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Speaker 1: Hopefully everyone is doing well. I'm John Middlecoff this three

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. We were gonna dive deep into

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Speaker 1: the tampering period, just that situation. Forty nine Ers made

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Speaker 1: but regardless, he's a Packer. Bill's signed Bradley Chubb. Some

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. I mean that guy talk about highway robbery.

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Speaker 1: His agent deserves a race. Whatever the going rate of

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins to the Raiders and some Dad diaries. We

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Speaker 1: bang that out today. We'll have Fugazi Friday tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: other than that, just grinding along. So I'll be on

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Speaker 1: the herd and we'll have a podcast out on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, but so nothing changes. We'll keep charging along,

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Speaker 1: We'll keep swinging our pick and you guys know the drill.

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Speaker 1: the Max Crosby fiasco. I mean, the simple reality of

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Speaker 1: a Terrell Suggs. They wouldn't looked at him the same.

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Speaker 1: And I also think this has to put in the

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Speaker 1: back of his mind. Maybe I just played this out,

431
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Speaker 1: and I think it's hard for the Raiders now to

432
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Speaker 1: go back to the market given that no one worth

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Speaker 1: their salt is going to offer them anywhere close to

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Speaker 1: what they just got. I would imagine most of the

435
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: offers coming in based on the previous thing that they

436
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: thought they had is fifty cents on the dollar. If

437
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: they had picked fourteen in a first round pick. It

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Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if some people were off for like

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Speaker 1: two two's. Because also, if you're a GM now that

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Speaker 1: this is out there, then if in a couple of years,

441
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: Max Crosby's knee falls apart, you will get fired, right,

442
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: especially if your team's not doing well. People will go, well,

443
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: you knew this is why the Ravens backed out, So

444
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: that puts pressure on you to not overpay or even

445
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: get aggressive from a financial standpoint when it comes to

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Speaker 1: trading for Max Crosby. So, given what you just got

447
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Speaker 1: in theory for Max, could you now trade him for

448
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: way less? Like could you trade him for a second

449
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: and a third just to get rid of the money

450
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: and just because he wants to get traded, So you're

451
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Speaker 1: basically just trading him to trade him you're still get

452
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: some value, but nothing near what you got, Like if

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Speaker 1: you're not getting a first rounder, Like if every team

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Speaker 1: now that's in the mix and interested in Max Crosby

455
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: is not offering a first rounder, does that make sense?

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00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: And my my answer would be no. And that's where

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00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: I think the race brass kind of has to turn

458
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: back into salesmen and like, can we fix this issue?

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00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: And I do wonder if after Max went through what

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Speaker 1: he just did, it has to be a little you know,

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Speaker 1: I would say life altering someone telling you, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: think your knee's not gonna work. Right, we think in

463
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: a couple of years you will not be able to

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Speaker 1: play football. Because that's essentially what they told him, maybe

465
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: in not so many words, or maybe in more words bullshitting,

466
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 1: but like, we think your knee screwed. Because when you're

467
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: told that, it's one thing in the draft. Right. If

468
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: rumors get out so and so Caleb down, so and

469
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: So's shoulder might not work. I remember when Leonard Williams,

470
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Speaker 1: who's now on the Seahawks, there are rumors he's got

471
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: this shoulder, he's gonna need surgery and it may never

472
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Speaker 1: be the same. Well, a decade later, he's still kicking ass.

473
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Speaker 1: So it's like it doesn't necessarily matter from a draft standpoint. Okay,

474
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: a couple teams think that, But if the other part,

475
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: teams in the league don't think that, who cares. But

476
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 1: they're also not telling that to your face. When you

477
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: were in the building thinking you're on the team and

478
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 1: then the GM calls you into the office and says,

479
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: we're not doing this because we think you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to function in a couple of years. That

481
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: has to throw off and just whatever your mental clarity

482
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: is and your football confidence and your professional confidence. I'm like,

483
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm gonna help this team win a super Bowl.

