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Are we sure that's the 38 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: case anymore? Has nil and specifically the Transfer portal actually 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: made college sports basketball and definitely football a little bit 40 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: more like the NFL and given how much they pay 41 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: guys more willing to stay. The Aaron Rodgers' situation just 42 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: never dies. That was a big story this week. I'm 43 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 1: not even sure that's the biggest story of the week 44 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: when it comes to the Jets, and of course Scotti 45 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: Scheffler trying to win the US Open and Tom Brady 46 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: number retired this week. Big moment knowing for the Patriots 47 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: wherever were number twelve again shocker didn't see that one coming. 48 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: And some takeaways from the Jersey retirement night, which I 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: thought was pretty cool. So let's dive in. But before 50 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: we dive in to sports, you know, I got to 51 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: tell you about my friends and most importantly my partners. 52 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: The official ticketing ap of this podcast Game time. Do 53 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 1: you guys want to go to an event? 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You 83 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: like teams and you hate teams, and I'm a jaded 84 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: sports fan in the sense of my fandom in my 85 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: youth is not quite the same people like Middlecoff. You're 86 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: a forty nine Ers fan, It's not the same as 87 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: it was when I was a kid. I root for 88 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: him to win because it's good for business, but when 89 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: they lose, like I was very, very happy for Andy Reid. 90 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: I grew up a diehard San Franciso Giants fan. You 91 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: couldn't pay me to watch them play. Right now, I 92 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: just do not care. I like sports because of what 93 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: I do now. In terms of my fandom for the 94 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: stories like this is my business. I'm jealous of people 95 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: of their pure fandom that just left me a long time, 96 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: and sometimes I wish I could get that back, and 97 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: I have it occasionally, definitely when I gamble. But the 98 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: Lakers story when Dan Hurley, who's back to back national 99 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: championship woes, comes out last week that the Lakers are 100 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,119 Speaker 1: all in on him, he's their number one target one, 101 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: it's always a little bit weird. In the NBA or 102 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,039 Speaker 1: the NFL, when a story like that comes out and 103 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: the job's been vacant for thirty plus days. Now in football, 104 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: when people interview college code, a lot of times it's 105 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: in early January, and you gotta be a little secretive 106 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: because you're right in the swing of recruiting. It's just 107 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: a it's a transitionary time. Some of these teams are 108 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: still playing in bowl games. It's weird we're talking we're 109 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: in the middle of the summer. So this story always 110 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: was a little bizarre to me. I never thought he 111 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: was gonna take it, partly because I don't think the 112 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: Lakers is a great job, Like Jerry Buss, isn't there 113 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: genius And I'm sorry, Like on the ownership scale NFL, NBA, 114 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: i'd put her near the bottom. Now, the franchise, the brand, 115 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: it's a big deal, right the Lakers, the Cowboys, the Yankees. 116 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: There are certain brands that are just bigger than others. 117 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: But when the news came out today, he didn't take 118 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,239 Speaker 1: the job, to say the least, I was not shocked. 119 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: Now we can read deeper into it. I don't care 120 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: that much about all the media dynamics woes for Shams 121 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: and whatever. Clearly he used this as leverage. He's gonna 122 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: get a pay raise. But forever, college sports was not 123 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: as good of a job, especially like when I was younger, 124 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: because you got paid more money. Going to the pros, 125 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: you got paid more money and you could churn your roster. 126 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: I remember being at Fresno State and one of the 127 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: reasons I aspired to get to the NFL. I wasn't 128 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: making any money at Fresno State, and when I got 129 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: hired in the NFL, I wasn't gonna make any money there. 130 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: I thought how cool it was to be able to 131 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: if a guy wasn't playing well enough, you could cut him, 132 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: you could trade for a guy. You could make constant 133 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: roster moves. Three sixty five right, you had the draft, 134 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: you had free agency. In college football for a long time, 135 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: it was you know, the signing day, that guy was 136 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: on your roster unless he got in trouble or whatever. 137 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: But if he was academically ineligible, you were kind of 138 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: stuck with him. Well, in the modern day college athletics, 139 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: with the transfer portal and with nil it is much 140 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: more closer to professional sports than it ever was. So 141 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: when you have a player, you don't like or you 142 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 1: have a player that you didn't sign in high school 143 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: and you want to get access to him. It happens 144 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: all the time. We see constant movement. So when you 145 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: over the years, like obviously guys have made the jump. 146 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: When I was with the Eagles, the first guy Howie 147 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Lury tried to sign when Andy Reid was 148 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:32,839 Speaker 1: fired was Bill O'Brien. Now, he was reluctant to leave 149 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: Penn State because he had just taken over. It was 150 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: after Joe Paul. He ended up leaving a year or 151 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: two later to the Houston Texans right and ended up 152 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: hiring Chip Kelly, who initially pushed back and said no 153 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: as well. And if you remember the year before he 154 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: had basically accepted the Tampa Bay job and then pulled out. 155 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: Billy Donovan did something similar with the Orlando Magic before 156 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: a couple of years later he took the OKAC job. 157 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: So we've seen a lot of college coaches be hesitant. Well, 158 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: now with the money you're making. For years, it was 159 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: like when is the Cowboys or when is someone gonna 160 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 1: sign Lincoln Riley And he kept saying no. It's like, hey, guys, 161 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: I make eight to ten million dollars, I answer to nobody. 