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Speaker 1: What is up my people? We're back three OW podcast

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Speaker 1: to podcasts this week? Are you kidding me? In the

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Speaker 1: middle of July? Keeping content rolling? Baby? I'm John Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: Three and Out Podcast. Thank you, welcome, welcome back, Glad

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Speaker 1: you're here. Uh saw some things Chris Ballard talk with

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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee. He said something that really stood out to me.

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Speaker 1: down the beer bong. He's getting healthy. Have some thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that, some other NFL stories. Uh, we'll just kind

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Speaker 1: of fire through Richard Truman to kill Harry. I kind

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Speaker 1: of think the Washington football team shouldn't get a nickname.

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Speaker 1: But we'll dive into that. And then, of course the

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff is the Instagram firing

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Speaker 1: streaming podcast world. Okay, I I'm a YouTuber, have multiple

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, I subscribe to a ton of channels,

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Speaker 1: and one of them is Pat McAfee. And anytime, most

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Speaker 1: And I saw a picture of Chris Ballard's face. Clearly

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Speaker 1: as they should have been. He's an elite player. And

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Speaker 1: and he told Pat he said, people don't like the unknown.

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Speaker 1: how many people listening to this don't like your job

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Speaker 1: it just be Washington Football team? Chelsea Liverpool? Uh? You

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Speaker 1: know Barcelona. They do just fine. Last time I checked.

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Speaker 1: Those those franchises are businesses booming. Can't we just call

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Speaker 1: it Washington Washington Football Team. I actually think it kind

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Speaker 1: of works, the franchise tag guys. I guess none of

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Speaker 1: them have signed Chris Godwin Star Star might be strong

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Speaker 1: stud probably a better word wide receiver for the Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Not gonna get a long term deal. Allen

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Speaker 1: Robinson also no dice. I think he's kind of a

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Speaker 1: complicated one. Marcus May, the safety, I can't act like

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Speaker 1: I've watched that much Jets football. The little bit I

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Speaker 1: watched of him, I didn't think he was that good,

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Speaker 1: But then all my buddies in the league were like, Yeah,

435
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Speaker 1: he's really good. And clearly Joe Douglas knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: Franchise at tagging him. I think it's hard with safeties.

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Speaker 1: I know Jamal Adams had said earlier that he wants

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Speaker 1: to reset the safety market. Don't totally blame him. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you guys traded two ones and a two for me,

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Speaker 1: Get ready to pay me Marcus May? Like, how much

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Speaker 1: are you really worth? Again? I haven't really scouted Marcus May,

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Speaker 1: but doesn't look like he's gonna get signed, and I

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Speaker 1: would imagine during the season, the media is gonna be like,

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Speaker 1: these guys are good screwed, Like Allen Robinson has probably

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Speaker 1: already made sixty million dollars and this year, what's he

446
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Speaker 1: gonna get seven and teen million dollars? Like, he's not

447
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Speaker 1: getting screwed. He's getting a lot of money upfront, fully guaranteed,

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Speaker 1: no matter what. Marcus May, Godwin, I think god when

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Speaker 1: obviously was not a was a high pick. So this

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Speaker 1: is like Allen Robinson's going on his third contract. Godwin

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Speaker 1: and May are looking for their first big contract. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what round May was drafted, and clearly not

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Speaker 1: the first. Godwin definitely was a second or third round

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Speaker 1: pick from I think Penn State kid. He's probably not

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Speaker 1: a kid anymore. He's probably six. I'm a big Chris

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Speaker 1: Godwin fan, but I think, I don't, you know, can

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Speaker 1: you have too eighteen to twenty million dollar wide receivers?

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Speaker 1: Right because Mike Evans gets paid a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: Can you have two guys like that? You know, it's

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Speaker 1: probably not the best allocation your resources. So I get

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Speaker 1: where Jason light who got it? You know? You just

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Speaker 1: followed me on Instagram. I've d m him. I would

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Speaker 1: love to get him on the podcast Talk a Little Shop.

