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Speaker 1: Let's start with the forty nine ers, and every single

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Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses of your scheme. He feels very very

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Speaker 1: comfortable coaching a game plan against something he has a

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Speaker 1: lot of history against. It's a lot more difficult going

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Speaker 1: against uncommon opponents even when you're a good coach, let

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Speaker 1: think that it's something to monitor, and it would be

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Speaker 1: there's no play I would if I was a Miami

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Speaker 1: Dolphins fan, I would rather have Tua miss a game

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Speaker 1: I'd rather go with Mike White and Tua than or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, the in Tyreek then Tua and no Tyreek.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not a hater. I like your squad. I

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Speaker 1: love the colors, love the city, Love Florida. You guys

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Speaker 1: other things. Trades. We talked a lot yesterday about why

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Speaker 1: certain guys can be had for not much. And obviously

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Speaker 1: the high end guys, you get several teams involved, the

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Speaker 1: price goes way up. It's just basic economics. Right when

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Speaker 1: you of multiple people bidding, the price is just gonna

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Speaker 1: go up. When no one's bidding, that's when you can

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Speaker 1: get a quote unquote discount. Right the hell the house

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Speaker 1: I'm in right now is. I liked it a lot.

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Speaker 1: I had to put several hundred thousand dollars into it,

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Speaker 1: was originally listed. For my negotiating power. I was not

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Speaker 1: bidding against other people. Really. The only people I was

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Speaker 1: bidding against were home flippers. Well, they are so unemotional

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Speaker 1: about buying a house. Their number, especially as the interest

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Speaker 1: rates were going up, was so low they were not

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Speaker 1: even a factor. So I was bidding against myself. Really

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Speaker 1: where a lot of people, anyone that's bought a house

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. And I did this when

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Speaker 1: I bought a condo in the Bay Area several years ago.

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Speaker 1: When you start bidding against other people, you're like, God,

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Speaker 1: how much higher am I going to go? And that's

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Speaker 1: what the case is sometimes in the trade deadline, right,

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Speaker 1: so I see two names, They're gonna be very, very intriguing.

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Speaker 1: I understand that Saquon Barkley does not want to be traded.

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Speaker 1: I understand that Brian Dayball says we're not trading him.

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Speaker 1: But what if, like the Bills would give you a

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Speaker 1: second round pick, are you gonna extend this player after

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Speaker 1: the season, Like, are you just gonna franchise tag him? Again,

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Speaker 1: clearly that's not ideal. The price goes up. Is this

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Speaker 1: a situation where you kind of take something right now

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Speaker 1: and move on when your team is terrible? You play

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Speaker 1: the Jets this weekend, you're two and five, you lose

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Speaker 1: that game. And again I'm not saying the Giants have

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Speaker 1: actually been really feisty the last two weeks that they

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Speaker 1: have looked a lot more competitive with Tyrod Taylor. Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones wasn't clear to practice today, so I think it's

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Speaker 1: fair to assume Tyrod's gonna play again. Would you trade

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Speaker 1: take one Barkley? Because I would for the right price.

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Speaker 1: If I could somehow get a team a little desperate

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Speaker 1: to give me a two, or to give me a

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Speaker 1: three and a two the following year, or some sort

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Speaker 1: of package, why not. You are going nowhere and nowhere fast.

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Speaker 1: This is not a player under contract. This is a

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Speaker 1: player that you're gonna have to either pay more next

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Speaker 1: year on a one year deal or sign to a

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Speaker 1: long term extension, which clearly this offseason showed you are

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Speaker 1: not inclined to do. I think it has to be

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Speaker 1: on the table now. It takes two to tango. You

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Speaker 1: need someone to offer you. I wouldn't just give them

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Speaker 1: away for a fourth or fifth round pick. But to me,

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Speaker 1: if you could get a second round pick from some

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Speaker 1: of these teams that are, you know, on the playoff fringe,

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Speaker 1: like if the Baltimore Ravens were to call you at

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Now Obviously, that second round pick is

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Speaker 1: not pick thirty six, it's more pick fifty nine or sixty.

