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Speaker 1: everyone's doing well because I got a big show today.

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Speaker 1: I recorded most of the podcast. It's where you have

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Speaker 1: again today of just my experience of watching my stud

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Speaker 1: we will keep the content coming. Other than that, obviously,

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Speaker 1: the show's on Netflix. You can check that out just

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Speaker 1: taking some notes of some ideas I have and obviously,

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Speaker 1: to the podcast Apple Spotify. We got you covered. And

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Speaker 1: let's dive into the podcast. A couple things really jump out.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's at the game, John spy Tech's at the game.

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Speaker 1: Mark Davis is at the game. The other rich guys

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Speaker 1: They're there to see Fernando Mendoza. And early in that

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Speaker 1: game he got hit like it was an NFL game.

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Speaker 1: Bain's going to be a top five pick, messidor the

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Speaker 1: So they have two pass rushers who are going to

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Speaker 1: They're bringing blitzes. They are hitting the shit out of

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Speaker 1: they already know they're gonna draft him. When you saw that,

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Speaker 1: you went, hell yeah, Because the NFL is not the

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Speaker 1: The Big Twelve's changed a little bit now with Utah

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Speaker 1: one thing about Fernando Mendoza is I would say, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was in college. Maybe Matt Ryan was a better

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Speaker 1: Dan Lannings, Kenny Dillingham's guys that became rich in their

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Speaker 1: head coach very badly. Because my first reaction, I don't

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Speaker 1: know morganzi person. I've never met the guy, but my

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Speaker 1: close friends with the Chiefs really really like him, have

431
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Speaker 1: spoke highly of him. My issue is, and I knew

432
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Speaker 1: a guy on the Tagan staff the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: That is a dysfunctional place. That is a real I've

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Speaker 1: heard their owner is and the ownership operation is an embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: Now it is a beautiful place. I love Nashville. I

436
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Speaker 1: got married there ten months ago. I if life goes well,

437
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Speaker 1: I would love to own a place there one day.

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Speaker 1: So I am a pro. I totally understand living there.

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Speaker 1: I love living in Scottsdale. I would never, if I

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Speaker 1: was a football coach, want to be the head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals. I think the Arizona Cardinals job

442
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Speaker 1: is one I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole

443
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Speaker 1: if I were these guys. I think the Titans job

444
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Speaker 1: is pretty risky. I really do that. They have proven

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Speaker 1: to be extremely dysfunctional. Now Sala a little like Rabel,

446
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: but Rabel's like an alpha's alpha. Sala's like an alpha's

447
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: good guy, you know. And Vrabel went in there just

448
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: swing as you know what, around and it worked until

449
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: it didn't because the owner got offended or something like

450
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Speaker 1: you're too mean to everybody fired him. Well how'd that go?

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Speaker 1: And I just don't know if they are situated to

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Speaker 1: operate with the ownership they have and talent wise, clearly

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Speaker 1: they don't know that much. The quarterback who I want

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Speaker 1: to like, I mean, I liked him at Miami, I

455
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Speaker 1: followed him at Washington State. He was pretty bad last year.

456
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Speaker 1: He's got some physical traits, but is he a good

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Speaker 1: football player? Now? I think if you wanted to counter that,

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Speaker 1: like if I was his agent or his friend or

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Speaker 1: a supporter, I'd be like, did you see what was

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Speaker 1: going on? And I'd be fair. It's hard to even

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Speaker 1: judge you in that situation. But that is a job

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Speaker 1: that I don't when you were going to be a

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Speaker 1: guy like Robert Sala and just have options over the

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Speaker 1: course of the next couple of years and be clearly

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Speaker 1: one of the top candidates year in year out. If

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Speaker 1: I'd go all in for the Tennessee Titans, especially in

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Speaker 1: a division like CJ was really bad in that game.

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00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: The Texans are really really well run. They are going nowhere.

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00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: The Jacks really good coach, going nowhere. Hell, the Colts

470
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Speaker 1: have good players if they could just get some quarterback play.

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Speaker 1: I find that pretty risky. I really do. And and

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. I don't think he has a relationship

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Speaker 1: with Borganzi. So you're getting into business with someone you

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Speaker 1: don't know that well, it's not like you have unlimited leverage.

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Speaker 1: You know, clearly the Titans were desperate. They probably paid

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Speaker 1: him a decent amount of money. But Sala has already

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Speaker 1: made a ton. So when you're already super rich, when

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Speaker 1: you make decisions on money, okay, like I would have

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Speaker 1: probably if I was his friend, be like, listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that this Niner thing year and year out.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna dominate every year and everyone's gonna stay healthy

482
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Speaker 1: because no one ever stays healthy. But you want to

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Speaker 1: leave for the Titans, you want to leave for the Titans.

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Speaker 1: I just think that's that's pretty risky. And from a

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Speaker 1: forty Niner standpoint, it's a massive blow. There's no way,

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Speaker 1: it's a massive blow because when they've had Robert Sala,

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Speaker 1: and when they've had Demko, everything was was impressive in

488
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Speaker 1: a high level operation on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: From a player standpoint, from a coaching standpoint, just from

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Speaker 1: a vibe standpoint. They tried to replace those two guys

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Speaker 1: for a couple of year run and it was bad.

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Speaker 1: I know, one year they made the playoffs, but it

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Speaker 1: was players were complaining, and then last year was a

494
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: joke or two years ago not easy to replace. Now, luckily,

495
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Speaker 1: because of the firings, there are a ton of options,

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Speaker 1: and Kyle's no dummy like Saula has been in the mix.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got a short list of the available candidates.

498
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Speaker 1: But Saula was easy. It was almost like getting back

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Speaker 1: with an X that you really loved and she loved you,

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Speaker 1: but you knew, like, yeah, we're probably not gonna get married,

501
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: so this is gonna be somewhat short lived, so you

502
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Speaker 1: better enjoy it. And luckily they got to enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: They got to go on that little run with their injuries.

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Speaker 1: But man, I it's gonna be interesting to see who

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Speaker 1: Kyle hires as defensive coordinator because if you would have said, hey,

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Speaker 1: I lost Robert sol I would have been like, oh,

507
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Speaker 1: the Ravens hired him, the Steelers hired him, Buffalo hired him.

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Speaker 1: I would not have had on my short list that

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Speaker 1: he would have accepted the Tennessee Titans job. Maybe I'm

510
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: being naive, And again I'm not some hater of like

511
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Speaker 1: love Nashville. Would if you told me I had to

512
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Speaker 1: move somewhere tomorrow, I would move there. So I just

513
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: think the football team kind of matters, kind of matters

514
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 1: love living in Scott Steel. I'm a podcaster. Would not

515
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: want to be here if I had to work for

516
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Speaker 1: the Ears on a Cardinals. Why because the owners of

517
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: clown and when you get these bad owners and these

518
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: poor operations and these just it's hard to overcome. And

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Speaker 1: the other thing is is cam Ward any good? Because

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00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: if he's not, it's not like you can get rid

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Speaker 1: of him next year. He's the number one overall pick

522
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Speaker 1: in the draft, so at minimum you're gonna play a

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Speaker 1: couple of years with the guy. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty risky hire, or I mean a pretty risky acceptance

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Speaker 1: from him, Like it's a no brainer if you're you

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Speaker 1: know them. I would hire Robert Solid too. I think

527
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Speaker 1: actually Robert Saal is his tenure with the Jets aged better,

528
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Speaker 1: and he's probably better equipped for a little the New

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Speaker 1: York markets, not for everybody, he'll be He'll fit in

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Speaker 1: fine in kind of a smaller operation and a little

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Speaker 1: less you know, the daily hyperbolic, crazy nature of just

532
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Speaker 1: the Northeast in the sports scene, the Tennessee's, I mean,

533
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: college football is bigger down there than the NFL. But

534
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: the NFL is big. They're building this new stadium. It's

535
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Speaker 1: gonna be badass. It's right downtown that their practicility is cool.

