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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecop three and Out podcast.

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Speaker 1: We are now in uh, almost to the middle of May,

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Speaker 1: and just chugging along, UH in Quarantine and the Corona.

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Speaker 1: I guess some of you depend on where you live.

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Speaker 1: It's opening up and slowly but surely. I guess it's

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Speaker 1: hard to even say getting back to normal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you gotta wear a mask in a store. It's not

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Speaker 1: exactly normal. But we will keep talking about football and

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Speaker 1: try to keep it normal and luckily, you know, as

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Speaker 1: it feels like. And I'm gonna talk about off the

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Speaker 1: top some of baseball and basketball's issues for trying to

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Speaker 1: get back up and running is probably unlikely for the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and there's a key reason why Booger and Tests. I know.

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Speaker 1: The Monday night football broadcast is something we've talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about on the show the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Became official. I think last Friday, maybe it was Saturday.

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Speaker 1: All days run together. Now they won't be returning, UH,

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Speaker 1: and I have I have a thought on that. And

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Speaker 1: then what one thing I did like I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot of sports fans. I mean that I think they're

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Speaker 1: averaging a little under six million people. The m J

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Speaker 1: doc on Sunday. Another seven and eight were fantastic. What

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Speaker 1: I did is in my lifetime, I wrote the five

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Speaker 1: m J level docks I'd want on NFL teams or

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Speaker 1: NFL you know, like the Dynasty's. And I also picked

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Speaker 1: a couple of college teams. So basically the documentaries I'd

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Speaker 1: want to see based on these certain teams and kind

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Speaker 1: of their eras. And of course Middlecoff mail back at

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff is my Instagram handle. At John Middlecoff is

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Speaker 1: my Instagram handle also my Twitter handle d MS wide open,

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Speaker 1: slide right in there, ask questions. As we get here

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Speaker 1: into uh with no office O t as, nothing really

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Speaker 1: going on, I'm gonna need you guys, so fire in there,

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Speaker 1: wide open, hit me up any ideas you got open

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Speaker 1: anything obviously, any questions. And then of course, if you

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Speaker 1: of you guys have leaved left a review last time

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Speaker 1: I check. We have like trying to get to that

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Speaker 1: little five stars, and if you hate it, leave many

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Speaker 1: stories you want. But let's start with this Major League

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Speaker 1: baseball and the NBA are having a lot of issues

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Speaker 1: right now. I don't know if you've followed. There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of articles written from Woes and Ken Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: and they're just trying to get some parameters back so

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Speaker 1: they can attempt whenever the time is safe or they're

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Speaker 1: allowed to get the wheels in motion and coming back

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Speaker 1: and getting a lot of pushback from the unions, and

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Speaker 1: it's becoming a financial issue. It is not. They're not

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Speaker 1: having issues over the Corona right now. They're having issue

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Speaker 1: used well. The NBA is a little bit Baseball right

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Speaker 1: now is going back and forth over revenue sharing and money.

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Speaker 1: And it got me thinking, like when times are really bad,

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Speaker 1: when you get kind of fat and happy with something,

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Speaker 1: you're not used to taking pay cuts. It's one thing

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Speaker 1: if you own a business or run a business, you

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Speaker 1: ebb and flow and you see money come in and

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Speaker 1: you get things that happen and you pay out. You

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Speaker 1: have huge liabilities. Well, the great thing, unlike the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball players, in the NBA basketball players,

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Speaker 1: the moment their contract is signed, they have zero liability. None.

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Speaker 1: You can break an ankle, you can throw your arm,

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Speaker 1: and you still get every penny. Think about this. We've

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Speaker 1: all read these stories, you know, like when a big

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Speaker 1: famous you know, Chris and Cavalery and Jay Cutler just

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Speaker 1: got divorced. Now there, I guess they haven't officially got divorced.

