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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody happy? Officially, I'm recording this

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Speaker 1: after the Thursday Night Priests regular season game, Bears at

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Speaker 1: Packers hundred year anniversary. Hallis Lombardi, mc caskey, you know

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Speaker 1: all those famous people that I don't really know much about,

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Speaker 1: beside Vince Lombardi. But football is back. I'm John Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: Three Out Podcast. Thanks everyone for listening. Colin Cowards Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: I waited till after the game. I recorded some of

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Speaker 1: the meat in the podcast before, so if I mentioned

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, I kind of prefaced it by saying, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what happened in the night. I do know

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Speaker 1: what happened in the game. Obviously, the Packers just one

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Speaker 1: Drabinsky was a train wreck. Will dive into all that

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Speaker 1: here in a second. I'm gonna dive into Dallas and

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Speaker 1: Zeke obviously Antonio Brown and that fiasco right in my backyard,

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Speaker 1: the Goth, I mean, he got a ten million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Some thoughts on the Rams and that whole situation. I

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Speaker 1: I used my bookie to gamble, and I went and

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Speaker 1: I wrote down every game on Sunday. I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about the Monday night games because I'll record a podcast

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Speaker 1: on Monday night and I'll just talk about the games there.

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Speaker 1: But Sunday I go through every game and I spent

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Speaker 1: about probably thirty to forty five seconds, maybe a minute,

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Speaker 1: just kind of hitting who I like, the point spread,

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Speaker 1: and just maybe something about that game and the reason why,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll do Middlecoff mail Bag. I say it

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Speaker 1: all the time. The easiest way to get a hold

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Speaker 1: call me, I'll probably won't pick it up. Text message

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Speaker 1: very easy, email easy, but also d ms at John

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff Twitter handle. But my Instagram d m s are

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Speaker 1: mail Bag, I will answer here on this podcast. So

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Speaker 1: this is how we interact to thousand nineteen. I like uh,

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Speaker 1: I like interacting, but I don't take phone calls or anything.

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Speaker 1: Those are my phone calls. And if this is the

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Speaker 1: hat on authenticity. I am I am an open book.

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Speaker 1: You can ask me any question. I'm not an agenda guy,

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Speaker 1: but when I do have biases, I have no problem

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Speaker 1: admitting them. I have a bias in this game. Matt

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Speaker 1: Naggie is my guy. I've known him for ten plus years,

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Speaker 1: But he's my guy. So I'm biased when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Matt Managgie. But I also can take a step

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Speaker 1: back and go the guy had a bad game, right,

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Speaker 1: He didn't have a great game, and that happens. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the NFL. Won't be his last bad game, just

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Speaker 1: like his best games last year won't be his last

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Speaker 1: best game. This football's heart. He was bad tonight, But

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Speaker 1: the guy that was even worse was the quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: Mr Bisky was atrocious. I mean, he couldn't have been

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Speaker 1: middle Cuff, why don't you question your guy Naggie. He

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Speaker 1: look at what he's doing with your whisky. Well, I

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Speaker 1: got news for you. He didn't draft Jobisky, he inherited

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Speaker 1: news for you. And I mean hell, most of you

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Speaker 1: guys already know Rambisky might not be any good tonight.

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Speaker 1: He was terrible. But here's one thing I would disagree

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Speaker 1: But Malcolm Gladwell, hundred out hundred, you know, ten thousand

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the floor, which I can't even like Middlecoff,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is still really good. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur in his offense, I can't. I have no takeaways.

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Speaker 1: he plays a couple of normal teams. The Bears defense,

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's because the Steelers never find him. I I

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Speaker 1: But I don't blame like, of course this is happening.

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Speaker 1: ever envisioned it being this crazy? No, but we envisioned

425
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 1: it being crazy. We didn't know he's gonna burn off

426
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 1: his feet. We didn't know he's gonna have helmet problems.

427
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:56,919
Speaker 1: We didn't know he was gonna tweet out, uh, the

428
00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,040
Speaker 1: picture of the fine that Mac find him. And it

429
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 1: wasn't just the fine for missing that one day when

430
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: Mayak gave the press conference. It was a fine for

431
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: missing a walkthrough when they were in Canada. As someone

432
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 1: texted me tonight while I was watching the Bears Packer game, Like,

433
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,959
Speaker 1: when Antonio leaves, where does he go. It's not like

434
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 1: he's playing for the you know, a team in Florida

435
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: where he's from. He's playing in California, in northern California.

436
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 1: He's not from here, he's ever lived here. He just

437
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 1: go home and sit with his kids. Like what did

438
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 1: he do all day today? Just not show up at work.

439
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: That's the other thing, Like, only in pro sports can

440
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 1: you call out your boss, not show up for work

441
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 1: and really not even getting that much trouble. There's like, yeah,

442
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out later. Most of us would be fired. Now.

443
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: I get pro sports are different. I'm not trying to

444
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: compare the NFL to regular life, but still, like Antonio

445
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,400
Speaker 1: Brown is pretty nuts and I don't know how this ends.

446
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 1: Like I have the craziest part about this situation is

447
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 1: it's got so crazy You could convince me of anything.

448
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: You could convince me that Mayo quit us this weekend,

449
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: like just quits the Raiders, like I'm done being the GM.

450
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: You could convince me that Antonio Brown apologizes and they

451
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: pretend it's okay and he has two touchdowns Monday night.

452
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 1: You can convince me that they suspend him. You can

453
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: convince me that they trade him. Everything's on the table.

454
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 1: There is no scenario that could happen Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

455
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown retires, Antonio Brown demands a trade that I

456
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 1: would not believe, and we knew this when they got him.

457
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: This is why anyone with common sense said, why on

458
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: God's Green Earth is Jon Gruden playing trading for Antonio

459
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: Brown when he just got rid of two of his

460
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,359
Speaker 1: I mean, his best player in Clio Mac then traded

461
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: another really good player, young player and Amari Cooper accumulated

462
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: all these first round picks, wanted to restart rebuild, and

463
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: then he trains for trades for the craziest mercurial wide

464
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 1: receiver like since Terrell Owens, a guy that is a

465
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,880
Speaker 1: terrible combination of being narcissistic, selfish, super rich, and super talent.

466
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,199
Speaker 1: It and he's not a big and sensitive and he

467
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: doesn't really listen, like, yeah, it's probably not gonna be

468
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: a good match on a team that's pretty dysfunctional. Like

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00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: you also see where the Raiders would be probably on

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Speaker 1: the list of one to thirty two. If you had

471
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Speaker 1: to rank the teams of who could handle Antonio Brown,

472
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: obviously the Steelers would be number one because it's it's

473
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Speaker 1: really a uh testament to how well run they are

474
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Speaker 1: that they were able to to just handle this human

475
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Speaker 1: being for you know, eight years of his career. The Raiders,

476
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they'd be thirty two, but they'd

477
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: be between thirty and thirty two. They'd be damn low

478
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Speaker 1: on this list because in my adult life, in the

479
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 1: Internet era of the last twenty years, players have gone

480
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: to Oakland to be crazy and to not play good

481
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: football and to kind of have their careers. And this

482
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: is where I defend Derek Carr all the time. Not

483
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: many people are succeeding in that situation, Like, is this

484
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 1: Derek Carr's fault that that John Gruden gets rid of

485
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper Like okay, well, then just get a

486
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: couple more normal wide receivers. Trade for this guy who

487
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: immediately goes a wall on training camp, who now probably

488
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: won't play Monday night. Who when you're playing a division

489
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: rival and VIC Fanjel one of the best defensive coordinators

490
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: in the league, you probably have a game plan thing

491
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: and the guy is gonna play now, He's not playing now,

492
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: Derek again throwing Hunter renfro and I bet Derek. Let's

493
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 1: say he doesn't look good and everyone will just crush him.

