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Speaker 1: talking some National Football League and that's what we'll do today.

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Speaker 1: So let's dive right in. Let's dive into Buffalo, and

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Speaker 1: it's been pretty well documented. Forty eight hours after the firing,

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Speaker 1: there was a power struggle, which happens a lot. It

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Speaker 1: happens in Fortune five hundred companies, it happens in people's homes,

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Speaker 1: and it obviously happens in professional sports, especially football, and

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Speaker 1: widely reported that there was a meeting within the last

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Speaker 1: month with the GM, the owner and the coach, and

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Speaker 1: the owner to agree with him, did not agree, were

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Speaker 1: not on the same page. And after that meeting, over

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Speaker 1: the next several weeks, I think it's fair to assume

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Speaker 1: that some you know, jockeying for position took place by

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Speaker 1: the general manager. And listen, if you look at Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean's resume. He started as a PR guy, so he

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Speaker 1: kind of knows how to manage up, which is a

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Speaker 1: very important skill. You got to know how to manage

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Speaker 1: up if you're a coach, you're constantly dealing with an owner.

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Speaker 1: And listen, I am pro Sean McDermott. I think he's

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Speaker 1: a really good coach, and I also understand why you're allowed,

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Speaker 1: and it's not that crazy to fire him after the

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Speaker 1: run they had of not getting over the hump. I've

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Speaker 1: said pretty consistently though, that giving the general manager not

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Speaker 1: just keeping him, but promoting him and giving him a

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Speaker 1: not taking them to the next level. And that's clearly

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Speaker 1: all of us, including people in these buildings, to make

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Speaker 1: Bushatti just did it, and that wasn't some backstabbing going on.

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Speaker 1: Eric Acosta and John Harbaugh were best friends. That was

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Speaker 1: So if I'm a coach with options, and obviously every

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Speaker 1: There's no perfect way to handle these situations. It does

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Speaker 1: had never been a defensive coordinator in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: I think Jeff Halfley deserves a lot of credit because

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Speaker 1: sometimes professionally you have to be selfish. You have to

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Speaker 1: think about yourself first. And when he left Boston College,

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Speaker 1: which is probably one of, if not the worst jobs

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Speaker 1: in power for in college football last year with Bill O'Brien,

432
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Speaker 1: who say what you want about him, has proven to

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Speaker 1: take the Texans of the playoffs every year, like he's a

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Speaker 1: real coach. Went to Intent in the ACC by far

435
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Speaker 1: the worst conference in the country too, Intent and went

436
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Speaker 1: one in seven in the ACC. Like that's pretty bad.

437
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Speaker 1: It's a dogshit job. But he went, I'm a head coach.

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Speaker 1: It's not like he was making Signetti money. So he's

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Speaker 1: making a couple of million bucks. But he leaves being

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Speaker 1: the head guy to be the defensive coordinator because his

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Speaker 1: path toward another job at BC's, let's face, his stepping

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Speaker 1: stone job. Would he ever get the Florida job, Would

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Speaker 1: he ever get the Ohio State job, had no chance there.

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Speaker 1: He had a better chance as a defensive coordinator with

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Speaker 1: the Packers, who, lets face it, during the Rogers era

446
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: have always been pretty bad on defense. Right one's last

447
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: time they had a good defensive coordinator. It been a while.

448
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: So he goes there, he resurrects the defense and immediately

449
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Speaker 1: becomes one of the top candidates on the market. But

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Speaker 1: he deserves credit for making that decision, which can't be

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Speaker 1: easy because when he leaves Boston College, he's screwing over

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that he hired who I'm sure

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Speaker 1: if we went back and looked, a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: got fired when Billy Oh came in a lot of

455
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Speaker 1: turnover there. A lot of people move their families to

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Speaker 1: follow him that did not get to come with him

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Speaker 1: to Green Bay. So this gets back to the decisions

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Speaker 1: and suggestions. It is really hard. I don't care when

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Speaker 1: it comes. I'm seeing it with my child and making

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Speaker 1: decisions with doctors and just basic things, let alone big,

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Speaker 1: huge professional decisions. When you're the boss that impact ten

462
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Speaker 1: twenty to fifty people, sometimes you gotta be selfish, and

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Speaker 1: Halfley was and he's benefited from that and now he's

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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Think about that.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, he was the head coach

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Speaker 1: of a team that had no chance to have any

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Speaker 1: success in the ACC. Two years later, he's the head

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Speaker 1: coach of an NFL team. Like, that's how fast it happened,

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Speaker 1: And that decision looking back is beyond genius. And I

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Speaker 1: think you see sometimes one big change in college football.

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Speaker 1: Before you could coach at the MAC or the Mountain West,

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Speaker 1: and that job was a great stepping stone, right, Chris Peterson,

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Speaker 1: Boise State, Washington. What's his name, Brady Hoaks, San Diego State, Michigan.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it always worked, but I'm Nick Saban

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Speaker 1: Kent State, worked his way to Michigan State, Cleveland, right,

476
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Speaker 1: moved his way up off the little jobs. Those jobs

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Speaker 1: suck now because of the transfer portal, and if your

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Speaker 1: team is not equipped to pay guys and have the

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Speaker 1: financial resources, you don't have a snowball shot in hill.

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Speaker 1: So I think Halfley really that he was an early

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Speaker 1: adopter of kind of seeing the landscape of the sport

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Speaker 1: and he directly benefited that quick Now, obviously he had

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Speaker 1: to prove his worth and it was clearly one of

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Speaker 1: the better defensive coordinators. If you watch Halfley's press conference,

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Speaker 1: he's really really impressive. It's why when Lafleur got extended

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Speaker 1: a couple days ago, and I think, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if Gudakin's but when I'm recording this has officially been

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Speaker 1: extended or not, but he's going to be So those

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Speaker 1: guys aren't going anywhere. The Packers really, if they were

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Speaker 1: gonna move off Lafloor, had one logical choice, and that

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Speaker 1: was either they were gonna fire Lafloor to hire Halflee,

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Speaker 1: or they were gonna keep Lafloor. They were not gonna

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Speaker 1: go on a coaching search and interview Mike McDaniel or

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Speaker 1: Sala or just all these random Matt Naggey those guys.

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Speaker 1: That's not how the Packers are gonna operate because Gudakins

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Speaker 1: wasn't going anywhere. So they were either gonna elevate Halfley

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Speaker 1: or they were gonna keep Lafloor. I truly believe that.

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Speaker 1: I don't have sources on this, but it's pretty clear, right.