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Speaker 1: I don't know I would I would not have done

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00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: that if I was Robert sla Well. Obviously, the big

538
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: story of Monday was the news that Sean McDermott had

539
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Speaker 1: been fired, and we had talked about it after the game.

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Speaker 1: I think you can kind of see the writing on

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Speaker 1: the wall, and I recorded it that night, not even

542
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Speaker 1: quite understanding the level of reaction from the players, who

543
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: I think spoke to what was on the line. Mahomes

544
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found. Lamar Jackson didn't make the playoffs.

545
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: Herbert came limping in and has never done anything in

546
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You're going through a second year Drake May

547
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: who know the Patriots are a team they're comfortable playing.

548
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: They see him every year. From a personnel standpoint, bo Knicks,

549
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: who had one game of playoff experience, obviously didn't go

550
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: well against the Bills last year. Once you got by Jacksonville,

551
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: who's arguably the hottest team in the league beside maybe Seattle,

552
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: that all signs pointed to you, we can win the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl. I would imagine after they won that game. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: if they had lost that game, Sean would have been

555
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: fired as well. I think that's pretty obvious. But once

556
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: they go into Denver and then they have a four

557
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: point lead late in that game, even despite what had happened,

558
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: the expectations couldn't have been higher. It was truly for

559
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: a team that had never made the super Bowl in

560
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,959
Speaker 1: terms of this era of the josh Alan run, it

561
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: was super Bowl or bust. That's how it felt on

562
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: the outside. That's how it felt clearly inside to them,

563
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 1: and that's what led to the coach getting fired because

564
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Speaker 1: the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and

565
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: over football is a very black and white business. Right

566
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Speaker 1: The reason we talk about Nick Saban's process is because

567
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: he won like fifteen national championships. No one cares about

568
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: your process. If you're the New York Jets, the media

569
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Speaker 1: kind of they're doing the right things, they're taking the

570
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: right steps. Well it's not working right. The process matters.

571
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Speaker 1: People are intrigued by it. When you're Jeff Bezos, right,

572
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Speaker 1: when you're Bill Belichick, when you're Greg Popovich in the

573
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: prime of their dynasties. Right, you gotta win, and Sean

574
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: McDermott ultimately didn't win enough. And if you watch the

575
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: Lway doc, same thing happen with Dan Reeves. The difference

576
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: was is he was at odds with the quarterback. Doesn't

577
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: quite feel like that here, But it's the nature of

578
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: pro sports. There have been a lot of guys who've

579
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: talked about this before that have got OsO close for

580
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: several years and ultimately get replaced because the team thinks

581
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: they need to take the next step. Totally understandable. I

582
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: don't even think that logic is wrong. I just do

583
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: not understand how the general manager doesn't get fired. I

584
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: mean I do. He has a pr background, he's clearly

585
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: a pretty good politician, because how can you tell me

586
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott deserves more blame than a general manager

587
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: and then he gets promoted. But I do understand because

588
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: if you looked around the league, it's been one giant

589
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: Joe Peshi meme with the gms walking their coaches into

590
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: a meeting when the guy thinks he's getting made and

591
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: then they kill him. And that's happening. How do all

592
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: these gms from Joe Shane to the dude in Arizona

593
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: to Andrew Berry, They're surviving all over the league, and

594
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: it happens a lot. These are teams that are losing

595
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: at a really, really high clip and when you factor

596
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: in the bills, like is it a and Mike Florio

597
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: wrote this, like we found out that the owner thinks

598
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: that it's not a talent problem, that it's a coaching problem.

599
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: They've had two Pro Bowlers besides Josh I think since

600
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, of all the guys that he has drafted,

601
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean. So I don't quite grasp how you could

602
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is worse at

603
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,719
Speaker 1: his job than Brandon Bean. There have been a lot

604
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: of things going viral of Brandon arguing with different media

605
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: members locally in the market about draft picks and things

606
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: over the years like that. That doesn't bother me. It's

607
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: people get pissed off. They take a lot of prime.

608
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm fine. But if you're just judged on wins and losses,

609
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: because that's how the coaches judge, what's the GM judged on? Well?

610
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Speaker 1: I like him. He's easy to deal with. He can

611
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: speak money with me. He can talk country clubs, which

612
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: I understand. Like there's you probably have more in common

613
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Speaker 1: with the GM than you do the coach who speaks Chinese,

614
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: because you don't understand as no one does help. Most

615
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: scouts don't true true football. They don't know the playbook,

616
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Speaker 1: they can't speak that type language. Sometimes these announcers, you know,

617
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: Tony Romo or whoever, will say things like, guys, no

618
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: one knows what robber means. No one watching this. There's

619
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Speaker 1: forty five million people, and the percentage of people that

620
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: can relate to that is really small because football is

621
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: a complicated game. And I think that's why GM survived

622
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: very often, because when the coach is on an island

623
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Speaker 1: during the game, on the sideline, with his players losing

624
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: in devastating fashion, where's the GM typically in the owner

625
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: suite eating popcorn, having to Die Coke talking who knows

626
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: what the Masters of money contracts, things that rich people

627
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: talk about. They speak that language and that's why they survive.

628
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: But the Buffalo Bills, like the Ravens, these are two

629
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: of the greatest job openings I can ever remember MVP

630
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in their proNT The difference is when I sign

631
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: up for the Ravens, I get Eric Tacosta, Nazzi Newshm.

632
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: It's crazy Ozzi retired. He's still around a lot, works

633
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: out there every day in the draft room. I mean

634
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: last draft Ozzie Newsom at the head of the table,

635
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: not even on the side. But I get an infrastructure

636
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: there that has been proven over and over with the bills,

637
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: you don't now. Signing up for Josh Allen is something

638
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: any coach would be crazy not to do. And they're

639
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a line. You know. Sometimes, like on Instagram,

640
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Speaker 1: you see a line. We have this new coffee shop

641
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: in Arizona. My wife was showing me and there was

642
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: this line like a mile long. It's like, I don't

643
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: care unless the coffee is a fountain of youth. There

644
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: is no way I would wait more than I don't

645
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: know fifteen people for a cup of coffee. I don't

646
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: care how desperate I am. I would just go to

647
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: another coffee shop and I think that's gonna be the

648
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: thing here. But there's gonna be a line and people

649
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: will wait their turn just to try to get an

650
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: interview for this gig. Is the owner making the call?

651
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: Is the GM making the call? That's gonna be fascinating.

652
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: It's pretty clear Erda Costa Bushati, you feel pretty comfortable

653
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: signing up for that. In theory, the Steelers would be

654
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: like that instead. But the difference is that roster sucks.

655
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if their front office is any good.

656
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 1: You get Josh Allen and you get some good players

657
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: under contract, right, But I just I'm at a loss

658
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott loses his job and the GM gets promoted.

