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Speaker 1: we don't need you to run the ball as much.

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Speaker 1: Why we got Christian. We need you to be outside

427
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: and get open. Well, that's not really his thing. He's like, well,

428
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm a wide back. Can I also go in the back?

429
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: It's like, no, that's where Christian goes. So it's kind

430
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: of thrown off the flow of some of the way

431
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: they've allocated their money. And if you look at the

432
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: three most important players on the forty nine ers offense,

433
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: to me, it starts with Christian McCaffrey. You could argue too,

434
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: is Trent Williams. He's the best left tackle in the

435
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: National Football League. And Jeremy Fowler. I saw on the

436
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: old X, as my mother calls it, that there are

437
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: some rumblings that he might want to raise. If I

438
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: was him, I'd want to raise two one. I don't

439
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 1: have that much football left in me. I'm thirty five

440
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: years old. We all agree I'm by far the best

441
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: left tackle in football and one of the great most

442
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: talented left tackles in the history of the game. And

443
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: I'm making what nineteen twenty million dollars a year because

444
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: if I was in my prime, which I still am,

445
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm just older, like I'm still playing. As if I'm

446
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: in my prime. What am I worth on the open market?

447
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: Thirty five million dollars a year? The left tackle market,

448
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,679
Speaker 1: in a weird way, is a little you know, it

449
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: hasn't exploded because there hasn't been this influx of great tackles.

450
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,719
Speaker 1: And as I've said, like the wide receiver market has boomed,

451
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: why be cause there's been a lot of really good

452
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: wide receivers. The pass rusher market has boomed, why cause

453
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of high end, Hall of Fame

454
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: level pass rushers. The tackle market hasn't quite kept up

455
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: because there hasn't been the same level of player at

456
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: that position. Well, trends like I'm still there, and I

457
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: never have a problem with an established veteran who goes

458
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: this number ain't working for me. I'm worth way more.

459
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: You know it, I know it, we all know it.

460
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: So if I'm the forty nine ers, I gladly give

461
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: him a little raise. And this kind of trickles down

462
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: to you don't even hesitate giving Trent Williams a race.

463
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: You don't even hesitate giving Christian an extension. Now, granted,

464
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: these raises and these extensions aren't near the money in

465
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: which you'd have to give Brandon Ayuk, but the complicated

466
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: part with him just gets back to does it make

467
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: sense to break the bank when I'm never gonna play

468
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: like that as an offensive. I'm Kyle Shanahan. We're never

469
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: gonna rely on you to be Jerry Rice, to help

470
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: be some of these other guys in the NFL, what

471
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: Davante Adams was doing with Aaron Rodgers, what Justin Jefferson

472
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: has done since he's got to Minnesota the way Ceedee

473
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: Lamb and they depend on him in Dallas. We're not

474
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: gonna depend on you like that yet because of the market.

475
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: That's what you say you deserve to be paid. Does

476
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: it make sense for us to allocate the money that way?

477
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: Like the Eagles pay their two wide receivers a lot

478
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: of money. Yeah, they throw it all the time. They

479
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: are a passing offense. The forty nine ers half their passes,

480
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: it feels like are around the line of scrimmage. So

481
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: I just wonder I don't blame them. Christian McCaffrey, easy decision.

482
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: Trent Williams, I'd have him broken off before training camp

483
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: even starts the Brandon Nyuk thing, like I understand if

484
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: you just kind of want to play it out, like,

485
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: hey man, I don't know if we go to thirty million.

486
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: I also understand if they pay him. He's a really

487
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: good player. We drafted him, a high character guy. We

488
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: love him on the team. He stands for. These situations

489
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: are complicated. Not every high end player just makes sense

490
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: when it talked. When we start talking about these second

491
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: contracts on teams, like the Tuo argument is like it

492
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: is to good enough? Is too a good enough? No?

