WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Dynamic Duos, Ryan Leaf

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<v Speaker 3>NBC and Peacock, which is where you can see this

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<v Speaker 3>program Monday through Friday. Ryan Leaf, former NFL quarterback, now

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<v Speaker 3>the lead analyst for the Pac-12. He will join us

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<v Speaker 3>coming up a little bit. The Heisman Trophy winner, Robert

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<v Speaker 3>Griffin Jr. III, will stop by as well. Phone calls, 877-3DP-SHOW.

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<v Speaker 3>Tyler's sitting by. He'll take your calls. I've been in

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<v Speaker 3>on Kyler Murray with the Vikings.

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<v Speaker 4>I have.

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<v Speaker 3>For some reason, I think Kevin O'Connell will get him going.

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<v Speaker 3>He's got some good wide receivers. He might have the

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<v Speaker 3>best receiver in football. Maybe you could get him out

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<v Speaker 3>in space, as they like to say. Hot take draft? Well,

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<v Speaker 3>here's the problem. I just saw the over-under for passing

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<v Speaker 3>touchdowns for Kyler Murray. Now I'm a little concerned about

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<v Speaker 3>the Vikings. Over-under is 18.5 touchdown passes. That's lower than

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<v Speaker 3>Bryce Young and Cam Ward, who are both at 20.5.

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<v Speaker 3>Here's my problem with the Vikings. The Vikings, since 2022,

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<v Speaker 3>are averaging just under 23 points per game. So they're

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<v Speaker 3>14th in the NFL over that period. Well, you've got

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<v Speaker 3>a great defense. Since 2023, the Vikings are allowing around

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<v Speaker 3>20 points per game. That ranks 3rd. in the NFL

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<v Speaker 3>over that time span. What's amazing is they won nine

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<v Speaker 3>games last year. And they had an offense that was

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<v Speaker 3>at the bottom of the NFL and a defense that

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<v Speaker 3>was top ten. Brian Flores, he can dial something up.

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<v Speaker 5>Go ahead, go ahead. Okay, go ahead.

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<v Speaker 3>If I said to Kirk Herbstreet, you're not allowed to

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<v Speaker 3>use the expression dial up because Brent Venables, man, could

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<v Speaker 3>he dial some stuff up at Clemson? Todd Munkin, man,

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<v Speaker 3>could he dial something up for the Ravens? Brian Flores,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, he can dial some. Spags, Steve Spagnola, he's

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<v Speaker 3>going to dial something up.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, Marv.

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<v Speaker 5>He was a big fan of Mike Stoops at Oklahoma also.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, Mike Stoops could dial something up. Yeah, Paul.

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<v Speaker 6>A couple years ago in the NFL, it was the Bengals.

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<v Speaker 6>Lou Anarumo, the defensive coordinator, was dialing up stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh. Big popular. You got to have somebody who can

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<v Speaker 3>dial some stuff up there. Yes, Dylan.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you only dial stuff up on defense? You can't

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<v Speaker 2>dial anything up on offense?

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<v Speaker 3>It feels like it is defense heavy with dialing things up.

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<v Speaker 4>It does.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because you're going to be like, what spag's going

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<v Speaker 3>to dial up here?

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<v Speaker 5>Yes, Marvin. Marvin Lewis, when he was with the Ravens?

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<v Speaker 3>Did he have to dial anything up?

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<v Speaker 5>But he definitely got a lot of play.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, speaking of great defense, defensive duos, Aaron Donald,

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<v Speaker 3>when he makes his debut– certainly with Miles Garrett. And

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<v Speaker 3>I started to wonder, and you guys, the audience, you

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<v Speaker 3>can fill in the blanks here as well with your

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<v Speaker 3>favorite duos, like LT and Harry Carson, both Hall of Famers.

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<v Speaker 3>Zach Thomas, Jason Taylor, Hall of Famers. Von Miller, DeMarcus Ware,

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<v Speaker 3>Hall of Famers. Mike Haynes, Lester Hayes, Haynes, Hall of Famer.

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<v Speaker 3>Ed Reed, Ray Lewis. I might go right there and

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<v Speaker 3>say that is the greatest duo, defensive duo, And they

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<v Speaker 3>were there together a long time. Now, Derek Brooks, Warren Sapp,

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<v Speaker 3>Alan Page, Carl Eller, Mel Blunt, Mean Joe Green would

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<v Speaker 3>be up there as well. Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, back

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<v Speaker 3>with the Kansas City Chiefs, Merlin Olson, Deacon Jones, Ronnie Lott,

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<v Speaker 3>Charles Haley. Those are just some names that we wrote

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<v Speaker 3>down earlier this morning. Ed Reed, Ray Lewis might be

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<v Speaker 3>the best duo. If you think about... I mean, all pros. Um,

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<v Speaker 3>and I do think Ed Reed's underrated. You know, because

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<v Speaker 3>that defense was so good, but when Ed got an interception,

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<v Speaker 3>Ed was going to make you pay. He wanted to score.

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<v Speaker 3>He was like Dion. He wanted to, he wanted to

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<v Speaker 3>score on you. Mel Blunt and Mean Joe Green, Steel Curtain.

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<v Speaker 4>Damn.

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<v Speaker 3>You could throw Jack Lambert in there if you wanted.

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<v Speaker 3>Jack Hamm in there if you wanted. Um, Elsie Greenwood

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<v Speaker 3>in there. If you want it, that's a cheat code

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<v Speaker 3>right there. How about Jerome Brown and Reggie white, but

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<v Speaker 3>Jerome Brown passed away, you know, too soon in his career, obviously,

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<v Speaker 3>but that was a duo up front. This is, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the Rams have a duo there, you know, that's up

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<v Speaker 3>front here. I just thought taking two defensive players from

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<v Speaker 3>the same team at the same time, um, You know,

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<v Speaker 3>Harry Carson got into the Hall of Fame, had LT there.

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<v Speaker 3>Derek Brooks, Warren Sapp. John Lynch, throw in there as well. Yeah, Paulie.

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<v Speaker 6>You mentioned Jerome Brown and Reggie White. In 90 and 91,

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<v Speaker 6>they were both first-team All-Pros lining up next to each other.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>That's as rare as it gets.

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<v Speaker 3>And I don't know other ones. There's other ones that

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<v Speaker 3>I've forgotten. But these ones are just off the top

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<v Speaker 3>of my brain. Yes, Marvin.

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<v Speaker 5>What about James Harrison and Troy Palamalu?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, Dylan?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you say Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman?

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<v Speaker 3>I did not.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a good one. Patrick Willis, he obviously didn't have

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<v Speaker 2>the longest career, but he was reminiscent of Ray Lewis,

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<v Speaker 2>to be honest.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, Paul?

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<v Speaker 6>I got a deeper cut I just got emailed in.

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<v Speaker 6>Neil Smith and Derek Thomas together with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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<v Speaker 6>They went to five straight Pro Bowls together and a

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<v Speaker 6>couple first-team All-Pros.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I'm fine with that. There's no wrong answer here.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm just saying, in my opinion, if it's not Ed

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<v Speaker 3>Reed and Ray Lewis, it might be Mel Blunt and

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<v Speaker 3>Mean Joe Green. Yes, Marvin.

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<v Speaker 5>Ronnie Lott and Charles Haley.

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<v Speaker 3>I like that one, too. I mentioned that one. Yeah, Dylan.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll give the defending champs some love. What about Earl

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<v Speaker 2>Thomas and Bobby Wagner?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Hall of Famers. Throwing Richard Sherman in there.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and Richard Sherman.

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<v Speaker 2>Trifecta.

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<v Speaker 3>Cam Chancellor is one of my favorites. I can still

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<v Speaker 3>hear Cam Chancellor. Hit Julian Edelman.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, man.

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<v Speaker 3>That sounded like a ball coming off the bat of Otani.

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<v Speaker 3>And Edelman still held on to the ball. And stumbled

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<v Speaker 3>and got a first down. Edelman's had two of the

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<v Speaker 3>greatest plays in Super Bowl history.

