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Speaker 1: it was as I was flying to Indy and I

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Speaker 1: needed something to watch and I couldn't find a good

428
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Speaker 1: movie on Netflix, and I found basically the F one

429
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Speaker 1: four swing version of Nascar. I'm like, I'll download a

430
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 1: couple for the plane if I get bored. And I

431
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: was glued and I was like, God, this is pretty entertaining,

432
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Speaker 1: And I think, what a lot of these shows are

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Speaker 1: f one what the Golf Show is? I didn't watch

434
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: the tennis, but I would imagine that's pretty entertaining. Nascar,

435
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: this Wide Receiver show, what the Quarterback Show was is.

436
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,359
Speaker 1: It's not diehard people watching, not that they don't watch,

437
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: it's the casual person. And now I'm more inclined like, oh,

438
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: what's Joey Logano doing, How's Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan doing?

439
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 1: And like I understand, Like I watched the Golf one,

440
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm like Eh, this kind of hit or miss. But

441
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: if I'm a casual person, some of the stories might

442
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: grip me. And that's where like when I used to

443
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Speaker 1: get sick in the nineties and stay home from junior

444
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: high or elementary school, I had five channels. I had ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox,

445
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Speaker 1: and like the local thirty one, which was like a

446
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,959
Speaker 1: lot of local stupid shows, and you only had whatever

447
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: was on those show or those channels were what you

448
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: watched when you were stuck at home. That's why most

449
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: people my age watched The Prices, right, because that was

450
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: on at ten am when you were sick. I didn't have,

451
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: like unless you had some VHS movie, which back then

452
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: you had to rent at Blockbuster if you didn't own them,

453
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Speaker 1: so you were kind of limited to what was on television. Well,

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Speaker 1: now I got a ten million options. Oh, what's on

455
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: Apple Plus, what's on Paramount, what's on Hulu, what's on

456
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: the Peacock. I think these quarterbacks and coaches think like

457
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Speaker 1: that with quarterbacks, million quarterbacks every year coming through, easy

458
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: to upgrade. If this guy stinks, we can't keep playing them.

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Speaker 1: And whether he's making seven million on a top ten

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Speaker 1: quarterback contract or whether he's a mid round pick. Like

461
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Speaker 1: Sam Howe get out of here, see you. We're on

462
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Speaker 1: to the next one. So all these quarterbacks in this draft,

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Speaker 1: starting with Caleb, because there is no such thing as

464
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Speaker 1: a camp miss to Jayden, to May to JJ, half

465
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 1: those guys are not gonna be good at all, and

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Speaker 1: half those guys are gonna be lose their starting job

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Speaker 1: within a couple of years, because that's the world we

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Speaker 1: live in. I feel like the Jets, who I just

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00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: read right before I hopped on, are signing Mike Williams,

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Speaker 1: former Charger wide receiver, which totally if I was them,

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Speaker 1: I would do that too. I would say it happened

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Speaker 1: a lot in like the nineties and two thousands. It

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Speaker 1: happens a little less now because professional sports teams are

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Speaker 1: just smarter. I remember it happened like with the Rockets

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Speaker 1: when they signed Charles Barkley. They had a keen, they

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Speaker 1: had like Clyde Drexler. They just got all these big

477
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: name dudes that were older and hope they could like

478
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Speaker 1: find some magic. And it still happens occasionally in the NBA,

479
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean, shit, the Suns with Kevin Durant,

480
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal, happened still in the NBA because of big

481
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Speaker 1: name guys. In the NFL, a big name guy usually

482
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Speaker 1: has to take pay cuts and he goes and everyone

483
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Speaker 1: acknowledges like he's probably not as good as he once was.

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00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: Like when JJ Watt left the Houston Texans and went

485
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, it was like, yeah, he's probably gonna

486
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: be nowhere near what he once was in his prime.

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Speaker 1: And he was still actually pretty solid when he was healthy,

488
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: but we all knew when he was going. Like Tyron

489
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: Smith still a good player, but no one thinks he's

490
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: like in the peak of his powers. Mike Williams like

491
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: always hurt. We all kind of acknowledge it. But it

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Speaker 1: does feel like the Jets, and I don't blame them,

493
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: because they can't go all in on hoping like young

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Speaker 1: players succeed, like they're all in on Aaron Rodgers. So

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Speaker 1: when you trade for Morgan Moses, who I've always sneaky

496
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Speaker 1: kind of liked, signed Tyron Smith, you signed Mike Williams.

