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Speaker 1: What is going on? Three and Out podcast Friday, the

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Speaker 1: seventh recording this on a Thursday. NBA trade line just

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Speaker 1: deadline just ended, and we're talking football, football, football, and

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Speaker 1: more football. We got a lot going on Tom brady Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Something I found interesting the Browns watch their general managers

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Speaker 1: press conference article Schefter tweeted out on the new CBA agreement.

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Speaker 1: Of course they're gonna figure something out. Everyone's getting too

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Speaker 1: damn rich. I did a little thing where I took

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Speaker 1: some inventory of some stories in two thousand nineteen. Things

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Speaker 1: we learned like Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Kyle Shanahan, just

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Speaker 1: some situations and how they may look in two thousand twenty. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll get to the Middlecoff mail bag like

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Speaker 1: always at John Middlecoff is my Instagram handle. Slide right

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Speaker 1: in those d m s, and I'll answer your questions

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Speaker 1: here and maybe we'll touch on a couple other subjects.

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Speaker 1: Is depending on how long we're going, But I want

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Speaker 1: to start with this. If he does truly test free agency,

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Speaker 1: and that'd be Tom Brady, Thomas Brady, as as Matt

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Speaker 1: Slader calls him Thomas, it would be the craziest thing

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Speaker 1: since Peyton Manning tested free agency. But I've been thinking

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Speaker 1: a lot about it. He eated like an Instagram Q

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Speaker 1: and A and one of the questions was what team

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Speaker 1: are you gonna play for next year? And he just

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Speaker 1: went silent. Now, he didn't say anything one way or

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Speaker 1: the other. But I he's playing it up a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and he's earned the right to do whatever the hell

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Speaker 1: he wants. But I've been thinking a lot about it.

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Speaker 1: Just if you were Tom Brady, who your legacy is cemented,

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Speaker 1: you have six Lombardies, six ranks, you want m vps,

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Speaker 1: you're the goat. You are universally considered the greatest court

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Speaker 1: back of all time by old heads and young heads.

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's pretty well established, set in stone. What

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Speaker 1: would you consider, like most of us, if we were

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Speaker 1: taking a new job, the first thing you think about

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Speaker 1: a lot of times is your family slash money. Well,

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Speaker 1: one money means nothing to him. It clearly never has,

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Speaker 1: not that he doesn't care about money, but he's always

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Speaker 1: been willing to take discounts. You don't ask yourself how

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Speaker 1: many times you've taken discounts. Now, I think he gets

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Speaker 1: definitely could have got more money, but he did it

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Speaker 1: with the big picture view of knowing it would help

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Speaker 1: his team. And basically, let's call what it is. When

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Speaker 1: you're a football player of his level, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: a partner in the operation. Especially when you start winning

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Speaker 1: big you're gonna be a major and that's the only

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Speaker 1: team you've ever played for. You're gonna be a major

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Speaker 1: part of that organization the rest of your life. Robert Kraft,

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Speaker 1: whenever he passes Jonathan Kraft, they will fly him back.

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Speaker 1: He will be have Tom Brady Day once a year,

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Speaker 1: kind of like colleges have homecoming. He will profit immensely

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Speaker 1: from his brand as a New England Patriot. So then

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Speaker 1: let's factor that in the brand. He is so famous

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Speaker 1: would he'd be the equivalent of Lebron He would leave,

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Speaker 1: he's done all he can do. He would want to

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Speaker 1: expand the brand. That's something NBA players love doing, expanding

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Speaker 1: building the brand. How about you just take a book

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Speaker 1: from Michael Jordan's win and your brand will be enormous.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's proved it. He is by far in my

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Speaker 1: opinion the most famous NFL player ever. Part of it

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Speaker 1: l A. But when it comes to football, which like

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Speaker 1: debatable at this that this point, it's why whether you

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Speaker 1: all respect him, we really do, because at the end

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Speaker 1: So when you factor all this stuff in, it just

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Speaker 1: makes no sense for him to leave New England. And

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Speaker 1: I've had it kind of one time in my life,

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Speaker 1: like true leverage to get myself more money. Now I've

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Speaker 1: doubt that would scare Robber Kraft. But I think his

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Speaker 1: a true one on one meeting of listen, coach, you

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Speaker 1: know what I bring to the table. I just have

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Speaker 1: a couple of ideas for personnel. I'm not dictating who

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Speaker 1: watches as much film as a coach. He watches just

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Speaker 1: and let me just let's just have a conversation. And

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Speaker 1: getting reports he plans on meeting with the Raiders and

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Speaker 1: But he ain't some money grab guy because he checks

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Speaker 1: his bank account. His wife's made hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: when Tom Brady retires, he'll have the world by the balls.

