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Speaker 1: Problem solved? Is it punt? Is it put? Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: it's put. DeAndre Hopkins pot he put it for dockdown.

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Speaker 1: Problem solved, up down Tyler Murray. That defender is in

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Speaker 1: multiple pieces. All that was nasty right there? Rights the

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Speaker 1: latest news and notes from the guys who cover the teams.

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Speaker 1: Rilled by Simmons. Isaiah Simmons is bawling, Bring it on,

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Speaker 1: Bring it on. Slam the ground by Fota Baker like

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Speaker 1: a torpedo. He came flying into the backfield. I scared

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Speaker 1: of nobody. Here's Paul Calvic all right, head on a swivel. Here.

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Speaker 1: I can't help but note that we are missing two

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Speaker 1: Kyle order Guard. We'll get to him in a minute.

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Speaker 1: Number two a neck tattoo from Darren Herman as Darren

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Speaker 1: finally turns to his right where Kyle would typically be seated.

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Speaker 1: No more the ping pong effect, no more the tennis

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Speaker 1: so back and forth. No, so it's just us one

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Speaker 1: on one, okay, And I do not detect a neck

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Speaker 1: tat So does that make it any more or less

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Speaker 1: likely that Larry Fitzgerald will come back in twenty twenty one?

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Speaker 1: How'd that work? Again? Yeah, that's that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if there's a direct line there. Paul thought there was

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Speaker 1: a cause and effect there. Well, I mean, Larry did

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Speaker 1: that in the back burner now that at this point

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Speaker 1: the final. Thankfully for you, Larry's preoccupied with his team.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to make a run to the NBA finals.

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Speaker 1: That's good. That wouldn't stop him from stirring the crap though,

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Speaker 1: we don't now. Yeah, speaking of stirring it up, if

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Speaker 1: a theory not just on Larry that'll come a little

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Speaker 1: the whereabouts of Kyle to guard? Because moments ago I

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Speaker 1: saw a tweet from NNGS Next Gen Stats and in

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Speaker 1: screaming capital letters, they tweeted out the next Gen Stats

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Speaker 1: team is hiring. We're looking for experience analysts with a

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Speaker 1: passion for football and analytics to join the NGS Product

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Speaker 1: and engineering team for this upcoming season. Are you trying

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Speaker 1: to get rid of him? I'm just wondering, are you

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Speaker 1: sure that Kyle out from unbeknownst to you, Darren or

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Speaker 1: but the guy who hired him, he isn't trying to

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Speaker 1: look for a gig that involves According to the job description,

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Speaker 1: slash splits. Oh maybe maybe can you send me that tweet?

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Speaker 1: Maybe my son could get involved in that. Actually, that

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Speaker 1: actually would have somebody. A wise person once told me,

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Speaker 1: somebody's on Darren's couch anyway, proceed. A wise person once

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Speaker 1: I'm serious about that tweet. I need it from the

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Speaker 1: son al. We won't be getting in just survival analysis, forecasting, hurry, probability. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I see from Steve Kim and Darren? What's going on here?

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt among others, said, you know what, Kyler Murray's

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Speaker 1: you have a grace period of a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of Chicago, you got a mail

427
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Speaker 1: bag question from a long time Cardinals fan going back

428
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Cardinals, and it was interesting. I flipped

429
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Speaker 1: through it and he was wondering about the alternate helmets. Yeah,

430
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,199
Speaker 1: and that is a question we've kicked around whether our

431
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 1: Jim Almahundro noted Cardinals historian. And I just said, well,

432
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what would the alternate helmet be. I

433
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: don't remember a time where it wasn't a white helmet

434
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 1: if you go back. And I did a quick Google

435
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 1: search because he cited his favorite player of all time,

436
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: Ali mattson the Hall of Famer. I said, when exactly

437
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: to Dolly Matson play well, it was in the fifties

438
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: and if you do a quick Google search, Chicago Cardinals

439
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 1: is some of the images. There are a lot of pictures,