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Speaker 1: They filed for a divorce. But we've seen historically some

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Speaker 1: professional athletes and just famous actors, Tiger Woods whoever, go

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Speaker 1: through these public divorces where they pay these numbers, and

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Speaker 1: you're like, he has to pay her a hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars a month in alimony, separate from child support,

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Speaker 1: just an alimony because she's used to a certain lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: And this comes by the ways. I mean, this could

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Speaker 1: and when they happen and you have a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: because on both sides they've become fat and happy. If

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Speaker 1: less problematic. When there's less money at stake, but you

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Speaker 1: could argue money is all relative. It becomes an issue. Well,

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Speaker 1: the moment their contract is if I signed a five

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Speaker 1: so five years, a hundred million dollars, under no circumstances,

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Speaker 1: whether I rip up my knee, whether I start sucking,

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Speaker 1: whether I'm just half as good, it's irrelevant. I'm getting

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Speaker 1: every penny. Well, we see it every year in the

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Speaker 1: NFL when these contracts are signed. Two years later, the

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Speaker 1: contracts are relevant. It's like, oh God, if this guy

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Speaker 1: the players know it. It's why there's an intensity and

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Speaker 1: an edged every game. It's something that's really as you

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Speaker 1: see in the MJ doc. You're like, God, the nineties

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Speaker 1: basketball looks nothing like now. Guys actually tried. Guys actually

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Speaker 1: not making astronomicals amount of money. Well, when you start

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Speaker 1: in the NBA is having issues right now, the players

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Speaker 1: We feel like they're kind of pressuring us to work out.

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Speaker 1: It's like, bro, I mean, just go work out by

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Speaker 1: yourself in the team facility. The season might come back.

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Speaker 1: Be ready. We pay you twenty million dollars. We just

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Speaker 1: And they have Lefford because they're so rich. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: the NFL, if they opened up the facilities, and they're

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Speaker 1: it's only gonna be six of the revenue we usually

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Speaker 1: make six of what we usually make. Because again, no

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Speaker 1: to fruition at the end of the year. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the pandemic and baseball. On basketball on the owner and

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Speaker 1: The average salary in the NBA is seven million dollars.

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Speaker 1: We're in the NFL. You have a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: because every single year, the majority of contracts, if you

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Speaker 1: quote unquote four year, fifteen million dollars a year sixty

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Speaker 1: which it feels like we're headed that way. We might

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Speaker 1: have to do you know, fanless events as you guys.

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Speaker 1: revenue sharing. That's what that's why the salary cap exists.

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Speaker 1: We're in baseball. There is no revenue sharing, but there's

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Speaker 1: also no salary cap. That's why you want to go

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Speaker 1: the NFL is actually the opposite, is based on more

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Speaker 1: Those people are paying huge amounts of money for that signage.

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Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, everything's negotiable. This is all uncharted territory.

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Speaker 1: We're in football. They're used to the mindset. They don't

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Speaker 1: Audios to save some money. I mean, the NFL relates

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Speaker 1: no different. Broadcasting is very very hard for someone to

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Speaker 1: just I just give my takes and my opinions, and

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Speaker 1: I guess I've had some success because I really don't

428
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Speaker 1: give a shit I'm not afraid to say what I

429
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Speaker 1: think you all are thinking, where a lot of people

430
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Speaker 1: in the media are kind of scared, you know, to

431
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Speaker 1: put their opinion out there, uh, or just really take

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Speaker 1: a stand. And I don't just take random stands. I'm

433
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take a stand just to say

434
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: I take a stand. If I say it, I believe it.

435
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 1: But I had to become comfortable at doing that. And

436
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: the more I do it, the more comfortable I'm at it.

437
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: And also the more that I watched, the more comfortable

438
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: I am taking a stand on something. Well, when you

439
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 1: put these guys in a booth that have never really

440
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: been in a booth, especially Jason Witten, like what do

441
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: you think was gonna happen? Like Greg Olsen, whenever he

442
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Speaker 1: does retire and he does games for Fox, will probably

443
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Speaker 1: be pretty good. Why because he had a three or

444
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Speaker 1: four years to practice, he has done games, He's felt

445
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Speaker 1: what it's like to call a game, to prep for

446
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Speaker 1: a game, you know, what is different than calling a

447
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 1: game playing in the game. So why when you hear

448
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: sometimes players talk about the draft like, I'm sorry, they

449
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell they're talking about one because

450
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: it's not like they've ever been to a draft meeting.

