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Speaker 1: But it can also happen when you draft a guy

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Speaker 1: that like, yeah, we didn't have any character red flags

430
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Speaker 1: on and then we get this alert, we get this

431
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Speaker 1: phone call. We're like, what is going on now? I

432
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Speaker 1: don't expect them to cut them. I don't know exactly

433
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Speaker 1: how this situation is gonna play out with all these

434
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Speaker 1: second rounders. I do understand where they're coming from. I've

435
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Speaker 1: had some people DM me. It's like I thought all

436
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Speaker 1: these contracts were slotted. Well, they are slotted. The second

437
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Speaker 1: rounders are not arguing over the total amount of the

438
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Speaker 1: money that's in the contract that can't be changed. What

439
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,360
Speaker 1: they're arguing over let's just pick a number. Let's say

440
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Speaker 1: the total value of my contract is five million dollars.

441
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Speaker 1: Unlike the first round, where all first your first four

442
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Speaker 1: years are fully guaranteed. So when I draft you at

443
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Speaker 1: pick twelve doesn't guarantee I'm gonna pick up your fifth

444
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Speaker 1: year option. But when I draft you at pick twelve,

445
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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys just did the guard or the forty

446
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: nine ers did the pass rusher from Georgia, those two guys,

447
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: whether they become all pros or bus are guaranteed to

448
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,480
Speaker 1: see every penny of their first four years of their contract.

449
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Speaker 1: Obviously the fifth year option. Usually, I mean always, I

450
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Speaker 1: would say ninety percent of the time is based on

451
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Speaker 1: how you play. Sometimes it's like, well you've underachieved a

452
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Speaker 1: little bit, but we're the team that drafted you. I

453
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Speaker 1: think second rounders are fighting for we want every penny

454
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Speaker 1: guaranteed because they're not and depending on how far you

455
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Speaker 1: go down, like we can get out of that contract

456
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Speaker 1: pretty early. You see guys in the second round cut

457
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Speaker 1: after a couple of years all the time, and the

458
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Speaker 1: reason they are cut after that period of time typically

459
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Speaker 1: is because I can get out of the money. It's

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Speaker 1: why you see guys that are drafted in the first

461
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Speaker 1: in the in the first round that it's clear they're

462
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: not very good, usually play out all four years. Every

463
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: once in a while they're traded, and that means the

464
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Speaker 1: other team will pick up that portion of the contract.

465
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Speaker 1: But I would say, if you have to do a

466
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Speaker 1: study on this, over the last ten years, it feels

467
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Speaker 1: like eighty ninety percent of the time a player that

468
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to pick up the fifth year option

469
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Speaker 1: on and if I don't trade him, he plays out

470
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Speaker 1: those four years because I'm paying him no matter what,

471
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Speaker 1: so I might as well. You know, in most positions

472
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Speaker 1: not quarterback. I can rotate you in a defensive end.

473
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Speaker 1: I can you know, rotate you in in safety. You

474
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Speaker 1: can play on special teams. It's what makes quarterback kind

475
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Speaker 1: of unique, is why guys like Kenny Pikett and Mac

476
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: Jones that they get kind of dealt because if you're

477
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Speaker 1: going to be a backup and I'm paying you six

478
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Speaker 1: seven million dollars, I might as well just trade you

479
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Speaker 1: to some team that is willing to pay that. And

480
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: that's happened recently. But the situation is really ugly, and

481
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: the Browns have just found themselves in these situations over

482
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: and over and over again. I had someone text me like,

483
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Speaker 1: how does Andrew Berry get extended? And I don't know.

484
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: I mean, the place is just weird. And sometimes you

485
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: get it's like you get a guy that's never had

486
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Speaker 1: any issue, and then he immediately has this issue. It's

487
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Speaker 1: just like this is the Browns. I mean, if you're

488
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Speaker 1: a Browns fan, you're like, how does this keep happening

489
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: to us? Like I was excited for this pick I personally,

490
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: I was. I was excited to watch this guy play,

491
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Speaker 1: and now you just have to wonder, like what's gonna happen.

492
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Speaker 1: One thing that I do think is gonna happen is

493
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Speaker 1: he's going to be on the team and they'll just

494
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Speaker 1: kind of deal with the you know, I guess the PR,

495
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Speaker 1: which I don't even know what that means, Like what's

496
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Speaker 1: negative PR. There's a lot of negative PR. And Deshaun

497
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Speaker 1: Watson gave him tw hundred thirty million. They didn't give

498
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: a shit, So yeah, no ugly situation. A couple other things.

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Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com came out with the rankings of their

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks of the top ten quarterbacks in the league, and

501
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: they use like scouts and coaches personally, like we have

502
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: established we know the top four. Like I'm sorry, Patrick

503
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: Mahomes is one. Like I don't even know how you argue,

504
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Speaker 1: Like you could say, well, he's he hasn't been as

505
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Speaker 1: good as Lamar and Josh the last couple of regular seasons. Yeah,

506
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Speaker 1: I don't care. I watch him make the big plays

507
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, get the job done over and over,

508
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: like he has just cemented at one till someone takes

509
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Speaker 1: him down. However, you want to rank the next three guys, like,

510
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue with you if you would take

511
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Speaker 1: Burrow over Josh, Allen and Lamar like I wouldn't. I

512
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Speaker 1: would take Josh. But if you want to take Joe

513
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Speaker 1: Burrow over Lamar, like, you could make that argument. If

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Speaker 1: you put Burrow on the Ravens this year, do they

515
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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl? I think you can make that argument.

516
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Speaker 1: If you put Joe Burrow last year on the Ravens healthy,

517
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Speaker 1: they definitely beat the Chiefs in Baltimore. So if you

518
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Speaker 1: want to put Lamar Jackson fourth of those three guys,

519
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, Patrick one, Josh, Joe Burrow in some order,

520
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Speaker 1: two three, and Lamar fourth, Like, I understand where you're

521
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: coming from, but those guys are cementing it for basically

522
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Speaker 1: from five to ten, like you can put a group

523
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Speaker 1: of any guy. Here's the thing. The polarizing player that

524
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: everyone freaks out about is Jalen Hurts. There are points

525
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Speaker 1: in time last year when everyone was arguing, like, what's

526
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: up with the Eagles passing game? It was a reported

527
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Speaker 1: story based on a player on the team that aj

528
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 1: Brown did not like Jalen Hurts, and it was pretty

529
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Speaker 1: clear it's like, you can't really get him the ball.

530
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Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand. The season ended, Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. Pretty sure he was a Super

532
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Speaker 1: Bowl MVP. I googled his career earnings. He's made seventy

533
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Speaker 1: million dollars up to this point. Over the course of

534
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Speaker 1: the next three years that number will be two hundred

535
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Speaker 1: million dollars. I saw Sirianni today told Reuben Frank, who's

536
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Speaker 1: a local guy, Like he's so tired of it. He

537
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: thinks it's bs. All this guy does is win. Who

538
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Speaker 1: gives a fuck? Jalen won. So whether you want to

539
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Speaker 1: put him at five, whether you want to put him

540
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Speaker 1: at ten, like, this isn't a dak this isn't a

541
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, this isn't even a Jared gov situation. Jalen

542
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Speaker 1: Hurts won the Super Bowl and played his best game

543
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Two of three years he's been

544
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl and he's putting money. He is

545
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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the foreseeable future for the Eagles.

546
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: So some made up lists that we do every time

547
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: during this period of time everyone freaks out about. I

548
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: don't understand. I really don't because it doesn't matter. Like

549
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts the Eagles, Howie, they won, So whether we

550
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: put him at six, whether he put him at ten,

551
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: who cares. It's like, well, you can't have him below Goff.

552
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I watched this guy on a week

553
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: in week out basis if it's based on the regular season,

554
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: like I think he can because I could make the

555
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: argument in an individual game if our teams are the

556
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: exact same. If I have Matt Stafford at quarterback, I

557
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 1: can beat anybody. I can beat anybody. I can't say

558
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: that about Dak. I can't say that about Jared Goff.