493
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: One can't answer that question because we all kind of

494
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: know the answer. Not really, he's not the market is

495
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: the market? Well? Is he good enough? Like I know

496
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk is good enough. I can win with him

497
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: at the highest level, but like, could I win with

498
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: someone else in that position for a quarter of the

499
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: price given the way we play offense and not every

500
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: team plays offense the same way, right Obviously the Packers

501
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: now with this young, explosive passing game, their wide receivers statistically,

502
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: if they can stay Healthierre gonna have great numbers. I

503
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: have a hard time I'm seeing a forty nine or

504
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: wide receiver ever have these unjust eye popping numbers that

505
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: some of these other wide receivers around the league have

506
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: a couple other NFL stories, you always hear this because

507
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: it's like the low hanging fruit. The players have no

508
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: say in the NFL, just constantly getting screwed, which is

509
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: complete bullshit. They've never made more money. They actually, during

510
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: the last CBA agreement, had a lot of ass They

511
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: wanted a lot less practice. That was their prerogative and

512
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: they got it. It was an easy one for the league.

513
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: It's like, well, we'll just keep more money, you guys

514
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: get less practice. But that they were pounding the table

515
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: for that. It's bad negotiations, but that's what they wanted.

516
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: One thing that isn't arguable that if you scur around

517
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: in OTAs, they have some pretty strict rules right about

518
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: pressing about obviously you don't tackle because you're in shorts

519
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: and t shirt, but just about the level of physicality.

520
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: If you break those rules, these players will turn you

521
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: in and you will get in trouble. We have seen

522
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: it happen for years. It happened to John Harbaugh, and

523
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: it happened a couple of weeks ago with the Lions,

524
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: and now as of Monday, they had one of their

525
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: mandatory OTAs stripped away because they will turn you in

526
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: and you will immediately get in trouble, and that's what happened. Now.

527
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: Ultimately it doesn't impact anything. Losing one OTA practice doesn't

528
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: mean shit, but it just shows you if you're Dan Campbell,

529
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: no matter how much you and your players love each other,

530
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: when you start pushing the envelope. All these guys know

531
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: guys on other teams. So if I had to take

532
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: an educated guess, one thing that happened is like, are

533
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: you guys doing this? Is this happened at your practice?

534
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, we're walking through this thing's a

535
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: country club. Some of the line's like, Eh, this thing's

536
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: getting a little too physical. Boom go to the NFLPA

537
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: rep League Office nailed the Jets. They traded Howie Rosenman

538
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: for Hassan Redick, who the Eagles obviously moved off of

539
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: when they signed Huff from the Jets to replace him,

540
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: because he wanted a new contract, and the Eagles had

541
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: zero desire to give him that new contract that they

542
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: weren't going to do it despite him being one of

543
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: their better players over the last couple of years. So

544
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: the Jets go, hey, we'll take them. One thing I

545
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: always laugh at is if you want to trade for

546
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk right now? You know there were rumors I

547
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: think Mike Lombardi put it out that the Pittsburgh Steelers

548
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: almost traded for Brandon Ayuk during the draft. Well, if

549
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: they traded for him, if they didn't give him an

550
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,239
Speaker 1: extension immediately, they would have the same situation on their

551
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: hands that the forty nine ers do. So when you

552
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: trade for a player who wants a new contract, we

553
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: saw years ago with the Bears when they traded all

554
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: those picks for Khalil Mack. Well what happened. They immediately

555
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: gave him an extension. The reason he was available was

556
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: because of the contract. So when the Jets trade for

557
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick, they didn't just trade for a player. It's like, ah,

558
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: what a gem by the Jets. How did they get him?

559
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: Because he wants more money? And then the report's offspring

560
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: is no one's talked to him. He hasn't shown up

561
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: at all. Well, of course not. You traded for a

562
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: player who wanted more money and you didn't immediately give

563
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: him more money. So why do you think someone else's

564
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: problem won't be your problem? And I just don't think

565
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: this thing is going away until the Jets give him

566
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: either a contract extension, a contract raise, whatever makes him happy.

