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Speaker 1: Do have some thoughts about the changes for the Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night Football that now you can play multiple times, Dan Snyder,

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Speaker 1: dollars off. NFL schedule release. For a split second on

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Speaker 1: Monday morning, Peter King had reported it was going to

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Speaker 1: get pushed back, and then by about mid afternoon West

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Speaker 1: Coast time, Adam Schefter had said it's on release Thursday,

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Speaker 1: five o'clock. Be there, b square. So clearly Roger Goodell

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Speaker 1: of our teams where they're playing when they're playing. Obviously

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Speaker 1: the season, but schedule release a really big deal. Right.

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Speaker 1: The NFL now has figured out a way to dominate

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Speaker 1: clearly Amazon wasn't happy, which kind of a little bit

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Speaker 1: But when you're getting the NFL and I'm driving nine

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Speaker 1: And I don't necessarily think that Amazon is that caught

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Speaker 1: So they they're going above and beyond making these people happy. Well,

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Speaker 1: If you're making multiple teams play multiple Thursday night games, like,

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Speaker 1: the next five years, you're gonna play multiple Thursday night games.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's gonna come to fruition,

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Speaker 1: but it's clearly on the table. It's been talked about,

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Speaker 1: But I'm sorry that discrepancy, especially in year one, doesn't

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Speaker 1: if you don't have YouTube TV or Hulu TV, you

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Speaker 1: as well just ride out Tannehill until you see Levis

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Speaker 1: can play. You know, what are you really gonna get

429
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Speaker 1: for Tannehill? That makes sense giving him up. The other

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Speaker 1: guy that they sniffed around was Kyler Murray. Now, the

431
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Speaker 1: hard part about Kyler Murray is twofold. One he is

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Speaker 1: under a gigantic contract, and the other he currently has

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Speaker 1: a torn ACL. So whatever you were going to trade

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Speaker 1: the guy, if you are willing to, and of course

435
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Speaker 1: they have a new general manager or new coach, you

436
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Speaker 1: would examine every option and every potential ability to improve

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Speaker 1: your team. You would get at best fifty cents on

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Speaker 1: the dollar for Kyler Murray. And whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: say about Kyler Murray, I'm not the biggest fan. When

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Speaker 1: a year ago, even after that devastating loss to the Rams,

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Speaker 1: coming into the season, if Kyler Murray did not have

442
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Speaker 1: that gigantic contract, you easily could have got like a

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Speaker 1: one in a two, a couple ones, shit them commanders.

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Speaker 1: A lot of teams would have traded for him. So

445
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: he's hindered by multiple things now. I also think then

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Speaker 1: it would behoove the Arizona Cardinals to not sit and

447
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Speaker 1: clearly they're not. He's not really tradeable now, but I

448
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: think they could potentially benefit from it because if he

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Speaker 1: comes back next year and he's healthy and he just

450
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Speaker 1: looks capable again, because there were moments this year before

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Speaker 1: he tore his ACL, he does look capable. And if

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Speaker 1: you're a coach, and most of these coaches have inflated

453
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Speaker 1: egos and believe they can save people. His talent is

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Speaker 1: not really debatable. He is one of the fastest players

455
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Speaker 1: in the league. He's got an enormous arm. When he's rolling,

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Speaker 1: he can look like a top six to seven quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the league. So what if he comes back this

458
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Speaker 1: year in the second half of the season, he just

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Speaker 1: looks solid. Then to me in the offseason, cause the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have two things going for him. One, they're gonna suck,

461
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Speaker 1: meaning they're going to draft very high. They also have

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Speaker 1: the Texans pick, who might not draft one or two again,

463
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Speaker 1: but more likely they're closer to ten than they are twenty.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have two picks really high. It's viewed

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Speaker 1: as a really good quarterback draft. Hell next year. In general,

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Speaker 1: I was reading something the top five players going into

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Speaker 1: next season in college would be the top five players

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Speaker 1: that were just drafted in this draft. They're better than

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Speaker 1: every single player in this draft. The only two players

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Speaker 1: honestly that went in the top ten that would be

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Speaker 1: considered with Caleb Williams, Marvin Harrison Junior Brock Bowers Drake May.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to say his name, but the

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle for Penn State, which would have easily been

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Speaker 1: a top three or four pick in this draft that

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Speaker 1: would be in their category would be Jalen Carter, who

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Speaker 1: we all acknowledge was the best player in this draft

477
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Speaker 1: but had major character concerns. And then b John Robinson

478
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Speaker 1: who's a running back, so he just can't go that

479
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Speaker 1: high and he still went eight. So this draft coming

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Speaker 1: in is absolutely loaded. So if Kyler Murray comes back,

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Speaker 1: he plays just decent. You don't even need to win

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Speaker 1: the games, but he just looks healthy. You get some

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Speaker 1: momentum going you go, okay, this is a capable guy.

484
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Speaker 1: You can either do two things. You can build around

485
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Speaker 1: him because you might be stuck it might be hard

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Speaker 1: to trade that contract. Or if he just looks good enough.

