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Speaker 1: I don't care if he's throwing to DeAndre Hopkins. He

425
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Speaker 1: can make place he's done in his entire career. His

426
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Speaker 1: issue is when he gets banged up, he becomes half

427
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Speaker 1: as good, like he becomes a shell of himself because

428
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Speaker 1: of his size. You know how much his game is

429
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Speaker 1: based on movement and the explosive speed. But the guy

430
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Speaker 1: that I saw was damn what they did to the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: If I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan, you're by no means

432
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Speaker 1: a joke. And that was a team that you know,

433
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Speaker 1: the way we talk about the Giants, the way we

434
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Speaker 1: talk about the Patriots, we all put in pen not

435
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Speaker 1: in pencil, that the Arizona Cardinals were going to be

436
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Speaker 1: right there. Okay, Last, but not least, I find it

437
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Speaker 1: funny that when the media makes fun of all these

438
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Speaker 1: college athletic departments and universities that have these enormous buyouts

439
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Speaker 1: for their coaches. And let's use this as an example.

440
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Speaker 1: If you're listening to this right now, and you negotiate

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Speaker 1: deals for your company, whatever that may be, whether it's

442
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Speaker 1: hiring employees, whether that be acquisitions, whether it be vendors

443
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Speaker 1: you work with, I don't know, whatever it is. The

444
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: more and more you do that, your life becomes from

445
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Speaker 1: professionally very just based on dollars and cents. You become

446
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Speaker 1: numb to money. I would say most of the best

447
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: people in business as a negotiator are kind of unemotional

448
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Speaker 1: when it comes to dollars and cents. I honestly, I

449
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Speaker 1: think one downfall of a lot of people is they

450
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Speaker 1: become a little too emotionally tied to money. And I'm

451
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Speaker 1: not acting like I at point some time in my

452
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Speaker 1: life were never like that. Just as I've gotten older,

453
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Speaker 1: I've realized how little money does to me and I've

454
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Speaker 1: never made more, but it just the influence it has

455
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Speaker 1: on my happiness. I've just become kind of numb to it,

456
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Speaker 1: and it's made me better. I just negotiated, you know,

457
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Speaker 1: I've negotiated these deals with the volume and it's just

458
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Speaker 1: I don't care that much in terms of getting up

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Speaker 1: and down. Oh, and most of the best agents I've

460
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Speaker 1: talked to people in business. I'm not saying you can't

461
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Speaker 1: be emotionally invested in what you're negotiating, but you're just

462
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Speaker 1: you understand that every dollar. I'm not saying you blow money,

463
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Speaker 1: but you just become you understand that what to fight

464
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Speaker 1: for and what not to fight for. I guess that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm attempting to say. And I think people in

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Speaker 1: business negotiators get very good at that. And when I

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Speaker 1: look at these academic institutions like in the NFL, when

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Speaker 1: you negotiate, let's say, with the Philadelphia Eagles or the

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Speaker 1: San Fransco forty nine Ers, I use those to his

470
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Speaker 1: example because I know them the best. They have two

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Speaker 1: guys that negotiate on behalf of them, like the true

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Speaker 1: decision makers beside the owner in Parague Maarate for the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers and Howie Rosman for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 1: These guys have been negotiating deals now at the scale

475
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Speaker 1: of hundreds of millions of dollars for decades, so they

476
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Speaker 1: are numb to it. And then their knowledge of what

477
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Speaker 1: to fight for what not to fight for is just

478
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Speaker 1: going to be greater than the majority of agents beside

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Speaker 1: a couple. So they're always going to have an advantage, right,

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Speaker 1: And when I see these college institutions get in bed

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Speaker 1: with Jimbo Fisher or whoever it could be, Nick Saban

482
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Speaker 1: or Kirby Smart. The advantage that Jimmy Sexton, who represents

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Speaker 1: the majority of these individuals has because he negotiates for

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Speaker 1: a living and he's done it for decades against the

485
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Speaker 1: ultimate decision maker at these schools is not the athletic director,

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Speaker 1: who I would say is never going to be on

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Speaker 1: the level for the most part as one of these

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Speaker 1: high level agents. But he has a fighting chance. But

489
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the president. And while these presidents run

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Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars in terms under their umbrella

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Speaker 1: for the university, most of them come from academia. So

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Speaker 1: when you deal with grants or whatever for your institution,

493
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Speaker 1: you're just trying to raise money to then go let

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Speaker 1: your professors do it whatever they're going to do, which

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Speaker 1: is important, you know. I guess every individual instance is

496
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Speaker 1: probably a little different based on importance, but it's a

497
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Speaker 1: lot different. You're not paying any of these professors ten

498
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Speaker 1: million dollars a year. That's never going to be the case.