567
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: But the reason he was unhappy wasn't because like I

568
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: don't really like South Philly, not a big chief steate guy,

569
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper not doing it for me. It was because

570
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: of money. So now the Jets find themselves in the

571
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: same situation that the Eagles were literally in four or

572
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: five months ago. But they just got to unload their

573
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: problem to the Jets. And now the Jets have this

574
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: problem that they knew existed. So kind of a bizarre

575
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: looking trade given that there has been no contract, Like

576
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: I don't quite know what the endgame was here for

577
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas and the Jets if they weren't willing to

578
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: give him either the contract extension or or more guaranteed

579
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: money or whatever he is specifically looking for. But we

580
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: know for a fact he was specifically looking for something,

581
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: so Jets being the Jets man. And last, but not least,

582
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: this Kaitlyn Clark is just a content machine. Was a

583
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, you know, wake up, still kind of struggling,

584
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: check my phone, watching Scottie Scheffler storm his way to

585
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: another victory and see Kaitlyn Clark left off the Olympic team.

586
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: The Olympics are this summer in Paris, and a lot

587
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: of people were outraised and shocked. To me, it's the

588
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: least shocking thing probably in American history. Because if you

589
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: run a business and you are subsidized in that business

590
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: and it's never on you to be successful in terms

591
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: of turning a profit, how many people watch is irrelevant.

592
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: Why would you ever factor that in? It's like, how

593
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: is anyone ever shocked with the government's incompetence. They're just

594
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,280
Speaker 1: spending money that isn't theirs. So when they constantly screw

595
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: up locally on the state level on the federal level,

596
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: Like we have a long history of this. Now, most

597
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: of these people didn't work in the private sector, have

598
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of success and then to go work in government.

599
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: They've just been lifetime government officials or employees or you

600
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: know bureaucrats like the people in the WNBA who are

601
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: having and just struggling with the situation of her population already,

602
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: the influx of new viewership, the influx of potential new cash. Yeah,

603
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: they're overwhelmed by it because they never had to deal

604
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: with it before or understand it. So, yes, this is

605
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: a stupid decision, but I expect people that have never

606
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: successfully operated to make dumb decisions. It doesn't make any sense.

607
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: Why would you want more people to watch if it

608
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: never actually mattered how many people watched to make the

609
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: amount of money you were making, Because before no one

610
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: ever cared who was on this roster. No one ever

611
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: gave a shit beside people associated either with those you know,

612
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: with the individual players or around the WNBA. But we

613
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: weren't watching Women's Olympic basketball, right, they weren't. The star

614
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: power wasn't there were in the NBA the moment star

615
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: players wanted in, Like if Kobe wanted in, if Lebron

616
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: wanted in, if Steph wanted in, whatever, they were automatically

617
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: on the team. It's just part of the deal. Why,

618
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: Because people associated with men's basketball knows the power of marketing,

619
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: of making money. That's the business they're in. WNBA has

620
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: never fucking turned a profit in almost three decades, never

621
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: had to because the NBA had their back. So when

622
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: I see the incompetence of this situation, how is anyone shocked?

623
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: Obviously there are personal agendas. There's envy toward her, anyone

624
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: listening to this. In any of the businesses we're in.

625
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: If someone comes into the company we're working for, in

626
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: the business we own in, if you're you know, a

627
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: sales guy and someone presents you with an opportunity that

628
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: is going to generate you a lot more money, we

629
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: all have the same reaction, Well, what do we need

630
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: to do to make this happen? Right? Because that's the

631
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: world we live in. But that's not the world these

632
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: people running this women's basketball deal with the marketing. The

633
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: power of eyeballs has been irrelevant their entire run as

634
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: an industry. So yeah, when they left her off the

635
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: team because they're jealous of her because they hate her

636
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: popularity whatever, Like that's the way they've always kind of

637
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: thought about it, where the NBA has been the opposite,

638
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Speaker 1: even when they've brought on guys like I don't know

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Speaker 1: if Allen Iverson's a great fit for this team, but

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00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do not have Alan Iverson on

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00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: the team who people want to watch? So I just

642
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 1: think it sucks. I mean I won't watch a dribble

643
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: and most people won't either. But yeah, this is par

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Speaker 1: for the course with this operation. Okay, Middlecoff mailbag very

645
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: very to get involved at John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff

646
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Speaker 1: is the Instagram handle fire in a lot like Andrew did.

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Speaker 1: First time listener, longtime poster, Your take on Oklahoma Lincoln

648
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: makes sense. Obviously, comparing Texas might be sore, but look

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00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: who they have scheduled as opponents in the past few years.

