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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome to move the sticks DJ. Bucky

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Speaker 1: back with you, Buck. How's it going, man? Maybe one

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Speaker 1: this town, why are we flying into a different city

427
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Speaker 1: and having to bus over there? But well, you know what,

428
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Speaker 1: they don't have a long enough runway for you to

429
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Speaker 1: fly in there. The runway that Naja Harris had at

430
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Speaker 1: Alabama is not going to be there in Pittsburgh. And

431
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying he can't figure this thing out.

432
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be an adjustment. Man. It's not a

433
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Speaker 1: good offensive line. It's just not well. I can't say

434
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Speaker 1: they weren't offensive. They're not a great offering line because

435
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 1: we haven't seen this and you play the line did

436
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,639
Speaker 1: last year was not a great officilene at this group

437
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: on paper, and look who they're relying on. I mean

438
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,800
Speaker 1: on paper, like I mean on paper. That does not

439
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: excite me. But um, you know, I kind of buy

440
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Speaker 1: into how they get down, like how they play, how

441
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 1: they approach it. That's enough to give me close. Then

442
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Speaker 1: I think they find a way to get over get

443
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 1: over the top. Naja Harris is the guy that gives

444
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,880
Speaker 1: them to push down the stretch. That's what they needed. Yeah,

445
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out who makes the run game between

446
00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: you know, for that age old debate the runner versus

447
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,680
Speaker 1: the offensive line. If you'd rather have a great runner

448
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 1: and the okay offensive line, because remember Matt Canada is

449
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of jet sweep motion and action

450
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: and all those things. It's gonna look different, but it's

451
00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 1: gonna be about the same. You're not a believer smoking,

452
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, like going to hot houses. I'm just telling you, man,

453
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that, Uh, you know, Myles Garrett's

454
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Speaker 1: gonna go to sleep with a smile on his face

455
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: the night before they pit pitsas coming out right now

456
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: is going to shrink. The field is going to shrink,

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Speaker 1: all right. Defensively, let's get to the other side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. Defensively. Um just made a move and brought

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Speaker 1: in Melvin Ingram to me, I think there's some overreaction

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Speaker 1: to that move. I think Melvin is uh is physical,

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Speaker 1: He's tough, he has not been healthy lately. He does

462
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Speaker 1: not have the same burst or juice, and the production

463
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: reflected that over the last He's he's He's had a

464
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Speaker 1: great career. He's not better than Alex Highsmith like people

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Speaker 1: have just like Chalcoling, like you pushed him right into

466
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Speaker 1: the starting laugh, like Alex Heisman is a good young player.

467
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Speaker 1: He's not. He is starting like I'll be very surprised

468
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Speaker 1: if Alex Highsmith is not opposite of t. J. Watt.

469
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Speaker 1: He's he's a better player at this point in time

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Speaker 1: and their respective careers. No disrespect to Melvin has had

471
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 1: a great run, a great career. He's just not the

472
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Speaker 1: same player that he was when he was younger. Alex

473
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Speaker 1: Highsmith is ready to roll. He's a good player right now.

474
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Speaker 1: Competition brings brings it out of everybody. So put more

475
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Speaker 1: guys into the mix, let them all compete, to them

476
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Speaker 1: all find their way up. I'm not opposed to doing that.

477
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Speaker 1: Um let's see, like we'll see how this place out.

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Speaker 1: I just think the smoking mirrors in fact on this

479
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: office is gonna change stuff. Yeh eyes, it will be

480
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: all over the place. I will say. When you talk

481
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Speaker 1: to people around the league about this defense. Um Stefan too,

482
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: it's got a lot of love league. He doesn't get

483
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Speaker 1: as much buzz for some reason. He's a good football

484
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Speaker 1: player and a lot of people around the league are

485
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: very high on him. So him is funny. But they

486
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: also always talked about Caman Cam Hayward. Yeah, but I

487
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Speaker 1: feel like Cam Cam gets his due. I mean, Cam's

488
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Speaker 1: a known COMMODI is a great player, has had a

489
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Speaker 1: great reputation. I think some of that too is you know,

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Speaker 1: Cam was a one um too, It was a too,

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Speaker 1: so sometimes you know you get held to that a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But you talk about teams that have played

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Speaker 1: against them. An offensive line coaches an offensive lineman. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect around the league for for to it. Um.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if they can again, you know, stay healthy.

