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Speaker 1: something out just hypothetical. If the equivalent of what the

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Speaker 1: let's just I think we're gonna get Luke Keickley. And

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Speaker 1: then the combine happens and Keickle ran like a four

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Speaker 1: or four, and then Andy Reid was basically like, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this guy's gonna go to the Hall of Fame. This

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Speaker 1: guy's never lasting until we draft, and he didn't. He

432
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Speaker 1: was gone, and we ended up trading for Damiko Ryan's

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Speaker 1: who I actually saw it practice a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and I went up to him. He didn't remember me,

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Speaker 1: but I said, you know, I just I followed his

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Speaker 1: career closely. I was like, you know, I was with

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Speaker 1: in Philly when we traded for you. It's awesome to

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Speaker 1: see you ball, And basically was hoping to get him

439
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Speaker 1: on a podcast in the future, laying the groundwork, but

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00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: the point of the moral of the story is, once

441
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Speaker 1: there's certain guys in a draft that teams go, we

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Speaker 1: might not get this guy, but this guy is gonna

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Speaker 1: be a superstar. And I would imagine the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: thought about that with Maka Fitzpatrick. So when they took

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Speaker 1: a huge swing, maybe it wasn't that crazy because they

446
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Speaker 1: don't view themselves as four wins as a possibility, and

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00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: they also view themselves when we're gonna trade a first

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Speaker 1: round pick for this guy, even if we did draft

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Speaker 1: fifth overall or eighth overall in the future, this guy

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Speaker 1: would have been worthy of that pick. And then it

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Speaker 1: turns out a couple of years later he's been one

452
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Speaker 1: of the best defensive players in the league now for

453
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Speaker 1: four straight years. They gave a ton of money to

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Speaker 1: and it's well worth it because whenever you watch the

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Speaker 1: Steelers make a Fitzpatrick is literally everywhere. He's a physical player,

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Speaker 1: he can play the ball, he can cover, There's like

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Speaker 1: nothing he can't do. And from all accounts, he's a

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Speaker 1: great guy. He's the type guy the Steelers love. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the modern day Rod Woodson for them,

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Speaker 1: like he has Hall of Fame him upside. So I

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Speaker 1: tipped my hat to Colbert and Tomlin and the organization

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Speaker 1: for pulling the trigger. When let's face it, I was

463
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Speaker 1: not alone. A lot of people thought it was nuts,

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Speaker 1: and looking back, not only was it not nuts, It's

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Speaker 1: the type moves in life. Anyone listening to this, you

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Speaker 1: gotta be willing to make because most times when you

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Speaker 1: go out on a limb, especially when when times are

468
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Speaker 1: a little up in the air, people will call you nuts.

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Speaker 1: People will say you're an idiot. It's why you gotta

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Speaker 1: be very careful asking for life advice from family and

471
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Speaker 1: friends that there are certain people you can but a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't quite understand all the variables. Only

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Speaker 1: you truly know what's in your gut and what is

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Speaker 1: right in front of you and what the future may hold.

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Speaker 1: If you do a certain move, you are the best

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Speaker 1: indicator of the future because you control everything. And I

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Speaker 1: think the Steelers knew we get this guy in here,

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Speaker 1: sky's the limit. And they got him in there, and

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Speaker 1: Sky was immediately the limit. And he's a big time

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00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: ask kicker. I did this thing a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago about potential people in the media, and because Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees basically got fired I said, of course he did.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was listen, great guy, great player, kind

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Speaker 1: of boring. I mean, Drew Brees put you to sleep.

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Speaker 1: You know, anyone at NBC. The the amount of people

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Speaker 1: listen haven't been in this business for a little while.