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta think about it because we're all

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Speaker 1: watching your team this year, like you're several players away.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot to figure out moving forward. And

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Speaker 1: let's face it, you can find a running back with

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Speaker 1: that pick who also costs like a million dollars a year,

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Speaker 1: So it's a double whammy. It gives you more equity

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Speaker 1: or excuse me, resources in the draft, and it kind

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Speaker 1: of gives you the ability to get a cheaper running

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Speaker 1: back who probably could do eighty percent of what Saquon

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Speaker 1: does for a tenth of the price. I think it

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Speaker 1: has to be on the table now. I know you

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Speaker 1: really liked the guy you drafted, the guy you like

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Speaker 1: having him to sell jerseys. He's a good player to

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Speaker 1: have on your team. I'm not disputing that. But this

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Speaker 1: is also a business, and I think you need to

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Speaker 1: make big picture moves. And clearly the move you made

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones you regret. How could you not? If

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Speaker 1: you had that one to do over, you wouldn't heartbeat

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Speaker 1: And this is a time where I think you have

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Speaker 1: to think a little bit. You know, past just the

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Speaker 1: next couple weeks, because I got news for it. If

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Speaker 1: you lose, the Jets just mail in the year another

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Speaker 1: running back who I do think could be traded, and

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Speaker 1: definitely the Titans want to trade him a lot like

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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, though, does it make sense just giving a

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Speaker 1: guy away who is still somewhat of a reason that

542
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Speaker 1: people come to your games? Because the hard part, Like

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00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: in the NBA for the last seven eight years, teams

544
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: constantly tanked. They did not give a shit if you

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Speaker 1: a ticket and came to a game, just like kind

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Speaker 1: of a middle finger to you. I saw the television

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Speaker 1: ratings on Opening Night. They're not good. So you can

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Speaker 1: only say f you to your consumer. And you're paying

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Speaker 1: customers so many times till eventually they tap out, till

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Speaker 1: eventually they say yeah, thanks, but no thanks. So part

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Speaker 1: of being a business like and you could make this

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Speaker 1: argument with Saquan as well. If we're gonna win four games,

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Speaker 1: at least if you're coming to met Life, you get

554
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Speaker 1: to watch Saquon Barkley and obviously Derrick Henry with the Titans,

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Speaker 1: who has had a much more illustrious, powerful and record

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Speaker 1: setting career that it's hard to pass with a guy

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Speaker 1: like that. But after you trade your team captain a

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Speaker 1: couple days ago for basically a bag of peanuts, I

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Speaker 1: do think if you could get i don't know, like

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Speaker 1: a fourth and fifth round pick for Derrick Henry at

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Speaker 1: this point, he's not gonna be on your team next year.

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Speaker 1: That much is true. You are going nowhere. You're starting

563
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Speaker 1: Will Levis this week. Sometimes it does make sense to

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Speaker 1: just wave the white flag, and the moment this guy

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Speaker 1: tweat ten ankle or something, you're not going to be

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Speaker 1: able to trade him, like if he were to get

567
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Speaker 1: injured this week. To me, if he comes out healthy,

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta trade him. And then if I'm

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Speaker 1: a team, to me, the Ravens obviously the Cowboys, he's

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Speaker 1: a unique player. To me, Saquon is an easier guy

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Speaker 1: that his carries or touches on a weekly basis can

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Speaker 1: kind of ebb and flow because he's just he's just

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Speaker 1: a more versatile player, you know. To me, Dereck Henry

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Speaker 1: is your classic like nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties running back.

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of times, especially the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: when you've watched him, he can have one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty yards, but a lot of that comes on two

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Speaker 1: or three carries because he's getting eighteen to twenty carries

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Speaker 1: a game. Now, a lot of teams aren't really operating

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Speaker 1: like that. It's easier like Saquon could have an impactful

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Speaker 1: game with nine carries and three touches. It feels like,

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Speaker 1: and listen, I'm not trying to be hot takey here.

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Speaker 1: It's a little harder for Derek to play like that.

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Speaker 1: He's much more of an accumulation over the course of

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Speaker 1: a game and kind of wear you out and kind

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Speaker 1: of get going over carry after carry after carry after carry,

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Speaker 1: and eventually he's gonna break a bigger run. And I

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Speaker 1: do think that hurts his value a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: he's never been known it's not because he can't, you know,

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Speaker 1: catch the ball, but I don't think he's viewed as

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Speaker 1: like a great pass catching back. You know, this isn't

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey or Alvin Kamara. So you're basically trading for

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Speaker 1: him to be your starting running back, and for him

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Speaker 1: to be an effective starting running back, you got to

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Speaker 1: give him X amount of carries, and that's something I

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Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of teams are talking about you technically,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this contracts over after this season, he'll be