559
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: Jared Goff doesn't have a great offensive line. He can't move,

560
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: and I like Jared Goff say that about the Eagles

561
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: if you told me the Eagles had random, you know,

562
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: average weapons. It's not like Jalen Hurts is sitting there

563
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: in the pocket picking you apart. He has AJ Brown

564
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: and Devonte Smith and fucking Saguon Barkley. Pretty good little group.

565
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: I've seen the last couple of years Matt Stafford come

566
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Speaker 1: down the stretch with a team that's okay. I actually

567
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: think the Rams in a weird way, are a little

568
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: overrated from a talents perspective, especially on offense like throwing

569
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Speaker 1: to Puka Nakula and but he's thirty seven years old.

570
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: And if you're basing this on, like listen, we saw

571
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Speaker 1: last year, I would have CJ. Stroud in the top

572
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: group and then CJ. Stroud kind of fell off a

573
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Speaker 1: cliff relative to the standard everyone's saying. Jayden Daniels lock

574
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: top five quarterback, Like we'll see. Part of being a

575
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: great player in sports is doing it every single year,

576
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: like part of Patrick Mahomes is like Josh Allen, Lamar

577
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: Jackson's like every single year, I know what I'm getting

578
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: every single year, I know what I'm getting. We saw CJ. Stroud,

579
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Speaker 1: Like what is going on? Because once you get to

580
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: the top of the mountain, everyone's gunning for you. That's

581
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: when the wind blows the hardest. It's what makes it

582
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: so impressive about all these great players, Like do you

583
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,719
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to do like Tiger Woods

584
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady did for like a decade plus or

585
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: every single time you played, people are coming for your throats.

586
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: They circle you as the guy they want to beat.

587
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 1: Every time Aaron Judge plays a game, it's like it's

588
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: a big deal. As on the pitcher, if I can

589
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: struct get this guy out, you're the guy that I

590
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: have circled in the lineup. You had every single year. Boom,

591
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: another home run, you know, another All Star game, another

592
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: Silver Slugger, another first team All League. It's very, very

593
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: difficult to do that. It's what makes Peyton Mannings and

594
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's and Drew Breeses and Aaron Rodgers' career so

595
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: impressive any position, Like for a decade straight, every single

596
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,239
Speaker 1: team that played Aaron Donald was like, how do we

597
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: stop this guy? What do we do to double team

598
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: this guy? What do we do to chip this guy?

599
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: And I just always I get a little hesitant because

600
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: I know what I saw. It was awesome. I mean

601
00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: it was undisputable. It's undisputed how great he was coming

602
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: down the stretch, especially in those playoff games in Detroit. Now,

603
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: the Detroit defense was pretty bad injury wise, but it's

604
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: like you just watched him as poison in the pocket.

605
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: He was fucking awesome, but everyone just anointing him like

606
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna be I don't know, Steve Young or something

607
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: like it's difficult to do so yeah, but I just

608
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: don't understand why people freak out, even the teams. It's like, guys,

609
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: you won the Super Bowl, like you won, Jalen you

610
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Jalen's saying any of this, but

611
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: it's like, you, guys, get the W on your side last,

612
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: but not at least the SEC media days kicking off

613
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: the day. Obviously the two best conferences in the Big

614
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: Ten now has won the championship the last two years.

615
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: I just think the SEC and part of it is,

616
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, in the Big Ten, if you think about it,

617
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: a lot of the states their teams play. Their college

618
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 1: team is not the biggest team in the region Michigan

619
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: and Arbor, but like now the Lions are good. Yeah,

620
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: the NFL is just bigger than college football. Now, you

621
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: could argue that Ohio State football is bigger than the

622
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns the Cincinnati Bengals, but the NFL has a huge,

623
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: huge footprint in these areas like Wisconsin. What do you

624
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: think the biggest team is there? Wisconsin Badgers, the Green

625
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, Right, Minnesota you think you think it's the

626
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Minnesota college football team or the Vikings. Right, That's one

627
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: huge advantage the SEC has is Alabama and Auburn and

628
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: competing against anyone in that state. Right, to me, LSU

629
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: football is just bigger than the Saints. Now you could

630
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: argue with Drew Brees and John Payton were in their heyday,

631
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: but like going into this season, it's not even close.

632
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: The comparison of what is a bigger deal LSU footballer

633
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints in Florida is the University of Florida,

634
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: University of Miami, Florida state outdone by the Miami Hurricanes

635
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. I don't believe that. So one

636
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: thing the SEC has is a huge advantage of not

637
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: competing against the NFL the same way as some of

638
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: these other states. And I mean I had a front

639
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: row seat when Harbaugh turned Stanford around and then David

640
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: Shaw had like four straight years where they finished the

641
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: season in the top five. They struggled to get like

642
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: ten thousand people there. It was crazy, but it was like,

643
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: we care about the NFL here. And I'm not saying

644
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: that those teams in the Big Ten don't care about football,

645
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that that's a

646
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: huge advantage the SEC has in terms of the competition

647
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: against the NFL and the interest. It's just not the same.

648
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes in the Big Ten you split

649
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: that a little bit where the SEC doesn't. And I

650
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: think when you turn on the SEC media day some

651
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: of the highlights, it honestly feels like the NFL, and

652
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: I think it's become the NFL light. I think the

653
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: buzz of the coaches, I didn't know how they would

654
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: do once Saban retired. I saw Buddy text me today

655
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: that I guess. Greg McElroy said that he had heard

656
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: that Saban might come back. He didn't say the team.

657
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: I was like, Alabama, But Kaylin dou bores buy out

658
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: a seventy five million dollars, that's not happening. He would

659
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: never go to Auburn. Have a hard time seeing him

660
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 1: go to Florida. Kirby's not going anywhere, Stark's not going anywhere.

661
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: So I have a hard time seeing saving come back.

662
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: But I don't know if Greg mckelero would just make

663
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: that up. I think college football this year, you know,

664
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: the buzz behind this, the transfer portal. You know, there's

665
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: part of the NFL is they're just these strict rules,

666
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: salary caps, salary cap you know, it's just I could

667
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: acquire this player I can't football or college football. There's

668
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: a huge wild wild West element to this, and I

669
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: would say no, no conference has more of that than

670
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: the SEC, where it's like, I don't care what the

671
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: new rules are. I don't feel like any of them

672
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: are following. Like even on the Internet now, like we

673
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: do business with a lot of credit card companies or

674
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, gambling companies, Like it's pretty strict. You gotta

675
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: be very careful about what you say. Twenty years ago

676
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: you could say whatever you wanted. There was never a

677
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: better place to do business, you know, in the last

678
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: fifty years than literally the Internet, probably in the early

679
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: mid two thousands, because there weren't any rules. It was

680
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: the wowwil West and everyone that got involved if you

681
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: knew what you were doing, profited greatly. And now there

682
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: are still less rules than some industries, but relative to

683
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: what it used to be, it's dramatically different now there's

684
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: still a wowil West element to the Internet. You can

685
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: push the envelope in different things and try different things,

686
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: and just it's not like if you work in a

687
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: quote unquote corporate structure sometimes. But I think the sec

688
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: what makes it so fascinating. It just feels like anything

689
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: goes and there's not a story that can come out

690
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: about players, coaches, universities that would surprise you. And that's

691
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: one thing. The Big Ten. Even if they are pushing

692
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: the envelope as well, they feel a little more buttoned

693
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: up that way, and that might just be perception. Like

694
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: if you're telling me Ohio State is doing everything that

695
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: Georgia and LSU are doing in terms of like pushing

696
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: the envelope and some shady shit, I wouldn't blame them.