484
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: It's got to throw you off. It would for me,

485
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: it would for you. It has to do for Max Crosby,

486
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: and I do wonder if that changes the dynamics of

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00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: this situation with him and the Raiders, because it was

488
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: just an all time It was an all time tweet

489
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Speaker 1: when it came out from the Raiders that they backed out.

490
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: It was an all timer that all these reporters that

491
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: are really dialed in didn't really have that many answers,

492
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: and let's face it still don't. No one can say

493
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: like in everyone's kind of doing this in pencil. No

494
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: one can say this specifically what they saw and this

495
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: is why they backed out, you know why, because I

496
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: don't think they had a true reason. I think some

497
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: of the doctors said, eh, we're a little nervous with this.

498
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: This could go wrong in a couple of years. He

499
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: was already having some second thoughts. He knew he had

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00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: the bird in the hand. He'd get trade for the

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00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: number in which they signed him and said, okay, we're out.

502
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: And then the Raiders are now in this kind of bizarre,

503
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: weird situation with their star player who I think and

504
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: I said this yesterday in my initial reaction, and I

505
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Speaker 1: think I stand by it sitting here whatever twenty four

506
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: hours later on Wednesday afternoon, I would probably just keep

507
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: him at this point. I would keep him at this

508
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Speaker 1: point over giving him away from fifty cents on the dollar,

509
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Speaker 1: because we just added a bunch of really good players.

510
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna add a quarterback, We're gonna add potentially multiple

511
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Speaker 1: guys in the draft because we draft high in every round.

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Speaker 1: Who's to say a listen, Max, this year could be

513
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: a little bumpy. I mean, we should be better than

514
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: we've been in the last couple of years, but we

515
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: could take stride six or seven you know, wins. But

516
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, why couldn't we be a

517
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: playoff team and you could be a huge part of that.

518
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: And you can kind of get like it was all

519
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: worth it, and we'll we'll just erase that video that

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00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: you posted on Twitter and Instagram and we'll just pretend

521
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: that never happened, and we'll just move on. And money

522
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: you're usually makes everyone happy, and we're paying you thirty

523
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: million dollars the next couple of years, and let's just

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00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: move forward. That would be my guess. Again, I don't

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Speaker 1: have any inside information on this, but given the way

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00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: I know teams think and the way that they kind

527
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: of they're like hyenas when there's like a dead animal,

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00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: they kind of, you know, they kind of come in

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Speaker 1: for an easy meal. That's what it feels like a

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Speaker 1: lot of people when I see that a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams are re engaging with the Raiders for way less

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Speaker 1: than they originally offered. Because and in fairness to those guys,

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Speaker 1: if there's validity to what the Ravens saw to pull

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Speaker 1: the trigger with a lot of draft capital, and have

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00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,840
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Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers traded for former third round pick

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Speaker 1: Osa A. Digazua. I think I said that name right.

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00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: Interior really good pass rusher three technique. The Cowboys last

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Speaker 1: year gave him a four year, eighty million dollar contract.

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Speaker 1: They gave him a twenty million dollars signing bonus, and

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Speaker 1: I think the forty nine Ers, I'm sure like this

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00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: guy coming out of the draft. Clearly liked him in

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Speaker 1: the pros. You know, he's like a four to five

574
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: sack a year guy, but he's a good pressure guy.

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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: He to me, is a good scheme fit that the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers have, like a one gap get up

577
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: the field, not like playing two gaps. Stuff in the run,

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Speaker 1: just penetrate, just get and ideally you got Fred Warner,

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Speaker 1: who knows, maybe they bring Drake Greenlaw back. Our linebacker

580
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: makes fifteen tackles a game. Our defensive linemen are paid

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Speaker 1: to disrupt the backfield, and Adam Peters attempted to do

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Speaker 1: this last year. And I never have a problem with this.

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Speaker 1: Is when you trade a third or fourth round pick

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Speaker 1: for a player who who's already under contract, who if

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00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: he was a free agent, would have cost you a

586
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: lot more than you are gonna pay him with the trade.