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Speaker 1: a free agent. You don't owe him any money, so

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Speaker 1: you're basically just a one year rental. I do wonder

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Speaker 1: if it would be very hard for the Titans to

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Speaker 1: get a third round pick now they just prove that

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Speaker 1: they traded one of their best players over the time

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Speaker 1: with Derek when they've gone to the playoffs several times

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Speaker 1: for not much so would they do the same thing

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Speaker 1: to hear and just try to gather and accumulate draft

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Speaker 1: cad I think that has to be on the table

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Speaker 1: now that they have a new general manager. I just

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Speaker 1: wonder if when he is traded in the next four

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Speaker 1: or five days, probably come after Sunday. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: if people go, wait, you just got Derrick Henry fur

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Speaker 1: a conditional fourth. It's just kind of the way the

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Speaker 1: Start with Johnny mailbag question. I'm thinking about watching the

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Speaker 1: Spanish telecast of tomorrow night's game because Al and Herb

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Speaker 1: Street are so dang snoozy. I guess my question would

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Speaker 1: you have ever considered this? I think the answer is no,

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Speaker 1: mainly because I just my Spanish is. Tried to communicate

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Speaker 1: in Spanish over the last couple of weeks, and I

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Speaker 1: used to be able to communicate pretty well. Definitely the

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Speaker 1: basic stuff I can't. I mean, I've lost it. I

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Speaker 1: definitely could hold a conversation in my younger years. Those

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Speaker 1: they were saying. Though energy would be high, the energy

640
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: on the Spanish telecast would blow away. And this pains

641
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: me to say. I have no problem talking shit about

642
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: broadcasters when they're terrible. And let's face it, a ton

643
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: of guys on Saturday and Sunday are god awful. And

644
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: I'll be the first too. Ad it's a hard job.

645
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: I would never want that job. I think it's easy

646
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: to be critical on the outside, but it's pretty clear

647
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 1: when a guy's good at the job and a guy's bad,

648
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are not very good. Now

649
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: you gotta fill seats, so it's happening all over the place.

650
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,959
Speaker 1: Al Michaels is one of the truly greats of all time.

651
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Right in herb Street, I think is really good on

652
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: college football, this natural habitat right. Here's the thing with

653
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: al Michaels. It happens to athletes. Michael Jordan got old,

654
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning couldn't throw like it happens. Ow it's over now.

655
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for taking a huge paycheck, but

656
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: it's not an easy watch. And I see him say, well,

657
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,479
Speaker 1: everyone talkshit on social media. I don't even care. That's

658
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: not even the point at this time. It's just he's

659
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: just not any good anymore. He constantly he just it's

660
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: bad and him and Herbstreet just have no chemistry. There

661
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: is no chemistry between the two guys, and that clearly

662
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: matters a lot, whether it's a radio show, whether it's

663
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 1: a podcast, or whether it's a broadcast. Like I say

664
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: this about Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, who to me

665
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: or two of the greats of all time. And I

666
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: know a lot of people talk shit about Joe Buck.

667
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: He's really really good and I think Aikman is fantastic.

668
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: They have really good chemistry. Pat Summerle and John Madden

669
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: great chemistry forever. Mike Turco and John Gruden say what

670
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: you want about Gruden and not everyone loved him on TV.

671
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: They had really good chemistry. It was an easy watch

672
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: and Al Michael's at Herb Street is just not an

673
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,959
Speaker 1: easy watch. In fairness to Herbstreet, I don't blame either.

674
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: Money was huge. Sometimes you just listen. This might last

675
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but I'm gonna make I would

676
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,479
Speaker 1: guess Herbstreet's making an extra fifteen million dollars be making

677
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: twenty five. I mean, what are they supposed to do?

678
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: Say no, don't blame them, but it's really bad. Another

679
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: perspective on Steve Wilkes. Nobody is bringing up this is

680
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: similar to what happened in Carolina. His defense faltered while

681
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: rule took blame and ultimately got fired. All of a sudden,

682
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: Steve took over the team and the defensive play calling

683
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: went to Al Hulcom. Are we sure this guy can

684
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: coach defense? This team is clearly going in the wrong direction.