440
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Speaker 1: including one on the cover of Sports Illustrated nineteen fifty

441
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: seven of him wearing a solid cardinal red helmet, no

442
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: bird logo, no logo of any sort, just solid cardinal

443
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: red face mask. Was great. It was a single bar

444
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: face mask. Okay, okay, sort of like Kevin Butler back

445
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: in the day for the car you Gotta Got. So

446
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,639
Speaker 1: are we thinking, first off, would every team no have

447
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: to go? No? Well, first of all, this wouldn't be

448
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: like a theme night on Thursday Night. But all the

449
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 1: all the league is saying is it's it's an option

450
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: if you want to use it. It certainly doesn't mean

451
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: every team is going to do it. And I knew

452
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 1: as soon as I posted the news that everybody's gonna

453
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: be like, well, we don't even have good jerseys, so

454
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,880
Speaker 1: what does it matter about helmets and all this stuff. Um,

455
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: But the reason it came out was because and there

456
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Speaker 1: will be no alternate helmets in twenty twenty one. But

457
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Speaker 1: the rule, or however they're putting this together is is

458
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Speaker 1: you have to declare by the end of July or

459
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: the beginning of July, sometime in July if you're going

460
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 1: to use an alternate helmet in twenty twenty two, so

461
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: we're we're season away from even seeing any of these,

462
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: but it does give some options if you're Tampa Bay

463
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: and you want to do the creams of Coals one time,

464
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 1: which you know, as somebody at my age, I would

465
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: love to see the Buccaneers do the creams of Coals

466
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: with the old school. Really, Oh my god, you love them.

467
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 1: I mean really, it's nostalgia. They were horrendous then and

468
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: they haven't aged well. Oh no, see I disagree. See

469
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Speaker 1: I I don't know if they were great in the

470
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Speaker 1: first place, but now I'm I'm definitely got that that nostalgia. Look,

471
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Speaker 1: did the Denver the Denver helmets with the d with

472
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Speaker 1: the helmet? I like that better than the old school

473
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Speaker 1: than than the new one. Okay, all right, I'm feeling that.

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Speaker 1: I guess, you know, I mean, I guess. So does

475
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Speaker 1: there need to be precedent? Does a team need to

476
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Speaker 1: have worn the helmet once upon a time or you

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Speaker 1: can you devise? No, I think I think the helmet

478
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Speaker 1: has to have it needs to look like a helmet

479
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: that was once that once existed. I don't think you

480
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Speaker 1: can just pull one out of ear come out some

481
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: some radical Matt Black sort of New Age Cardinal's helmet, don't.

482
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: I don't believe that's where the helmet is actually the

483
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: entire head. So you get a massive eye on either side,

484
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: and then the face mask is yellow for the beak,

485
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 1: and then that would be no. But you would have

486
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Speaker 1: to do something. If you do something new, that would

487
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: have to be your primary helmet. And I'm fairly I'm

488
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Speaker 1: feeling fairly confident that a traditional laden family like the

489
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Speaker 1: Bidwells are not looking to overhaul the helmet. I say, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, are they looking to go after the scouting combine?

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Speaker 1: I was at for a segue because there's there's more

492
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Speaker 1: NFL news about what's I'm just gonna forecast here that

493
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Speaker 1: if you put it to a vote of the NFL

494
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Speaker 1: owners and Scottsdale was bidding on the combine in late February,

495
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have to ask the owners twice. Come out

496
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Speaker 1: to the AC in late February, play some golf, hang

497
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: out at our world class resorts, and oh, while you're

498
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Speaker 1: at it hold of combine. Okay, here's the problem with that.