659
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: It makes no fucking sense to me. I mean, it

660
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: really doesn't. And I'm not just sticking up because I

661
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: worked with him. I have a lot of respect for him.

662
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: I think he's not only a solid football coach clearly,

663
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: I mean resurrected the franchise with Josh, but like a

664
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: really high character guy. And the one thing you've learned,

665
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: like I've become pretty numb as I haven't been in

666
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: a W two job in a decade, so you do deals,

667
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: and in my situation over the past decade, you just

668
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: kind of become numb. And part of it I had

669
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: worked in I don't even know, corporate American radio in football,

670
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: which is a corporate structure. Once you get out of

671
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: the real world and you know you're negotiating for yourself,

672
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: you just realize how cutthroat the world is and it

673
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: helps numb you to the business world. And I think

674
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people in football, the more and more

675
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: they get fired, they become numb to at all. And

676
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: I think the faster you do that, the easier it

677
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: is to kind of get involved. But the difference is

678
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: in football, like you have people backstabbing you, because that's

679
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: what it kind of feels like here that how does

680
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: this happen? I don't quite understand, and it's been happening

681
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: all around the league this year, so it'll be fascinating

682
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: to watch how this plays out. That they're going to

683
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: have people lined up for the gig, just like I

684
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: would imagine the Ravens do as well. I mean, there

685
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 1: these are great jobs when you factor in the quarterback

686
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 1: because that's a make or break thing for your success

687
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: as a coach. Why did all these guys get fired?

688
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: White stefansk Can get fired? Had no quarterback? Why Jonathan

689
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: Gannon get right out of town? Had no quarterback? Likes

690
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: it's not that complicated, Robert Solo, why'd they get their quarterback?

691
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: Situation was a disaster, But man, I just I don't

692
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: understand it. You know, some things make sense. The Packers

693
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: assist in GM, I think might have been a title

694
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: VP something. You know, these titles. I don't even know

695
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: what titles mean anymore. But he gets hired in Miami, right,

696
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: So who's he probably gonna hire? Well, Jeff Haffley, who

697
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: everyone's been ringing his praise is if you just watch

698
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: Jeff Hafley press conferences, he's really impressive. He hired him.

699
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: He's an impressive guy. Makes a lot of sense. You

700
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: can see how that worked. But I don't see how

701
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: some I understand how Eric Tacosta keeps his job. I

702
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: don't understand how Brandon Being keeps his job. I don't

703
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: understand how Joe Shane kept his job. I really don't.

704
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: If you're basing it on, you're getting fired because we're

705
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: not doing well enough. On the field, well, they're a

706
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: part of that too. They're a huge part of that,

707
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: your partner in crime as a coach, until it comes

708
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: to making a decision about employment, and then they're like, ah,

709
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: I got nothing to do with it. That was him,

710
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: that was him coaching shitty. I'm just up here, you know,

711
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: eating a Snickers bar, watching the game with you, sir,

712
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: Just order another coke zero, get me a thing of popcorn,

713
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: let me put in a zen. So shake my head. Man.

714
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: It kind of pisses me off because I just don't

715
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: get it. I really don't. And I think I'm not

716
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: a huge believer in fairness. Like this is the real world.

717
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as fair. You don't like I

718
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: didn't even argue there's no such thing as deserve. I

719
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: remember writing down this quote a long time ago, and

720
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: the older you get, you realize how true it is.

721
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: Like you don't deserve anything. You get what you negotiate.

722
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: This is not like your family. This is business, so

723
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: get ready for shady situations. But I still think I

724
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: was floored when I saw that he got promoted, because

725
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: when I get the text that he's been fired, I expect, Oh,

726
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: they blew out everybody. When I see Jeff Hafley's hired him, like,

727
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: oh yeah, no doubt, totally makes sense. Right When Matt

728
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: Naggi is probably gonna be the head coach of the

729
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: Titans and Andy Rees rehires Eric b Enemy, You're like, oh,

730
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: no brainer, Get Eric, who's kind of a you know,

731
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: hard ass, get him back in there and ruffle some

732
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: feathers and totally understand. And he feels very comfortable with him.

733
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: Todd Munkin going with horriball. A lot of things make

734
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: sense in the NFL. This one doesn't. I'm sorry, and

735
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm usually not shocked. I've been kind of shocked all

736
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: day that this is the way it played out. I

737
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: would say, I don't even have a clue who they're

738
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: going to hire next. I saw people day ball. I

739
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: don't know who knows what Bean thinks about him. I

740
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: don't know. I am just kind of at a loss.

741
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. Before we dive into the mailbag,

742
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday we're going to do this today and

743
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: I called it the Daddy Diaries. I'm not Alex Cooper.

744
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: It's the Dad Diaries. I just hadn't slept much and

745
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: I did want to hit on a couple of things

746
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: before we dive into the mailbag. From my experience of

747
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: having the baby, which is obviously for most people, the

748
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: biggest day of your life when you have your children.

749
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: I think everyone says it's the most important and most

750
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: magical and powerful day that you will ever experience. And

751
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: I would say, in my forty years of life, it

752
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: was the most powerful thing I've ever experienced. And I

753
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: think I haven't spent that much time in hospitals. My

754
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: dad's been sick a couple times throughout my life, and

755
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: my mom got sick once. But when you're kind of

756
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: coming and going as a guest and you're not sitting

757
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: in there the entire time, especially, I mean if they're

758
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: only there three or four days, you know your experience,

759
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: isn't it true, Like you're sitting in the bed or

760
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: your significant other is sitting in the bed, obviously your

761
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 1: parents are sitting there. But the doctors tell you everything's

762
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, even if you know there's a breast

763
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: cancer situation or whatever that I've gone through in my life.

764
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: When the doctor are like everything's gonna be okay, you

765
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: just kind of believe them and stuff happened to me

766
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: when I was young, and maybe you're a little more

767
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: naive to the way health and the world works and

768
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: people passing away, so you never know, you probably should

769
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: have a little more fear going in that room. But

770
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: when it happens to you and your teens, your twenties,

771
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: there's almost a naivete or you just can't even wrap

772
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: your head around it. When you go into this, you just,

773
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you do have worst case scenario thoughts in

774
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: your head. You're worried, my wife's getting a C section,

775
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: how it's all gonna go. And then you go in

776
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: and you realize it's the biggest day of my life,

777
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,240
Speaker 1: it's the biggest day of her life. Yet everyone working

778
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: in there, our doctor that's gonna conduct the surgery, all

779
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: the nurses around her, that's a Tuesday, that's another day

780
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: at the office. And it's just I was floored how

781
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: confident and easy, which is totally understandable. I've done who

782
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: knows how many podcasts in my life, thousands of podcasts,

783
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: hit records are talking. Obviously there's more to it and

784
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,479
Speaker 1: more prep or whatever, but I don't even think about

785
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: doing it. And I do think anytime something becomes a job.

786
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: There's a routine, there's a It's like anyone that plays golf.

787
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: If you got ten people watching it, you start getting

788
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 1: a little nervous. Ever been to a PGA Tour event,

789
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: especially a big one and they don't even notice it

790
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: why they've been doing it so long. Tiger didn't notice

791
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: the ten thousand people following him hold a hole after

792
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: a couple of years, because it just becomes routine. And

793
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: watching these people just go about their routine job and

794
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: do it at such a high level is something I

795
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: will never forget. And we had the baby showing her

796
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: the baby it's you know, obviously blood around it. They're

797
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: cleaning it off and she's got a tarp over because

798
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: they're and the doctor is being asked by the nurse

799
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: she's originally from Texas, like if she grew up liking

800
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: country music? And if you know, she said she like

801
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks, but her parents like classic rock. And Maria's

802
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: face is like, are they really just having a normal

803
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: person conversation while by my insides are ripped open, And

804
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, they are, because that's what they do.