685
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: How long before we can make a switch. He's not

686
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: gonna fire Steve Wilkes during the season. That's just not

687
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: gonna happen unless they have a catastrophe. And their numbers

688
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: actually look better than the eye test. And let's face it,

689
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: sometimes like you're just watching the game and you go,

690
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: this doesn't look great. I don't care. They only score

691
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: twenty two points and the Niners turned it over. They're

692
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: not as good right now, and the pass rush is

693
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: not good enough. And Nick Bosa, someone you are paying

694
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: an astronomical amount of money to, is not playing well,

695
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: and they're not firing the defensive line coach who is

696
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: the highest paid defensive line coach in the league and

697
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 1: elite at his job, just like what's his name in

698
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: Philly on the offensive line coach stout Wind, Like an

699
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: on line struggles, the coordinator is getting the blame, not

700
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,319
Speaker 1: the position coach. That's the way it works here. So

701
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: I saw Dante scarnekia get. I think he was put

702
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: in the Patriot Hall of Fame this weekend. I think

703
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: probably with Rabel. Like when an offensive lineman was struggling,

704
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: Belichick wasn't blaming Dante. It's too good. So I think

705
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: the thing you have to ask yourself is Will's got

706
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,439
Speaker 1: to figure it out. Maybe blitz Moore or blitz Less

707
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: excuse me, He's gonna just need Nick Bosa to play better.

708
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: And part of an elite player isn't necessarily always scheme.

709
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: It might be motivation, it might be just getting on

710
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: the same page with the guy. But I think Mike

711
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 1: Tomlin said this once, like anyone could get an ad

712
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: average player to be, you know, a C player, to

713
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: play a game like he's a B player. Like that's

714
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: most coaches worth their salt can do that. He's like

715
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: the truly great coaches get their high end players to

716
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: always play high level, right. That's what makes Parcels or

717
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh or Andy Reid or Belichick like, can you

718
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: get your Pro Bowlers ninety percent of the time playing

719
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: at that level, because that's how you win. And the

720
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: Niners need Nick Bosa to be a fifteen SAT guy Like,

721
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: I'm watching the Steelers TJ Wats kicking the shit out

722
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: of everybody. Miles Garrett would him and Jim Schwartz guy

723
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 1: looks like the most dominant player in the league. Aaron

724
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: Donald got all these guys jobs, so you got to

725
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: get your best player playing at a high level. I

726
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: like Fields do Atlanta. He doesn't want to be in Chicago.

727
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't like the cold weather. Atlanta is maybe the

728
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: worst quarterback, but they have a good record, so they

729
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: won't be able to get a top guy. I think

730
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: Fields would be a perfect fit for Atlanta and all

731
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: the weapons they have. Perfect fit would be strong because

732
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: I think accuracy has been questioned, but he definitely I

733
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: would take Justin Fields over Desmond Ridder. I mean, they're

734
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: going to compete and we'll see what happens Thursday. With Buccaneers,

735
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: I would assume they lose, they are in the driver's

736
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: seat to win the division. The Saints got way too

737
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 1: many issues. I do not trust Now Carr and Dennis Allen.

738
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: I don't trust Desmond Ridder, but eight wins might win

739
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: you the division. So I think the big question you

740
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: ask is would you trade for Justin Fields? Would you

741
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: just give? Would they trade him to you for a

742
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: second round pick and just play the rest of the

743
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: year with Tyler Badginett, Baganett, whatever the hell's name is,

744
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: because I would do that if I was the Bears,

745
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: especially if you know he's not coming back because he's

746
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: kind of got some positive momentum. Now he injured his

747
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: thumb and is out of whiles that's a problem. But

748
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: if he had been healthy, I would definitely have traded him.

749
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: And I think Atlanta is a good example of their

750
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: quarterback away from being you know, ten win team, would

751
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: they be in the Kirk Cousins sweepstakes as off I

752
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: would imagine. So Now, clearly Arthur Smith likes an athletic quarterback,

753
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: but Desmond Ritter is not it that game. I had

754
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: it on one of the four boxes on YouTube because

755
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: YouTube TV has the direct package, and you know you

756
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: can kind of do multiview with any set of games.

757
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: And that was a tough watch. It really really was

758
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: a tough watch that game. And I tried to follow

759
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: the story. I'm not quite I didn't read enough on

760
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 1: it that b Jhon Robinson was sick on Sunday, and

761
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: Florio wrote this thing that Arthur Smith pushed back, like,

762
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: why would I admit that he was sick? Now if

763
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 1: he had been sick during the week, as long as

764
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,720
Speaker 1: he practices in full, you don't have to say anything.