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Speaker 1: But I don't blame him for you know, I just

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Speaker 1: try to play this out. And that's the thing with

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and it makes you know the me you're

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Speaker 1: really uncomfortable. It's very fan friendly, like sometimes franchising tagging

468
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Speaker 1: franchise tagging the guy is the best move for business,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately these teams are in business and it's not

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Speaker 1: that terrible for the player. It's like they're not giving

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Speaker 1: them two million dollars, They're not giving them way under

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Speaker 1: mark your rate. They're literally giving them the top five

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Speaker 1: wide receiver money. And he's not a top five wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: so you could argue in the short term that's a

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Speaker 1: huge win. Okay, let's dive in to the people on

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Speaker 1: the Instagram. Start with Adam Buttersworth. I like a good

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Speaker 1: full name on the internet. Seattle Light. Here, I feel

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Speaker 1: like there's an elephant in the room but no one

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Speaker 1: is talking about. When comparing Brady and Rogers and Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's cap hit this year is ten million dollars.

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Speaker 1: He has consistently been the lowest paid starting quarterback not

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Speaker 1: on a rookie contract for most of his incredible career.

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Speaker 1: It's almost as if Russ and Aaron don't understand that

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Speaker 1: they consume the additional resources that could land and impact

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Speaker 1: uh the way for those players that they want in

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Speaker 1: those positions that they desire improvement. I think we talked

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Speaker 1: about it a lot. Tom takes a little bit less

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Speaker 1: money to win big, knowing his team will invest it

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Speaker 1: over the years and he is going to cash out forever.

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Speaker 1: And those guys, both Super Bowl champions, take the max

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Speaker 1: amount of money humanly possible forty Whenever Russell Wilson does

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Speaker 1: a new deal will be forty five, Aaron Rodgers fifty whatever,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, our defense, and Tom's playing on.

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Speaker 1: He sent a two year fifty million dollar deal. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers thirty seven million dollars this year. Tom Brady, I

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Speaker 1: know the cat numbers are different, but like it's just

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Speaker 1: it's not a fair fight. I mean it's not. Now

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Speaker 1: you can be like middle Coff, stop counting their money.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I I root for people to make money.

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Speaker 1: I'm not some whack job on Twitter. I root for

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Speaker 1: people to have success. I do. I want everyone to

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Speaker 1: make as much money as humanly possible, But in this

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Speaker 1: sport there is a salary cap, and that salary cap

504
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Speaker 1: limits the amount of players you can buy. And obviously

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks who are the most important player as Russell and

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Speaker 1: as Aaron are on their given teams. No one's arguing

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Speaker 1: that try to bend over their team and negotiations, and

508
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Speaker 1: then they wonder why their teams flowed, Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to tell you when they when these guys

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Speaker 1: are making so much bookoo money on and off the field,

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Speaker 1: Like you couldn't make twenty eight million dollars and make

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Speaker 1: your twenty million thirty million dollars off the off the field,

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Speaker 1: you also are very very marketable the rest of your life.

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Speaker 1: Like I would understand if it was like middle Cuff,

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Speaker 1: you're asking him to make seven million dollars when he

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Speaker 1: could be making forty instead of making forty, Like would

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Speaker 1: it behoove you to make twenty six? Especially like like

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Speaker 1: I said, with Dak, you know Jerry will do everything

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Speaker 1: humanly possible. He was drafted in the fourth round. He's

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Speaker 1: never made any money. He's on like seventeen commercials and

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Speaker 1: he has been since he started. Cowboy quarterbacks make enormous

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Speaker 1: money off the field, but when he makes forty million dollars,

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Speaker 1: he limits what they can do. The separate conversations not

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Speaker 1: even forty million dollar quarterback question. I see people posting

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Speaker 1: stats saying Lamar and Mahomes have similar TDS passer ratings.

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Speaker 1: Does the eyeball test and playoff performance mean nothing anymore? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know if I wouldn't take

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Speaker 1: anyone seriously to post a that. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: I've come around on Lamar Jackson, but come on, what

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Speaker 1: are we talking about? Lamar Jackson Homes? No question? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've been to Lamar Jackson fans since he was at Louisville.