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00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: Now to get that cheap contract, you have to give

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00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: up a third round pick, which isn't nothing though the

589
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: forty nine ers they were in the second round and

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00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: they're drafting twenty seventh in the first round, so that

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00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: is a late third round pick. I mean, you're talking

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00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: about something closer to one hundred than you are. Seventy

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00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: so it's I think you view it goo. We need

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00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: this player. He's an immediately plug in play asset, and

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00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: next year he's on the books for sixteen point seven

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00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: million dollars. That if he was a free agent, he

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00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: would cost us more than sixteen point seven million dollars

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00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: if we were going to acquire his services. So I

599
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 1: think they got to take advantage. They had a good

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00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: draft last year. They still got a first to second

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00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: round pick this year. But I like the trade, and

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00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: I also understand from Dallas perspective, a lot has changed

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00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: in the sense of last year. When they extended this guy,

604
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: they probably thought him and Mike we're going to be

605
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: on the team. Then all of a sudden, they get

606
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: rid of Micah, they have Quinn Williams, who's a better player.

607
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: They trade for Shawn Geary. They have two first round picks.

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00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: Wouldn't shock me at all if they take a defensive

609
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: lineman and you start investing so much money into your

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00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: defensive line, you go, listen, we have an excess. We

611
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: can utilize this to get a draft pick. We are

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00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: paying pickings a lot of money. Now we are paying

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Speaker 1: you know, the kicker's not going to be cheap whenever

614
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: they get that deal set. So I understand the Cowboys

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00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: making this trade. To me, this is your classic like

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00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: win win, This trade makes a lot of sense. And

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00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: I think the Niners were pretty desperate for some defensive

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00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: line help, people that can play, not one of those

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Speaker 1: like practice squad guys, and they weren't going to go

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00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: down the road like that. They essentially gave this same

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Speaker 1: deal a couple of years to ago to Javon Hargrave,

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00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: the game four years, eighty million dollars and guaranteed forty

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00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: million dollars, and it blew up in their face. Now,

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Speaker 1: Hardgrave's kind of a unique player. He's this undersized interior

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00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: pass rusher. He actually was not bad against the run

626
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: last year. He's now in the Packers, who they just

627
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: gave him twenty three million dollars. He's one of those

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00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: guys you're gonna look back mid round pick. I think

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Speaker 1: he was like a fourth round pick, third round pick.

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Speaker 1: He made a lot of money, you know, and he

631
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: parlayed that Eagles success that last year for the Eagles

632
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: when he had double digit sacks into just financial winfall

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00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: for the next four or five years. So, you know, Hargrave,

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Speaker 1: I think you're the Packers. They had gotten rid of

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00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: so many guys right that, they had got rid of

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Speaker 1: Kenny Clark, last year, they got rid of Rashan Gary.

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00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: This year Micah Parkson's currently injured that they they had

638
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 1: to do something. So I have no issue with this deal.

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00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 1: They gave up I think, like a late round pick

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00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: to acquire him. But yeah, the other thing is the

641
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: Bills trade or not traded. They signed Bradley Chubb, who's

642
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: coming off a year we had eight and a half sacks.

643
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: I think the Bills have really struggled to hit on

644
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: a guy free agency with their defensive line. Years ago,

645
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: they signed Von Miller to a ton of money after

646
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 1: he got traded to the Rams and won the Super

647
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: Bowl and had had a sack in every round including

648
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Clearly they regretted that. Last year they

649
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: got Joey Bosa, they gave him like one year, twelve

650
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: million dollars. He just did not live up to that contract.

651
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: And this year again they are taking premium guys people

652
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: that were, you know, Joey Bosa third overall pick. Obviously

653
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: Von Miller is a Hall of Famer. Bradley Chubb, you know,

654
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: was what the fifth or sixth pick in the draft,

655
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: fourth pick. I mean, they're going after this blue chip pedigree. Now.

656
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: They It's not like they got Bradley Chubb like Bosa

657
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: for one year twelve million dollars. They gave him three years.