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Speaker 1: There are always teams where it's like, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: if you go, hey, he's bought in, he's being a

489
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Speaker 1: good guy. You just talk up his character. He's studying,

490
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna have time to really talk up like

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Speaker 1: how's he acting when he's rehabit is he studying? Is

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Speaker 1: he around the OTAs? Is he going to all the meetings?

493
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Speaker 1: Because if he's doing that, I actually think you could

494
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Speaker 1: rebuild his value again. He's never gonna be viewed, at

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Speaker 1: least in the next twelve months as some star player. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he can't get back to that. I

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Speaker 1: would bet against it, but yeah, I don't when you're

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Speaker 1: that talented, Like ultimately, there are some guys Baker Mayfield,

499
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Speaker 1: even Trey Lance has some fundamental flaws the way he

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Speaker 1: throws the football that just don't He's not even nearly

501
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Speaker 1: as fast as Kyler, Like, they don't have the capability

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Speaker 1: of being that good. So I would bet against it.

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Speaker 1: But the capability is there A lot of guys like

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson does not. Zach Wilson can't complete an out route. Yeah,

505
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Speaker 1: I mean he skips wheel routes to running backs. I

506
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Speaker 1: mean there's just fundamental layups in the passing game he

507
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Speaker 1: can't complete against NFL players. Like we all watched it

508
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Speaker 1: last year. It was crazy to watch because he was

509
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Speaker 1: a guy that Chris Sims a couple of years ago

510
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: is like, this guy could be Aaron Rodgers and when

511
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Speaker 1: you just watch him fling it on air or whatever,

512
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: you like, that is an elite arm great release, powerful,

513
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: like he's got it. All, and then he actually has to play,

514
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: and then you're like, what the hell is this? By

515
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: middle of last season, they're like, Mike White, Mike White,

516
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Speaker 1: and I don't even blame him because he watched Zach Wilson.

517
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Speaker 1: You can't even function with the guy. So I do expect.

518
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Speaker 1: Let me rephrase that, I do think it's gonna work

519
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Speaker 1: out for Arizona. In the sense of trading him right

520
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: now for absolutely nothing doesn't make that much sense because

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Speaker 1: once you sign a contract of that magnitude, as we're

522
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: seeing with Aaron Rodgers, it impacts your cap in the

523
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Speaker 1: short term, and there's a chance that maybe that's the

524
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Speaker 1: best you can do and he comes back he's healthy.

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Speaker 1: Use those two picks. You draft Marvin Harrison, you draft

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Speaker 1: the offensive tackle from Penn State, and you surround him

527
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Speaker 1: with some more talent, and you take your chances for

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years. Now, I never would assigned

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Speaker 1: him to the contract in the first place, but either way,

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Speaker 1: you know, because there is fifty to fifty seems high,

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Speaker 1: but I would say there's a twenty five to thirty

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Speaker 1: percent chance this team drafts number one overall. Most people,

533
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Speaker 1: like universally agree that this is the worst roster right

534
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: now in the NFL, like this is not like debating,

535
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Speaker 1: like this is the worst roster in the NFL. A

536
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Speaker 1: lot of people thought that last year with the Giants.

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Speaker 1: The difference is we all knew Brian da Ball. What

538
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Speaker 1: this guy's done in Buffalo was incredible. I think most

539
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Speaker 1: of us go, you know, Jonathan Bannon. I've had people

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00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: tell me that we're around Jonathan Bannon. You know, I

541
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Speaker 1: actually think he's better suited to be a head coach

542
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: than he is a coordinator. He's a much better leader

543
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Speaker 1: than he is like some ski So I was like,

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Speaker 1: whenever you hear that, you go, well, we'll see, you know,

545
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: we'll see. It's a little cheesy for me, but listen,

546
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Speaker 1: I thought Sean mcvagh I remember when he was hired.

547
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: I was like, no one my age is gonna come

548
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: into the league and just kick ass and take names

549
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: at thirty one years old, he did, you know? He

550
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: was been awesome. I bet against that one. So I've

551
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: been wrong before, but I would say Jonathan Gannon, I

552
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: would short that stock. And a large part of that

553
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: is just the talent around it, the organization a lot

554
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: of turmoil. It's getting sued by former employees people coming

555
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: after his owner. Could just be a weird place quarterbacks injured.

556
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Speaker 1: But we'll see how that all shakes out. Okay, let's

557
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: dive into the middle Cooff mailbag at John Middlecoff is

558
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: the Instagram fire in those d ms D. I recently

559
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: saw Kevin Durant got a lifetime Nike deal and couldn't

560
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: figure out how that would be structured. How do you

561
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: think lifetime endorsement deals work? Love the pod, keep up

562
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: the good work. That's a hell of a question, man,

563
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know obviously, you know Michael Jordan

564
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: owns the Jordan brand or as equity in it. But

565
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: like I saw Charles Barkley, it was like a it

566
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Speaker 1: was a YouTube short and it was a clip from

567
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: an interview he gave talking about how Michael Jordan has

568
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: made him so much money in his life because like

569
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Speaker 1: in the peak of Charles's powers, right in the mid nineties,

570
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: as a player, Nike was paying he was on like

571
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: the second highest paid athlete, like a couple million bucks.