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Speaker 1: Everyone will want to do business with him. People will

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Speaker 1: pay him an astronomical amount to speak. I mean he'll

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Speaker 1: Like an extra two million dollars or five million dollars

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Speaker 1: He's definitely earned the right to have an opinion, given

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Speaker 1: just when you're watching film, you're if you're not watching

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Speaker 1: That's one thing him and Belichick have combined. They've been

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Speaker 1: And I think at forty three years old, you know,

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Speaker 1: in my profession, I get if I talk for a living,

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Speaker 1: Would you want to do a dramatic career change? Now?

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Speaker 1: They have kicked everyone's ass for pretty consistently twenty years,

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Speaker 1: to get him more money. I mean, it makes complete sense.

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Speaker 1: We want these super super smart guys like you have

431
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Speaker 1: to know football. That final play not the final play,

432
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Speaker 1: I guess the play that changed the Super Bowl third

433
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Speaker 1: and fifteen where they're in you know, they're basically in

434
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,199
Speaker 1: zone coverage the safety both corners have a third of

435
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,639
Speaker 1: the field cover three and the way they designed the

436
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,920
Speaker 1: play mostly kind of screwed up, I think. But depending

437
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: on how they teach that defense, their pattern matching concepts.

438
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's really confusing now the Niners really

439
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: more of a traditional zone defense. But I can watch it,

440
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 1: and I've been around football at a pretty high level

441
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: now because and including at Fresno State for over twelve years,

442
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: and I don't I had to text some coaches to

443
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: even figure out. And I'm still not exactly sure what happened.

444
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: Football is very very confusing. There is also like, let's

445
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: use Veach as an example. He has now been about

446
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 1: and he's on a he's on the younger side, in

447
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: his early forties. He has been evaluating players, evaluating players

448
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: out in the draft for fifteen plus years. How he's

449
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: been evaluating players in the draft for twenty plus years. Uh,

450
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: think about Belichick who's been doing it for forty five.

451
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: There's a level of experience that I do think these

452
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: guys Andrew Berry first time general manager, Stefanski first time

453
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: play caller last year, and I was actually really impressed

454
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: way you do with Kirk Cousins and Paul de Podesta.

455
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: I I know, I get he played ivy leagues college football,

456
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,439
Speaker 1: but he went into baseball, so his natural instincts of

457
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 1: oh yeah, back in the O six draft, or back

458
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 1: what happened in two thousand and twelve. His instinct might be,

459
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's when Matt Kane got drafted. Oh yeah,

460
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: that's where you know Mike Trout went. Now I get it.

461
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: You can do all the studying you want, but there

462
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 1: is just when I talked football, or I talked sports

463
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 1: at a bar, or at the gym, or with someone

464
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's pretty easy for me. But if

465
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: the guy, if I meet some stockbroker and he tries

466
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: to have a conversation about I don't know the history

467
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: of like Wells Fargo doing deals, I'm gonna be lost.

468
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: And I like business and it's really grown on me

469
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: in the last as I've adulted. But I don't know

470
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: as much. But if you want to talk early two thousand,

471
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: Shack and Kobe, I'm gay. I lived it literally figuratively,

472
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 1: it's my life or the forty franchise or Belichick and

473
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: Brady whatever, it's no different. Like it's why when I

474
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: talked to my friends in the league or when I

475
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: meet someone new in the NFL, I can carry on

476
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: a pretty strong conversation. I got to meet a guy

477
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 1: when I was in in in Miami, Tampa, Bay Ray Scout,

478
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: I can just talk baseball for a long period of

479
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: time pretty comfortably. Now I understand it's all encompassing sports,

480
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: but I can't rattle off guys. They're gonna be in

481
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: a very very tough situation. Couple for a couple of reasons. One,

482
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: anytime you're first time GM in a pretty toxic environment.

483
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Speaker 1: And I'm not even trying to like shoot on the Browns,

484
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 1: but just call a spade a spade. It's a toxic

485
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Speaker 1: place because of the owner, because of the standard that's

486
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: been set by the guy that cuts the check. It's

487
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Speaker 1: a disaster. First time GM, that's not easy. I get

488
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Speaker 1: the guys worked there before, so he has a little

489
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: comfort with the way the guy thinks. But still that's

490
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,239
Speaker 1: pretty nuts. Then as a coach, first time you've ever been,

491
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Speaker 1: you've only you've only commanded the room as a coordinator

492
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: for one year. Now, you could argue there's been studies

493
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Speaker 1: done that being a coordinator can be a little overrated.

494
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Speaker 1: I think when Andy Reid was hired and never been

495
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: a coordinator, I'd say that's a pretty unique situation. You know,

496
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Speaker 1: it's and he was destined to be a coordinator. He

497
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: would be a good one. He'd basically became one when

498
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: he was the head coach for the most part, like

499
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: being a court even Harbor a little bit of an outlier.