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<v Speaker 5>Ooh, new topic.

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<v Speaker 3>Two of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history. The

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<v Speaker 3>catch against Atlanta defied all probability. And then that hit

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<v Speaker 3>against Cam Chancellor.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, man.

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<v Speaker 3>And then he still, I still, whenever I see Edelman,

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<v Speaker 3>I've said, dude, you had to be knocked out on

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<v Speaker 3>your feet. And I've been around Cam Chancellor. He's a man.

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<v Speaker 3>He's big. And you're around Edelman, and you go, how

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<v Speaker 3>did you survive that? Like, I'm thinking death. He got

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<v Speaker 3>hit so hard. I'm thinking, he's not getting up anytime soon. Yeah, Paul.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm watching the replay of the Edelman hit by Cam Chancellor.

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<v Speaker 6>Not only does he get up, his teammates are, like,

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<v Speaker 6>tending to him. He doesn't go to the sidelines. There's

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<v Speaker 6>someone waving him over. He's shaking them off. He goes

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<v Speaker 6>right back to the huddle.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm double-checking.

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<v Speaker 6>I think he caught the next play.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, my goodness. They're just guys who are built different

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<v Speaker 3>and taking that punishment. But, you know, these defensive players,

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<v Speaker 3>like Ronnie Lott would just– now, it was different when

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<v Speaker 3>Ronnie was playing and Mel Blount and some of these

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<v Speaker 3>other guys. But, boy, if they got a free run

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<v Speaker 3>at you, they were taking you out. It wasn't one

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<v Speaker 3>of those, hey, I'm going to ease up on you.

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<v Speaker 3>This is going to hurt. And the fact the NFL

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<v Speaker 3>used to celebrate these hits, you know, you'd get those

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<v Speaker 3>greatest hits of the NFL. Yes, Dylan. I thought about

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<v Speaker 3>this one too.

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<v Speaker 2>I know this is one of your favorites, but the,

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<v Speaker 2>the New York sack exchange for defensive tandem, maybe a short, like,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean a great couple of seasons.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Gastineau and Klecko were great. Klecko was the great player,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Gastineau got credit in a sack dance and,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, dating Brigitte Nielsen and drove a Rolls Royce.

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<v Speaker 3>I remember when I would go out to Hofstra where

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<v Speaker 3>the Jets practice and you'd go into the parking lot

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<v Speaker 3>and you'd see Gastineau's Rolls Royce there. He was always

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<v Speaker 3>friendly to me and I was working at CNN. So

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<v Speaker 3>not exactly, you know, we we weren't a sports network,

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<v Speaker 3>but I think he liked the fact that CNN went worldwide.

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<v Speaker 3>and when you interviewed him, the other guys didn't like

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<v Speaker 3>him because he was getting all the attention. He was flashy,

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<v Speaker 3>sack dance. Klecko, to me, was workmanlike. That dude was

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<v Speaker 3>strongest guy on the team, and he... He was the

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<v Speaker 3>one who did the dirty work. He was sort of

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<v Speaker 3>the Aaron Donald of the New York SAC exchange. Yeah, Pauline.

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<v Speaker 6>I felt that way a little bit as a kid

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<v Speaker 6>watching the Steelers. Jack Lambert was a star. Joe Green

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<v Speaker 6>got commercials. Mel Blunt, to me, was scary when I

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<v Speaker 6>was a kid. I was like, that guy's too big

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<v Speaker 6>to play cornerback.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, and I think the Steelers' defense, it felt like

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<v Speaker 3>everything was funneled to Lambert there. You see this with

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of linebackers. Mike Singletary, it's funneled to you. Golly,

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<v Speaker 3>when you think about it, I didn't even put the

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<v Speaker 3>Bears in there, Pauly. You got Singletary and Richard Dent?

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<v Speaker 4>Right.

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<v Speaker 3>Beyond Hampton?

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<v Speaker 6>More of an ensemble. But yeah, I mean, Richard Dent,

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<v Speaker 6>probably a little underrated historically.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Hall of Famer. Yes, Marvin.

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<v Speaker 5>Kind of in that same vein. I know they were

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<v Speaker 5>an ensemble, but Ty Law and Rodney Harrison.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 5>Ties in the Hall of Fame. Rodney should be in.

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<v Speaker 4>The Hall of Fame.

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<v Speaker 3>I think Rodney will eventually get into the Hall of Fame.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Paul.

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<v Speaker 5>J.J.

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<v Speaker 6>Watt, anyone?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh! Forgot J.J., sorry. Justin.

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<v Speaker 4>J.J. Watt.

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<v Speaker 3>Paulie went through a bad stretch where he couldn't help

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<v Speaker 3>himself mentioning J.J.

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<v Speaker 7>Watt.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not over. Even when the season was over, he'd

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<v Speaker 3>be like, I got a text from J.J.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I reached out, you know, he and

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<v Speaker 3>his wife had a baby boy.

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<v Speaker 6>Not invited to the wedding.

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<v Speaker 3>So Paulie went from J.J. Watt to Sam Darnold. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and then Paulie just can't help himself. Whenever you talk

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<v Speaker 3>about Seahawks, yeah, Sam Darnold. We're aware of that. Sam

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<v Speaker 3>and I did it.

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<v Speaker 5>We did it.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Sam.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Sam. Yes, Todd?

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<v Speaker 5>Is Carl Mecklenburg and Steve Atwater a stretch? I know

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<v Speaker 5>it's a Bronco thing. They played five years together. Those

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<v Speaker 5>are two pretty big guys.

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<v Speaker 3>We were talking about Paul.

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<v Speaker 5>I was just adding a name to the list of

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<v Speaker 5>the duos.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, Paul, you got your own show with Perloff, so

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<v Speaker 3>maybe you can mention that. Not so fast. Not so fast.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's see. What do we have here? Jared in Tampa. Hi, Jared.

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<v Speaker 3>What do you have for me today?

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<v Speaker 8>Hey, Dan. Six foot, 170. Hey, I just I wanted

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<v Speaker 8>to call. I was listening to the podcast late last

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<v Speaker 8>evening with my kids in the car.

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<v Speaker 6>Right.

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<v Speaker 8>And you were going through those NFL surveys of fan bases.

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<v Speaker 3>Right.

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<v Speaker 8>And I've got a bunch of young Buccaneers fans in

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<v Speaker 8>the car. You gave us a really good moment yesterday

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<v Speaker 8>when you started counting down.

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<v Speaker 3>What was it?

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<v Speaker 8>The the most positive.

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<v Speaker 3>Teams, fan bases.

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<v Speaker 7>You got to the.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, and you got to the Bucs, and my kids

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<v Speaker 8>let loose in the back. It was cool. Just wanted

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<v Speaker 8>to call and say thank you. I got a good

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<v Speaker 8>dad moment yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>You're welcome, Jared. You're welcome. And to your kids, good

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<v Speaker 3>luck with the Buccaneers. But, yes, they ranked number one

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<v Speaker 3>in positivity for their fan base. Jacob in Tennessee.

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, Jake.

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<v Speaker 3>What do you have for me today?

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, Dan.

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<v Speaker 4>Second time, long time.

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<v Speaker 3>5'8, hefty 195s. Um, thank you.

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<v Speaker 7>Hey, man, I just wanted to say thank you. You always,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, shine a light on addiction and bring it,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, a lot of mental health issues and bring

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<v Speaker 7>it to the surface. I think that's really important. And,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, really helped me in my life. The Ryan

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<v Speaker 7>Leaf interview in 2016 was actually right around a big

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<v Speaker 7>turning point for me. I struggled a lot with opiate

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<v Speaker 7>addiction back then and had been for years and trying to,

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<v Speaker 7>you know, figure it out. And then That interview came on,

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<v Speaker 7>and for some reason, it really affected me. I listen

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<v Speaker 7>to you every day and have for a very long time.