658
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: I think like forty four million dollars. They guaranteed almost

659
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: thirty so they paid a decent amount of money. Now

660
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: I think they would say, hey, listen, if he can

661
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: replicate what he did last year, give us eight and

662
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: a half nine ten sacks, especially because in theory, we

663
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: should be leading in some of these games with our offense.

664
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: This should make more sense. And I've said this forever.

665
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: The moment they made the Sean McDermott move to go

666
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: with Joe Brady, you've seen the last two moves they've

667
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: made to trade for DJ Moore to sign Bradley Chubb.

668
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think there's a team in the AFC,

669
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams in the NFC for sure. That

670
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: is just like anything less than making of the Super

671
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: Bowls a gigantic disappointment. And I think that's just a fact.

672
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: So props of the Bills, they're being very aggressive. They're

673
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: trying to make smart aggressive moves. You know, DJ Moore

674
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: is different than AJ Brown. He costs less, not as

675
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: good of a player, but you can get for pick sixty.

676
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: You couldn't get AJ Brown for pick sixty. And you

677
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: can get a guy a couple of years ago that

678
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: cott ninety six balls. So can Dj Moore catch eighty

679
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: or ninety balls for me and make some big plays

680
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: in the cold down the stretch in the playoffs? You

681
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: know Bradley Chubb, like, can he come through? We got

682
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: some other good defensive linemen and be one of those

683
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: guys that when we have a ten point lead in

684
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, can tee off and make some explosive

685
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: plays that we wanted out of Bosa and simply just

686
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 1: didn't quite get. So I think Brandon Bean's doing a

687
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: pretty good job. Like these are moves. If I was him,

688
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: I would make. The other thing I haven't hit on

689
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: yet is the chief signed Kenneth Walker, who I think

690
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: it's fair to say they like Kenneth Walker a lot

691
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: coming out of college, and if you watch them at

692
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: Michigan State, he was I've said this before. I mean

693
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: he got Mel Tucker ninety million dollars. I mean him

694
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: single handedly got Mel Tucker ninety million dollars. Michigan State

695
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: was bad before and they've been bad after. It was

696
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: kind of Kenneth Walker. He was a fantastic player at

697
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: Michigan State. His NFL career was a little underwhelming, had

698
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: been banged up, had never quite lived. I mean he

699
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: was drafted I think forty first. I mean, you get

700
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: some of those guys in the early second round, they

701
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: become star players, especially you know Nick Chubb was drafted there,

702
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel was drafted there, Like you can get impact guys.

703
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: He really just had a really good second half of

704
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: the season and an excellent December and January for Seattle.

705
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 1: I do wonder if coach Reid and bringing the enemy

706
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:21,439
Speaker 1: back one of their philosophical philosophical changes they have been.

707
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: They're as pass heavy as any team in the league,

708
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: and they are as dependent on Patrick, which has paid

709
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: dividends over the years, and rightfully so. He's one of

710
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: the great players of all time. But once a guy

711
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 1: tears his ACL, once you go through a season where

712
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: he couldn't just pull magic out of his hat every

713
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: single game and he doesn't play as well, maybe you

714
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: think to yourself, of like we do need to become

715
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: a little more run dependent. We do need to hand

716
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: the ball to guys sometimes twenty five times a game.

717
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: And I also think you need to add another running

718
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: back to go along with them. But I do wonder

719
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: if offensively this year they become a little bit more

720
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: of a run heavy team. And it'll be interesting what

721
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: they do in the draft. Could they take the Oregon

722
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: tight end at nine. I mean, they easily could take

723
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman at nine, and then all of a sudden,

724
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: you got a good guard, You've got a good center,

725
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: you got a young left tackle who has top five ability,

726
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: you got a right tackle who's a plug and play guy,

727
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: and you go, you know what we're gonna do. We're

728
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball a lot. That's gonna be one

729
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: of our philosophies this year. To help our quarterback who's

730
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: coming back from an ACL injury, do help our you know,

731
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: our wide receiver grew is not exactly you know Rice

732
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: and John Taylor, right, it's not exactly Mike Irvin and

733
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: and Harper, you know. So it's it's a crew where

734
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: she Rice in trouble again. Kelsey's older that we're gonna

735
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: play defense. We we have one of the best defensive

736
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: coordinators in the league. We still got some high priced

737
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: guys on our defensive line, and we're gonna run the ball. Now,

738
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: that's easy to say as we're sitting here in March.