765
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: But there are specific rules that if a guy is

766
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: limited because of illness or injury, like this is the

767
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: big leagues. This isn't a competitive advantage or disadvantage. Every

768
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: team has to do this. If every team did not

769
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: have to disclose injury, they clearly would not. But the

770
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: league has these protocols in for a reason. The other

771
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: leagues are a fucking embarrassment. They love claiming they get

772
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: the gambling money. But it's like, you can't not tell

773
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: me about injuries and then expect to get the gambling money.

774
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: It's why we don't gamble on the other sports. I

775
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: trust me my second favorit sport golf. You don't ever

776
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: find out anything about injuries. Now, in fairness, they're like

777
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: independent contractors. But all of a sudden, you put some

778
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: money on a guy and then he withdraws on Thursday.

779
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, my thumb's been hurting. I would have

780
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: liked to know that information before I put two hundred

781
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars on you to top five in the

782
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: NBA at at any moments, not like, hey, he's just out,

783
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: he's got a tweaked hammy. It's like, well, it's been

784
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: nice to hear some of this. The only guy I've

785
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: ever heard about talk like this in basketball is Brian

786
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: Winhorse has been hammering this for years. You can't be

787
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: in bed with these gambling companies and not be above

788
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: board when it comes to this stuff. I don't need

789
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: to see the MRI results on the internet, but you

790
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: just have to give me some basic level of Yeah,

791
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: I got a hurt left leg, so I know not

792
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: to gamble on you. After the forty nine Ers last

793
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: two games? Are you a believer in brock Purty? Seems

794
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: like without the full arsenal of weapons that he's not

795
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: able to elevate the offense. Was this similar to Tom

796
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: Brady early on? Do you think he continues to get

797
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: better and can eventually become a true franchise quarterback. Well,

798
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, he was terrible in the rain against

799
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: a high level defense, and he still led him on

800
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: a game winning drive that the kicker missed from forty yards.

801
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,399
Speaker 1: But that was a very, very tough environment the way

802
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: Cleveland was playing. It would have taken to really have

803
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: a successful day a Mahomes a Lamar, a Josh Allen

804
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: playing at their A game to have success. Most quarterbacks,

805
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: even guys better than Purdy, would have struggled in that scenario.

806
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: I did think he played pretty well against Minnesota until

807
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: the final two drives when he threw two interceptions. Now,

808
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: someone in the league texted me, They're like, I think

809
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: that was on Juwan Jennings the first pick, because he

810
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: throws it to an area he's expecting Juwan to get there.

811
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: I get coaches speak like that and think like that,

812
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: I can't throw the ball to the middle of the

813
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: field with five minutes left, when I'm down five, when

814
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: the when the wide receiver is nowhere in sight. I'm

815
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: all for anticipation throwing guys open, but there is a balance.

816
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: We harp on this with Dak Prescott, however you get there. Now,

817
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 1: it's one thing. If it goes off your offensive player's hands,

818
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: then I do not blame the quarterback. But if you

819
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: hit the guy in the numbers on the other team,

820
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,359
Speaker 1: that is on you as the quarterback. That is your job.

821
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: It just is you have to be more careful. It's

822
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: one thing to throw with anticipation into a risky spot

823
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: in a tie game when you're leading. It's another thing

824
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: with a couple of minutes left and you are down.

825
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: You have to be extra careful. We talk about ball

826
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 1: security a lot. It's not just fumbles, it's also passing

827
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: the ball. And I think he made reckless. Might be

828
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: too strong, but that that pass can happen. You can't

829
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: throw it your peripheral vision. You have to see that

830
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: he's slipping and sliding fifteen you know, maybe not fifteen

831
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: yards but six seven yards of the left. He's not

832
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: even remotely close. So you can't just let that thing

833
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: rip out of your hand. I put that on the quarterback.

834
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just do. And then the last pick whatever,

835
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: you got to try to do something. You were in

836
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: a position because you didn't have a timeout, which probably

837
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: a little bit on the quarterback too, So yeah, I

838
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: mean they're just he's a young player. He's basically this

839
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: would be when he start six games last year and

840
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: seven you know, he hasn't even started a full season yet.

841
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 1: I don't have definitive he's gonna definitely, I'm not putting

842
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: him in Tom Brady's category. But even as a young player,

843
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: it's not even fair. But yeah, there's a lot to

844
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: be proven. And as we talked about earlier, he's injured again.