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Speaker 1: The amount of people in quote unquote executive roles making three,

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Speaker 1: four or five thousand dollars at some of these companies

489
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Speaker 1: that are in charge of hiring are pulling an all

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Speaker 1: time scam artist. I mean they are. They are legally

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Speaker 1: stealing from their companies. They got no fucking clue what

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Speaker 1: they're doing, and they keep throwing ship at the wall

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Speaker 1: hoping some of its sticks. No different Jason Witten and

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Speaker 1: Booker McFarland again, nice guys, good people. It was embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: You can't roll that out. I could have told you

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't take you don't need to be in

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Speaker 1: the business long. Then that's not gonna work. Well, I've

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Speaker 1: said for a while, like anyone that's followed Richard Sherman's career,

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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman is the total package. Stanford educated, tough guy,

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Speaker 1: great player, articulate about just life and football. There's literally

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Speaker 1: nothing he doesn't bring to the table and When Amazon

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Speaker 1: bought the NFL's Thursday Night package, I say, awesome. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people push back, like, how's my grandpa supposed

504
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Speaker 1: to watch? I don't know. Buy a fucking two dollar

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Speaker 1: sixt TV at Target Smart tv and sign up for

506
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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. It ain't that hard. It's pretty easy. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it would take an hour to go to Target, get

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Speaker 1: the TV, plug it in, sign up for Amazon Prime.

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Speaker 1: Not very difficult. If that's your excuse, I think you're

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Speaker 1: living in like at this point, I mean it's we

511
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Speaker 1: are now. We're almost closer to two thousand twenty three

512
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Speaker 1: than we are two thousand twenty two. Like of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna wake up. It's gonna be two thousand thirty.

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Speaker 1: Time to adapt, Time to get on with our lives here,

515
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: Stop holding onto the past. It's on Amazon, easy to consume.

516
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: But when they did it, they were going for big swings.

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Speaker 1: They tried to get John Lynch to pair up with

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Speaker 1: al Michaels, which a guy Hall of Fame player who

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Speaker 1: had been a GM, well spoken, good looking Stanford guy.

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Speaker 1: Also no brainer. He turned down. He admitted fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. Let me repeat, John Lynch turned down

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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars a year. I've said over and over

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Speaker 1: having someone that does this for a living and worked

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Speaker 1: in the league, and I was never a GM. I

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00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: was just, you know, one of the minions helping him

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Speaker 1: out is the time constraint that you and he's not

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Speaker 1: making fifteen million dollars of the GM. That guy's a

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Speaker 1: football junkie. That guy loves being in the trenches of

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Speaker 1: football more than he cares about money. He's not doing

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Speaker 1: this for the money. He's doing this for the juice

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Speaker 1: of winning a playoff game. Because winning at at lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field as a seven point underdog, there is no amount

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Speaker 1: of money if you're a football guy that can give

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Speaker 1: you that juice. You know, you hear gamblers talk about it.

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00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson gambling problem, so Charles Barkley on the Golf

536
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Speaker 1: Channel talking like I love the gamble and you know what,

537
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Speaker 1: I raised my hand. I do too. There is a

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Speaker 1: juice to gambling. Then I don't get anywhere else in life.

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00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't get when I do a massive business deal,

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Speaker 1: I don't get I mean, even personally in some other areas,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing like it, and there is nothing like to

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Speaker 1: a football guy. Whether you're a coach, whether you're a player,

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Speaker 1: whether you're executive, winning a big game. To me, ultimately,

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Speaker 1: it didn't mean that much. I get more out of

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Speaker 1: those other aspects of life. It's why I've never ever

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Speaker 1: thought about going back. But to John Lynch, I respect

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Speaker 1: the ship out of him and his love of football

548
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Speaker 1: because he if you turned down fifteen million dollars, hats

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Speaker 1: off to you. Um, you know, he's the opposite of

550
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Speaker 1: the live guys, but they what what they struck out

551
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: on him? To me, getting Herb Street who again, I

552
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Speaker 1: some people in my d M s like, you're being

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Speaker 1: me and her I love Kirk crop Street. I think

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Speaker 1: her Herb Street is fantastic doing college games. He's awesome.