697
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: I would do that as well. But I'm very, very

698
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: excited for this college football season. I mean, we got

699
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: takes flying everywhere about arch Manning. I said. Jordan Rogers,

700
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: Aaron's brother that they haven't spoken in a decade, called

701
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: says like the hype train's just out of control. It's like,

702
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with him now unless he answers

703
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: the hype train and is like Andrew Luck immediately. I

704
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: just don't know how he lives up to it. If

705
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: he is just like a solid NFL prospect this year,

706
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: it's going to feel very disappointing. And that's not his fault,

707
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: because the hype train behind him is like he's Lebron

708
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: James or Tiger Woods or you know, which happens very

709
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: very rarely, but a lot of times like Lebron James

710
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: hype train, it was pretty clear. I remember in two

711
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: thousand and two watching that high school game that was

712
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: on ESPN with Dickey Vee, like, this guy's fucking amazing.

713
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: I remember Tiger Wood's winning the US Amateur while he's

714
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: at Stanford. Everyone's like, this guy's amazing. This guy hasn't played,

715
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: and we know how difficult the SEC is. So I'm

716
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: excited to watch them. I'm pro arch Manning, but I

717
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: do agree that it's gonna be hard for him to

718
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: live up to the hype. I really believe that now

719
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: maybe their defense is so good, they can run the ball,

720
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but it's it's gonna be the biggest

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00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: story by foreign college football. Okay, time for a little

722
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: mail bag. Little mail bag time at John middlecoff is

723
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: the Instagram. Fire in those dms, get your questions answered

724
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: here on the show. Fire in those dms, very very easy,

725
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: Instagram dms wide open. Two f's just my name at

726
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff. We will start with Jay. Been listening for

727
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: a while, big fan, appreciate you. Here's his question. Am

728
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: I the only one who's skeptical of Dan Campbell this

729
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: upcoming season in Alliance? Campbell is a first time head

730
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: coach who led an awful squad before promoting Ben Johnson.

731
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: I get it, he gets guys to run through a

732
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: brick wall, but as a Raider fan, I saw a

733
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: similar type of coach with Antonio Pierce completely failed. They

734
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: have the talent on the roster, but feel like Campbell

735
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: hasn't quite proven himself yet and it's mostly Ben Johnson's

736
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 1: offense that carried them to success. You can even say

737
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: Campbell was a big part of them blowing the NFC

738
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: Championship game a couple of years back in some questionable

739
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: decisions in the second half. What are your thoughts? It's

740
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: a good question. I think the talent on their roster

741
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: is so immense relative to the rest of the league.

742
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: I think when healthy, they are the only team in

743
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: the NFC, that's better than them, guy for guy, especially

744
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: their starting unit would be the Eagles. So to me,

745
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: they have question marks with two new coordinators, but the

746
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: Eagles have a new offensive coordinator. I would say, I

747
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: know Sirianni has won the Super Bowl, but I would

748
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: take Dan Campbell over Nick Sirianni. And that's not a

749
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: shot at Nick Siriann. I think Dan Campbell I said

750
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: this to Colin. I think he's the third Hardbob brother.

751
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: I think he's excellent at what he does. And there

752
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: was a clip that went viral of when they played

753
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: the Packers in the Quarterback Show and they had so

754
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: many injuries they had me and you playing on defense,

755
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: and he approached the team meeting like we're gonna play

756
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: this game strictly on offense. And Dan Campbell, at his

757
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: core as an old school football guy, came up with

758
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels and he has changed his tune to like

759
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: be a modern day football coach. He's like, we're gonna

760
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: win this thing on offense. We're gonna go for it

761
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: every single time, and we don't think we can stop anybody.

762
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: They couldn't and we're going to try to score relentlessly

763
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: and it worked. Now the NFC Championship game, he shouldn't

764
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: have been that aggressive. I totally agree. But that's a

765
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 1: that's an organizational philosophy of going forward on fourth down.

766
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh does that. I don't always agree with it,

767
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: but a lot of teams do that nowadays because analytically

768
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 1: it says to do it. I think Dan Campbell's pretty

769
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: good and to me, if they win twelve thirteen games

770
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: with new coordinators, I think he will have proven himself

771
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: as one of the best CEO head coaches in the league.

772
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: Now you got to do it. New defensive coordinator, new

773
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Like you said, Ben Johnson is a huge

774
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: part of their success. So we will see how it goes.

775
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: I forget, I don't have it in front of me.

776
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: But whoever he elevated or hired, you know, I think

777
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: he used to be a Sean Payton guy. I mean

778
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: that's you know, Dan Campbell's a Sean Payton guy. I

779
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be good. I do. I'd be stunned. Now.

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00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: A disappointing year for them would be like ten wins, right,

781
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: I don't think unless they had another rash Avenge, it's

782
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: even possible for them to win like six or seven games.

783
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to know from a West Coast perspective about

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00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: Auburn football. I have grown up an Auburn fan, being

785
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: from Birmingham, Alabama. We have went downhill since firing gusmels On.

786
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: It's like we have been cursed. Freeze has recruited well,

787
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: but the wins have not shown. We currently sit eighty

788
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: fourth in recruiting right now. What are your thoughts on

789
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: Freeze and what record does he need to stick around.

790
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't follow the daily SEC stuff clearly as close

791
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,959
Speaker 1: as you, but it became a big enough story where

792
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze over the last couple of months is getting

793
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: shit on for playing too much golf and what I

794
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,959
Speaker 1: love about college football specifically the SEC and I would

795
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: say Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan are like this as well.

796
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: Oregon USC is the following of the football fan, the

797
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: information they have. The way they realized Hugh Freeze was

798
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: playing a lot of golf is because they looked at

799
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: his gin handicap and how many times he's posting scores now. Ltimately,

800
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: recruiting is not about sitting in with mom and dad

801
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: at the kitchen table anymore, like is Auburn paying the

802
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: amount of money necessary to recruit. I do think buyouts

803
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: are more difficult. You know, if your buyout now is

804
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty million dollars, well, I'm paying the kids,

805
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: so you know, to pay the players to pay a

806
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: buyout and then buy a new coach, and Auburn would want,

807
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, a big time coach, you know, a Dion

808
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: Sanders type who's going to be really expensive. It might

809
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: not make sense, so he might be saved by the

810
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: economics of the sport. I would say you're in a

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00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: tough predicament, you know, especially the last fifteen years with

812
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: Nick Now you could argue with Debor coming in the

813
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: NIL landscape, you guys should have a better opportunity. But

814
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: when I think Auburn football, I mean Cam Newton's kind

815
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: of an outlier, right you remove that spot obviously. You

816
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: guys play Alabama typically pretty well and have a really

817
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: good chance two years to go to beat them if

818
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the Jalen Milroe pass. I do think

819
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: it's hard being in their shadow. And I think sometimes

820
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,240
Speaker 1: in any industry, when you are in someone else's shadow,

821
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: that is just more important and bigger than you, even

822
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: if you are relatively important too, like you're You've had

823
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: really good teams, you've won a national championship. Recently, you've

824
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: been to another one. But yeah, I just think it's

825
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: really really hard being in the shadow of Alabama. Now,

826
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: if they fall off a cliff, maybe you guys can

827
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: move forward. But the other thing with the SEC is

828
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: like Texas is now there, They're gonna take up a

829
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: lot of oxygen A and m is going to spend

830
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: so much money. Georgia with Kirby's going nowhere, LSU underachieves

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Speaker 1: at eight to nine wins. So even if Bama has

832
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: a shitty season, they're still winning eight to nine games.

833
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: You're just in a weird spot. I'll never forget when

834
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: someone told me this years ago, who lives in also

835
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: in Alabama, who is around Saban's program. It's just an

836
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: SEC guy, he says the thing about this league, and

837
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: this guy's longtime NFL personnel man two. He's like, there's

838
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: nothing like the negative momentum in college in the SEC.