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Speaker 1: I think most Packer fans would agree those were there too,

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Speaker 1: opt and I don't blame them for deciding what they decided,

501
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: and now I think there's a lot of pressure on

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Speaker 1: them hiring a defensive coordinator. You're gonna have Parsons back,

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot to work with. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: have defensive coordinators very interested. I've had people in the

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Speaker 1: NFL kind of tip me off. They they said they

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Speaker 1: would be stunned if former Wisconsin defensive coordinator Jim Leonard

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Speaker 1: was not their defensive coordinator in whenever the Denver Broncos

508
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Speaker 1: are done. I think he's their dB coach right now

509
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Speaker 1: for Sean Payton. So keep an eye on Jim Leonard

510
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Speaker 1: being the next defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers. Again,

511
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Speaker 1: there are a couple other guys that are interviewing, but

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Speaker 1: that would be my expectation, and I think that would

513
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Speaker 1: be a really good hire because I do think there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be pressure on the floor they have. They went

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Speaker 1: all in on Micah Parsons rightfully so, but when you

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Speaker 1: make those moves like it's got to work out now,

517
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: their situation is clearly much better than the Colts who

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00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: went all in on Sauce Gardner, Like who would you

519
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Speaker 1: rather have Sauce Gardener or Micah Parsons? Would you rather

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Speaker 1: be the Packers or the Colts. So they got bounced

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Speaker 1: in the first round, though they probably could have won

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Speaker 1: that game, right. I think if you're a Packer fan,

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Speaker 1: I would be. And it's tough. This season was a

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Speaker 1: high high and then an awful lo low. It turned

525
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Speaker 1: on the blink of an eye, the moment that Parsons

526
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Speaker 1: toward that ACL. I do think big picture, over the

527
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Speaker 1: next couple of years, the Packers are going to be

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Speaker 1: a real factor, and I think they have a very

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Speaker 1: good chance of being right back in the mix. Obviously

530
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Speaker 1: they can't have as many injuries as they just had

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Speaker 1: to be competing for like the number one seed. I

532
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Speaker 1: will bet on the Packers, assuming this offseason goes relatively well,

533
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: to be really good coming into twenty twenty six. And last,

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Speaker 1: but not least, Robert Kraft. I think he was on

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Speaker 1: with one of the local stations I think is WEEI,

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Speaker 1: and they have a clearly have the biggest Patriot game

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Speaker 1: in many years this weekend. He's fired up and they

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Speaker 1: were talking to him about just NFL stuff, and he

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Speaker 1: had mentioned that eighteen games are He didn't say, you know,

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00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: we're still no. Eighteen games are happening. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: two preseason games. We've been talking about that forever. That's inevitable.

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Speaker 1: I don't love that because clearly more guys now get

543
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Speaker 1: injured than ever because of the way they practice or

544
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: aka not practice. And I think we watch so many

545
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: teams that don't have any players left that are hard

546
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: to watch, and even you know, when you really look

547
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: at the television schedule throughout the year, there are a

548
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Speaker 1: lot of awful games on Sunday morning. The NFL really

549
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: gets carried by its primetime games. Sunday night, Monday night,

550
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: Thursday night games have been had much better matchups in

551
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Speaker 1: the afternoon window with Fox and CBS that typically get

552
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Speaker 1: a Sunday night level game. But there are a lot

553
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Speaker 1: of terrible games. And as the season goes, and some

554
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Speaker 1: of these teams lose a bunch of games because they

555
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Speaker 1: lose a bunch of players, it can be a long season.

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Speaker 1: So I think we're right at the tipping point of like,

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Speaker 1: who's to say, if they go to eighteen, why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: they entertain twenty? When they just say, why do we

559
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Speaker 1: have any preseason though, Let's just play twenty regular season games.

560
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: So it's definitely something to keep an eye on. But

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Speaker 1: the other thing that he mentioned was we're going to

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Speaker 1: have an international series. Every team in the league is

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Speaker 1: going to play an international game. And I've been saying

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Speaker 1: for a long time because if you just look at

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Speaker 1: the way Thursday Night played out once upon a time,

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Speaker 1: Like when I got in the league in twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: I I don't quote me on this, I think there

568
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Speaker 1: were like two or three or four Thursday Night games.

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Speaker 1: They started dabbling. The NFL network got a couple Mike

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Speaker 1: Mayock used to be I think Eisen and Mayock used

571
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Speaker 1: to call him. I remember maybe my second year we

572
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Speaker 1: played Seattle, like Thursday night games. They were just dipping

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Speaker 1: their toe into it. And then it grew and grew

574
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Speaker 1: and grew, and now it has it's Monday Night football.

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Speaker 1: It's just on Thursday Night like they have its own package.

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Speaker 1: Well over the last couple of years they've been growing

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Speaker 1: and growing and growing. It was like, do you know

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. They're gonna have either fifteen or

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Speaker 1: sixteen or whatever, a full package like Monday or Thursday

580
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: and have a six thirty am Pacific Standard time football game,

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Speaker 1: you know, starting in September all the way through December,

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Speaker 1: and Craft mentioned that every team in the league is

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Speaker 1: going to be forced to play an international game. And

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Speaker 1: my first reaction to that is, clearly Thursday, you're at

585
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: a disadvantage if you're the road team, especially as the

586
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Speaker 1: season goes. If you're playing a Thursday night game week three,

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Speaker 1: it's not as bad as playing one week sixteen when

588
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: you're Seattle and you got to play the Texans. I

589
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: mean it's long travel, short week. The disadvantage though, you

590
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Speaker 1: have from a time zone standpoint of these international games.

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Speaker 1: Think of all the teams on the Eastern Seaboard, their

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Speaker 1: flight to the UK London is five hours. It's basically

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Speaker 1: across country flight. Well, if I'm coming from Seattle, or

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Speaker 1: I'm coming from San Francisco, or I'm coming from Los

595
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: Angeles or I'm coming from Vegas, it's double the amount

596
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: of time we're in the air. So the International Series

597
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: big picture should really benefit. If you suck, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: But all the competitive teams on the Eastern Seaboard, the Bills,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Eagles, if the Giants get good, you

600
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: know Tampa. Now the Jacksonville's pretty solid, I mean not

601
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: more than pretty solid. They want thirteen games. They're good, like,

602
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: that's a big advantage for them because of the limited

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00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,959
Speaker 1: flight relative to your counterparts. And it's gonna be fascinating

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Speaker 1: how they match up these international games, Like should West

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Speaker 1: Coast teams or at least you should only be able

606
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: to play a team one time zone away? Or like

607
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: if I'm Seattle, do I get forced to play New

608
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: England over there? Because if that's the case, like I'm

609
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: at a huge disadvantage. But the one thing the league

610
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: is shown and Roger Goodella is shown, they don't give

611
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: a shit. They do not care about competitive advantages. I

612
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: start Kurt Warner day on Twitter saying that it is

613
00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: insane how the playoff matchups go in terms of time,

614
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: Like teams to play on Sunday have to play on

615
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: the next Saturday. Teams with a buy get to play

616
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: Sunday night. It's like, what are we doing? And my

617
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: answer is, Kurt, like, it's all about the television networks,

618
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: the time rest that the league has proven they don't

619
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Speaker 1: care about practices. When the player said we don't want

620
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: double days anymore, teams are like, cool, less money for you,

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Speaker 1: We'll give you the double days, and that was a negotiation.

622
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: All they care about is money, which, in fairness, if

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Speaker 1: you're in the league office, and this is Belichick's problem

624
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: forever with the league office, He's like, they don't have

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00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: anyone that's ever ran a football team. This general managers

626
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Speaker 1: a football team, that's been a coach on a football team,

627
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: because that ain't what they're thinking about. They're just thinking

628
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: about the profit margin. How much cash can we make?