494
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: Isn't really his fault. No, they never should acquire this

495
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: guy in the first place. They never should have built

496
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: their team around number eighty four in the first place,

497
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: Like they shouldn't have given him a huge signing bonus

498
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: in the first place. This was easily avoidable. It's why

499
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,399
Speaker 1: to me, the two big winners are one is the

500
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: Steelers think how think how good they look right now?

501
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: They go, damn the Steelers. Steel That's a high level organization.

502
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: That's what we're all thinking. The loser is clearly Jon Gruden,

503
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: like John you've had back to back years. And the

504
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: guy that Tim Calacami, who runs the athletic in the

505
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: Bay Area, that I that I basically worked for, that

506
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: I write for out here. He wrote it perfectly. He said,

507
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 1: this is back to back years of mismanagement by John Gruden.

508
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: One he trades Khalil Mack the week before the season,

509
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: and this year he acquires Antonio Brown and it's almost

510
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 1: tanking his first two seasons in the NFL. Like, this

511
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: is on John Gruden. You should not have acquired this player.

512
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: I don't care how cheap he is. Some assets, regardless

513
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: of how much they're on the discount rack, just don't

514
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: buy them. They're on the discount rack for a reason.

515
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,960
Speaker 1: Just walk away. And I think cars a big loser

516
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: on this one, because what do you do, Like, how's

517
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: he supposed to succeed without? I mean, you got rid

518
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: of Amari Cooper last year. Now Antonio Brown is not

519
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: gonna play Monday at football and who knows, maybe you

520
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,719
Speaker 1: cut him, maybe suspend him for the season. That's a

521
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: disaster for Derek. How How's Derek supposed to get his

522
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: career back on track when you keep screwing up the

523
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: personnel situation And it's just classic Raiders. They just can't

524
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: get out of their own way. And they in Gruden,

525
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: who's got so much Al Davis in him, can't avoid

526
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: these town haunted players that he has no business messing

527
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 1: with until he has a legitimate foundation. And he clearly

528
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: doesn't have a legitimate foundation. And even if he did.

529
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 1: Here here's the here's the thing, even if the Raiders

530
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: had had a foundation, it might not have mattered with

531
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: this player because he's that crazy, like he's just he's

532
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: living in a different world than the rest of us.

533
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: Now is the you know, Drew Rosenhouse being interviewed on

534
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: NFL Network before the Thursday night game because he was

535
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: a Packers Bears. Can he fix this? You know, if

536
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: anyone can, and probably be him. But this might even

537
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: be too far gone for Drew who was probably born

538
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: for these situations. But man, Antonio Brown, what what do

539
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: they say in a Bronx tale, The worst thing in

540
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: life is wasted talent. That that's that's what Antonio Brown

541
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 1: is becoming wasted talent. Okay, let's dive into the Dallas

542
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Jerry Jones and a message that I've had

543
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: this this entire time for Zicke Elliott. When you play

544
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: for Jerry Jones, despite what the player in powerment movement

545
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: might say, and and I get the media hates big

546
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: business and management, Jerry Jones is pretty unique one. He

547
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: owns the team and he's the general manager too. He

548
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,479
Speaker 1: has more money at this point in time than like

549
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: basically everyone in pro sports except probably like five or

550
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: six people. He prints cash and if he drafts you,

551
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: that means he likes you because he had a big

552
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: part in the pick that he's gonna want to pay you.

553
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: My issue with Zeke and just anyone is when you're

554
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 1: a valued member of whatever organization, and Zeke clearly was

555
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: really valued, and you cause problems for that team or

556
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 1: that organization, as Zeke did, I don't think that you

557
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: have or should make it hard for them when you're

558
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: trying to negotiate a contract and he going to Cabo

559
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: just making a little bit of a pain in the ass. Now,

560
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: I do understand that I watched a little bit press conference.

561
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: They wanted to be out of sight, out of mind.

562
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: They didn't want Jerry, you know, sitting down with Zeke

563
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: and influencing him. I get there was probably a method

564
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: behind the madness, and clearly it worked. But I think,

565
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: as I it was gonna work the whole time. Jerry

566
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: wanted to pay this guy. I think some of this

567
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 1: drama could have been avoided and maybe Jerry told him

568
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: to go to Cobo. It's just good for business. But

569
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: the one thing, and I will defend Zeke on this

570
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: and just the contract in general, where with running backs,

571
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: and I watched Jerry talk about how he's one of

572
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: the unique players that can take it to the house

573
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: from any position. I think he's just one of the

574
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: unique players that, pound for pound, is one of the

575
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: best players in the NFL. So whenever you get quote

576
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: unquote a pound for pound best player in the NFL,

577
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, uh and Aaron Donald, like Khalil Mack, you build,

578
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: you build partially your franchise around him. Now, he does

579
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: play a position that is easily easily replaceable. I think

580
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: we've all acknowledged that. Right, you don't need to be

581
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: an analytics or man olytics as Colin would say, or

582
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: anything to realize that you can find running backs in

583
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: every draft past the first round. Right, you can find

584
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: productive players that are undrafted free agents. We saw in

585
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen an undrafted free agent make the Pro

586
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: Bowl and he was an alternate either legitimately made the

587
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl for the first time in NFL history. And

588
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay it was awesome, But I got news for

589
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: you on Zeke. And here's where I understand why Jerry

590
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: broke this man off. He's better than all these guys.

591
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a player, maybe Sae Kwan, but

592
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: Sa Kwan has done it for one year. I've seen

593
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: Zeke from the moment he got in the NFL till

594
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: the end of last year be again, pound for pound,

595
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league. There is

596
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: nothing the guy cannot do. Like you can win championships

597
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: with this guy. He is that big of a game changer.

598
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: If you've built your team well. And I'll say this

599
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: for Jerry, he's put all his chips in the middle

600
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: of the table. He's paying good players left and right.

601
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: So this notion, and I think the NFL takes a

602
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: lot of ship in it and a lot of teams rightfully,

603
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: so the Chargers never want to pay anyone, even though

604
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: they're technically doing the right thing with Melvin Gordon. The

605
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: Bengals are kind of notoriously cheap. Just a lot of

606
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: teams kind of penny pinch. That has never been Jerry's problem,

607
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: and especially now it's it's just on full display. For

608
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 1: everyone to see. They've been one of the better drafting teams.

609
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: Now the Dallas Cowboys have been one of the better

610
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: drafting teams. I don't think we say that enough for

611
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: the last five or six years, and look at what

612
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: they've done. They've paid them all, Tyron Smith, Frederick Lyle Collins, Zeke.

613
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: They're surely gonna pay Dak, Jalen Smith, DeMarcus Lawrence. There,

614
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: They'll pay Vander esh one day. Sean Lee, they just

615
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: kept paying him over and over. They just paid Jason Witten.

616
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: They paid him like five million dollars even though he's

617
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old and bald and hasn't played football

618
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: in a year. Like they're they're going to give Dak

619
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: stupid money now that we see the Jared Goff contract.