805
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: And I left the hospital after a couple of days

806
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: thinking I need to be a better person, because the

807
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 1: hospility is probably the wrong word, but the kindness and

808
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 1: just the genuine nature you feel from these nurses. Again,

809
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: like I said, I haven't spend that much time in hospitals,

810
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: and especially just forty eight hours of just never leaving

811
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: the room or the building and just dealing with these

812
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: people whose only job is to make sure everything possibly

813
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 1: is going well for you is something I will never forget.

814
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: And a couple of days ago, I was going to

815
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Starbucks and I was just in a bad mood because

816
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: I had slept like three hours in like four days.

817
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: And the lady sometimes the Starbucks, they're very happy, and

818
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to be. I was like grumpy

819
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: at first. I'm like, fucking put on a smile. These

820
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: people are working over night shifts at the hospital, and

821
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: I never saw even close to a frown. It was

822
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: the most optimistic, happy place I can ever remember. And

823
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: the way I would describe the baby experience, and you

824
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: leave realizing one thing Maria's always said, and she's kind

825
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: of right, is we always talk about his guys, like

826
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: when you do something it's the older you get. It's

827
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: usually something business related, taking a risk, in life, or

828
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,720
Speaker 1: it can be trying to date someone right, asking someone

829
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: out and getting aggressive. Maybe just fly somewhere to show up,

830
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: take him out on a date. Your boy did that

831
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: once upon a time and now I'm married. But you

832
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: get credit. And we say this, you see it in

833
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: football he went forward on fourth down. That guy has balls. Yet,

834
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: when someone is unwilling to take risks, what do we

835
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: all say? Big pussy? What a wuss? What a what

836
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: a puss? Right, that's what we call him? And she says,

837
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: you know, the funny part is if I kick you

838
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: in the balls, you go to the ground. Yet babies

839
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: come out of this. It's like, yes, she makes a

840
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: pretty good point, and you watch or go through this.

841
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: They are so tough and the motherly instincts to not

842
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: need sleep, to immediately flip the switch of someone that

843
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: never has had a kid to then get the kid

844
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: handed to them while especially in her situation having the

845
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 1: C section, or if you go through a regular berth

846
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: and just be able to bounce back and basically not

847
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: sleep for two straight days and just try to keep

848
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: the kid alive. You know, obviously you have nurse help

849
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: when you're in the in in the hospital, but is

850
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: It's unlike anything I've ever seen. And I would imagine,

851
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: like anyone listening to this, the respect you have not

852
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: you obviously, if you're married to someone, you should have

853
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: respect for them, but from a mental toughness and physical

854
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: toughness standpoint, blew my mind. She's a fucking rock star,

855
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: Like I could never have done that, and if I

856
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: had been cut open, I wouldn't be leaving the hospital

857
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: for a while, let alone not sleeping. Then the breastfeeding

858
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: and everything that comes with it, and not being able

859
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: to sleep for more than a couple hours at a

860
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: time is an eye opening experience, which is I don't

861
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: even know how to describe it, but it's awesome, it

862
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: really is. And the one way I would describe the hospital,

863
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: at least in the baby unit, when people have babies

864
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: and stay there for a couple of days and no

865
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: one's sleeping. It's like the NFL meets a Navy seal mission,

866
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: because in the NFL, you work crazy hours and you

867
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: go to the coffee machine at like nine to thirty,

868
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: and there aren't many industries where you show up at

869
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: six or seven in the morning and you're still going

870
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: four or five days a week for five or six

871
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: straight months to the coffee machine well after nine pm,

872
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: and there's a line to get coffee. Like, that's not

873
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: normal in most of these businesses, right, I'd even say

874
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: Wall Street, you have individual deals. But in football, seventeen

875
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: straight weeks at games and starting in training camp, your

876
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: routine is crazy. So a lot it kind of was

877
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: a throwback of I was going to the coffee machine

878
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: at nine thirty at night, my first night there with her,

879
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: and there were multiple people standing and these weren't nurses,

880
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: these were other dads, another visitor. Just felt pretty normal.

881
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: And then there's the aspect of like saving Private Ryan,

882
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: where all you're trying to do. This happens a lot,

883
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: especially in like military movies, but it's true in real life.

884
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: You're just trying to get the person home out of danger.

885
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: It happened to my dad. His brother died in Vietnam

886
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: and they immediately need to get him home because the

887
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,959
Speaker 1: way our military works, you can't have two people in

888
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: the family end if they're both killed in war. I

889
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: was saving Private Ryant thing, right, you got to get

890
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: him back so the family name can continue. And you

891
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: just look at this little guy, you have no experience

892
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: besides your friends or your family, But now it's all

893
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: on you, and it's just about keeping them alive. And

894
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: all you're worried about is is he breathing? Is he breathing?

895
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: So you're just constantly kind of poking. I'm getting a moved,

896
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: putting your finger above his nose to see if air's

897
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: coming out. And it's unlike anything I've ever seen or

898
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: experienced in my life. The no sleep factored in the

899
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: survival of someone else who is seven or eight pounds

900
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: and can't do anything on his own. But it's definitely

901
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: the coolest, most powerful thing that you will probably ever

902
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: go through in your life. And I'm very lucky that

903
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: my wife, even a couple hours after surgery, they looked

904
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: at it every They're like, are you an athlete? Think

905
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: you know did gymnastics when I was in high school.

906
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: She's in good shape, worked out the majority of her pregnancy.

907
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: It's like, we don't see you are handling this really well.

908
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: You get this big C section, and her heart rate

909
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: was never high. It was like fifty to sixty the

910
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: whole time, and we got let go discharged within under

911
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. Even the pediatrician when we were getting

912
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: talked about discharging, came in and had to come back

913
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 1: and was like you were a C section. It's like yeah,

914
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: And so we got very lucky that way, and my

915
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: son right on que made sure we were home for

916
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: well before kickoff of Josh Allen. But that experience, the optimism,

917
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: how happy everyone is. I say this all the time,

918
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: like society everyone just shitting on it. If you get online,

919
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: like get offline and just go into the real world,

920
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: like most people I run across are really happy or

921
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: just pretty normal or not screaming at each other, but

922
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: just out in the real world, you see things, and

923
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: when you have a baby, you're just not even on

924
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: your phone. You kind of get detached. And I have

925
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: never been to more of like an optimistic place and

926
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: a more encouraging, helpful, helpful situation than the nurses that

927
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: are involved Honor Health in Scottsdale. I would give it

928
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: a twenty out of ten. It could not have gone

929
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: better and feel very, very fortunate to have had a

930
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: baby there because it was as smooth as possible. And

931
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: he's doing well. He's just he's sucking on some milk

932
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, and we'll just keep the Dad Diaries.