499
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Speaker 1: The problem is one the owners. The combine isn't the

500
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: owner's deal, that's the owners meetings. Where where are you

501
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: going to do it? Here? See the here's but see

502
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: the reason Indianapolis is so good for the combine and

503
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,719
Speaker 1: I you know, I've been around it for I mean

504
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: last year was the first year in what twenty years

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00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: that I haven't been in indian in February. Um, the

506
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: reason it's so good is because you have a ton

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Speaker 1: of hotels, you have a convention center, you have a stadium,

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Speaker 1: and you have medical facilities within like five miles there

509
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Speaker 1: even closer, and you have all that right like right

510
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: in this tight little two square mile area. Whatever you're

511
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: saying is the key, I think it is everybody can

512
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Speaker 1: walk everywhere everywhere they need to go in Indianapolis. All

513
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Speaker 1: these other cities, I don't know how you do. That's

514
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: certainly not here. Like you say, the convention center, So

515
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do. You're gonna like have guys

516
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Speaker 1: run the forty in the middle of the ballroom as

517
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: opposed to oh I see it, as opposed to the end,

518
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: like they go to the so, but you can't hold

519
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: it out at the stadium here because there's only one

520
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: hotel and it's way far flung from everything else. Well, look,

521
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: if the dollars are right and the bid is is

522
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: right there, then they'll make it work. They'll figure out

523
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: there's a reason why it is and it's gonna end up.

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00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: It'll be in La a time or two because of

525
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: what they're building out there. And I you know that

526
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: this has been anticipated for a long time. Um, And

527
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: clearly I wouldn't mind going to La more than Indie sometimes.

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00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mind Indie. It's been a fine

529
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: place and I don't mind hanging out there, but I

530
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: just for the job that they're trying to do. But again,

531
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: the NFL is trying to make money off of this,

532
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: and not just from cities bidding for it, but also

533
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: they've they've turned it into a TV event and event

534
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: for fans and um, when it originally was all about

535
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: you know, getting height, weight and meta coals and doing

536
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: a couple of drills for football players. And like the

537
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: NFL does, it's turned it into a moneymaker, which you

538
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: gotta give them thumbs up for that. Oh did they

539
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: not just realize that, you know what, maybe the combine

540
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: isn't quite as essential as we thought. They were just

541
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: able to conduct a draft without it. Well, so maybe

542
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: now it is more for show than it is for football. Well, yes,

543
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: they just conducted, but we don't know. We don't know

544
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: the outcome of what they just conducted. I mean, we're

545
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: not going to know that until after this draft class

546
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: goes through there and maybe at some point, especially if

547
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: there's a couple of guys that end up being medical

548
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: problems that maybe you would have found in the old

549
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: old time medical deal or how all over that worked.

550
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: You know, we don't know not having the combine, but

551
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: I do think we're moving in that direction, and it's

552
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see how this all goes.

553
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: Because if you can figure out ways to not need

554
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: a combine for the football but the league wants it

555
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: for the entertainment value of the offseason, you're gonna have

556
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: to You're gonna you might start having some issues with

557
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: some of these players wanting to go in the first place,

558
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: meaning they need an appearance fee, maybe they need to

559
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: be compensated. Maybe interesting, because you're right, if a big

560
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: name is gonna draw a lot of attention a lot

561
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: of viewers and eyeballs to the forty. Then wait a minute,

562
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: am I just shouldn't I be compensated for this? I'm

563
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: no longer a college athlete, and that is intriguing, no

564
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: nout about it. Which is funny you bring that up

565
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 1: to college athlete because I just saw an article now

566
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Speaker 1: with the nil in college will will there be a

567
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: chance that some football players, Uh, well, there's argue that

568
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: they might be convinced to stay in college longer because

569
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna retain they'll have a better chance of being

570
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: a star in college, and that the the main guy

571
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 1: that they talked about in the article was Scooby Right.

572
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: I saw that because there was a big splashy picture

573
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: above the fold of a inside linebacker where number fifty

574
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: six with a carl and I said to myself, who

575
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: is that? And the point was if he had been

576
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: able to get paid in college when he was a superstar,

577
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: which he was before he got hurt, he actually might

578
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: have done better. And he had acknowledged that if he

579
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: was getting paid in college on his name and likeness

580
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: that maybe it would have stopped him from coming out

581
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: when he did, right, because well, especially after the knee injury. Yeah,

582
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna be a Day one

583
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: draft pick. In fact, he was a Day three draft pick.