620
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: Don't pay them all. It's just that's what Jerry wants

621
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: to do when you're good and he and he likes you,

622
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: which if you're on the team, that means he likes

623
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: you because ultimately he controls the entire roster, because he

624
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: owns a team and he's a general manager. Like it

625
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: was clear this was gonna happen. Now, I get people

626
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: just naturally gonna hate Jerry. He's one of the great showman's,

627
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: not just in sports, but in the history of America,

628
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: one of the great businessmen. But for all the fluff

629
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: with Jerry, and for all that we make fun of

630
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: him in his life, you know how about them downllas

631
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys and you know a Southern draw. This team is

632
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: legitimately good. It is stacked at every position. They got

633
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: a superstar running back, one of the best in the league.

634
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: They have a with the mari If a Marie Cooper

635
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: plays well and gallup. They got a good passing game.

636
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: If Jason Witten can just run curls and and outs,

637
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: gives uh dak a little underneath option. Dak's solid right.

638
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: Their offensive line is legit, their linebackers dominate. Their pass

639
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: rush is good. Like this team can compete to win

640
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl in the next couple of years. And

641
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: I commend Jerry for putting all of his chips in

642
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: the middle of the table. I also commend Jerry for

643
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: and I think I talked about it a lot and

644
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the media just because we

645
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: have to react to the information. When when I crushed

646
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: Rocky Zeke's agent for getting emotional about the comment that

647
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: Jerry maid and then Jerry doubling down saying he's earned

648
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: the right like the one the thing that separates Jerry

649
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: and probably any one and at a high level business,

650
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: they're not emotional about any of this ship. So even

651
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: if they work through the media and they're talking about

652
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: each other, you know publicly that they're not actually contentious

653
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: behind the scenes when they're making these phone calls. And

654
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: I've always been told I don't know Stephen Jones, but

655
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: I've always heard he's actually kind of calms his dad down.

656
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys are a pretty well run operation right now.

657
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: They got star players everywhere, they have all under contract.

658
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: They're they're equipped to dominate. And you could say, oh,

659
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,479
Speaker 1: I would never pay a running back. Yeah, I wouldn't

660
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: either if his name's Melvin Gordon, right, if his name

661
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: is Jerick McKinnon. But if his name is Ezekiel Elliott.

662
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: And every time I step on the field, whether I

663
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: mean unless you have Khalil Mack or maybe Aaron Donald,

664
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: I could argue I have the best player non quarterback

665
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: on the field every time I step on it with

666
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: this guy number twenty one. He can give me two

667
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: yards and catch the ball. He can block, but nothing

668
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: he can't do. That's the one thing like linebackers. Middle

669
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: linebacker and running back are actually my two favorite positions

670
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: because they encompass everything in the sport. On offense, a

671
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: running back has to do it all. He's gotta run

672
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: inside the tackles, he's gotta run outside the tackles, he's

673
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: got to catch the football, and he's got a block.

674
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: There's literally no element of offense that he doesn't have

675
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: to do besides technically throw the ball, but the ball

676
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: is handed to him. And same thing with linebacker. You

677
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: have to play the run inside the box, outside the box,

678
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: especially now sideline the sideline, and you have to cover

679
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: zone and in man. All the good ones can do

680
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: it all. That's why I have nothing but respect for

681
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: those two positions. I feel like those two positions kind

682
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: of get shipped on. I'm never anti paying a zeke.

683
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: I've always heard this, like, you can't draft a linebacker high.

684
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 1: The hell you can't. You've ever seen Luke Kikle play.

685
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: You ever seen Bobby Wagner play? You ever see I

686
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: think what we think we're gonna see as I'm actually

687
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: recording this before the game. But ro Kuwan Smith, how

688
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: sweet ro Kuan Smith is, like, I'll draft those guys high,

689
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: no problem. You just gotta be the right guy. And

690
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: Zeke is the right guy now. The only question mark

691
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: and this is the great unknown, Like, Zeke, can you

692
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: just keep your nose clean literally and figuratively maybe, like

693
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: can you just stay out of trouble? Can you just

694
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: stay on the straight narrow? Because you have a chance

695
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: to be an all time great player, like a Lock

696
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, like one of those guys that we

697
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: talk about forever, like we do with the previous guy

698
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: that played your position on the same team, like an

699
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: absolute legend. You could win a super Bowl, maybe two

700
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Now that's Dack's gotta be a lot better.

701
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: That might have been bold, but maybe just win one.

702
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: Get to a super Bowl would be a big deal

703
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. But riding you, riding you like Secretariat,

704
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: because that's how talented you are. There's no one. There

705
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: may be one guy truly on your level, and he'sa

706
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley and his team so shitty it's hard to

707
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: even judge him. But like Zeke, you earn this money

708
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: with your play. You're off the field You're lucky. You

709
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: were so good that you overcame it. Just stay out

710
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: of trouble. Now becoming all time great and every time

711
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: you see Jerry, say thank you for always going to

712
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: the mat for me, for paying me, always having my

713
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: back and making me a cowboy, because you've been pretty lucky.

714
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: You were on the right to go to Ohio State.

715
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: You were that talented a player, But there was an

716
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: element of luck you ending up with the Cowboys because

717
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people in that draft room

718
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: that wanted Jerry to take Jalen Ramsey. And at the

719
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: time of that draft pick, no one would have crushed

720
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: Jerry for doing that. He actually probably took a lot

721
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: of heat for taking a running back there. You know

722
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: what's turned out, It turned out to be the right pick.

723
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: Now it does make it continue to be the right pick,

724
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: because if you get in trouble and you get to

725
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: spend it again, you're gonna cause a lot of headaches

726
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, a lot of people that

727
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: believed in you. And it's just a fan of your game.

728
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: I hope you do stand Truck. I love watching your

729
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: play because you're an absolute ass kicker. Yeah, I mean,

730
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: you're just you're a dominant, dominant player, so uh, kudos

731
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: and Jerry for putting his cards and all of his

732
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: chips in the middle of the table. Now it's just

733
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: time for Zeke keep playing like normally place and you

734
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: just gotta stay out of trouble man. Okay, let's dive

735
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: into Jared Goff and his new massive deal from the

736
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: l A. Rams stand cronkey. Uh, just print in cash

737
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: and just the just the entire Rams and McVeigh situation.

738
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: Listen at the end of the day on the contract.

739
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: By the time you're listening to this, everyone's given their take,

740
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: my takes out there, talked about it on my other podcast,

741
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: talked about it on Instagram, like it is what it is.

742
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: I can be a fan of Jared Goff and think

743
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: it's a little little pricey, but I'm also I understand

744
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: the way the business works, and I would imagine many

745
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: people listening to this. The way your business works to

746
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: the way my business now works is just everything's on comps.

747
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: So you're just you're worth Like in my podcast business,

748
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: if I get X number of listeners, that's what I

749
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: can sell an ad for. If I get a hundred grand,

750
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people listening. If I get two people listening,

751
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: it's all competent of that. If you're a quarterback, well

752
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: if based on stats and based on what I've accomplished.

753
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: If Carson Wentz, it's you know, X, and he got

754
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: a hundred I think eight million dollars. If I'm Jared Goff,

755
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: I've actually one playoff games, I've accomplished more on the field,

756
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: and I've proven I could stay healthy. I'm gonna get more.