572
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: And Michael said, do you need You're getting paid a

573
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: lot from the Phoenix Suns. You don't need all that

574
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Speaker 1: cash from Nike every year. Do this. Say, if they're

575
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Speaker 1: paying you a three million, take one million and have

576
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: them give the other two million dollars in stock options

577
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: and charles. Like smartest thing I ever did. And I'm

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00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: still on Nike's payroll. So like Lebron has a lifetime deal,

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Speaker 1: Steph has a lifetime deal with under you know Tiger

580
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: has a lifetime deal with Nike. I just think you're

581
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: just on the payroll for a long time now in

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00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: the peak of your playing powers, right like Kevin right

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Speaker 1: now or Lebron when he's playing. Clearly they don't pay

584
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: you the same amount when you're done, right, But I don't.

585
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Speaker 1: That's the question. I don't have the answer to you.

586
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: Just in life, you just get what you negotiate. So

587
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: maybe five million dollars a year, factor in inflation, I

588
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: don't know. I honestly don't. Some socks. It's a hell

589
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: of a question, very interesting. Never really thought about it,

590
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. I think it's funny how

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Speaker 1: your new picture of you with a backwards hat on

592
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Speaker 1: and Colin always talks about how he doesn't want his

593
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Speaker 1: franchise with the hat backwards guy made me laugh. Here's

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Speaker 1: the one thing I will say is us bald people,

595
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: we play by different rules. So I would say historically,

596
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: my father, who passed away several years ago, old school

597
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: guy hated the hat backwards look as well. I actually

598
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: don't think it applies when you don't have hair. You know,

599
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: my dad, who was also bald when I was younger,

600
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: could have You know, in that eighties nineties you could

601
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Speaker 1: have the cold de sac look. You could not have

602
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: a cold de sac now and have any human being

603
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Speaker 1: take you seriously if you're under forty five years old,

604
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you just can't. So we shave our heads well.

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00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: In the picture that's used now on my profile, it

606
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: was at a forty nine er game, so it's not

607
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: like I even gave it to the volume. They ripped

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Speaker 1: it off. I probably like an Instagram photo, but I

609
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: hadn't shaved my head for a couple of days, and

610
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I had forgotten a razor, and we

611
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: were leaving early in the morning, had been up late,

612
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Speaker 1: and I didn't have time to shave my head. Super hungover,

613
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: I was taking like a two minute shower when I

614
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Speaker 1: shaved my head. My shower last ten minutes because you

615
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: gotta shave it in the shower, so I wasn't gonna

616
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Speaker 1: rock a cold de sac to the forty nine or

617
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Speaker 1: RAMS game, which we'll go down as one of the

618
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Speaker 1: cool games I've ever seen live. It was a crazy

619
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,239
Speaker 1: Week eighteen game a couple of years ago. But like,

620
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: I just don't think we played by the same rules

621
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Speaker 1: as people with hair, Like I'm sorry, we don't. I

622
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: don't disagree with a sediment about backwards guy, but I

623
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: think I play by different rules not having hair. But

624
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: it is funny. I know, I know the game has

625
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: swung on offense, with the rules especially favoring the quarterbacks.

626
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: The game has evolved a ton recently. Where do you

627
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: think it goes for the next five years? For example,

628
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: does defense ever make a return, Does the coaching staff

629
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Speaker 1: become more important, or does another position become as important

630
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: as the quarterback? Well, as we talked about earlier, the

631
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: rules are clearly not changing and safety rules are not

632
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: going to lean defense, So I don't see how defense

633
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: could really make a comeback when hitting has kind of

634
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: just slowly been legislated out of the game in terms

635
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: of the violent hits, cause that's really when when you

636
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: had the best, fastest most violent players on defense. You

637
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,959
Speaker 1: couldn't play against you know, the great defenses because they

638
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: would destroy you. Well, that's never gonna factor in anymore,

639
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: right those even that Seattle team of whatever, six, eight,

640
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: nine years ago, now it's not coming back. I just

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Speaker 1: think we're kind of gonna be in this this version

642
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Speaker 1: of football for a while, right, Like I don't think

643
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Speaker 1: the game of basketball is ever going to trend back

644
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Speaker 1: to every team's gonna have a great center, noe. The

645
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Speaker 1: three point shoot shot is too valuable to the one

646
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent more than the two. So you're

647
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Speaker 1: gonna continue to take more three stretch out the you know,

648
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Speaker 1: the game, and get more three point shooters. Well, I

649
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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna change in football. I was thinking

650
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Speaker 1: about this the other day, Like Troy Aikman. When Troyigman

651
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Speaker 1: transferred from Oklahoma to UCLA when he was in college,

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Speaker 1: it was because Oklahoma was gonna start running the triple

653
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Speaker 1: option offense. Obviously, Troy Aikman, it's not a triple option

654
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Speaker 1: offensive quarterback or quarterback. Right. Think how often you know

655
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Speaker 1: in the seventies, eighties, even into the nineties, coordinators would

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Speaker 1: run a run heavy option level in college and definitely

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Speaker 1: in high school. Well, we talked about this last week.

658
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: It just bleeds uphill. Most industries kind of bleed downhill. Right.