500
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: I think the Hardball family kind of a unique family.

501
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: Most guys that have success just around the league. Pete

502
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: Carrolls been a d C, Kyle Shanahan's been a OC.

503
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh had called plays, Matt Naggi had learned under

504
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, like Doug Peterson played in the league for

505
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: a long time. I just think there's a huge element

506
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Speaker 1: of inexperience there. What happens if Odell Beckham doesn't buy

507
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: in because you can't just trade him. What happens Here's

508
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: the other part. Okay, let's say the team, because usually

509
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: in O t A s everything is positive, even in

510
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Speaker 1: training camp. What happens if you start two and four,

511
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: when there's already this toxicity about people think you're gonna

512
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: lose anyway. Then the owner gets edgy and they're like

513
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: they always love to say, well, big picture, they gave

514
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: me a long term contract. He says that every time.

515
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: I understand the guys really smart, How football smart. I

516
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: don't know. I I met him one time and it

517
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: was brief. Stefanski, you know, why did why didn't he

518
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: Why did it take him so long to become a coordinator?

519
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: And Paul D. Podesta, it's like he's the grand pooball.

520
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: The guy doesn't even live in Cleveland. I don't know, man,

521
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: I would bet against this situation. Just just too much inexperience.

522
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Speaker 1: I don't care how book smart all these guys are

523
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: in football. It's about football, like you, and let's call

524
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Speaker 1: it what it is, experience. Look at the last two

525
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: guys who won the Super Bowl. Sean McVeigh thirty two

526
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: last year, Kyle Shanahan just turned forty this year. The

527
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: two old guys beat him. Obviously, Belichick kick mcveigh's but Kyle,

528
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, definitely held his own against Andy, but he

529
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: lost the game. You know, experience in this league in

530
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: games matters, running, organization, ation matters like the one thing.

531
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: Like Kyle had a chance to succeed when he got

532
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: the Niners job. He's been coordinating place for over a decade.

533
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: He'd been around football with his dad since he could walk.

534
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: There are videos from the Elway Super Bowls with him

535
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: on the sideline, like, this is gonna be very, very

536
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: difficult for these two guys to get this team to

537
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: where the owner is gonna want it next year, just

538
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: giving their talent level. And that's competing for the playoffs. Okay,

539
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: let's take some two thousand nineteen inventory. Here's what I did.

540
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: I wrote down six things that stood out this year,

541
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: good or bad, and how we think it's gonna change

542
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty, and and if I think it's

543
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: gonna change, and what needs to change. So I just

544
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: called it the two thousand nineteen inventory. Start with one.

545
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Speaker 1: The biggest winner this year was Lamar Jackson when the

546
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: m VP of the league. Even if you were a

547
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: big Lamar Jackson fan, I don't think besides maybe like

548
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: Lamar's parents, anyone thought he would win the Most Valuable

549
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: Player this season. It was remarkable. He dominated, He was

550
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: incredible on the ground, he improved a lot in the air.

551
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. There's been back to back years now

552
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback the Ravens have hosted a playoff game,

553
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been good. And at the end of

554
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: the day, he's I like him, and I was someone

555
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have drafted him. But I love everything he

556
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: stands for. I love how the victimhood and social media

557
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: that sometimes carries over to players he refuses to touch.

558
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: I find myself rooting for him. That doesn't mean I

559
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: love him as a player because it's fun during it's

560
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: fun and games during the regular season when you can

561
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: run around. In the playoffs, it's about doing one thing.

562
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: What is third and fifteen year down ten. I get

563
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: his Patrick Mahomes, but those are the situations you were in.

564
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy was in those situations. It was third and ten

565
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: with down four in Super Bowl three minutes left, two

566
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: minutes left. You overthrew him. You have to complete passes.

567
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: You gotta win when you are a quarterback with your arm.

568
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: So Lamar Jackson is as dynamic and remarkable of an

569
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: athlete to watch run as we've probably ever seen at

570
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: quarterback beside Michael Vick. It's that it's just jaw dropping.

571
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Speaker 1: It is fun. If I still played Madden, I would

572
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: be the Ravens. I'd run around. I used to do

573
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: that when I was in high school. I'd picked the

574
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Speaker 1: two thousand one Atlanta Folcon two and I would pick

575
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: Michael Vick and I would just run around and you

576
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: couldn't catch me. That's what I'd be doing with the Ravens,

577
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: running that pistol and the options, and it'd be sweet.

578
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: But he's at the point now where he's gonna be

579
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: judged on the playoffs and he's gonna have to really

580
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: improve and to me, their offense and this is the heart.