933
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: Going have some other takes that I will roll into

934
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: next week. But we'll now talk some football because we'll

935
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: do a little Middlecough mail bag for those of you

936
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: watching on Netflix, the Middlecoff mail Bag at John Middlecoff

937
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff, Fire in those dms, get your questions

938
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: answered here on the show, and we'll do this, I

939
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: mean multiple times a week. So depending on the week,

940
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: especially with the baby, we might have to fire off

941
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: some more of these, So make sure you fire in

942
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: those dms. Need a bunch of your questions as we

943
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: roll to this big game or the big games on Sunday.

944
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: This is John and he's supposed to like Gruden Jailwen.

945
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: Concerning overtime rules, since any kind of sudden death overtime

946
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: isn't really representative of the better team, how about a

947
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: field goal kickoff five kicks guaranteed from different distances and

948
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: hashes a la soccer, and if not sudden death, maybe

949
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,760
Speaker 1: in a determined field position to skill limit extra reps

950
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 1: for player safety. The reason that that would never happen

951
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: is because the coaches hate field goal kickers. The entire

952
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: sport is predicated on the line of scrimmage blocking and tackling.

953
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: They would never let kickers determine the situation in overtime

954
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: where you're just having a kickoff. It's just it's just

955
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I don't know if there's a right

956
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: or wrong way to do what they're doing now. I

957
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: do think it's fair that both teams get to touch

958
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 1: the ball. You could even argue maybe you just get

959
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: one time out instead of three timeouts. I don't know.

960
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: I think it's difficult, I really do. It's not you know,

961
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: in baseball they put the runner on second in the

962
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: regular seasoncause there's one hundred and sixty two games. No

963
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: one fucking wants to stay up till midnight watching these games.

964
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: Not a soul. I used to cover baseball and huge

965
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: baseball fan for decades, Like once most people get some

966
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: sort of life that they're not gonna stay up at

967
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: eleven forty five watching a thirteen in in game, and

968
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: the baseball purists like, you can't. You're not watching either

969
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: year sleep, So you can't really do that in football.

970
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: In baseball, obviously they don't do that in the playoffs.

971
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: For the mailback, congratulations on becoming a father. It's best feeling.

972
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Do you think, given how good he

973
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: has been, we are underrating Drake May. I get that

974
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: he has some fumbles against Houston, but it clearly was

975
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: a game where ball control was going to be difficult.

976
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: Some of the throws he made against what pundits were

977
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: calling the best defense since LB we're just elite, top tier.

978
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: We've seen the best quarterback in the league get absolutely

979
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: dismantled by Houston. I feel like Drake, for the most part,

980
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: was impressive. Anyways, I feel like he's not gonna get

981
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: talked about being I just feel like he's not being

982
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: talked about seriously enough. I think it's when you're young.

983
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: Look at Caleb. There was a marketing campaign and a

984
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 1: hype machine behind him, which you rarely see. To me,

985
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: he's probably the most hype quarterback since Andrew Luck. So

986
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,320
Speaker 1: when it started going well, he gets talked about more

987
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: than Drake May. He just does. I think Drake May

988
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: is getting a lot of respect. I mean, he's right there.

989
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: There's a chance that he wins the MVP more than

990
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: life likely Stafford will, but it's not inconceivable that he

991
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: wins it. He has his team in the AFC Championship

992
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: in their favorite because of the injury. So I think

993
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: Drake May's gotten a lot of love. I think most

994
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: people will agree he's one of, if not the best

995
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: young players in the entire league any position. So I

996
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: don't think he's getting discounted. I don't also good discussion

997
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: these teams that are left. It's like amateur hour. I

998
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: was not a Mahomes fan, but now I'm actually looking

999
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 1: forward to him coming back, so there can be teams

1000
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: that look like it's good in the playoffs and winning.

1001
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: Never thought I would feel that way. I do think

1002
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: you have to really respect I looked it up yesterday

1003
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: as we saw the turnovers happening in the morning game.

1004
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: In twenty two and twenty three, in the course of

1005
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: seven playoff games when the Chiefs won back to back

1006
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, Mahomes clearly didn't have great teams in terms

1007
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: of offense. Right Tyreek was gone, Travis was aging, still

1008
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: pretty good in twenty two twenty three, getting a little older.

1009
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: Their offensive firepower was Juju Smith. Isaiah Pachaco right that

1010
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: they were not some Tyreek Hill operation. But he had

1011
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: two total turnovers in seven games, an interception in a

1012
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: fumble and this way, I said a CJ. Stroud, and

1013
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen much higher level but would fall

1014
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: under this. You can't turn the ball over unless your

1015
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: team is the Alabama Crimson Tide in the peak of

1016
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: their dynasty. You have to play smart football in the playoffs.

1017
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: The NFL playoffs isn't about the splashy plays always. It's

1018
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: about not doing dumb stuff. And I think Mahomes in

1019
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty three proved I don't need to

1020
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: throw four touchdowns a game. I can play smart. I

1021
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: can manage the game because he kind of did, and

1022
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: I can make big plays when I have to. But

1023
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be an elite game manager because my team

1024
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: needs me to not screw up. And these other guys,

1025
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it was an embarrassment. It really was. And

1026
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: I don't blame like Drake may or CJ. Stroud. If

1027
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: you if they're going back to pass and you strip

1028
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: the balls, they're throwing it like that's nothing they can

1029
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: really do. But the plays where you're throwing balls into

1030
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: harm's way, like that's just it just cannot happen in

1031
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: these playoff moments. And Mahomes avoided that for two years

1032
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: and they won two Super Bowls because he played like that.

1033
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: Do you think the Bills this was a question before

1034
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: we found out that he was fired. Do you think

1035
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: the bill should move on from McDermott And if so,

1036
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: would Tomlin be a great fit? I think he can

1037
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: help the defense and build a better culture. Also, I'm

1038
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: moving from the Bay Area from Denver soon to work.

1039
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: Any tips of advice for fun things to do? This

1040
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 1: is what I said about Sean McDermott. Most people say,

1041
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: you gotta hire Tomlin, you gotta hire John Harbaugh over him.

1042
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: Hasn't he been beating those two teams? He's beaten the

1043
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: Ravens last two times. He's played him with a team

1044
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: that wasn't as good. And he's got Lamar, he's got Josh.

1045
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: So it's like the quarterbacks are a coin flip. And

1046
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: Tomlin two years ago he beat him by fourteen plus

1047
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,959
Speaker 1: points in a playoff game. So I have a hard

1048
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: time just thinking because Mike Tomlin's like cooler, he's he's

1049
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: just a bigger personality than McDermott. But based on what

1050
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 1: would you just go, that's a no brainer upgrade. Now

1051
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: if I'm Mike Tomlin, I would want the job, assuming

1052
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: I want to keep coaching, just like if I was

1053
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,839
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh would have wanted that job before I took

1054
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: the Giants job. But this notion that those guys are

1055
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: some upgrade. I can't say that Tomlin defense. The defense

1056
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: for the Steelers has been bad, so I would disagree

1057
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: there now. I think Tomal would be a splashy higher,

1058
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: but they could just as easily get bounced in the

1059
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: second round of the playoffs with Mike Tomlin as they

1060
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: could with Sean McDermott. Mike Tomlin was doing his playoff

1061
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: winning back in like the two thousands. I don't think

1062
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: he's been winning many games the last fifteen years in

1063
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Some of those he had peaked Big Ben.