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<v Speaker 7>Over that year, I listened to it probably five times

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<v Speaker 7>or more. It really just helped get the ball rolling

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<v Speaker 7>for me a lot, and I really appreciated it. I

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<v Speaker 7>actually got to meet Ryan at the Regents Pro-Damn. And

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<v Speaker 7>I just really wanted to call to say thank you

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<v Speaker 7>to you and to him because I wasn't able to

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<v Speaker 7>tell him what that interview meant to me at the

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<v Speaker 7>time because I was standing in front of my boss

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<v Speaker 7>while I was working. So I said, hey, thanks, man.

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<v Speaker 7>But just wanted to say thank you to both you guys.

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<v Speaker 7>Sorry I ran on for a minute.

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<v Speaker 3>That's okay. Ryan Leaf will join us coming up in

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<v Speaker 3>about 10 minutes. But thank you for the phone call there.

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<v Speaker 3>Bill in Chicago. And we'll take a break.

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<v Speaker 4>Hi, Bill.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, morning, Dan.

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<v Speaker 4>6'2 and a Gilgis 190. Gilgis. I constantly am thinking

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<v Speaker 4>about your death trip bike ride you took with your

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<v Speaker 4>wife from Atlanta to New Orleans. And having done those

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<v Speaker 4>kinds of trips, I know how hard that is. And

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<v Speaker 4>I wondered how your wife's trial hike went. On the

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<v Speaker 4>Appalachian Trail went, and I was hoping you could cash

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<v Speaker 4>in your credits from that bike ride and maybe do

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<v Speaker 4>a supported hike.

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<v Speaker 3>No, no, no, no. There's no supportive hike there. My

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<v Speaker 3>wife went and picked up the trail in New Hampshire,

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<v Speaker 3>and she loved it. She wants to do the Appalachian Trail.

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<v Speaker 3>And I have retired from hiking.

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<v Speaker 6>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. That was my first retirement.

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<v Speaker 6>You're hanging up your boots?

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<v Speaker 3>From hiking and biking. And by the way, we did

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<v Speaker 3>open up the envelope last night for the cost of

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<v Speaker 3>the wedding. We had sealed it. My wife said she

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<v Speaker 3>told the hotel clerk, just seal it up. And then

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<v Speaker 3>she put it in her bag when we traveled home

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<v Speaker 3>from California. And I said, you know, we don't have

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<v Speaker 3>to open it up. I mean, we can put it

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<v Speaker 3>in a time capsule and send it to Mars if

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<v Speaker 3>you want. Like, I don't care. I mean, I still

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<v Speaker 3>have to pay it. So let's pay it. And you

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<v Speaker 3>don't have to tell me what it costs. I don't care.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, it was a great moment, you know. And

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<v Speaker 3>so it was, you know, when you open it up

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<v Speaker 3>and it's real slow. And then I was curious how

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<v Speaker 3>many pages we're going to be. And then I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>And I mean, I've gotten Sandler scripts that weren't as

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<v Speaker 3>long as this. And all of a sudden and I

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<v Speaker 3>always start at the bottom. You know, when I get

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<v Speaker 3>fan mail, I always start at the bottom because if

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<v Speaker 3>they say, like, I hate your guts, then there's no

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<v Speaker 3>need to read the other stuff. But if it says

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<v Speaker 3>have a blessed day or sincerely, then I go, OK.

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<v Speaker 3>So I went down to the bottom and I said

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<v Speaker 3>to my wife, how many numbers? And she goes, I said,

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<v Speaker 3>more than five. What's the first number? So she told me,

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<v Speaker 3>and then she showed me the price of it. And

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<v Speaker 3>I go, great. And she goes, great. I said, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm good. I probably wouldn't have been ready as we're

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<v Speaker 3>checking out after the wedding To look at that number. But,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, we're removed a couple of weeks. I'm like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, it's okay.

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<v Speaker 4>All right.

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<v Speaker 3>We did it. She had a great time. Got to

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<v Speaker 3>have family and friends. That's what it's about. So I

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<v Speaker 3>was fine with that. I did tell my other two daughters,

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<v Speaker 3>don't be afraid to do something a little more frugal.

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<v Speaker 3>Does anybody want to get married at the house? You know,

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<v Speaker 3>my wife keeps saying it'd be nice if somebody wanted

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<v Speaker 3>to get married at the house. Get married at Paul's house. Like,

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<v Speaker 3>you know.

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<v Speaker 6>We're in a side yard.

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<v Speaker 3>Save me a little bit of money. Yeah, True Green

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<v Speaker 3>came in and made your lawn look great.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, come on over. Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>More phone calls coming up. Ryan Leaf will join us

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<v Speaker 3>Robert griffin jr the third as mclovin would say he'll

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<v Speaker 3>join us coming up next hour the heisman winner the

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<v Speaker 3>fact that mclovin called him robert griffith jr the third

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<v Speaker 3>i went well you screwed up the griffith and the

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<v Speaker 3>jr But he said it in a convincing manner. Yes, Paul.

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<v Speaker 6>Do you remember we played it so many times in

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<v Speaker 6>the weeks after that that Sal Palantonio accidentally said it

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<v Speaker 6>on Countdown?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes.

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<v Speaker 3>And let's go out to Sal Palantonio. Robert Griffith Jr.

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<v Speaker 3>III will be available. And I'm like, oh, my gosh.

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<v Speaker 3>I apologize to Sal Pal for that. Ryan Leaf, USA

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<v Speaker 3>lead Pac-12 analyst, former NFL quarterback, and the number two

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<v Speaker 3>overall pick by the Chargers back in 1998. How many

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<v Speaker 3>teams are in the Pac-12? Eight football, nine basketball. Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>The opportunity to expand. Where are you getting those? Everybody

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<v Speaker 3>wants expansion. So where are we getting other teams, other schools?

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<v Speaker 5>I think what.

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<v Speaker 10>Teresa Gould, who's the Pac-12 commissioner, I think her vision

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<v Speaker 10>has really kind of become a reality. You know, there

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<v Speaker 10>was a time where there were the two teams where

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<v Speaker 10>everybody else vacated. And I don't think there was a

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<v Speaker 10>moment after she went and spoke to the presidents of

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<v Speaker 10>the university where she had a plan in place that

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<v Speaker 10>either one of those teams waver. If an ACC team

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<v Speaker 10>had come in or an ACC conference would have come

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<v Speaker 10>in or a Big 12 conference would have came, I

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<v Speaker 10>don't think Washington State or Oregon State would have left.

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<v Speaker 10>They were going to build this new Pac-12, rebrand it,

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<v Speaker 10>and release it to the public here in July. And

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<v Speaker 10>I think it's going to be highly competitive, a lot

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<v Speaker 10>of fun. But I do think they want to keep

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<v Speaker 10>looking outside to build the brand and build something bigger

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<v Speaker 10>down the stretch. But right now, they're really happy with

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<v Speaker 10>the eight participants.

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<v Speaker 3>So now we only have power four. They're four power

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<v Speaker 3>four conferences, right?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Which would make sense if it's a power four then.

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<v Speaker 10>It's... I don't really buy into it outside the college

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<v Speaker 10>football playoff saying this year that the four power four

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<v Speaker 10>conference champions are going to get an automatic bid into

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<v Speaker 10>the college football playoff. That allows for, let's say the

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<v Speaker 10>PAC 12, if they're the fifth best ranked conference, which

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<v Speaker 10>I think it is going into the season. This gives

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<v Speaker 10>my alma mater and a lot of these teams in

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<v Speaker 10>this conference, maybe their best chance to go to the

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<v Speaker 10>college football playoff ever. Washington state hasn't won a championship

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<v Speaker 10>since 2003. So, This is going to give them a

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<v Speaker 10>much better chance to get to the playoff and be

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<v Speaker 10>a part of the conversation than they ever would have

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<v Speaker 10>had in the old Pac-12.

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<v Speaker 3>How did we get to the point where you can

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<v Speaker 3>go to the NFL and put on an NFL uniform

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<v Speaker 3>and go through training camp, get cut, and then be

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<v Speaker 3>allowed to go back and play college football?