581
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: They did this with Kaepernick and it screwed them up.

582
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: They tried to modernize their passing attack because they know, yeah, well,

583
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: what if you stuff the run in the playoffs, we

584
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: have to be able to go four and five wide

585
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: and just rely on this guy's arm. To me, that's

586
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: the next step. Uh now it is. It'll be a

587
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: little difficult for them. Especially if the ground game is working.

588
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: They can win eleven and twelve games just running it

589
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: down with people's throats. The problem is, we know in

590
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: the playoffs you can't consistently do that. So can he

591
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: improve enough to to be a factor. Because let's assume

592
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna be back, the Patriots will reload.

593
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: Can they hang with them? Because they will be able

594
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: to during the regular season, But as we've learned the

595
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: last couple of years, like Lamar Jackson. The Ravens are

596
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: a little bit like the Rockets, really cool than the

597
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 1: regular season and then once you get to the postseason

598
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: kind of a flame out. So that all that they're

599
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: gonna be judged on next year's winning playoff games. Baker Mayfield,

600
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: it's one of It's probably Colin Coward's greatest take. And

601
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: I thought he was a little nuts for it because

602
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: I thought Baker was gonna be such a good player.

603
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: But he was right. Immaturity, Uh, the organization he was

604
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: got off. He was a bad football player last year,

605
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: probably a bottom two or three starter in the NFL.

606
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: And I was talking with someone at the Super Bowl

607
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL Exac. He agreed. He brought up this

608
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: point and I've said it before. If Baker Mayfield is

609
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: an inaccurate quarterback, he's a bust playing and simple. He's

610
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: a midget. He can't run his His game has to

611
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: be like Drew Brees. He's not gonna scramble. It's about

612
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: throwing the football accurately. Now he's got a new coach

613
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: who helped Kirk Cousins have his best statistical year this year.

614
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: Can they implement that they have good running back so

615
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: you can have the zone running scheme, the play action

616
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: stuff that should benefit Baker. One thing I saw at

617
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, though, that bothered me a little bit

618
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: when Baker went on Get Up and said, you know,

619
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: I gotta change, and everyone gave him this huge applause.

620
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I kind of called BS. I don't judge

621
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: people on their on their words. Words mean little to me.

622
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: Maybe once I have children, all listen to their words,

623
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: But adults, I judge you on your actions. And there

624
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: was a picture that came out two days before he

625
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: went on Get Up, and it was a picture in

626
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: the Caribbean with his shirt off. He was fat and pudgy.

627
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: It's like, Baker, you've had a month now and you're

628
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: screwing around. You look out of shape. I get sent

629
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: these texts sometimes by NFL people when he instagram pictures

630
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: of just how chubby he looks. He doesn't have a

631
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: great body either. I can relate. But if you're the

632
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: number one overall pick and everyone's coming for you bones

633
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: and arrows, it's easy to say I'm gonna do the

634
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: right thing. I'm gonna keep my mouth shutting all that BS.

635
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at you what, Why is your body

636
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: so bad? Why aren't you going in the lab, eating

637
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: the right foods and working out like that? No, it

638
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you say. It's about your work ethic,

639
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: which I think kind of fell off a cliff last year.

640
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: And when an accurate quarterback loses accuracy, is a guy

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Speaker 1: not stand honed in on his craft. Like if you're

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Speaker 1: a great iron player on the PGA Tour, then all

643
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Speaker 1: of a sudden you can't hit irons anymore. It's like,

644
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Speaker 1: are you still working at your game? You know? Some

645
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Speaker 1: off now again, we all have slumps, we all have

646
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Speaker 1: bad days, whether you an NFL quarterback, or whether you're

647
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: a sales guy or whether you're a teacher. But you

648
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: had an awful season. It got worse and worse and

649
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: worse and worse. So yeah, you can keep your mouth

650
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: shut and maybe that'll help. But if your play sucks,

651
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're smiling every day. You gotta

652
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: play better. It starts with your body, starts with you

653
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: changing your life around. Like you are not some genetic freak.

654
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: You're actually genetically much more like me and everyone listening

655
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: to this podcast an average guy. There's nothing wrong with that.

656
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Speaker 1: You're actually a great story. You went number one overall,

657
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: but you have to put an extra time extra time

658
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Speaker 1: or you're going to be a bust number three. The

659
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Speaker 1: what the Rams do with Todd Gurley? There have been

660
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Speaker 1: some rumors like would they cut them? Everything's on the table.

661
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Speaker 1: His his dead cap number is greater or is like

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Speaker 1: thirteen million dollars? His cap numbers like seventeen million. You're

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Speaker 1: telling me they're gonna cut them with that type dead

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Speaker 1: cap number, I can't see it. I think it's maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a little maybe it's a little over twelve, but

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Speaker 1: it's really really high. Well, if it's ten, think about this,

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Speaker 1: a ten million dollar dead cap on a two million cap.