739
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: We'll that actually get executed. But I think when you

740
00:39:58,200 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: give a guy that much money, I think you can

741
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: to rely on him in the run game. And he's

742
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better in the passing game than

743
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: I gave him credit for. But I do wonder if

744
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a little bit of a different Chiefs

745
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: team coming up a couple quarterback things. One thing that's

746
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: buzzing out there on the interweb is Kirk Cousins potentially

747
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: going to the Las Vegas Raiders as the backup slash

748
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: mentor for Fernando Mendoza. Kirk Cousins is owned ten million

749
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: dollars this year from the Atlanta Falcons. I mean that

750
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: that contract will go down as one of the all time.

751
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 1: I mean, some of these quarterbacks right now. Twoas making

752
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars from the Miami Dolphins. Kyler is

753
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: making thirty six million dollars from the Arizona Cardinals. Cousins

754
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: is making ten million dollars from the Atlanta Falcons. These

755
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: are all time. This is legal highway robbery. So props

756
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,720
Speaker 1: to those guys forgetting these contracts. Their agents are probably

757
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: being underpaid for nego shading those deals because that's pretty DUTs.

758
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: But when you see Fernando Mendoza talk and how goofy is,

759
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: he does have a lot of similarities to Cousins a

760
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: decade ago, and I do wonder you get a guy

761
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: who's kind of been through the ringer, who's been a backup,

762
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: who's been a starter, who's been a high paid Pro

763
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: Bowl level guy who's gone through some shit. I do

764
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: think he could give great advice and be a great

765
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,799
Speaker 1: guy for Fernando to lean on. And one thing that's

766
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: key for young players is to have veteran players for

767
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: them to look up to. It's the big question with

768
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter. It's like, are we comfortable with making him

769
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: the star of the team and paying him forty five

770
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: million dollars. It was easy to pull the trigger when

771
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: he was the ninth overall pick, and it's like, what's

772
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 1: he gonna do? Get out of line with Brandon Graham,

773
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and some of these veteran guys in the room,

774
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: of course not. I remember when I was in the league,

775
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: the Giants drafted JPP, who was like this raw you know,

776
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: just just was like a piece of clay needed some more. Well,

777
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: what did they have? They had oc in the room,

778
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: they had Kiwanuka in the room, they had a bunch

779
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: of veteran players in the room. That it's like, that's

780
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: the type risk to take. And he went on to

781
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: be a really good play for him because when you

782
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: have a position group that has veteran players, you can

783
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: take some risky guys. And to me, it's no different

784
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: with the quarterback. Even if the quarterback is not a

785
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: quote unquote risky guy, you want to get him in

786
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: a room with people they can look up to, with

787
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 1: people they can bounce questions off of. It's why Joe

788
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: Flacco has had this late career renaissance. People want Joe

789
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: Flacco in the room to be a mentor and be

790
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: a guy they lean on. Even if these quarterbacks say

791
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm not here to be a mentor. Listen, I understand

792
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: what they're saying. They're there to compete. They're there, but

793
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 1: once it's establisher the backup quarterback, you're a human being.

794
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: And if you're a high character guy, you're just going

795
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: to give the guy a lot of direction, a lot

796
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: of life lessons, and you're going to be able to

797
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: show them just through your actions. This is what it

798
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: takes to be a starting quarterback in the league Monday

799
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: through Friday. These times, this is what I do. These

800
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: are the recoveries. And you start these habits at twenty two,

801
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty four years old, where it's not like, well,

802
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,439
Speaker 1: I figure this out by the time I was twenty

803
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: eight or twenty nine. I remember when the Chiefs traded

804
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and Patrick Mahomes, is gonna be the starter?