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Speaker 1: The dude in the science department might be making at

500
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Speaker 1: most three four hundred grady. So when you pay these

501
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Speaker 1: coaches this much money, it's because you're dealing with people

502
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Speaker 1: that operate in these worlds. So when you see that

503
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Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher is owed seventy five million dollars, it's simply

504
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Speaker 1: because and I've been told this, because I know some

505
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Speaker 1: of these agents that represent these coaches, these academic institutions

506
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Speaker 1: have no chance. They're always going to lose in the negotiation,

507
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Speaker 1: and they consistently do. Because in no other world would

508
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Speaker 1: you put yourself in a position to owe a guy

509
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Speaker 1: like this who has not produced the ROI for you

510
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Speaker 1: this much money. But time and time and time again,

511
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Sexton bends these presidents, and in fairness to these presidents,

512
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Speaker 1: this is not their world. They're never gonna know. I

513
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: don't care how many times they fuck up because this

514
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: is all kind of monopoly money to them anyway, This

515
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: is not coming out of their pocket. Like even in

516
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Speaker 1: the NFL, Mark Davis just paid someone to go away.

517
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: The logic behind hiring Josh McDaniels wasn't that crazy. Probably

518
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Speaker 1: one of the best coordinators on the market at the time.

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Speaker 1: He had to give him a six year deal and

520
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Speaker 1: pay him a lot of money because Robert Kraft, one

521
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Speaker 1: of the richer owners in the NFL, was paying him

522
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Speaker 1: a ton of money to be the offensive coordinator. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I gotta pay him ten million dollars a year if

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Speaker 1: the place he's working out to be the number two

525
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Speaker 1: is paying him six or seven. Remember he was making

526
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Speaker 1: an astronomical amount of money and offending Mark Davis here.

527
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Speaker 1: But in college you get a president who can get desperate,

528
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Speaker 1: who gets boosters in his ear, and at the end

529
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Speaker 1: of the day when you have to send these guys

530
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Speaker 1: on their way, this money is just coming from other boosters.

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Speaker 1: What I find crazy is the addiction you'd have to

532
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Speaker 1: have to your institution to Let's just assume I don't

533
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Speaker 1: exactly know how this is gonna go, but ten guys,

534
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Speaker 1: let's say less five guys are really involved in getting

535
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Speaker 1: together to get this seventy five million dollars over a

536
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Speaker 1: period of time to get Jimbo Fisher out of there, right,

537
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Speaker 1: And I just I can't imagine being that individual. I

538
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Speaker 1: really can't, right, at least in the NFL, like you

539
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: own the team, Like ultimately it's all your decisions. So

540
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Speaker 1: even if you are the biggest booster, it's never gonna

541
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Speaker 1: be all your decisions. It just never will, even if

542
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: you do have a lot of sway. But this notion

543
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Speaker 1: that everyone's like, I can't believe, you can't believe this

544
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: is happening over and over and over again. These presidents

545
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: get taken advantage of because it's not their world. They

546
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: have no shot that they do not and they are

547
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Speaker 1: never going to that. They're just not. As long as

548
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Speaker 1: academia runs the universities, this is going to continue to happen. Now,

549
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: put a CEO or someone like that in charge of

550
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: the entire university and you'd be well, middlecof. They run

551
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: these billion dollar endowments, it's different. It's completely you're just

552
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: getting you know, loads of money from rich people donating.