162 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: There is no one at the school who tells me 163 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: what to do, and there is definitely no one in 164 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: the football operations department that tells me who to put 165 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: on my roster. And once you go to the pros, 166 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: like you have a GM who has the ear of 167 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: the owner, who has a lot of influence, you do 168 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: not have to deal with that. In college sports. We 169 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: just had my buddy Derek Ray, who is the GM 170 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: of Florida State. He doesn't control personnel. Mike Norvel does. 171 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: And if you go to the SEC, or you go 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: to the Big Ten and you look at their you know, 173 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: staff rosters, they all have general managers. Now, those gms 174 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: work for the coach, like the offensive coordinator, the D 175 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: line coach, the director of football ops. No different, they're 176 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: titles different, they do a different role, but the coach 177 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: is one hundred percent in charge of the roster. So 178 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: now with the cash flowing into the SEC and the 179 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: Big Ten, if you don't think teams have sniffed around 180 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: on Kirby Smart, you'd be high on sniffing glue. They 181 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: surely have. But if you're Kirby Smart and you're making 182 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: ten twelve fifteen million dollars in the foreseeable future. You 183 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: answer to nobody. There is no owner at the University 184 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: of Georgia. The president is surely not telling you what 185 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: to do. And when it comes to your football program, 186 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: you are the grand pooh bah. You're the owner, you're 187 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: the GM, and you're the head coach. And that is 188 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: something you just will never have in pro sports. I 189 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: don't care how much juice you have. So the Belichickian 190 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: days of full control are dead. They do not exist anymore, 191 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: and they're not going to exist moving forward. What was 192 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: the big theme of this offseason? Owners wanted collaborative approaches. 193 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: That's why Belichick wasn't getting any interviews. People wanted a 194 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: GM and a coach to all be Kumbayo, and we 195 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: all know that's impossible. That's never Obviously, you need a 196 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: GM and a coach to work and have a good 197 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: working relationship. Andy Reid and Brett Veach are more than 198 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: just colleagues. They're very very close friends. Same thing with 199 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan or lesneed and Sean McVay, 200 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: or you know, John Harbaugh and Ozzie and now DaCosta. 201 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: But when a decision needs to get made. Someone has 202 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: to say yes or no. Everyone else is essentially just 203 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: making a suggestion. And that's what you get in college sports. 204 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: That's what Kirby Smart has, That's what Lane Kiffin has, 205 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: That's what Dan Hurley has. That's what John Calipari has had. 206 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: For years now, we can say he's an overrated coach. 207 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: He's turned down countless NBA jobs because he goes, I'm 208 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: already making huge money and no one tells me what 209 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: to do. And I do wonder moving forward, if it's 210 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: gonna be harder to get these guys to jump because 211 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: all we hear and listen, it's in vogue to complain. 212 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: It's in vogue to write articles about everyone in college 213 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: sports bitching and moment. But these guys have never made 214 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: more money. And while they've always had a lot of power, 215 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: now they have the mechanisms to clear a roster. If 216 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: you're not good enough, you just leave. I'm talking about 217 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 1: the player like you can't come back anymore. I forget 218 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: the quarterback for Ohio State last year who started what 219 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: happened this offseason. They essentially told him, like you're not 220 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: good enough, You're not gonna play here, what do you 221 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: do get in the transfer portal? See you audios. Before 222 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: that guy just would have been on the team. It 223 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: would have been weird because for him to transfer, he 224 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: would have lost the season. Now it's like he just leaves, 225 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: he gets to play somewhere else, you know, for another team, 226 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: and it's just like just kind of rid your hands 227 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: of it and the other thing in college sports, and 228 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: I've heard this from my scouting buddies who go through 229 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: all these programs with nil These coaches now look at 230 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: a lot of players much more transactional, like, hey, we 231 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: know you're getting four hundred grand, you better produce and 232 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: if you don't, we're gonna tell you you can't play here. 233 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: And that's just not really the way. 234 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 2: It worked before. 235 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: So there're gonna be a lot of different angles on 236 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: this Dan Hurley situation. But I think when you get 237 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,239 Speaker 1: a great job in college sports, in basketball or football, 238 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: it's not that much different than the pros anymore. It 239 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: actually has a lot more similarities. Now, if you want 240 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: to argue, in the pros, you get a guy under contract, 241 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: that's true, like he can't just hit the transfer portal. 242 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: But we know in football, unless you get huge guaranteed money. 243 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: I can just cut you at any moment, and that's 244 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: kind of what's happening in college sports. So not shocked 245 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: at all to see Dan Hurley turn down this job. 246 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: I would imagine he's gonna get a massive raise, But 247 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: this notion that like you gotta go to the lake 248 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: and you do, I don't think so. I don't think 249 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: so at all. Now we get into the dynamics of 250 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: that roster. This is not an NBA show, but we've 251 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: seen this happen a lot. These college coaches turn down 252 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: these pro jobs that before probably wouldn't have happened. Now, 253 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: Colin I watched him today and he's always had this thing, 254 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, don't try to fight happiness, like there's no 255 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: happier on the other side of the fence. And I'm 256 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: a huge believer in regionality, like where you're from, the 257 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: culture of it. Now you could argue in pro sports, 258 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: we've seen guys from the East Coast come to the 259 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: West Coast and guys of the West Coast and go 260 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: to the East Coast. I do believe you're at your 261 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: best when your personality is with the region in which 262 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: you coach. And Dan Hurley's a Northeast guy, he's gonna 263 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: move to southern California. It would have been weird. Now. 264 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: I'm also a believer that like that style won't work 265 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: or this style will work. I think great coaches, just 266 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: like anyone great in their field, can adapt and can 267 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: change and can improve on things that are not working. 