497
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Speaker 1: Obviously your offensive line. You can't afford for it to

498
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: be as shitty as it was last year or you're screwed.

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Speaker 1: But it does feel like a throwback team. Like this

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00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: doesn't happen as often in the NFL anymore because teams

501
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 1: are always balancing like the future and the present. It

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Speaker 1: feels like the Jets are strictly just focused on like

503
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Speaker 1: week one, like it just let's just find a way,

504
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: because if they don't and they're not in the playoffs,

505
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: like everyone's getting fired, Like that's gonna happen. And to me,

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00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: the crazy part is if we just assume their defense

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Speaker 1: will be solid, which it's been up and down a

508
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: little bit for the hype, but definitely hasn't been ultimately

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Speaker 1: their problem over the last couple of years. The pressure

510
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Speaker 1: on Nathaniel Hackett and Aaron Rodgers at forty years old

511
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: and coming off an injury is pretty high. And if

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Speaker 1: I was a Jets fan, I'd rather have obviously Aaron Rodgers,

513
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Speaker 1: even off an Achilles and Zach Wilson. But it's it

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Speaker 1: feels like it could go bad really quick, and I've

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Speaker 1: been hammering this hope for a while. Hard to see

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Speaker 1: it going well. I think if it goes well would

517
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: be one of the bigger surprise in the NFL because

518
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Speaker 1: older players get hurt and they're they're literally signing some

519
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: guys that are big name guys that have made a

520
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: lot of money that get injured a lot. So I

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Speaker 1: think the Jets case. The Jets are like the ultimate

522
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Speaker 1: case study of like, yeah, this feels like a team

523
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Speaker 1: that someone would have put together back in seven typically

524
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: not in twenty twenty four. A couple other things that happened.

525
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Speaker 1: Chase Young signed with the Saints for thirteen million dollars

526
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Speaker 1: one year, fully guaranteed, according to a guy named Adam Schefter,

527
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: which that's a lot for my taste, but totally understand

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Speaker 1: teams being interested in me. He plays a premium position.

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Speaker 1: And then I read it a on Pro Football Talk

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Speaker 1: that he needs next surgery and he will not be

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Speaker 1: available till hopefully early on in training him. That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I could sign him if I was

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Speaker 1: a general manager, to a guaranteed contract at a number

534
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: like that until he was healthy and past physical. Now

535
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: you go, well, hey, other teams were willing to do it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd let another team take that risk. We've already seen

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Speaker 1: this guy be injured before and be a shit l

538
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Speaker 1: of himself what he once was as a rookie and

539
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: definitely what he was as a college player. Now You're

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Speaker 1: getting someone coming off a next surgery that plays a

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Speaker 1: position where literally you hit your with your neck like

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00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: every play. I find the risk on this signing extremely high. Now,

543
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: maybe I'm biased, maybe I'm down on the guy. I

544
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: think he's pretty overrated. I think he's as stiff as

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Speaker 1: a board. I watched him go through the motions in

546
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. But thirteen million dollars for a

547
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: guy who immediately needs next surgery. I just have a

548
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: hard time sitting in a free agency meeting with the GM,

549
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: the head coach, the defensive coordinator, the assistant GM. How

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00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: he come to the conclusion like this is worth the risk.

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00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: It feels like there's way more risk than the upside,

552
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: because what's the upside? When's the last time he showed

553
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: to be like a borderline Pro Bowl level guy. You

554
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: can be like, well, we're not quite paying him like that. Well,

555
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: you're not paying him nothing. It's like you're paying him

556
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: three million dollars paying him thirteen million dollars. The other

557
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: thing I saw that was pretty nuts. I'm all for

558
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: trading for disgruntled players or a highly drafted player from

559
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: another team, especially when you don't have to give up

560
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: much compensation. So I get the Browns trading for Jerry Judy.

561
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: You go, listen, situations been weird. They soured on him.