496
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: I like where they are in the in the back end.

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Speaker 1: We'll see that, you know. I like, I say, I

498
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Speaker 1: like where they are. I like that. I like where

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Speaker 1: Minka can do as a floater over the top. I

500
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: don't love the corner group. I think it's I think

501
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: it's a collection of guys. I don't think there's a

502
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 1: not a there's definitely not a shutdown guy. I don't

503
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Speaker 1: know if it's a number one, not a number one

504
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Speaker 1: corner in the days. But they have a lot of

505
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Speaker 1: depth of just kind of players two twos and threes

506
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: like two and just a bunch of good players, and

507
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: then they put them in a scheme that really allows

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Speaker 1: them to flourish. That's why I'm excited to see what

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Speaker 1: Matt Canada does. Yeah, yeah, impacts. You see what kind

510
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Speaker 1: of sprinkles he puts on this game. But I look

511
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Speaker 1: at them inside that division and on paper, we'll see

512
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Speaker 1: everybody's got to get to the starting block healthy and

513
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Speaker 1: all that. Um. I I take Cleveland over them, I

514
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Speaker 1: take Baltimore over them, um, And I think maybe them

515
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati are close, But I would say Cincinnati's on

516
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 1: the way up, Pittsburgh's on the way down. You know it.

517
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Speaker 1: I don't know it's you know, Ben Roethlisberg, I know

518
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Speaker 1: want to come back chase the super Bowl. I don't

519
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Speaker 1: think that's a super Bowl. I don't think that's a

520
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Speaker 1: super Bowl roster personally. M M. It's tough because I

521
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Speaker 1: had to see him play the first four games of

522
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Speaker 1: the year. See what adjustments he makes the field is

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Speaker 1: that field is going to shrink? Um, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a problem. All right, Let's let's get to the last

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Speaker 1: one here. Super Bowl champs team comes back Um basically

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Speaker 1: and it's entirety here. They just spent the day at

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Speaker 1: the White House. Tom Brady had a couple of funny

528
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: one liners over there. But you win this You win

529
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Speaker 1: in this league with with pass rush. You live with

530
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: win with good quarterback play. They're in good, good shape

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Speaker 1: and both spots, they are in good shaping both spots.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Are you a little surprised

533
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,360
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin didn't get along to him deal? Then they're

534
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Speaker 1: making them play on it one year? Yeah, I mean,

535
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of mouths to feed their um.

536
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: He's a really good player and they have so much

537
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: depth there. The interesting thing is going to be, you know,

538
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Speaker 1: with Mike Evans going into the future because he's, you know,

539
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: the older statesman of the bunch, whereas God One's still

540
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Speaker 1: kind of he's already really really good but still on

541
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: the com So that that'll be an interesting decision they

542
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: have to make off into the future. But I think

543
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: for right now it was, Hey, let's just make sure

544
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: we get everybody back on the boat. How we have

545
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: to situate the dollars, but let's just get everybody back

546
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Speaker 1: on the boat. Yeah. I think they're doing a good

547
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Speaker 1: job of running back, having the entire defense back, most

548
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Speaker 1: of the overwhell majority of the offense, like all those

549
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Speaker 1: guys free and they came back because of what um

550
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 1: people feel like they're building down in Tampa. Tom Brady

551
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: hasn't a great job of putting his thumb front on

552
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Speaker 1: the finger in the post of the team. When I

553
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 1: when I think about this team, this team is a

554
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: defensive lead squad. Their offense finds a way to like

555
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: light up score boards, but it's their defense that's really

556
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: going to determine how they how they make and run,

557
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: how they defend their title. What I do like is

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's second year not necessarily on the system under

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: the tutelage of this coaching staff. I think they've reached

560
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: a synergy where they know exactly what the other is thinking.

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00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: That gives him a chance. They gives him a chance

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Speaker 1: to be very basis because yeah, here's a second notebook

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Speaker 1: idea free of charge. We always preach and I know

564
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: you've been a huge proponent of this for years and

565
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: years about building your team up the middle. So if

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Speaker 1: you look defensively and you wanted to rank the take

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00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: the top interior defensive lineman, the top off the ball

568
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: um linebacker, and then take your your favorite best safety

569
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Speaker 1: of the group. So you take those three guys, and

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00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: when all thirty two teams, the Tampa would be in

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Speaker 1: the top three or four, no question. Because Vitavey as

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00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: a dominant player. We saw what Devin White can do.