659
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: In football, what happens at the lower levels comes up

660
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: because that's where your talent's coming from. You could argue

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00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: it's like that in society, right. I remember, like my

662
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: dad's generation, they don't all email, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: them had a lot of success without really using the computer.

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Speaker 1: But you can't be You could be seventy five years

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Speaker 1: old and not really email and run a company and

666
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Speaker 1: have people do it for you. You can't be fifty

667
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Speaker 1: and not know how to operate the internet. You probably

668
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: can't be twenty five years old and not be very

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Speaker 1: very versed on the computer. And I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: just typing. I'm talking like, do you know what you know? AI?

671
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Speaker 1: Can you mess with chat? GPT? Can you Whatever your

672
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Speaker 1: specific industry is, you better be locked and loaded technologically, right,

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Speaker 1: Just like in football, if you're coming up to the

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Speaker 1: to the NFL, you gotta be the passing game is,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a coach or whether you're a player, is

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Speaker 1: gonna be key. And I just don't see that changing

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. Look, how it's changed the running back. We

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Speaker 1: value running backs infinitely more than we did a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: That play in the passing game. Hell, when I got

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Speaker 1: to the NFL in twenty ten, if you couldn't play

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Speaker 1: in the passing game, whatever, we had a change of paceback.

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Speaker 1: Is there a good running back in the league that's

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Speaker 1: not a major factor in the past game? Why was

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Speaker 1: b Jon Robinson thought so highly of he was good

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Speaker 1: in the pass game? Why was Gibbs the kid from

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Speaker 1: Alabama that Detroit Lions. You see that video they tweeted

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Speaker 1: out of them going berserk when they drafted him. I

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00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: mean they think the guy's like Marshall Folk, because that's

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Speaker 1: the Some of the comps I've heard are like, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's got a little Christian McCaffrey Alvin Kamara into it.

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Speaker 1: If he didn't have that, and we'll just you know,

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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson is the best between the tackle runner I've

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Speaker 1: seen live in my life. In his peak of his powers,

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Speaker 1: he was incredible, not creating the passing game, won't pass block,

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Speaker 1: he could get by. He's like he'd even be an

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Speaker 1: outlier today, But I don't think he'd be as valuable

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Speaker 1: as he was fifteen years ago, because playing in the

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Speaker 1: passing game is a must. So I guess that's a

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Speaker 1: long way of saying I don't know. I mean I

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Speaker 1: would bet against there being dramatic changes of just kind

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Speaker 1: of where we are and where we're headed is kind

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Speaker 1: of you know what's going to continue. As a Packer fan,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy the Rogers era is over, and I'm hopeful

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Speaker 1: for the Love era. I think the Packers will look

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Speaker 1: a lot more like the forty nine ers. Run the ball,

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Speaker 1: play defense instead of air it out because we have

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, because we no longer have Aaron Rodgers. Also,

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Speaker 1: I think this bodes well for us in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: because running the ball and playing defense wins in Lambeau

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Speaker 1: wins zero degrees in snowy, hence our playoff failures. I've

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Speaker 1: always said that the Packers were always built to dominate

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Speaker 1: in a dome, right Like what has been a huge

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Speaker 1: point of difference last year for the Chiefs they had Pachaco.

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Speaker 1: Their defense has been a lot better the last three

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Speaker 1: or four years. It's hard to win outside by just

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Speaker 1: throwing bombs, it really is. You got to play defense,

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Speaker 1: and it's just key. Anyway. I have the argument with

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Speaker 1: my friends, and I'm hoping you can back me up.

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Speaker 1: In my mind, Rogers is the most talented quarterback ever.

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Speaker 1: He was doing Mahomes level stuff that ESPN drools over

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Speaker 1: with Mahomes was in middle school. Now everyone says, what

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Speaker 1: about Brady Montana and Mahomes. There is a difference in

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Speaker 1: the most talented and most accomplished, and it pitches me off.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is the goat of quarterback play. Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: is and will always be the most accomplished. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a tough discussion to have, right because, for example,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is never gonna sniff Tom Brady's accomplishments. He's

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Speaker 1: only been to the one Super Bowl. Tom's been to

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Speaker 1: whatever ten, right, because he lost how many loser with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots? He lost three with the Patriots and he

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Speaker 1: won the one with Tampa. Yeah, so he's been to

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Speaker 1: ten Super Bowls. There's just no but Tom Brady. Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: One time I heard him, I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: was that Monday night calling he does or it was

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Speaker 1: a podcast radio interview. I can't exactly remember where I

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Speaker 1: heard him say this, but it was It was fascinating

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Speaker 1: because he's like the unique part about the sport of football.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I couldn't start at any other position for

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Speaker 1: a good high school team, right, Like I couldn't play

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Speaker 1: dB or linebacker. I'm not fast enough. I couldn't play

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Speaker 1: wide receiver or tight end for them. Obviously, I'm not

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Speaker 1: big enough to play offensive line. Like the only thing

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Speaker 1: I can do at the high school level, let alone

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Speaker 1: the pro level, is play quarterback. Now, one thing I

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Speaker 1: would say Tom, this is hard because Aaron's just his

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Speaker 1: physical gifts. He's a much better athlete. He can just

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Speaker 1: he's got a better arm than Tom, even though Tom

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Speaker 1: has a really good arm. He's a more quote unquote

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Speaker 1: talented player. But is like, playing your best football in

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Speaker 1: the biggest moments when your team needs it the most.