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00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: Even Texas played Notre Dame in twenty sixteen with Charlie Strong.

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Speaker 1: It's just weird and where there is smoke, there is fire. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you read this far, I have two actual questions.

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Speaker 1: In the last two years, Belichick was the coach GM

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots. They seemed down and out. I know

655
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: tanking isn't a thing in the NFL, but part of

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00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: me thought maybe Bill was setting them for a higher

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00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: draft pick. But of course he was fired, which made

658
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: me think, okay, so he was trying to win the

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00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: whole time, but he struggled. So which is it? Is

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Speaker 1: he good coach or is he washed? Well? Agree on

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: the all these teams are playing people. LSU and Florida

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00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: State played back to back years. Oregon was supposed to

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00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: play Michigan. Washington was supposed to play Ohio State before

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00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: they even got into the conferences. It was canceled because

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00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: of the COVID years. But everyone's playing everybody now, like,

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00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: no more excuses, no more hiding, no more running. Every

667
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: coach is trying to win in the NFL. When you lose,

668
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: it's usually one of two things. One the roster sucks

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00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: or to your quarterback situation is a disaster, or roster sucks,

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Speaker 1: slash who make some bad coordinator hires slash the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: I think two Bill falls under those two categories. What

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00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: he did with Patricia and Joe Judge is obviously something

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Speaker 1: he'd like to have back. There's no disputing that it

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00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: was a low point of his storied career. Happened Andy Reid.

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Speaker 1: He made one castile when I was with the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Obviously he would like to have that

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00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,479
Speaker 1: one back. Sometimes you make a move, maybe a little

678
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: outside the box, that deep in your soul you believe

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00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: can work, and then it's a disaster. I would say

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00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: that Patricia Joe Judge thing was crazier because you know,

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00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: at the time we had hired Jim Washburn, Todd Bowles

682
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: was on the staff. I think we thought that we

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Speaker 1: could help him out. Clearly backfired and was a disaster.

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Speaker 1: The difference is with Belichick, it's like you had a

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Speaker 1: second year quarterback and then by the third year Mac

686
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Speaker 1: Jones was a shot fighter one. He's not good enough

687
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: to overcome dysfunction. He's not talented enough to uplift average

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00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: talent around him. Bad offensive line play. I think here's

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Speaker 1: one thing with Bill. He was always very, very hesitant

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Speaker 1: to hire outside right. His coordinators were always guys that

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Speaker 1: worked their way up, from Josh McDaniels to Patricia to

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Speaker 1: Brian Flores. He like getting you on the ground floor,

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00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: creating you, and then influencing the way you coached, and

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Speaker 1: then if you became Josh or Flores or one of

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Speaker 1: those guys. I'm not saying he didn't give you the

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Speaker 1: ability to call the game, but you were calling the

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Speaker 1: game through his eyes because he had taught you everything.

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Speaker 1: And I think he ran out of those guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: Dante Scarnekia was one of his right hand men. Well

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Speaker 1: when that guy retired, what happened to their offensive line play?

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Speaker 1: It kind of disintegrated. Well, when you look at Andy Reid,

702
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Speaker 1: what he has done in Kansas City here, it adds

703
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: up the box a little bit. He didn't know Eric

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00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: b Enemy when he originally hired him, David Tobe. It's

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Speaker 1: not like they had worked together with the Eagles. You know,

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00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: you have to be He's hired guy from college who

707
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: immediately become position coaches. You gotta be willing to do

708
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: that now. When you're comfortable with a coach, it helps,

709
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Speaker 1: just because hiring outside doesn't guarantee you anything. Look Kyle

710
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: Shanahan with Steve Wilkes, but I think Belichick was he

711
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: missed on the quarterback wasn't good enough. So did everyone

712
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Speaker 1: in that draft except Jacksonville. And that's still up for

713
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: debate moving forward, and the coaching hires were a debacle,

714
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Speaker 1: and then obviously missed on draft picks. So it was

715
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: just the perfect kind of combination. But like you watched

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00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots, they weren't some joke operation. They had no offense,