584
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: It was right at the end of the draft. But

585
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: he was a big deal in Tucson early in his career.

586
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: Fifteen sacks the year before he got hurt, fifteen really

587
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: as an inside linebacker. Yeah, he was good. I mean,

588
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: I do remember they had a phenomenal year that I

589
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: love saying that about a wild Cat. And in Tucson,

590
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: where you have a is King, you have a is

591
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: the only game in town. Yeah, you're darn right. He

592
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: could have made a lot of money off his name image,

593
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: And like you, you would think, I don't. I don't

594
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: know that for a fact. Maybe he would have, Maybe wouldn't.

595
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I think what happens in college

596
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting to watch because you know

597
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: you are going to I mean, ninety nine point nine

598
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: percent of these players, I don't know how many national

599
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: people are going to be interested in them, And locally,

600
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: there's only going to be a couple on each team

601
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: that maybe you want to you want to use in

602
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: your local commercial or something. But I mean, think about it.

603
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: Just locally like ASU, like popular players who didn't really

604
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: have much of a future in the NFL and Manny

605
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Mike BERKOVICI these are guys who, maybe there

606
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: are senior years at ASU could have raked in some cash. Yeah,

607
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: and you know, you know bench sure, I mean guys

608
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: who great personalities, loved by the ASU fan base, and

609
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: you're in a big top ten media market like Phoenix,

610
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: and sure there's money to be made and endorsements and

611
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: so forth. Yeah, that's interesting. That's that's really interesting. Um okay,

612
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: speaking of the dollars, let's just bottom line it. Larry Fitzgerald,

613
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: where are we on this? Where is fits? I was

614
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: stuck at a youth baseball game for the most recent

615
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: Suns game at home. Game five was a courtside. Again

616
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: was Larry courtside? You know what? I did not see

617
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: anything from him at Game five, But I will be honest,

618
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: that was tough to watch all the way around, so

619
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: I wasn't watching for the sideline. I see. You know

620
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: what Larry needs to do. He needs to do to

621
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: Paul George with that NBA referee did to Trey Young.

622
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: He needs to stick his foot out and somehow trip

623
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: off or better yet, maybe you know get it. But

624
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley, who's got it coming? Some of these guys

625
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: who are stirring it up over there, the instigators that

626
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: the Clippers are. You know, Larry needs to maybe have

627
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: an inverted foot they can trip over and twist their ankle.

628
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: That's just wrong, Paula. I don't care. So I have

629
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: two theories tied right now for the culphouse lead when

630
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: it comes to fits, because I see you field it

631
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: at two theories. There was at least one question the

632
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: mail bag about what people think you're holding out on

633
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald. You realize that Darren, they want info on Larry.

634
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: They think you're holding out. You're not telling all. So

635
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: once I don't think people understand how much I really

636
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: want this over with myself. So um, I wrote some

637
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: good stuff that I want to push out to the world. Okay,

638
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: so the probably the most likely, well he the most

639
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: likely scenarios. Guess what Larry's done. He hasn't told anyone.

640
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna have fun with this and you

641
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: think there is a future in football for Larry, I

642
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: think the most likely scenario at this point is that

643
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: he goes all Dwight Freeney and he shows up in

644
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: late September. The last three years of Dwight Freeney's career,

645
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: he didn't show up, continuing me like he was gonna

646
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: strip sack Teddy Bridgewater. No, he's not gonna go Brandon

647
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: Jacobs and go from running back to defensive end. Which

648
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: sorry talking. Remember I said that recently on the Cardinals Underground.

649
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: I said that Derrick Henry reminds me of Brandon Jacobs

650
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: when you look in the backfield and what did I say?