845
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: Now it's not necessarily his fault. I saw the clip

846
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: before I hopped on to do the mail bag. Florio

847
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: tweeted it out of him sneaking the ball and he

848
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: got crushed in the helmet, and it's you know, concussions

849
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: are very very random obviously, but just not ideal. He's

850
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: had a major elbow injury and now he's probably gonna

851
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: miss a game, So durability is starting to be a question,

852
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: which is I think most people, if I just pulled

853
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: all the people I know in the league that evaluated

854
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: him coming out, they would say, yeah, we were just

855
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: even if we liked him as a backup quarterback, he

856
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: was pretty small. How would he hold up in the NFL.

857
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: Why people lean with big, strong athletes, right, There's a

858
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: reason Lebron, you know, is more durable than some players

859
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: in the NBA. There's a reason. It doesn't guarantee you're

860
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: gonna be durable. But I just like bigger, stronger, faster players.

861
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: Love the daily content, best pot out there. God Nolan,

862
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: you're a good man. I was listening to talking about

863
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley not being cut out to be an NFL

864
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: head and I agree, But what about a team like

865
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: the Cowboys hiring him to be their OC. Jerry would

866
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: obviously have to pay him a lot of money to

867
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: get him away from USC for a coordinator position, but

868
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: is that even in the realm of possibility. I feel

869
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: like McCarthy is a decent head coach, but he's clearly

870
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: been a little overwhelmed with the play calling and I

871
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: think Dak in the entire offense could benefit. I like

872
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: your mindset, and your owner does have the money to

873
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: pay whatever he wants. He's paid Kellen Moore. He was

874
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid offensive coordinators the last couple

875
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 1: of years. Back in the day, Jason Garrett was paid

876
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: like a head coach. We've seen Robert Kraft do this

877
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: with Josh McDaniels, pay him six to seven million dollars

878
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: to be the offensive coordinator. The problem with this one

879
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: is Lincoln Riley's has one hundred and twenty million dollar contract.

880
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that, one hundred and twenty million dollar contract.

881
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: And you know I got for the first time in

882
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: my life because I've always lived in like condos or apartments.

883
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: At a house, you know, part of being a grown up,

884
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: which I didn't bring much this house, beside cutting the

885
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: checks and some televisions and the front door. But I

886
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: did help choose the kitchen table. And it's a long, skinny,

887
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, over one hundred inch kitchen table, So it's long.

888
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: And when I would worked in football, we used to

889
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: have these long meeting room tables that were like triple

890
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: the size of kitchen tables. You could fit your entire

891
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: coaching staff on there, and the head coach sits at

892
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: the end and the coordinators sit in the corners. Everyone

893
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: always wants to sit in the front end of the table.

894
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: Why you make the most money and you control the meetings.

895
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: So while I've always said being a number two in

896
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: football is an incredible job, I just read a headline

897
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: a while back. When I say a while back, last

898
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: week Arkansas fired their offensive coordinator, I guess that was

899
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: a couple days ago. They paid him three point seven

900
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: million dollars to go away. So when you're sitting at

901
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: the head of the table, you are making an ungodly

902
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: amount of money. Like Lincoln Riley, you're making one hundred

903
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars. Put it in perspective, he's probably

904
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: making two and a half times when you factor in

905
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: the length and the guaranteed money on his contract of

906
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy is making. So these coordinators in college

907
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: and pro make a ton. But when you sit at

908
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: the head of the table, it's not just even about

909
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: the money. You run everything, run the meetings run in college.

910
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: You're also the GM, which clearly Lincoln needs a little help.

911
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: So it's where that type move is possible. Is if

912
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: the guy's like a head coach at Boise State, if

913
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 1: you're the head coach at Fresno State or San Diego

914
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: State and you're making two or three million dollars, and

915
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: I want you to be my coordinator at Ohio State

916
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: or even in the NFL, Yeah, I can do that.

917
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders did that with the ken State offensive coordinator,

918
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: he or I mean head coach, he was the head

919
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: coach there. I read an article I think by Bruce Feldman.

920
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: He'd been trying to get head coaching jobs at higher spots.