451
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 1: They've never seen a meeting with the coaches beside on

452
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Speaker 1: hard knocks back in the day of what it's like

453
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Speaker 1: the ranked players, of what it's like to talk through players,

454
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Speaker 1: they just haven't seen that. It's why when you see

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Speaker 1: them go from playing like an l Way or a

456
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Speaker 1: John Inch like you. You put a microphone in front

457
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: of John Lynch right now, there is literally not a

458
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Speaker 1: subject he couldn't talk about when it comes to football.

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00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: That's why if John Lynch ever got fired or quit,

460
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: he would be so much more valuable in the broadcast booth.

461
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: Same for Mike Mack. I've played, I've coached what I haven't.

462
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,959
Speaker 1: I've been a GM, I've seen it all. I've been

463
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Speaker 1: around the players on both sides. And when you just

464
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Speaker 1: throw a guy like you, you you wouldn't just put a

465
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Speaker 1: guy he just you know, the first time I ever

466
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Speaker 1: playing golf in a tournament, it's really unfair. I don't

467
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Speaker 1: remember this, but I guess I've heard the stories about

468
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Speaker 1: Troy Aikman started in NFL Europe, like you get the

469
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: same with Chris Collinsworth. It takes time, you know, I

470
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Speaker 1: would say that Gruden is kind of an outlier, and

471
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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear he's just a unique all time personality.

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Speaker 1: So ESPN really, you know, and I've probably talked some

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Speaker 1: shit about Booger and tests, definitely last year because it

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Speaker 1: was a bad broadcast. But now that we I don't

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Speaker 1: think like I like Booker, Actually I do. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a good guy. I actually think he knows his

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Speaker 1: stuff in the SEC. I don't blame him for being

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Speaker 1: bad at the job. I blame ESPN. They should be ashamed, embarrassed,

479
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Speaker 1: and they probably don't even get his enough heat because

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Speaker 1: the heat is directed at the talent when the heat

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Speaker 1: should be directed at the you know, the company and

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Speaker 1: whoever the middle manager is that put him in this position,

483
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Speaker 1: because if it was a coach or a GM that

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Speaker 1: had staked their career on like a player, like someone

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he stook his career because I

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Speaker 1: doubt he did. But whoever's idea was this, it was

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Speaker 1: should probably pick a new industry moving forward. Okay, because

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Speaker 1: of the Michael Jordan documentary, the Last Dance, which I

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Speaker 1: think we can kind of universally agree, has been fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It has been awesome. Michael phil Scottie, Jerry Krausse, Dennis Rodman,

491
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Speaker 1: from Isaiah Thomas, Larry Bird Magic talking about Gary Payton

492
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Speaker 1: and Karl Malone, Charles Bark the whole thing. It's been

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Speaker 1: box office been fantastic, average like six million viewers an episode,

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Speaker 1: living up for the hype. So what I thought I'd

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Speaker 1: do is I pick five teams in my lifetime. I

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Speaker 1: was born in the eighties, so eighties and to where

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Speaker 1: we're at present day that I would like a documentary

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Speaker 1: on After thirty style, MJ doc whatever that I think

499
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Speaker 1: could be a fantastic ten part documentary. Ten and clearly

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Speaker 1: there would be you know anything, Vince Lombardi, you know

501
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Speaker 1: if you did before my lifetime, would be awesome. The

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Speaker 1: Al Davis, John Madden seventies Raiders would be elite. The

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Speaker 1: Steel Curtain Steelers would be awesome. Stallback Cowboys that you'd

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Speaker 1: have options in the sixty Bear Bryant, you'd have a

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Speaker 1: lot of football options. I did college and Pro. Number

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Speaker 1: one is a no brainer, absolute no brainer. The Pats

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Speaker 1: Brady Belichick, six super Bowls, nine appearances, the undefeated season,

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Speaker 1: the Flake Gates, I Gate, suspensions, trades, retirements, you name it,

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Speaker 1: We've seen it all, seen it all. They are. They

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Speaker 1: are Michael Jordan's of the NFL. Right Belichick is Phil

511
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Speaker 1: Tom is crazy as Michael. They are the Chicago Bulls

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. And like the Chicago Bulls who won

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Speaker 1: multiple had multiple three peats. I guess the only other

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Speaker 1: three piece has been Shack and Kobe. Like three pieces

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Speaker 1: don't happen. Hew, the Warriors, you know, had an unreal

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Speaker 1: five year run and didn't get a three pet won

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Speaker 1: three and five years. It's hard to do Miami heat.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lebron won two and four. It's just we

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Speaker 1: might never see a three peat again. I mean, think

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Speaker 1: how difficult it was back in the early two thousands

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Speaker 1: with Shaq and Kobe. Is probably never gonna happen in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't think we'll ever see a Super

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Speaker 1: A team wins six Super Bowls in nine years, or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, six Super Bowls in nineteen years. I I

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Speaker 1: don't see that happening. So that's the easy umber one. Overall.