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Speaker 1: So if you kind of got that's five percent of

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Speaker 1: your cap. So if the numbers about twelve, we're talking

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Speaker 1: x percent of your cap on a cap that they're

671
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: already kind of up against it with GoF with Cooks,

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00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: with Donald and Jalen Ramsey, like they need to kind

673
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: of just play this out. But if he is just

674
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Speaker 1: an average guy and they have him, they're paying him

675
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars a year, they're screwed. I don't blame him.

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Speaker 1: They signed the deal I wouldn't take a pay cut

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Speaker 1: or restructure at all either. Like you guys signed it,

678
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play it out. Great example, don't pay running backs.

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Speaker 1: I think the Rams are in a very tough predicament

680
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Speaker 1: there because there's not really an outcome. You're just kind

681
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: of stuck. Who plays quarterback for the Steelers in two

682
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, they basically till the last week, we're in

683
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: the playoff mix, and it was mainly because of their defense.

684
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Speaker 1: Their defense was awesome. They started ohing three, they trade

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Speaker 1: for Minca. Maybe they traded for him after week two,

686
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: which I thought was nuts, And then I clearly came

687
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Speaker 1: around on it, and I admire their franchise and their

688
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: defense was badass Minca, t J. Watt Bush, the kid

689
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Speaker 1: from Michigan, just just how consistent they were off off

690
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Speaker 1: all season, and even their offensive weapons James Conner, uh Juju,

691
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: Deonte Thompson, Vince McDonald, the offensive line that they played well.

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Speaker 1: Their quarterback situation was bad. Now, obviously Mason Rudolph is

693
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 1: just a guy, like he's just he's nothing. Duck Hodges

694
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: is the same. Like those two guys are not good enough.

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Speaker 1: They are marginal backups. Roethlisberger is coming back at thirty

696
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Speaker 1: eight years old off at torn elbow, and as Carson

697
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Speaker 1: Palmer told me, if you listen to the podcasts three

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Speaker 1: or four months ago, you know, it's one thing when

699
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Speaker 1: you get injured in your twenties. It's another thing when

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Speaker 1: it happens to thirty eight. Everything takes longer, your body

701
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: hurts more. There is no guarantee he's coming back full go.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll know maybe more at O T A s.

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Speaker 1: But I think the Steelers have to be in the

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Speaker 1: quarter that they are a solid starting quarterback from being

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Speaker 1: a playoff team. Their defense is good, they have offensive weapons,

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Speaker 1: they have a good coaching staff. But if roethlis Burger

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Speaker 1: is just shot, the other guys stink like they're they're

708
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: in a predicament. What is Dak Prescott worth? As we

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Speaker 1: learned in two thousand nineteen, he's a solid player like

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Speaker 1: he is a He's a really just solid starter. He

711
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Speaker 1: could have moments where he looks like a top seven

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Speaker 1: or eight guy, and he can have moments where he

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Speaker 1: looks like you know, somewhere between sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty.

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Speaker 1: He's like na But at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: He probably falls somewhere between ten and fifteen. And I

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Speaker 1: think Jared Goff's kind of there too. Now, I'd rather

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Speaker 1: have Dak than Goff, just because there's a mobile element

718
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Speaker 1: to him. But you see with guys like the one

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Speaker 1: thing with Wentz was a little bit of overpay, given

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Speaker 1: that he was always hurt. But his physical tools are undeniable.

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Speaker 1: And when he's on beside the beside mahomes a young quarterback,

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Speaker 1: no one has his physical tools, not a soul, not

723
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, not Baker Mayfield, or Jimmy Garoppolo or none

724
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Speaker 1: of these guys, Jared Goff, Mariota Jamis, you name all

725
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: the guys have been draft the last four or five years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I can pay Dak. I'd feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable paying him like Garoppolo money with Derek Carr got

728
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, five years, seventy million guaranteed, like twenty three

729
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: to twenty six million average a year, But clearly that's

730
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Speaker 1: not the way the world works, and he's gonna want

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Speaker 1: thirty five plus million dollars Now, I just have a

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00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: hard time doing that. I don't know what my other

733
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Speaker 1: options are. Do I franchise him. But then the problem

734
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Speaker 1: is you're just always kind of in quarterback limbo. You're

735
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Speaker 1: just in a more harmonious Kirk Cousins Washington situation. But man,

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Speaker 1: I I don't know what you do. I I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't stomach paying him a hundred and fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. I you know, I can't do it. As

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Speaker 1: Mike Singletary would say, I can't do it, can't. I can.