805
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: You know? One of the number one things the Chiefs

806
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: look for in a backup quarterback. They wanted a veteran

807
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: who was married, and they signed Chad Henny and he

808
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: ended up playing there for years. They wanted to grown

809
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: up in the room, and that's exactly what Kirk Cousins is. So,

810
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: whether you had an immature wild card at quarterback or

811
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: someone like Fernando Mendoza that's viewed as a very mature,

812
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: serious guy, you want a veteran presence around the guy

813
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: so they can bounce things off of just so they

814
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: can watch. It's just so it takes a little pressure

815
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: off them of like what do I do now? And

816
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: we're human beings. You don't always want to ask your superior,

817
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: right and in football that's your position coach or your

818
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: head coach or your coordinator. Sometimes you just want to

819
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: ask a peer. Think about most people you're closest to

820
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: when you first get hired in a job in your

821
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: early to mid twenties out of college. Usually the other

822
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: guys you're working hand in hand with. You're usually not

823
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: very close with the boss. You're spending a lot of

824
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: time with other people who are on your level. Some

825
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: of my best friends in the NFL were other low

826
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: level scouts when I was there. Now some of them

827
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: are like gms and assistant gms, but those were the

828
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: people I hung out with. I wasn't going over to

829
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: Howie's house, right, It's no different than Fresno State when

830
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: I was there, Like and I listen, I can text

831
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: Pat Hill and Andy Reid. I consider these guys friends mentors,

832
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: and they impacted my life greatly. But the people I

833
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: talked to most of the time that I was with

834
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 1: those organizations were hell first of some of them were players.

835
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: We were the same age who have gone on to

836
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: be coaches now and we just have a lot in

837
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: common because we were really close then, because we had

838
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: a lot in common then. So it's no different as

839
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: a player of like you just have more in common

840
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: with another player, even if that player is older than you,

841
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: then you feel comfortable with your coach. So I'm always

842
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: for signing a mentor and an older veteran guy for

843
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: a young quarterback, regardless of the quarterbacks wiring. It's clearly

844
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: more important when you have an immature wild card as

845
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: a number one overall pick. But even if you have

846
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: what Fernando Mendoza is bringing to the table checking all

847
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: the boxes off the field, I think it's extremely impactful

848
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: to have someone like Cousins in the room. Speaking of

849
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, who you know that forever they've gotten Jacoby

850
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: Brissett's and guys like that in the room with him

851
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: to try to elevate his maturity of recording this he

852
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: hasn't signed anywhere. I mean, it's pretty crazy that they

853
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: paid him all day. I never understood that contract and

854
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: it backfired in their face immediately, and now they're paying

855
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: him to who knows But one thing I know is

856
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: I saw the a's GM put out a statement of like,

857
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: if he's ever interested, our phone lines are open. Like guys,

858
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: he's never riding a bus in Albuquerkie, I'll promise you that,

859
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: but it'll be fascinating to see where he goes. The

860
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: other guy that at this point in time, I almost

861
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: respected Cousins took shit forever because it felt like he

862
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: was always maximizing his dollars and getting paid just top

863
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: dollar wherever he went, and he ended up making I mean,

864
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna go down as one of the highest paid

865
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the history of the NFL. But say one

866
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: thing about Cousins. Pull up a stat sheet for like

867
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: a stretch of seven years, it's like twenty eight to

868
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns every single year and forty three to

869
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: forty five hundred yards. Like there was no disputing we

870
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: could argue he was never a top five quarterback, but

871
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: he clearly hovered for a while between somewhere between like

872
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: seven and fifteen, and on his good days he'd be

873
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: like five six or seven, and on his bad days

874
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: he'd be lower. But he was a legitimate starting quarterback

875
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: that if you do did a good job building your

876
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: team was worth a lot of money. Somehow he's had

877
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: like two stretches in his career at like six or

878
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: seven games. Daniel Jones just got another large amount of money.