921
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: He'd interviewed at Louisville, at Cincinnati, and then he kind

922
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: of he came to the realization, I don't think I

923
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: can become a head coach from the job I have

924
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: right now, even if I'm successful. So he went to

925
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders, who I don't know if he's making the

926
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: same money. I think with Dion he's probably making eight

927
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: nine hundred grand, maybe million bucks. But Lincoln Riley, it's

928
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: not possible. He makes way too much money. And he

929
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: just he has way too much power. It's hard to

930
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: give up that. It's hard to take orders when you're

931
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: making more money giving out the orders. And I'm not

932
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 1: even saying he's like addicted to given the orders. It's

933
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: just you'd rather make decisions than suggestions. And when you're

934
00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 1: a coordinator, you make suggestions. And Lincoln Riley now for

935
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: six seven years, whatever official year he was named the

936
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: head coach at Oklahoma, he's been making decisions. And once

937
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: you start making decisions. It feels pretty good. Thoughts on

938
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: the fair catch call in the Iowa game. I thought

939
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: it was pretty close. I saw a lot of people

940
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: act like it was one hundred definitive. He was not

941
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: doing it. I could see it both ways. My overall

942
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: take is like, I have a hard time feeling bad

943
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: for Iowa. That program. How can we go this many years?

944
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,959
Speaker 1: Was struggling to score? I just don't get it how

945
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,439
Speaker 1: every time? And I don't watch Iowa football these last

946
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,760
Speaker 1: couple of years. They're just too difficult to have a watch.

947
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: Do I look up and it's seven to six in

948
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: the third quarter. As someone tweeted at me on Saturday,

949
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: I think right before that game end, or maybe after

950
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: it ended and they lost. They have more yards punting

951
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: this year than they do on offense. Now, I'll be

952
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: full disclosure, I did not look that up to verify that,

953
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: but just seeing their scores throughout the year, I think

954
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: it feels correct. Their offensive coordinator, the son of the coach,

955
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: clearly has the provision in his contract if they don't

956
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: win X amount of games. I think it's like eight

957
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 1: or nine, and it's average above twenty five points, which

958
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: clearly they are not going to I just do not

959
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: understand how they can't score any points. Now. I understand

960
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: why it's difficult to get star offensive players there, but

961
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: are you really just bad on offense consistently? I mean

962
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: they are really really tough to watch on offense. Lincoln

963
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 1: Riley has the easiest fix in the world. He doesn't

964
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: even need to be the DC. He would fix the

965
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: d line, fix the defensive recruiting and dog toughness has

966
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: a name and loves usc go higher. Coach oh, I

967
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 1: don't think coach O can be your defensive coordinator. Part

968
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: of it is the coverages really matter. I'm trying to

969
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: say this in a nice way, Like to be a

970
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 1: good defensive coordinator, two things you got to be good at.

971
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: Obviously the intensity, the motivation, Like the defensive side of

972
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: the ball is I would say stimulated by just intensity. Right,

973
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: what do we talk about with defense? Effort, rallying to

974
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: the ball, that's a huge theme of defense, but also

975
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: the back seven. We talk a lot about the front seven,

976
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: but in college football where everyone passes, the back seven

977
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: your linebackers and your dbs, which mean the coverages, and

978
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: that can be very very difficult. I don't think Coajo

979
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 1: could do that? Do I think he could be their

980
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: d line coach? Yeah? Would he do that? I don't know, doubtful.

981
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: Do you ever mentally spend your gambling winnings before you

982
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: actually win? Do you make plans for it? I do?

983
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: And I can't Ethan stand it. I mean, come on,

984
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: are we human? I've done that a million times? Who hasn't?

985
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: And then, like everyone that there is no bigger kicking

986
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: the nuts, especially if you have a big bet, like

987
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: if you have if you have four plus figures coming

988
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: back to you and you're like, God, you already have

989
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: something planned. I remember, I mean some of my biggest potentials.

990
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: When Rory McElroy was gonna win the British Open at

991
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: Saint Andrew's was it last Yeah? Last year, not this

992
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 1: golf season, but in twenty twenty two, I think I

993
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: was set to make either fifty five hundred or sixty

994
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: five hundred. I had some ideas with that coin, because

995
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: it's just like extra money. You're not gonna use it

996
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: to pay the credit card or pay the mortgage. You're like,

997
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something fun with this cash. And then

998
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: he can't make a putt to save his life. And

999
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: Cam Smith H's like thirty three on the back and

1000
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: you lose and then it sucks and then you never

1001
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: look at Rory the same. But yeah, that's it's part

1002
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: of being gambler man, part of being a gambler. Hey, John,

1003
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: why don't teams run a sort of box and one

1004
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: defense like you see in basketball against teams with one

1005
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: dominant wide receiver, For instance, against the Chiefs. Travis kelce

1006
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: always puts up insane numbers against the Chargers and seems