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Speaker 1: I can win with him as a twenty million dollar quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I can't win with him as a thirty eight million

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Speaker 1: dollar quarterback. And then, last, but not least, Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: I think this year was, you know, as big coming

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00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: out party as a head coach. We knew how good

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Speaker 1: he was as a coordinator, but he hadn't been winning

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Speaker 1: his first couple of years. It's pretty clear that when

747
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: he's on like he's a more dynamic play caller than

748
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Speaker 1: than Sean McVeigh. And I like Sean McVeigh, so I'm

749
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Speaker 1: not trying to diminish what he's accomplished. I think Sean

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Speaker 1: McVeigh is a really, really good young coach. I'd rather

751
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Speaker 1: have Kyle Shanahan. I said it when Kyle Shanahan wasn't winning,

752
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: and it was easy to argue with me because the

753
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: numbers spoke for themselves. Kyle wasn't successful, of Sean. But

754
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: now the key is with Kyle, and I believe he's

755
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: gonna do it. But here's the key. You come off

756
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: a season like that, next year he's gonna make the playoffs.

757
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Speaker 1: Just make the playoffs. Just established your consistent playoff coach

758
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: like and Andy Reid, a, Sean Payton and Pete Carroll.

759
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: You're not gonna win the Super Bowl every year. Well

760
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: obviously they didn't win it, but you're not gonna go

761
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: to the Super Bow every year. You're not even gonna

762
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: go to the NFC Championship Game every year. But if

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Speaker 1: if you're worst year, like a Doug Peterson, you're getting

764
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: bounced in the first round, it's okay, Like, look at

765
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Speaker 1: Duck won the Super Bowl. Next year, wins a road

766
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Speaker 1: playoff game, the following year, loses a tight game in

767
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: the first round when Wentz gets knocked out. I think

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Speaker 1: we have all gained a ton of respect for Doug Peterson.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for Kyle, Like, you don't even need

770
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Speaker 1: to get back to the Super Bowl, though depending on

771
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Speaker 1: how the team looks, it's gonna be a lot of

772
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: pressure on him to make another Super Bowl run. But

773
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Speaker 1: if you can go eleven twelve wins again and just

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Speaker 1: be a playoff team, you'll be like, Yeah, this is

775
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: the dude, this is the young guy. This is the

776
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley of the NFL, which I think everyone kind

777
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: of feels. But the great part about the NFL it's

778
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: a winning lost league. It's a black and white league.

779
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: There's no like, you know, just a couple of things happened. No,

780
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: there's none of that. It's about winning and the good

781
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: coaches Pete Carroll, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, obviously Belichick, but

782
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: even like Zimmer, Zimmer wins every year now, not wins big,

783
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: but wins every year. And I think that's kind of

784
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: Kyle's time now is just start rattling off double digit

785
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: win seasons. Okay, let's go Middlecoff mail bag at John

786
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: Middlecoff is my Instagram handle, and you just firing the

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Speaker 1: d ms. We answer him here, Packer fan here, do

788
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Speaker 1: you think green Bay needs to trade up for Rogers

789
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: to get a legit receiver? Currently they have THET pick

790
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Speaker 1: in the third round. First, I was like, how do

791
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: they Oh? Yeah, they were in the NFC Championship. My

792
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: personal draft crush at the position is Justin Jefferson of

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Speaker 1: l s U. Reminds me of Randall Cobb. Could be

794
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Speaker 1: a guy like him fall the thirty or do you

795
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: see him going earlier? Love the show. Keep doing what

796
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: you're doing. I appreciate it. Talked to a buddy with

797
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs that thought he was a tad bit overrated.

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Speaker 1: You know that the dude on that team is the

799
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Speaker 1: other guy, Chase who's a sophomore. But just relative to

800
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Speaker 1: the class, I think this class is really really good.

801
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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, the Bama guys. Uh Lavishka, the Colorado wide

802
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: receiver who was unreal two years ago. Now he's banged

803
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Speaker 1: up with injuries. Who am I missing? Uh, Clemson's got

804
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: a guy I'd I'd have to write it out, but

805
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Speaker 1: this is a really Arizona State has a guy, really

806
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: really good wide receiver draft. Now. The good thing is

807
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: there's a ton of other good players too, some good

808
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, there's some couple of good running backs. There's

809
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: a bunch of quarterbacks. Uh, there are some good dbs.

810
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: There are some good pass rushers. So I I think

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Speaker 1: you could sit there at thirty and just take a guy.

812
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: Now say this for Goudakins, he's been active, you traded up,

813
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: he's traded back. I kind of like Goodakins. I think

814
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: he's a wheeler and a dealer. It's clear to me

815
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Speaker 1: they gotta do two things. They gotta be aggressive to

816
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: sign a guy this offseason, like sign a wide receiver.