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<v Speaker 10>Okay, so this is something I've been a little bit

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<v Speaker 10>annoyed with, the way the talking heads have been. You

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<v Speaker 10>heard Dan Orlovsky go on Get Up and say– this

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<v Speaker 10>is going to open up the floodgates.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not going to open up the floodgates.

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<v Speaker 10>He said they're going to play three years in college

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<v Speaker 10>and get drafted in the second round and play two

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<v Speaker 10>years and want to come back.

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<v Speaker 3>No, that can't happen.

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<v Speaker 10>It's now a rule. It's five for five. You get

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<v Speaker 10>five years to play five. This rule, which was injuncted

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<v Speaker 10>in the courts, is being applied retroactively. So this only

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<v Speaker 10>affects the class of 2022 of these players. None of

0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.980
<v Speaker 10>them were drafted. They did not make a roster. They

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<v Speaker 10>have a chance to come back and do everything else

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<v Speaker 10>that everybody is through this five-for-five thing. So it's not

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<v Speaker 10>something that's going to be ongoing. I don't know where

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<v Speaker 10>the story got so out of hand this week. It

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<v Speaker 10>just became this bomb. Well, it's Lane Kiffin. Well, because

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<v Speaker 10>he's using it to his advantage. And all these other

0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.950
<v Speaker 10>teams should too. These are players that are due their

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<v Speaker 10>final year of eligibility. It's not something that's going to

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<v Speaker 10>affect it next year or the year after that. But

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<v Speaker 10>then you even have head coaches like Steve Sarkeesian go

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<v Speaker 10>on there and start talking about morality and things like that.

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<v Speaker 4>And I'm like.

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<v Speaker 10>Are you kidding me? I mean, I don't know if

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<v Speaker 10>they're informed at the actual court ruling.

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<v Speaker 3>No, it's the concept of it, Ryan, that we think, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>my God, this is going to be an avalanche. The

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<v Speaker 3>floodgates are open, and now we're going to have 50

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<v Speaker 3>guys go to the NFL, get cut, and then come

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<v Speaker 3>back and play wherever they want to. No, never happened.

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<v Speaker 3>Won't happen. This is a.

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<v Speaker 10>an injunction in the courts that is being retroactively instituted

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<v Speaker 10>for these players that are due their final year of eligibility.

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<v Speaker 5>That's it.

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<v Speaker 10>And if they fall between these parameters, and we're talking

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<v Speaker 10>about maybe, what, six, seven, eight players? Like, that's it.

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<v Speaker 10>It's like the bigger conversation around all the things that

0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.100
<v Speaker 10>make it so subjective, and it's not. It's going to

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<v Speaker 10>piss off some other coaches, because guess what? It seemingly

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<v Speaker 10>feels like a lot of these players want to come

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<v Speaker 10>back and play for Lane Kiffin.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't have any problem if Lane Kiffin wants to

0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:52.480
<v Speaker 3>take advantage of this. I don't have the morality, please,

0:23:53.980 --> 0:23:56.990
<v Speaker 3>going to LSU. He didn't invent this. If he takes

0:23:57.050 --> 0:24:00.750
<v Speaker 3>advantage of this, then fine. I'm okay with it. I

0:24:00.810 --> 0:24:04.609
<v Speaker 3>think if it was with another program and another coach,

0:24:05.490 --> 0:24:07.330
<v Speaker 3>I don't think we would have this. It was like, oh,

0:24:07.369 --> 0:24:12.290
<v Speaker 3>here's Lane. He'll do anything to win. If I'm in

0:24:12.350 --> 0:24:14.990
<v Speaker 3>his position, and as long as my AD is fine

0:24:15.010 --> 0:24:17.930
<v Speaker 3>with this, And I know these kids, I would open

0:24:17.950 --> 0:24:21.780
<v Speaker 3>the door if they're allowed to do this legally, then

0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.500
<v Speaker 3>I get it. I don't like it, but I get it.

0:24:24.859 --> 0:24:27.879
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, I'm not even against liking it. These guys did

0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:30.379
<v Speaker 10>not make an NFL roster. You know, this is an

0:24:30.460 --> 0:24:33.830
<v Speaker 10>opportunity for them to maybe play football for the last

0:24:33.910 --> 0:24:38.490
<v Speaker 10>time and make name, image, and likeness money to help them.

0:24:38.530 --> 0:24:40.850
<v Speaker 10>It may be their best opportunity to do so. I

0:24:40.910 --> 0:24:42.869
<v Speaker 10>think a lot of these coaches are talking about, I'm

0:24:42.910 --> 0:24:45.150
<v Speaker 10>not going to give a kid who's busted his butt

0:24:45.190 --> 0:24:48.179
<v Speaker 10>for seven months, give away his spot. Well, they're not

0:24:48.220 --> 0:24:51.159
<v Speaker 10>giving away a spot. There's 105 roster spots. None of

0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.820
<v Speaker 10>those have been completely met. They're going to play within

0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.719
<v Speaker 10>this roster. And I know Lane really well. Lane's had

0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.100
<v Speaker 10>me come speak to three of his programs since he

0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.340
<v Speaker 10>was at Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss. And I suspect

0:25:02.380 --> 0:25:05.149
<v Speaker 10>I'll be down to Baton Rouge pretty soon. Um, I,

0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:07.399
<v Speaker 10>I simply love the guy. I think that he has

0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:09.959
<v Speaker 10>really reinvented himself. I thought we saw the best possible

0:25:10.020 --> 0:25:12.280
<v Speaker 10>version of him at Ole Miss. I even told him

0:25:12.300 --> 0:25:15.300
<v Speaker 10>that I said, this is the best possible version of you.

0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.680
<v Speaker 10>You have that at Ole Miss. Um, but he felt

0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:20.680
<v Speaker 10>like this was something he needed to do. And so

0:25:20.740 --> 0:25:22.940
<v Speaker 10>I supported him on it. I didn't necessarily think it

0:25:22.980 --> 0:25:26.010
<v Speaker 10>was the right move, but, uh, we'll see how it

0:25:26.030 --> 0:25:26.510
<v Speaker 10>plays out.

0:25:27.170 --> 0:25:29.170
<v Speaker 3>Um, what does he have you tell his team?

0:25:30.030 --> 0:25:33.489
<v Speaker 10>Well, I go in and speak to, uh, you know, consequences.

0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:37.000
<v Speaker 10>You know, a big part of it. Also, you know,

0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:39.760
<v Speaker 10>a huge part of it is I'm exactly where they

0:25:39.820 --> 0:25:41.810
<v Speaker 10>were 25 years ago.

0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:42.610
<v Speaker 4>Right.

0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.050
<v Speaker 10>I'm sitting in the exact same chair and I was

0:25:45.090 --> 0:25:47.350
<v Speaker 10>in a much better position than all of those people

0:25:47.390 --> 0:25:48.850
<v Speaker 10>in that room. I was about to be the second

0:25:48.869 --> 0:25:51.149
<v Speaker 10>or first pick in the NFL draft. You know, and

0:25:51.190 --> 0:25:52.850
<v Speaker 10>I give them that image. I go, how many of

0:25:52.890 --> 0:25:56.170
<v Speaker 10>you would give right now? Five-year career in the NFL,

0:25:56.190 --> 0:25:58.730
<v Speaker 10>the second pick in the NFL draft, $ 31 million, a

0:25:58.770 --> 0:26:01.590
<v Speaker 10>Heisman Trophy finalist. How many of you would give for

0:26:01.630 --> 0:26:03.720
<v Speaker 10>that right now? And every single one of them raises

0:26:03.740 --> 0:26:07.199
<v Speaker 10>their hand because you forget because of how poor my

0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:11.940
<v Speaker 10>professional career was, how much sacrifice and how much greatness

0:26:12.010 --> 0:26:13.970
<v Speaker 10>went into the first 22 years of my life.

0:26:14.410 --> 0:26:15.430
<v Speaker 3>It's always thrown to the.

0:26:15.410 --> 0:26:18.140
<v Speaker 10>Side because of what the professional thing happens. People always

0:26:18.180 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 10>ask me the question, do you wish you would have

0:26:19.820 --> 0:26:21.700
<v Speaker 10>never played professional football? Because then you would have this

0:26:22.180 --> 0:26:25.000
<v Speaker 10>great legacy. And I'm like, why would I have wanted that?