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Speaker 1: That is their goal, and in fairness, that is what

630
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: they've been tasked to do, and they're really good at it,

631
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Speaker 1: and they keep growing it. And this package maybe on Netflix.

632
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you see they've sold an international

633
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Speaker 1: package for you pick the number, five billion dollars a year.

634
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Speaker 1: It's basically games that would have been at ten am

635
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: Pacific or one pm Pacific that were already being played

636
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: that they just take and they put in the morning.

637
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: So they just created billions of dollars out of nothing

638
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,240
Speaker 1: because that stuff was already happening. So get ready, which

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Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of. Like selfishly, as someone

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Speaker 1: that watches a lot of football, you know, I kind

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Speaker 1: of like to ease into my morning. I like to

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Speaker 1: get a little workout on a Sunday morning before I

643
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Speaker 1: don't leave the couch for what is it, twelve and

644
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Speaker 1: a half hours. But and this is always the question mark,

645
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Speaker 1: is there a line of diminishing returns when it comes

646
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Speaker 1: to football? The NFL has proven that they will push

647
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Speaker 1: and push and push and go up against that line

648
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: and one day that damn will break and we'll go.

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Speaker 1: That was the tipping point, but I clearly they don't

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Speaker 1: feel they're close to that yet. Okay, let's dive into

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Speaker 1: the mailbag at John middlecoff Instagram. Fire in those dms,

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Speaker 1: get your questions answered on the show. From a scout's perspective,

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Speaker 1: is Mendoza's past attempts a red flag? Going back to

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Speaker 1: twenty ten? The only first round quarterbacks that weren't asked

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Speaker 1: to throw at least twenty five times a game where Tebow,

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance. I almost said, Mike McCarthy, JJ McCarthy and

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Speaker 1: Christian Ponder if you make it thirty Adam ej Manuel

658
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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, Newton Mariota, Anthony Rigson, Jake Locker, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty good question. Let's why don't we do this?

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Speaker 1: Let's pull up Fernando Mendoza one thing that is really

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Speaker 1: big with scouting quarterbacks I think that we've seen over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years is experience. Like a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys now come from spread offenses, so it's

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Speaker 1: fair to say that their pass attempts are a little

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Speaker 1: inflated in the sense that they've thrown way more passes

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Speaker 1: than the old days because you're in a pass heavy offense.

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Speaker 1: But if I just go to Fernando Mendoza's playoff run

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Speaker 1: Ohio State twenty three attempts, Alabama sixteen attempts, Oregon seventeen attempts,

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Speaker 1: and or excuse me, Oregon twenty attempts and last night

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Speaker 1: twenty seven attempts, so he threw over twenty five times

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Speaker 1: one game. Even games like Perdue where they won fifty

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Speaker 1: six to three, he threw seventeen attempts. He has a

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Speaker 1: lot of games where he's twenty twenty two to twenty one,

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Speaker 1: twenty three. They were a run heavy offense and obviously

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Speaker 1: a great defense with good special teams. I think in

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Speaker 1: a perfect world, you want to build the team if

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Speaker 1: you're the Raiders or I'm not depending on Fernando Mendoza

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Speaker 1: to play like Josh Allen because he doesn't have that

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Speaker 1: skill set. I can't ask Fernando Mendoza to do Caleb

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Speaker 1: Williams things. He can't do that. He's not Lamar Jackson,

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00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: He's not Patrick Mahomes. He is much closer to and

682
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: I've been saying this Jared Gofford Dak Prescott, which there's

683
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with those two guys. When the Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: been well built, they won twelve or thirteen games, and

685
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Speaker 1: they hosted playoff games. Jared Gos's teams have hosted playoff games.

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Speaker 1: So Fernando Mendoza is in the world of a guy

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Speaker 1: who is not going to carry you. I do believe

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Speaker 1: he can be a good player, because if you're Jared

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Speaker 1: Gofford Dak Prescott, like those guys have been to Pro Bowls.

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Speaker 1: Those guys have made a ton of money. Are they

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Speaker 1: gonna be Hall of Famers? No? Is Fernando Mendoza probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be Hall of Famer? No, he's not. Do I

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Speaker 1: think he can be a really, really good starter in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Yes, He's a much better thrower than t

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Speaker 1: BO Lancer Christian Ponder. JJ McCarthy has a fundamental issue

696
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Speaker 1: with the way he threw the ball, that's why they

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Speaker 1: have tried to change his mechanics. Right. If his mechanics

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Speaker 1: were good, I think jj'd be a pretty interesting player.

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Speaker 1: He's like a golfer. They had to completely change his swing,

700
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Speaker 1: like you don't have to change Fernando Mendoza's swing. His

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Speaker 1: throwing motion is fine. So I think there are some

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Speaker 1: comparisons there to JJ, except JJ was a complete rebuild

703
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Speaker 1: and that's not the case with Fernando Mendoza. I also

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Speaker 1: think Fernando Mendoza has proven to be a better passer

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Speaker 1: than JJ McCarthy. I would not compare him to Bortles.

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Speaker 1: Mariota was not an accurate player. If you watch Mariota

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Speaker 1: in college, I didn't think he was that accurate. He

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Speaker 1: had guys wide open. Their team was so stacked. To me,

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Speaker 1: Mendoza is a much better prospect than Mariota coming out

710
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Speaker 1: Anthey Ridgson had twelve career starts. Jake Locker just was

711
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Speaker 1: not very accurate. So I would not compare Fernando Mendoza

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Speaker 1: to those players. I do think there are some similarities

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Speaker 1: with JJ McCarthy in terms of the offense and the

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Speaker 1: teams he played on, But I do think he's a

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Speaker 1: better thrower the ball than JJ because you don't have

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Speaker 1: to change his throwing motion, which to me has kind

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Speaker 1: of derailed JJ McCarthy. A question for the mailbag. As

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Speaker 1: a football fan who's never witnessed her favorite team win

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Speaker 1: a championship, what's the silver lining on why we love

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Speaker 1: this game that rips her heart out so often? Example,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Niner fan born in Ay seven and a

722
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Speaker 1: Miami Hurricanes fan. I was eight years old the last

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Speaker 1: time the nine Ers one and a freshman win the

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Speaker 1: U won doesn't really count, but the amount of heartbreak

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Speaker 1: over the years from both teams is like, Man, when's

726
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Speaker 1: it going to be our time? It's like continuing to

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Speaker 1: date a woman who consistently cheats on you. I think

728
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Speaker 1: it's a little different than that, because if she's cheating

729
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Speaker 1: on you, she clearly doesn't like or respect you. Your

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Speaker 1: team's not cheating on you. They're trying to win. They're

731
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Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing. Part of being a

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Speaker 1: sports fan is going to end in it. Not always

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Speaker 1: heart break, but not well, it's just not going to

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Speaker 1: end in a championship. The overwhelming majority of teams won't

735
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Speaker 1: win championships for a long period of time. Hell, you

736
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Speaker 1: go through bad stretches where your team's not even in

737
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Speaker 1: the playoffs or not even in the mix. This is

738
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Speaker 1: an entertainment medium that were kind of emotionally drawn to

739
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Speaker 1: because we've loved it since we were young. It's probably

740
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Speaker 1: one of the rare things in life that you love

741
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Speaker 1: really young and then you love throughout your life. Think

742
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: how many things and how many kind of different stages

743
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Speaker 1: you go through from eight to fourteen to twenty of

744
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: things you're into and then things you're not into, you know,

745
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Speaker 1: from video games to I don't even know dirt by it.