1007
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: to just murder their zone defense, and he is almost

1008
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: always all caps and always wide open. Why don't teams

1009
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: run a zone and man cover traf would just create

1010
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 1: a schematic issue that I don't understand. Or do you

1011
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: think I should start applying for defensive coordinator positions around

1012
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:39,240
Speaker 1: the league? I think a huge part of defense is

1013
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: lanes and spots on the field. So if you have

1014
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: a guy who just chases and I'm not defending Brandon

1015
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: Staley here, but who just chases him around essentially like

1016
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: a spy on the quarterback, but he spies Travis kelcey

1017
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: and then behind him you just run the zone defense. Yeah,

1018
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. You'd have to get a defensive coach

1019
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: to really describe to me. While that's not even possible,

1020
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of teams do bracket coverages.

1021
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: A lot of it has to do with areas on

1022
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: the field. Right when you do zone defenses. If I'm

1023
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: a spot or pattern matcher as a linebacker or as

1024
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: you know, the nickel corner, I kind of have a

1025
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: general area. And there's a balance of not just one

1026
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: thing I used to learn or that I did learn

1027
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: when I worked in the NFL, is if you just

1028
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: follow the play sheet, like just five yards back and

1029
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: three yards over, Well, if you're just killing grass, you

1030
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: also have to be instinctive, right, And there's a big balance.

1031
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: What makes great zone defenders are instincts, not guys that

1032
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: just sit in the spot like three yards back, four

1033
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: yards over, sit here. No, it's like you got to

1034
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: have a feel for the position. And I think part

1035
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: of that is just you have to be an instinctive

1036
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: football player, and part of that is the coaching. And

1037
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: it does feel the level in which the Chargers play defense.

1038
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: Like if you tell me Brandon Staley on a whiteboard,

1039
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: do I think he could describe everything he's attempting to

1040
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: do to make a lot of sense. I think if

1041
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: you gave him a pen and you gave him a

1042
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: whiteboard to just start describing defensive philosophies against the Chiefs,

1043
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,760
Speaker 1: you'd be like, God, he's got some good ideas. The problem,

1044
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what he knows. Being a coach is

1045
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: about communicating those ideas and giving them to the players,

1046
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: and his players consistently look just kind of deer in

1047
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: the headlights, loss standing. There no one knows what's going on.

1048
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 1: And that's why I think Brandon Staley is so bad.

1049
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: Whatever his messages. It's one thing. If you just get

1050
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: beat your guys aren't good enough. That's football, right. It

1051
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: happens in junior Peewee's to high school, to college to

1052
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 1: the pros. You get beat some guys just you play

1053
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: Deon Sanders or and Donald like sometimes you just got

1054
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:03,879
Speaker 1: to tip your hat. But there are sometimes where it's

1055
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: like an average player can still make a play against

1056
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: a great player because he's coached up and then he

1057
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: makes He's an instinctive player, and it feels like from

1058
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: whatever he's giving these guys that they play slower in

1059
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: a huge part of football, and you hear this at

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Speaker 1: every single level is I want you to be to

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Speaker 1: understand so much what you're doing out there, you don't

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Speaker 1: even need to think. You just play fast. And that's

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Speaker 1: I would say historically what makes all the great players right,

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Speaker 1: they're just fluidity to their game. You just watch Tyreek

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Speaker 1: Hill doesn't even look like he's thinking. Where he clearly

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Speaker 1: is what coverage are you in? Where do I need

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Speaker 1: to go? Inside release? Outside release? Where do I break

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Speaker 1: this route off? Kelsey's a great example his ability to

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Speaker 1: work defenders. It never feels like he's thinking. He's just

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Speaker 1: playing even though he is thinking, right, And it's I

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Speaker 1: don't know Brandon Staley cannot because I do think he

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Speaker 1: would have some ideas to just slow him down, but

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Speaker 1: his players can't even begin to execute it. And like

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Speaker 1: you said, it just feels like guys are standing there

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Speaker 1: in grass killing grass, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey gets whatever ten for one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: and a touchdown and you get your ass kicked. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why people don't just

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Speaker 1: do kind of that spy zone, but clearly no one

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Speaker 1: ever does it. So it's I'm not pretending to be

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Speaker 1: you know, Belichick here to try to break it down why.

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Speaker 1: But there's got to be some philosophical reasons in defensive

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Speaker 1: football principles. Appreciate everyone listening. We will be back again

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. What's a role Baby? The volume