268 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh is a great example. He's probably one of 269 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: the more unique guys who've done both because he's had 270 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: so much success in college sports, right dominated San Diego, 271 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: resurrected Stanford, and then just won a national championship Michigan. 272 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: But he was a fifteen year NFL quarterback, So it's like, yeah, 273 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: he didn't coach all those years in the NFL. Beside 274 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: his stint with the forty nine ers, he spent fifteen 275 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: years playing. Like that has to account for something. I 276 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: love it when people like I can't believe they just 277 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: hired Luke McCown or Brian Greasy has no experience. Well, yeah, 278 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: he was playing in his twenties and thirties. Sitting in 279 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: those meetings with the quarterback coach, with the offensive coordinator, 280 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: and with the head coach. It's different. It's not the 281 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: same daily routine, but it's got to account for something. 282 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: It's got to equal some sort of transferable knowledge. So 283 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: I think Lane Kiffin is a guy that one day 284 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: could be coaching in the NFL. Lincoln Starr has definitely dimmed. 285 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: I think Kirby Smart is always a guy to keep 286 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: an eye on. Ryan Day. I don't know a little 287 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: soft for me. People like you're just a hater. Yeah 288 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: kind of am like it's I like hating some people 289 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: in sports. That's healthy for that creates this whole business. 290 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: You don't have to like everybody. Look at the PGA Tour. 291 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: Everyone's friends with everyone. Business is down because liv took 292 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: all the bad guys. Like you gotta have some guys 293 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: to root against. And I'm not saying Ryan Day doesn't 294 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: know what he's doing. He just wouldn't be my first hire. 295 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: Uh but we've seen Billy oh Obviousally Chip had a 296 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: little stint. It's not like you'll never see a guy 297 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: make the jump again. I just think it's easier to 298 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,719 Speaker 1: turn stuff down now, given how much you're making and 299 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: how much power you have over changing your roster. It's 300 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: no disputing that Aaron Rodgers has entered kind of this 301 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: part of his career where anything he does, anything he 302 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: says becomes an immediate headline and for people in the 303 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: word business that they love the clicks for us talking 304 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: about it. He's just an interesting figure and he's done 305 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: a lot of things that I have found head scratching, right, 306 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: like demanding a trade from the Green Bay Packers to 307 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: the New York Jets. Thought it was nuts. Now I'm 308 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: not Antiahuasca, never tried it, but a lot of people, 309 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: you know, it made him go, what's he doing? The 310 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: darkness retreat all four self growth, trying to improve, but 311 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: let's face it, most of us couldn't go into a 312 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: darkness retreat for three or four days. So he has 313 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: just done things in the last couple of years. This 314 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: has already added to a guy that I would say 315 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: was pretty polarizing before that. And the story about Aaron 316 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:31,639 Speaker 1: Rodgers leaving Mandatory Mini Camp immediately just becomes a massive story. 317 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: And personally, I don't think it's a big deal at all. 318 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: I have no clue at this point in time in 319 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,239 Speaker 1: recording this where he went. I truly don't care, and 320 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: you'd go middlecough, You're a hypocrite, you crush Lamar Jackson 321 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: for not showing up. Well, yeah, Aaron Rodgers has been 322 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: with the team, just like Patrick Mahomes, just like Justin Herbert, 323 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: just like Josh Allen, all the star quarterbacks for the 324 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: last two months. And he took off for a couple 325 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: of days in June. Whatever, this is a business. He's 326 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: going to get fined. There are repercussions for his actions. 327 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: And he didn't care. If he hadn't been there all 328 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: of OTA's and then also did this, I'd be like, yeah, 329 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: this is fucking nuts, what's he doing? But he has 330 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: been there the entire time, just like last season, the 331 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: entire offseason. It has not been an issue. Did he 332 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: go to another darkness retreat or to a RFK speaking engagement? 333 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: I got no clue. And like I said, I don't 334 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: care if you're gonna miss a couple of days in 335 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: the offseason. It's not that weird. Players do it all 336 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: the time. Where it gets weird is when you give 337 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson a couple hundred million dollars and he doesn't 338 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: show up until it's mandatory like that. That's not ideal. 339 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's gonna impact the fall. It's just 340 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: not what the team wants now, the Ravens are well run. 341 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: Big picture, they're gonna be fine. This is the Jets 342 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: and they have constant issues today on the back of 343 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: the tabloids. I guess New York's one of the lone 344 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: big cities where newspapers still matter, and he's everywhere and 345 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: it's gone viral and everyone's making fun of him. And 346 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: he brought it upon himself because he made the statement 347 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: where football has to become the main thing, we can't 348 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: worry about all that, and then he just disappears. But ultimately, 349 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: like he has been there the entire time. It's not 350 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: an excused absence because you can't have an excuse absence 351 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: unless something personally bad is happening to you during mandatory minicamp. 