746
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Speaker 1: You just name it right, and then you just kind

747
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: of age out of I like football as much now

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Speaker 1: as I did when I was twelve years old watching

749
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Speaker 1: it on the couch, watching like younger Terrell Owens or

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Speaker 1: Brettfarv and I would imagine a lot of people agree

751
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Speaker 1: with that. So I think it's just something we signed

752
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Speaker 1: up for to entertain us that kind of fills some

753
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: part of our life. It's hard to explain, but we

754
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: don't watch sports thinking we're gonna try. I mean, in

755
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: a weird way. It's probably one of the rare things

756
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Speaker 1: that we can convince ourselves something's gonna happen that more

757
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Speaker 1: than likely, and the overwhelming evidence has proven out over

758
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: time won't actually happen, and that makes its fun. There's

759
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Speaker 1: there's something powerful in hope. There's something powerful in dreaming,

760
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: because even if your team wins a championship, like for Indiana,

761
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: it was clearly pretty special, but like it's like you

762
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: get joy and then you just gotta move on. And

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Speaker 1: the same thing with losing. I think it's more about

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Speaker 1: the entertainment values of the games and getting to know

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Speaker 1: your team, the players, the guys you root for, that

766
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Speaker 1: they're just a positive elements for the negativity that kind

767
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Speaker 1: of the influx into your soul and your body after

768
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Speaker 1: the top. Like if you're a Bills fan, I think

769
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Speaker 1: most Bills fans would agree the last seven or eight

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Speaker 1: years of the Josh era of having these teams constantly

771
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Speaker 1: being one of the best teams in the league and

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Speaker 1: in the mix has been pretty satisfying, has been pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: Knowing that when you turn on a Bills game seventeen

774
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: games a year that more than likely twelve or thirteen

775
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: of them you're gonna win is a pretty fun experience.

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Speaker 1: And the anticipation going to the big games kind of

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Speaker 1: makes it worth it. So where I think really sucks

778
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Speaker 1: is when your team is just always consistently bad, Like

779
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Speaker 1: that would not be fun, that would be hard. Congra

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Speaker 1: congratulations on the child. As a Chiefs fan, I was

781
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: frustrated with Naggy and the offense for the past couple

782
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Speaker 1: of years. Bne Me will help the offense greatly, and

783
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Speaker 1: bene Me could also develop Jeremiah Love if drafted by

784
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs into one of the best running back the league.

785
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Speaker 1: What do you make of the higher Well, I haven't

786
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: talked to Naggi about this, but he clearly didn't sign

787
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Speaker 1: his contract last year thinking one they would win big

788
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: and he would get a big raise, or he would

789
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Speaker 1: just become a head coach. It neither happened. I started

790
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: texting around yesterday like, is Naggy have a job? Because

791
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: they have a new OC and Bienemy, So Naggi's not

792
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: the OC anymore? Is there a spot for Naggy on

793
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Speaker 1: the staff? Kind of a weird deal, and I think

794
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: most people anticipated him getting the Tennessee Titans job. Well,

795
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Speaker 1: if that didn't happen, my bald brother Robert Salah got it.

796
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Speaker 1: So I think Matt Naggy's situation's pretty in flux. One

797
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Speaker 1: thing Biene me brings the table and the chief people

798
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: always told me about it, like he's a hard ass.

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Speaker 1: He's kind of old school, And I do wonder if

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Speaker 1: Andy thought that they lacked a little just urgency in

801
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Speaker 1: the building with a guy like that, and I think

802
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Speaker 1: bringing him back just to kind of get on guys.

803
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have a lot lot of new young players

804
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: next year with the high draft picks. I'd be a

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Speaker 1: little stunned if they drafted Jeremiah Love ninth. I really would,

806
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Speaker 1: because to me, you have the opportunity to get an

807
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Speaker 1: impact lineman. And one thing that's proven true, like if

808
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Speaker 1: you could get an impact lineman or an impact running back,

809
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: you always go the impact lineman. So whether that's an

810
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman or a defensive lineman. But if I was

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Speaker 1: a betting man right now, assuming they stay, I think

812
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Speaker 1: where they draft ninth, I think they take a lineman there,

813
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Speaker 1: assuming there's a guy worthy of the pick. But if

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Speaker 1: all things are equal, there's either a tackle and obviously

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Speaker 1: he'd probably play right you got Simmons. Both guys can

816
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Speaker 1: play both spots. If there's a tackle or a pass

817
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Speaker 1: rusher that is an equal grade to Jeremiah Love. You

818
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Speaker 1: have to take one of the linemen. You get a

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Speaker 1: running back later. Look at Manujai, I mean he's a

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Speaker 1: seventh round pick part of Look at Isaiah Pacheco, seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick, like I can find running back later in

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Speaker 1: the draft. Congrats on becoming a dad. God's speed, trust me.

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Speaker 1: I need it right now. Not because it's just not sleeping,

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Speaker 1: not because anything bad happened, but not sleeping's kind of tough,

825
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: even though you kind of like get this inner David Goggins.

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Speaker 1: We're just up at two am bouncing your kid around

827
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Speaker 1: the bedroom like this would never have happened pre child.

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Speaker 1: I just would have been asleep for the last five hours.

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Speaker 1: But you kind of just turn into this this different

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Speaker 1: human being we all have in us that when we're

831
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Speaker 1: pressed in certain situations, don't have much sleep. Unlike like

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Speaker 1: a Vegas trip or a guy's golf trip that's like

833
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Speaker 1: a drinking bender where you don't sleep. There's not really

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Speaker 1: alcohol involved in this situation. I'm just terrifle. I haven't

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Speaker 1: even had a cocktail since I had a kid. I

836
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Speaker 1: haven't a drink. I had a beer. I haven't anything shit.

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Speaker 1: I might need one Belichick to the Bills. I would

838
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: have said a couple of years ago. Yeah, I think

839
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Speaker 1: after the last eighteen plus months, there's no way that

840
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Speaker 1: could happened. You couldn't hire Bill Belichick with the Jordaan situation,

841
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Speaker 1: with how ugly North Carolina was last year. I don't

842
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Speaker 1: ever remember a guy who is such a legendary force

843
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: in his profession falling off a cliff faster. He was

844
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Speaker 1: just widely regarded, like, this guy's one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: coaches in the history of coaching any sport. You picked

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Speaker 1: the sports bill to now, I think he's unhiable because

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Speaker 1: let's play this exercise. If North Carolina needed to coach

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Speaker 1: today and Bill Belichick was available, would they hire him?

849
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear the answer would be now.

850
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great day. I was thinking

851
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: about some of the greatest turnarounds in college football history.

852
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: Schnellenberger Miami, Snyder, Kansas State, Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech, and

853
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: Signetti Indiana. Given that the Hoosiers won the national championship

854
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: last night, do you consider Kurt Signetti did the best

855
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:04,240
Speaker 1: turnaround in college football history? Those ones that you just listed.