817
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: Whether that's I'd have to look at the free agent market.

818
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: But let's say the Chiefs cut Sammy Watkins. His market

819
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: would be strong. But the Packers should be all over that.

820
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: And then also draft a guy, and you don't even

821
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Speaker 1: need a draft necessarily a guy in the first round.

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00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: Like look at the Niners. They drafted Deebo Samuel, Look

823
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Speaker 1: at the Tennessee Titans A J. Brown, Look at the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks Dk metcalf. A lot of good wide receivers

825
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Speaker 1: go in the second round. Now the Packers, I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: they have their second round pick. That if you draft thirty,

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Speaker 1: if that means you're dead last right at thirty. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a problem. Huge fan of

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Speaker 1: the show, Keep Up the Great World. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the Bolts draft Justin Herbert. Will they be able to

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Speaker 1: elevate the team to a similar level to Mahomes and

832
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs got a strong one also they managed to

833
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: turn it around. Do they have a chance to succeed

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Speaker 1: in l A. I don't know. I just I think

835
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Speaker 1: that they draft Herbert or two one of those two guys.

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Speaker 1: They trade up to like three or four, and they

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Speaker 1: drafted I think they're at six now. In a perfect world,

838
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Speaker 1: they do a New York Jets move. You trade up.

839
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Speaker 1: Remember it cost the Jets and I think I talked

840
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: about this on the last podcast. Costaggests three second round picks.

841
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: So that's a lot. But you want Herbert or do

842
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: you not want a quarterback? If you want a quarterback,

843
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: that's I mean, we have a blueprint. That's what it

844
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Speaker 1: costs to get Sam Donald. And you could argue Justin

845
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: Herbert more talented than Sam Donald. Now I think Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald's probably a better player. Uh this is a big

847
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: year for Sam Donald. But yeah, he's not my Homes.

848
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: So no, I don't think he's Mahomes. But I do

849
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Speaker 1: think he could be a really good NFL player. I

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Speaker 1: think he could do what a better version of what

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's doing with the Bills, and they have more

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Speaker 1: weapons like Keenant easier to play with Keenan Allen and

853
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Speaker 1: Mike Williams. They have huge catching RADI sees get him

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Speaker 1: a running back. They have a good defense boom the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Hard part about being the Chargers is one it's a

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Speaker 1: Laker town and with Lebron and a d and the

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Speaker 1: death of Kobe, the Lakers are number one, story three

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. As I'm recording this, I just saw on

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Speaker 1: Twitter that Mookie Bett's trade. It's gonna be a little problem,

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Speaker 1: but it's probably gonna finish that the Dodgers are number two.

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Speaker 1: And then you'd say, with the Rams they've just been winning,

862
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: are are more important? And plus they've been in in

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Speaker 1: l a before and with the Raiders in Vegas, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be hard for the Chargers. To me, if you

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Speaker 1: want to be a big deal, you gotta win big big.

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Speaker 1: What is the value of Josh Rosen. Everyone was high

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Speaker 1: on him in the draft and then he has gone

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Speaker 1: on two years too terrible locations, so it's hard to

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Speaker 1: know if he's really a bust or not. To me,

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Speaker 1: he seems like a great low end investment to train

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Speaker 1: in the wings. If you are a team like the Packers, Patriots,

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Speaker 1: or even the Lions, you think we'll see him move

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Speaker 1: somewhere to become a part of a long term succession plan.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that why the Miami Dolphins got him? Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: don't even have an opinion on Josh Rosen's liked him

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Speaker 1: out of the draft, but at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: I've read flagged him. You know, the the Arizona situation

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Speaker 1: was not his fault, as I think many people have

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Speaker 1: said it was one of the worst offensive lines in

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Speaker 1: NFL history. But the Miami thing, I I do judge

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Listen, Ryan Fitzpatrick's a solid NFL player,

882
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 1: but it didn't feel like it was even close. Like

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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen couldn't hold Ryan Fitzpatrick's jock. They didn't even

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Speaker 1: think twice once. They kind of made the move early on.

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Speaker 1: It was just, yeah, Ryan fitzpacks Patrick's are starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that happened happening with Sam Donald, Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: you know, Carson Wentz. Some of these guys no chance,

888
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: Like how can he not show enough in practice? Now

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00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: you could argue it's just the Dolphins. But I thought

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00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: the Dolphins played pretty well and he couldn't clearly stay

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00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: on that level. You could argue all day you want,

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00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: like they're just functional or whatever, but they want a

893
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: bunch of games with Fitzpatrick, So I would start to lean. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's really a long term answer.