1064
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: So I want Mike Tomlin involved in the NFL in

1065
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: the sideline. I think we're better off with Mike Tomlin

1066
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: coaching than we are in him on TV. And if

1067
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: I was the Bills, like, you're not gonna do better

1068
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: than Mike Tomlin. This is the problem with firing Sean

1069
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: McDermott is if you don't get Tomal, Let's say he

1070
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: goes to playoffs or I mean the the TV, and

1071
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: I think we could debate like upgrade not upgrade? Who

1072
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: You're just gonna take Robert Sala Like who click Kubiak,

1073
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: you're gonna elevate Joe Brady, You're gonna bring Date day ball?

1074
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: What is? Dave? You watched a ball this year? So

1075
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, Man, I think it's pretty risky. Now.

1076
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: Part of life is you gotta risk it. But this one,

1077
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: when you got Josh in the prime of his career,

1078
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if you fired everybody, It's like,

1079
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: totally understand it. But to let Bean like, in what

1080
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: world they were a packaged deal? Sean, I'm pretty sure

1081
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was hired before. Bean could be wrong on that,

1082
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: but Sean McDermott was the DC of the team that

1083
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl in Carolina. That's how he

1084
00:58:43,760 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: got the job to Buffalo in twenty seventeen. I have

1085
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: to push back on your takes on the catch first

1086
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 1: interception and the pass interference on the bills. On the interception,

1087
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: Cooks never had control of the ball through the catch,

1088
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: and the rule is if you complete the catch. If

1089
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: McMillan had yanked the ball and it popped up in

1090
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: the air and landing on the turf. In the same play,

1091
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,320
Speaker 1: the play would have been incomplete. If Cooks caught the

1092
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone and the ball fell onto

1093
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: the turf just like it did there, it would have

1094
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: been incomplete. I'm not saying that I know the answer

1095
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: and that should be a catch. I'm just saying, like

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00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: he catch the ball, he hits the ground as he's

1097
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: not dead complete the catch? Does that take a roll.

1098
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm not also arguing that the Bills lost the game

1099
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: because of that moment. They lost the game when Josh

1100
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: miss Knox fumbled in the first half at the end

1101
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: to give them a free three points, so the game

1102
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: was not determined by the passing interferences. My issue with

1103
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: pass interference in general. I don't like take attack passing interferences.

1104
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: I don't I'm okay with a physical nature of the game.

1105
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: The offensive players just can never get touched. They're fucking

1106
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: called defenseless. Bro, You're running over the middle in the

1107
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: NFL defenseless. I think how dumb. That is the only

1108
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: reason they say that because they don't want to get suited.

1109
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: This is a cover your ass verbiage to avoid CTE

1110
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: lawsuits and percussion lawsuits. You're not defenseless running over the middle,

1111
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: So they're like a crossing route. You know who sits

1112
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: in there? It's like linebackers. It's like, I never feel bad.

1113
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it sucks when someone gets bit by shark

1114
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 1: and dies. You're swimming in the Pacific Ocean. Who do

1115
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: you think is down there? It's like I got eaten

1116
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: buy an Alligator's like, yeah, you went on a safari

1117
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: to Africa. Who do you think lives in the rivers? Right?

1118
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Not a trout? So I think there's a nature of

1119
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: football that is so anti defense that I just I

1120
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: wish I give them a little more latitude. I'm also

1121
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: not saying that the Bills got screwed and should have

1122
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: won that game. They blew it. There's no way around it.

1123
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: Things could have gone either way. I wasn't up in

1124
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: arms over the catch. No catch it, it doesn't. I

1125
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: have much stronger takes on the regulation than anything in overtime.

1126
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: I do just genuinely lean when it comes to defensive

1127
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: holding and pass interference, especially in big games. If it's

1128
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: like the Giants playing the Cardinals in December, I don't care.

1129
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: But in a game that's determining who goes the AFC

1130
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: Championship game, Like, I kind of need you to be mulled.

1131
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: I kind of do. I was watching both divisional games

1132
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: and had a thought, is there a reason why you

1133
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 1: couldn't put all four games on Sunday. CBS takes the

1134
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: afternoon window in the AFC and then the three point

1135
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: thirty window for the second, and then Fox takes the

1136
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: late window for the first NFC and NBC takes the

1137
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: night game for the second NFC game. That way, two

1138
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 1: teams from each conference that win have equal amount of time.

1139
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: It's about TV windows. They don't want to split viewership.

1140
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: They want everyone watching one game. This is about maximizing

1141
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: the audience. So yeah, technically they could. They could have

1142
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: a game in the morning, two games in the afternoon,

1143
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: and one game at night. But they would never want

1144
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: to steal audience away from another game. That's the whole

1145
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: point of the playoffs. The most popular games in the

1146
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: sport are Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Thursday night

1147
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: crushes now, and typically a big Sunday afternoon game. Because

1148
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 1: the game of the week on CBS or Fox. If

1149
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: it's like Bears, Packers or Niners, Rams or Chiefs Bills.

1150
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: They do a pretty good job of putting other crappy

1151
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,959
Speaker 1: games next to it, so everyone watches the main game.

1152
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 1: And if you have two playoff games, if it's like

1153
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: Bills versus the Broncos in Niners versus Seattle, what are

1154
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: Seattle and Niner fans supposed to do? Like they want

1155
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: to watch Josh Allen play too, So it's they don't

1156
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 1: want that and that's never gonna happen. They could, but

1157
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: that's not the way their business model is, and that's

1158
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: not the way. The television networks pay massive amounts of money.

1159
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: They make a lot of it back in the playoffs.

1160
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting thirty forty million people watching these games,

1161
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: so they would not want to lose whatever the percentage

1162
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: would be. Most people are not me or potentially you

1163
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: that have like three TVs. I still got to build

1164
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: this office. I just haven't had time with the baby.

1165
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I I got cardboard boxes everywhere of shelves

1166
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: and pictures all over the place. I do have two

1167
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: TVs though, and I also have a big monitor next

1168
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: to me. So it's like, but I'm not normal. I

1169
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: consume for a living and then talk about it, right,

1170
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: most humans have one TV in their living room, so

1171
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to. I don't know about you.

1172
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: My wife hates picture and picture and honestly, on a

1173
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: big TV seventy five eighty five ninety five inches on

1174
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:59,560
Speaker 1: YouTube TV, the two game option, there's too much dead space.

1175
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: I'm not getting enough. You know. Part of the reason

1176
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 1: you have a big TV is to see everything, and

1177
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: then when you do the two games, it just kind

1178
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: of diminishes the experience. In my opinion, I don't think

1179
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 1: it's a coincidence that hours after the Bills lost, the

1180
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: Falcons announced Stefanski as our coach. It's early Sunday morning

1181
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: as I'm writing this, and if Stefanski was still in

1182
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: the market, I think it's plausible that McDermott is out

1183
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: in Stefanski would be interviewing with the Bills. If we

1184
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: lose this weekend, we'd like to bring in coach ab

1185
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: or c for an interview, even though we haven't fired

1186
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: our guy yet. I miss the actual first part. This

1187
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: brings me to the question, in a situation like the

1188
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 1: Bills in the playoffs, but with a coach where the

1189
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: seat is warm, do owners make a call to the

1190
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 1: coach's agent and say, if we lose this weekend, we'd

1191
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: like to bring I hear what you're saying. How could

1192
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: you fire Sean McDermott for Kevin Stefanski? In what world

1193
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: could you justify firing Sean McDermott for Kevin Stefanski. I

1194
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: don't know one that exists. So I think Kevin Stefanski

1195
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: took the Atlanta job because Matt Ryan really liked him.