757
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: Even though I think we'd all agree, or at least

758
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: most people, the way I look at football, I like

759
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: taking swings with higher upside guys. Though I think you

760
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: could argue, well, yeah, Wentz has much more talent than golf,

761
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: but there is talent in staying on the field. The

762
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: best ability, right is availability, and that's a major question

763
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: mark mark with Carson Wentz. But I get it. So

764
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, freak out over the money.

765
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: Though I will add this. The guy I know, Bruce Tolner,

766
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: I mean a little bit. I haven't talked to him

767
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: in years, but you know, I used to know him

768
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: when I worked in the NFL. He he has both

769
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: golf and he has Wentz. He actually has Bortles too.

770
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's a big time agent now with

771
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, he's Mariota's a ton of quarterbacks. And I

772
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: do think when you look at Wentz and when you

773
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: look at golf, especially golf with Wentz a little risky

774
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: or because he's been injured, but they were both drafted

775
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: one and two, so they've already banked big cash. Especially

776
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, He's gonna sign another contract. You could when

777
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: you're playing for the Eagles or the Rams, And I'm

778
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: not into one to like, quote unquote take less money

779
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: like Zeke. You can't take less money if you're Zeke.

780
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: This is the only contract you're gonna get. If you're

781
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: Khalil mac Aaron Donald, you gotta take all you can get.

782
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: But you're a quarterback. The way this league works, how

783
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: they protect you, you could quote unquote take a little

784
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: less money. And when I say that, could Jared Goff

785
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz have signed for million and given their

786
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: teams that extra little cash. That especially with the Rams

787
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: and the Eagles, who have shown like the same thing

788
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,479
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. These teams are not the chargers. They're

789
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: not pocketing your cash. They are spending it on players.

790
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: They are doing everything they can to win Super Bowls.

791
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I I think maybe they could have, but listen,

792
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: that's not the way it happened. So I get it

793
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: and don't love it, but but I understand it that

794
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: I think the end of the day, Jared Goff should

795
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: thank his lucky stars. And he knows this because that

796
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: first year he played for a meat head head coach

797
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: and Jeff Fisher. That's you know, the game has passed

798
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: him by, and he's a defensive guy, so he can't

799
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: help the quarterback and it was a disaster. I think

800
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: how many guys that come into this league, even like

801
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 1: Maddie Ice, who's made a ton of money and had success,

802
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: think about that. He's had so much coaching turnover. He's

803
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: had different offensive coordinators, like look at Brady. At the

804
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: end of the day, his entire career, he just had

805
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: Belichick And for most of it, he's had three guys

806
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 1: Charlie Weiss, Bill O'Brien and Josh McDaniels for a majority

807
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: of especially once he turned into this just dominant force

808
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: like he he's had a lot of consistency from a

809
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: coaching staff standpoint. He even Peyton, like Peyton was his

810
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: own o c how many head coaches Peyton having his career.

811
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: He had, Tony Dungee, he had, I guess he was

812
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: inherited Moore's dad, but he didn't have that many. And

813
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: now at the end of the day, Peyton was in

814
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: control of his offense even far for a long period

815
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: of time. He had a to success with Homebrew and

816
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: when homebre And left, it was kind of hit or

817
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: missed from then on. We're gonna find out with Rogers.

818
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: And again I'm recording at least this part before the game.

819
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: But when you look at Jared goff And and your

820
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: head coach just signs this long term deal, you're pretty lucky.

821
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: Like it's you're in a hell of a situation. And

822
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: I think the guy we always come back to you,

823
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: Like what if Matt Stafford had got to inherit on

824
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, a Sean Payton, a Sean McVeigh, how different

825
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: would his career have been? Like they got lucky Carson

826
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: wentz Is he gets drafted, and they got rid of

827
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: Jiff Kelly and they got Doug Peterson. His head coach

828
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: is offensive coordinator Patrick Mahone should thank his lucky stars

829
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: that Veach and Andy loved him and that they drafted him,

830
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: and that you know, more than likely he's gonna spend

831
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: the majority of his career with coaching until Andy wants

832
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: to retire. You know, they can win a couple of

833
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, Like he's gonna have his guy when you

834
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: go to these teams like Jimmy Garoppolo, he should think

835
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: every day, look up and I'm not a religious guy,

836
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: but just get on his knees and you gave me Belichick,

837
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, now Kyle Shanahan. I'm pretty lucky, you know,

838
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: because for all the money and all that stuff, Like

839
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna make so much money no matter what,

840
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: because taking a haircut, taking a pay cut, the numbers

841
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: I was thrown around, like could you have taken ninety

842
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: million guaranteed instead of a hundred ten million dollars guaranteed?

843
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: You know, you know what you can't do. You can't

844
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: get a crappy coach, because when you get a crappy coach,

845
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: you suck as a quarterback more than likely, like it's

846
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: it derails your career. Like is Derek Carr good? I

847
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: don't know, he's really really difficult to judge at this

848
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: point in time, Right, who could overcome the bs that

849
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: he has to overcome? Just the constant drama in that organization.

850
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: It's it's impossible to judge. And were the Rams these

851
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: two years under Sean McVeigh have felt like one of

852
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: the more normal organizations in the league. I mean Jared Goff,

853
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: think about this, Jared Goffe was the number one overall

854
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: pick in the draft from cal you know, not not

855
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: a school that's a traditional powerhouse. His college career, he

856
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: only had one winning season. Like, he's gonna be a

857
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: much bigger legend. A lot of these guys like Peyton

858
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: Manning was a really big deal in college, right, Baker

859
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: Mayfield really big deal in college. Uh, I'm trying to

860
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: think of like so Josh Rosen, Sam Donald, Like they

861
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: were pretty big deals in college that they're gonna be

862
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: welcome back to their university. Like Jared Goff not saying

863
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be welcome back to his university, but

864
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: he even't really accomplished that much when he was in college.

865
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: They didn't win anything. Now, it wasn't his fault, his

866
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: his his coach knew nothing about defense, was a terrible

867
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: fit for cow like he Jared Goff's gonna be. When

868
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna close your eyes and think Jared Goff, you're

869
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: gonna think l a Ram. Even though he was the

870
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: number one overall pick from a non traditional power like

871
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: it's he's he got. He got gifted by the football

872
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: gods landing in this place. And back to what I

873
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: was saying about these teams, He's with a team and

874
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: a general manager. I'm not the biggest less NAE guy,

875
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: though he shut me up these last couple of years.

876
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,919
Speaker 1: I give him credit for this. He doesn't gm ski

877
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: aar it. He puts all his chips in the middle

878
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: of the table. He will take swings first, coach for

879
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: his quarterback. They'll do whatever has to be done to

880
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: try to win games. Obviously, the Eagles operate like this,

881
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: Seattle operates like this, The Chiefs operate like this. The

882
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: Patriots do. But there's just they're always kind of getting

883
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: a guy on the cheap. But they do. And like

884
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: he could have easily gone into an organization that doesn't

885
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: think like that. We see it all around the league.