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Speaker 1: Number two was a little tough. I could have gone

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Speaker 1: two different directions, and I almost chose the eddity to

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00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: barrowlow forty niners and people in the middle coffee bias.

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Speaker 1: I wanted the nineties Cowboys because, like the like the

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Speaker 1: Bulls documentary, and like the Patriots, there is a lot

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Speaker 1: of drama there. You know, you have polarizing front man

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson, Jerry Jones. You have countless crazy things going

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Speaker 1: off the field, the White House, cocaine, drugs. You also

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Speaker 1: have championships. You have three championships in four years. You

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Speaker 1: have free agency trades, Dion Sanders, Charles Haley, just huge

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Speaker 1: moves on top of Hall of Fame players Michael Irve

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Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith, just be box office a

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Speaker 1: little shorter. But given it's the Cowboys and Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy Johnes, I think it would be fantastic. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like it would be a little playmakers. Like

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Pats would be as crazy

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Speaker 1: like I don't I don't know if the Pats would

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Speaker 1: have a huge drug element the Cowboys would. When you

544
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: when I think nineties Cowboys, I think championships in cocaine.

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Speaker 1: That's the first thing that comes to my mind. So

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Speaker 1: I I think the cow of the nineties Cowboys really

547
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Speaker 1: the early nineties Cowboys. Five that little run would be

548
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: absolute box office three. I went Eddie to Bartelow and

549
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Speaker 1: the San Fransco forty Niners. Now they are kind of

550
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: multiple iterations over the Eddie run hires Bill Walsh, wins

551
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls with Montana, the Steve Young element. Obviously

552
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: Walsh was kind of would be awesome behind the scenes.

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00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: Eddie to Bartelow a little like Jerry Jones before Jerry Jones,

554
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Speaker 1: kind of this crazy little Italian born into wealth like

555
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: his dad had a lot of money, bought the team

556
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: for not that much, turned it into a dynasty, was

557
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: buying players left and right before free agency. Then the

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00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: George c Fort Steve Young era. They ended up getting

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Speaker 1: rid of Steve Young. Eddie to Bartelow, tried to pay

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Speaker 1: off assemblyman or senator or whatever it was in Louisiana

561
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: to get access to a to a casino. Was the

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Speaker 1: Feds were involved, was kicked out of the league. I

563
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: don't know if you quite have the juice of the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: But in terms of football documentary porn, it would be

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Speaker 1: up there, Montana, Young, Rice, Ronnie Lot, It would be sweet,

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Speaker 1: It would be really it would probably be a little

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Speaker 1: deeper into the football where the Cowboys and the Pats

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00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: would be a little more like the Jordan Dock and

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Speaker 1: a lot of drama. Now not saying there wouldn't be

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00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: drama with the Niners. Bill Walsh quit. You know Bill Walsh,

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Speaker 1: we act like a coach for like twenty five years.

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00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: He was an assistant coach for a long time. He

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Speaker 1: was not a head coach for very long. I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure it was Sev. It was kind of a short

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Speaker 1: run and he almost quit multiple times because him and

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00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: Eddie were always button heads. I think the Steve Young

577
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Joe Montana stuff would be crazy if we had inside

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00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: access and cameras behind that, But I think that would

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Speaker 1: be elite football content. The drama, though, I've heard stories

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00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: some of the Niners usually get in trouble and get off.

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00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was a little like the

582
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Speaker 1: wild wild West around here too with the forty Niners.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think it'd be quiet as crazy. Uh,

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Speaker 1: now you're asking the wrong guy. I'd watch anything The

585
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: USC Trojans number four, Pete Carroll. The USC Trojans in

586
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: the mid two thousands were basically like an NFL team.