856
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: Miami Virginia Tech aren't really apples to apples because you

857
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: had to recruit and then you had to develop, You

858
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 1: had to have guys. You got him out of high school,

859
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: and then a couple of years later they became stars

860
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: the way that Signetti did it, which is incredible and

861
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: it's one of the most genuine cool stories in a

862
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: long time. Indiana, the worst college football program in the

863
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: history of the sport, just fucking won the national championship

864
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: and beat Ohio State, beat Alabama, beat Oregon, beat Miami

865
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: in four straight games to host that thing above their

866
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: head like that, what a run. Alabama, who just had

867
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: an eighteen year dynasty. Oregon, who's been I know, they

868
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: haven't won a national championship, have been a pretty consistent,

869
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, top five team the last twenty years,

870
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: definitely top ten team last twenty years. In Ohio State,

871
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: who you'd probably say over the course of the Internet era,

872
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: has been the most consistent program in the country. That's

873
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: who they beat on their run. I think how crazy

874
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: that is. It's really remarkable. But he can just poach

875
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: guys from other teams, so it's obviously Mario Christobaul did

876
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 1: the same, or how all these teams are so it's

877
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: it was harder back in the day. If you took

878
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: over Indiana. If Signetti did this ten years ago, this

879
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: would not have been possible. Even if he was the

880
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: same exact coach with the same exact staff, they couldn't

881
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: have been this good because he couldn't have just landed

882
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: the players. And I'm even talking about like the guy

883
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: gets from the MAC, the guy he gets from you

884
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: picked school. His starting center came from Notre Dame. He

885
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: was the backup. They couldn't transfer and play immediately. And

886
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: obviously the NIL has impacted the the whole thing. But

887
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: I think two things can be true. It's really hard

888
00:48:54,160 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: to compare Signetti to the previous pre nil. It's just

889
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: a completely different world because when you transferred in Division one,

890
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: you had to sit out a year unless you were

891
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: grad transfer, meaning you already had your graduate degree, like

892
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 1: Carson Beck. Carson Beck could have transferred anywhere he wanted

893
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: for decades, right, that was always the rule. But I

894
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: don't did Fernando Mendoza I did? He haven't. He might

895
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: have had a degree a cow so he might have

896
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: been eligible as well. But if he didn't, don't quote me,

897
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: I might be I thought he did. But if he

898
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: didn't have his degree, he wouldn't have been able to

899
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: transfer and play right away. Which again they are not alone.

900
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: Everyone's doing this, but it's more realistic. It's more realistic

901
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: now than it ever was before. If he had done

902
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: this in like nineteen ninety six, it would have truly

903
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: been the greatest thing in the history of sports. It

904
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: would have been like Rudy walking on and then getting

905
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: drafted fourth five years later. Right, it'd be like that guy, Yeah,

906
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: he just became the best player in color He just

907
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: turned into JJ Watt. You'd be like, what, Rudy, Rudy Rudiger. Yeah,

908
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: he's number four pick in the draft. Like that's not No,

909
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: that would have been Indiana. What do coaches, players in

910
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: front office generally think about the officiating in the NFL?

911
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: McDermott's speaking out a little bit like he did seems

912
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: like an outlier, and people probably don't speak out as

913
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: much because they will get fined. But do players, coaches,

914
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: in front office people think referees are as bad as

915
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: the media's wants us to believe, or fans think that

916
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: it is what do they say behind the scenes. It

917
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: seems like referees are generally right and like playing, they

918
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: do it right most of the time, and feels like

919
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: players who drop a pass, miss an easy kick, or

920
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: throw a bad pick. Sometimes referees make a bad mistake. Honestly,

921
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: I don't get as consumed with the referees as a

922
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: lot of people. It's just part of the game. I

923
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: rarely like text with an assistant coach or assistant GM,

924
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: and they talk that much about the officials. I really

925
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: believe that it's a pretty big waste of energy to

926
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: worry that much. Now, when it impacts you, you get

927
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: mad and you get furious, But like, what are you

928
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: gonna do like that? There's not much you can do.

929
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: It's somewhat out of your control. It's I think the

930
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: same about like politics and taxes. Like I'm just I

931
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: try not to complain. I really do. I used to

932
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: complain a lot, and then I just moved to Arizona.

933
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, complaining does nothing. Either do something about it

934
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: or shut the fuck up. And I think I think

935
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: coaches they spend less time talking about it publicly because

936
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: it has no It doesn't change the thing. Now do

937
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: they talk to the league office in the off season

938
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 1: at these meetings, do they make it, of course, but

939
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: screaming about Sean McDermott. Part of why he was doing that.

940
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: He knew it was kind of I was on the line,

941
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: and he knew that he was in major trouble. He's

942
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: kind of desperate. But I think the reason you don't

943
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: see that as much is because nothing good is gonna

944
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: come out of it. Just because I can plain doesn't

945
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: mean my tax rate changes, you know, just because I

946
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: complain doesn't mean I'm gonna oeless on my property taxes.

947
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: But like you can make a big deal about it,

948
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: and a lot of people get on the internet, everyone's

949
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: complaining about everything. It's like you don't control any of this.

950
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:29,959
Speaker 1: And I think a coach will tell you, I don't

951
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: really control what referee is gonna call or not. If

952
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: they made the wrong call and I can challenge it,

953
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: I will, But if I can't, I'm gonna get mad.

954
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: But then we gotta move on. Like life goes on,

955
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: next play happens, there's still game to be played, So

956
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 1: I think more people focus on like what's next. Then

957
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: clearly there have been situations like the PI what was

958
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: that the Rams Saints game years ago, which you have

959
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: the right to be in sensed and go berserk. A

960
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 1: lot of these like they're kind of judgment calls. Some

961
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: people might think it's PI, some people might think it's not.

962
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: Some people think it's holding. Some people might think it's not.

963
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: We spend too much time talking about it. I also

964
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: think most officials aren't that good, and I'd be the

965
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: first to admit it's a difficult job to have, but

966
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: we try to keep the human element in even though

967
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear with the replay, But the replay has

968
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: actually made things more complicated. Just I don't know. I

969
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: think it's just something we talk a lot about. Nothing

970
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: ever changes. Congratulations on becoming a father. I have three

971
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: boys on my own. Enjoy the journey. Question for the

972
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: mailback huge Bronco fan. I know Stitty hasn't thrown a

973
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: pass in the NFL Sin's twenty twenty three, so I

974
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: don't have high expectations for the AFC Championship game. I'm

975
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: curious to know your thoughts going forward with the bow Nicks.

976
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll be a legit contender going forward?

977
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: Do you think the bo Nicks will develop and looks

978
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: better as the time goes. In Peyton's system, I think

979
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: the sad part if you're a Broncos fan is if

980
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: bo Nix is there, you go, we easily could win

981
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Doesn't mean we're going to We also

982
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: easily could lose the game to the Patriots of bo Nicks.

983
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: But like this, this is our super Bowl to be won.