886
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: Team say yeah, you know, we fill up, We'll give

887
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: you a running back. But You're not gonna pay Melvin

888
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: Gordon this extra money though, and I don't even blame him,

889
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: but that does make the charges worse. So Jared Goff

890
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: is lucky to have Sean McVeigh. And it's crazy as

891
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: it sounds, and I never would have said this three

892
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: or four years ago. He's lucky to be drafted by

893
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: the Rams. Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna

894
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 1: go game by game and probably spent like twenty seconds

895
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: pick the team that I like in the game with

896
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: the point spread. Uh, not necessarily who I think I'm

897
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: gonna gonna win the game, but just the team with

898
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: the point spread. I basically just went my bookie the

899
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: list that they had the games in, wrote them down

900
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: only on Sunday, the Monday night games, just because I

901
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: record a podcast on Monday night, I'll be I'll be

902
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: reacting to those games. Uh, the Denver Raider game at

903
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: the time, I mean, who even knows? And the first

904
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: Monday night game actually is pretty good Houston at at

905
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But I'm just gonna talk about the Sunday

906
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: games here. I'm gonna fly through him, not spend too

907
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: much time on each one. Falcons at Minnesota, Falcons getting

908
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: three and a half points. I like the Falcons here

909
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: in the points. I think it's pretty simple. Atlanta's strength.

910
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: They have an elite passing game, they have a superstar

911
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 1: receiver and two other really good ones. I mean, Calvin

912
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: Ridley might be one one day. I don't I hate

913
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: Minnesota's cornerbacks. I don't know if Atlanta wins this game,

914
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: but I definitely like him plus three and a half.

915
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: Washington at Philly. I just think the point spread on

916
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: this one's out of control. Ten points. I also think

917
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: Washington's getting talked about like they're the Raiders or the

918
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: Dolphins or the Bengals. Google their roster. It's not that bad, uh.

919
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: Ten point victory. This is not college football. The Eagles

920
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: could kick their ass and win by nine. So you

921
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 1: get ten points, double digit points in the NFL Week one, uh.

922
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: And it's not like they gotta fly across country whatever

923
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: the division rival. I like the Redskins plus ten. It's

924
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: just backdoor covers. That's that's way too many points. And

925
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: obviously the Eagles are really good. But this is not

926
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: college football. Bills at Jets, I'll be honest, I have

927
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: no clue about either one of these teams. I think

928
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: when the season ends, one of these two teams will

929
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 1: have been in the wild card mix. I started leaning

930
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Now I've kind of convinced myself the Bills.

931
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: I just don't know. Uh. I'd probably just take the

932
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: Bills and the points, but I I don't have a

933
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: great few for this game. I think at the end

934
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: of the day, one of these two teams is gonna

935
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: be a sleeper wild card contender. I don't know if

936
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a wild card team, but a wild

937
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: card contender. So I just lean take the points. But

938
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: this one's a tough one to figure out. Ravens at

939
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: Miami again, you gotta be careful week one, Uh, you

940
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: get teams approached like the Super Bowl. Yeah, Miami traded

941
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys. I don't think it matters that much, Fitzpatrick.

942
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: Remember what happened last week or last year Week one

943
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: through like four fifty yards against the Saints. I like

944
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: the Dolphins plus six and a half against the Ravens,

945
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: a team whose defense is not gonna be as good.

946
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: They're a ball control, run offense. I know everyone's been

947
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: telling me how great Lamar Jackson is we'll see uh

948
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: and we will this game. The humidity in Miami is

949
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: gonna be out of control. I like the Ravens to win,

950
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: but I would take the six and a half points.

951
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: Forty Niners at Tampa I think this game comes down

952
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: to one thing and one thing only. Tampa Bay's offensive

953
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: line is atrocious and the forty Niners nick boss playing

954
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: in this game. He Fords playing in this game. The

955
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: Forrest Buckner is a badass. I mean, Solomon Thomas is

956
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 1: not that great of a player, but he's a backup.

957
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: And Eric Armstead he's like the fourth or fifth best

958
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. I think the forty Niners defensive line is

959
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: the difference in this game. It's gonna be high scoring game.

960
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: I like the Niners. This one's interesting. Chiefs at Jacksonville.

961
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are clearly one of the best

962
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: teams in the league. And you know, I actually I

963
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: think they're gonna make the Super Bowl. But this is

964
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: a weird game. You're going to Jacksonville, massive chip on

965
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: their shoulder. Everyone's kind of been shipping on them all

966
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: off season. Folds is there now, Leonard four net Skinny?

967
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: They got a sweet player in the draft and Josh

968
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: Allen plus three points all the humidity. I think there's

969
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,959
Speaker 1: gonna be a really tight game. I like Jacksonville, maybe

970
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: not to win the game, but I like him plus three.

971
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: I also think that the Chiefs are just This is

972
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 1: one of those classic when everyone's betting on one team

973
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: go the other way and that there's another good example.

974
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: I like Tennessee plus five and a half against Cleveland

975
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham seth that he struggles his hip injury to

976
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: open up and run full speed. Uh, that's a problem.

977
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland still really loaded. Nick Chubbs a baller, Baker's a baller,

978
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry's a baller. The tight ends a baller. Their

979
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: defensive line is awesome. But Tennessee isn't Chop liver. Uh.

980
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: They were a borderline playoff team last year until Mariotta

981
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: fell apart and couldn't play the last game of the season.

982
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: They had no chance to get in when Indie beat him,

983
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: but it really affected him the game before when they

984
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: lost to Jacksonville. I think a lot of people are

985
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: sleeping on Tennessee. I think they're poised for another eight

986
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: nine win season, and you get five and a half

987
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: points with a team that's, you know, getting a lot

988
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: of hype and they really haven't done anything that Can

989
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: you imagine if Tennessee is like up ten nothing in

990
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: the second quarter, how on edge that building will be

991
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: just because the hype is so out of control. I

992
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: still think Cleveland wins, but I like Tennessee in the points.

993
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: This game is simple. Everyone loves the Rams Carolina. The

994
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: humidity is out of control. I think my sleeper m

995
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: v P pick is Christian McCaffrey. Ron Rivera doesn't get

996
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: the love he shout. He's one of the best coachs

997
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: in the league. Carolina has got a lot to prove

998
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: because they missed the playoffs last year. I don't know

999
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: about Cam's health, and that's a major concern here. But

1000
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: I've been saying over and over I think the Rams

1001
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 1: come back to earth now. When I picked the divisions,

1002
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: I thought the Rams for like eight and eight. Maybe

1003
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: that's a little harsh because when you start looking at him,

1004
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm not as quite as confident in the Niners anymore.

1005
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: Seattle gets clowney. But still, I mean the Rams probably

1006
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: a nine or ten win season, but this isn't wouldn't

1007
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: even may be that crazy of a loss. Rams at Carolina.

1008
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: We know the stats of teams going west to east. Uh,

1009
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: it's it's not good. There's no way for us to

1010
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: get ready for the humidity in California. I mean it's

1011
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: hot where I live right now, it's eighty five degrees.

1012
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: It's not soaking in humidity. I like Carolina in the points.

1013
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: I like Carolina to win this game. Then I have

1014
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: the two the two games in my next two games,

1015
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: I basically wrote down, who the hell are watching these games?

1016
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: Detroit at Arizona and Cincinnati at Seattle. Now the reality

1017
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: is I will watch both of these games. But Detroit

1018
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: at Arizona, I don't know how much I'm gonna watch.

1019
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: Detroit minus two and a half at Arizona. Arizona is terrible. Uh.

1020
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: They have a coach that couldn't win in college. They

1021
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: have an offensive line that's an embarrassment. Their defense is terrible. Uh.