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Speaker 1: Is that a talent? Right? I think it kind of?

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Speaker 1: Is I do? Right? Like, obviously Tiger Woods is more

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Speaker 1: physically gifted than most people he played throughout his prime,

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Speaker 1: But like he made every big putt when he had to.

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Speaker 1: Is that a talent? Right? Like he could just contain

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Speaker 1: himself and be super focused and keep his emotions under control.

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00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: And as a quarterback you kind of have to do

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Speaker 1: that too, And sometimes Aaron's had some incredible moments, but

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Speaker 1: I'd say he's also blown at in some big spots, right,

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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking. It's one thing to blow in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, it's another thing to blow in the

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Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs. That'd be the knock on Peyton.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times it's like, God, he just kind

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Speaker 1: of blew it, And that to me separates Tom. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: if we were just like running around Combs and throwing

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Speaker 1: on the run, Tom can't hold his jock. And like

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Speaker 1: you said, Mahomes, Mahomes like him and Mahomes are very

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Speaker 1: very similar players. But for example, is if you gave

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in his prime to the Kansasity Chiefs the

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Speaker 1: last eight nine years with Andy Reid, do they win

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Speaker 1: a couple of Super Bowls? Maybe? Because that's the other

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Speaker 1: thing with football that makes it more unique than these

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Speaker 1: other sports. If I give you Steph Curry, if I

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Speaker 1: give you Lebron James, if I give you Shack or

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Yeah, if you get Phil Jackson or Eric

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Speaker 1: Spoulster or Steve Kerr, you're locked to win. But I

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Speaker 1: think I can kind of give you an average coach

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Speaker 1: and you've got a pretty good chance to win a championship.

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Speaker 1: If I give you Aaron Rodgers, you were not guarantee

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Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl. Dan Marino is widely considered

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Speaker 1: by everyone that played him and everyone that was much

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Speaker 1: older than me that watched his career as like one

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Speaker 1: of the best players that has ever played the game.

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Speaker 1: It's like not arguable or debatable. Everyone into an era

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Speaker 1: in his era, which has some all time great players

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Speaker 1: and obviously some of the greatest quarterbacks ever, including this

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00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: younger generation. Like if you ask like Brady Peyton and

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Speaker 1: Tom they hold Marino to such highest team got to

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Speaker 1: one Super Bowl and lost. Now, part of that is

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00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: like the team around him. He did have Don Shula,

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Speaker 1: but it was kind of an older version of Don Shula.

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Speaker 1: I guess he got there in eighty four, but not Don.

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Speaker 1: But Dan coach matters a lot. You know, Belichick kind

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Speaker 1: of knows what he's doing. Mahomes benefits from having you know,

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Speaker 1: the big guy with a mustache that matters, right. Joe

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00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: Montana really benefited from having Bill Walsh, Lawrence Taylor, all

797
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 1: time great player helped when he had Belichick and Parcels

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Speaker 1: coaching his ass. So it's complicated. I mean his two

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Speaker 1: coaches are Mike mc arthy and Lafleur, who McCarthy's solid coach.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's gone to Dallas and they've been really good.

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Speaker 1: Lafleur I think's pretty solid too. Any one of those

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Speaker 1: guys gonna be viewed as like a top three or

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Speaker 1: four coach in the league. I don't know, so it's

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Speaker 1: it's a tough debate. I probably gave you the run

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Speaker 1: around there. He's definitely one of the most talented core

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's the most talented quarterback ever.

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Speaker 1: I want you to YouTube like nineteen eighty six John Elway.

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Speaker 1: That's put that talent. He's bigger than a Rogers, every

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00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: bit the arm and every bit the athlete. And Elway

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Speaker 1: was going to Super Bowls. He was losing them, but

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Speaker 1: he was going. So I put Elway up there. I

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Speaker 1: put I might say Elway's the most talented quarterback ever.

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Speaker 1: You know you could Josh Allen is pretty big physical freak. Like,

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Speaker 1: is Josh Allen more physically talented than Mahomes. That's what

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Speaker 1: makes this whole argument kind of hard. I if you

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Speaker 1: want to just say he's one of the most talented

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Speaker 1: guys of all time top I'd give him top three.

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Speaker 1: Question about the new avatar. Colin made any comments about

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Speaker 1: the backward hat, keep up the great content. People were

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00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: fascinated with the backward hat. I got a DM and

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Speaker 1: I think I'll talk about this on the Golf podcast tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Like Colin said, he would never hire anybody that's addicted

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Speaker 1: to golf. You clearly spend a lot of time with golf.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would say. I have monetized my hobbies,

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00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: and obviously Colin in this operation benefits from that. That's

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Speaker 1: why I started a golf podcast, why I were selling hats.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get into the golf business just because I

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Speaker 1: love golf, which I do, but I also know it's

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Speaker 1: a very financially viable market. The household income of people

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Speaker 1: that consume golf is dramatically higher than every sport. I

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Speaker 1: didn't just do it randomly. Now I'm lucky. I do

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Speaker 1: like it, and you could call me a golf addict,

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00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: but it's not just a pastime. You know, the two

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Speaker 1: things I spend the most time doing thinking and you

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Speaker 1: know I would say watching would be football and golf.