553
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: In this situation, you're negotiating a specific contract with a

554
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Speaker 1: specific individual. They don't do that anywhere else on campus. Hell,

555
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: they don't even do that anywhere else in the athletic

556
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Speaker 1: department beside some basketball teams. Hiring a soccer coach or

557
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: a baseball coach is easy, even if the guy makes

558
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Speaker 1: a lot of money. It might be like three years,

559
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Speaker 1: you know, two million dollars. If my baseball coach, you know,

560
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: makes six seven hundred thousand dollars, you're out. A football coach,

561
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: football coach makes that every month. So these are complicated,

562
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Speaker 1: and the agents continue to win. It's time for this

563
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Speaker 1: week's player or coach I thought might give almost almost

564
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565
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Speaker 1: While Ken Dorsey was shown the door today and he

566
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Speaker 1: was fired because us Josh Allen stinks right now, the

567
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Speaker 1: special teams coach right now has to be hiding under

568
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Speaker 1: his desk. As Sean McDermott said, having twelve men on

569
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Speaker 1: the field in that situation is inexcusable. As I said

570
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Speaker 1: after the game, that's an embarrassment. It's inexcusable. I don't

571
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Speaker 1: even think I think understates how ugly that is, what

572
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Speaker 1: a disaster that situation is. You can't tell me obviously

573
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Speaker 1: the Special Teams coach, but I was thinking about today

574
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Speaker 1: there's a player and publicly it hasn't got out yet

575
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Speaker 1: that clearly fucked up that was not supposed to be

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Speaker 1: on the field, whether he did not realize he was

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Speaker 1: off the unit, whether he was on the unit in

578
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Speaker 1: previous weeks and just had a brain fart. So the

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Speaker 1: special teams coach, I'm sure got undressed by McDermott. But

580
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Speaker 1: that player who also screwed up. Those two guys today

581
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Speaker 1: seeing Ken Dorsey clear out of his locker room, have

582
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Speaker 1: to be hiding have to be tiptoeing around the office

583
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Speaker 1: now while the a day off, it's probably just a coach. Tomorrow,

584
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Speaker 1: that player is gonna be terrified coming into that team

585
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: meeting because it's ugly. And that's this week's almost almost

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Speaker 1: Anything Player and Coach of the Week, the Buffalo Bill's

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Speaker 1: Special Teams, and you can order almost almost anything with

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Speaker 1: This is a little thing we call the mail bag,

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Speaker 1: the Middle Cough mail Bag, and the way you get

591
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Speaker 1: in the mail bag is you go to my Instagram,

592
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Speaker 1: which is my name at John Middlecoff. You fire in

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Speaker 1: those dms and get your questions answered. On the show.

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Speaker 1: We will start with Riley. If Sean McDermott got fired

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, does Buffalo take a look at hiring Brian

596
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Speaker 1: day Ball given how it's going in New York. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: Every Tuesday I go on Gottlieb's radio show on Fox

598
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Speaker 1: Sports and we talked football, and he asked me that

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Speaker 1: if Sean McDermott is relieved of his duties, what do

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Speaker 1: you think happens. Do you think they could go try

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Speaker 1: to get Brian Dable? And I said, if this was

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Speaker 1: college the former offensive coordinator who goes somewhere else that

603
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: they loved can save their quarterback. Brian Daball would be

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Speaker 1: the next coach of the Buffalo Bills. They would pay

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Speaker 1: him an ungodly amount of money and he would leave.

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Speaker 1: That's the way college sports work, which is kind of

607
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Speaker 1: fun but also pisses the media off a lot. I

608
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: really kind of entertained by it all, But I will

609
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: say about this in the National Football League, that does

610
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Speaker 1: not happen. Sean payton Quit said, I'm done, I'm burned out.

611
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Speaker 1: I need a breather. Saints like, okay, we got to

612
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Speaker 1: hire Dennis Allen. I guess that sucks, and it does

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Speaker 1: and it did and it has and uh then he say, actually,

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Speaker 1: I feel refreshed. I want to coach again. Teams are

615
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Speaker 1: snipping around. The team offers me ninety million, and the

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Speaker 1: Saints are like, well, we would still rather have you

617
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Speaker 1: as our coach. We're not just going to let you

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Speaker 1: coach for them. We're gonna trade you and it's gonna

619
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Speaker 1: cost a first round pick. And this guy they already

620
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: have a coach was never gonna coach for the Saints again,

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Speaker 1: and they got a first round pick. So, if you're

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Speaker 1: the Giants, even after this disastrous of a season, you

623
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Speaker 1: could not risk losing day Ball, who obviously has been

624
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Speaker 1: pretty ugly but just a year ago gave your fans hope,

625
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Speaker 1: resurrected the franchise for a short period of time. Let's

626
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Speaker 1: face it had been really, really ugly, and trade him

627
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Speaker 1: to the Bills. Even if they trade him, I think

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Speaker 1: you would say no. So I don't think that's an option. Now.