352 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: To me, the Jets way bigger issue. Like they know 353 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers where he stands, where he's gonna be during 354 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: training camp. It's not a big deal. I think the 355 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: overreaction's kind of laughable. But he's Aaron Rodgers. It's kind 356 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: of like Lebron James. When anything happens, it becomes a 357 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: really big deal. Hell, Kaitlyn Clark has thrown her hat 358 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: into this ring. Kaitlyn Clark, could you know, eat a 359 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 1: sandwich weird and be like, what is going on with that? 360 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 1: And that's Aaron Rodgers world that we live in. For 361 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: as long as he plays in the NFL, literally everything 362 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: he does, people are going to have an opinion, which 363 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: is part of the reason the NFL is so big. 364 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: You need athletes that moved the needle like this individual 365 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: moves the needle, but he is the least of the Jets. 366 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: Worries said this the other day. They literally traded for 367 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: a player who wanted a new contract. That's why he 368 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: was having issues with the Eagles. He wants more money. 369 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: So if you trade for that player and you do 370 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: nothing with the contract, you are inheriting the problem. Right 371 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: When the Miami Dolphins traded for Tyreek Hill, the Chiefs 372 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: had an issue because Tyreek wanted a ton of money 373 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: and they weren't gonna pay him, so when they traded him, 374 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 1: if Miami had not reworked his contract and given him 375 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: a huge contract extension, they would have also had an 376 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: issue on their hands. But what did they do? They 377 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: gave him a massive extension. The Raiders Khalil Mack was 378 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: not showing up to training camp until he got eighty 379 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,199 Speaker 1: five ninety million dollars guaranteed. Then the Bears trade a 380 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: couple ones of three whatever form. If they did not 381 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: give him the contract extension, they would have inherited the problem. 382 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: But they gave him a contract extension. The Jets trade 383 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: for a Son Reddick who has not stepped foot in 384 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: their building. Their coaching staff, their front office do not 385 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: know the player. They do not know the guy, and 386 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: they have not given him new contract and he's mia. 387 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: That to me is the Jets issue because it's symbolic 388 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: of do you guys know what you're doing. Aaron Rodgers 389 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: can do things that you think are weird. You don't 390 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: agree with. One thing that is not disputable is when 391 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: he's on the field. He's a good player, and we 392 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: know he's gonna be on the field if his achilles 393 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: or body is together. Is a Son Reddick ever gonna 394 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: show up? Is he ever gonna come? Do they ever 395 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: plan on giving him a contract extension? Or did they 396 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: just trade for a player not realizing the severity of 397 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: the issue. Did Howie Roseman just completely fleece them? If 398 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is bad this season, There is no debate 399 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: that the Packers fleeced the Jets on Aaron Rodgers. But 400 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: we all universally agree that if we were in Joe 401 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: Douglas's seat, if we were Woody Johnson or Woody's brother 402 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: who was running it at the time, maybe he wasn't, 403 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: maybe wood he was already back, that we all would 404 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: have made that trade, every single one of us. And 405 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: they help Aaron Rodgers took a contract discount, gave them 406 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: back like thirty million dollars. He's actually been pretty easy 407 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: for them to deal with. The only issue was his 408 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: achilles ripped five plays into a season in twenty twenty three. 409 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: This is sound. Reddick issue is a problem. It's one 410 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: thing when you have players that you've drafted on your 411 00:23:53,320 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: own team that have contract issues. Brandon Nyuk contract issue 412 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: right now. You know him like you know what he 413 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: stands for. He knows you like everyone's on the same page. 414 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: It's about money. But you feel very comfortable with the guy. 415 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: Why because you've spent years around them. The Jets haven't 416 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: spent any time around this player. And let's face it, 417 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: they trade it for him because they kind of need 418 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: them because they just lost one of their better pass 419 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: rushers to the Eagles. So they replaced him with the 420 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: Eagles problem, and now it's become their problem because they 421 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 1: clearly refuse to give him a contract. So Aaron Rodgers 422 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: are gonna get the headlines, but I promise you he's 423 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: the least of their warriors. Scottie Scheffler is on track, 424 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: I think, give or take, to have a fifty million 425 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: dollars on the course. That doesn't count his other sponsors, 426 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: obviously Nike, because of the level in which he's playing. 427 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: I would imagine he's having a twenty million dollar Nike season. 428 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: That this guy's gonna make seventy eighty million dollars this season. 