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Speaker 1: Turn them into a business. I'm not smart. Enough to

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00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: do random other things. So what I do I have

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00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: to find a way to make money off of was

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Speaker 1: I can't survive. You know. You couldn't put me at

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00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: Wells Fargo and they'd say, figure it out. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know where to start, you know, own a restaurant. Shit,

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00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: I just like like chicken or rice, cheeseburgers. I don't

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00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: know how do we make money. I know how to

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00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: operate around football and golf. So it's my life advice

845
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: to everybody. Turn passions into in hobbies into your job.

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Speaker 1: Find a way. I've been lucky enough too. But my

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Speaker 1: backwards hat and I'll say it over again, bald people,

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Speaker 1: we played by different rules. I'm sorry. If you got

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Speaker 1: a head of hair, like you know, put a little

850
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: jail in it. You look fine. If I haven't shaved

851
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: my head in a couple of days and I don't

852
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: have time for a long shower, I'm throwing on a

853
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: hat and sometimes the snapbacks they look pretty good backwards.

854
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: The situation of Djokich and the Sun's owner match Ishbia

855
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: is similar to the situation with what happened to Kyle

856
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: Lowry and the Golden State Warriors minority owner in twenty nineteen,

857
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors owner lost his shares of the

858
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: team and was suspended from going to games. Shouldn't mat

859
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: Ishbia get some sort of suspension or penalty, thoughts, I'd

860
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: have to YouTube the incident with Lowry. I remember the

861
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: guy with the Warriors it being a little bit more aggressive,

862
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: if memory serves me correct Now, I do believe that

863
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: like Ishbia should be fined. I'm sorry you don't get

864
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: to touch the player. And I love, and I repeat,

865
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 1: I love how Denver's coach, Michael Malone and Jokic keep

866
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: referring to him as some fan. Obviously he's a very

867
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: rich fan. I heard him model Bill Simmons. I thought

868
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: he was a very interesting guy, and someone told me

869
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 1: because I just assumed self made guy, mortgage guy. Now

870
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: he actually replaced his father. I'm saying that he's not

871
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: an impressive guy, but like you know, he inherited his money.

872
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like he just created the company.

873
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: It is is when your dad, when you replaced your

874
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: dad as the CEO. I do view you a little differently,

875
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: like Mark Cuban when he bought in the league all

876
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: of his cash. Steve Balmer, like these guys are self made.

877
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I listen there are a lot

878
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: of NFL owners that aren't self made too, But it's

879
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: kind of looks like a rich kid in that moment, like, bro,

880
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: give up the fucking ball. It's just I thought it

881
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: was kind of a clown if you would have told me.

882
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is one of the how good

883
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: if you're watching that Denver Sun series, nicoley Jokic, I've

884
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: never seen anything like him. Listen a lot of friends

885
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: that are Philly fans. I don't even think it's close.

886
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: If I ran an NBA team and I got to

887
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: pick between the embid and the dude from Denver, I

888
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't even hesitate. If I had a gentleman, I wouldn't

889
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: even have a meeting. To me, Joki is a different

890
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: tier than Embaid When he always plays too, he's just better,

891
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: always great on defense. He's always hurt, so is he

892
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: that great on defense? No one cares about the regular

893
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 1: season either, Like I watched this guy in the playoffs'

894
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: scoring fifty points pretty easily. My NBA rant. People always

895
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: think I'm like Middlecoff, you hate the NBA. Yeah, I

896
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: mean no, I just hate when you don't play in games.

897
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: I just like as a consumer when I turn it on,

898
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: like I know my players to playing games, right. I

899
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: actually looked up because I saw Gary Payton. His kid

900
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: plays for the Warriors, Gary Payton the Second, and he

901
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: was at one of the Warriors games earlier this series.

902
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: He might he's probably going to them all, but he

903
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: was at Chase Center and he like talked to Lebron

904
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: walking off, and I just googled Gary Payton's stats. I

905
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: was like, how many points of the average ruti's career

906
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: from like nineteen ninety to basically the late nineties, Gary

907
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: Payton never missed a game. And I would say Gary

908
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: Payton was consistently viewed as a top ten point player

909
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: in the NBA, and he had some years where he

910
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: was probably top six or seven player in the NBA. Okay,

911
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: I never missed a game. That's the generation a guy

912
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: I grew up on. So yeah, my expectations like, well,

913
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: you know the guys need rest, and you know this

914
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: is for the health, and oh kay, that's great. But

915
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: if you're only playing sixty games and you got eighty

916
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: two of them, I can't take your sport that seriously,

917
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: and neither can the rest of the consumers. Why the

918
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: ratings are in the tank. Why the Kings and Warriors rating,

919
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, average eleven million people because you turn on

920
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: everyone's playing and people try hard. You know, the NBA

921
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: the regular season for six months. Half the teams never

922
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: even try half the league's tanking. The good teams they

923
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: try a quarter of the games. I'm not even trying

924
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: to be nostalgic about my youth, but when I see

925
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: Gary Payton play every fucking game, and I grew up,

926
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: you know, going to Oracle Arena when the Kings were terrible,

927
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 1: and I remember Michael Jordan Allen Iverson those players played

928
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: against the Kings team that was god awful in twenty

929
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: twenty three. They would not play, they would rest, and

930
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: they would basically be telling you, hey, if you live

931
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, we don't give a shit about you. That's

932
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: what you do. And the consumer is the guy paying

933
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,720
Speaker 1: for everything. The fan is the reason there's all this money.