562
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: Even if he's a little overrated given his drafts position,

563
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: we still liked him coming out. We want to get

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Speaker 1: a hold of this guy. Then I saw today that

565
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: they gave him a contract extension with forty one million

566
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. How could you give a player who has

567
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: been extremely underwhelming a huge contract extension when he's never

568
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: played a snap for your team? Like I understand trading

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Speaker 1: for t Higgins or Brandon Ayuk or Lagerious need, Hey,

570
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: we'll give you some picks. We give him a big extension. Like,

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00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 1: you know, guy's been a really good player. Put him

572
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: in your system, you feel confident. Aj Brown happens all

573
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: the time with high end guys. To trade for this

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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: and to extend him, that seems like bad business. That

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00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: seems a lot like Chase Young. What's the point of

576
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: this risk? What was he gonna do? Hold out? You go, well,

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00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: what if he has a great season, then we deal

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00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: with it. Then I don't know, and I think they'll go, well,

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00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: if he has a good season, this is a discount.

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00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: Seems like a lot of things have to go well,

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00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: you know, for this all to a line, because if

582
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: he is just twenty percent better than he's been, which

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00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: would be a drastic improvement, he's still not worth this.

584
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: Sometimes I see things in the NFL and I understand

585
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: the CAP's gone up some money. You know, forty one

586
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: is the old twenty eight. Why would you be in

587
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: the business of extending players who haven't shown to be

588
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: high end, impactful guys that haven't played for you? Like,

589
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: what don't you want to wait and see? Like how

590
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: he fits in the culture, how he gets along with

591
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: their coaches, how him and Deshaun Watson have any chemistry.

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00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something that you might go, Yeah, let's

593
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: let's let's figure this out. We literally just might have

594
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 1: signed one of the worst contracts in the history of sports.

595
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: Let's just be easy when it comes to some question

596
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: marks with players once we trade for them. Okay, let's

597
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: dive into the middle Cough mailbag. See if I can

598
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: say my own name right, Middle Cough Mailbag just my

599
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: Instagram at John Middlecoff two f's DMS wide open fire

600
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: run in there. Get your question answer here, Little thing

601
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 1: we call the podcast. Adrian wanted to shout you out.

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00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: Big fan of your work. I had to comment a

603
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: while ago that you had on your mail bag, So

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Speaker 1: I wanted to hear your opinion on some with the

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Speaker 1: likelihood that the Vikings or the Giants look to add

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in this in the top five, a blue

607
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: chip white out or lineman could fall to the Bears.

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00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: In your opinion as a scout, what should the Bears

609
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: benefit more from drafting someone like Joe Alt or Molik

610
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: Neighbors if either are available, we can do the other

611
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: guy plus Odoonza. I think that's a pretty tough question.

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00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: What I would do if I was them, is you

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00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea, right probably you're taking a

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00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 1: quarterback at one, and then I think you would factor

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00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: and three other quarterbacks go before you draft the nine.

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Speaker 1: So let's just for the way we're doing this exercise,

617
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: say they go two, three, four, and then I think

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00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: it'd be fair to assume not another quarterback is going

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Speaker 1: to go till you pick so five, six, seven, and eight.

620
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Speaker 1: So you have a list of your top five players

621
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Speaker 1: not name Caleb Williams in the draft, right, you know,

622
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: Caleb's probably your top player. You're going to take him

623
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: number one overall, and then you get five guys. One

624
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: of those five guys is a one hundred percent lock

625
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: to be there, Potentially a couple of them could be there,

626
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: so you just have to decide. I think they're in

627
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: a position take your favorite player on the board. I

628
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: don't think you could go wrong taking a wide receiver

629
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Speaker 1: because if you assume you're going to be better this year,

630
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: even if you missed the playoffs but you won nine games,

631
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: you might never have the opportunity to draft one of

632
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: these wide receivers that are really really good. So a

633
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: Doonesay or Malik, and you give him right to the quarterback,

634
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: so he basically gets to inherit a veteran and for

635
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: the next five years of his career build up with

636
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: this guy. Because Keenan Allen is a one year rental,

637
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: I guess they could look to extend, But if I

638
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: was a betting man, he'll only be on the team

639
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: one year. Detroit Lions fan here, still riding high from

640
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: last year, should be we were expected to take a

641
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: big step, but nobody, including yourself, had them on the

642
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: same tier as the Niners or the Eagles. Some even

643
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 1: put Dallas ahead of us most of the season. Now

644
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: Mike Greenberg on The crab Pole Show Get Up is

645
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: claiming we missed our window. How can a team miss

646
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: a window if they weren't supposed to be there in

647
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: the first place. Wouldn't last year have only proved our

648
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: window just opened. You have to understand these people. Podcasting

649
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: is why I like this medium so much. I can

650
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: talk about whatever I want. I don't need to manipulate

651
00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: these topics over and over and over again. Now you

652
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: are playing the hits. I mean, we're gonna talk. We

653
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: talk a ton about Caleb Williams. I'm not breaking down

654
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: the guards in this draft. I like, you don't give

655
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: a shit, But to like the window conversation in February

656
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: and March in the NFL is a stupid conversation. It's

657
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: such a wasted exercise. And like you said, and I

658
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: saw that happening with the Bills on first take, It's like, no,

659
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: they don't. The window doesn't close as long as you

660
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: have the quarterback guys. How could the window close when

661
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: all their players are young and ascending? Now? Is it

662
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: gonna be harder? Yes? Should the Packers be better? Yes?

