, hell, yeah, I'll write a column.

877
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: I was like Bill Simmons Jr. Even though my columns

878
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: were terrible. It was called Johnny in the Box. This

879
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: was before Twitter or Facebook. Like Johnny in the Box

880
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: made me kind of famous around uh around school. It

881
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's Johnny in the Box. It actually

882
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: because you just everyone grabbed the Mustang Daily. It was

883
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: actually the coolest thing I did in college by far.

884
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: I mean my jobs were like normal jobs. I worked

885
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: at like a country club is like a you know,

886
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: cart guy, I worked at a restaurant. I just did

887
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: stupid college jobs. But I worked for the football program

888
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: and the athletic program my last couple of years. But

889
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: there's no to me. It's not about you don't get

890
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 1: jobs in sports unless you're gonna be like a cap

891
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: guy through school. It's about hustling. It's about getting involved,

892
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: doing whatever it takes. That's how you get involved with

893
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: sports is through connecting with people. Bengals fan here, would

894
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow like to go number one? What did the

895
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: Bengals do need to do in order to make him

896
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: successful quarterback the first couple of years? Obviously line help

897
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: line would help. But would you take a wide receiver

898
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: with pick thirty three? I think the number one goal

899
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: when you drafted the young quarterback and I think the

900
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: Jets did a shitty job about this. And I'll give

901
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: Cleveland credit. They did a good job with this. The

902
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: Ravens did a good job with this. You had the

903
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles were very aggressive, The Rams were very aggressive

904
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: with goff and went the The Tampa did a good job.

905
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: You have to surround them with playmakers. Worry about the

906
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: defense second, because your quarterback will fail if he doesn't

907
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: have guys throw to protect your Handaball do now, if

908
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: you're the Bengals. I don't have the roster in front

909
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: of me that you have a sweet running back. Well,

910
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: A J. Green is a free agent, so you're gonna

911
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: need some wide receivers. Well, this is a good wide

912
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 1: receiver draft. So I would be very, very very open

913
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: to drafting a wide receiver with pick thirty three. I

914
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: would be very very open to doing that because I

915
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: think you have to put him in a position to succeed.

916
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: He's used to throwing a sweet guy, so he's Jefferson

917
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: and Chase I mean, are more. If A J. Green leaves,

918
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: more than likely he's gonna have better wide receivers in

919
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: college than will in the pros. That's just that's not

920
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: an opinion, that's a fact. So I would do whatever

921
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: it takes to get him weapons a tight end. I

922
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: would be aggressive in free agency, maybe pay. I mean

923
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: that's not really Mike Brown's deal, but uh, that's what

924
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 1: that's what I would do. Question for the podcast, what

925
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: was the best and worst division in two thousand tents?

926
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: In your opinion, if you take out the Pats, the

927
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: a f C East is probably the worst. I would agree,

928
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: but with them in they might be near the top.

929
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: Curious on your thoughts. Let me think about this. I

930
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: would probably say who's won the Super Bowl this year?

931
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: The Giants, the Ravens, the Eagles, the Paths, Seattle, uh

932
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: my missing anybody, the Broncos. But it's not necessarily on

933
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: Super bowls, you know, if you if you remove the

934
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: path the f C sucks. Uh. The f C North

935
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: wasn't that great. I mean it had a couple of

936
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: moments with the Steelers this year with the Ravens, but

937
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: for a long period of time when Flacco became overpaid,

938
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: they kind of sucked. And the Steelers were kind of

939
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: average even with Ben and Roethlisberger or Ben Is Roethlisberger,

940
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, A B and Levi. On the A f

941
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: C South, you know, the Saints have been pretty good.

942
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: The Panthers had a moment, The Falcons had a moment.

943
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: The division that jumps out to me would be the

944
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: NFC West. Hardbough Pete Carroll kicked serious ass in like

945
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, twelve thirteen fourteen. Then arians team was sweet.

946
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: They were good from like fourteen fifteen, thirteen fourteen fifteen.

947
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it's fourteen fifteen sixteen. Seattle is still solid. Now

948
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: that Niners are good again, that was a pretty good division.

949
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: You look at the NFC East, you go, well, the

950
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: Giants won the Super Bowl and eleven the Eagles wanted

951
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: what seventeen or eighteen. That was kind of average. The

952
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: a f C West, Peyton Manning was really good there.

953
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: Now the Chiefs are good, but the Raiders suck and

954
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: the Chargers mostly stink. Uh. The the NFC South, that

955
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't be great. I mean, they had a couple of

956
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: moments there with luck the Jaguars and went to made

957
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: one playoff run. They've been pretty shitty. The Titans have

958
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: been mostly bad until the last couple of years. Tough question.

959
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: That's a good question though. You know, if you remove

960
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: the past, the a f C has been terrible, it

961
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: really has. I think the NFC West, if you did

962
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: on super Bowls, the NFC West only has one with

963
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: Seattle unless the Niners win it this year. But I

964
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: think their teams that they've had four powerhouse teams Seattle

965
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: for like a four or five year stretch was unreal.

966
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: The three hard By years were unreal, the three good

967
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: Arians years were unreal. And now this in Seattle has

968
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: still been good. The last couple of years, and then

969
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: this forty Niner team. Again. Maybe I'm biased. I'm my

970
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: NFC West guy, but NFC North beside the Packers, you know,

971
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: Minnesota had like one good year. The Bears have had

972
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: like one good year. The Lions always stink, but they

973
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: made the playoffs a couple of times. With Stafford, you'd

974
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: have to do like a deep study. This is actually

975
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: kind of a fascinating. Maybe if I'm just super bored,

976
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: I'll look through and get all the records. Probably not,

977
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: though I need. I need a researcher to do that.

978
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening, enjoy the games, and uh and yeah,

979
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: I have have a great weekend. Happy New Year, you know.

980
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: So I sometimes I write like, you know, like one

981
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Speaker 1: fifteen nineteen instead of twenty. So it's it's hard to

982
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: write that habit whenever a new year starts, to write

983
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: the right number at the end of your date. So

984
00:49:52,400 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: focus on that. So yeah, piece later, Gas