587
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: You had championships, you had Heisman's you had agents, you

588
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: had women, and you had money. You had now vacated

589
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Speaker 1: basically everything that happened under that time because it was

590
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: so crazy and USC in the Pact twelve and the

591
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: West Coast football had somewhat been dead, and they threw

592
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: their hat in the ring Ohio state, the U Florida State, Michigan.

593
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: It it felt like we had fallen behind out here.

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Speaker 1: And Pete Carroll, remember was not their first choice. I

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00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: don't even think he was their second choice, kind of

596
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: lucked into getting the job. He flipped a switch and

597
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: pushed the envelope quote unquote, maybe cheat a little bit again.

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Speaker 1: I'm pro cheating in college. Everyone worth our salt is

599
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: doing it and started kicking everyone's ass, and I mean

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00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: everyone's ass. By the time they lost to Texas, his

601
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: roster was so stacked with players it was stupid. He

602
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: had really had that thing humming by that third year

603
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: when they ended up losing. But even as time went on,

604
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: they never they always slipped up once in a year,

605
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: but they would have teams that would have so much

606
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: NFL talent on it. It was stupid. I mean one

607
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: year their linebacking corps was like Clay Matthews, Brian Cushing,

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00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: and Raymond Luga. Every dude was drafted in the top

609
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: thirty five. Their linebacking corps. I'm not talking like three

610
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: guys on their defense went high. I'm talking about their

611
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: linebacking corps right his teams. We don't have anything out

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Speaker 1: west that it even looks like that now. It was

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Speaker 1: just maybe I'm a little biased on this one, but

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00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: it felt like because I'm an SEC guy and my

615
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: next team will be from the SEC, they felt like

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00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: an NFL team. I mean there were stories. I remember

617
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: one year when the Niners had the number one overall pick.

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00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this was a national story. The conversation

619
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: was like, could the USC Trojesan and beat the San

620
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: Fransco forty Niners? Think about saying that out loud right now.

621
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Speaker 1: I mean, you probably have two guys on the USC

622
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: Trojans that would make the Niners right now. That was

623
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: a conversation. I was in college when that conversation happened,

624
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: And whether you agree or disagree, my answer is pretty clear. Yeah,

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00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: I'd probably take the Trojans, and I felt pretty good

626
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: about it. I was like, I take the Trojans. You

627
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: know now, in fairness, the Niners were an embarrassment. They

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00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: This has been the transition from the de Bartelows to

629
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: the Yorks, and Pete's team was just it was like

630
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: a traveling circus. They really were. We won't ever see

631
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: anything quite like that again, at least out in the pactual.

632
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: The Florida Gators led by urban Meyer, people act, you know,

633
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: like the SEC has been kicking everyone's asked for a

634
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: long time. I'm gonna push back a little bit now.

635
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: Most of my life they've had a really good team

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Speaker 1: or two, you know, like when I was Blee in

637
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Speaker 1: junior high, Spurrier had that thing role and they were

638
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: kicking everyone's but full more with Tennessee. But what they

639
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: have now, with like four or five teams that could

640
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: legitimately win the National Championship and are just producing all

641
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: the NFL players, feels a little different than it was

642
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: probably in the mid two thousands. When Urban Meyer left

643
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: Utah and went to Florida. He up the game, and

644
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: I think like Pete Carroll upping the game out west

645
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: and bringing in hard Bob, bringing in Chip Kelly, Chris

646
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: Peterson and just David Shaw. You know, it just made

647
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: it kind of raise the bar. I think Irvian Meyer

648
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: set the bar in the SEC and the conference owes

649
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: him a huge debt of gratitude. Now his team, in

650
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: the team I'm talking about, you could argue might be

651
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: as equally as entertaining as the USC Trojans. They won rings.