984
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: All four teams obviously believe that. But it's the shitty

985
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: part about that broken ankle is I've seen a lot

986
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 1: of people and Sean Payton's trying to talk this into

987
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: existence when you haven't thrown a regular season pass. I

988
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: didn't even know that was the date. I knew it

989
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: was obviously not this year. I guess clearly last year

990
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: Boenicks played all the games. Is to be thrown in.

991
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: It's one thing to be thrown in Week four. Maybe

992
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 1: you get a crappier opponent and you're starting quarterbacks out

993
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: a month, and you get a couple of weeks to

994
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,439
Speaker 1: kind of ease your way in. This winner go home

995
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game against a team that's won

996
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: a ton of games. The pressure and then the crowd

997
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: kind of turns on you. If it's not going well.

998
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: It's a really tough spot. Wouldn't wish it upon anybody

999
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 1: issues It's not even fair, and you know, if it

1000
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: goes shitty, I think people will kind of be like, Oh,

1001
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 1: this guy sucks. And he might not even be that

1002
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 1: bad in terms of like be a solid backup in

1003
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: the regular season, but being thrust in this moment it

1004
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: is really really difficult for a guy that's never even

1005
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: really been a full time starter. I mean, he started

1006
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: some games, but I don't think anyone ever looked at

1007
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham as a starting quarterback. Congratulations on the new baby.

1008
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: Happy to hear your birth went well. Maria sounds like

1009
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: a badass and the kind of woman men go to

1010
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: war for. True. As a father of four myself, the

1011
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: craziest thing about becoming a dad is how movies and

1012
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: books is how movies and books that you've watched and

1013
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: read a million times somehow hit different. For example, I

1014
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: can't read Doctor Seuss to my kids without tearing up.

1015
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: I now find myself taking the dad's side in the

1016
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: movie Beethoven. It is I think one thing I saw

1017
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: when my father passed things with about people with their

1018
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: fathers really emotionally hit you different than for most of

1019
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: your life. He doesn't even you're like, oh, it's Ken

1020
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: Griffy and his dad with lebron and Bronni and when

1021
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: you're missing your dad, even if you think like Bronnie

1022
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: has no business in the NBA, there was part of

1023
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: me thinking like, that's pretty cool, man, that's pretty cool.

1024
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: And for those of you that still have your father

1025
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 1: that sometimes that stuff doesn't even cross your mind, and

1026
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: then you factor in once you have a son and

1027
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: you get put on the other side. I'm with you.

1028
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: I mean, I can just see. I got teary eyed

1029
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: watching John Harbaugh talk about his dad Jack today. Just

1030
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: the power of that and the admiration I had for

1031
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: how much his sons love their father, and how I

1032
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: would want to be in the shoes one day, especially

1033
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: if we have another kid and have another son, have

1034
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,879
Speaker 1: two boys that look up to me like that as

1035
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: a mentor, as someone that guided them through life. I mean,

1036
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: that's it's really all we're trying to do. Right My

1037
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: football related question is this as a Jets fan, is

1038
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: there any hope? I'm already getting hyped up for the draft,

1039
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 1: but is it all pointless? How would you fix the franchise.

1040
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: Everyone says the owner needs to sell, but that's not happening.

1041
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying you're hopeless because football

1042
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: and you can turn it around with a couple of players.

1043
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: But I think if you go back to the last time,

1044
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: you guys were good for those couple of years, you

1045
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: had a lot of good players, but clearly Rex was

1046
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: pretty good coach. You had Rex calling the defense, Your

1047
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: defensive personnel was awesome, Schottenheimer was a good offensive coordinator

1048
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: back then, you led the league in rushing. Is your

1049
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: coaching staff good enough? Like that would be my to

1050
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: not have an interception when your head coach is a

1051
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: dB guy and Wilkes, who ended up getting fired was

1052
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: also at his core a dB coach as well. It's like,

1053
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: do they have any clue what they're doing? Clearly offensively

1054
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: they're in major trouble when you don't have a quarterback,

1055
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: But if you're coaching staff, because I think when the

1056
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: year started we'd all agree they have good individual players,

1057
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: but the coaching staff feels like it might suck. And

1058
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: I want to like Aaron Glenn. I thought what he

1059
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: did in Detroit was awesome, but just because if you

1060
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: were a good coordinator does not guarantee you'll be a

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00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: good head coach. And he was a good coordinator. And

1062
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: then he gets to the Jets, He's like, I'm not

1063
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: calling the places. It's like, well, Aaron, that's why we

1064
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: hired you. You fucking beat Minnesota with seven practice squatters,

1065
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: three plumbers, and a deli master as you're starting defense,

1066
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: and now you're just like, I'm just gonna roam the sidelines.

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00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: How does that make any sense? And I feel like

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00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn had this big chip on his shoulder of like,

1069
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm not just a play caller. I'm the head coach.

1070
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm the boss because Bill Parcells is his mentor, which

1071
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: I respect. I remember Robert Solid did the same thing.

1072
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: He got hired with the Jets. He's like, I'm not

1073
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: calling the defense, Robert, That's why they hired you. You

1074
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: notice all these offensive guys they get hired, they still

1075
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: call the plays. That's what Mike McDonald gets hired. He

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00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: calls the plays. I want my star coordinator to be

1077
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: it comes a head coach to do both call the plays,

1078
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: lead the group. Morning John. I listened to every episode

1079
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: and love the pod question for the back. On today's pod,

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00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: you said you see Miami dominating the ACC and saying

1081
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: the conference sucks. As a Virginia alumni, I think it's

1082
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: freezing cold. Take and you're part of the problem the

1083
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: ACC of schools like Virginia, Virginia Tech, cal SMU with

1084
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: a ton of NIO money and endowments, and the ACC

1085
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: went nine to five in Bowl play full disclosure, bulls

1086
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: mean nothing to me in this world with opt outs,

1087
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,439
Speaker 1: transferportal that they don't mean anything to me. I might

1088
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: have been a little over aggressive. I agree your conference

1089
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 1: isn't as bad as I hyped it up to be.

1090
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: But when we rank the conferences, your conference is the worst.

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00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: Your conference is one hundred percent the worst. That's not debatable.

1092
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: You almost did not get a team in a twelve

1093
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: team playoff. Say that out loud you Okay, Virginia, you

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01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: lost to a team that won eight and five. I

1095
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: guess they were eight and four going in the game.

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01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: But cal use COL as an example. If you're using

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01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: col bring them to the table, then we can't have

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01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: this discussion. Miami has no business and not dominate this conference.

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01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech should be better. They've also been a joke recently,

1100
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: and even if they do get better, James Franklin has

1101
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: proven then he can beat no good teams, so Miami

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01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: should dominate them. I'll give you SMU, But what what

1103
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: did SMU do this year? Guys? Didn't they They go

1104
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: eight and four? Am I am? I screwing that up? SMU?

1105
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: Where's SMU Southern Methodist? They went nine and four? So

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01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: they won their bowl game. So let's see. Virginia won

1107
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: eleven and three, SMU won eleven and four. The Pittsburgh

1108
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 1: Panthers went nine and five, nine and four, nine. You

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01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: have a lot of teams that won bowl games that

1110
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: went eight and for I just don't think your conference

1111
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: is that good. Clemson's falling off a cliff, Florida State sucks.