651
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: Why is the defensive end playing running back? And then

652
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: boom like LaVar ball, popa ball. I spoke it into existence,

653
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, there's a story about Brandon

654
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: Jacobs getting interest from NFL team that he Brandon Jacobs,

655
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: he could he could get interest. You know, he could

656
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: be a pass rusher off the edge from He's the

657
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: one thing he's getting interest. I haven't heard that is true.

658
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: He hasn't signed on the line that's dotted. You're right, um,

659
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: And then the only other feasible theory I think at

660
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: this point, and we've we've named him all, I'm going

661
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: to go back to one. I think I used in

662
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: April at some point with an obvious hole at tight

663
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: end on the depth chart. Right now, Jesus, have we

664
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: had a visual on Larry? I mean, you know, have

665
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: we really been able to assess is Larry I mean,

666
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: for a lack of better way to say it, it is,

667
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: is he let himself go? I mean, has he put

668
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: on a good twenty pounds in the offseason? Is he

669
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: purposely maybe tracking towards the body mass of a tight end?

670
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: You know? Is is this something where you know Larry

671
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: could be some what of a flex tight end type?

672
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't tell me he blocks any worse

673
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: than you know, Dan Arnold or a Ricky Seals Jones

674
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: or Rob Housler or Leonard Pope. I mean, you know

675
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: Cardinal's bad blocking tight ends for five hundred. You know,

676
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: you know you're telling me that maybe, some how, some way,

677
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: Larry does have a spot on this team. It's just

678
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: not where he typically with point, my guess is that

679
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald will never let himself go because he has

680
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: reasons to keep his physique outside the football locker room. Um.

681
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: I think he you know, he's still in the prime

682
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: of his life. He wants the ladies to pay attention

683
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: to him. I don't think he's just gonna glad he

684
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: didn't say golf, by the way, because a lot of

685
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: fat guys. I don't think he's gonna go all friedos

686
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: eating friedos all the time things I see. Okay, But

687
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: since he's still a single guy out there, you're saying,

688
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: there's there's other reasons I do not stay in changing

689
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: his single status at any more. Yeah, all right, So

690
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: I mean, is there anything else out there that we

691
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: need to be aware of in terms of a working

692
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: theory on Larry Fitzgerald and where this Aul stands Darren Again,

693
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: I don't see. I don't have the brain that you do, Paul.

694
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: And and that's a fair point to make, that's to

695
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: your advantage. And uh, ultimately I can't get away from

696
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: like I watch your name picture is a top of

697
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: the fold on the website with the when the when

698
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: the Sun's season is over wherever whenever that might be,

699
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: and God forbid that happens. I hope it's later than

700
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: rather than sooner. But who knows the way this is.

701
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: It's been hard, it's been a hard um and tattoo aside,

702
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 1: and uh so we'll see what happens. But I really

703
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: think the Suns have to be done before. I mean,

704
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: I just please, please, don't just go off silent. I mean,

705
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: just don't do that to us. Fits say something. Do

706
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: you think do you think he's unsure? Do you think

707
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: he's still honestly, genuinely trying to decide? Here, here's what

708
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: I think. I was actually thinking about this myself last night.

709
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: I don't know why this came up in my head,

710
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: but it did. I do think that he is leaning

711
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: towards being done. I also think we we Joe about

712
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: how he wants to kind of fade away and everything.

713
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: But I also believe Larry is the type of person

714
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: it's going to be very, very very difficult to say

715
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: those words out loud, and it's one thing to tweet it,

716
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: and he might be able to do that or do

717
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: the player's tribute an article or whatever, But in terms

718
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: of like having a press conference, I mean, honestly, I

719
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 1: don't there. In all the years I've known Larry Fitzgerald,

720
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: and I'm not around him most of the time, obviously,

721
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: but I have not seen him be very emotional most

722
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: of the time. I think he would be the type

723
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: of person that would have a very very difficult time

724
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: getting up in front of people and talking about how

725
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: his career is over. I do think he might be

726
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: upset by that a little bit right now now. Maybe

727
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: eventually when he does it and it's really settled in,

728
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: or we play some games or whatever. But I that's

729
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: just my take on it. And if Larry wants to

730
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: text me and say I'm full of crap, because of

731
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: course I'm sure he's listening to Cardinal's Underground, he's welcome

732
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: to do that. Once again, we need to rename this

733
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: to a golf podcast, and Larry Fitzgerald will be our guest.