0:26:25.020 --> 0:26:26.880
<v Speaker 10>I wanted to be the best. I wanted to get

0:26:26.900 --> 0:26:28.500
<v Speaker 10>to the NFL. It's just how it happens.

0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.330
<v Speaker 3>It's life. But when you tell them what happened to

0:26:32.369 --> 0:26:35.930
<v Speaker 3>you after football, and I don't know if they look

0:26:35.970 --> 0:26:38.250
<v Speaker 3>at you like, well, that's not going to impact me.

0:26:38.290 --> 0:26:41.090
<v Speaker 3>You know how kids are. They look at you like that.

0:26:41.390 --> 0:26:43.609
<v Speaker 3>They look like, that's not going to happen to me. Yes.

0:26:43.630 --> 0:26:44.290
<v Speaker 3>Which part I say.

0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:46.119
<v Speaker 10>The part where you're going to be the second pick

0:26:46.140 --> 0:26:47.619
<v Speaker 10>in the NFL draft or the part where you're going

0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:49.790
<v Speaker 10>to end up in a prison cell. It can happen

0:26:49.810 --> 0:26:53.230
<v Speaker 10>to anybody at any point. We just had the young

0:26:53.270 --> 0:26:55.490
<v Speaker 10>man who called in to you. I mean, I'm sitting

0:26:55.510 --> 0:26:58.310
<v Speaker 10>in your green room. That was 10 years ago that

0:26:58.350 --> 0:27:00.170
<v Speaker 10>I came on this show. And that guy heard that

0:27:00.210 --> 0:27:02.209
<v Speaker 10>that day. You talked about it just a little bit

0:27:02.230 --> 0:27:06.840
<v Speaker 10>ago in your confessional about that platform. And maybe you

0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:09.130
<v Speaker 10>weren't ready to talk about it. But you had me

0:27:09.230 --> 0:27:09.750
<v Speaker 10>on your show.

0:27:09.950 --> 0:27:10.110
<v Speaker 4>Yes.

0:27:10.369 --> 0:27:13.369
<v Speaker 10>And I was talking about it. And that allowed it

0:27:13.410 --> 0:27:17.450
<v Speaker 10>to grow and become something. And you then took hold

0:27:17.490 --> 0:27:19.190
<v Speaker 10>of that. And now you can speak to that. And

0:27:19.350 --> 0:27:24.600
<v Speaker 10>so I think the impact that I am having would

0:27:24.619 --> 0:27:26.180
<v Speaker 10>have never been the case if I had been a

0:27:26.500 --> 0:27:32.260
<v Speaker 10>Super Bowl winning quarterback that didn't get that education.

0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:37.540
<v Speaker 3>But would winning have kept you away from prescription drugs?

0:27:39.010 --> 0:27:39.410
<v Speaker 5>I don't know.

0:27:39.670 --> 0:27:44.510
<v Speaker 10>I mean, the failure and the judgment led to that.

0:27:44.630 --> 0:27:47.890
<v Speaker 10>I didn't use it while I was playing. It was

0:27:47.970 --> 0:27:50.560
<v Speaker 10>a coping mechanism, like you talked about with the Tony

0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:54.419
<v Speaker 10>Romo and Tiger Woods conversation. You're trying to hide something.

0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:59.280
<v Speaker 10>And so I never had that problem while I was

0:27:59.850 --> 0:28:03.909
<v Speaker 10>playing in college. You were never interested in payment. I

0:28:03.970 --> 0:28:06.170
<v Speaker 10>never took a drug. The only drug I've ever taken

0:28:06.190 --> 0:28:07.990
<v Speaker 10>in my life is Vicodin. I didn't have my first

0:28:08.050 --> 0:28:10.150
<v Speaker 10>drink until my 18th birthday. I probably can count on

0:28:10.609 --> 0:28:12.350
<v Speaker 10>two hands how many times I've been drunk in my life.

0:28:12.450 --> 0:28:15.139
<v Speaker 10>Like it's not, you know, competition was my drug of choice.

0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.820
<v Speaker 10>I competed at everything. And now I've found that later

0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:20.800
<v Speaker 10>in life. And, you know, I was talking to Andrew

0:28:20.820 --> 0:28:24.120
<v Speaker 10>Perloff back there and I've been sober longer now than

0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:26.840
<v Speaker 10>I ever was using, which is, that kind.

0:28:26.740 --> 0:28:28.620
<v Speaker 3>Of snuck up on me. How many years?

0:28:28.619 --> 0:28:29.040
<v Speaker 4>14 years.

0:28:29.220 --> 0:28:32.120
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. And previous, in my using years, it was, I think,

0:28:33.100 --> 0:28:33.709
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, 12, 8 to 12.

0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:38.060
<v Speaker 10>I think it was. So- you know, we're even past

0:28:38.100 --> 0:28:39.850
<v Speaker 10>that point. It's not something I think about on a

0:28:39.890 --> 0:28:40.610
<v Speaker 10>daily basis.

0:28:40.670 --> 0:28:44.430
<v Speaker 3>It's a, there's no reminder or something that you know,

0:28:44.450 --> 0:28:47.710
<v Speaker 3>that feeling, you know, or that you get that feeling

0:28:47.910 --> 0:28:51.580
<v Speaker 3>and then you have to like coping mechanism behavior.

0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:54.140
<v Speaker 10>I think behavior is a real telling sign of that.

0:28:54.460 --> 0:28:58.960
<v Speaker 10>If you see old Ryan behavior, you know, entitlement, um,

0:28:59.530 --> 0:29:03.730
<v Speaker 10>you know, um, But that's not a smell or a

0:29:03.770 --> 0:29:06.900
<v Speaker 10>situation or anything? Movies was a thing for me. I

0:29:06.920 --> 0:29:09.640
<v Speaker 10>would always go to movies and I would take them.

0:29:10.300 --> 0:29:12.260
<v Speaker 10>You'd take Vicodin and go? And I would disappear. I

0:29:12.260 --> 0:29:16.620
<v Speaker 10>would just numb myself out. And so I always thought

0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.160
<v Speaker 10>it was going to be hard to go see movies again.

0:29:18.220 --> 0:29:20.850
<v Speaker 10>And I love to go see movies. And so when

0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:23.130
<v Speaker 10>I got into treatment, one of the things that the

0:29:23.270 --> 0:29:25.170
<v Speaker 10>therapist had me do was we all went to a

0:29:25.210 --> 0:29:28.170
<v Speaker 10>movie as a group and I got to see it

0:29:28.230 --> 0:29:31.260
<v Speaker 10>in a sober environment. and it was still the greatest, right?

0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:35.100
<v Speaker 10>And I remembered that. And so, you know, I take

0:29:35.140 --> 0:29:37.010
<v Speaker 10>my kid to the movies, my wife and I go

0:29:37.050 --> 0:29:40.700
<v Speaker 10>all the time. That was the one thing I thought

0:29:40.740 --> 0:29:43.500
<v Speaker 10>was going to trigger. And you find a way to

0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:45.640
<v Speaker 10>get past all that stuff. And then you use the

0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:51.190
<v Speaker 10>tools that you learn through the process to not be

0:29:51.290 --> 0:29:53.630
<v Speaker 10>influenced by those things. And, you know, I've had a

0:29:53.650 --> 0:29:57.370
<v Speaker 10>couple surgeries since I got sober, and there's been a

0:29:57.410 --> 0:30:01.280
<v Speaker 10>plan in place. It's always about transparency, talking to your doctors,

0:30:01.420 --> 0:30:04.880
<v Speaker 10>talking to people. My wife says I've built my house

0:30:04.940 --> 0:30:07.640
<v Speaker 10>out of glass over the last 12 years. And she's

0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:11.120
<v Speaker 10>got a point. Everybody knows my stuff. I'm not afraid

0:30:11.840 --> 0:30:14.100
<v Speaker 10>or worried that somebody may know it. And this has

0:30:14.180 --> 0:30:16.240
<v Speaker 10>zero to do with any sort of redemption for me.