663
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: They should Should the Bears be better? Yes they should,

664
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: but are we sure the Eagles and Cowboys aren't gonna

665
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: be worse? The Rams just lost Aaron Donald, so yeah,

666
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 1: I'm in agreement. I like Greenberg, but that's a stupid cut.

667
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: The Lions of all the teams that quote unquote their

668
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: window closed, they're rolling back the same team. AFC was

669
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: better than the NFC prior to free agency, but seems

670
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: like the gap is now a bit wider. The Texans,

671
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers, the Ravens, and the Jets all improved. Thoughts, Bears,

672
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: Lions better, but Cowboys, Eagles, Rams are worse. Just seems

673
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,479
Speaker 1: like the gap between the conferences is primarily due to quarterback. Yeah,

674
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the Niners easially could have won

675
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They have the lead in overtime. So

676
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: the conference in the AFC or I mean, the AFC

677
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: is the conference, but the depth of teams in that

678
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: conference is clearly better. They have better quarterbacks. But the

679
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: way who cares? Like, once the playoffs start, the Packers

680
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: don't have to play Josh, right, they get to play

681
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. So like, yeah, you intermix during the season,

682
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: right as an NFC team, you play one of the divisions,

683
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: like last year the NFC West played the AFC North.

684
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, you play Burrow and you play Lamar one time,

685
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: then I don't have to see them any of those

686
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: guys again until I get to the super Bowl. So

687
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: I think some that can be somewhat overrated in baseball

688
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: or in some of these other sports where you play

689
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: more games, but you're not playing that many out of

690
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: conference opponents. So I don't I don't. I guess, I

691
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: don't know if it matters that much. I guess this

692
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: is a long winded way of saying, like, ultimately, if

693
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: let's say the NFL is one hundred, let's just let's

694
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: just use it as a math equation, like all the

695
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: teams equal the power of one hundred, and ideally if

696
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: the two conferences are equal, they'd be fifty fifty. But

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00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: let's say the AFC right now is like sixty five

698
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: thirty five. Ultimately doesn't matter if, like the thirty five percentage,

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00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: if two of the three teams make up twenty of it,

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00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: and if they're in the conference championship, Like I think

701
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: it's definitely fair to say the Niners gonna beat the Chiefs,

702
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: and if the Lions had won that game. They already

703
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs earlier in the season. This is not

704
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: a scenario. This isn't a seven game series. If this

705
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: was basketball or baseball, I would say that would matter more.

706
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: It's just a one off scenario. And it's like the

707
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament. That's why you see so many upsets. You

708
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: get forty minutes, right, you don't get best of three.

709
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Speaker 1: All your videos get me through the workday. Appreciate your

710
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: hard work. That being said longtime Stealer fan. I keep

711
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: seeing reports that we're going to be aggressive throughout the offseason.

712
00:41:55,120 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: Today somebody reported we are possibly looking at an Ayuk trade.

713
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: I saw a Yuk said, Tweeted at Mike Tomlin said,

714
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: do we look like each other? I would say not really.

715
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: But how much sense does it make to give a

716
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: first rounder either in twenty four or twenty five for

717
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: a guy do a boatload of money? Well, the only

718
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: way the forty nine ers can trade him to you

719
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: is for a first rounder this year, Like they can't

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Speaker 1: trade him to you for a first rounder in twenty five.

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00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: So if the trade was gonna happen, you would have

722
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: to trade. I'd have to look at them. I don't

723
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: even know what pick do you have? You won ten games?

724
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Speaker 1: Bounce in the first round. I guess if I had

725
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Speaker 1: to educate a guest to pick twenty one, I said

726
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: this yesterday, Like pick twenty one for Brandon Ayuk, you

727
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 1: could argue it could be a win win. Steve's good Ayuk.