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Speaker 1: The problem if you are the Bills, you have to

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Speaker 1: hire an offensive coach. If McDermott is let go after

631
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Speaker 1: the season, it's not even an option. You have to

632
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Speaker 1: hire one offensive coach, Jim Harbaugh, which might not be crazy.

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Speaker 1: I think Jim Harbon and Josh Allen would have a

634
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Speaker 1: lot in common. I think they would definitely sniff around that.

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Speaker 1: I think hire a coordinator is awfully risky, even guys

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Speaker 1: that are having success, the Kellen Mooores, the Ben Johnson

637
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Speaker 1: in Detroit. I don't know if you can risk that

638
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: given how high your expectations are, so I think they're

639
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: in kind of a tough spot. I think they would

640
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: one hundred percent want Brian Daball not an option. I

641
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: think Jim Harbaugh would be the most realistic guy that

642
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with, who you know, former quarterback, even

643
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: though he's wired a little bit more like a linebacker.

644
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: But complicated situation for sure. Ryan, question for the pod,

645
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: have you ever considered doing a top ten similar to

646
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: the Herd hierarchy? Curious to see who you would put

647
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: in yours week to week? Not too much on the

648
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: Vikings lol. I think the Vikings would be uh actually

649
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: probably not in the top ten because the AFC would

650
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: have so many ten let's just go off the top

651
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: of my head right now, Niners, Eagles, Chiefs, in whatever

652
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: order you want Ravens Brown, I'm not writing off the

653
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: Bengals yet. Bengals. Who am I forgetting Dolphins? Lions? Listen,

654
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: here's the thing with the power rankings, and listen obviously

655
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: the herd hierarchy. I gotta get better at doing some

656
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: of those things. That's why I do the middle cuff

657
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: mail bag. Try to be consistent with trying to do

658
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: this Tuesday therapy. Just trying to add some landmarkers to

659
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: the show. We're doing a lot of content sometimes with

660
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 1: lists and maybe this is I gotta get over myself

661
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: on this I'm not huge on but they obviously work.

662
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: So who's the dummy? Not Colin? I mean obviously Yeah.

663
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe a top six power ranking like the I

664
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: want a cool name for it, like the Magnificent seven.

665
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you tell me the final four,

666
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: give me some sort of name for it. Any guests

667
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: to how the Jags go about paying Trevor Lawrence has

668
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: it put up great numbers, but wins? Does he get

669
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: a Burrow hurts lamars? Well, if they're one and done

670
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: or even win a barely win a playoff game? What's

671
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: always the rush to pay the guys? Right? Joe Burrow

672
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: totally understand. Resurrects your franchise, takes you to a fucking

673
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Has you toe to toe the next year

674
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes MVP Super Bowl Championship, just

675
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: kicking ass, taking names. Hell, Josh Allen, your franchise was dead.

676
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: Trevor's good. He's good. I'm not paying him after this year.

677
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: We're riding it out another year. I think sometimes we're

678
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: addicted to paying people, and sometimes it's the right call. Right.

679
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes you like this offseason, you gotta pay Micah Parsons.

680
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: You had to pay Nick Bosa, right, you gotta pay

681
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow this off seas, you gonna have to pay

682
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, Like welcome to the big leagues, Trevor, Like,

683
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: who cares? About three years ago everyone called you the

684
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: greatest prospective of all time. Now I'm gonna need more

685
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: than thirty touchdowns from you, And right now I think

686
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: I just checked he's got nine, So I hear you

687
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: there for mailbag. Now, it looks like Coach of the

688
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: Year is a two man race between Dan Campbell and

689
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans. What do you think it will take for

690
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: them to separate? From each other and ultimately win the

691
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year race. I think if Dan Campbell

692
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: is the number two seed or better, I think he

693
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: has to get it. It's the Detroit Lions. It was

694
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Nobody wanted him. What Demko's doing is unreal.