1112
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: You're the fourth best conference. You just are, and that

1113
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: you need Miami desperately to be really good. Listen to

1114
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: your most recent pod, and the Dad Diaries really hit home.

1115
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: I love that you said I'm part of the problem too.

1116
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: I'm not against the ACC. I root like I hope

1117
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 1: all these conferences are sweet. I'm not like I would

1118
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: to cal Pauly and then Fresno State. I'm not Hey's

1119
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: middle Copps is a big ten guy or an SC

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm honestly I swear unbiased with this

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01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: all if the ACC was gonna be the first to

1122
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: say it. Do you think anyone's like, Hey, we're playing Virginia,

1123
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: watch out, we get ready for the Pittsburgh Panthers. What

1124
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: fuck are we talking about? Can you use Klager? The endowments? Okay,

1125
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: you got the money? Is you think Col's gonna spend

1126
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: it on football? The Saint brown bags given to Shawn

1127
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: and Marshawn a little cash in a brown bag? Are

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Speaker 1: they willing to pay millions of dollars not just for

1129
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback, for the entire starting lineup? Maybe time will tell.

1130
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: If they are, then they can be good. But based

1131
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: on what on the football side, there's some scuttle butt

1132
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: on the Raiders Internet that Jesse Mintter may be the

1133
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: favorite for the job. Totally not conferred by anybody reputable.

1134
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: Should I have concerns about a rookie quarterback with the

1135
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: defensive head coach? Would love to hear your take. I

1136
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: think the key for the Raiders is to just get

1137
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: someone who's good. If that happens to be a defensive coordinator, fine,

1138
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: But is jesse mentor the next Mike McDonald or is

1139
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: he the next you know, pick failed coordinator. So to me,

1140
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: if you hire the defensive coordinator Mike Rabels, once a

1141
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for Houston and then became the head coach

1142
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: for Tennessee, worked out pretty well. Aaron Glenn's a good

1143
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: example of like, clearly it feels like he's over his head.

1144
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: So to me, it all comes down to, I don't know.

1145
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm not interviewing these guys. Even when you interview someone

1146
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: you don't know. I mean, there's a reason all these

1147
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: guys that are getting hired have been previous head coaches

1148
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: because you go, well, Vrabel, I know what I'm getting Salah,

1149
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: he has experienced. I think he'll be better the second

1150
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: time around. Stefanski Coach of the Year. I think you

1151
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: feel way better at John Harball. When you hired these

1152
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: first time coordinators, there was just a great unknown. If

1153
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: that's a defensive guy, how will he handle offensive players,

1154
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: how will he handle everyone looking at him? How will

1155
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,080
Speaker 1: he hire a staff? So I don't know. I think

1156
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: it's there's always risk involved. But it took risk to

1157
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: hire Sean McVay. How'd that work out. It took risk

1158
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: in trying to think. Once upon a time, the Philadelphia

1159
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: Eagles hired a run game tight end coach from the

1160
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Andy Reid. How'd that turnout? The Baltimore

1161
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: Ravens hired John Harbaugh, especially seams coordinator. Mike Tomlin was

1162
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: a first year defensive coordinator from Minnesota. They weren't even

1163
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: that good on defense. He was thirty four years old.

1164
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: So sometimes you gotta take risks. But for every Mike

1165
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:25,400
Speaker 1: Tomlin and John Harbaugh, there are a lot of Joe Judges.

1166
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think you just you just

1167
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: got to hire the right guy, whoever that is. That's

1168
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: on spy Tech, that's on Brady. These guys have been

1169
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: around football their entire lives. Both of them are Michigan guys.

1170
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 1: They've been around champions. Brady's the greatest champion we've ever seen.

1171
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: He's seen it all. I don't know, they just got

1172
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 1: to get it right. I think they'd be the first

1173
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: to tell you it's probably why they going through this

1174
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: long process. I'm an Indiana native, lived here in my

1175
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: whole life. You mentioned a Colin last night that Indiana

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01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: people have always been football people, and that's one hundred

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01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: percent true. But some history, football was always second to

1178
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: basketball until about twenty years ago, and then there's been

1179
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: a slow, steady move toward football take over locally and

1180
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: it's completely happened. High school football has overtaken high school basketball.

1181
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: This is for sure now a football state. One thing

1182
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: you did not mention that was a huge part of

1183
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 1: this was Peyton Manning and the Colts. That was a

1184
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: huge catalyst in increased football interest here. I totally understand.

1185
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: Can you think of any comp in any place in

1186
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: any sport, because I can't. Patriots didn't flip red Sox, Celtics,

1187
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 1: Warriors didn't supplant the Niners. Yeah, I mean it's pretty unique.

1188
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: A good point on Peyton Manning changed the game, made

1189
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: the Colts a very relevant, big time franchise, and as

1190
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: football has really expanded, having one of the greatest players

1191
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: of all time and then even going right to Luck,

1192
01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: so basically from the late nineties through the mid twenty

1193
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: tens you were viewed as having one of the best quarters.

1194
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton was right there with Tom and Andrew

1195
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: Luck was a star immediately, so that that matters. I

1196
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: think what Steph I mean, Steph Curry resurrected the Warriors

1197
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:17,440
Speaker 1: and made them into this powerhouse brand. But the Warriors

1198
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 1: I was the Bay Area. Honestly, the baseball is just

1199
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: as big when they're good. But if the war if

1200
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: Steph Curry disappeared tomorrow, the Warriors do not sustain. They

1201
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:33,880
Speaker 1: become a relevant Like they're not a big brand in

1202
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: the sense of you couldn't just put random players on

1203
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: there and the fans would care. The Warriors really are

1204
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. That's his power. It's like, look at the

1205
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. Turns out it was Michael Jordan, And to me,

1206
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 1: that's what Steph Curry was to them. Where your example

1207
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: is like people love the Colts and because you guys

1208
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:56,240
Speaker 1: have good sports fans in the Midwest. So these last

1209
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: however many years with Ballard has been pretty polarizing. You

1210
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,320
Speaker 1: never really had Indiana football to root for it because

1211
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: they'd never been good. But if they had been, I

1212
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 1: do think it's pretty clear they would have been treated

1213
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: like one of the powerhouse in terms of support. Big

1214
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: ten programs Iowa, Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State are probably

1215
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 1: just way too historic, but the support would not have

1216
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 1: been an issue for Indiana. Even if they had just

1217
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: had a run of ten years where they averaged like

1218
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 1: eight to nine wins, it would have been a really

1219
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: really big deal. They had just been the complete opposite.

1220
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:31,640
Speaker 1: They couldn't have been any worse. I have a question

1221
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: for the bag, why is Josh Allen getting so much

1222
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: praise this postseason despite being a major reason for the

1223
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 1: loss to the Broncos. He had three he has a

1224
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:43,120
Speaker 1: top three running back and a great offensive line, yet

1225
01:07:43,160 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: he seems to get a pass. In contrast, Mahomes was

1226
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: heavily criticized after losing the Super Bowl last year, even

1227
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: though he lacked a solid old line and a run

1228
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 1: game when he already has three rings. I thought Josh

1229
01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: Allen got pretty heavily criticized. I thought people crushed him.

1230
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: He didn't play well. I do think people felt for him.