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Speaker 1: One thing I do not hear people criticize him enough

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Speaker 1: for is his pre snap abilities. The ability to be

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Speaker 1: a vocal leader and manipulate defense is like a veteran quarterback,

535
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Speaker 1: takes a long time and can only come with years

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Speaker 1: of experience, watching the tape and playing the same teams

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Speaker 1: players coordinators over and over like Brady and Manning. What

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Speaker 1: do you think he can do to improve this part

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Speaker 1: of his game? Do you think he's capable of taking

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Speaker 1: a large leap in this area, and are their special

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Speaker 1: tutors or training regiments for quarterbacks to improve this skill

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Speaker 1: throughout their career. It seems like he still has the

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Speaker 1: training wheels off. Well, here's the curve ball in this

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Speaker 1: whole question. Those guys did not have an offense that

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Speaker 1: was built around them running it basically every other play,

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Speaker 1: not just the running back, but them personally taking off.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of times their play action game, Peyton

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Speaker 1: or Tom or whoever is thinking like a quarterback, where

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Speaker 1: sometimes in the you know, in the play action game

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Speaker 1: or just uh, you know, like an RPO type play,

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Speaker 1: Lamar is just thinking about different things. I think it's

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Speaker 1: easier to learn anything when you do it. If Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson the moment he got in the NFL had just

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Speaker 1: run four wide situations. Now, I know they didn't have

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Speaker 1: the personnel, but let's say Mark Andrews and Hollywood and

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Speaker 1: you know they just used other wide receivers and ran

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Speaker 1: four wide. Now that would they would not have been

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Speaker 1: as good right when he was young at all. Now,

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Speaker 1: but by now maybe he'd be more potent as just

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Speaker 1: a drop back quarterback consistently. But their offense is collegiate

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Speaker 1: is probably the wrong word, it's just unique. So it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really you know, he he doesn't equip him to

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Speaker 1: do that type stuff because he doesn't do what those

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Speaker 1: guys do, even though eventually in a big game in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, you have to make passes on third and long,

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Speaker 1: and when it is third and long, there is no

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Speaker 1: fucking play action. It's so I I think it's somewhat

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Speaker 1: of a product of Greg Roman in the offense, though

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Speaker 1: they would not have been as good the last several

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Speaker 1: years without Greg Roman and the offense. So it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a catch twenty two. I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's a perfect answer for this, because what they're doing

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Speaker 1: worked works, it's just flawed in the playoffs. If I

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Speaker 1: can slow down your running game and make you a

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Speaker 1: one dimensional, pass happy team, the Rogers Russell Wilson, Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Brady Manning, obviously these guys don't. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna make us one dimensional. We can only throw the ball,

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Speaker 1: good luck, let's roll. I'm playing on throwing for four yards,

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Speaker 1: so it's it's tough. I think it's easy to kind

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Speaker 1: of I don't. I don't know. I don't have a

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Speaker 1: good answer I'm not a I'm not a football coach.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's something truly that Andy Reid, Sean Payton,

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Speaker 1: you know, McVeigh, Shanahan. They could give you Lincoln Riley,

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Speaker 1: you know, got even like a Nick Saban could give

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Speaker 1: you a legitimate, well thought answer. I don't have one.

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Speaker 1: My only pushback is like, I don't what's he's supposed

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Speaker 1: to do become Patrick Mahomes in that offense. It's not

588
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Speaker 1: even it's not gonna happen. Can sometimes like I wrote

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Speaker 1: this down a long time ago, I was reading I

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Speaker 1: don't know some book and it was just talking about

591
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Speaker 1: like the wealthiest people always take short term losses for

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Speaker 1: long term gains. But the overwhelming majority of people, and

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Speaker 1: most of us and even those people at point in

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Speaker 1: times in your life are included. It's hard to take

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Speaker 1: a short term loss right and just think big picture.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to say it. It's easy in theory. It's

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Speaker 1: like academia. It's easier. It's easy in the white board.

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Speaker 1: Supplied demand put you in the trenches of the real world.

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Speaker 1: It's like, can you hold off, don't cash out that stock,

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Speaker 1: take a nail. You know, in five years it could

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Speaker 1: be quadruple, but you need it. You're like, uh, most

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Speaker 1: people are always thinking short term, um, but can you

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Speaker 1: think long term? And that's a balance and it hasn't worked.