0:30:16.500 --> 0:30:18.880
<v Speaker 10>Like there are so many people who have been infected

0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:22.270
<v Speaker 10>by the justice system, mental health or substance use that

0:30:22.310 --> 0:30:26.250
<v Speaker 10>have gone through this, conquered it and are thriving, but

0:30:26.330 --> 0:30:28.540
<v Speaker 10>no one has them on the Dan Patrick show. No

0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:30.740
<v Speaker 10>one has them on a podcast, and certainly not on

0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:31.719
<v Speaker 10>the platforms.

0:30:32.180 --> 0:30:34.960
<v Speaker 3>It's life. And it just was public for me, and

0:30:34.980 --> 0:30:37.600
<v Speaker 3>that's it. What was that feeling like when you took

0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:43.770
<v Speaker 3>a pain med for your surgery? It was great, right?

0:30:43.810 --> 0:30:48.790
<v Speaker 10>I mean, it's... Dangerously great? Dangerously great, yeah. I remember, oh, God, yeah.

0:30:48.850 --> 0:30:51.250
<v Speaker 10>I remember how this feels. I love this. I love

0:30:51.290 --> 0:30:58.290
<v Speaker 10>not feeling, you know, negative feelings, painful feelings. the things

0:30:58.330 --> 0:31:01.760
<v Speaker 10>that you're supposed to feel as a human being. But,

0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:04.060
<v Speaker 10>you know, we just had a plan in place, you know,

0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:08.120
<v Speaker 10>my wife handled them. We took them for a couple

0:31:08.140 --> 0:31:11.220
<v Speaker 10>of days and then we didn't think about it again.

0:31:12.700 --> 0:31:16.780
<v Speaker 3>I had knee replacement surgery and I said to my wife,

0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:20.370
<v Speaker 3>you know, they gave me a boatload of Percocet and

0:31:21.530 --> 0:31:24.150
<v Speaker 3>I said, I don't want to take it. You know,

0:31:24.170 --> 0:31:26.610
<v Speaker 3>I have an addictive person. I just, I said, no,

0:31:26.770 --> 0:31:29.070
<v Speaker 3>I don't want to. She said, you haven't had problems

0:31:29.110 --> 0:31:30.990
<v Speaker 3>with this before. I said, I know that, but this

0:31:31.070 --> 0:31:33.850
<v Speaker 3>is knee replacement, and I was in terrible pain.

0:31:34.110 --> 0:31:34.610
<v Speaker 5>That's smart.

0:31:35.950 --> 0:31:40.280
<v Speaker 3>And I caved in. I said, Hundlon, let me have half. Listen,

0:31:40.820 --> 0:31:42.100
<v Speaker 3>they're invented for a reason, right?

0:31:42.180 --> 0:31:42.340
<v Speaker 4>Yes.

0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:45.640
<v Speaker 10>They're for acute physical pain. There's a reason why there's–

0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:49.660
<v Speaker 10>that's a me problem. That's not a pill problem. I

0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:52.640
<v Speaker 10>used to think football was the problem. No, it's a

0:31:52.700 --> 0:31:56.280
<v Speaker 10>me problem. Football was never the problem. Football gave me everything.

0:31:56.820 --> 0:31:58.620
<v Speaker 10>I had to figure it out. That's why with the

0:31:58.660 --> 0:32:01.220
<v Speaker 10>Tony Romo statement that we just saw, I thought it

0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:04.320
<v Speaker 10>was a very good statement. Didn't need the part about

0:32:05.060 --> 0:32:07.320
<v Speaker 10>having debilitating back pain and stuff like that. Take that

0:32:07.360 --> 0:32:08.120
<v Speaker 10>whole paragraph out.

0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:09.360
<v Speaker 3>You don't need any of that.

0:32:09.380 --> 0:32:12.260
<v Speaker 10>You chose to do this, and it's cost you this,

0:32:12.720 --> 0:32:14.459
<v Speaker 10>and you're going to admit to it, and you're going

0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:17.250
<v Speaker 10>to find a way to get better. That's It's almost

0:32:17.310 --> 0:32:19.990
<v Speaker 10>like the saying when you say something, but.

0:32:20.590 --> 0:32:20.750
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:32:21.390 --> 0:32:23.590
<v Speaker 10>Everything after the but is meaningless to me. And I

0:32:23.630 --> 0:32:25.910
<v Speaker 10>was reading it with my wife yesterday and I was

0:32:25.930 --> 0:32:28.800
<v Speaker 10>just like, oh no, you don't have to say that part.

0:32:29.260 --> 0:32:30.300
<v Speaker 3>Everybody's had surgeries.

0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:33.900
<v Speaker 10>Everybody who's going through debilitating pain, you know, don't, you know,

0:32:33.940 --> 0:32:35.380
<v Speaker 10>I play on a golf tour with him. He was

0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:37.180
<v Speaker 10>always out there on a golf tour playing. So I'm like,

0:32:37.220 --> 0:32:38.560
<v Speaker 10>if you're in such pain, why the hell are you

0:32:38.580 --> 0:32:40.140
<v Speaker 10>out there playing golf all the time then? That's not

0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:40.760
<v Speaker 10>helping things.

0:32:40.900 --> 0:32:41.060
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:32:41.460 --> 0:32:43.120
<v Speaker 3>You know, and to your.

0:32:43.020 --> 0:32:45.340
<v Speaker 10>Point, you know, you could see, you could see the

0:32:45.380 --> 0:32:49.820
<v Speaker 10>thing starting to unravel. You know, being around people outside

0:32:50.560 --> 0:32:51.940
<v Speaker 10>the celebrity in the game of football.

0:32:51.960 --> 0:32:56.580
<v Speaker 3>But don't mask what the problem is by telling me

0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:57.880
<v Speaker 3>that you've gone through surgeries.

0:32:58.090 --> 0:32:58.650
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:32:59.310 --> 0:33:00.610
<v Speaker 3>Same thing with Tiger Woods.

0:33:00.630 --> 0:33:00.970
<v Speaker 4>Yes.

0:33:01.190 --> 0:33:02.610
<v Speaker 3>You're masking these things.

0:33:02.670 --> 0:33:02.910
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:33:03.250 --> 0:33:05.950
<v Speaker 3>You know. Let me bring you back. I'm going to

0:33:05.970 --> 0:33:08.730
<v Speaker 3>talk some actual football here. Yeah, let's do that. We'll

0:33:08.750 --> 0:33:10.730
<v Speaker 3>continue with Ryan Leaf right after this.

0:33:10.990 --> 0:33:13.890
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0:33:13.910 --> 0:33:18.730
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0:33:18.790 --> 0:33:22.410
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0:33:22.830 --> 0:33:27.130
<v Speaker 3>Continuing our conversation with Ryan Leaf, he's the lead Pac-12

0:33:27.310 --> 0:33:31.460
<v Speaker 3>analyst for USA Sports. And he'll be in the booth

0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:35.840
<v Speaker 3>on Saturday, Colorado State hosting Wyoming, the border war rivalry,

0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:39.940
<v Speaker 3>6.30 Eastern on USA Network. And then you got Memphis

0:33:40.010 --> 0:33:43.590
<v Speaker 3>at Boise State the following week. You look at the

0:33:43.630 --> 0:33:46.810
<v Speaker 3>number of teams that can win the national title. How

0:33:46.850 --> 0:33:49.890
<v Speaker 3>many would you say, let's say, get to a national

0:33:49.950 --> 0:33:50.470
<v Speaker 3>title game?

0:33:51.130 --> 0:33:54.210
<v Speaker 10>As of right now, I would argue there's many more

0:33:54.650 --> 0:33:58.120
<v Speaker 10>than what we think because I don't think anybody has

0:33:58.240 --> 0:34:00.740
<v Speaker 10>any idea what's about to trot onto the field this Saturday.