695
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: But if they go ten and seven, which is an

696
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: awesome job, If Dan Campbell wins thirteen or fourteen games

697
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: and is the two seed behind either the Eagles or

698
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, or somehow gets the one seed,

699
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: it's the Detroit freaking Lions. It's the Detroit freaking Lions.

700
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Nobody wanted that guy. Nobody would have taken

701
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 1: that guy a couple of years ago, and they did.

702
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: Nobody the Detroit Lions. Like ultimately, we can make fun

703
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, especially the last couple of years.

704
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: They were winning a lot, They were going to the

705
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: playoffs a lot with Bill O'Briant. They were not some

706
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: joke franchise. I think Dan Campbell's gonna get it. I

707
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: really do. I feel like it's I feel like it's

708
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for him not to win it. There

709
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: actually might not be a bigger lock right now. Than

710
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell being the coach of the Year in the

711
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: National Football League. Do McDermott and Staley both get let

712
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: go or just Staley? I think Staley will not be

713
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: the coach of the Chargers. I would say McDermott's in

714
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: some trouble. I would say McDermott's in a lot of

715
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: trouble right now, and I think his actions are showing it.

716
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: Anytime you fire the amount of coaches that he has,

717
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: I mean, fires defensive coordinator after the season, fires offensive

718
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: coordinator in the middle of the season. I think he's

719
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: feeling the heat, and I think he's feeling the heat

720
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: from the guys that signed the checks. And let's face it,

721
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: when you're as rich as that ownership is, you don't

722
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: get to live forever. You're paying this quarterback all this money,

723
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: you're probably pretty impatient. You're probably really impatient. Even the

724
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: amount of creditibility Sean McDermott has brought to your franchise,

725
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: him and Brandon Bean. I can't imagine those offices are

726
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: really tense right now. I can't imagine that's a fun place.

727
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: I really can't. First time mailbag question, what are your

728
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: thoughts on this take? Nick Wright? Had on Collins podcasts

729
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: a few months ago. It's essentially giving each team an

730
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: international game, so you would have eight home, eight road,

731
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: and one international. He also alluded to giving each team

732
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: another bye week. This way thoughts, well, just because you

733
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: play internationally now does not guarantee you a bye week.

734
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: So I get it in theory, and I actually don't

735
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: hate the international games. I don't know if there would

736
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: be enough for every team. I guess every team could

737
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: play a Thursday night game, every team could play an

738
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: international game. I don't think the partners given aka the

739
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: owner slash coaches would want that. It's one thing to

740
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: kind of be in the rotation. It's another thing to

741
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: be the Jags and like playing over there a lot.

742
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: It's another thing if you're Seattle or Arizona or the

743
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: Rams or the Niners. Like I don't want to fucking

744
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: fly to England or Germany. So it's a pretty big

745
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: pain in the ass. Geographically, depending on where you are,

746
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to fly internationally when you're a

747
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: New York team or Buffalo than if you're Seattle or Denver.

748
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 1: So don't hate it, Like I mean, you got to expand,

749
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: you grow or you die. But I don't think it's essential.

750
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's essential. But that's not the way

751
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: you can think when you're growing your business. It doesn't

752
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: necessarily have to be essential. It's just just a healthy,

753
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: positive movement for the league. Because you could argue, like

754
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: you you just do the math, you're not technically I

755
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: guess every team now it rotates AFCNFC. You get that

756
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: extra home game, But for a long period of time,

757
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: no one had an extra home game. You just had, right,

758
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: You just had the eight home games and eight away games.

759
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: So now that extra home game every other year is

760
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: kind of gravy. But I do think the impact of

761
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: flying for some teams is greater than other teams that

762
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: far away. I wouldn't pound the table for it. I

763
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: guess if they did it, I wouldn't be up in

764
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 1: arms and act like it was some travesty. But that's

765
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: not something I would fight for. I'm not. I wouldn't

766
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: even be opposed to mandatory two bye weeks, just the

767
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: way they're doing it now. But they here's the thing.

