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Speaker 1: Hope you guys are having a great New Year's accomplishing

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Speaker 1: all your New Year's resolutions and staying healthy. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Mitchell, some head coaches finding jobs.

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Speaker 1: My guy, Robert Salah lands with the Tennessee Titans, I got,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Haffley ends up with the Miami Dolphins. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, Mitchell, I don't love it. I

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Speaker 1: don't love it, not because I don't love sala And

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Speaker 1: I thought he would go to established teams like Baltimore

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Speaker 1: or Pittsburgh or somewhere like that.

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Speaker 2: It just felt right.

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Speaker 1: He ended up with the Tennessee Titans, a job he

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Speaker 1: really wanted, a job he felt like he could do

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Speaker 1: great things with.

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Speaker 2: He loves cam Ward.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, one hundred million dollars and uh in salary cap

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Speaker 1: space is enticing to anybody they got a top five

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Speaker 1: draft pick, but for the most part, in terms of

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Speaker 1: roster building, the cupboards pretty bare.

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Speaker 2: You know. They they they.

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Speaker 1: Got some some some talent on the offensive side, they

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Speaker 1: got uh Simmons, but it just seems like things haven't

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Speaker 1: gone well there. And I didn't like how things ended

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Speaker 1: with Mike Vrabel. I thought he was doing a really

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Speaker 1: of him prematurely for no reason, after trading away his

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Speaker 1: best players and getting rid of his best players. You

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Speaker 1: trade away a J. Brown and you're like, huh, I

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Speaker 1: can't figure out why you're not winning. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you if you don't trade away a J. Brown,

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Speaker 1: it's a whole different team. You trade away the heart

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Speaker 1: of the team, Derrick Henry. You let Derrick Henry walk in.

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Speaker 1: So many things that that have happened. Obviously, they've got

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Speaker 1: uh ownership that that's trying to change everything, change that Outlook.

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Speaker 1: They got Mike Bergonzi from from the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: uh to to run this team, to run the process.

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Speaker 2: UH.

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Speaker 1: So they got somebody who knows what championship culture looks like,

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Speaker 1: who knows how to build a championship roster, who was

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Speaker 1: who was around the dynasty of a team with with

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Speaker 2: And Patrick Mahons and all those guys.

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Speaker 1: But it's just a real uphill battle with what the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans have, what the Jacksonville Jaguars have done with

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Speaker 1: Liam Cohen and that staff and that defense, and and

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Speaker 1: And and they they just it's a tough It's a

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Speaker 1: tougher division than it once was. And I think sometimes

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Speaker 1: you get in a situation where you're like, I think

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Speaker 1: I can do it, but it's such an he'll climb

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Speaker 1: challenge and if anybody can do it, he can. He's

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Speaker 2: But this is this is tough.

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Speaker 1: This is tough They're gonna have They're gonna have their

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Speaker 1: in Mitchell Green makes people believe in things that you know,

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Speaker 1: they believe in magic. You can pay them to believe

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Speaker 1: in the magic Mitchell. You can pay people to believe.

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Speaker 1: And if they can build an offensive line and defensive line,

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Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how it goes.

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Speaker 3: You know what Richard I think after coming from the

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. I've been surprised before. He got

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Speaker 1: a five year deal. Thankful for that. Hopefully it's life

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be in just about every game. And if

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Speaker 3: Now, this move leads a vacancy at the defensive coordinator

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Speaker 3: where we might not. We'll see, Richard, I'm gonna pose

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Speaker 3: love to see it. Clearly, you know football, you bring

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Speaker 3: a good energy. Know you're in and around these teams constantly. Richard,

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Speaker 3: you something. You seem like a hand in glove fit.

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Speaker 1: Mitchell. God, dang it, you commenced me. I'm about the

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Speaker 1: text scy right now. No, no, no, Mitchell, my hat

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Speaker 1: is not going to be thrown in a ring for

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to go with an established coordinator.

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Speaker 1: That would be a home run, solute grand slam hit

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Speaker 1: If he can't, I believe Raheem Morris would be a

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Speaker 1: But but you just never know how it's gonna shake out.

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Speaker 1: There's so many openings, so many, so many things to

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Speaker 1: I've heard that the name Flores floated around by the fans.

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Speaker 3: And other news, the Buffalo Bills have moved on from

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like, hey, the guy who was drafted

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Speaker 3: You're not wrong about that at all. I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: Who looks right in Buffalo as somebody who's gone to

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not surprising. That's what they've been saying

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Speaker 2: Is that the answer? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there there were injuries before when they were

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Speaker 1: You couldn't come up with a scenario where it made

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Speaker 1: That's now twenty two games that you could potentially be playing.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to go into detail, but if I

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't change at all. That that doesn't that doesn't help.

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Speaker 1: I mean, especially what they're saying every team has has

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Speaker 3: I'm right there with you. It sounds cool on its face,

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Speaker 3: like you said, Richard, you know better than anybody the

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Speaker 3: just sounds ridiculous. Richard, it's always a pleasure sitting down

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you guys for joining us. This is a

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Speaker 1: I love you, guys. Here's a hug from me again.

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Speaker 1: As always, keep those New Year's resolutions, keep fighting, keep

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