429 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: So one thing some of these guys benefited from because 430 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: the live guys took off that we said, how are 431 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 1: they ever gonna make that type money? And Scottie Scheffler 432 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: and Hovelin are proving if you play well on the 433 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: PGA Tour, you can have a twenty four month stretch 434 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: where you make a hundred million dollars and you don't 435 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,159 Speaker 1: have to play all these stupid tournaments that let's face it, 436 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: none of these live guys feel very excited do play. 437 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: They're doing it because they got paid, which is the 438 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: reason A lot of people in America work because you're 439 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: paying me to do it, And for a long period 440 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 1: of time, it felt like guys like to compete. Obviously, 441 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: in the NFL and the NBA they get paid a lot, 442 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: but when the ball tips in big games where the 443 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: ball is snapped or kicked off, there's an excitement level 444 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: as a competitor. Live does not have that. The PGA 445 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: Tour still brings that to the table, and just a 446 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: independent consumer, I just like watching fun shit. I'm all 447 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: into the NHL playoffs. I am glued into the Stanley Cup. 448 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: I have a little money dabbled on Edmonton, but it's 449 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: just a fantastic product. The level in which they compete, 450 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: the intensity, how much you know it means, the history 451 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 1: of it. No different than the NBA finals. I don't 452 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: watch as much NBA now is I did throughout the 453 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: majority of my life, but the playoffs still matter. I 454 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: know what's on the line. I know the history of 455 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: being a finals MVP, winning a ring, what that means 456 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: for guy's career, what it means to not win a ring, 457 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: and that's what you watch memorial. You know what's on 458 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 1: the line. You know Tiger won there five times, you know, 459 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: it's Jack Nicholas's tournament, and you watch Scotty just embracing 460 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: all this and playing at the level in which he's playing. 461 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: But like I said, that arrest in Louisville, I truly 462 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: is the best thing that ever happened to him, because 463 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: he's not that interesting of a guy, and really his 464 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: play he's not that animated. He's not doing crazy fist pumps, 465 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: he's not dropping f bombs. He's not must watch in 466 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: terms of all the extracurricular stuff, but he's must watch 467 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: in terms of now he's winning at the rate because 468 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: we love winners in America. And when you add in 469 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,400 Speaker 1: the arrest that it looked like it was gonna derail, 470 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: I don't know something, and it didn't really at all, 471 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: And I bet on him two weeks later when Davis 472 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: Riley and where were they playing in Texas had a 473 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 1: career week and Scotty was still right there, finished second. 474 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: So it's been really really entertaining to watch, and I 475 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: think his legend grew. And now we can laugh at 476 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: it because of that mugshot because they put him in 477 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: an orange jumpsuit and then he continues to answer the belt, 478 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 1: this is not like Michael Jordan was the best player, 479 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: and his team's really good. For the most part, he's 480 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: gonna win if he plays well. Golf's not like that. 481 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: You're playing one hundred and fifty people and if you 482 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: have one bad round of the four rounds, it's really 483 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: easy to just finish seventh. Even if you're Tiger Woods 484 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: or Ernie Palmer or Jack Nicholas or Nick Faldo, whoever. 485 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: In every fucking week, it's like, this guy's gonna win, 486 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: this guy's gonna win, this guy's gonna win. Sometimes I 487 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: laugh when people talk about the odds, like, you know, 488 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: Tiger's odds. In two thousand and one, we did not 489 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: I consume sports. I followed sports religiously. Obviously, gambling is 490 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: legal now, so we talk about it much differently. People 491 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: were not gambling. I mean, you had to be a true, true, 492 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: degenerate Billy Walters gambling. Now, the accessibility the odds over 493 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: the last I would say decade, but really five six years. 494 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: To me, the odds mean a lot more because the 495 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: way we're discussing it, and this guy going into majors 496 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: is three to one, I'm like, yeah, probably right, Like 497 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: would it be crazy if you put him two to one, Like, 498 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: what is the number? You couldn't put him minus one hundred, 499 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: right or minus one ten because it's still a golf tournament. 500 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: But he is creeping closer and closer to basically being 501 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,479 Speaker 1: a one to one favorite to win a golf tournament 502 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: against one hundred and fifty other people, where elite players 503 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: are sixteen to one, twenty to one, twenty five to one. 504 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: What this guy doing, What this guy is doing right 505 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: now is just remarkable. I mean it is to me. 506 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: It's must watch TV. And I think the arrest kind 507 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: of brings in the casual fan because his name recognition. 508 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: He's not Caitlin Clark or Patrick Mahomes in terms of 509 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: name recognition. But I think if you're a casual guy 510 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm not a big golf guy, but 511 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: I'll pay attention to some majors. You know exactly who 512 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: Scottie Scheffler is, and you know exactly kind of what's 513 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: going on right now that essentially he wins every single week. Now, 514 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: part of to grow this brand, you need a rival. 515 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: Tiger's a once in one hundred year player. Whether he 516 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: had a rival or didn't, it wasn't gonna matter. He 517 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: was a comet ship on his own. For the most part, 518 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: players need someone that is at least viewed as a foe, 519 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: if not an equal, And right now Scotty does not 520 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: have that. Colin Moricowa whatever he did early on this 521 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: season to figure it out. He looks freaking awesome. He 522 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: was awesome at Memorial, he was awesome at the PGA Championship, 523 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: he was awesome at the Masters. He looks fantastic. I 524 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: think he is an auto top five top ten bet 525 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: this week. He is Taylor. He could win this tournament. 526 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: But if Scotty's right there, you're like, he's not gonna 527 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: beat Scotty. Scheffer Xander Schoffley, who has had an elite 528 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: career finally got over the hump at Valhalla, is having 529 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: statistically and you could argue the best year of his career. 