768
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: The games is how you pay for everything. This is

769
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: not the NBA. They're not looking to not have guys play.

770
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 1: They're not looking to have games be irrelevant because when

771
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: they play, a game is never irrelevant. You can put

772
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: the Bears and Panthers and nine million people watched. I

773
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: think it was ten. Actually, I guess that's a long

774
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: way of saying kind of indifferent. I know it's never

775
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: gonna happen with Kyle loving Purty and Bo going high

776
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: in the draft, But do you think Bo Nicks is

777
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,479
Speaker 1: the perfect quarterback for Shannon the Shanahan offense. Well, isn't

778
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: Rock Purty currently the perfect quarterback that? There is no

779
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: think about this Rock Purty, I saw someone tweet out

780
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: has the same stats as Jalen as a passer. Right now,

781
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: Rock Purty is for fifteen ton. Rock Purty's on pace

782
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: for almost thirty touchdown passes in like the height of

783
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: Jimmy He was struggling to get like twenty three twenty four,

784
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: So you're getting six to seven more touchdown passes was

785
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: second year Brock Purty. If Brock Purty gives you thirty

786
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: touchdown passes and you win twelve thirteen games and he

787
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: makes under a million dollars a year, it's one of

788
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: the greatest deals in the history of sports. Doesn't get

789
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: any better than that, So they're just not even entertaining

790
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: going with someone else. Never miss a show in You

791
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: and Colin Sunday conversations. Shouldn't we just change the MVP

792
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: to most Valuable Passer? I understand quarterback is the most

793
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: valuable player, but maybe we stop pretending it's an open competition.

794
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: Totally agree. This would be a great year to make

795
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: that argument. Like ultimately my ball take of the week

796
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: on CJ. Stroud, it's not gonna he's not gonna be

797
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: the MVP, but he has a better chance to win

798
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: an MVP than Miles Garrett. But in a vacuum, c J. Stroud,

799
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: like Miles Garrett, is a better player, and honestly, for

800
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: I mean, they're both very very important. You remove CJ

801
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: from that team they were in shamble, so that's a

802
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: bad argument. But Miles Garrett to me, I would vote

803
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: for as the MVP of the league before c J.

804
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: Stroud or even Lamar Jackson. Right now Patrick Mahomes, but

805
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: he's just not gonna win it. The award is gonna

806
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: go to This is why we should rename it to

807
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: the quarterback who gets the hottest and his team has

808
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: the best or second best record in his conference. So

809
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna end up going to Patrick mahomes, Lamar Jackson,

810
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: Rock Purty Jalen Hurts. Just the way it's gonna work.

811
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of sad because you watch Miles Garrett, you go,

812
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: how many guys are playing better than this? How many

813
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: guys right now are playing better than this? And the

814
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: answer to me, you could argue, he's the best player

815
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: in the NFL this year. Remember Aaron Donald a couple

816
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: of years ago when it was just like, what are

817
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: we watching here? Is this real life? Is this actually happening?

818
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: Jj Watt was like that a couple year and they

819
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: could never win it. The one year I thought jj

820
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: Watt should have won it. And if he can't win it,

821
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald can't win it, no one's winning it. Tyreek

822
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: Hill they got It's just what are we doing? I'm

823
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: with you. Let's just rename the world most valuable quarterback?

824
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: Who is A and M gonna hire? I was thinking

825
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: about this the other day. A and M is a

826
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: place when you're a coach at another school that's kind

827
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 1: of miserable and you just want to go make a

828
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: lot of money because google the history books. You're not

829
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: gonna win big there. You got really no shot in

830
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: the SEC. You are never going to be better than Alabama,

831
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: than LSU, than Georgia and Florida, and obviously Florida's down,

832
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: BAM's up. They'll rotate a little bit over the time,

833
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna be those schools. And now Oklahoma

834
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: and Texas are coming into your conference. Oklahoma historically is

835
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,439
Speaker 1: way better than you, and now that Texas just has

836
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: some stability with their program, they're better than you. So

837
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: they can get and pound the table about the money,

838
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: which clearly they'll pay for. I just don't see how

839
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: they're ever gonna be a powerhouse. They'll have some moments,

840
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: they have a bunch of talent, but to me, they're

841
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: not a program that keeps me up at night. They're

842
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: really not. And I think sometimes programs get overrated because

843
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: they have a lot of money, and I think Texas

844
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: A and M is a great example of that, because like,

845
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: oh God, look how much they're paying everybody in NIL.