728
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: He's good for them. He helps Russell Wilson or Justin Fields,

729
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: he helps them win a playoff game. The forty nine

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00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: Ers pick an excellent player or with their two draft

731
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: picks in the first round and both teams are happy.

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Speaker 1: Or the Steelers give i U twenty five million dollars

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00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: a year. He's good but he's not great, and then

734
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: the Niners miss on the pick that they get. So

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00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: it could be a disaster for everyone involved. It'd be

736
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: less likely for it to be a problem for the

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00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: Steelers because I know Iouke's good, but like I think

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Speaker 1: the problem with Ayuk, and I like him a lot.

739
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: I want him on my team. It does get complicated

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Speaker 1: when you have to start talking these contracts. I would

741
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: love Brandon Ayuk for eighteen million dollars a year, and

742
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: I understand the cap has gone up, but to pay

743
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: him a ton of money. It's just like I struggle

744
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: to pay any wide receiver a ton of money who's

745
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: not an elite guy. You could argue that forty nine

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00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: ers were cost the Super Bowl because Deebo Samuel couldn't

747
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: get open because it can't really run routes. And against

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: most teams, it doesn't matter you get them the ball,

749
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: he'll break tackles, get him some quick screens, and against

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00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: a lot of teams he's able to get open. But

751
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, who had elite corners, he was fucked.

752
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs knew it coming into the game. They

753
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: weren't worried about Deebo Samuel. They had the advantage which

754
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: you could say, hey, it's like if that's the only place, well, yeah,

755
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: I gave him sixty million dollars because I he's a

756
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: great player, but then in our biggest game he can't

757
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: really function. And this is like first class NFL problems.

758
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: But these are the discussions you're having. I think I

759
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: Yuke is a lot like T Higgins and this is

760
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: the problem with the complicate And I understand if you're

761
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: those guys, you got to try to break the bank.

762
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: But if you break the bank, on them. Are they

763
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: ever gonna be a top seven wide out in the league.

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00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the answer. I don't,

765
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: but I think the Bengals and the forty nine ers,

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00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: if you were sitting down with John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan,

767
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: and Zach Taylor or in Duke Tobin, they'd have a

768
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: take because the answers either yes or no, like yeah,

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00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,919
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see them that good, or yeah,

770
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: we believe keeps getting better. He could be the you know,

771
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: a fringe top five wide receiver in the NFL, have

772
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: three year stretch where he's catching a hundred balls every

773
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: single season, But they have an opinion. I promise you

774
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: that I'm torn. I just probably lean know and I

775
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: like him a lot, but if I'm gonna pay him

776
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,919
Speaker 1: a boatload of money, I can't Both teams fall under

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00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: the same category of like, you know, the forty nine

778
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: Ers already pay Deebo Samuel a lotto. Can you have

779
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: two wide receivers making a ton of cash? The Bengals

780
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: are gonna have two guys. I just don't know if

781
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: you can build your team that way. I mean, technically

782
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: you can choose to Is that a good decision for

783
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Like, if you're Tomlin, I would do that trade.

784
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: I would do that trade because I'm trying to win

785
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: a playoff game this year. I've got time to wait.

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00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: Do you think Chase Young is on the similar path

787
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: as Clowney? Extremely talented, but production never really seemed to

788
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: show what was expected. I think Clowney is a way

789
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: better player in Chase Young. You could argue Clowney is

790
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: an underachiever, but I think he's in a different universe

791
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: than Chase Young. I would rather have Clowney at every

792
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 1: step of the way than Young. Clowney feels like he's

793
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: a much better run player, and definitely in his younger years,

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00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: he just his sacks aren't there. But I think that

795
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: they're not really comparable. I mean, Clowney had a really

796
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: good year. How old was he this year? Twenty three?

797
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: Came in the league at twenty four or twenty fourteen?

798
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: He is? He just turned thirty one, so he was

799
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: thirty this year. I will be stunned, and I mean floored,

800
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: if Chase Young is still good at thirty years old.