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00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: He's been doing it now for multiple decades. The morning show,

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Speaker 1: um College Game Day, which is not as good anymore,

557
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: and part it's no fault of anyone's own, you know,

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00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: Lee Corso is just it's just he's just he's just

559
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: so old and obviously he's not quite there anymore. It's

560
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: it's honestly kind of sad, but it's Heyday. That's one

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Speaker 1: of the best sports shows. Honestly, I would put College

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00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: Game Day in it's Heyday right there with Barkley, Ernie

563
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: and Kenny. You know, it's it's one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: preyer post game shows in the history of sports, and

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00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: it'll it'll never be topped. Probably that there have been

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Speaker 1: a lot of shows to come on Fox has a

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00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: good one now it's not even close. And once they

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00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: put fraud Meyer back on that show, like, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I can't look at fraud Meyer ever again in the face.

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00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: I I can't take the guy seriously. But when it

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Speaker 1: comes to signing Kirk crop Street and listen, I don't

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Speaker 1: know for sure if he would have done this, because

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Speaker 1: I saw that Sherman said that he's still holding out

574
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Speaker 1: hope and he's gonna stay in shape. But opportunities like

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00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: to come. You can't turn this down. Why didn't they

576
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: just make Richard Sherman the analyst to go with Al Michaels.

577
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: Why didn't they just put Richard Sherman in the booth

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00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: and pay him fifteen million dollars because they could have

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Speaker 1: paid Richard Sherman what they were willing to pay John

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Speaker 1: Lynch and then he's not gonna make that much money.

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Speaker 1: How when he was an All pro for the forty niners.

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Speaker 1: He made like twelve million dollars. Just pay him that

583
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Speaker 1: to do it. He's smart enough, he's a big enough personality.

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Speaker 1: He would have figured it out just fine. I don't

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Speaker 1: understand why they just didn't throw the bag of money

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Speaker 1: at Richard. So when I turned on Amazon this fall

587
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: with maybe your grandpa's missing it, but all of us

588
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: under seventy years old will not be Richard Sherman and

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Speaker 1: al Michael's. It would have been an easy, no brainer.

590
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: But I don't know who's making these decisions. Kirk herb

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00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: Street because he's called a couple of NFL games the

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Speaker 1: last several years for ESPN, Like he's a college guy. Now, again,

593
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: the NFL is easier than college, but why out just

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Speaker 1: higher an NFL guy who's been a league now for

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: a decade, who knows the entire league, who knows all

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Speaker 1: the coaches, and while he quote unquote doesn't have experience,

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00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: he would figure it out, and he would figure it

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Speaker 1: out really fast. I don't think it would be that difficult,

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00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: especially on a streaming service, it would have been fine.

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Speaker 1: So I think that ultimately Amazon made a mistake by

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Speaker 1: not just going all in. Now I know Richard is

602
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 1: gonna do the pre and postgame show, but let's face it,

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00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: that's not as important as the actual game. And I

604
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: think it would have been an easy one. The other

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00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: thing that I keep seeing and I saw this guy

606
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: interviewed yesterday, and oh my god, he might be the

607
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: biggest guy in the NFL. He is a massive, massive

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Speaker 1: human being. And listen, left tackles are huge. When I

609
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: was with the Eagles, we had Jason Peters. He was enormous.

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Speaker 1: Just at Niners practice seeing Trent Williams. Fucking massive human beings.

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00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: This guy is bigger and his day ms McKay Beckton.

612
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: And when Joe Douglas a couple of years ago drafted

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00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: this guy, he passed on several other guys, and Tristan

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00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: Worth's now a couple of years later, is clearly the

615
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: better player, more consistent human and if you could redo

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00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: the pick, you would have taken him, not Beckton. But

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Speaker 1: I have no problem. I say this all the time

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Speaker 1: when you're drafting really high, swinging for the fences, but

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Speaker 1: when you swing for the fences, and I was, I

620
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: was terrible at baseball, but I have friends that were

621
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: good to play in college and they will say, like

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00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: when you swing, try to hit home run, especially if

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Speaker 1: you have a little bit of an uppercut, you're not

624
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: trying to drive the ball if they throw the pitch

625
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: in a different area than you think, you will miss.