879
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: He got the Giants to pay him eighty million dollars

880
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: after he threw twenty touchdowns, and then last year after

881
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: a good month and a half terrors's achilles and somehow

882
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: gets multiple years eighty eight million dollars. I it's fascinating.

883
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: I don't ever remember a quarterback who has done less

884
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: and been injured more and constantly be able to get

885
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And I'm not even hating in

886
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: a weird way at this point. I respect the shit

887
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: out of it. And that someone told me at the

888
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 1: combine that his dad, his agent himself, when it comes

889
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: to business, they are ruthless. They don't care, they want

890
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: every penny possible. And that's clear again. And he had

891
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 1: the moment they made that Sauce contract or the Sauce

892
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: trade and gave up the first rounders and had no

893
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: other options and missed the playoffs, and there weren't any

894
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks. He had them by the balls and now

895
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: they are in the Daniel Jones business, there's gonna be

896
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure on them in twenty twenty six.

897
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:39,760
Speaker 1: He's coming off an Achilles injury, which one thing. Teams

898
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: clearly they like the guy a lot, high character guy,

899
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: seems like a good teammate. People just like him. But

900
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: as a player, I know he had a good stretch

901
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: last year, but you'd be hard pressed to convince me

902
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: you can be comfortable giving him any sum of money

903
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 1: over like fifteen million dollars and he could consistently gets it,

904
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: and he consistently. The last time he did, he let

905
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: down a team at the highest of levels and was

906
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: released two years later. So if you told me right now,

907
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: I was a betting man, this is the type deal

908
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: to get everyone in that building fired. And partly because

909
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: not that he doesn't fit their scheme. We've seen guys

910
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: come off of Achilles injury now, unlike Cousins or Rogers,

911
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: he's younger than those guys, but you have to give

912
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: some like margin for error of it doesn't go that

913
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: well right away. There's a feeling out process. And I

914
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: would say any player, any position, no matter how good

915
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: you are, usually coming back from a major injury, there

916
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: is like a slow transition process. It's why whenever I

917
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: see people talking about the forty nine ers and they

918
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: use like, oh, they got McCaffrey and Kittle. I love

919
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: George Kittle. He's one of my favorite forty nine ers

920
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: in my entire life, right up there like Steve Young, Jerry, Rice,

921
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:01,760
Speaker 1: Patrick Willis. He is a certified bad ass. Every team

922
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: in the history of the league would want George Kittle

923
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: on their squad. He is coming off an achilles Like,

924
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: that's a major injury, especially for a guy, an older

925
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: player whose game is built on power and explosion. So, like,

926
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: I can't just chock George Kittle's gonna have a great

927
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: season in twenty twenty six. They just resigned his backup, Tanjess,

928
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: who's actually a pretty good player. But like, I have

929
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: a hard time just plugging and playing guys off Achilles injury,

930
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: and this notion that Daniel Jones is just gonna look

931
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: like he did last year, I can't say that. I

932
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable saying that at all. We'll get out

933
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: of here on the Dad Diaries. You know, I said

934
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: this yesterday. When you have someone anyone that with this

935
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: had little kids or has little kids. Now we have

936
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: someone in the six seven eight week range. You kind

937
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: of do the same thing every day, right. You get

938
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: them up, you try to get them back down, you

939
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: try to feed them, try to get them to sleep,

940
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: which can be a challenge. I mean there are some

941
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: days he just stares at you, like, motherfucker, I am

942
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: not napping a day. Don't even think about it. I

943
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: don't plan on going to sleep, and I'm talking during

944
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: the day and as times when I probably should be

945
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: at sleep. I'm gonna get extra groucy. And you can

946
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: read all the books you want, you can watch all

947
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: the youtubes to listen to podcasts about how to do

948
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: this and how to get on a schedule. I'm gonna

949
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: buck that trend every time you attempt to do it.