934
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: Why is the NFL never made more money because they

935
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: have more fans than every other league. Sorry for the tangent,

936
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: big time Seattle Seahawks fan here. We've lost a few

937
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: impact guys with Al Woods and Ryan Neil. With players

938
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: like Jamal Adams coming back, is he though? I mean,

939
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: I know technically he's supposed to come back, but it

940
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: feels like Jamal Adams sure gets hurt a lot since

941
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: he's doing your team and coming back good looking as

942
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: of now, rookie, think they'll improve even more from last year. Also,

943
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: a hugely underrated signing for the Hawks that not many

944
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: are talking about is signing Bobby Wagner. That's gonna be

945
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: a big time improvement on our defense, especially if what

946
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 1: Pete said about going back to his old defensive schemes

947
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: your thoughts. I can't hold Jamal Adams, you know. To me,

948
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 1: he's basically a linebacker now. I also think Bobby Wagner

949
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: incredible guy. As people have talked shit before when I

950
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: said he wasn't a Hall of Famer, He's gonna be

951
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer first ballot. We can argue that,

952
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: but he's going to the Hall of Fame. The Hall

953
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: of Fame days are kind of over. But I hear

954
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: you for leadership, but I thought your team last year

955
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: was like pretty high level group. To me, I'm with you.

956
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: Your first round rookie, the dude, they drafted fifth overall Witherspoon,

957
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: stud in Jigba immediate plug and play starter with DK Lockett.

958
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. You had the UCLA running back. I would say,

959
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick you as a wildcard team. Now, to me,

960
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: the question is like, does Gino have back to back

961
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: thirty touchdown seasons? Is Gino gonna throw sixty plus touchdowns

962
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 1: in two years? Clearly he's an impressive guy. I'm very

963
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: impressive with Gino. I'm a fan of Geno Smith. Now

964
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't follow his career that closely, but obviously

965
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: last year, you know, falling just they were one of

966
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: the best stories in the NFL. He was being interviewed

967
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: a lot. He's an impressive guy. He's an easy guy

968
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: to root for. I see why Seattle likes him a lot.

969
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: But is he was last year an outlier or has

970
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: he just turned his career and he's just going to

971
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: be really good, Because if he does, then yeah, hell,

972
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: you guys can win eleven games that division. Besides Seattle

973
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: in the Niners, I mean, the Rams could suck and

974
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: we know Arizona's bad. I mean the Rams could be

975
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: a five win team. They could have serious problems. They're

976
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: an Aaron Donald ankle spraying away from being screwed. Before

977
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: Stafford started missing games last year, Remember he was throwing

978
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 1: it all over the yard. Do with the other team.

979
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup got hurt last year and they were unwatchable.

980
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: They're an injury too away from being completely screwed. So

981
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: the only thing was Seattle the forty nine ers. You

982
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: know I have beat you twice, but who cares? I mean,

983
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: even if if the Niners win the division and you

984
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: win ten or eleven games, you might be the fifth seed. Well,

985
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: probably not. I would imagine the Cowboys probably would. But

986
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: maybe you could compete to be as good as the Cowboys.

987
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: If Jamal Adams is healthy and he can just function

988
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: in kind of in that linebacker role, and the rookie

989
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: adds to the secondary to go along with the rookie

990
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: corner last year who was good. Your pass rush just

991
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 1: improves with some younger guys, your offense should be pretty dynamic.

992
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: I mean that your two young tackles are good. If

993
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: if if Injigba is healthy to go with DK, maybe

994
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: Gino has another big year, Detroit winning the North. Don't

995
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: see it. I'm obviously a biased Vikings fan, but GoF

996
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: is a career sixty four percent passer. I'd argue last

997
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: year was the outlier. But with our new defensive coordinator,

998
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: Green Bay with love in Chicago, well Chicago, yep, okay,

999
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: Detroit goes nine to eight, ten and seven, just like

1000
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: everyone else in the North and seven. He might win

1001
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: the North. Right, how many games did you guys win

1002
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: last year? Thirteen? I think you went thirteen to five.

1003
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it was twelve and would be thirteen and five.

1004
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: That'd be eighteen games, would be thirteen to four regardless,

1005
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 1: thirteen twelve wins, like, yeah, you could win ten games.

1006
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: They can win ten games. You could win nine games.