801
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: It's twenty four. Now. I don't think they're comparable. It's

802
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: interesting to hear your takes on the tipping culture, and

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00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: I was having a discussion with my friend about the

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00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: automatically added gratuity. I find it interesting that restaurants may

805
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,280
Speaker 1: add eighteen to twenty five percent gratuity and the servers

806
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: might expect even more on top of that. Are restaurants

807
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: keeping their gratuity. It was my understanding that they pulled

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00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: and split it among the servers on the shift. That's

809
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: a good question. If you automatically add gratuity, you know,

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00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: it usually happens like if you're on a bachelor party

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Speaker 1: or with a big group dinner for work, and you

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00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: have a big bill at a nicer restaurant, it's typically

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00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: automatically kicked in right at eighteen twenty percent. So if

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00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: I have one thousand dollars bill, let's pick it even number,

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Speaker 1: and you add automatically twenty percent. So I'm giving you

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00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars on top of one thousand dollars, So

817
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: my bill with taxes is like thirteen hundred dollars. I

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00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: should not be obligated then to add more tip, because

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00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: even if I added a tip, let's say it was

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00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: ten percent on top of the one hundred to one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Bill, I'm giving you a thirty percent tip,

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Speaker 1: assuming that the gratuity gets split and pooled between everyone,

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00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: which that's my assumption. Could be wrong anyone in the

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00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: restaurant industry. I don't know if they automatic the auto

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00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 1: gratuity is pooled differently, I would have assumed it was.

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Speaker 1: To me. If it's auto gratuity, you do not need

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Speaker 1: to tip at all unless the server has been really

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00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: cool and you've been like the point person and you

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Speaker 1: want to, you know, leave her twenty bucks or fifty

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00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: bucks or something. But you are not obligated, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: to leave a tip after that. I'm traveling to Tucson

832
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: next week and wondering if you ever spent time down there,

833
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: any recommendations to do in that In Arizona in general,

834
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: I'll definitely be checking out Scottsdale at some point. I've

835
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: only been down there for work back when I scouted.

836
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: I went through Arizona and I went to an All

837
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: Star game there once as well, but I've never spent

838
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: much time in Tucson. To be honest with you, I

839
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: know people that do really like it, but I I

840
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: don't really have any recommendations. If you come to Scottsdale,

841
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: hit me up. Not because I necessarily want to hang

842
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: out with you, but I'll maybe point you in the

843
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: right direction. Just kidding. I probably would hang out with

844
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: you if I knew you, but I think you have

845
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: the best takes. God, you guys are great. Now that

846
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: the Bears are officially taking Caleb Williams at number one,

847
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: what position do they take at night? I get asked

848
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: this question a lot, and this gets back to the

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Speaker 1: RG III conversation. This is what makes the Bear such

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Speaker 1: an awesome place to go. It's like, wait, so I'm

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Speaker 1: going to a place with a number one pick that

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Speaker 1: already has a ton of veteran talent, and we also

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Speaker 1: have the number nine pick where we easily could take

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Speaker 1: one of the sweet wide receivers for me, or take

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Speaker 1: one of the offensive linemen for me. It's the Bears

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Speaker 1: went from pretty questionable less than a year ago to

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Speaker 1: now with the DJ Moore sweat Ads having the ninth

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Speaker 1: pick as just a destination that Caleb Williams should be

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Speaker 1: excited to go to. He also can become a star

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Speaker 1: in one of the biggest cities in America that loves

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Speaker 1: sports and specifically loves football if you resurrect the Bears.

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Speaker 1: And this gets back to RG three's bitterness, like he

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Speaker 1: had a chance to resurrect Washington, which is a historic brand,

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Speaker 1: and because of injuries, because of ego, whatever he blames.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he's always pointing the finger, like, yeah, some

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Speaker 1: of the it was the Shanahan fault. Some of it

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Speaker 1: could have been your fault. I remember your dad demanding

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Speaker 1: a different offense, and who knows. You know, there's been

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Speaker 1: some questions with Caleb and his dad, But in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: no one gives a shit what your parents think. No

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Speaker 1: one cares. Just like in the real world, your boss

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Speaker 1: does not care what your parents say when you are

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Speaker 1: a salaried employee like this is this is in high

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Speaker 1: school and uh, Caleb has the opportunity to do what

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Speaker 1: RG three couldn't do, change a franchise for a decade,

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Speaker 1: and resurrect a franchise. The difference here is, like I

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Speaker 1: said on the podcast, the Shanahans didn't want Robert Griffin

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Speaker 1: the third on their on their football team. They didn't

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Speaker 1: And he knew, he knew that these guys want Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 1: Anytime someone wants you it's a little bit more powerful

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Speaker 1: than when they not only don't want you, but they

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Speaker 1: kind of resent the fact that they were forced into

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Speaker 1: take the volume.