734
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,959
Speaker 1: That that's the key around here is under the guys

735
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: and auspices that we're doing a golf podcast. Larry, we'll

736
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: join us and we'll hear from the man himself. But

737
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: until that happens, no chance whatsoever. Since I don't golf,

738
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you golf, Paul not very well.

739
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: I've purposely given it up recently. I got anger management

740
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: issues when it comes to golf, so that wouldn't work.

741
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: And you can't do that because you haven't played the

742
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: next number of years, and then you can't expect yourself

743
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: to play well, So you better have the mindset going

744
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: in that I can't expect myself to play well because

745
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: I've never played well. So this is gonna be eighteen

746
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: ols of agony. Get my mind right, let's go. That's

747
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: that's what you need to come to grips with before

748
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: you ever tee it up. And you're right, by the way,

749
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: on Larry, the game is much more meaningful to him

750
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: than he lets on. Oh yeah, and he's much more

751
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: a historian of the game and knows everything involved with

752
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: not only the Cardinals, but the rest of the league

753
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: and the history of the game. He is. It is

754
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: his life. Now. Look does he have hobbies, obviously, and

755
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: he's got a massive golf jones. We get that. But

756
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 1: it's his career, it's his passion. And you know that's

757
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: what drives him in so many ways, is playing football.

758
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: When he says he has no desire to coach, I

759
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: believe him, You believe no, No, he in a coach.

760
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: It's competing that drives him. The bottom line, and this

761
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: goes for so many players. But you can have a

762
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: golf jones, but what's Larry thirty six thirty seven Somewhere

763
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: in there. I mean, he's gonna be golfing when he's

764
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: sixty five. When he says goodbye to pro football. It's over.

765
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: He is not playing pro football anymore. Now he can

766
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: make baby old gaut in the backyard and toss it

767
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: around with his kids, but it's over. And that's a

768
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: tough that's a tough thing for most athletes to do,

769
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: and for somebody who you know, he spent. I mean,

770
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: he's not going to quite get to half his life

771
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: playing pro football, but it's he's gotten a lot closer

772
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: than a lot of other people do. So, you know,

773
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: I don't refer to this very often, but when I

774
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: was a nineteen year old punk and an assistant to

775
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: the assistant producer doing TV in the Bay Area, they

776
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: would send me up to forty nine ers training camp,

777
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: and so I'd go up there and I have the

778
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: wireless mike, and it was, in hindsight, it was unbelievable.

779
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: There I am interviewing Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott and

780
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: Roger Craig and Jerry Rice. Yeah, and Jerry Rice was

781
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: even though married, family the whole thing. He was much

782
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: like Larry. Yeah, he got up every day to play football.

783
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: We know Larry or Jerry Rice played until he was

784
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: around forty, at twenty years in the game, and when

785
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: a few years ago, if you remember, Jerry Rice was

786
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: in the sideline and fits and they embraced and the

787
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: cameras were there and the whole thing, and Jerry had

788
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: a few things to say. You could just see the

789
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: envy Jerry Rice. This is just me. This is just

790
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: me reading Jerry's mind and the look on his face

791
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: and having covered him some two decades plus a go.

792
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: But just to see man, Jerry would have given anything

793
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 1: in that instant to trade places. Larry Fitzgerald put on

794
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: the pads and walk across that white stripe, because there

795
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: is a world of difference between being on the sideline

796
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: side of that white stripe and the playing field side

797
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: of that white stripe. And that's Larry knows. Once you

798
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: cross over that you're never going back. Have you ever

799
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: seen the movie Everybody's All American? No, it's came out

800
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: in the early nineties. I want to say, it doesn't

801
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: star Adam Sandler, doesn't. No, it's Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quid.