846
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: Look how high all these recruits are. Look how awesome

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Speaker 1: all their NFL prospects are. And then you look and

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Speaker 1: they struggle to win a games. How are you gonna

849
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Speaker 1: get a good coach to go there. I saw Dan

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00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: Lanning said, like, I'm not leaving here. In what world

851
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning would have to be on crack cocaine to

852
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Speaker 1: leave Oregon. Who's going into the Big ten, who's absolutely loaded,

853
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: He's literally winning, and he has to answer to one human,

854
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: one Phil Knight. That's the ultimate decision maker the program.

855
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: You go to A and M. Even if they could

856
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: match your salary, it's way harder to win. You got

857
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: to answer to a million people. It sucks so to me,

858
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Speaker 1: Dan Lannings saying yeah, I'm not leaving basically saying that

859
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm not going to text A and M. Of course

860
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: you're not going to text A and M. Oregon is

861
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: a infinitely better job than tax A and M. It

862
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: was five years ago, it was ten years ago, it

863
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: was fifteen years ago, it is right now. I listen

864
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: to All Your podcast last month as the last person

865
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Speaker 1: podcast wanted to replace Purty despite him winning and putting

866
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: up good numbers. Is he gonna be the next Cousins

867
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: type player where every year people want to replace him

868
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Speaker 1: in upgrade, But we look up in ten years and

869
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: he's won a shit ton of games and put up

870
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: crazy stats. I'm not sure, but just something I was

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00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: thinking about. Well, I think Cousins became very polarizing because

872
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: he put up a lot of good stats and he

873
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: was making a lot of money. When you don't make

874
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,959
Speaker 1: a lot of money, you can be polarizing. But people

875
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: can only shit on you so much. Right, you can't

876
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: be the same critical of Dak Prescott as you can

877
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: Brock Purty. One guy makes forty the other guy forty million.

878
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: One guy makes seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars and

879
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: has practice squad roommates in the Bay Area. Now the

880
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: moment party makes forty million dollars a year forty five

881
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. You get judged differently, fair or not.

882
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it. Purty shits the bed in a

883
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: second round game that he wouldn't get crushed. He would,

884
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 1: but how do you hold him to the same high

885
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: stand He was a seventh round pick who makes nothing.

886
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: What he's doing right now is remarkable because of that.

887
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: It changed once Cousins started getting franchised and started getting

888
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: these big contracts. It's like, we're paying you to win

889
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: playoff games and dominate. And he would let a lot

890
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: of people down in the regular season, and then he

891
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: finally kind of figured it out these last couple of years.

892
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: Like god, Cousin looks pretty good. So I think there

893
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: are some similarities as players that are a little different.

894
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Speaker 1: I'd say Cousins has a slightly better armed party is

895
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: a much better athlete. Cousins can't move now I'm talking

896
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: before the Achilles, like Cousins was stuck in the pocket.

897
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: This guy y athlete really really explosive and short areas

898
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 1: like makes guys miss keeps plays alive with his legs.

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00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: Perty's an impressive dude, man, as an athlete, I did

900
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: not realize the forty nine ers were getting that when

901
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: they drafted him. My only experience of dyeing hair was

902
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: my frosted tips back in my teen years. So maybe

903
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm not there the one to have a strong take

904
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Speaker 1: on this, But I feel like you're being a little

905
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: harsh on Robert Solom. This feels like a situation when

906
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: they're losing. We find everything in Nippick. If they were winning,

907
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: would we say something like, man, this organization has things

908
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: buttoned up, even down to the details of appearance. My

909
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: point simply was, and I'm not being sarcastic at all?

910
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: In what world? In the NFL when you're making ten

911
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: million dollars a year and your team's not going that well,

912
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: you're a good looking guy. Are you worried about some

913
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: gray hairs on your beard? I think it's kind of

914
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: a weird look. Look around the NFL. Pete Carroll wears shoes.