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Speaker 1: And right now, let's face it, Beckton has been a

627
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: disaster for the Jets. Now, Joe Douglas, Robert Sala, they've

628
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: benched him, They've just had some issues with them. And

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Speaker 1: clearly the number one thing is and I learned this

630
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Speaker 1: when I was in the NFL with defensive lineman and

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. And I think this this holds true for

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Speaker 1: any athlete. The bigger you are, we're not talking about weight,

633
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: you're just inherently a little lazier. Why, it's just basic science,

634
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: right's physics. The more weight I have to carry around,

635
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: the harder it is to operate, the easy I remember

636
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: de Sean Jackson, he couldn't run all summer long, show up.

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't break a sweat. He's not under sixty pounds

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. You think the guy ever gets tired? McKay.

639
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: Beckton's the big defensive tackles like they're huffing and puffing

640
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: for a reason. They carry around more weight just like

641
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: it takes more horsepower to to pull a boat than

642
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: it does to pull a pinto I mean, it's just

643
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: basic math. And when you get these guys, and the

644
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: number one question on Beckton specifically was how he would

645
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: handle his weight, because remember it could get up to

646
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: almost four hundred pounds and that's when he was in college.

647
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: So it was a lot of red flags all over

648
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: the league and it made people nervous to a much

649
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: smaller level. Jordan Davis, the Eagles just had some of

650
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: those questions like is he to Zion Zion Williamson battles

651
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: that because it's a legitimate question. We the the asset

652
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: is the player's body. Now, the thing Beckton had great

653
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 1: athlete great feet. In scouting terms, they're considered dancing bears.

654
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: I was in to a couple of weeks ago. When

655
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: a bear goes by, you kind of back up because

656
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, deep down the massive bear can run way

657
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: faster than you. And beck then is a special, special talent.

658
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: But his weight issues are coming to fruition like they

659
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: are a massive problem. And if you don't keep that

660
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: weight down, a couple of things come into play. One

661
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: you're more likely to get injured because the bigger you are.

662
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: You saw at Shack's end of his career, he got

663
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: so big he got injured a lot, and it's just

664
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: hard to stay in shape. It is very, very difficult

665
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, I'm three seventy pounds and I'm

666
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: in great shape. I would say most great left tackles,

667
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: even the bigger ones. Trent Williams, Jason Peters would be examples.

668
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,280
Speaker 1: Could could be and look really good at three pounds,

669
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: but if they were three hundred sixty pounds, you'd have

670
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: a problem. And I think the Jets right now have

671
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: a problem on their hands because this guy is heater tottering,

672
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: and I know he said I'm in for a big year.

673
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make everyone eat their words. To me, the

674
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: number one thing with him, he's got to be very

675
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: careful about what he eats moving forward, and not just eats,

676
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: but his workout plans and staying focused, which can be

677
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: difficult when you're that big, because, like I said, you're

678
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: inherently a little lazier because it's it's harder for you

679
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: to work. It's easier for me to have energy and

680
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: work out when I'm a hundred and seventy five pounds

681
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: than when I'm two hundred pounds. Whatever, the body weight

682
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: is relative to your body that comes into play here,

683
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: and I think that has come into play here for

684
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: the Jets and Becton. But if he gets it together

685
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: and he focuses, he's still a really young player. They

686
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: could have one of the best tackles in the league.

687
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: And that position, if he is a Pro Bowl level player,

688
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: is then immediately one of the most valuable players in

689
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: the league because that's a two million dollar player and

690
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: he predicts the blind side of your quarterback. But if

691
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: you're constantly going back and forth bench and him worrying

692
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 1: about his weight, like you have a bigger and he's

693
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: not playing well, you have a bigger headache than you

694
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: do a talent. And that ultimately gets back to which

695
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: I commend because I am more likely than not gonna

696
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: support making these decisions on draft night. Swing for the fences.