839
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: And we had a mutual friend, Jim McIlwain, who was

840
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: the coach of Florida, and he was actually not terrible

841
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 1: at Florida. Right, they were in the SEC Championship game

842
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: a couple times. Now. Granted the SEC East at the

843
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: time was shittier, but it's not like Jim mckawaan was

844
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: winning four games. He just wasn't Urban Myer. So the

845
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: negative momentum was already strong. Then that fake shark picture

846
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: came out and they it was just he was dead.

847
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: There's no way he could fight off the negative buzz

848
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: coming at him. And that's a little bit what it

849
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: feels like with you Freeze. If he goes seven to five,

850
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: it's just people are gonna hate him and they're gonna start,

851
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: I would say, picking apart everything he does, which they're

852
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: doing now, like how many golf rounds are you playing?

853
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin said it today at the SEC media days.

854
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,959
Speaker 1: They're like, you were messing with him with an Instagram post.

855
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: He's like, it's a dead period. I was on a

856
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: fishing boat. I was joking. He's like, it's it's not

857
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: that serious, but in the SEC, it is that serious.

858
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: On Jeff Tigue's podcast, I think it was Pat Beverly.

859
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, not a big NBA guy, to be honest,

860
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: there was a discussion about a player who has made

861
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy million in his career, and the

862
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: question was, would you give up fifty million for a rink?

863
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: This actually was Gilbert Arenas's podcast. I don't think the

864
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: player has any rings, so he's not going to go

865
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: from one to two or two to three, etc. But

866
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: my question is would you how different would an athlete

867
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: worth one hundred and twenty million dollars live from an

868
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: athlete worth one hundred and seventy million. Fifty million is

869
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: a lot, but for me, the worst thing in sports

870
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: is players who put money in front of success. I

871
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: love seeing players get their bag, but once you've made

872
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: your money, surely you'd take less. I think I talked

873
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: about this on a recent podcast. It was Gilbert Arenas,

874
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: and I agreed with Gilbert Arenas, like, is a ring

875
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: changing the guy's life? I don't know. Now you could

876
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: argue would he give up one hundred and twenty million

877
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: dollars to have led the Warriors or the Wizards to

878
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: an NBA title? Would he have been more legendary? Would

879
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: his podcast business do more than he's doing now? And

880
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: he laughed, He's like, I wouldn't give up fifty million

881
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: dollars for that, and my first reaction was I wouldn't either.

882
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: Now would I give up fifty million dollars to have

883
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: like Julian Edelman's career over like Calvin Johnson's career, Yeah,

884
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: I would, And I think Edelman is going to profit

885
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: for that for the next forty years. Like would I

886
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: give up fifty million dollars to have Draymond Green's career

887
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: over a guy that makes the All Star teams who

888
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 1: doesn't win a ring and makes more money one you'd

889
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: rather be the champion. You can have lucrative endeavors off

890
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 1: of that. So I think it depends on the specific example.

891
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: But in Gilbert Arenas's example, I would not give up

892
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: the fifty million dollars. And to me, are you a

893
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: one off champion. It's one thing if you're the core back,

894
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: but even if you're the like Tracy McGrady, would Tracy

895
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: McGrady give up fifty million dollars to have won an

896
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 1: NBA championship? I bet his answer would be the same

897
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: as Gilbert Arinus's, and it'd be no. Uh. So, I

898
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: think when you're talking multiple championships, like, yeah, you'd rather

899
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: be Ronnie Lott or Jerry Rice or you know, Devin

900
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: mccordy or Teddy Bruski, Like, yeah, it's worth a lot,

901
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: but just one win. I don't know. I don't think

902
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: i'd give up that. I mean, you're talking a lot

903
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: of money. Fifty million dollars a lot of money. We're

904
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,479
Speaker 1: talking like five million dollars if we're talking that we've

905
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: made that much money. Yeah, I mean, I think you

906
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: can convince me when you're talking that much money. I

907
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: remember Kevin Durant when he first signed a contract extension

908
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: with the Warriors, Like he gave them a discount and

909
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: the number was like, I forget it off at the

910
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: top of my head. But instead of signing for like

911
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: twenty nine million, he signed for like twenty seven point eight.

912
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean it, he gave them a little flexibility,

913
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: but come on, he didn't have to do it. So

914
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: if you want to give him credit for that, it's

915
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: not changing his life at all. Question for the pod

916
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: I'm curious with you being a successful podcaster. I like

917
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: this guy, and your wife successful in real estate. She

918
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: likes you too. I'm sure how do you and your

919
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: wife handle finances? Do y'all combine finances or keep them separate.

920
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Do you have to check with her before buying anything

921
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: golf related or going on a golf trip, or is

922
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: what you do with your money all up to you.

923
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good question. I would say I don't

924
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: have to shoot her a text before I buy a

925
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: golf club or golf balls. I don't know how everyone

926
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: does it, you know. I know some people that they

927
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: have kids and their wife doesn't work. I know people

928
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: where their wife is the breadwinner. And actually they're my friends,

929
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: the guys, so you never asked them, like does she

930
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: give you an allowance? Everything is different for every person.

931
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: We don't buy any means, have an Excel spreadsheet. We

932
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: don't technically like share financing. I guess. I mean the

933
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: house we're living in right now. I bought and then

934
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: we were modeled. I paid for I pay the mortgage.

935
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: But like I know, she has a separate property that

936
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with. She has money that

937
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't. You know, she can just buy whatever she wants.

938
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: Same thing for me. You know, she buys groceries and

939
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: does certain things that I don't even think about. And

940
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: then there are things, you know, with the house that

941
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: she doesn't think about. And obviously it's going to change

942
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: when we have a kid. Like the other day, there

943
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: was a stroller on sale. I don't even want to

944
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: say out loud how much the stroller was, but I

945
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: guess it's the going rate for strollers. It's also a

946
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: car seat. I mean, it's insane. Was on sale for

947
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: like thirty percent off, and I just handed her my

948
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: credit card. Uh, you know, I think we're gonna get

949
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: her a new car coming up. I'm sure we will.

950
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. We just haven't. There

951
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: aren't really any financial we haven't really had any issues

952
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: in terms of like who pays for that, who pays

953
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: for what? Pretty seamless transition. There's no we don't have

954
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: any shared credit cards or shared bank accounts as of

955
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: right now. Again, maybe that changes as we have children,

956
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: as our lives change, but I just try to pay

957
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 1: for as much as I can, and she contributes and

958
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: we just live our life. It's actually been I mean,

959
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: I've heard some horror stories with friends, but it's been

960
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: a really, I don't know, seamless transition. And you know,

961
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,399
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're young and a lot of you guys

962
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: that have been married or serious relationships in your twenties,

963
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 1: when you start dating and you like have nothing right,

964
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: and that's what would happen. Most people start dating in

965
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: college or dating fresh you know, your first job. It's

966
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: not like you have that much, especially tangible assets. When

967
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: we started dating, I was thirty five. I was thirty five.

968
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 1: I guess I was seven years older. I was thirty seven.

969
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 1: She was thirty. Like she had a career that was crushing,

970
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: making way more money when I was thirty, and obviously

971
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: my career was going pretty well at the time too.

972
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: From a financial issue or aspect, we haven't We don't

973
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 1: even really talk about it, just kind of happens. One

974
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: major difference I've noticed though, is like if I'm going

975
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: to go pick up food or ordering door dash, you know,

976
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: I would DoorDash. When I live by myself, I would

977
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: eat Chipotle or meals like that, I don't know, five

978
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: nights a week. And that's now when you do eat out,

979
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: you pay for two the plane tickets, you know, because

980
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: we both have family in northern California. Instead of just

981
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: buying one, you buy two round trips. That's a little

982
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: bit of a game changer, but you just kind of

983
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: become numb to it after a while, and then you

984
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: got a kid come and you eventually pay for them.