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00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: Look what he did in the in the postseason as

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00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,479
Speaker 1: a young, instinctive, fast athletic linebacker. And you look at

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00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: an up and coming windfield who is not always gonna

576
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: play in the middle of the field. He moves around,

577
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: but you can list them as a safety. So between

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Speaker 1: those three guys and you look at the A to

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00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: those three players, man, that that's a stock I'd want

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00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: to buy. If you're looking up the middle, look, man,

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00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm big time buying, buying and building a team

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00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: of the middle. You have to be strong right down

583
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: the pipes. And if you're strong down the middle, gives

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00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: you an opportunity because oh decordinated Dick Gron just to

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00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: talk about you want to make sure that you're stout

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00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: down the middle. You want to run, make them run

587
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: to the edge is where you have to be speeding.

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00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: You have athleticism to run it down and close the gate.

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00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: It's tough. We're at that time where we're just trying

590
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: to figure out, Okay, this is who we are, this

591
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: is where we have decided we need to play going forward.

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00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: Can they stick to it without being bored? And they

593
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: But I think that's to be able to handle it.

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00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: But I think that's good. They brought everybody back. You

595
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: want to run it back. But they still have While

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00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: they have the veteran players, they still have a lot

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00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: of young talented players playing key roles. And I think

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00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: those guys bring energy, which is gonna be big seventeen

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00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: game season coming off a championship. You need some juice guys,

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00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: some energy guys. Tom It doesn't matter how old he is,

601
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: He's always gonna bring energy and juice. So I think

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00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: they're think they're good shape there and we and look,

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00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: we talked about Devin White. Lavonte David has been, you know,

604
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers NFL for a long time.

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00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 1: We had Luke quick Ley on. I mean, he's went

606
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: out of his way to say how how impressed he's

607
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: been with Lavonte David, what he's accomplished during his career.

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00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just think about it, like this team

609
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: is loaded for bear like there, I mean, we won't

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00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: even see any of the young guys get a chance

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00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: to really do anything significant. Um, how are they How

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00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: are they not better? Like, I mean unless Tom Brady

613
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: falls off, how is this team not better? I mean

614
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: they should be leaps and bounds better because time will

615
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: have the confidence in knowing the system and the personnel,

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00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: he can begin to get to the third and fourth

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00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: progress and read based on what he sees. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're scary obviously, wouldn't want to have to deal with them.

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Speaker 1: But I mean they're they're very, very scary offensive bunch

620
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: and then their defensive down right now, yeah, no, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: All right, before we roll out of here, just real quick.

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Speaker 1: We don't spend a ton of time on this, buck,

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Speaker 1: but um, it was interesting article on ESPN where they

624
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: talked about kind of the evolution of the personnel department

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00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: in college So I'll let you run with it here,

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00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: but I thought was a very fascinating article. Well, d yeah,

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00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: I know, like we count some of these guys that

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00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: are mentioned in the pieces as friends. Because the growing

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00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: trend in college football has been to basically build out

630
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: an NFL like front office. So you have your DPP

631
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: or some people called the general manager who's in charge

632
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: of the personnel, the recruiting and all that, and there's

633
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: a crew that works under them, and they kind of

634
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: handled all the recruiting where back in the are they

635
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: it was dealing with the position coach, and the position

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Speaker 1: coach had your area. He had to kind of sniff

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Speaker 1: around and figure out the scores and what you did. Yeah,

638
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Speaker 1: not not anymore. This is a big time operation. And

639
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: I came away from the article one having a great

640
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: appreciation for all the DPPs. But the other thing is

641
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: for people who come from the National Football League, or

642
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: the older executive that kind of ages out of the

643
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: National Football League on a team where he can't necessarily

644
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: do those things. Is their place for the older veteran

645
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: scout who knows football, who understands players, who has like

646
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: a ton of wisdom in terms of projecting in those things.

647
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: Is their room for that guy in that personnel department.

648
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Because in North Carolina, for instance, when Matt Brown came

649
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: back and and and took over, two guys that he

650
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: hired to work in that office, where one was Darryl Moody.

651
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: Darrell Moody when I was there, was the officer of coordinator.