950
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: So you just kind of go day to day and

951
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: just attack it my newfound respect. I've said this before

952
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: and I will say it again. I think it's easy,

953
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: especially for guys, to make fun of stay at home moms.

954
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: Stay at home mom phase when they are in the

955
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: infant baby phase is as challenging as anything I've ever seen.

956
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I can last a couple hours and then

957
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: I crack. I mean, she does it all day, every day,

958
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: and so many women do it. You know, in those

959
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,959
Speaker 1: first couple months, it is tough. I mean those days

960
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: where they just won't stop crying. It can mentally break you.

961
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: It really really tests the census. And one thing you know,

962
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: I've always heard about, but until you experience it, I

963
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: always thought, like, change the diapers. That's gonna be disgusting.

964
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: You become number to with that, Like by day two,

965
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 1: changing the diaper becomes like a pit stop in Nascar.

966
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: It's like Jude dude in and out. But the one

967
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: thing you're not quite prepared for that you hear a

968
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: lot about are the blowouts and maybe early on the

969
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: first month or two that he just doesn't have as

970
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: much power in there. And then you get to the

971
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: point last week, I don't know where I was, but

972
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: my maybe I was at the combine or I don't

973
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: know where I was, but Maria texts me if like

974
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: we got a problem. Anytime you hear that, you're like

975
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: card kind of drops. And then she sends me a

976
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: picture and there's just shit all over a leg, all

977
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: over Jack's leg, all over the carpet, and he had

978
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: his first true blowout. So I'm like, damn, I got you.

979
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: Gotta keep an eye for this because a lot of

980
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: times you're feeding them, put them on your knee, put

981
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: them on your arm, and you just you know, part

982
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: of babies is they are just farting and pooping constantly.

983
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: And it's honestly, it's pretty funny. He like smile after it.

984
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: You just change the diaper. Pitstop boom, you're back rocking

985
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,720
Speaker 1: and rolling. Well, it starts. You gotta be pretty careful.

986
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't care how well that you put on the diaper.

987
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: It can if it's big enough, it can find its

988
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: way out. So the other day I hear it like

989
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 1: I normally do when I'm feeding them, and I don't

990
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: really think anything of it, and then I kind of

991
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: peek down and I see the tsunami coming out the

992
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: side of the lake. And I'm on the couch, and

993
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: we got a couple changing stations in our room and

994
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: in his room that he's hasn't won't sleep in, I

995
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: guess until he's older. So I think I got a

996
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: couple options here. I could just let it all flow

997
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: out on me and just deal with the uh, you know,

998
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 1: the repercussions of that after he's done, or I can

999
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: be lying it right now for a room, So I

1000
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: tip him on his side to stop the flow to

1001
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: go back into the diaper, and I run into the room,

1002
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: and right as I'm getting into the room, I can

1003
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 1: see it coming out the other side. And I put

1004
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: him on the table and I avoid what my wife experienced.

1005
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: There was nothing on me, There was nothing on the couch,

1006
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: there was nothing on the rug. And it's it's truly

1007
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: one of my great father achievements so far in my

1008
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: short career of avoiding getting shit all over me, because

1009
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: it looked when I look down and you know, the

1010
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: sounds are still coming out, it looked destined to just

1011
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 1: fill my leg. But I, in a split second, like

1012
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: Navy seal style, flip him on his side, and then

1013
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: I just ran like Tyreek Hill, you know, around the

1014
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: coffee table, around the wall, and boom, we're down, we're

1015
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: changing him, and we're out. So I'm yet to get

1016
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: a blow out. I did hear a story from a friend. Well,

1017
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: Maria told me the story that her friend told her

1018
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: that a big blowout in the car that was all

1019
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: over the car seat, down the side of the car.

1020
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: So that's something fun that I have a I have

1021
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: to look forward to but for those of you without children,

1022
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: just get ready, those those those early days, runny poop everywhere,

1023
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: and I mean everywhere, funny at the same time, very disgusting. Audios.

1024
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: The volume