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Speaker 1: their defense was good, and he drafted a kicker who

718
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: couldn't kick. So I don't think Bill is washed in

719
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Speaker 1: the sense of like he can't coach. I think he

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Speaker 1: needs a good offensive coordinator and he needs a quarterback

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Speaker 1: better than Mac Jones if he's ever going to have

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Speaker 1: any success now is he? Is he a lock to

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Speaker 1: get another job? I don't feel great. Who knows. I'd

724
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Speaker 1: say it's fifty to fifty. I think there's a decent

725
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: chance he never coaches again in the NFL, which is crazy,

726
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: but part of its age. You know, It's not like

727
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: if he skips multiple years, he's gonna come back at

728
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Speaker 1: seventy five, seventy six. That's probably not gonna happen. Started

729
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Speaker 1: following you since the draft coverage, li'sten new daily Now

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Speaker 1: I have a question, don't know if it's Fugazi Friday related.

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00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: Why isn't there a dual threat kicker in the NFL

732
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: punter and place kicker seems like it would be a

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00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: valuable asset to a team by also saving a roster spot.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how kickers just focus on skill rather

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00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: than both coming up through college or whatever. I think

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Speaker 1: they're two distinctly different kind of operations. Like if you

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Speaker 1: just had Justin Tucker hunt a ball in practice, I

738
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: bet he could punt a ball pretty high in pretty far,

739
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: but can't he do it consistently? And a huge part

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00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: now with punting, for example, is directional punting, So can

741
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: you kind of do that ossy end over end, Like

742
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: most of these guys have good leg obviously. It's like

743
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys in these long drive

744
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: competitions who couldn't sniff making a cut on the corn

745
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: Ferry Tour, let alone the PGA Tour, but they hit

746
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: it way farther than everyone on the PGA Tour. So

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00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: it's very, very skill related. And I can't pretend to

748
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: know that much about kicking and punting beside being around

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Speaker 1: them when I was in college in the pros. I

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Speaker 1: just think there are two opposite ends of the spectrum

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Speaker 1: in terms of the skill that it requires, and I

752
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that the reason it hasn't

753
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: happened because it's not really possible. Maybe there is one

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00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: individual that we'll see be able once upon a time,

755
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, moving forward, that it happens. But like a

756
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: lot of guys pitch and hit in college, they're not

757
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: able to do it in the pros. That's why what

758
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: o'tani was doing was so insane. Like there are a

759
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: lot of guys that in Major League Baseball who are

760
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: good hitters, who could probably throw ninety five miles an hour,

761
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't be good pitchers, right, No different than

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00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: a lot of good punters probably can't place kick to

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00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: save their life. So I don't It's hard for me

764
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: to get too in depth because you know, I'm not

765
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,280
Speaker 1: a kicker, But having washed the way these guys operate,

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00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: I just think it's a lot different. Now. You could argue, well,

767
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: they got so much time on their hands, why don't

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00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: they practice the other one? I wonder if it's just

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00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: one of those skills that you can't kind of master,

770
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: because that's what you have to do. You have to

771
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: master it. You could argue even at the college, but

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00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: definitely at the pro level. And if you're not a

773
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: master by you time you get to the pros, I

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00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: can't risk my job with I got a high end

775
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: punner who's a decent field goal kicker, but I can't

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00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: trust them from outside forty yards. Now, you could argue

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00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: a lot of field goal kickers you can't trust outside

778
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 1: of forty yards. But interesting question question for the bag.

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00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: This is in regards to the Kirk Cousins deal with Atlanta.