697
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: But right now, it looks like Joe Douglas is more

698
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: likely to strike out on this pitch than to hit

699
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: a home run. Now, he still has time left. This

700
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: is a young player, he's not thirty years old, but

701
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: this is a massive, massive year, and I get a

702
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: lot of people the d M me about the Jets

703
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: specifically because to me, the two New York teams are

704
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: in completely different lanes. The Giants should bottom out unless

705
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: day Ball can resurrect Daniel Jones career, and then day

706
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: Ball would immediately be viewed as a top offensive coach

707
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: in the league. But in a perfect world, their cap

708
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: situation that their talent, uh, they're lacking of talent. The

709
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: Giant should basically just bottom out and restart next year.

710
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: They have a new GM, they have a new coach.

711
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Where the Jets now bottom

712
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: out a couple of years ago, have had an influx

713
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: of all these draft picks and they have a young quarterback.

714
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: Like I listen, I don't think they need to make

715
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but I think anything less than seven and ten,

716
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: it's like, do they got the right GM and the

717
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: right head coach and a huge Robert solid guy. Don't

718
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: know Douglas, but I'm rooting for the guy. But like, ultimately,

719
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: this is a black and white league. Do you win

720
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: or do you lose? That This isn't moral victories and

721
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: all that stuff go out the window once the season comes.

722
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: You just get judged it's one of the greatest businesses

723
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: in America because there's no well they got great technology,

724
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: but they're not turning the profit. Well, you know, they

725
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: got this incredible product, but they're just not selling it yet. No,

726
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: it's like we won ten games and we made the playoffs,

727
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: or no, we won five games when we fired our coach.

728
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: Like at the end of the year, it's very cut

729
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: and dry whether you had success or whether you did

730
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: not have success. Now you could argue for most teams,

731
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: seven and ten is not a successful year. But given

732
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: where the Jets are, seven in ten, winning some big games,

733
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: maybe upsetting some teams, and just getting the momentum and

734
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: looking like your quarterback is successful, getting Beckton on the

735
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: field all season long and having some success. Have these

736
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: two young wide receivers in the young running back, some

737
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: of your young defensive players look good. Is a really,

738
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: really big deal in a franchise that that's just desperate

739
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: for something positive to happen. Other than that, I mean,

740
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: I I saw de Shaun Watson talked. I don't really

741
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: know what to say. I didn't really think he said anything. Again,

742
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: A girl after girl after girl keeps coming after uh

743
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: coming up and uh, obviously the New York Times story

744
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: about the n d a's and listen, famous people get

745
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: n d as before you enter something, not usually after.

746
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: I've never been a part of an n d A,

747
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: but reading about him over the years, that to me,

748
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: I think seems to be a lot of the pushback.

749
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: It's like, why didn't get him to sign the NBA

750
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: before you dealt with something instead of after? Um, there's

751
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: just no way around it. The Deshaun Watson situation has

752
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: gotten worse, dramatically worse since he's been a Cleveland Brown

753
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: It's not only not going away, the problems are continuing

754
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: to mount um. And you know, I don't know where

755
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: this goes. A lot of people of d m me,

756
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: why did the Browns not have Baker Mayfield or why

757
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't Baker Mayfield show up? Because he's never playing another

758
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: snap for the Cleveland Browns, whether Deshaun Watson is suspended

759
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: for this year or whether he's not, Baker Mayfield under

760
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: no circumstances is ever entering that locker room again. To me,

761
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: the only question now with Baker Mayfield are they able

762
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: to trade him and eat some of the salary or

763
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: are they going to be forced to cut him and

764
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: eat the eighteen point eight million dollars. My guests, again,

765
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: educated guests, No inside information is that ultimately the Cleveland

766
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: Browns cut Baker Mayfield for eighteen point eight million dollar

767
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: and eat the money because the reason they went after

768
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: de Sean and just the reason they would have gone

769
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: after other quarterbacks, they were done with Baker Mayfield. Their

770
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: head coach and their GM were over it was no Moss,

771
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: and clearly their locker room was over him as well.