985
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: Part of growing up, part of growing up. Yeah, but

986
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: pretty easily transitioned for us so far, no issues, which

987
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: is nice. What are your thoughts on Florida since Billy

988
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: has taken over. We went six and seven, five and

989
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: seven and eight and five. Given the schedule we faced

990
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: with DJ Lagway won every single game. He started with

991
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: a bad hamstring, and we would have beaten Georgia if

992
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't hurt. Do you think we can win ten games?

993
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: If you look at the personnel? We have our most

994
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: talented roster on paper since Billy took over, and it

995
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: make or break year for Billy nine or ten wins

996
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: where it's a fireball offense. It sure looked like he

997
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: was done early in the season. I thought by the

998
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: end of the year, you guys were playing like a

999
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: top ten team. I remember watching the last couple of

1000
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: games in the season thinking like, this team looks fantastic

1001
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: from a physicality standpoint to just like a chemistry standpoint.

1002
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: And I remember watching a couple of your guys' big wins,

1003
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: watching Billy Napier after the game and he's like, it's

1004
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: really cool to watch these guys come together, Like you

1005
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: guys were a team. If you would have gotten too

1006
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: the playoffs, like I would have liked you more than

1007
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: Tennessee going into the playoff game. Obviously, there's a ton

1008
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: of hype. This coach is coaching for his job. People

1009
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 1: really really like in the scouting community and my friends,

1010
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: I know a couple of agents, like I just know

1011
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the football world in the

1012
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: SEC that like Billy Napier. People are rooting for Billy Napier.

1013
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: And he's a guy. If he's able to win nine

1014
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 1: or ten games, usually that negative momentum in the South

1015
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: that kills you and it just gets you like a

1016
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 1: tidal wave. And if he's able to win ten games

1017
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: make a playoff spot, that would be an incredible accomplishment

1018
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: that he was able to fend off like the Matrix,

1019
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: the SEC Grim Reaper. This is my second time attempting

1020
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: to get my question read. I would love a chance

1021
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: to open this can of worms discussion about the disrespect

1022
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: of Dak Prescott. Your takes are amazing overall, and you're

1023
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: extremely informative, but when it comes to Dak, You and

1024
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: Colin and everyone ons one constantly puts him in a

1025
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: lower tier than his play and cher numbers demand. He

1026
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: should have won the MVP over Lamar two years ago.

1027
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: His stats were just that much better. I'll give you

1028
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: he's coming off a weird season with an injury, and

1029
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: of course he hasn't given us a super Bowl yet,

1030
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: but neither has Lamar or Joss or plenty of others. Guys.

1031
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,959
Speaker 1: He hasn't even got you to the championship game. You guys,

1032
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: had hosted two home playoff games before last year in

1033
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: three years, you lost them both to the Packers and

1034
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Two home playoff games, you lost

1035
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: them both, and he played like shit turnovers. I'm not

1036
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: a Josh hat or Dak hater, but like the criticism

1037
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, I mean, Lamar gets highly criticized, and

1038
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: Dak is way worse, way worse in that run when

1039
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: Dan quinn was the DC and McCarthy was the head coach,

1040
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: I thought the one year they lost the Niners in

1041
00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: San Francisco, so it would have been the second round

1042
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: who they beat Tampa in the first round and Dak

1043
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: had the best game of his career. You guys had

1044
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: a super Bowl level defense and Dak didn't play well

1045
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: in that game either, So it's like he's been a

1046
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: really good regular season player. And I agree with you, Lamar.

1047
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: Two years ago when he won the MVP, it's one

1048
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 1: of the worst MVP seasons of all time. And I'm

1049
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: not even just blaming him. I'm saying, whoever would have

1050
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: won it, if Dak would have won it, fine, But

1051
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: then Dak didn't play well in the playoffs, so it's

1052
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: like you gotta play one in the playoffs. Yeah, he's fine,

1053
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: I got no problem. I think he's a top twelve

1054
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: quarterback who is really really underachieved in January, which by

1055
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: far is the most important time of year. Right we

1056
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: all agree there. I'm curious, are you're a boxing fan,

1057
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: who do you have in Canelo Crawford fight. I'm not really,

1058
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: but I'm a fomo guy. So if you tell me

1059
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's fighting Jake Paul, if Pacquiao's fighting Mayweather, if

1060
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's fighting Holy Field, I'm in. If the event

1061
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: gets big enough and can cross through just the niche

1062
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: of you know, the fight world, I'm in. If it

1063
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: doesn't like I typically not. It's not because I don't.

1064
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I enjoy watching boxing. I'll never forget in

1065
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: college watching that Pacquiao Mayweather fight, thinking like this is

1066
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: the biggest this sucks. Part of it is Floyd just

1067
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: kind of dances around because he's so good you can't

1068
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:45,399
Speaker 1: hit him. But I miss heavyweights. I mean, you grow

1069
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: up in the nineties, Tyson Lennox, Lewis holy Field, some

1070
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: of just a shit show that were those fights. It

1071
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: just feels like not the same. But I have no

1072
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: take on Canela Crawford. I mean, I know it's going on.

1073
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: I think is Max Kellerman calling the fight, But I

1074
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: don't have like an opinion or take because I mean

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00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't watch Cowboy fan. Do you think the new

1076
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: coach it'll be another repeat of McCarthy and Garrett with

1077
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 1: Dak a three to four season run. Well, they'll win

1078
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,240
Speaker 1: anywhere between nine to eleven games, maybe make the playoffs

1079
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: a couple times, and lose in round one. I'm a

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00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: big Dak guy, love the Cowboys, and I'm not sure

1081
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: the entire shift in philosophy is exactly they need to do,

1082
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: But it feels like they are just trying to continue

1083
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: getting over the hump by doing it the cowboy way,

1084
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: and that just smells of similar results. Defense got crushed

1085
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: by the run last year, and we go out and

1086
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: draft more offense. Feels like it's going to be another

1087
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: year of getting gashed in the run game. I recorded

1088
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: a podcast with Colin on Monday and we kind of

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00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: the Lakers kind of came up, and I think the Lakers,

1090
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers the Lakers sold, but I mean

1091
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: what they were under the Bus family once Doctor Buss died.

1092
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: What the Steelers have become under this version of the Rooneyes,

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00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: What the Cowboys have become with Jerry. I think it's

1094
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: really really hard when you have this like brand name

1095
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: of a family and they've been doing it forever in

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00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: their high highs or so far in the past, and

1097
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: they're kind of writing off what used to be and

1098
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,439
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need some new blood in there. And

1099
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: in fairness to the Lakers, I mean they hired outside

1100
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: people and Rob Polinka, but the reason he got hired

1101
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: was he was Kobe Bryant's agent, right, I mean, Jerry's

1102
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: the guy making all the decisions right at the end

1103
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: of the day. Omar Khan, like the Runies, are telling

1104
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: him what to do. Tomlin has some juice. But Tom's

1105
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: been there for almost two decades now, and I think

1106
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: sometimes when you know, look at how many different people,

1107
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: how he is employed over fifteen years, they churned their

1108
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: front office and coaching staff like a NFL roster. That

1109
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: is not the way the Cowboys, the Steelers, and the

1110
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: Lakers like. It's like the same people doing it over

1111
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: and over and over again. And sometimes that work, but

1112
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: sometimes you do need some fresh blood, some new perspective,

1113
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: some just different experiences coming in and listen to. You

1114
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: could convince me the Cowboys win ten games this year.

1115
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: You could convince me they win six. I think it's

1116
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: all on the table. I liked them last year, obviously

1117
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: got burned, but I don't even know. Probably pick them

1118
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: to finish third in that division. If you tell me

1119
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: they went nine to eight and or the seven seed, believable.

1120
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: If you tell me they win seven to ten and

1121
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: pretty average, very believable as well. I think it's all

1122
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: on the table. My question is do you think the

1123
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: Steelers have a chance to actually make a run. I've

1124
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: been a Steeler fan for thirteen years, and all I've

1125
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: seen is letdown after letdown. I want them to win,

1126
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: but I'm worried we won't be explosive enough on offense.