1196
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: It's a good opportunity. I don't think the Bills could

1197
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: hire Kevin Savannah. I would say that would be nuts.

1198
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: I really would. Maybe I'm too hard on Stefanski. Clearly

1199
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people like him, but I would disagree

1200
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: with that move. I really would. I'd rather have McDermott

1201
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: and Joe Brady than Kevin Stefanski. Question for the mail Bank,

1202
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: Now the Niner season is over, what do they have

1203
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: to do to make a run for the Super Bowl.

1204
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: I've been saying, they gotta get healthy, they gotta figure

1205
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: out the substation, they gotta figure out these injuries. That

1206
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 1: to me, is their only goal. We can't have hundreds

1207
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars on injury reserve. Can't happen, So

1208
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: like we got to add this guy. They gotta stay healthy.

1209
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Fred Warner. Name me a team

1210
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 1: that could lose that level of play. It's impossible. They

1211
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: lost their starting quarterback for eight games. I just think

1212
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: they got to find a way to stay healthy. That

1213
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: just has to happen. That to me is besides like, oh,

1214
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: nail this pick at a guard. If you can't keep

1215
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: your high end guys healthy, none of that shit matters.

1216
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: And it's been a conversation that's been ongoing now for

1217
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: a while. They gotta find a way to stay healthy.

1218
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't have an answer to that.

1219
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if the substation things real or not.

1220
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 1: But they got to figure something out because they have

1221
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,840
Speaker 1: a problem that is worse than everyone's else, everyone else

1222
01:06:28,880 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: in the league. They lead the league in injuries always,

1223
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: like every single year, and obviously McCaffrey. I mean, from

1224
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,959
Speaker 1: one football standpoint, it's like, do they need to bring

1225
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: in find like a McCaffrey right hand man because you

1226
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 1: can't keep continue at the rate with Christian who was

1227
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: just getting pumbled, Like can you find It's hard? I mean,

1228
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: Christian was the eighth pick in the draft and like

1229
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame level talent, but they need to

1230
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: get another running back who is good so they can

1231
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:57,959
Speaker 1: just balance and give Christian, like, hey, you're just gonna

1232
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: play slot receiver today because Christian can do other things.

1233
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 1: Was like when he's just getting pounded between the tackles

1234
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty times a game, like it's not gonna last.

1235
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: He was holding on for dear life. At the end

1236
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: there with Bownicks breaking a bone in his ankle, with

1237
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 1: the Broncos call up rivers for one last ride. That

1238
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: would be sick, that would be awesome. There's not gonna happen.

1239
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:25,280
Speaker 1: It's much easier to do in a regular season situation.

1240
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: He knows the offense and he knows the coach. Sean Payton,

1241
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: I don't think he's bullshitting. Really believes Jared Stidham. I

1242
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: think Jared Sidams one of the highest paid backups in

1243
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: the league. He's spoken really highly of him for a

1244
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:39,439
Speaker 1: long time. I personally think it's impossible for a guy

1245
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 1: to never play. It's one thing to come in at

1246
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: the start of the regular seasons, like games haven't even started.

1247
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: Guy got hurt. I gotta jump in, Like Kurt Warner situation,

1248
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 1: you kind of get a fresh slate. You're coming in

1249
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: in the middle of late January against a team that

1250
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: what's the Patriots record waity fourteen wins. They got all

1251
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 1: momento against Mike Rabel. And that's a very very difficult situation.

1252
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: You've been taking number one reps. No, I've been on

1253
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 1: the practice or I've been on the scout team for

1254
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 1: the last four and a half months. Even John Payton's like,

1255
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: I get on advance Joseph because he rips up our

1256
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: defense for the scout team. So I impossible situation, but

1257
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: really their only option. I don't think you could bring

1258
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: in another person at this point. Stidham knows, the team, knows,

1259
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: the players, knows the playbook. Part of Philip Rivers. They

1260
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: didn't just randomly bring Philip Rivers. He knew the place,

1261
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:36,080
Speaker 1: he knew the coach, He ran the offense in his

1262
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 1: high school team. If you told me Philip Rivers played

1263
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: for Sean Payton for a couple of years, I'd be like, yeah,

1264
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,839
Speaker 1: I think it'd be you could bring him in practice,

1265
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: get some reps in this scenario, Breeze, I mean his

1266
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: shoulder recently came to play catch with his kids. So

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01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: Breeze's shoulder doesn't work. Philip Rivers doesn't hadn't worked with

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01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,759
Speaker 1: Sean Payton. He just got a roll with Jared Stidham

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01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: and hope to get a miracle. Because I will say this,

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01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this later this week. If Sean

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01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 1: Payton can win this game with a backup quarterback, even

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01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 1: if he lost in the Super Bowl, it would be

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01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 1: one of his greatest victories in the history of his career.

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01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that obviously has had a lot

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01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: of success super Bowl champion, this would be a legendary win,

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01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:22,879
Speaker 1: I think right now. I haven't checked the line today,

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01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: but five five and a half point underdog should be.

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01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 1: You got a backup quarterback he's ever played or hasn't

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01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: played in a long time, hasn't started for years because

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01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: Bo nicks. So if he's able to rally the troops

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01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: and win this game, be a pretty big notch on

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01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: the belt for Sean. Really would It'd be pretty incredible? Okay,

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01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 1: last question. C J. Strout is the biggest and most

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: glaring weakness for the Houston Texans, but he is still

1285
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: a decent quarterback. Could and should the Texans trade CJ

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01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: to the Raiders for the first overall pick and start

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01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: the clock over and use the cap elsewhere. It's a

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01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: pretty good question I would say about CJ. He needs

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01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: to play in dough But like the Texans, the Raiders,

1290
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: if they were to get good, would have to play outside.

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01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 1: They'd have to play the Chiefs. They have to play

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01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: the Ravens. They'd have to play the Bills, They'd have

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01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: to play the Patriots. It's inevitable that you need Denver,

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01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: so CJ's skill set doesn't change for them as it

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01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: does the Houston Texans. So I would one d per

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01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: not make that trade. I think both guys coming out

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01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 1: of college for Nando Mendoza gets drapped ahead of CJ.

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01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: And I like CJ. But or I mean I did

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01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: before that game. I do think the Raiders wouldn't say

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01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 1: no to that deal. I think the Texans would do

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01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: that deal. I think the Raiders hang up. The Texans

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: would be like, would the Texans trade a third round

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01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: pick and CJ stratted for Fernando Mendoza And there's no

1304
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: guarantee Fernando mendozes ever as good as CJ. When you

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01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 1: factor in restarting the clock because again, if CJ doesn't

1306
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: get his swag back in twenty twenty six of playing

1307
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: a high level football, they're not going to extend him.

1308
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: There's too many examples for Casario to go. You can't

1309
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: extend good because if you extend good, you got major problems.

1310
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: You can extend very good. Obviously ideally you extend great,

1311
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 1: but you can extend very good. Dak Prescott, Jared goff Right,

1312
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: you could extend those guys, Brock Purty. You cannot extend

1313
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 1: good and right now, Cejas's good and sometimes bad, but

1314
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: it was good. It's kind of his high end now.

1315
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 1: And the lack of ability to play outside, to me

1316
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: is a major red flag, which is hypocritical because I

1317
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:42,200
Speaker 1: hate the cold and I could never do it, but

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01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: most people can't accept a small few and those look

1319
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: to me to be like the elite guys. Okay, well,

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01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: I guess we'll end on this. I had one more.