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00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: If Pennix does look amazing and ends up beating Cousins

781
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: out for the starting job, could Atlanta trade him without

782
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: having to pay the fully guaranteed money. Example, after this

783
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: year Penix looks the part and beats him out, what

784
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: would Atlanta get for him a fourth round pick? Also,

785
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: would the team trading for him be responsible for some

786
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: of that fully guaranteed money or would it be Atlanta's

787
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: responsibility to pay the fully guaranteed for the rest of

788
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: the term to his new team. The problem with this

789
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: is when you guarantee the money, so I don't have

790
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: Cousins contract in front of me, but I'm pretty sure

791
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: he got like a fifty million dollars signing bonus, so

792
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: the guaranteed money is all paid out within the first

793
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: you know like twelve months of the contract. So Cousins

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00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: the influx of cash he's getting from the Atlanta Falcons

795
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: from the moment he signed that deal till the start

796
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: of next free agency is and I'm not Howie Roseman

797
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: or Prague. Here is a lot, so you could unload

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00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 1: some of it. Now, Cousins has a no trade clause,

799
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: but let's just say he'd wave it, because if he's

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00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: not going to start there, I think he would wave it.

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00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: Atlanta is paying a bunch of the cash, just like

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00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: the Broncos only had Russell for two years, but they

803
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: paid over well over one hundred millions of one hundred

804
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: million dollars to Russell Wilson. The other problem is is

805
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: when you guarantee the money, it is on your books.

806
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: So all that signing bonus and true guaranteed money that

807
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: you put in this contract, even if you can finagle

808
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: some of it to another team, you still account for

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00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: that in your accounting. And that's why when you sign

810
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: these huge contracts, you can't really trade the player early

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Speaker 1: on in the deal because the way the contract is

812
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: set up. Like the reason the Broncos are getting crushed

813
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: on the salary cap is because you spread that money

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00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: out over the life of the deal, and what do

815
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: you usually do? You backload it, not frontloaded. It's the

816
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: head scratching part of the financial situation. It's like, wait,

817
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: you're basically on the books, tied to this guy for

818
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 1: like three years, and you have this ready made rookie

819
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: who's on a four year contract. Like what The timelines

820
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: never paralleled each other. So what you're saying can happen

821
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: in baseball and in basketball. That's where it gets very,

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00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: very tricky in the NFL because the way you write

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00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: these contracts for the salary cap mailbag quarterback weight loss.

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00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: Recently noticed Lamar Toua dropping some significant weight. I'm jealous.

825
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: These are high end athletes. They pay attention to nutrition

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00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: like chemists. Is strategic and I'm fascinated to watch it unfold.

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Speaker 1: Could this be a trend for specific offensive archetypes and

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks lowering the player weight to compliment the ever increasing

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00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: offensive leaning league as quarterbacks are getting protected more now

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00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: than ever and after touching the ball thoughts go aggies.

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Speaker 1: I think he means the UC Davis aggies. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I haven't thought that much into it. I actually don't

833
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: think you're protected in the sense of you get penalties

834
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: when you get hit, but you still get hit. So

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Speaker 1: to a like is the reason they faltered? I guess

836
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: two years ago, who can cuss and not planned? But

837
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Speaker 1: last year is the reason they didn't make the playoffs

838
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: because he carried ten extra pounds, or is the reason

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Speaker 1: they didn't make the playoffs is because of his average

840
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Speaker 1: arm doesn't translate to freezing cold temperatures. Because I don't

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Speaker 1: know what weight loss for Tua, specifically Lamar, I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen any pictures of dramatic weight loss. Helly hasn't been

843
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: in camp. I haven't seen him. He would have a

844
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Speaker 1: better idea of I need to be a little quicker

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Speaker 1: when I run. I don't know I can avoid hits

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Speaker 1: because I'm such a great athlete. Too is a pocket quarterback.

847
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Speaker 1: So if I'm a pocket quarterback, I want a little girth.

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Speaker 1: Why because I'm gonna get hit Like Rivers, Eli, Peyton

849
00:50:54,239 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 1: Tom they're sitting duck. Tu was a sitting duck. Well,

850
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: I can't quite understand it unless he thinks he's gonna

851
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: get more athleticism being a little skinnier. But you kind

852
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: of are who you are as an athlete might help

853
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: for like a marathon, but not a quick sprint away

854
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 1: from a high end linebacker. But I'm with you, this

855
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: was done for a reason with Tua, like there was

856
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: a reason behind it. He thinks it's gonna make him

857
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: a better player. I don't logically can figure out the

858
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: reason because he's not a scramble guy. I think it's

859
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:45,439
Speaker 1: a bad move would be my initial reaction. The other