1022
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: Their defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is one of the worst

1023
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: coordinators maybe in league history. And Cincinnati at Seattle nine

1024
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: and a half points. So I like Detroit minus two

1025
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: and a half at Arizona, Cincinnati Seattle. I don't know,

1026
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 1: nine and a half points a lot. Now, Seattle tough

1027
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: home field advantage, they got clowney, you know that once.

1028
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: I just don't feel great about that game. I'd probably

1029
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: lean Cincinnati nine and a half. Again, you start getting

1030
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: points spreads around ten points in the NFL despite since

1031
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: NATI might suck, Cincinnati might go win two games, but

1032
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: usually don't just get destroyed. Now, sometimes when you do

1033
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: suck and you go to Seattle, you do get destroyed.

1034
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: So if I do bet on this game, I'd probably

1035
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: take Seattle minus nine and a half, but I wouldn't

1036
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: feel great about it. But again, these games kind of

1037
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: suck on paper. This game is really interesting Indie at

1038
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: l A. Obviously the Luck retirement, but the reality, and

1039
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: we've talked about on this show for weeks, Luck was

1040
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 1: not gonna start this game, whether he retired or whether

1041
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: he didn't retire. They were gonna play with Jacobe. Here's

1042
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: the good thing about Jacoby. He's been starting all training camp.

1043
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: He's been playing with the ones, Eric Ebron, t Y Hilton,

1044
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: all the running backs, the offensive line. They're used to

1045
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: seeing him in the huddle. I like Indianapolis in this

1046
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: game six and a half points. Do I like them

1047
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: to win? Charges are really good? Melvin Gordon, Sure as hell,

1048
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's gonna be there. They still got Bosa,

1049
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: they still got Ingram, they still got Keenan Allen. Mike

1050
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: Williams from Clemson's turned into a monster hunter Henry's back.

1051
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: You know you think the Chargers are a locked ten

1052
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: eleven win team. I like Indie to still win eight nine.

1053
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: You know, best case scenario ten games. It will not

1054
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: shock me if you look up and it's seventeen seventeen

1055
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: at the Home Depot Center in the fourth quarter. That's

1056
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,919
Speaker 1: what I would expect. It's why I like Indie plus

1057
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: six and a half. This is one of the better

1058
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: games on the docket for sure. Giants at Cowboys, I

1059
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say the Giants stink. They have

1060
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: one elite player and then a bunch of question marks

1061
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 1: at every position, including quarterback. Uh Eli stinks. Their offensive

1062
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: line stinks, their receiver stink. Their defense is even worse.

1063
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 1: This team is bad. I don't think Pat Schremmer is

1064
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: a very good coach, and I think the Cowboys, after

1065
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 1: signing Zeke, this place is gonna be rocking that they

1066
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: have super Bowl expectations. Whether that's fair or not, I

1067
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: kind of viewed them as a free in a team

1068
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: that could make it to the super Bowl. I don't

1069
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: see how you could discount them. The rosters loaded, Uh

1070
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: there there one question mark is the coach, which is

1071
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: never an ideal thing. But they definitely have the talent

1072
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: to dominate. And I think a T and T stadium

1073
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: gonna be going just bananas for this team. And you

1074
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: get up early, you start smelling blood and they'll look

1075
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: to kill him. How is the How are the Giants

1076
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: gonna move the ball on the Cowboys? You know they're

1077
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: just gonna stack the box, not let's say Kuana beat him.

1078
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: Who how's it Eli beating this team, especially with the

1079
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys pass rush, Like I would expect this the final

1080
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 1: score in this game to be like thirty to three.

1081
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 1: I'm serious, and I, like I've said, I'm hesitant week

1082
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: one blowouts. I think the Cowboys absolutely destroy the Giants

1083
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: and then the game of the night Pittsburgh got in

1084
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: New England. I'm basically just picking the Steelers on a

1085
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: law of averages, Like how many times straight are the

1086
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: Steelers gonna lose in New England? Eventually they're gonna get them.

1087
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: And if you go, well, if they are gonna get them,

1088
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be in a playoff game. It'd probably

1089
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: be a game like this. Now, the Patriots don't lose

1090
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: many games of Foxborough, especially when you've had an all

1091
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: off season. But the Steeler team is a little new.

1092
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's usually your game planning for Levian, your

1093
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: game planning for Antonio. Now it's like your game planning

1094
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: for James White. All right, excuse me, James Washington. So

1095
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: I just think it's they're a little bit of the unknown.

1096
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots are clearly gonna run away with

1097
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: the NFC East and win eleven twelve games, but they're

1098
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: also integrating a lot of new young players, like even

1099
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle. I mean, he had a big playoffs. But

1100
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: the other kid they drafted from Alabama. They have an

1101
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent's gonna play a lot as a rookie

1102
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, Cronks Gone. There are some unknowns. Now.

1103
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: The Patriots defense is gonna be really good, like I

1104
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 1: would expect the Patriots, you know, I still probably expect

1105
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: him to win this game, maybe like twenty to seventeen.

1106
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: But you're giving me five and a half points with

1107
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:54,240
Speaker 1: a good Steeler team, I think that's the pick. Okay,

1108
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: let's go middle coff mail back. I'm gonna bang out

1109
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: a bunch part gas is already pretty long, so I

1110
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: won'ta go too long. I'll try to go quick. A

1111
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,240
Speaker 1: lot of Colts fans, did the Colts get a steal

1112
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: in Jacoby's new contract extension? If I'm not mistaken. Jacoby

1113
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: doesn't have an agent. He doesn't. Uh, neither did Richard Sherman.

1114
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: Both gave big organizations discounts for their services. In my opinion, Well,

1115
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: I don't really necessarily agree with that. Agents love to

1116
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: say that because they don't never want to be devalued.

1117
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: But look at Richard Sherman, who has basically made nine

1118
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: million dollars a year these last two years, so he'll

1119
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: play two seasons eighteen million dollars. He was coming off

1120
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: a major injury, and he was an older player. I

1121
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: actually think that's been a pretty good deal. Jacoby was

1122
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: scheduled to make like seven fifty grand. Is he good?

1123
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean they basically gave him thirty

1124
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: million dollars. I mean he's got two year, thirty million

1125
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: dollar extension. I think that's a pretty good deal. Uh,

1126
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: you know they say what a burden hand is always

1127
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: better than two in the bush? What if he sucks?

1128
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,240
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, what if he goes six and ten,

1129
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: he never would have sniffed that money. Now if he

1130
00:54:58,000 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: goes eight and eight, would they have given him a

1131
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: contract extension at the end of the season because he's

1132
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: gonna be a free agent. Maybe they franchise, and maybe

1133
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: maybe they don't. What if no one gives him any money.

1134
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: I really don't blame him at all for taking the money.

1135
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: I think it's it was the right move to make,

1136
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,479
Speaker 1: especially when you're a mid round pick. You've only made

1137
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, like a million bucks or one point five

1138
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: million dollars, someone offers you thirty million dollars. I think

1139
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: it was twenty guaranteed. But as long as he's serviceable,

1140
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: he's gonna see a decent chunk of it. I think

1141
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: it was a a no brainer move because again, this

1142
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: was not a player we don't know if he's good

1143
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: or not. Like Zeke Elliott was holding out. He knows

1144
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: he's a superstar. Even Melvin Gordon, who's holding out and

1145
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: he's a running back or whatever. He's still a good player,

1146
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 1: like every people are gonna be. He would start for

1147
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in the NFL. Is Jacobe a

1148
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: starting quarterback? I don't think we know that right now. Now.