915
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: Everyone makes fun of him for the New Balance whatever

916
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: they're called. Kyle Shanahan's had gray on his beard for years.

917
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: Sean McVay can get away kind of with the boy

918
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: band hair, perfectly manicured, wins a lot, won Super Bowl.

919
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: You think Andy Reid's worried about the fucking way he looks?

920
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: Or Belichick? So I think when you get a little

921
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: worried about whay you look, you're not. Who are you recruiting?

922
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: Who are you doing this for your girlfriend in the stands?

923
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 1: I do think let's just have the conversation, like why

924
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: is he coloring his beard? If his wife says he

925
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: looks better, totally understand. Happy wife, happy life, she comes first.

926
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Speaker 1: But he clearly has a lot of gray hairs. He's

927
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: got seven kids, he's coaching Zach Wilson. Why is that

928
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: even crossed? His mind now. Listen, I was insecure before

929
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: I shaved my head, So maybe he's insecure about having

930
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: some gray hairs, but like he's already bald. Who gives

931
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: a shit to me? The only thing he should be

932
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 1: thinking about is like football? Why is he worried about

933
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: the way he looks? Besides, I'm not saying like, don't

934
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Speaker 1: work out or whatever, but that is a level of like,

935
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Speaker 1: are we trying o for the Kardashians? Are we trying

936
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: to beat the Patriots? Here? I'm not saying it's the

937
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: end all be all. I'm not saying i'd fire the

938
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Speaker 1: guy for it, But if I own the team, I

939
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: might think a little differently of the guy. I'm paying

940
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: you to win games, not fucking manicure every gray hair

941
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Speaker 1: out of your appearance. I think that's fair when it

942
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 1: comes to the Patriots, is it possible, between Belichick's extension

943
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: and their two and seven record that Bill and Kraft

944
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: are giving each other a golden parachute? Bill gets one

945
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: last payday and the Pats get a top five pick. Well,

946
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: Bill's definitely going to get a golden parachute, but crafty,

947
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: he is not trying to lose these games. Bill Belichick

948
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: is trying every hour that he's not in that one

949
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: girl's house that he'd made the walk of shame at.

950
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: He's trying to win. Bill Belichick is not tanking at all.

951
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: I'll promise you that, And I think you even know

952
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: that when you're asking. That's what. That's the thing about

953
00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:00,919
Speaker 1: the NFL. Everyone that loses a lot trying to win.

954
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: You know, in baseball, like the A's like they just

955
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,279
Speaker 1: tanked the last couple of years, traded, everybody just waved

956
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 1: the white flag. Happened in baseball, A lot happens in basketball.

957
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: All Adam Silver's league is littered with tanking. In the NFL,

958
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: maybe the last game. Remember how much shit Doug Peterson

959
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: got for bringing in Sudfeld in that game. People freaked.

960
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: That's why we make fun of like eber Flus and

961
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: Frank Reich like they're trying to win. They're they're not

962
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: even just trying to win. They're spending fifteen eighteen hours

963
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: a day at the office doing everything humanly possible to

964
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: win a game, and they can't. They can't win. I

965
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Speaker 1: can't even imagine the hours Belichick, Bill O'Brien, Joe Judge,

966
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: those guys are spending at the office to have six

967
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: points on the board in Frankfurt, Germany. That's why I

968
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: couldn't have worked in football long. It's one thing when

969
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: you're winning, putting the time like super Bowl champions become legends.

970
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: I could never put in the time when the team sucked.

971
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what are we doing this for? We

972
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: could spend seventy hours a day at the office. Mac

973
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: Jones sucks. Our offensive line ain't blocking a soul. We

974
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: can't cover anybody, so you can diagram every fucking play

975
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: you want. Godspeed when the balls kicked off, because we

976
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: are screwed. But these guys are sickos and Belichick probably

977
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: thinks that maybe he could win an extra couple games

978
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: with Bailey's Appy. That's why I would imagine Bailey's Appy

979
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: is gonna be the quarterback of the New England Patriots.

980
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: Other than that, Audios, the volume