530 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: Another guy I think an auto top ten, top five bet. 531 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: Either one of those guys gonna be Scotty's rival. Don't 532 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: really see it, not saying those guys can't win and 533 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: have continue to have great careers and even win another 534 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: major or two. But Tiger had Phil who I think 535 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 1: when you look back, you go, I don't know where 536 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: Phil ranks, you know, Tiger jack one to two in 537 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: some order, and then there's a group of five or 538 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: six guys. I Phil is a top ten player of 539 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: all time, and you could argue he's closer to five 540 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: than he is ten. But the rivalry those two guys, 541 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: it was a rivalry more by yes, Tiger and Phil, 542 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: but Tiger dominated him. But Phil was like a worthy, 543 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: worthy foe. And I think Ernie L's I would throw 544 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: him right up there. I actually think the guy, and 545 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: this is the sad part about the division in golf, 546 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,959 Speaker 1: is Bryson d Schambeau. Because one thing Phil had was like, 547 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: Phil was pretty famous. So to have like a legit 548 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,000 Speaker 1: foe at the highest level of pro sports, that guy's 549 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: gotta be pretty famous, right. Larry and Magic Michael kind 550 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: of went through a rotation of him, but Lebron and Curry, 551 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Forever it 552 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: was Manning and Brady. I think Bryson has a chance 553 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: to be the most famous golfer. I'm not saying better 554 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: than Scotty, but his fame. Dude's a killer. This guy. 555 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: If it was if he was an NFL player. We 556 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: talk about Bryson d Chambeau like the number one high 557 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 1: school recruit, the number one college player, and has come 558 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 1: into the NFL and dominated and gone to Pro Bowls constantly. 559 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: He obviously won a US Open, not the best US Open. 560 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: It was basically just hit it straight a million feet 561 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: and jump pump wedges onto the green. But to me, 562 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: Bryson's more closely a four or five major win guy 563 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: than he is a one major win guy. The other thing, 564 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: I think he's kind of become comfortable with who he is. 565 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: He's nerdy, didn't have a lot of friends on the 566 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: PGA Tour. A lot of people, I think rumors were 567 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: people didn't like him very much. Whether he was a 568 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: bad guy, immature guy, whatever, that's a fact. And now 569 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: it feels like he's relaxed a little bit. But he's 570 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: still an elite player and live, whether he played on Live, 571 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: whether he played on the Corn Ferry Tour, whether he 572 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: played on the Asian Tour. I don't think Bryson would 573 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: be faced because he loves golf to his soul. A 574 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: lot like Phil, a lot like Tiger Woods, a lot 575 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: like Scotti Scheffer. They are addicts, like the reason Patrick 576 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: Mahomes is so good. Obviously he's physically gifted. He's a 577 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: twenty four to seven football addict. Same thing with Peyton Manning, 578 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: same thing with Tom Brady, same thing with Drew Brees, 579 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: same thing with Christian McCaffrey, Same thing with Lebron James, 580 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: same thing with Steph Curry. This is not just yeah, 581 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: we do this for a job, we make a lot 582 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: of money. No, this is a deep driven passion of mine. 583 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 1: And the other thing with Bryson is he's become a showman. 584 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: And really since he got big and was sucking down 585 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,959 Speaker 1: all those you know, the protein shakes and the peanut 586 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: butter sandwiches and just put on an extra thirty pounds 587 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: and he starts vomiting over the water, pointing at the sky. Say, 588 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: I think Bryson figured something out. Whether you like him, 589 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: whether you hate him, whether you think he's a nerd 590 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: or whatever, you are dialed in when he's playing. And 591 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,279 Speaker 1: I like him a lot this week, and I would love, 592 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,919 Speaker 1: I mean I'd pay for it to get these two 593 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: guys in the mix on Saturday and Sunday. Now, this 594 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: tournament is, from all accounts of everyone on the ground, 595 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: is going to be really hard. The greens look like 596 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: they're concrete. Obviously, there's not rough at this course like 597 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,839 Speaker 1: there isn't traditional golf courses, but there's the native land. 598 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: You can miss it into weird spots and it can 599 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: become very difficult if you hit fairways. It's a second 600 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: shot golf course. But it's also pretty long, like it's 601 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: seventy six hundred yards and Scotti, Scheffler hits long irons 602 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: really well. Bryson d Chambeau elite at it, calling more 603 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: Kawa pretty freaking good. Same thing with Ander Schoffley. To me, 604 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: that's the group I'm betting on. I have a ton 605 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: of the problem is for me to get my rocks off, 606 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,439 Speaker 1: I'd have to put a couple grand on Scotty at 607 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: three to one, right, So I was like, you know, 608 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna parlay him with a lot of people, and 609 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: I have a million parlays mixed up with Scotti and 610 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: Colin and Bryson and Xander and even a little Fleetwood 611 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: as top tens in top twenties a deck. He's another guy, 612 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 1: elite ball striker, fantastic short game, gonna be in the mix. 613 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: So this is going to be a big name tournament. 614 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: Obviously it's gonna be shocking if Scotty doesn't win. But 615 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: I think this is and hopefully so, where the kind 616 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: of rivalry begins with Scotty and Bryson, because I just 617 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: don't I don't think it's doing it for the casual 618 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: with more Kawa and Xander, despite how great those players are. 619 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,399 Speaker 1: Bryson kind of evokes emotion deep in your soul when 620 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: you watch him. If you like sports, I kind of 621 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: want to watch this. Something's there, something's going on, and 622 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: sometimes athletes just have that. When I was a kid, like, 623 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: I'm not a big tennis guy, but I didn't know 624 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,640 Speaker 1: I was gonna be bald at the time, even though 625 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: my entire family didn't have a blade of hair on 626 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: top of their head. I loved Agassy. Something about Agasy 627 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: Why because you watch them he just created emotion inside you. 628 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: And we've seen it forever with football and basketball players, 629 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: same with baseball players when I was younger. But in 630 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: these individual sports you need some characters, and to me, 631 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,399 