772
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: So I don't have no clue where he's gonna end up.

773
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: I think the whole situation is a little bizarre. Um

774
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: I've said over and over and over again. I think

775
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: I saw Breer right about it this week. The Seattle

776
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: Seahawks like Drew Lock. I know that sounds insane. They

777
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: legitimately like Drew Lock. Now is it gonna work? I

778
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: do not think it is. I think it's gonna be

779
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: a disaster. No different than I've said. I didn't like,

780
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: uh what Kenny Pickett the Steelers pick, But like I read,

781
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: I saw seen some headlines from people that have been

782
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: around the team, like Mitchell Robinsky is gonna be their starter.

783
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: That's gonna fail as well. Mitchell Trobinsky is not very good.

784
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: He can't complete basic passes. I like him as a

785
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: backup if he's got to fill a game or two,

786
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: but if he has to start seventeen games, like you

787
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: have a major problem. Like even if the Browns are

788
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: disaster this year because the Shawn's suspended, how are you

789
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: gonna beat Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson with Mason Rudolph.

790
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: That's not gonna happens. It's just not like that. That

791
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 1: is such a big gap. Now I'm not saying Kenny

792
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: Pickett could either, but ultimately, you draft a guy number

793
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: twenty overall, like hed better be able to beat these

794
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: guys sooner or later. But your quarterback situation is like

795
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: some of these teams, they like a guy internally more

796
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: than we like him on the outside. And if you

797
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: told me that the Steelers like Mr Bisky coming out,

798
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: I believe you. They've already admitted that they love Drew

799
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: Lock coming out. They had him high in the draft board.

800
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say that, uh, John Snyder

801
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: had him as a top fifteen player. What I never

802
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 1: understand is like when you love a guy coming out

803
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: and then you have a bunch of information. It's like

804
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: having a crush on a girl. It's like, God, this

805
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: girl is a total babe. And then you get to data.

806
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: And then he dated for a while and then like

807
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: a year later, you're like, it's not quite what I

808
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: thought it would be, and then what usually happens, you

809
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: break up. Now in football, it's a little different because

810
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks not yours, so or a lot of players

811
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: aren't yours that you had good draft picks like or

812
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: draft grades on. They go to other places. But you

813
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: do get to evaluate their play. You know, in the

814
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: dating analogy, you when someone else dates or you don't

815
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: get to experience a lot of things right, the good

816
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: parts definitely and the bad parts. But in football you

817
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 1: get to evaluate them playing. And like we've seen Mitch,

818
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: we've seen Drew Lock. Drew Lock couldn't even sniff beating

819
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: out Teddy Bridgewater like that legitimately happened. Now, you could

820
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: argue that that's because Vic Fangio was kind of a

821
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: puss and he wanted went with it the guy that

822
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: he knew could complete basic passes because they thought they

823
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 1: have a good defense. Whatever. But I just won't believe

824
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: that a guy that can't beat out Drew Lock or

825
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean Teddy Bridgewater in practice every day can't like

826
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: really go damn, what are we doing here? And he

827
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: couldn't do that. And I just think that some of

828
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 1: these teams and these gms, man, they get so caught

829
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 1: up on the past, like it's not two thousand nineteen,

830
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: we have information, it's two thousand two. What what? Why

831
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: are we holding on to a draft grade from four

832
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: years ago? And I get it if you're gonna give

833
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: him no money or a flyer, but to say the

834
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: guy's getting your starting quarterback is insanity. Have a good weekend.

835
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: We will have the mail bag out this weekend and

836
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: um yeah at John Middlecoff Instagram firing those d m s.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day. Peace, see you, audios. M