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Speaker 1: It happened from a football perspective with Kaepernick with the Niner,

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00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,720
Speaker 1: same deal, the differences. They tried to force the passing

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Speaker 1: offense like by the third year when they were really good,

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Speaker 1: and it failed really bad. It was a disaster. So

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Speaker 1: I but can you live with a year or two

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Speaker 1: in the NFL? Not for long? It's hard because people

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Speaker 1: don't want to take short term gains or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: short term losses. Would the Ravens if I told them this,

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Speaker 1: if they knew this, they would take a seven and

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Speaker 1: ten season with just Lamar's a drop back quarterback, have

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Speaker 1: him stopped running around and in two years he will

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Speaker 1: be a dramatically better pocket quarterback. If I guaranteed him that,

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Speaker 1: I think they would be open to it. But they

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Speaker 1: they'll just go, well, what if we do that and

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Speaker 1: we suck and then he never improves and then we're

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Speaker 1: stuck in neutral. That's always the uh, you know, the risk.

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Speaker 1: So again I don't. I don't really have a great answer.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts in the NFC West this year.

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Speaker 1: It seems like every team has a decedent shot at

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Speaker 1: winning the division. I would say the Niners, Cardinals, and

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Speaker 1: Seattle have a good shot of win the division. The

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Cliff Kingsbury, I mean, he couldn't win a Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: Now he's gonna come to the NFC West and win

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Speaker 1: the division. He should have walked to the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't make it. He lost the Niners. Was C J. Bethard?

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Speaker 1: I think it lost to the Giants late in the season.

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Speaker 1: I do not think any way possible that the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals can win the division. And I'm not disputing they

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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of talent on their team. But

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Speaker 1: if I was handicapping it, I would go one A, Rams,

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Speaker 1: one B, Seattle to Niners, and then like a distant,

635
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: distant third Cardinals. I just I don't believe in the

636
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: coach quarterback. Makes me a little nervous too, but I'm

637
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: way more leary on the coach that I am the quarterback.

638
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear your thoughts in the a f

639
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: C North before training camp. Is it really a two

640
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: team division between Cleveland and Baltimore. Are the Bengals of

641
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: dark Horse playoff team? Are the Steelers unofficially done? No?

642
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: Also recent sports management graduate from the Ohio University Bobcasts

643
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: not the buck guys. Any suggestions for breaking into the

644
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: sports industry. I think the key on that question is

645
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? If you find out

646
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: what you want to do? You want to get into media,

647
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: start getting involved YouTube stuff, social media, like it sucks,

648
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: I hate it, but it's part of the gig and

649
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: you can get your voice out there. Do you do

650
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: you want to work for a team, like do you

651
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: want to work in college athletics? Whatever you specifically want

652
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: to do. Fine, maybe five to ten people you admire

653
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: in the space that you may have an opportunity to

654
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: even email, reach out and try to get their advice

655
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: and look at their bio, look at their resume and

656
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: try to do what they did to get where they got. Now.

657
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: Obviously times change and you have to maybe take a

658
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: little different approach. In two one and someone you admire

659
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: that broke in. But what I always did was I

660
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: just looked at people I wanted to be like, and

661
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: I go, what are they doing? Like when I wanted

662
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: to get in the NFL. I looked at gms that

663
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: didn't didn't play in the NFL, So how did they

664
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: get into the NFL? When I when I wanted to

665
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: work in radio, Like, who do I want to sound like?

666
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: Now that I do this, I don't really care. I

667
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: just talk. I just at the point where I'm just

668
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: trying to entertain. But whatever you want to do, find

669
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: the people you admire, and I mean in a simple way,

670
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: just kind of copy them. Now you have to be

671
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: true to yourself, but just find their path and attempt

672
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: to do that. I would say the Ravens are still

673
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: the favorite. I would say that Cleveland is one hund

674
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: or excuse me, the Steelers are not done. But you

675
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: know older Roethlisberger, I think it makes him a little nervous.

676
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: In the Browns, it's crazy to say, feel like a

677
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: lock wild card team. Now they could win the Division two,

678
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I think it's a two horse race.

679
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: My middle middlecoff mail back question is a diehard New

680
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: York Giants fan, what should we realistically expect out of

681
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: our team in the NFC East Division this year? I

682
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: think Philly will be terrible. Washton's defense is good, but

683
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: starting fits magic never ends well and Dallas's defense was

684
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: not existent. Do the Giants have a competitive chance to

685
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: win the division? I listened to UH, Peter Traeger and

686
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. They had on Joe Judge Judges. I mean, listen,

687
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: I was hard on him last year when he made

688
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: his coaches run, and maybe I was a little off.

689
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: Maybe they ran on their own volition. I like Joe Judge.