652
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: He'd been a quarterback coach of running mate coach. He

653
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: got out of college and was on the road scouting

654
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: for a few different organizations. They bring him back and

655
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: his job is he looked at the tape, and he projects,

656
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: He looks at the team some in the transfer report

657
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: and those things. He also had Sparky Woods, who was

658
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: also a former head coach, who does all this stuff,

659
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: and so they were able to hell. Now the set

660
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: of eyeballs, another set of personnel things, all of that.

661
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: Now that is not in the role that we're talking about,

662
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: like the general manager. But man, there's so much connectivity

663
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: between what's going on in college and what's going on

664
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: in the pro and I'm absolutely fascinated by all of it. Yeah,

665
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: we had talked about this on a previous episode. Um,

666
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: and then I actually got a I actually got a

667
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: text from a Power five head coach and he said,

668
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: what do you say? Um? Because I had tweeted this out.

669
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: Every college football program should already have an NFL style

670
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: personnel department, a high school recruiting side, and a transfer

671
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: portal side basically draft in free agency. It's unfair to

672
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: grade a recruiting class alone. You need to give an

673
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: equal value to the transfer portal editions. Not long before

674
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fifty fifty high school kids transfer kids.

675
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: And I got a text from a Power five head

676
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: coaches said, I could not agree more. Um, we we

677
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: we took fourteen transfers this year. I hope you're doing well.

678
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: Like that's and that's what it is. So it's kind

679
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: of in a bummer because you always like to say,

680
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: all this team at the number one recruiting class, in

681
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: the country, like that's all gonna be. Rethink that, rethink

682
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: that whole thing. You have to rethink all of that

683
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: because now you have to talk about like the transfers,

684
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: and transfers have to be that DJ. I think we

685
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: also have to include these people into the conversation depending

686
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: upon how the school uses them based on the ever

687
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: changing n c double A guidelines and rules. The player

688
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: development player development department, right, so we are beginning to

689
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: now see that We've seen it in basketball for a

690
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: long time where you see player development coaches like guys

691
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: who are there to really help the kids develop skills.

692
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: They're not necessarily X and those coaches, but it's a

693
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: d J. You a guard, you can go work with

694
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: our guy and he's gonna getting right. I think Miles

695
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: Simon and basketball used to be one of those guys.

696
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I know he worked for the Lakers for a while,

697
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: but he used to do some stuff. He was go

698
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: and work to get your handles right. Well, now I wonder,

699
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: because it seems like college football is going all in

700
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: on these pro style departments. We have that DPP, we

701
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: have the general manager type. What else can we use

702
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: for the development piece? Because we are seeing more guys go.

703
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: I just saw what TODJH. Boyd was hired back at

704
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: Clemson as a player development guy, and he said, it

705
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: is somewhere between an analysts and a coach. So it's

706
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: that mix of on field off field. I kind of

707
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: help players kind of figure it out and do those things.

708
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: I just think it's very, very fascinating the way the

709
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: college football landscape is changing right before eyes. And there

710
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: are times where we're seeing the big teams, the brand

711
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: names where they may have it appears that they have

712
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: twenty plus people on staff in certain capacities. How much

713
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: bigger does that go? So you really can service not

714
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,720
Speaker 1: only those older players that are on the field playing,

715
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: but developmental players that you're bringing in, some of transfer,

716
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: some that are coming off high school. You have to

717
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: find a way to develop all of those kids. Yeah,

718
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: it's it's really interesting, man. It's from what college football

719
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: was five years ago. It's like a totally different sport, different,

720
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: like a completely different world where you had. Um this,

721
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you because we have a kid at high

722
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: school where I'm coaching, who surprisingly is has become a

723
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: big time recruit. I talked to a Big ten team, Um, yesterday,

724
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: I talked to a Mountain West team. I've talked to

725
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: pack twelve teams all calling, and it is different because

726
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: it's not a quote unquote coach. It's somebody from the

727
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: personnel departments, and they want to know the ends now

728
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: and DJ. The questions that I'm getting are funny because

729
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 1: those are the questions that we would answer ask on

730
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: school calls. A family life background, who does he run

731
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: with Timmy? A little bit about the football character? What

732
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: about the regular injury injury history background character, how do

733
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: you see him developing and projecting and doing all these

734
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: other things? What do you think his best position is?