1127
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: Second part question do you think the Steelers are in

1128
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: trouble this upcoming season? I would say when you look

1129
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: at the history in sports in general of guys over forty,

1130
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: it usually ends pretty ugly. For the most part, sports

1131
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: and specifically football does not end with the owner handing

1132
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: the trophy to John Elway. This one's for John or

1133
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: even Peyton Mannings last season on the Dais with Jim

1134
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: Nantz winning the Super Bowl. It usually ends with like,

1135
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: my arm doesn't really work, I'm injured, I'm Tom Brady.

1136
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: Our team's not that good. Just kind of an ugly,

1137
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: weird ending, worst case scenario. It's like Tony Romo, You're

1138
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: laying there on the ground with a bad back, And

1139
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: if you told me the best case scenario for the Steelers,

1140
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: what's best case scenario? Did Rogers play seventeen games that

1141
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: the defense stays healthy and they win like eleven games,

1142
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: and they're just they're pretty damn good. They're not the

1143
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,480
Speaker 1: upper echelon, but they're pretty damn good. Like they're a

1144
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: legit team that feels on the pie chart possibly of

1145
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: possible abilities, like less than twenty five percent, and the

1146
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: more and more I think about it, just based on

1147
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: my life of thirty plus years now watching sports. This

1148
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: falls from baseball and basketball as well, Like if Lebron

1149
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: James just keeps on playing, eventually he's gonna have a

1150
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: major injury, because that's just kind of the way it works,

1151
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,479
Speaker 1: wear and tear. I don't care how hard you train.

1152
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: Happened to Kobe, happens to every happened to Steph Curry,

1153
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: what happened to anybody? And I think, what's the likelihood

1154
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers not getting injured? He doesn't move like

1155
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: he used to, but he does like to move, and

1156
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: he already had a serious injury a couple of years ago.

1157
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: And again, it could be as simple as like someone

1158
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: falls into his knee weird and he just sprains his

1159
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, a knee or an ankle, and all of

1160
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 1: a sudden, where he used to might miss seven days,

1161
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: he misses twenty one. And if he miss his several games,

1162
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: and let's say he's not even playing that, well, you

1163
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: can lose a bunch of games. The other thing is

1164
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: the way they've built this thing. There's just tangible pressure

1165
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: you trade for DK. The TJ thing is kind of

1166
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: now or never. The Tomlin thing, it's like, are we

1167
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: gonna shit ter? Get off? The Pots kind of weird.

1168
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: The Ravens and the Bills, let alone the Chiefs just

1169
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: kind of rolling. It just feels like they're I don't

1170
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: want to say quite a ticking time bomb, but I

1171
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: do think there's a scenario where a couple of injuries

1172
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: happen and they win. They're just not good. They would

1173
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: never be terrible. But like, what if I told you

1174
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: right now Rogers missed a month they could lose every game.

1175
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph started every single game, and we saw Rogers

1176
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: last year, Like, it's not like the jetson have bad,

1177
01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 1: Like they got some good players, lost a lot of

1178
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: tight games. Now, you could make the argument he's gonna

1179
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: be a year off the injury. Maybe he's much more

1180
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: vibrant and much quicker. Maybe, but he's he's not thirty,

1181
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,959
Speaker 1: he's forty one. I go back and forth. I'm like, say,

1182
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: you're just gonna pick him to win ten or eleven games,

1183
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: or like, is this the year they win seven? And

1184
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: it's like a weird ugly seven. I do think that's

1185
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: on the table. Any thoughts on WVU West Virginia take

1186
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: me home bringing back rich Rodriguez. I saw some clip

1187
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: the other day. I think they beat because it was

1188
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: like a throwback to Pat White. And who was the

1189
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: running back? Was Steve Slayton? Was that the running back?

1190
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,080
Speaker 1: I think they played Georgia. It was either the first

1191
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:42,920
Speaker 1: game of the year or a bowl game, and they

1192
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: won and it was like they were really humming there.

1193
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: And remember he was turning down jobs. I think he

1194
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: turned down the Alabama job the year Saban got it,

1195
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: ended up going to Michigan. My year scouting the West Coast,

1196
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: he was the Arizona head coach. I liked him. I

1197
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: remember a BSM with him. Pat he obviously loves them.

1198
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be at a disadvantage in the

1199
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: landscape of college football, Like do they have the money

1200
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: to keep players? If they get a star player, a

1201
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: pac Man Jones, a Pat White, could they keep him

1202
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: away from LSU, bam, Ohio State, Michigan. It's hard, but

1203
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: I don't think they could have done much better than

1204
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: what they had. They got a guy that's really passionate

1205
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: about that place, that loves that place, and at this

1206
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: point in time, he's got a big chip on his shoulder,

1207
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: so I'm excited to watch him. He had been at

1208
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: was it Jackson State or whatever, doing really well. I mean,

1209
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: the guy's a ball coach, and to me, he's a

1210
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: great example. Rich Rodriguez belongs in the southern region, right,

1211
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: like the from West Virginia down over to Texas. Like

1212
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:50,400
Speaker 1: he belongs in that area, like West Virginia or going

1213
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: to Michigan. Terrible fit. I actually think he would have

1214
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: been a decent fit at Alabama. They wouldn't have loved

1215
01:03:56,240 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 1: the offensive style, but they would have liked his personality toughness,

1216
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: like Nick Saban's born and raised in West Virginia. I

1217
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: think Southern people usually excel, like obviously they gotta be

1218
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: a good coach. But Jim mcklewain, West Coast guy, Florida

1219
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 1: Hayden him, Urban Meyers an outlier, Urban Meerka coach, and

1220
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 1: Alaska win. You know, Chip Kelly was a little bit

1221
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: of an outlier. Northeastern Oregon worked, but UCLA started getting weird.

1222
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: It's like, what's this, what's your deal here? Like huh?

1223
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: Like I always supported when almost said James Gandalfeini but

1224
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: with uh, what the hell is his name? Who's the

1225
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: coach of rud Gers right now? A chianu and and

1226
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: the Tennessee fans remember like Klay Travis and a bunch

1227
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: of people are like we know Greg Ciana would have

1228
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: been a disaster at the University of Tennessee. It would

1229
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: have been a terrible personality fit. It would not have worked.

1230
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: Now people were like, this was crazy. No, I was

1231
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: on board with the fan backlash. Would not have worked,

1232
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: like when A and M was gonna hire stoops that

1233
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: could work, Like I could see that happening. There are

1234
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: some where are like, this is never gonna happen. Lincoln

1235
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: Riley USC It's a weird fit. Another life question. Currently

1236
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: in my mid twenties and have been with my partner

1237
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 1: for four years. We have seen a lot of our

1238
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: friends and family tie the knot in the past twelve

1239
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 1: to eighteen months, and I keep receiving skittish remarks from

1240
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: a lot of our relatives asking what's taking me so

1241
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: long to propose? Mine and her parents want grand babies.

1242
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: But I don't see what the rush is at all,

1243
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: given that we are both recent graduates and I am

1244
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: looking to upgrade on my current basic job in banking

1245
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,240
Speaker 1: to something a lot more similar as someone who put

1246
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: their work first for a long time. What do you say?

1247
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: I would say two things. Unless they're paying for your

1248
01:05:56,200 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: wedding or going to provide child care for you their opinions,

1249
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: you should not give a shit about what they say.

1250
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: I've said this forever, and this is where I try

1251
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: to judge other people in their relationships. Whoever you're sleeping with,

1252
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: and you're in a relationship with, only you really know

1253
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 1: the ambitions, what you guys aspire to do, where you're at,

1254
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: what you guys are comfortable doing. Everyone else has a

1255
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: lot of opinions, but unless they're funding your life, paying

1256
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: for your rent, gonna help pay for your wedding, honestly,

1257
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: i'd argue their opinions like I'm not saying, not be

1258
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: cordial and nice and laughing off, but I would not

1259
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: worry what they think at all. The only person you

1260
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,479
Speaker 1: should be worried about are you and your future wife.