690
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: Joe Judge gave a really really good interview to those guys. Uh,

691
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: Saban Belichick guy. Obviously, I think he's a solid coach.

692
00:38:55,680 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: Now he is a Tomlin hardball like he's not calling offense,

693
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: he's not calling defense. He's a special teams guy. But

694
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: he's not even calling special teams. So it's like he

695
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: doesn't really have an imprint, even though he does. Philosophically,

696
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: he's trying to be Belichick, which if you listen to me,

697
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: he is really really impressive. It's just it's just hard

698
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Talent wise. Their offense has a

699
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: lot of talent, right they draft a wide receiver in

700
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: the first round, they signed holiday Sae Kwon Barkley comes back.

701
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: You know, I just is Daniel Jones any good I

702
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: don't know. That would be my question. Their defense is

703
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: pretty solid division. You're right, the Cowboys, Like I can't

704
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: take them that seriously. The Eagles aren't very good, and

705
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: Washington could just be solid. The Giants could win the

706
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: division if Daniel Jones is good. I think the question though,

707
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: is he good? I don't think he's bad. We know

708
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: he's not really good. I just don't know if he's

709
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,760
Speaker 1: like blow average is the average? Is he slightly above average?

710
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: I couldn't even tell you. I struggled even really have

711
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: an opinion on Daniel Jones Beside, like you know, I'd

712
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: like to get him as a backup and work with him.

713
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: I would not want him as my starting quarterback from

714
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Speaker 1: what I've seen. And could Jason Garrett save Daniel Jones?

715
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, because one thing with Jason Garrett, like

716
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: when he was the head coach of the Cowboys, like

717
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't the quarterback coach. It wasn't like he was

718
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: responsible for Romo or Dak. I mean he was part

719
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: of it, but he was even the offensive coordinator. Kellen

720
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: Moore call in the plaze, how do you in lenahand

721
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: before him, how do you predict the NFC West finishes

722
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: this year. I know the rams of the sexy pick,

723
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: but are we sure that Stafford makes them that much better? Yes,

724
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: Stafford is dramatically better than Jared Goff. The Matt Stafford

725
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: they're getting based on last year relative to what Jared

726
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: Goff has been the last two years, is worth two wins.

727
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: But Jared Goff was not very good and they were

728
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: winning ten games. Think about that now. To me, the

729
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: question is brand Stately leaves. They lose a couple of

730
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 1: pieces on defense. Is their defense, which was dominant last year,

731
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: going to be as good? Like? Can their offense be

732
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: better but their defense be shittier? Right? So they end

733
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: up at just ten again, ten eleven. They're also very

734
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: very top heavy on defense, like an NBA team. They

735
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: got two superstars, and they're superstars. Ma Aaron Donald's the

736
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: best player and Jalen Ramsey's a dominant player. What happens

737
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: if one of those guys miss a month, they'd be

738
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: in some trouble. Then Seattle the Niners. Yeah, I mean,

739
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: and again, I like, I'm not a big Cardinal guy

740
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: in terms of them winning the division, but I do

741
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: not dispute that they're gonna I don't view them as

742
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: like a four win team, like I can see them

743
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: going eight nine or nine and eight or something like that,

744
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: whether it's player or team specific. What are your top

745
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: three things you're looking forward to this season? Both college

746
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: football in the NFL, Going on a honeymoon in September

747
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: to Phoenix and Sedona. Can't wait. I just saw that

748
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: l A put a mask mandate back into l A County,

749
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure, uh, the l A County is

750
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: the biggest any population wise in America. He's got like

751
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: fifteen million people. It's just you know, looking at this

752
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: real estate, which again I'm not afraid in overpaying for,

753
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: you know, Scottsdale real estate relative to the Bay Area,

754
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: it's I don't even view it as an overpay though

755
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: relative to their market, it's just up, which again relative

756
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: to what I'm used to, I still feel like it's

757
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: a steel. I'm afraid that this new mass mandate is

758
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: even gonna drive more fucking people LA to Scottsdale. So

759
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: now that just that mass mandate cost me another Hunter grant,

760
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: that's boom right there. It's like never ending. That's the

761
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: first thing I think of, like, oh my god, I'm

762
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: competing with the politicians that are driving these people to

763
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: where I want to go. Because I'll promise you this,