860
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, weights weird with players. Sometimes if

861
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: you're legit too heavy, it's a problem. Right Shack had

862
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: moments when he got too heavy. It happens offensive and

863
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. Right Jordan Davis clearly there are some times

864
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: when he's too heavy. I'm just I'm not trying to

865
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: throw Jordan Davis under the bus. But he's a guy

866
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: who's weigh you know, three fifty. Obviously there's a big

867
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: difference if you lose twenty pounds for for endurance. But

868
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: I think with a quarterback, why does losing Let's just

869
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: pick a number twelve fifteen pounds when you're not that big,

870
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: like if you're Roethlisberger, any weigh two hundred and sixty five,

871
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy pounds if you want to lose

872
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pounds because you think it easier

873
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: on your joints, you're still huge. Understand it. I don't

874
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: quite get it with Tua. I don't understand the long

875
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: term outlook by making this move, like what you're trying

876
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: to accomplish by it. I guess what is your hot

877
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: take for this upcoming season? Is there if any NFL

878
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: team you're high on that everyone else is not. Are

879
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: there any teams that everyone else is high on that

880
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: you think will be terrible? I had a buddy text

881
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: me this like gambling philosophy, that he's going to try

882
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: to do basically all these parlays of division winners, and

883
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: he was going to keep a couple of them the

884
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: same and then kind of rotate several divisions. But the

885
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: Niners the chiefs in Atlanta, and I said one anytime,

886
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 1: I got a ton of parlays going this week for

887
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: the US Open, because scottis Scheffler's odds are so bad,

888
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: so I basically parlayed him to win with a bunch

889
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: of like top ten and top twenty guys. But it's risky,

890
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: like anytime that you need multiple things to hit. I

891
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: do believe though that most people and I don't want

892
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: to say universal agreement, but when you just say the

893
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: NFC South people are like Atlanta Atlanta, I can't go

894
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: that far. I actually don't think Atlanta's gonna win the division.

895
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: I would go with Tampa in New Orleans, and I

896
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: said I would never pick a team with Derek Carr

897
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: and Dennis Allen as their head coach to win the

898
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: division again because I picked him last year, I actually

899
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: pivoting back. I might pick him to win the division.

900
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: I am not gonna pick Atlanta, and I am not

901
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: gonna pick Atlanta to make the playoffs. I think that

902
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: situation is gonna be weird. And this notion that like

903
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: a team that's won seven games three straight years is

904
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: just some lock to now be good with a coach

905
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: that they didn't just hire Bill Walsh. I know he's

906
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: a hot coaching candidate and Raheem Morris, but he's a

907
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: defensive guy as well. I would say Atlanta for sure.

908
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm not picking him to make the playoffs. I feel

909
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: pretty good about that. I'm not saying I'm gonna be right.

910
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm just I think most people are gonna pick him

911
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and I I'm not I think they'll

912
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: finish third in that division. For the bag. The Deck

913
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: Prescott narrative is the most painful thing to live through

914
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: as a Cowboys fan. He has one legit playoff win

915
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:11,760
Speaker 1: in his entire career, yet the sports media at large

916
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: acts like this guy carries Dallas every year and when

917
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: he plays like dog water, somehow skates by criticism. I

918
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I think Dak gets criticized. I

919
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:24,919
Speaker 1: cannot wait for him to go to a different team

920
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: and disappoint them for a few years. And if some

921
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: dumbmass organization wants to pay him fifty five plus million

922
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: dollars a year, I will drive from the West coast

923
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: right now for free and pick him up and drive

924
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: him to your facility. I'll defend Dak on this. I

925
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: don't mind the forty million dollar number now. I thought

926
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 1: at the time it was crazy. But if he just

927
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: if he had a couple more years playing for forty

928
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: million dollars, I do believe that he is capable of

929
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: having a month stretch where he plays really well and

930
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you guys are in the Super Bowl.