Speaker 1: Bryson is the ultimate mix of character, weird out there 632 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 1: unlike anyone else, and an elite player. So I hope 633 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: Bryson brings his a game. He has a ton of 634 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 1: momentum come into this, played well at Augusta, played awesome 635 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: at the PGA, And like I said, I don't think 636 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: he's phased by the irrelevancy of these golf tournaments. I 637 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: don't think he's phased at all. Now, I don't you know, 638 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: there's a lot of other names out there. Rory count 639 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 1: me out. Though love is not dead. I just saw 640 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna reconcile him and his wife when it comes 641 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: to their divorce, So no longer divorce. Keopka. I hammered 642 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,439 Speaker 1: Keopka at some of the earlier majors, like I'm out. 643 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna do it. Not saying that he 644 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 1: can't do it, but I'm not going to mess around 645 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: with that. And it's sad. I mean, DJ's like seventy 646 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,280 Speaker 1: five or eighty to one. But should be fun. Should 647 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: be fun. So I from a recommendation standpoint of gambling, 648 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,880 Speaker 1: I think if you want some action on Scotty, like 649 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,960 Speaker 1: you can put one hundred bucks Scottie to win and 650 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: then parlay some top fives and top tens with the Xanders, 651 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 1: with the Moricows, with the Bryson's, with the hadeckis with 652 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: the Fleetwoods, there's a ball striker's golf course, so I 653 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 1: need guys from one hundred and eighty yards, one hundred 654 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 1: ninety yards, two hundred yards that can pelt the middle 655 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: of the green. Because there are a lot of runoffs 656 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: on this golf course, you get put in some weird spots. 657 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 1: Hovelin is an interesting guy. Is a short game, good enough, 658 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,799 Speaker 1: but he's definitely shown some signs of life. He would 659 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: definitely be a wild card for me if you want 660 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 1: to put him in some parlays. I wouldn't be against 661 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,319 Speaker 1: that at all. But like I said, overall, have a 662 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 1: hard time seeing Scottie not win this tournament. One thing 663 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: I've always thought was really cool in pro sports when 664 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: a guy spends his entire career with one organization. And football, 665 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:43,920 Speaker 1: unlike the NBA, for example, you get cut the moment 666 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: you start slipping, they get rid of you. I mean, 667 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,439 Speaker 1: before Tom Brady existed, the best quarterback of all time 668 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,240 Speaker 1: was traded and Bill Walsh had been trying to replace 669 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 1: him for like half a decade. So football, the meritocracy 670 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: that's involved, regardless of your your stature, your status, your 671 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: previous accomplishments. It's very, very cutthroat, but we still have 672 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: a long line of examples. I mean, Peyton Manning was 673 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 1: once cut right now. He had a bad neck and 674 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 1: we didn't know at the time if he could play again. 675 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: He's even gone on records. It was a scary time 676 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: for his career, but they got him. Now they were 677 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,880 Speaker 1: getting Andrew Locke, but still Peyton Manning was available on 678 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,479 Speaker 1: the open market. Tom Brady played his last three years 679 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: for another team. But it wasn't because he wanted to leave. 680 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 1: It was because Bill was like, yeah, I'm short in 681 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 1: a forty two year old. I don't think he'll be 682 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: I think he's gonna fall off a cliff. And he didn't. 683 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,040 Speaker 1: He won an MVP, he won a Super Bowl and 684 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: obviously cemented his lay, I mean, took it to another level. 685 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: But as Tom said, and I didn't quite understand. I 686 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: saw a lot of posts about it over the last 687 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: couple of weeks that there was like a Tom Brady 688 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: number retirement. I guess I had assumed it was more 689 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: of like craft Patriot people former players, kind of an 690 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: in house thing. It was like a football game. I mean, 691 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: they did a panorama around the Stadium and that place 692 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,680 Speaker 1: was packed. It was like the freaking Rolling Stones were there. 693 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: And as Tom Brady said last night, I'm Tom Brady 694 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: and I'm a Patriot, and I think a lot like 695 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,279 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, who played two years for the Wizards. Now, 696 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,280 Speaker 1: unlike Tom, he won a championship into the Bucks. Tom 697 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: means a lot. But I think it's very, very powerful 698 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,080 Speaker 1: when a guy and I think it's cool for fans 699 00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,239 Speaker 1: because you root for that human being until the day 700 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 1: he dies. He means everything to you. And I know 701 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 1: as a fan of the San Fransco Giants, like Buster 702 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 1: Posey's Hall of Fame career, every single at bat was 703 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 1: with the San Francisco Giant uniform. The reason Lebron James 704 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: would never sniff Kobe Bryant is because he's a mercenary. 705 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,040 Speaker 1: He just jumps from team to team Kobe's entire career. 706 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,879 Speaker 1: And I don't mean like on the all time list 707 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 1: we could argue Lebron's about player. I just mean with 708 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: Laker fans because Kobe's their guy. Kobe was their guy 709 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,800 Speaker 1: from the start till the finish. And the NBA Player 710 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,480 Speaker 1: Empowerment era, which got so much credit with the media 711 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,440 Speaker 1: was cool for Twitter, not great for fans, like who's 712 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,840 Speaker 1: how's Kevin Durant. Ever, having that moment and the powerful 713 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: thing about the NFL is look at some of the 714 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: young guys now and listen, Tom, it was like a 715 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,760 Speaker 1: religious experience. He took the Patriots to nine Super Bowls. 