735
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: And it's it's funny for me, right because I mean,

736
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: the kid is a rising jr. He super track star,

737
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: and so that's what do you think his best position is?

738
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: And so I got on my old scouting head, I'm like, well,

739
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, for us, he's gonna run it. But at

740
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: the next level, I think, I mean, if you're six

741
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: for a hundred and seventy five pounds and you play corner,

742
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, the money's at the corner, Like

743
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: play play corner if you're an athlete, But all of

744
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: those things, but they're trying to put all of that

745
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: stuff together to just kind of figure it out. And

746
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, we've been around it. Like they have their

747
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: own vote unquote boards that are like draft boards with

748
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: all of the other stuff. Um. I just think it's

749
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: very interesting when it comes to the general manager and

750
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: the head coach good programs. I would expect the hair

751
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: coach to be able to clearly articulate this is the

752
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: kind of team I want, These are kind of players

753
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: that we want and those things. I don't know if

754
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: all hey coaches are capable of doing it, though, that

755
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: makes it they're definitely. It definitely helps with continuity too,

756
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: because it takes a while to build up that that

757
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: machine and to get people that you trust and that

758
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: all see things the same, and then you turn over

759
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: your coach, you start all over again on that front.

760
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: So it's it's different. Man. How about this litle nugget

761
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: as we're getting ready to wind it up, um Nick

762
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: Saban speaking at the Texas High School Coaches Association convention.

763
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: This is a tweet from Chris Hummer. Uh quote from

764
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: Nick Saban asked when he was asked about n I

765
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: l r QB has already approached ungodly numbers and he

766
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: hasn't even played yet. If I told you what it is,

767
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: it's almost seven figures. Rice Young pulled then hasn't started

768
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: a game in Alabama yet. Different, it's a different it's

769
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: a different era, but it's a different area. But DJ like,

770
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: what you want to see is who are going to

771
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: be the big time schools that really maximize and take

772
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: advantage of the n I L. I don't know if

773
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: you saw the thing with Texas and m where the

774
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: Aggie's had a publication that paid ten thousand dollars for

775
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: exclusivity when it came to an interview with a couple

776
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: of different prospects. So you have those kinds of things.

777
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: You have, um the deal that took place in Miami

778
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: where Miami signed the entire team to a deal with

779
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: one of those m A gems, and those things like

780
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: without the regulation, I mean it's I mean it's not

781
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: kind of it is the wild wild West. But I

782
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: think for coaches and teams, the thing that you have

783
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: to manage is the haves and the have nots because

784
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: they're going to be your star players and your quarterbacks

785
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: that are first in line that get all this stuff.

786
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: And their money may be significant. What do you do

787
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: about the other guys and how do you keep keep

788
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: the team together when money is involved, because now what

789
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: used to be oh, for the love of the game college,

790
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: then you have money involved it. It does alter the dynamics.

791
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: And so your team building process as a coach and

792
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: all of that, it is going to be tested and

793
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: your organizational approach in terms of being able to think about, Okay,

794
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: we need to have someone who is great with the

795
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: N I L stuff, who is great with kind of

796
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: connecting the dots and trying to pair our players with

797
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: those in the business world and the community to do

798
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: some of these things. My goodness, man. Like now, when

799
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: we talk about the college football head coach, like we

800
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 1: used to kind of say, oh, he's a CEO type,

801
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: he's an excello. You better have great CEO skills or

802
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: you better have an outstanding right hand person to help

803
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: you navigate through some of this stuff because it's a

804
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: lot that is on your your watch. Yeah, you know

805
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: that there's so many different layers this. This is one

806
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: of the questions I was thinking of. I gotta talk

807
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: to maybe Bruce Felt I could help me out on this.

808
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: But you can do, and I would imagine you can

809
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: do incentive contracts right for these for these deals. So

810
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: think about that. Like my brother in law represents a

811
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: ton of the top marathon runners. He has Des Lendon,

812
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: who won the Boston Marathon a couple of years ago.