764
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: there's no mass mandate in the Scottsdale. But you know,

765
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: you gotta be patient though. I'm not not trying to

766
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: rush into a deal that I don't want to do,

767
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: but I also really want to be down there. Keep

768
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 1: up the great content. What are your thoughts on Xavian

769
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: Howard being upset with this contract? Hasn't been upset like

770
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: the last three years. Didn't they just signed him to

771
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: an extension like two years ago? I don't know. I mean,

772
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: I like the guy as a player. I think he's solid,

773
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: but fully, you know, to be honest, I don't keep

774
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: that close to tabs on Xavian Howard and in the

775
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: Dolphins though if he is available, I do think teams

776
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: would want him. But it does feel like some players

777
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: just sometimes we get very disgruntled with Belichick guys. Why

778
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: is it always Belichick guys? Players are always disgruntled? And

779
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: I like Brian Flores. I'm not trying to blame him

780
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: for this one, but Oregan Ducks fan, here, does the

781
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: n i L situation benefit Oregan or usc more? I

782
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: saw recently the Thibodeau signed a six digit compensation agreement

783
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: with Nike recently wanted your thoughts also Ducks plus two

784
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: fifty to win the Pack twelve as a lock. I

785
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: think one million percent. It benefits the Ducks. You could

786
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: argue the Ducks have as built in an advantage with

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00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: this thing as any program in the country, Bama, Ohio, State,

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00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: you name it, Texas they have Nike. Phil Knight is

789
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: their guy. Nike in their backyard. They are Nike like

790
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: that is their school. Phil Knight literally signed this kid.

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00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: Now what I've said it from the jump, even if

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00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: I was Nike. Unless it's like and they they don't

793
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: really do this. Besides, like individual sports and maybe like basketball,

794
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: you cannot. I don't think it's good business to start

795
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: paying kids at seventeen years old until you know the

796
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: guy's a good player. Thibadeaux is a really good player,

797
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: so it's easy to pay him. Now if if Oregon promises, like,

798
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: if you come here and you're good, Nike will pay you,

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00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: that's a big advantage. I just is Nike gonna pay

800
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: every one of their recruits. Maybe Phil Knight tells Cristal Ball, listen,

801
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: you get two recruits a year that you can, like

802
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: top guys in the country, you can promise a deal.

803
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the way they do it because you're just

804
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: gonna hand out seven deals a year to recruits. We

805
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: know that after recruits don't become what we think they're

806
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: going to become, it's kind of a risky business, at

807
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: least in basketball. Just one Zion Kate Cunningham, right, James Wiseman.

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00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: In football, it's like, you know, we signed a class

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00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: of twenty guys. You don't think all twenty of those

810
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 1: guys are gonna want that that Nike deal. Now, some

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00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: guys are better than others, but not in their own minds. Okay,

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00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: last question. I'm very new to golf world and I'm

813
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: a little indecisive with choosing beginner golf clubs. Do you

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00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: think it would behoove me to buy a set of

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00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: beginner clubs or ransack Goodwill and see what I can

816
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: find and if you have a preferred brand of club

817
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: for beginners, that would be great. Well, I'll be honest,

818
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 1: I haven't been a beginner since, so I don't really

819
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: know where to get like what to do in your situation.

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00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: What I would probably do is go to like Golf

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00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: Mark or golf Galaxy and see if you can get

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00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: a use set of clubs for like a Hunter Bucks

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00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: Hunter fifty bucks of Callaway title list, you know, Puma,

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00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: whatever Taylor made and like, like I had a set

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00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 1: of titlists when I got my new set of Taylor

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00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: May's a couple of years ago. I have golf Galaxy

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00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: or golf Mart right by my house. I sold the

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00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,959
Speaker 1: clubs back for like eighty dollars. Now maybe they resell them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know for but I think you can get

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00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: a set that way. If you're a grown up, you

831
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: know that that that's probably what I would recommend. Go

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00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: to a golf store, see if you can get a

833
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 1: use set of clubs from a major brand relatively cheap.

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Speaker 1: That's probably the easiest, and then just figure it out

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00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,439
Speaker 1: from there. Appreciate everyone listening. Have a great day and

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00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: uh and yeah, I have a good weekend. Stay safe,

837
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: have fun, enjoy these last couple of weeks till we

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00:46:46,480 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: get a little football sing and