1231
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: Just the emotional outburst after the game I think was relatable.

1232
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 1: I think all fans and people that love the sport

1233
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 1: want to see is like, do you care as much

1234
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 1: as we do? And when you watch, like I the

1235
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,560
Speaker 1: Bill's reaction of guys in tears, you went listen. He

1236
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 1: just kind of felt bat sympathy for him. He did

1237
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: not play well relative to his standard. The Knox miss

1238
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: was crippling, and that was probably the game the end

1239
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: of the first half. Fumble was probably one of the

1240
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: worst plays of his career in a big moment, it

1241
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 1: definitely was the worst play of his career, I would

1242
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,679
Speaker 1: say so. I think people just felt for the guy

1243
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: that I don't think this was the case last year

1244
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: when Mark Andrews dropped the ball for Lamar. People want

1245
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: to see Lamar, Jackson and Josh Allen match Mahomes or

1246
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: try to. Did Mahomes get crushed his offensive line sucking

1247
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: at worked? I don't think who's getting crushed. Also, when

1248
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: these guys get crushed, what does that even mean? It's like, listen,

1249
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: Lamar hasn't played that well in the playoffs, We're fucking

1250
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,679
Speaker 1: gonna replace him. Like, what are we even talking about?

1251
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 1: You have bad games? Steph Curry's had bad games. Lebron

1252
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: James have bad games. Mahomes had bad game. It happens,

1253
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: It sucks, shake it off, and you move forward. Now,

1254
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: when you're not good enough, people go CJ. Stratt, are

1255
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: you good enough? Are you sure you want to bring

1256
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: this guy back? What are other options? Because I think

1257
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: that's the extension of the conversation with a guy like CJ.

1258
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: Shradd Could we do any better next year? Could we

1259
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: trade him? Could we be open to different opportunities. You'd

1260
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: be not doing your job if you're not having that conversation.

1261
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: Lamar has a shitty playoff game or Josh Allen has

1262
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: a shitty playoff game, that's not the conversation to be at.

1263
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: So I think it's just and I don't know what

1264
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 1: people say on some of these shows. I don't watch them,

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Speaker 1: especially now that dad and feeding out of a bottle,

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01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: not me, but feeding him in the bottle. Might have

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01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: to hit the bottle if I keep not getting sleep,

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: big fan, fellow ball brother and father or two. Not

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Speaker 1: to jump ahead a week, but do you anticipate the

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01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 1: electrical substation to be a topic conversation leading in the

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01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Very rare circumstances where other teams practice, other

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01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 1: teams facility with the Super Bowl being in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 1: I said this to someone the other day. It is

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01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,760
Speaker 1: one million percent going to be a conversation d'ur in

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl, and to me where it could just

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01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: go to another level. I don't know the setup if

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Speaker 1: it's the AFC or NFC team practicing in the Niners

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 1: practice field. What if that team refuses to take the field,

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01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 1: What if the players aren't comfortable? This story would go

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01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 1: from like it's already zero to twenty to like zero

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01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: to sixty. It would five x because it's out there

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01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:55,839
Speaker 1: people are talking about it. But now the Niners are gone.

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01:10:56,360 --> 01:11:00,719
Speaker 1: If the Super Bowl team, whoever is task with practicing

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01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 1: on the field, and maybe they both do. I remember

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01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,160
Speaker 1: last year or I mean ten years ago when they

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Speaker 1: had it one practice San Jose and the other practice

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01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: Santa Clara. So whoever practices at the Niners facility. If

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Speaker 1: their players go I'm not comfortable doing this, and we're

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01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:20,680
Speaker 1: gonna also practice San Jose or something, this story would explode.

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Speaker 1: How would you rank these coaching vacancies and you and

1291
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: who do you predict getting hired? Well, Buffalo and Baltimore

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01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: are just when do you ever get MVP quarterbacks in

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01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 1: their late twenties? Job availables doesn't happen very rarely, if ever,

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01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 1: so I think those jobs are just unprecedented, almost pretty rare.

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01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure we could do a breakdown in the history

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Speaker 1: of the league, how many MVP candidates or former MVP

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01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:53,679
Speaker 1: quarterbacks still in their twenties had a job opening, maybe

1298
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,759
Speaker 1: farv in the late nineties. When Holmgren went to Seattle,

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Speaker 1: I think Elway was already over thirty when Mike Shanahan

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Speaker 1: got there. Maybe he was thirty, but that would be similar.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just doesn't happen very often. When Bill

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Speaker 1: waltsh handed the job to George Seaffert, when what's his

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01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:17,640
Speaker 1: name Barry Switzer got the job from the Cowboys, like

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01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: it's those jobs are pretty pretty unique. So I think

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01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: those two jobs are in a different stratosphere, even when

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01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: you factor in the bills and bean and the power structure,

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01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,600
Speaker 1: but they're just pretty elite. I think the Cardinals is

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01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: an untouchable job. I think it's horrendous. I wouldn't touch

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01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:43,320
Speaker 1: that job. With a ten football, no quarterback division, with McVeigh,

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01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 1: Kyle and McDonald an owner that is historically cheap, I

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01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: couldn't touch it. Couldn't touch it. The Browns got just

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01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: too much going on, no quarterback, crazy owner. To me,

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Speaker 1: those jobs are bad. He sucks because Cleveland, like that

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01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: job should matter, but there's just too much going on there. Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Tennessee is a good job either way.

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Speaker 1: Too big of a risk with a quarterback not sure

1317
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: he can play in an ownership that you just can't trust.

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01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: Who else is open right now? For the bill? The

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01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,639
Speaker 1: steel I don't think if the Steelers is that good.

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01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: No quarterback, aging veterans that are expensive. Front office that

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: has not been good lately, which is crazy to say

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01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: because historically the Steelers would be like, oh, that's one

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Speaker 1: of the best jobs in America. I don't know one

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Speaker 1: on this. What is Malachai Toni? This guy is insane,

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01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: he's stud The scary part if you're the ACC is

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01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 1: he's eighteen years old. So now the success is not

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01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 1: just an upward trajectory. We saw it was his name,

1328
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Williams, the wide receiver at Bama who looked like

1329
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: the equal to Jeremiah Smith, and this year he was terrible.

1330
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: So you're just not guaranteed to keep improving. But you

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01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: watch Malchi Tony, you go, uh, this guy was born

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01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:12,640
Speaker 1: to play football, pretty elite, just all everything player. I

1333
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: mean he can return, he can play in the slot,

1334
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: he can play outside, he can make his miss, he

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01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,679
Speaker 1: can break tackles. Imagine him in a year and await

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,919
Speaker 1: program a year eating, you know, with the just training

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01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 1: his body to gain a little more muscle mass, maybe

1338
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: a little more explosion, really work on his craft hone

1339
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: the routes, which he's already an excellent route runner, could

1340
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 1: be a pretty special player. He's kind of got some

1341
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: like Zay Flowers vibes, but maybe even better he's not

1342
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's quite like his twitchy and

1343
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,839
Speaker 1: powerful as Tyreek, but he's kind of in that world.

1344
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:46,799
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to be a pretty special player.

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Speaker 1: When on that one Audio's people the volume