931
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying in a hypothetical world. It hasn't happened, and,

932
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: like you said, hasn't even come close to happening because

933
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: he's played shitty in the playoffs. He's played bad in

934
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's had three clunkers three years in a row,

935
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: forty nine ers three years ago, forty nine ers two

936
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: years ago, through two picks on the road when the

937
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: defense was unreal, and then last year his first half

938
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: was an embarrassment as well as the defense. But is

939
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: he capable of having a two game stretch like Eli

940
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: Manning had in the playoffs and all of a sudden

941
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: you're in the NFC team. I do think he's capable

942
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: of that. I don't believe two is capable of all

943
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Dolphins are in the AFC Championship game.

944
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: McDaniel can put every meeting at the twenty fourth minute

945
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: of the hour, Mike, None of that matters if that's

946
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: your quarterback, None of it matters to me. Dak is.

947
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: But the problem with Dak now free agent year, how

948
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: much you have to pay him. The one thing is

949
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: when you do sign a big extension with a quarterback

950
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: those first couple of years, his cap number is way lower.

951
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: The reason Dak's cap number is high this year, so

952
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: high because the last year of his deal, like we said,

953
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: we backload everything because of the guaranteed money. So yeah,

954
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: I think you're in a conundrum. The problem for you is,

955
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: and I understand what you're saying, like, I'm just tired

956
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: of it. I'm just tired of it. And I don't

957
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: blame you because, like we just win multi you know,

958
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: twelve games a year, then all of a sudden wh

959
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and we're just done. Who's gonna be

960
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: your quarterback? Okay, let's say you let him walk. Who's

961
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: gonna be your quarterback? Trey Lance? Like, who's your option?

962
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: You're not gonna suck? So you're not You're not gonna

963
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: have the number one pick in the draft. And I

964
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: don't think this is a great quarterback year for the draft,

965
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: at least sitting here in the middle of summer. Middle

966
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: of summer is strong, early summer. That's kind of the

967
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: conundrum you're in. That's where Jerry's in this weird spot,

968
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: and it's also where Dak does have it's crazy to

969
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: say still has some leverage. Okay, you guys aren't gonna

970
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: play with me. Good luck. See you. I'll go to

971
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: the Raiders because they will sign me. But who are

972
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: you gonna play with? It's part of the reason the

973
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna sign Lebron James. They're not winning a championship,

974
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: they got no chance. But he does keep him relevant,

975
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: and he does keep them in the playoff mix, and

976
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: Dak does keep you in the playoff mix, and there

977
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: is something to be said for that. And you can

978
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: argue I want more, and I don't blame you, but

979
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: how do you do that? Like how do you acquire

980
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: a top ten quarterback? And the answer is you can't

981
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: unless you just get lucky in the draft like you

982
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: did with Dak Prescott. And I think the hard part

983
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: is with Dak. And this is the hard part. I

984
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: think sometimes in pro sports is when the front office

985
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: and the coaching, when people really like the guy that's

986
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: worth something, it's easy to get rid of someone you

987
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: don't like, like Jay Cutler's driving me nuts or you

988
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: know whatever. We've seen a lot of these situations over

989
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: the years. Aaron Rodgers with all the bs driving me

990
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: nuts with him, you know, threatening to retire and not showing.

991
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: It's like that kind of does everything the right way,

992
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: which is probably working against you making the pivot. But

993
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: the unknown scary man, The unknown scary, it really is.

994
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: And if you have no answer at quarterback. He's a

995
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: flawed player, but at least he's a Pro Bowl level

996
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: guy in the NFC and can get you in the mix.

997
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: You remove that, I think the answer is what do

998
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: you do now? If your mindset is never always hesitating

999
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: to worry about the unknown, you're never gonna get anywhere

1000
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: in life. But I think it's easier said than done

1001
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to the quarterback, because when it's why

1002
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: what the What the Vikings did was pretty ballsy. Now,

1003
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: it was easier because he had a torn achilles. But

1004
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: if Cousins hadn't torn his achilles and they had won

1005
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: nine games, does it still play out that way? If

1006
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: they had won ten games, is he on the Atlanta

1007
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: Falcons right now? I'd venture to say probably not. It

1008
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: was much easier to pull the trigger when his achilles ripped.

1009
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: It gave him an out. But if he hadn't and

1010
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: he kept throwing touchdowns, my guess is Kirk Cousin's still

1011
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. The volume