0:34:01.660 --> 0:34:05.280
<v Speaker 10>With the way that rosters change so much in the offseason,

0:34:06.420 --> 0:34:10.180
<v Speaker 10>the preseason rankings are absolutely bunk in my mind. Should

0:34:10.219 --> 0:34:13.580
<v Speaker 10>be ripped up completely after week one. You know, when

0:34:13.620 --> 0:34:16.400
<v Speaker 10>my Cougars go beat Washington in week one and Washington's

0:34:16.420 --> 0:34:19.440
<v Speaker 10>a 15, you know, whatever, they're 15 ranked, it.

0:34:19.900 --> 0:34:20.480
<v Speaker 5>Gets ripped up.

0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:22.719
<v Speaker 10>And Washington State probably should be in the top 25

0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:23.759
<v Speaker 10>then if you look at it that way. Yeah, but

0:34:23.780 --> 0:34:26.070
<v Speaker 10>this is for TV. I understand why we do it.

0:34:26.140 --> 0:34:26.520
<v Speaker 3>I get it.

0:34:26.940 --> 0:34:29.960
<v Speaker 10>But the point about this is that I don't think

0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:33.080
<v Speaker 10>you could have any rational conclusion on how many teams

0:34:33.140 --> 0:34:36.219
<v Speaker 10>are viable options for a national championship right now.

0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:40.080
<v Speaker 3>But give me a ballpark. 30. 30 have a chance

0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:41.839
<v Speaker 3>to go to the national title? Yes, I believe so.

0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:47.359
<v Speaker 3>30 for the playoffs, not national title game. I would

0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:48.640
<v Speaker 3>say you probably have.

0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:51.400
<v Speaker 10>I think when you get into that playoff, you have

0:34:51.420 --> 0:34:51.780
<v Speaker 10>a chance.

0:34:52.020 --> 0:34:55.110
<v Speaker 3>Wait, well, are you suggesting that we could have another

0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:59.020
<v Speaker 3>Indiana this year? Um, definitely. But who would be Indiana

0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:02.239
<v Speaker 3>this year besides Indiana? Ole Miss.

0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:04.100
<v Speaker 4>Okay.

0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:07.779
<v Speaker 10>Oh, Ole Miss. I, I think Trinidad Chambliss is maybe

0:35:07.969 --> 0:35:12.029
<v Speaker 10>arguably the best in the business. Um, my Heisman front

0:35:12.050 --> 0:35:14.690
<v Speaker 10>runner is, is John Mateer at Oklahoma. Maybe Oklahoma could

0:35:14.710 --> 0:35:17.649
<v Speaker 10>be that team that comes out of nowhere. Um, because

0:35:17.670 --> 0:35:21.009
<v Speaker 10>I think they have the best quarterback and, you know, realistically,

0:35:21.050 --> 0:35:23.760
<v Speaker 10>if you have the best quarterback in, At any level,

0:35:23.840 --> 0:35:26.279
<v Speaker 10>you have a really good shot of making that. So

0:35:26.340 --> 0:35:28.940
<v Speaker 10>I think there is definitely a team out there that

0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:32.560
<v Speaker 10>could win the national championship that you are not talking.

0:35:32.300 --> 0:35:34.839
<v Speaker 3>About right now. I think Miami has a really good

0:35:34.890 --> 0:35:36.430
<v Speaker 3>chance of going back to the national title.

0:35:36.450 --> 0:35:38.990
<v Speaker 10>I think Mario Cristobal, I've known him for a long time.

0:35:40.130 --> 0:35:42.990
<v Speaker 10>He's been an incredible coach, a recruiter. He's back home.

0:35:43.510 --> 0:35:45.470
<v Speaker 10>He got to taste a little bit of it last year.

0:35:46.790 --> 0:35:50.450
<v Speaker 10>He continues to build a program that is rooted in winning.

0:35:50.489 --> 0:35:52.129
<v Speaker 10>So I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're back

0:35:52.170 --> 0:35:54.690
<v Speaker 10>in that That realm, once again, the ACC is such

0:35:54.710 --> 0:36:00.450
<v Speaker 10>a foreign conference than what the other three are when

0:36:00.469 --> 0:36:04.250
<v Speaker 10>you're talking about the power four. So, yeah, I suspect

0:36:04.270 --> 0:36:05.469
<v Speaker 10>that they could be right in the mix again.

0:36:06.230 --> 0:36:09.230
<v Speaker 3>And Mensah, they get a really good quarterback who would

0:36:09.430 --> 0:36:13.890
<v Speaker 3>be a Heisman Trophy candidate. The number of analysts who

0:36:14.270 --> 0:36:18.890
<v Speaker 3>think C.J. Carr is the best quarterback in college football. Yeah,

0:36:19.190 --> 0:36:22.140
<v Speaker 3>water's wet. You know, they're not going out on a

0:36:22.460 --> 0:36:25.640
<v Speaker 3>very far limb there to make that. Well, but Arch

0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:30.989
<v Speaker 3>Manning was the anointed and even Dante Moore. But I

0:36:31.010 --> 0:36:33.710
<v Speaker 3>think that you say Notre Dame, CJ Carr, I think

0:36:33.810 --> 0:36:37.470
<v Speaker 3>Arch Manning, Dante Moore. I think all those guys can

0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:40.700
<v Speaker 3>could be in that that that realm. I like I said,

0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:43.540
<v Speaker 3>I think John Mateer is the. You think he's the

0:36:43.580 --> 0:36:44.879
<v Speaker 3>best quarterback in college football?

0:36:45.140 --> 0:36:46.759
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, I think if he doesn't get hurt a year ago,

0:36:48.040 --> 0:36:50.380
<v Speaker 10>there's a much different conversation being had. He was the

0:36:50.420 --> 0:36:52.279
<v Speaker 10>best quarterback in all of college football his final year

0:36:52.300 --> 0:36:55.759
<v Speaker 10>at Washington State. He just was stuck in Pullman and

0:36:55.820 --> 0:36:58.930
<v Speaker 10>not playing against the right kind of opponents. So, yeah,

0:36:58.969 --> 0:37:01.750
<v Speaker 10>I think he's the best player. I think he's got

0:37:01.989 --> 0:37:03.610
<v Speaker 10>one of the best play callers in all of football,

0:37:03.630 --> 0:37:05.810
<v Speaker 10>and Ben Arbuckle calling plays that he's very familiar with.

0:37:05.870 --> 0:37:09.250
<v Speaker 10>So they've got to be good on defense, and that's

0:37:09.590 --> 0:37:12.860
<v Speaker 10>Brent Venable's area, so hopefully that makes Oklahoma– They've got

0:37:12.890 --> 0:37:18.370
<v Speaker 10>a difficult schedule, but yeah, that's my guy. The prep

0:37:18.450 --> 0:37:22.250
<v Speaker 10>work leading up to being drafted now, because these kids

0:37:22.330 --> 0:37:26.300
<v Speaker 10>are programmed when they're in grade school, high school, seven-on-seven,

0:37:26.320 --> 0:37:29.799
<v Speaker 10>all of these things. But we're getting back to quarterbacks

0:37:29.860 --> 0:37:34.100
<v Speaker 10>being under center in the NFL, which I kept thinking,

0:37:34.540 --> 0:37:38.700
<v Speaker 10>why would you take that away? that the defense doesn't

0:37:38.739 --> 0:37:41.660
<v Speaker 10>know what I'm doing in those seven steps. If they

0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:45.120
<v Speaker 10>just see me in the shotgun, I've taken away, I

0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.680
<v Speaker 10>think a weapon of deception here. And so why are

0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.140
<v Speaker 10>we getting back to these quarterback? Like Mendoza has never

0:37:51.180 --> 0:37:54.839
<v Speaker 10>taken a snap under center. I've taken more snaps under

0:37:54.900 --> 0:37:56.720
<v Speaker 10>center than Mendoza.

0:37:56.760 --> 0:37:56.960
<v Speaker 4>Yes.

0:37:57.400 --> 0:38:00.160
<v Speaker 3>So why are we getting back to quarterbacks under center?