1261
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 1: And if you're not comfortable or ready to do that

1262
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: and she's on board, then don't do it like it's

1263
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: one thing. It's like, hey, her mom's all over us.

1264
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna give us some money for the wedding. She's

1265
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: gonna babysit for us, Like okay, it's like i'd be

1266
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: open minded to like, hey, you got help here, but

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01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 1: if like this is just their opinions and you're cutting

1268
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: all them checks and you got to figure out, like, okay,

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01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: we get married, who's gonna pay for this wedding? Then

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01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: I got h we're gonna have a baby, Like we're

1271
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: both working, what are we gonna do? It's complicated. They

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01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: don't factor any of that in. So I'm very very

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01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 1: protective over like, don't worry about other people's opinions. And

1274
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult, especially if you live around these people,

1275
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: but like you gotta worry about you and your future

1276
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 1: wife's happiness more than these other people because they have agendas,

1277
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: Like you know, part of being a grandparent. I if

1278
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: I don't really have the babysit is like I just

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01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: get to see the kid when I want, Like I've

1280
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:41,439
Speaker 1: been an uncle to my brother's kids. It's great. He's

1281
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 1: got to deal with their craziness on a daily basis.

1282
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: It's hard. He's got a couple young boys who are

1283
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 1: going ninety nine miles an hour twenty four seven three

1284
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: sixty five. I just get to fly in, we go

1285
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 1: swimming a little, we might hang out, screw around. Then

1286
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:55,640
Speaker 1: when he gets in trouble, I don't have to deal

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01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: with it. So that's how a lot of these people

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01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: giving their opinions to you are. It's like you're in

1289
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 1: your mid twenties, Like, do not do something you're not

1290
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 1: comfortable with because someone else has that opinion. That's the

1291
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: easiest and quickest way to be miserable. Like get married

1292
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: and have children because or try to because you want

1293
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: to do it, not because your aunt is giving you

1294
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 1: a hard time, or you're you know, you're jealous of

1295
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: what things look like on Instagram with other people. That

1296
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 1: will not lead to happiness. I promise you that and

1297
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: only way forever if you want to marry her. But

1298
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,560
Speaker 1: you're in your mid twenties, man, it's Shit's life's expensive.

1299
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: It's easy for older people to have a lot of

1300
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 1: different opinions. My mom bought her house. We're talking about

1301
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: this when we were home for vacation. I was like,

1302
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: because my brother had the documents for like seventy five

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01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. She lives in a very nice area on

1304
01:08:54,040 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: a golf course. Seventy five thousand dollars get like twenty

1305
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: five x at now. No grant is a long time ago,

1306
01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: but like they're the way they view things are a

1307
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: lot different sometimes and I'm not. I'm not. She was

1308
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: never hard on me, but she even had a comment

1309
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: She's like, you know, I'm glad everything worked out that

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01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,920
Speaker 1: you you know you wait, you waited this long. Like

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01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: I didn't wait this long. I didn't meet anyone I

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01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: wanted to marry. So it's like, you don't meet someone

1313
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: you want to marry, what are you gonna do? Just

1314
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: get married? Just say I'm married. It's like, have some

1315
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: people I know get a divorce. I'm forty years old,

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01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: I could count, I wouldn't even be able to count

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01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: on both hands. I'd go, I'd run through it didn't

1318
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,679
Speaker 1: need my toes. The amount of people I know, either

1319
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: for close friends, family members, acquaintances that did not make

1320
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:45,839
Speaker 1: it like five years that got married in their thirties

1321
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: because like some people get married for the wrong reasons.

1322
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:52,120
Speaker 1: Looks cool on Instagram. It's like, well do you like

1323
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: the person? And then having kids. Many of you guys

1324
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: know this. They listen to me, it's like, that's a

1325
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 1: whole different dynam Why do you think people are hesitant

1326
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: to give bow Nicks credit for the season he just had.

1327
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 1: He walked into a tough situation. National media labeled him

1328
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 1: a major draft reach, and some said the pick could

1329
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 1: ruin Peyton's legacy. The team has been dealing with the

1330
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: largest dead cap hit in NFL history, had a bottom

1331
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: three roster according to PFF, and was projected to win

1332
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: four or five games. Like people like to give the

1333
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,600
Speaker 1: majority of the credit to Sean, which is fair, but

1334
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: they also had to heat praise on the offensive line,

1335
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,280
Speaker 1: the same offensive line that was heavily criticized when Russell

1336
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 1: Wilson was playing. It feels like people are bending over

1337
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: backward to avoid giving Knicks is due and hold on

1338
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 1: to pre draft narratives. People don't like being wrong. It's

1339
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: just that simple. And the easy thing was where everyone

1340
01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: was piling on bow Nick sucks. He wasn't good, he

1341
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 1: was not gonna be a good player. The Broncos were

1342
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna suck, and it's hard to just say I was wrong.

1343
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: Bonex is actually pretty good. I just think it's very

1344
01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:11,679
Speaker 1: difficult for a lot of people in this quote unquote

1345
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: business to just be like, Yeah, Bonex is a pretty

1346
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 1: good player. Was he perfect as a work of course not?

1347
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: Could he improve a lot? Does he need to improve? Yes?

1348
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: What I bet on him improving, giving his coach and

1349
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:27,600
Speaker 1: giving the team infrastructure one thousand percent. I would be

1350
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 1: stunned if he's not good this year. Now, is he

1351
01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: gonna be Peyton Manning or Tom Brady? I don't know.

1352
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:36,879
Speaker 1: But is he gonna be a top twelve starter, fifteen

1353
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: starter half of the league for sure of this year? Yes?

1354
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: Does he have a chance to be a top ten

1355
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league the next couple years? I would

1356
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,320
Speaker 1: say yeah, based on who's coaching him, based on how

1357
01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 1: well run the organization is now. Uh. He plays with

1358
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: a great defense, which is important. Remember Tom Brady got

1359
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: to ease into his career. The defense was awesome. That helps.

1360
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:02,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I think they're gonna be good. Congratulate

1361
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: your recent success. I have two boys myself and was

1362
01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 1: able to name them after my two favorite athletes, Nolan

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01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 1: Ryan and Grant Hill. Nolan and Grant those are good names.

1364
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: Will the strategy come into play as you name your kiddo? Uh?

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: I would say not athletically driven. But yeah, we've already

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01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: named it. I don't know if I'm allowed to give

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01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: it out yet. But name was pretty simple, wasn't. It

1368
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:31,799
Speaker 1: was more for me in terms of like family, friends

1369
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: and other people in my life than it was, you know,

1370
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan Middlecoff, which would be sick. I threw that

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01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 1: out the other day, like, can we just name Michael

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01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Middlecoff. Here's my son, Tiger Middlecoff. This is Tiger

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01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. No, Tiger Middlecoff. Does he play golf? I

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01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: mean he got to set a clubs. I don't know

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01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: if he knows what he's doing. Those would be my

1376
01:12:55,240 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: two options. Michael Jordan Middlecoff and Tiger Woods middle Cough. Tiger,

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01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 1: I mean, Tiger has a sweet name. It's like taking

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01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:08,640
Speaker 1: my son to first grade. Tiger is Tiger here. You

1379
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: know when they read the do they even do roll

1380
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: call anymore in school? Okay, a couple more questions. I've

1381
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 1: lived in Colorado half of my life, in Chicago half

1382
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: of my life. This year, my two playoff law team.

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01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: This year, my two teams look like playoff bound. I

1384
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: think the Bears are good at the offseason, still have

1385
01:13:27,880 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: bad ownership and have a brand new head coach. Although

1386
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 1: I believe the hype, the Broncos feel like they're improved

1387
01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:36,360
Speaker 1: dramatically on the personnel side and already have the coach

1388
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 1: and ownership down, also building off what was successful season

1389
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 1: last year. I saw Knick's tears and he had the

1390
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 1: Bears above the Broncos. I would guess you're talking Nick right.