1149
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: I think most people in the know think he's good

1150
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: and he's on a team where he's kind of equipped

1151
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: to play well. But did anyone's ever gonna give him

1152
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars? I don't know, so I don't blame

1153
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: him for taking that money at all. Uh. He gets

1154
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: to pocket without an age, and I love that. I

1155
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: always like cutting out the middleman. Hey, John fan from Argentina?

1156
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: What's going on? Messy? Isn't that where Messi's from? Or

1157
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: is that Portugal? Or where's Ronaldo from? I got my

1158
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: soccer mixed up? Any chance my Minnesota Vikings get to

1159
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship break or bust year for Cook? Uh?

1160
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings are gonna be pretty good. I

1161
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: think the question mark is going to be their cornerback position,

1162
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: because offensively they get stacked at receiver. They got multiple

1163
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 1: tight ends. Their offensive line should be improved. Dalvin Cook's

1164
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 1: stud cousins solid, probably a little overpaid, but he's good

1165
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: enough to win with Their defensive front four is good.

1166
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: You know, Kendricks uh and bar aren't quite one thing

1167
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: you know what they once were, but Harrison Smith still

1168
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,760
Speaker 1: a good player. I I just wonder about their dvs.

1169
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: Is Davie Rose any good? I don't know. I really

1170
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: don't uh. And and if he's not, if he's not

1171
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: like a top notch corner for how much money they're

1172
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: paying them, they got problems and just listen some different

1173
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, podcasts and reading some stuff. I don't know

1174
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 1: if Minnesota is super high on their on their dbs.

1175
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: So if you can't cover now you can say in

1176
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: that division, well, Mitch can throws, you're good there, Rogers

1177
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: can and obviously the Detroit should be able to. So

1178
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna need to cover someone, and you know

1179
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: this week you're playing the Cardinals, so you'll probably be

1180
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: okay or excuse me, that's Detroit. Minnesota is playing the

1181
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: Falcons Like That's that's why I like the Falcons this

1182
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: weekend because who's covering Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley? Who

1183
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: who is? I don't know. That's why I kind of

1184
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,439
Speaker 1: like the Falcons win that game. Who do you think

1185
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: will be the most irrelevant team in the NFL this year?

1186
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: Not necessarily the worst, as we all like to talk

1187
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: about a train wreck. That would be the Raiders, who

1188
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: could be shitty, but we're talking a lot, but the

1189
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: team people forget about up. I would lean the Bengals.

1190
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: I I think it's the Bangals because the Bengals a

1191
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: J Green's out, They've gotten rid of a lot of

1192
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: their star players. They're probably just gonna be terrible. They're

1193
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: just kind of a black team. Even the Dolphins, the

1194
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: one curveball they have, even if they start like two

1195
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,479
Speaker 1: and six, what if they start rosing in the middle

1196
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: of the season that that will draw some interests. Plus

1197
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: you pay play the Patriots twice a year. The Jets

1198
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: and the Bills are kind of interesting, So I I

1199
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: would lean the Bangles right now that that would be

1200
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: where I'd put my money. Recently discovered your podcast and

1201
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: love it. Honest and well informed opinions sports industry have

1202
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: become increasingly rare these days. Appreciate it. I just wanted

1203
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: to ask, I'm a Notre Dame fan, what do you

1204
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: think our problem is? The team's record over the last

1205
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: couple of years has been well above five hundred, but

1206
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: they just can't deliver when the light shine the brightest.

1207
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: I know Notre Dame is academically challenging, religious and isolated institution,

1208
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: But do you think there is more to do with

1209
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly and his staff. I think Brian Kelly is

1210
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: a really good a really good coach. I do, and

1211
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: like you said, it's a hard place to win. It's

1212
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: a unique institution with the academic standards plus the religious element.

1213
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: But they've been producing a lot of NFL players that

1214
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: they really have And watched them against Louisville. They started slow,

1215
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,919
Speaker 1: but Ian Book, I like them. I think you can

1216
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 1: you can clearly tell that they've done a better job

1217
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: of recruiting a higher end athlete these last five or

1218
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: six years. Ever since that one championship game when Alabama

1219
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: kick their ass, they've been on a different level. Now

1220
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: are they still on Clemson Obama's level? No, but I

1221
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: think they're pretty good. I have a lot of respect

1222
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: for the schedule they play. I mean just the teams

1223
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: they play weekend and week out. It's no joke. I

1224
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: think they went from they had no business being in

1225
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 1: that championship game a couple of years ago, or you

1226
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: know what was that like seven or eight years ago

1227
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: to last year when they made the playoffs, it was

1228
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: well deserved. So I I think Brian Kelly is maximize

1229
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: saying everything he possibly can now are is never gonna

1230
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: be the lou Holes days of winning national championships. I

1231
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: don't know, do lou only win one? Maybe one too,

1232
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: But like when I was growing up in the nineties,

1233
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: if always felt like they were a legitimate national championship contender.

1234
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: It's like they're a playoff contender now, but they don't

1235
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: feel like they're a national championship contender. And maybe there's

1236
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: a chance that at the end of the day they're

1237
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: really not going to be because the SEC can just

1238
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: I've gotten this big argument with people in the SEC.

1239
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: They're like, God, our academics are just as good as

1240
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,439
Speaker 1: yours out West. I'm sorry they're not. You know, it's

1241
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: just like it's impossible to win at U C, l

1242
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: A and Cal. They care too much about academics. I

1243
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: don't personally, I wish they cared more about football, but

1244
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: they don't. Like Florida's a top fifteen school. Yeah, football

1245
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: is the number one priority. Same with Georgia. Yeah, those

1246
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: are good schools. I'm not diminishing, like a degree from

1247
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: there doesn't matter, it's it's impressive. But your football players,

1248
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 1: like I'm sorry they football is the number one priority

1249
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: at these schools. That's why they win. Alabama is a

1250
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: good school too. No one cares about academics when it

1251
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: comes to their football players, like U c. L A

1252
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: Was just rated the number one academic institution in the world.

1253
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: Like they care more about books than they do first downs,

1254
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: which pains me because I wish they cared equally. Like

1255
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pro books too, though I don't. I'm more

1256
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: of an audio book guy than an actual reader. But

1257
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: I just want these teams to be good at football.

1258
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: And that's what I have a lot of respect for

1259
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: in the SEC. They care about football and they also

1260
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: care about academics. They are good schools. Same with Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: They kind of fight the balance a little closer where

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Speaker 1: they care about football lot too. I just think it's

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Speaker 1: hard when whenever you have requirements to say that guys

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Speaker 1: can't get into school, like if you won't let a

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Speaker 1: guy into school, that Georgia will, and then you're playing Georgia,

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Speaker 1: you're at a disadvantage. It's just that simple. I know that.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to someone the other day, Gary Anderson.

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Speaker 1: When he was at Wisconsin, he had those issues. He

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Speaker 1: couldn't get guys into Wisconsin. Think about that, and then

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Speaker 1: the guys that he tried to get in, like ended

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Speaker 1: up at Michigan State and ended up at Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: He's like, what the hell are we doing? Like, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna play against these guys who won't let him in

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Speaker 1: my school. It's not like they can't read or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They just had lower test scores than ideally that the

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Speaker 1: school wanted. Like, let's make some exceptions. Who do you

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Speaker 1: think the best young tight end is in the league? Fant, Hawkerson, Hawkinson,

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Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson excluding Kittle. The following up with another

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Speaker 1: tight end question, what are the odds we see Gronk

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Speaker 1: come back in two thousands twenty? I think Gronk is done.