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Speaker 1: And this is coming from someone that loved him out

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Speaker 1: of the draft. What will be the second full season

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Speaker 1: under his With the second full season under his belt,

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Speaker 1: do you see Jimmy g progressing next year under Shanahan

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Speaker 1: or do you think we have a clear picture of

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00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: his ceiling right now? He's a unique player because he's

901
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: twenty eight years old, but he's only started one full season, right.

902
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: I mean he started before, but this is the first

903
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: time in his career he started to start to finish

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Speaker 1: the season. He can consterially he can get better because

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00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: he can do two things. One, he can become a

906
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: better decision maker that some of his picks are just atrocious.

907
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: And part of being a better decision maker is I

908
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: think he can learn to see the field better. The

909
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: more you play, the better you see the field. Some

910
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: guys like Mahomes just naturally have it luck naturally have it.

911
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: I don't think it comes quite naturally to Jimmy, But

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Speaker 1: I do think he has the physical attribute. He definitely

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Speaker 1: has the toughness, he has the right coach. They need

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Speaker 1: to get him a better wide receiver opposite Debo. You

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Speaker 1: got Kittle, you gotta run game, you got a solid

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Speaker 1: offensive line, you got a really good defense. I think

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Speaker 1: we see this year. I think it was twenty seven

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Speaker 1: and thirteen to me. Next year, the standard for Jimmy

919
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: to have like a good year would be like thirty

920
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: four and ten. Like, I think he has that type

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Speaker 1: of season in him with his coach. Look at the

922
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Speaker 1: second year and now Matt Ryan's a better player than Jimmy.

923
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Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan's second season under Kylie won the m

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Speaker 1: v P. Now, is Matt Ryan a more natural quarterback

925
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: and just seeing the field. Probably, But you could argue

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's physical tools are better. So I'd expect a big,

927
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Speaker 1: big bounce back season. Eagles fan here wondering your thoughts

928
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Speaker 1: on what the Eagles will do with their wide receiver corps, trades,

929
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Speaker 1: free agents, draft, all Sean coming back, Also, Go Fresnel State,

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00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: love it, Go Dogs. Well, let's see al Shawn's gone,

931
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Speaker 1: DeShawn gone, uh Nelson aguilor free agent gone? Who do

932
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: they have? They got arts, they got got hurt. They

933
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Speaker 1: need some wide receivers. So Greg war Jr. He's gonna

934
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Speaker 1: be in the mix. He's solid, but that he's like

935
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Speaker 1: your third. You're gonna need a one and a two.

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Speaker 1: Do I think they draft a guy in the first round,

937
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: And I think they aggressively shop. If Amari Cooper hits

938
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Speaker 1: free agency, Sammy Watkins were to get cut, you know,

939
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Speaker 1: guys of that ilk, do they I it's gonna sound crazy,

940
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: but Antonio Brown right now is on an apology tour.

941
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Speaker 1: If he goes all in on this apology tour and

942
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: you feel like he's changed his life, do you think

943
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: about it? I'd at least bring him in. I mean,

944
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: the Eagles have been pretty open minded about giving guys

945
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: second chances over the years, so and I know how

946
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: he loves that talent, and I don't blame him. Antonio

947
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: Brown is one of the best players we've ever seen

948
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: for a six year stretch. Now, he jumped the shark

949
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: and became a nut job. But he's going on the

950
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: apology tour right now. Pretty heavy did you entertain giving

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00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: him a chance. I don't. I would lean know, I

952
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't trust him, but I do get bringing him in

953
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Speaker 1: for an interview. This is this is this is leagues

954
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: about winning and losing, and you need good players, and

955
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: they need some wide receivers. Now, they got two really

956
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: good time it ends, and they got young running back

957
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: in Miles Sanders. But they like their wide receivers in Philly,

958
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 1: especially Howie, you know the Shawn over the years, Macklin.

959
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: They drafted Nelson Agholor in the first round, not an

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00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: ideal first round pick, but then they got Al Sean.

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Speaker 1: They resigned to Sean this year. Remember I know he

962
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Speaker 1: only played one game, but that one game he had

963
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: two touchdowns like a hundred fifty yards. So they love speed.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine they draft a speed wide receiver and

965
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Speaker 1: just try to sign like a solid veteran guy like

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of last year Golden Tate, like a Golden

967
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: Tate Sammy Watkins. Just get a legitimate player that they'll

968
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: definitely be active when it comes to wide receivers. You

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00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: could argue maybe even draft two wide receivers. Appreciate everyone listening,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend and uh, enjoy the first weekend

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Speaker 1: without I guess we got the XFL. The XFL is back,

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Speaker 1: so get getting ready for the XFL. I don't I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure how much I'll watch, but but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed the pod and I'll see you next week.

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Speaker 1: Audio so