0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:04.600
<v Speaker 10>Well, I think college coaches didn't care that, they weren't

0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.420
<v Speaker 10>preparing them for the NFL. They were trying to win

0:38:06.440 --> 0:38:09.320
<v Speaker 10>a national championship and get themselves paid in the process.

0:38:09.900 --> 0:38:11.850
<v Speaker 10>Now these players are being paid a lot of money.

0:38:11.890 --> 0:38:14.050
<v Speaker 10>So what the coaches have had to shift and pivot

0:38:14.070 --> 0:38:17.029
<v Speaker 10>to is that you come play for us. Not only

0:38:17.070 --> 0:38:19.230
<v Speaker 10>will you get paid this, that, or the other, we'll

0:38:19.250 --> 0:38:21.630
<v Speaker 10>make you and get you ready to be an NFL quarterback.

0:38:22.530 --> 0:38:25.720
<v Speaker 10>And to be a great NFL quarterback, you better be

0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:28.600
<v Speaker 10>knowledgeable and you have the ability to be under center,

0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:31.910
<v Speaker 10>to read a defense while you drop back, and make

0:38:31.989 --> 0:38:34.930
<v Speaker 10>things difficult when you run play action. That's what a

0:38:34.969 --> 0:38:38.290
<v Speaker 10>pro-style quarterback who has success in the NFL is able

0:38:38.330 --> 0:38:40.430
<v Speaker 10>to do. But why wouldn't that help you in college

0:38:40.700 --> 0:38:42.860
<v Speaker 10>if you're a coach? Because I think a lot of

0:38:42.900 --> 0:38:45.620
<v Speaker 10>college coaches, and I think this was stemmed by Chip Kelly,

0:38:45.640 --> 0:38:49.860
<v Speaker 10>it was speed and it was basketball on turf. It

0:38:49.900 --> 0:38:51.540
<v Speaker 10>was not necessarily.

0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:55.470
<v Speaker 3>So like Loyola Marymount basketball back in the 90s.

0:38:55.700 --> 0:38:58.440
<v Speaker 10>Chip believed that if we could outrun you to the perimeter,

0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:00.800
<v Speaker 10>if we could outleverage you with numbers, that was the difference.

0:39:00.820 --> 0:39:02.440
<v Speaker 10>And it still is that way. I mean, when you

0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:04.960
<v Speaker 10>scheme up an offense, that's what you're up against. You're

0:39:04.980 --> 0:39:08.219
<v Speaker 10>running into the A gap or the B gap on

0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:09.870
<v Speaker 10>the defense. And if you can get a double team

0:39:09.890 --> 0:39:11.890
<v Speaker 10>and get to the linebacker and the safety all in one,

0:39:11.910 --> 0:39:12.730
<v Speaker 10>you're going to have leverage.

0:39:12.830 --> 0:39:15.270
<v Speaker 3>You're going to have the victory there. But when you

0:39:15.290 --> 0:39:16.750
<v Speaker 3>put a quarterback.

0:39:16.390 --> 0:39:19.529
<v Speaker 10>Under center and remove him from that and put him

0:39:19.550 --> 0:39:21.170
<v Speaker 10>in the shotgun, especially if you put a back to

0:39:21.210 --> 0:39:23.480
<v Speaker 10>the right of him, or the left of him, you

0:39:23.500 --> 0:39:26.339
<v Speaker 10>pretty much, for a defensive coordinator, you're giving him so

0:39:26.380 --> 0:39:28.569
<v Speaker 10>much leeway. Now, that's why when the pistol came in,

0:39:28.590 --> 0:39:30.440
<v Speaker 10>I really liked that, because at least you put the

0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:33.820
<v Speaker 10>back behind you in that and you made it difficult

0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:36.320
<v Speaker 10>for the defensive coordinator to scheme that up. You in

0:39:36.340 --> 0:39:38.500
<v Speaker 10>the shotgun and put a running back to one side,

0:39:39.070 --> 0:39:40.850
<v Speaker 10>like you are cutting the field in half in terms

0:39:40.890 --> 0:39:42.489
<v Speaker 10>of what a defensive coordinator can do, and he's going

0:39:42.510 --> 0:39:44.330
<v Speaker 10>to thank you in his postgame speech.

0:39:45.710 --> 0:39:47.370
<v Speaker 3>How did J.J. McCarthy fall?

0:39:48.610 --> 0:39:53.180
<v Speaker 10>Well, I think he got injured. I don't think he

0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:56.879
<v Speaker 10>played all that bad last year, to be honest with you.

0:39:56.960 --> 0:40:01.430
<v Speaker 10>I don't think that they were very good offensively, unfortunately.

0:40:01.550 --> 0:40:03.690
<v Speaker 10>Having one of the best wide receivers out there and

0:40:03.730 --> 0:40:07.629
<v Speaker 10>not getting into the football, that's something else. I think

0:40:07.690 --> 0:40:10.060
<v Speaker 10>a lot of it goes into what Sam Darnall was

0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:12.279
<v Speaker 10>able to do a year ago, what Daniel Jones has

0:40:12.300 --> 0:40:14.080
<v Speaker 10>been able to do, two guys that were on that

0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:18.069
<v Speaker 10>roster and a decision by the you know, by the

0:40:18.090 --> 0:40:20.830
<v Speaker 10>Vikings organization to go with JJ McCarthy. And in this

0:40:20.850 --> 0:40:22.350
<v Speaker 10>day and age, like if you don't go out and

0:40:22.370 --> 0:40:25.210
<v Speaker 10>have an immediate success, people are ready to throw you

0:40:25.350 --> 0:40:27.489
<v Speaker 10>out with the bathwater. And that's just something that I don't,

0:40:27.890 --> 0:40:30.930
<v Speaker 10>I don't really appreciate. I wanted a competition. Kyler clearly

0:40:30.969 --> 0:40:32.410
<v Speaker 10>walked in there and won it.

0:40:32.530 --> 0:40:33.219
<v Speaker 3>I will say this.

0:40:33.300 --> 0:40:35.560
<v Speaker 10>I love Kevin O'Connell, but I'm telling you right now,

0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:37.700
<v Speaker 10>if this team doesn't win this year with Brian Flores

0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:40.460
<v Speaker 10>as the defensive coordinator, there's gotta be a real conversation

0:40:40.500 --> 0:40:43.680
<v Speaker 10>that maybe he's better as an offensive coordinator, as a

0:40:43.739 --> 0:40:46.820
<v Speaker 10>quarterback whisperer than he is as a, a guy overseeing

0:40:46.860 --> 0:40:49.200
<v Speaker 10>an entire organization when this is all said and done.

0:40:49.219 --> 0:40:51.799
<v Speaker 3>They have to win this year. Plain and simple. Ryan Leaf,

0:40:51.900 --> 0:40:55.989
<v Speaker 3>USA Sports lead, Pac-12 analyst, and he'll be in the

0:40:56.030 --> 0:40:59.330
<v Speaker 3>booth on Saturday at Colorado State in Wyoming. That'll be

0:40:59.330 --> 0:41:02.890
<v Speaker 3>6.30 Eastern on USA Network. And then the following week,

0:41:02.989 --> 0:41:06.509
<v Speaker 3>Memphis at Boise State. Great to see you. Thank you

0:41:06.550 --> 0:41:10.859
<v Speaker 3>for sharing, as always. Robert Griffin Jr. III will join

0:41:10.920 --> 0:41:13.700
<v Speaker 3>us coming up in about 25 minutes. Marvin will be

0:41:13.739 --> 0:41:16.770
<v Speaker 3>in the confessional today. So two hours in the books

0:41:17.150 --> 0:41:19.870
<v Speaker 3>on this Wednesday, one more to go. Todd is here,

0:41:19.969 --> 0:41:24.160
<v Speaker 3>bandage and all, incredible. Dylan, Marv, Paula, yours truly in

0:41:24.180 --> 0:41:26.779
<v Speaker 3>the back room, guys. We say goodbye to Ryan Leaf.

0:41:27.110 --> 0:41:29.410
<v Speaker 3>We'll say hello to you coming up next hour.