813
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: He was in the Olympic trials four years, very successful

814
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: marathon or but now he represents all these runners well

815
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: all his contracts he has with them, with shoe companies,

816
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: watch companies, you know, uh, in nutrition companies, they're all

817
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: they're all based off bonuses of how they finish in

818
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: these big races in marathons. So like if I'm if

819
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: I own a restaurant, I mean I might say, hey, look,

820
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: this is our our rival game. You know, hey, if

821
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: we beat our rival game, everybody in the whole place,

822
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's free food for the you know,

823
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: for the whole team, like or whatever else. I couldn't

824
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: you start doing that type of at North Carolina? Um,

825
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: I think for the basketball games, gosh, if you hit

826
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: the hundred, if you're in the city mark, I think

827
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: it's like tacos and cholupas for everybody somewhere, right, And

828
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: so when you're watching those games, just like you, like,

829
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: people are going to going crazy. So now you started

830
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: incentivizing stuff, and you got things out there. You got

831
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're you're a department store, Like, hey,

832
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: we beat you know, we beat Duke this this week.

833
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: Everybody on the football teams. It's a thousand dollars at

834
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: uh at Dillard's. The Florida State didn't need to take

835
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: anything out of Dillers. They could have just got who

836
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: was that? Do you remember? I do remember, like Laverne

837
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: Coles is that I remember. I remember their crew. It

838
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: was it was mid mid nineties. I remember they were

839
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: in the Freeshoos University. But but I just think about

840
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: all the different things and how you trying to I mean,

841
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: like it just never stops. It's just so many different

842
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: things going on, and you just have to really be

843
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: really organized in detailed and have it all together to

844
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 1: be able to make sure that you're not only giving

845
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: the players what they need because just no, their buddies

846
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: at other universities are gonna be talking about what is

847
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: going on over there. It a lot a lot. I

848
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: think I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about you know,

849
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: app plays Miami. We meet the Hurricanes. I'm sure you

850
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: get Hurricanes. I might based on moved the sticks. You know, decal,

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Speaker 1: I think I think if you may, I think you

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Speaker 1: may be given them more than decales. Like I think

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Speaker 1: I think they're they're probably calling you a Daniel. We

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Speaker 1: need we need the big boosters, big weeks. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get back. I met the big booster when I was

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Speaker 1: out there speaking. You're not looking at that. I tell

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Speaker 1: you that right now. It's one. Yeah, we need to

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Speaker 1: make it app Who do you have? Who do you have?

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Speaker 1: Non leagues? You have? So we have we have two biggies.

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Speaker 1: We've got, uh, East Carolina. I think we opened up

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Speaker 1: with East Carolina in at the Panthers Place down there

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Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Their first two games are NFL Stadium, So

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Speaker 1: East Carolina they play in Charlotte and then they're at Miami.

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Speaker 1: Um obviously, yeah, I think those are two bad. I

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Speaker 1: think they have a Marshal like a big Thursday night

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Speaker 1: game against Marshall like a national ESPN game. I want

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Speaker 1: to say, yeah, I'm looking to Carolina just like to

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Speaker 1: play Virginia Tech right coming out strong, I mean nothing

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Speaker 1: crazy Like last year schedule was gonna be the one

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Speaker 1: that was a head knocker, like when they were playing

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Speaker 1: this will play Auburn and all of that out the gate.

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Speaker 1: Now they don't need to do that. Yeah, not anymore.

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Speaker 1: It looks a change in landscape. Um, like those non

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Speaker 1: league games and those things, and depending upon the playoff

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Speaker 1: stuff or whatever, like do you do you play the

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Speaker 1: heavy hitters? Is it worth your time to play the

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Speaker 1: heavy hitters? Or are you just trying to focus on

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Speaker 1: one of your conference? Yeah? That was fascinating man. All right,

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Speaker 1: we gotta run. It's been fun man. Buck the the

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Speaker 1: columns coming out Friday. Note book, Uh, no, book will

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Speaker 1: come out right they We will see what we can do. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've given you two very good suggestions, so either either

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Speaker 1: uh this week or in future weeks. I just I

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Speaker 1: needed let's do the last little nugget on the end

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Speaker 1: of your the end of your notebook. That's all I'm

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Speaker 1: looking for. Okay, all right, all right, guys, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be out in the road for training camps

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Speaker 1: here pretty soon. Next week. We're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: of preview content looking at all thirty two teams, with

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Speaker 1: a couple of episodes next week as well. So we

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Speaker 1: have one more coming up this week and then next week. Man,

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Speaker 1: we really get cranking, so I appreciate you guys hanging

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Speaker 1: with us. We'll catch you next time. Right here on,

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Speaker 1: move the sticks.