716 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,719 Speaker 1: He won six of them that career. Even Patrick Mahomes 717 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: more than likely a high probability, will not replicate that. 718 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,560 Speaker 1: So it's an outlier career. We got twenty years with 719 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,759 Speaker 1: this guy, this California kid who brought us to greatness, 720 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,359 Speaker 1: and he's our guy, no matter how weird his face 721 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: may look with botox and plastic surgery, or how his 722 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,279 Speaker 1: hair has changed over the years with hair plugs and listen, 723 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,279 Speaker 1: I'm not hating. I lost my hair and I just 724 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,880 Speaker 1: chose probably at the time I lost that, I definitely 725 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 1: could have afforded hair plugs, and now it's just too late. 726 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 1: I'm just rocking with it. But it doesn't matter how 727 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: weird things get. He's our guy. And growing up I 728 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,640 Speaker 1: saw the power of it with forty nine er guys 729 00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: in the Walsh in the in the nineties era. How 730 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: passionate people that support those guys and I think it's 731 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: really cool when someone can spend the majority, if not 732 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,839 Speaker 1: their entire career. Now, obviously in pro sports, you've gotta 733 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: be good to even have an opportunity to do that. 734 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: But like Aaron Donald just retired, played for one franchise, 735 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: Like that's that's a powerful thing. Now. I don't know, 736 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 1: you know, the Rams franchise fan base. It's not exactly 737 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: like playing, you know, for the Cowboys or the Eagles. 738 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,960 Speaker 1: But Jason Kelcey recently right retired. He's a Philly guy. 739 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,879 Speaker 1: He's not from Philly's from Ohio. He went to Cincinnati. 740 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: Yet the rest of his life he's gonna live in Philadelphia, 741 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: I would imagine, and that's his home and those are 742 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,520 Speaker 1: now his people. I think that's the cool part about sports. 743 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: I was taking my little dog on a walk last night, 744 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,200 Speaker 1: and the NBA Finals I bet on the Mavericks obviously 745 00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: to win the series not going well. That was dumb, 746 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,839 Speaker 1: and I swear to God, probably I don't know half 747 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,400 Speaker 1: the homes that I could kind of see in, especially 748 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,680 Speaker 1: in the backyard as we're kind of roaming around, I 749 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,400 Speaker 1: could see in their backyards. I just saw sports on 750 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,800 Speaker 1: the NBA Finals on and It's still one of the 751 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 1: last things that we all agree that, like, we kind 752 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,799 Speaker 1: of just watch when it matters, when big events happen. 753 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: Football is kind of an outlier because we watched the 754 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: regular season in the playoffs, but when the baseball playoffs come, 755 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,320 Speaker 1: it'll just be on people's TVs. Obviously, the NBA Finals 756 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,440 Speaker 1: is just on people's TVs. March madness, and we all 757 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,040 Speaker 1: kind of gravitate toward that, and it's a conversation starter 758 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 1: obviously for me in what I do. When I'm just 759 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,320 Speaker 1: out and about and I meet someone, you can always 760 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,040 Speaker 1: talk about sports. And I think when you get to 761 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,800 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, obviously he's been in our life for a 762 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,759 Speaker 1: long long time, but like that moment as a sports fan, 763 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,799 Speaker 1: it couldn't have gone any better. But whenever you get 764 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,480 Speaker 1: a great player and you get to live through it, 765 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 1: his youth, his marriages, his children, his ups and downs, 766 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,279 Speaker 1: his struggles, his greatness, it just bonds you to that 767 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,800 Speaker 1: person for a long long time. And I'm not trying 768 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: to be sappy here, but I thought some of the 769 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 1: videos I saw were just really really cool. And the 770 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:30,040 Speaker 1: Belichick thing, clearly the Crafts tried to destroy his name 771 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,440 Speaker 1: in that Apple documentary. I've said that I stopped watching 772 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,120 Speaker 1: it after like episode five. I just thought it was stupid. 773 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,399 Speaker 1: It wasn't for me. I don't know if it did 774 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: well or didn't do well in terms of like retention 775 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,279 Speaker 1: on an episode to episode basis, but I just thought 776 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,879 Speaker 1: the treatment of a guy who was a big part 777 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,879 Speaker 1: of and as Tom Brady said last night, it wasn't you, 778 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't me, it was us, and it just completely 779 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 1: shit on him was stupid. Patriots fans knows, and they 780 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,080 Speaker 1: gave him a standing I swear to God for like 781 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:05,000 Speaker 1: five minutes, and it was cool. And those are the 782 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,800 Speaker 1: type things like you don't get in the rest of society. 783 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,040 Speaker 1: You don't get something like not everyone in that stadium 784 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,279 Speaker 1: sees eyed. I has the same thoughts on society, has 785 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: the same beliefs on the tax system. But like everyone's 786 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:23,440 Speaker 1: bonded over the Patriots, over Tom over Bill, what they 787 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,480 Speaker 1: all got to experience from two thousand and one to 788 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,880 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen or nineteen, Like, you can never take that 789 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,200 Speaker 1: away from all those people. And obviously Boston, like Philly, 790 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,879 Speaker 1: like New York, I mean, passionate place, but it's it's 791 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,760 Speaker 1: no different than people in Alabama they got to bond 792 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,360 Speaker 1: over Nick Saban for the last fifteen years, or people 793 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,000 Speaker 1: now in Georgia with Kirby Smart right, or a lot 794 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,560 Speaker 1: of people in my life that are forty nine er 795 00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,080 Speaker 1: fans that have had this run for five years of 796 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,640 Speaker 1: doing a lot of winning. It's cool, it's fun, it's powerful. 797 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,920 Speaker 1: It's what makes I think this stuff more than interesting. 798 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,799 Speaker 1: It's just a connectivity of kind of our world. And 799 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,719 Speaker 1: Tom obviously, you know, given that region, no one ever 800 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,239 Speaker 1: did for them. I guess Bill Russell way back in 801 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,600 Speaker 1: the day, but in the modern day era, and to 802 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,880 Speaker 1: really just embrace the place. And it was just it 803 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 1: was cool to watch, so uh, cool moment, cool thing 804 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,439 Speaker 1: by the crafts Robert showed up with a girl. Maybe 805 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,680 Speaker 1: it's his wife girlfriend. I can't keep track of his 806 00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 1: love life. Who had to be forty five years younger 807 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,120 Speaker 1: than him. Shows you man, would she be with him 808 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 1: if he was a plumber? Pays to be rich. I 809 00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:37,600 Speaker 1: guess the volume