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01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 1: There's no way you can have the Bears above the Broncos.

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01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: It's impossible. They have a first time head coach. The

1393
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: franchise has not been winning. They've had a great offseason.

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01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 1: The two guards in the center, great moves. We do

1395
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: not know if they're gonna be any good. We have

1396
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,719
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna be good time and time again.

1397
01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: The Broncos are going to be good. They have a

1398
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 1: coach who resurrected the fucking Saints. Say what you want

1399
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,519
Speaker 1: about Sean Payton. I know he pisses people off. If

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01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: you told me Sean Payton was the head coach of

1401
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: the Bears, I'd say they are a lock playoff team

1402
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 1: this year. Ben Johnson might be good. It's way harder

1403
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: to be a head coach. I don't know, but I'm

1404
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: with you. I think the Broncos are gonna be good.

1405
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: The Bears could be good. The Bears should win ten games.

1406
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: But it's like we'll see a lot of pressure on

1407
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:37,679
Speaker 1: the quarterback, a lot of pressure on a coach who

1408
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:39,560
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago was like scared to be

1409
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: a head coach. Maybe now he's good. I don't know.

1410
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: I could not have the Bears about the round. That's

1411
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: insane to me. My question is this last question. Is

1412
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,960
Speaker 1: it realists to think there will be teams based in

1413
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: Europe full time playing in the NFL or a separate

1414
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: league associate with the NFL. If not, do you think

1415
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,760
Speaker 1: there will ever be enough talent worldwide to have a

1416
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: legitimate USA versus World game what the NBA has considered

1417
01:15:04,240 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. I would say no chance with

1418
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:10,439
Speaker 1: the world versus the NFL. I mean, the footballs are sport.

1419
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: You know some of these other sports Tennis, golf, baseball, basketball.

1420
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 1: So many different countries play, Like is Germany playing tackle football?

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01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: Is could you find tackle football in London? Are they

1422
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: playing tackle football in Mexico or Brazil? I doubt it,

1423
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: but I know for a fact they're all playing basketball,

1424
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: They're all playing golf, they're all a large percentage of

1425
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: them are playing baseball soccer, so I think no, I

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01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: would say the world No. I think they're much more

1427
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: likely just to put the TV package over there than

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01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 1: actually have teams over there. Could be wrong. I mean,

1429
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: you'd have to ask Roger and the new PGA commissioner

1430
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: role app. I'm sure they had conversations. But I think

1431
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: the television package to have a game sixteen days a year,

1432
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: so basically starting week two through Week sixteen or seventeen

1433
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: whatever equals. So every team does it, and I guess

1434
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: you could rotate. Some teams might play multiple games. But

1435
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,559
Speaker 1: I have a package where I sell like Thursday Night

1436
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: Football for a huge stretch of the season that Netflix

1437
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: has the six thirty am Pacific Standard time kickoff, which

1438
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm not looking forward to, but that's inevitable. Now. Is

1439
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:37,600
Speaker 1: there a team in Europe or multiple teams as of

1440
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: sitting here right now? I would lean no, but I

1441
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't put a lot of money on that. I do

1442
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: think it's a lock for the morning TV package. I

1443
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: do think the logistics make playing over their teams very

1444
01:16:50,520 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: very difficult, and I do wonder now you could sell

1445
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: these franchises for let's say each eight billion. But you're

1446
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: at the point like how many people have this much money?

1447
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: Like how many humans are there they can afford? So

1448
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:07,840
Speaker 1: even if you're like, Okay, we're gonna have two teams

1449
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: over in London eight billion a pop, how many human

1450
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: beings won in on that. Maybe I'm underestimating even the

1451
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 1: small percentage of people that could afford that. Now, with

1452
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,799
Speaker 1: private equity, maybe it's a little more feasible to have groups.

1453
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 1: It's not really how the NFL is operated, but I

1454
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 1: guess things change, especially with the money. Yeah, I don't

1455
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 1: know A big fan of you and Nick Wright. With

1456
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,719
Speaker 1: both you guys being friends and business partners with Coward,

1457
01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:37,400
Speaker 1: do you have a personal working relationship with each other?

1458
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 1: I said, I have his number. I know he's playing

1459
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 1: the World Series of Poker. I'm gonna text him probably

1460
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 1: after this week to get him on the podcast. Sometimes

1461
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 1: I've never met Nick. I don't think I've ever talked

1462
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: to him. I've been in a Super Bowl party. He

1463
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:53,479
Speaker 1: was on the other side. A million people were there.

1464
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything to him. But no, I don't

1465
01:17:56,120 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: have a relationship with him. I've never met him. Yeah,

1466
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 1: I mean I've followed his career for a long time,

1467
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 1: but I don't know him personally. I've always one thing

1468
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: I respect, even if I disagree with your takes, even

1469
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: if I would say politically, we're way different just in

1470
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,560
Speaker 1: general with any human being that's in this kind of world.

1471
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: If I think that you really like sports, because I

1472
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,720
Speaker 1: think there's been a large percentage of people that have

1473
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: come into this business town I can just make money

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01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: and bullshit my way, and I think it happens all

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: the time, Like there are a handful of people that

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01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: I know, like this guy loves it. Like ultimately, I

1477
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 1: got into this because I loved it, and like anything

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01:18:36,680 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: you do it long enough, there are things about it

1479
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: you don't like as much as you once did. But

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01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 1: like I still love watching a football game. I still

1481
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 1: love watching like Alabama Georgia or you know, the Bill's Chiefs,

1482
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: like it still really gets my juice's phone. I love

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01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:56,920
Speaker 1: watching the Masters or the British Open. I even still

1484
01:18:56,960 --> 01:18:59,799
Speaker 1: really like even though I don't watch basketball or baseball

1485
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 1: early like I did ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, Like

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01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,240
Speaker 1: I love watching a big NBA playoff game or big

1487
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: March Madness game or the World Series when it's Yankees Dodgers,

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01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: Like that's just fucking this is what I love to

1489
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: do watch. I'm a consumer first, and the one thing

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01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: I've always respected about Nick I feel like he really

1491
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: really enjoys watching the games. And I think it's pretty

1492
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 1: clear there are a lot of people in this business

1493
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 1: that I don't think really do. I know? Colin still

1494
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: like text me all the time during football season, like

1495
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: can you believe this guy? What do you think of

1496
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:32,559
Speaker 1: this guy? Like, I just know he loves watching football,

1497
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, like he I know when a USC is

1498
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: playing Michigan, like he's geeked up for that game. And

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01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: I just think a lot of guys lose that. And

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01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 1: sometimes if you're a beat rider or whatever, it's it's

1501
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: a different experience. But I really I get along and

1502
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,600
Speaker 1: I did when I worked in the Berry media. And

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01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 1: trust me, the way I live my life is a

1504
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,400
Speaker 1: lot different the way these guys live their life. And

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01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: I call these guys very close friends because like I

1506
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 1: know that they really like it. I love Tim Kawakami,

1507
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,799
Speaker 1: who started the Athletic, Like that guy just loves sports.

1508
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: He's good at his job, he's a great columnist. He's

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01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 1: just he's just he's just good. I mean he's someone

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01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 1: I've I looked up to when I first got kind

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01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 1: of in the business. Greg Papa, same thing. I mean,

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01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: these guys love a big game, like they get up

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01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,759
Speaker 1: for it like when they were young, and I anyone

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01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: who can kind of keep that fire. I'm regardless of

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01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,719
Speaker 1: whether I agree with your takes or you know, whether

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01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for sports, we'd be friends and get

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01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 1: along and hang out. In real life, we're gonna get along.

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01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 1: And I've met a lot of people in this business

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01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: that I just I can just get along with because

1520
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: of our love of the actual games, which I think

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01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: sometimes in this world can get lost the volume