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01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: I have a question for the mail bag. I've always

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01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 1: questioned how a college football Division one athlete at the

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01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 1: has the time to get a degree and focus so

1324
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: much of time on practice, weights, and film. I can

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01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: only assume most of the degrees are rubber stamped I

1326
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: can't even remember a student athlete was ineligible for grades

1327
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,799
Speaker 1: in college football. Football is a big business, even outside

1328
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 1: the player role. Why do colleges not of a football

1329
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: degree that aligns with college athletes, since that's why most

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01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:23,600
Speaker 1: are in college. It would also allow for not so

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01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 1: athletically gifted athletes to be able to pursue a career

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01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,640
Speaker 1: in football outside of playing well. I think at a

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: lot of colleges they have generic degrees that these guys

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01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 1: take At this point in time with the transfer portal,

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01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 1: I don't even know if anyone goes to school, but

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01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 1: I do think you're underestimating. Most guys playing at USC,

1337
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 1: Oregon Texas are not gonna be NFL players. Think about that,

1338
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: most guys in the Power for are not going to

1339
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. How many guys are on a team eighty five,

1340
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: ninety right one hundred in college football? How many guys

1341
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: are drafted every year? What was pretty he was the

1342
01:13:05,880 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: last pick to sixty six, two hundred and sixty six

1343
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: and then obviously some und drafted free agents. But how

1344
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: many of those guys never make it to the regular season?

1345
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 1: So the majority of guys are gonna come to the

1346
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: real world. I think a decent amount of guys take

1347
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:23,600
Speaker 1: school relatively seriously. Now, it's very challenging unless you're an

1348
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck academic all American type genius to take a

1349
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: hard major right, architecture, engineering, medical sciences, you know, some

1350
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: of these biologies, some stuff like that. That's gonna be

1351
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: a small percentage, but I think you're gonna find a

1352
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 1: lot of impressive football guys are getting business degrees, are

1353
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 1: taking advantage of their opportunity because the network they're naturally

1354
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: gonna have leaving college is going to be better than

1355
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 1: the average guy they're sitting in class with in business. Now,

1356
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,760
Speaker 1: some people don't get it till it's too late, but

1357
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: I think there are clearly guys like they're always have

1358
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: men that don't go to class and don't give shit,

1359
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 1: and some of these schools doesn't matter. But like if

1360
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,759
Speaker 1: you're going playing college football at the University of Washington

1361
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: or the you know, University of Indiana or Michigan or

1362
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:15,000
Speaker 1: Texas USC, like you kind of realize, like, yeah, I

1363
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: like football, I'm good at football, but this I'm not

1364
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:19,599
Speaker 1: going to be a pro, which is hard for some

1365
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,600
Speaker 1: guys to understand. But this could change the trajectory of

1366
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: my life. So yes, there are people. I mean, there

1367
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 1: are losers in every aspect of society, right, And I

1368
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: don't think you're a loser if you don't care about school.

1369
01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 1: But if you don't care about school and you're not

1370
01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: a good player, like I think you're kind of a moron.

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01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:37,639
Speaker 1: If you're a guy that's clearly going to the NFL,

1372
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:40,599
Speaker 1: I don't blame you at all for not taking school

1373
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: seriously one bit. I mean, the whole point of going

1374
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 1: to school is trying to make money, right. We're not

1375
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: going to school for them to teach us life lessons

1376
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,640
Speaker 1: in college, right, That was my parents' jobs and my

1377
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 1: coaches jobs and shit in growing up, your job's there

1378
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: trying to get me a degree, like and if you're

1379
01:14:56,800 --> 01:14:58,960
Speaker 1: taking these worthless degrees that I also don't feel bad

1380
01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: for you when you can't get a job. And that's

1381
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: clearly a major talking point right now in society. It's

1382
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: like we had a lot of people getting worthless degrees

1383
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 1: and like as there's a lot of college that some

1384
01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: could argue is kind of scammy. But if you get

1385
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:14,759
Speaker 1: specific degrees, especially at these big boy universities with feeder

1386
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: systems to the big companies and elite alumni status that

1387
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: they present. If you play football Notre Dame and you're

1388
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:28,679
Speaker 1: some rotational special teams guy, you have an incredible opportunity

1389
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: to change your life. And if you're dumb enough to

1390
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: not take school seriously, Like, yeah, it's hard. It's difficult, right,

1391
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:39,720
Speaker 1: it's difficult playing at Air Force. It's difficult being a

1392
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: normal student and an architecture engineer where I went to

1393
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: school cal Pauly, which is great. Like it's hard, Yes,

1394
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 1: it's not easy. You don't just get to drink natty

1395
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: lights five days a week and fuck around and do nothing.

1396
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: But you also get the option or the opportunity to

1397
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,439
Speaker 1: springboard your life to a really high level, really fast.

1398
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of guys and a lot

1399
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: of these programs. I don't know the transfer portals. Probably

1400
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 1: I don't even know how grades even matter anymore, transfer portal,

1401
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: because I remember President of State getting a guy into school,

1402
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: whether a high school kid or a transfer kid, even

1403
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: from junior college. The transcripts really matter. How could all

1404
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 1: these guys transfer because all these guys' transcripts are not

1405
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,599
Speaker 1: eligible transcripts. I do not believe it, especially some elite player,

1406
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 1: because what if he doesn't even care about school? Why

1407
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 1: would he? But a lot of musicians don't care about school.

1408
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: You know a lot of these guys dropped out of

1409
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: college to develop Facebook or you name company X. Happens

1410
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:39,759
Speaker 1: all the time. More power to them. You know, school

1411
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 1: didn't do anything for me in all seriousness, like it

1412
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: bored the shit out of me. I'll never forget. And

1413
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: I think about this a lot. I just never stopped

1414
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,719
Speaker 1: looking up at the clock. And this was pre iPhone.

1415
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 1: When's this thing going to end? And that goes back

1416
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: to like junior high let alone through college. But yeah,

1417
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:02,680
Speaker 1: I think everyone's different, everyone approaches it differently. But the

1418
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: smart kids, and I don't even mean intellectually smart, I

1419
01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 1: mean the guys that kind of get it or see

1420
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: the writing on the wall, take advantage of that opportunity

1421
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: because playing football at you name the school, North Carolina, Syracuse, Florida, whatever,

1422
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 1: you could be a backup. You could be a guy

1423
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:21,600
Speaker 1: that never played a scout team or rudy type, and

1424
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: it changes your life much more than the kid just

1425
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: going to school there having his parents pay or take

1426
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: out a student loan. You are given massive advantages and

1427
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: I think all the high level programs have done a

1428
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:38,759
Speaker 1: good job preaching that over the years. You know, obviously,

1429
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: if you're at Bama or Georgia and the prime right,

1430
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: you're coming there to try to make the NFL. But

1431
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: if you're playing it, I don't know, UCLA, a lot

1432
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: of guys aren't going to the NFL. But you can

1433
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: get you can get a business degree or whatever your

1434
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: passion is, and you don't have to work hard your times.

1435
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough, especially during the fall, but spring's

1436
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 1: a not that hard. You know, that much going on

1437
01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 1: because that's some workouts most kids on campus workout, especially

1438
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, So that that would be my

1439
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: take there. That's a great question. The volume