1007
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: As someone hit me with the DMS be floor as

1008
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: is your defensive coordinator. But part of being a good

1009
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: defense is the talent there. That's my question. Who's who

1010
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: are your difference makers? Who's your pass rushers? Kendrick is gone.

1011
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: I don't know when you guys are really good on

1012
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: defense with Zimmer who let's face it, he's a curmudgeon,

1013
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: big curmudgeon. He's pretty good defensive coordinator and in your

1014
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: heyday with you guys had a ton of talents. I

1015
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: don't see the talents the same. You can argue the

1016
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. You guys won thirteen games, so you know,

1017
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: three game regression factoring in all the close games you won.

1018
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: That's part of football. I mean, let's be real. You

1019
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 1: guys won one of the greatest pulled that game out

1020
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: of who knows what crevice in your body game of

1021
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: all time last year against the Bills. I mean that

1022
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: that is one of the Did you beat the Colts too?

1023
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: Weren't you down to the Colts by like forty points

1024
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 1: in the first quarter? Was it twenty seven or nothing

1025
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: at the end of the first quarter. You guys won

1026
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: that game as well? Pretty sure? Yeah you did. So,

1027
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: Like there's two wins of your thirteen that even you'd

1028
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: have to acknowledge are some of the Yeah, you won

1029
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: that game thirty nine thirty six. That's got to be

1030
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: one of the craziest come I think it was. I

1031
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: think it's statistically right, the biggest, one of the biggest

1032
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: comebacks in NFL history. What was the other game I

1033
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: was saying, the Bills game? Yeah, you won that thirty

1034
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: three to thirty. What was the score at halftime? That

1035
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: was twenty four to ten? And it was. It was

1036
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: twenty seven, it was twenty seven to ten at one

1037
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: point time, Hell of a comeback. Colts comeback was better.

1038
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: But one thing that's weird with you guys is I

1039
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: saw today a headline the Cousins was like, love to

1040
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: retire a Viking. The article was like, yeah, I don't

1041
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,879
Speaker 1: know if the Vikings see that that way. It's kind

1042
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 1: of in a weird spot because cousins. It's not cousins

1043
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: willing to play for twenty million. You know, yeah, I

1044
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: want to retire Viking, though, keep paying me thirty eight

1045
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year, Like do you really want

1046
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: to pay forty million dollars a year? I don't know.

1047
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: I'm getting so many questions on this backwards hat anyway,

1048
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: I see you have your hat on backwards. On the

1049
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: new podcast, he used to bag on Romo constantly for

1050
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 1: wearing his hat backwards. Again. One thing I would say

1051
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: about Tony Romo, great hair, So you wear your hat backwards?

1052
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: Guy shows laziness. Just put a little gel me like

1053
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: I might have time. I have to shower fast. You

1054
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: guys are able to shower fast with hair, right, I

1055
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: have to shave my head in the shower. It takes

1056
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: time and it's more difficult, so I put on a

1057
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 1: backwards hat. We do not play by the same rules

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Speaker 1: as people with hair. I believe that to my core.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even being joking around. I'm not being sarcastic.

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Speaker 1: We are not judged the same. Think about this. When

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Speaker 1: I go play golf, or I go for a bike

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Speaker 1: ride or whatever, and the sun is out, I cannot wear,

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Speaker 1: you know, a mesh hat, a trucker hat, because I'll

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Speaker 1: get burned half my head. I have to cover the

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Speaker 1: complete head. You, as hair people, do not have to

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Speaker 1: worry about that. You can wear no hat, wear backwards hat,

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Speaker 1: wear you know, holy hat, whatever, a visor. I am

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Speaker 1: not able to wear visors. Think about that, when the

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Speaker 1: sun's out, my head will get burned. So this notion

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Speaker 1: that backwards hat guy. That is about quarterbacks with hair.

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Speaker 1: Has there been a bald quarterback since the hassleback? We

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Speaker 1: would not judge Matt Hasselback for warning backwards hat why

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Speaker 1: he does not have hair he has to cover his

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Speaker 1: head from the sun. Want him to get skin cancer?

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Speaker 1: Of course not. Tony Romo. Put a little fucking gel

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Speaker 1: in your hair. What do you know? One thing i'd

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Speaker 1: judge Tony Romo about. Why is he never shave. He's

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Speaker 1: called in games with Jim Nance and he's always got

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know it's one thing to have a beard

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Speaker 1: or shave. He's always just got this stubble going like

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Speaker 1: he's like four days on a bender. That's how I

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Speaker 1: judge Tony Romo. But the hat stuff I used to

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Speaker 1: get in this argument with my dad a lot. I'm sorry, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I look pretty good. The backwards hat I enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: And now that I enough hair, I just think we

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Speaker 1: played by different rules. I'm fascinated that everyone is fascinated

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Speaker 1: by that. They're fascinated by that. And I thought Colin

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Speaker 1: hated golfers. He did, so I started podcast. We are

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Speaker 1: made money got high upside. You know, money flows, you

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Speaker 1: know we can we can look past our previous takes. Audios,

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Speaker 1: everybody have a good week. Uh shout out to Holst

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Speaker 1: and James, my producers doing big things behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: and you the people for consuming this podcast. See ya.

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Speaker 1: The volume