802
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: I believe it's based on a book. Dennis Quaid plays

803
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: a star football player at LSU and like the fifties,

804
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: and it kind of traces his life with his girlfriend

805
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: and wife, and but it traces his life as a

806
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: football player from star at LSU to high draft pick

807
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: playing for a terrible NFL team to retired and spoilers

808
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: right now, so if you haven't seen it and you

809
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: want to go see it, turning less off now. When

810
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: he's playing at LSU, he's really well adjusted. He enjoys

811
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: being a star, but he doesn't he's got no ego.

812
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: He downplays it, and he's kind of aw shucks about it,

813
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: like why does everybody pay so much attention to me?

814
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: He gets into the pros, it's definitely a business. He's

815
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: playing for a bad team. He gets hurt, he gets

816
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: some money, but it's not the same as the glory

817
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,720
Speaker 1: of college football at LSU. And then in his old age,

818
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: as you get to the end of the movie again spoilers,

819
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: he comes back to LSU for a like the twenty

820
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of his team or whatever, and he's out

821
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: on the field and he's the last guy, the galloping ghost,

822
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: and the crowd starts clapping for him, and you can

823
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: tell he is completely enjoying being back in this element

824
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 1: of being the star and LSU and all the crowd,

825
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: and they start getting louder and louder, and he gets

826
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: this grin on his face, like I really miss this,

827
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: and he realizes all of a sudden, the reason the

828
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: crowd got loud was because the current team was running

829
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: out on the field, and he realized they weren't cheering

830
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: for him, and he realized that he's not. And again,

831
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: it really and actually, if I remember correctly, it was

832
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: a fictional book written by a sports writer and I'm

833
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: trying to remember who wrote it, a sports illustrator writer,

834
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: I want to say, but ultimately that's what it is.

835
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: I mean you in the moment, and I think Fitz

836
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: was a like this. Sometimes he doesn't like the spotlight

837
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: and he doesn't like the media and all this stuff.

838
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,439
Speaker 1: But a lot of these guys, and maybe he won't

839
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: be this way, but a lot of these guys, once

840
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: they're away from it for a while, they realize how

841
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: much they really did like it. Dear you know, this

842
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: is my final thought on this. Around the Dignity Health

843
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals training Center. It could be laid on a

844
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: Friday of a game week everybody is gone. Yeah, and

845
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: you're cutting through the facility in the training room and

846
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: you look over and there's Larry. Yeah he's still there. Yeah,

847
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: he spends a lot of time here. Yeah, you're right.

848
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: So we'll see. We'll see exactly what might transpire by

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Speaker 1: the time either a the Suns are done or be

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Speaker 1: won't know until late September. We'll see about I expect

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Speaker 1: him for the Thursday night game against the Packers. The

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Speaker 1: question is will we see Kyle again after we have

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Speaker 1: him interviewing for the next Gen stats gig? Oh wait, no,

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Speaker 1: supposed to get you that? Yeah that tweet tweet? Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, By the way, did I give you the

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Speaker 1: Titans update desk further evidence around here? The Cardinals rule

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Speaker 1: is should just start game planning for the Vikings. Don't

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Speaker 1: even show up in Nashville for Week one because now

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Speaker 1: Com thing that came out this week saying that Julio

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Speaker 1: Jones trade quote makes too much sense and this is

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Speaker 1: one of those cases where half the league will be

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Speaker 1: kicking themselves when Jones is at a thousand yards by

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Speaker 1: week twelve. So once again, Ryan Tannehill got a lot better.

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Speaker 1: There is a reason why the biggest bandwagon power pole,

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans and SOS tweet let's see. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: they're reading all of that between now in September twenty

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Speaker 1: that tweet we'll do. That'll do it for This edition

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