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Speaker 1: I think he's legitimately retired. To me, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: judge Hockinson and Fant they haven't as of recording this,

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Speaker 1: they haven't played a game in the league. Uh, Kittle

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Speaker 1: has got a chance to be pretty damn good. Just

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Speaker 1: being in some Niners practices. He's a baller. I mean,

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Speaker 1: George Kittle is a baller. Uh So if I was

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Speaker 1: excluding him, I'd probably go Ingram for the Giants to

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Speaker 1: the Joeku for the Cleveland Browns, and those guys are

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Speaker 1: really more like, you know, receiving threat. That's what makes

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Speaker 1: George Kittle basically the new Cronk is He's a He's

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Speaker 1: an ask kicker on the line of scrimmage, like he

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Speaker 1: can block, you know, and he can really catch. He's

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Speaker 1: a really good player. If Cronk was the standard, Like

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Art are elite, but they are elite

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Speaker 1: pass catchers now. Kelsey will try, Arts can't block. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's probably one of the guys,

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Speaker 1: the New York guy or Najoku. I'm trying to think,

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Speaker 1: you know, O. J. Howard just kind of getting ready

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Speaker 1: for this forty Niner game, uh and just looking at

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Speaker 1: some of Tampa stuff. He's a pretty good player. He's

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Speaker 1: got a chance to be a good player. Kind of

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Speaker 1: came on late last year. I think he had six

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Speaker 1: touchdowns him and Cameron Bread. That's not a bad little

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Speaker 1: one too right there in Tampa. If Bruce arians get

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Speaker 1: things going. They combined for eleven touchdowns last year. A

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Speaker 1: lot of good tight ends in the league. There's just

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Speaker 1: no way around it. Sometimes that the questions are too long.

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Speaker 1: I just avoid him. It seems like Greer and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins are taking a page out of the Browns playbook

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Speaker 1: and rebuilding, even though they may publicly state otherwise. As

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Speaker 1: a result, the Dolphins will have two and likely three

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Speaker 1: first round picks, depending on their season, and also two seconds.

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Speaker 1: Who were some of the upcoming prospects that would make

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Speaker 1: sense for the Dolphins at those spots? Would you buy Dolphinstock?

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Speaker 1: Are we the Browns two years ago? Are there other

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Speaker 1: teams that should consider making these moves? Here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: and people give so much credit to Sashy Brown. He

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Speaker 1: definitely helped, like tanking getting all the picks, but eventually

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Speaker 1: you gotta make the picks, and that was Dorsey making

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Speaker 1: the picks. So the guy that tanked was not the

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Speaker 1: guy making the picks. It's why I had zero faith

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Speaker 1: that Sashi would ever be able to make the picks.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think he would be able to like what

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Speaker 1: would like? Could he evaluate a player? I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Now can these guys do that? The juries out, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know enough about Chris Greer Flores

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Speaker 1: has again, like Cockinson hasn't coached an NFL game. Hawkins

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Speaker 1: played an NFL game. You know, it's just hard. You

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Speaker 1: look at the Dolphins roster. I mean they first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have a quarterback, you're just wasting your time.

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Speaker 1: They now need to tackle because they got rid of

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Speaker 1: Laramie Tunzil. They really don't have any wide receivers or

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Speaker 1: some sweet wide receivers in this draft. Uh. Defensively there

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Speaker 1: they have the one corners Aviors, pretty good player. They

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Speaker 1: got rid of Kiko, so they don't really have linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I mean they need everything. What what don't they have?

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Speaker 1: What what do they have? I think is the question? Uh,

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Speaker 1: just they need good players. So, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: part of having multiple first round picks and multiple second

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Speaker 1: round picks beside the quarterback, you just need a lot

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Speaker 1: of players. Chris Carson against the Bengals or Juju against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots as my flex this week, I would probably

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Speaker 1: go Carson against the Bengals just because Juju the Patriots

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Speaker 1: one their their best attribute is taking your best player

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Speaker 1: away and now Juju is their best player and to

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Speaker 1: their best unit on their team beside Brady is their

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Speaker 1: defensive backgroup. So I would go Carson against the Bengals

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Speaker 1: Chris car since I mean a monster he is. He

1349
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Speaker 1: is a hard running s ob. There's no way around that.

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Speaker 1: Do you think the NFL will We'll go to the

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Speaker 1: Madden camera angle more. I feel like it's given a

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Speaker 1: better perspective camera angle from behind the quarterback. Love they show,

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Speaker 1: love the show. Um yeah. I like it for replace

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Speaker 1: like when a running back breaks a sweet run. I

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Speaker 1: like it when they go behind the quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: for the for the slow motion replay and you kind

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Speaker 1: of see the whole open up and the running back

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Speaker 1: kind of like you know when I work in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the All twenty two, it's how

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Speaker 1: coaches watch the tape, especially offensive and defensive line coaches

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Speaker 1: from the end zone views. But I don't know if

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Speaker 1: the the average consumer likes it or not. I think

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Speaker 1: really that's all that matters, Like what knows the consumer

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Speaker 1: like as a football fan, I like it for replays

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Speaker 1: more than in real time. I like the side view,

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Speaker 1: like the TV view in real time. I I do

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Speaker 1: like the I I do like the behind the end

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Speaker 1: zone view for replays. How do you think the Bears

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Speaker 1: will miss Adrian Amos. I thought it was a big

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Speaker 1: loss when he signed with the Packers, and there feels

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Speaker 1: like there's a huge hole in their secondary. Now yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you just it's part of having, you know,

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01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: expensive team. You can't keep everybody the Bears still have.

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Speaker 1: Like Adrian Amos is not gonna be the Bears problem.

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Speaker 1: You watched him the night playing the Packers. Their front

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Speaker 1: four dominates. Roquan Smith, a texted buddy with the Bears.

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Speaker 1: I mean he looks like navaral Bowman run around just

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Speaker 1: kicking ass. Their corners are good, Prince and Fuller, Eddie

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Speaker 1: Jackson's a player. Like their defense is fine. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, losing Adrian Amos won't have that

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Speaker 1: big of an impact. They they the Bears got a

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01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: score points. I mean, I he had the big pick.

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01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: I mean that was sweet, but it was a terrible

1384
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,760
Speaker 1: throw by Mitch throwing a double coverage, just throwing it

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01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: up there, jump out like what are you doing? Just

1386
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: throw the ball away, live to find another down again.

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Speaker 1: In a perfect world, they would have kept adreaan Alimost.

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Speaker 1: But at a certain point, when you start paying some guys,

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01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: you just can't keep everyone. Uh I, I don't think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day it will be that

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Speaker 1: big of a deal. Well, enjoy the games this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and uh yeah, man, football is back.

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01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. If you're not religious, just enjoy it.

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01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: If you are, thank Jesus again and have a great weekend.

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01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: And just Week one is officially here. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to God, I can't wait to watch all these games

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01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It was it was, you know, rough start

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Speaker 1: to the season. You know they say Week one is

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01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: the new preseason, which you know it's better nothing, I guess.

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Speaker 1: But I can't wait for next week. And I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys on Tuesday. Second and s