652
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: They had a murderer on their team. They had Tim

653
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: Tebow on their team. I mean they had guys from

654
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: Percy Harvin to Ray mc donald. I mean it basically

655
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: got kicked out of the league two just good players, right,

656
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: uh like, uh, I can't. I mean they have so

657
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: many pros, the Pouncy Brothers, The amount of star players

658
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: that went through Florida on Urban Meyer's watch staggering, just

659
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: like he did with Ohio State. I mean, just producing

660
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: pro after pro after pro after pro. Now, Tebow was

661
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: probably the most polarizing one, and you know, forever he

662
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: became like the standard of what to talk about. But

663
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: their teams were pretty unreal. And remember I think that

664
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: kind of forced Alabama's hand to get Nick Saban, and

665
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: then Nick Saban took it to another level and then

666
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: every SEC conference, you know, program has followed suit. But

667
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: that team with Urban Meyer for those two or three

668
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: years the cheating going on there. Uh, the stuff off

669
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: the field going on there, the winning on the field,

670
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: the domination on the field, see what you want. I

671
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: mean Hernandez dead now, and he murdered people and he's

672
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: just total scumbag. He was an elite player. I mean

673
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: an elite player, and that's at every position they had

674
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: guys like him. It was not a fair fight. They

675
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: had dudes, and I mean dudes everywhere. And I think

676
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: so I went Pats one nineties Cowboys to Eddie de

677
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: Bartalo forty Niners kind of encompasses twenty years. Pete Carroll

678
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: USC Trojans mid two thousand's and the Urban Meyer Florida

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Speaker 1: Gators is my top five documentaries that I'd like to

680
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: see in football. Okay, let's hit a Middlecoff mail back

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00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff Instagram d ms wide open and uh

682
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Speaker 1: slide up in them same as my Twitter handle my name.

683
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Speaker 1: Considering the high bust rate or lack of top performers

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Speaker 1: of first round quarterback picks, why don't more teams trade

685
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: down to ful film multiple spots or take a stet

686
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: at a position where you can have more guys in

687
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: the case they aren't elite since you can only have

688
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: one quarterback, there's no room for air at that position.

689
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: Whereas even Clowney, who doesn't live up to the hype,

690
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: but it's still a productive player, especially now fill out

691
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: the roster plugg in a quarterback like cousins Tyrod, Taylor Bridgewater.

692
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't get why teams keep rolling the dice on

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Speaker 1: high picks at quarterback that hit or miss. Just check

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years of first round quarterbacks, most made

695
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Speaker 1: no impact. Great question, it's why why does anyone bet

696
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Speaker 1: Parlay's right? Why? Why have I invested in some kind

697
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: of low money marijuana stocks right now hoping to hit

698
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: it big? You know, because if you hit it big

699
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 1: on quarterback, it changes your franchise. Why did the Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid in the Chiefs and Beach trade up to get

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Speaker 1: my Homes? Why did the Texans trade up to get

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00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: uh Deshaun Watson? Why did the Jets trade up to

703
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: get They didn't know it at the time, but they

704
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: end up getting Sam Donald, or the Bills trade up

705
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: to get Josh Allen or the Eagles to get Carson Wentz.

706
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: Because if you hit even before you know what the

707
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: guy's gonna look like, you're hoping to get a star

708
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: and if you have a star quarterback, you have a

709
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: good team. It's really that simple, Nami, NFL teams that

710
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: have star quarterbacks aren't good. Doesn't happen. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you have a star quarterback who is a legit player,

712
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna always be good. I'm with you. I I

713
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: think some when you trade up for non star guys

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00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: or guys they don't have star attributes, I think that's

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Speaker 1: where you're get in trouble. But I'll never fault a

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Speaker 1: team for going on into the quarterback because the quarterback

717
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: is more important than being deep other places. Because if

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00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: you're deep other places, your quarterback's average. Like the Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick your ass in the playoffs. I just

720
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: am now. Just because you have a stud quarterback like

721
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson doesn't mean you're gonna win the playoffs. Chiefs

722
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: beat him. You know, look at the Titans. They had

723
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: a good team, they got they got beat. Star quarterbacks

724
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: tend to win more big games than non star quarterbacks.

725
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: So it's really that simple that when you do hit

726
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: on the guy. That's why does everyone go star chasing

727
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: in basketball, Because if I get Steph Currier, I get

728
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: your honest or I get James Harden. I'm always gonna

729
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: be good, you know. And I think star quarterbacks are

730
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: a lot like starr NBA players. They change your franchise

731
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: now when you miss because they cost so much to

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Speaker 1: attain right, whether you trade up to get him, whether

733
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Speaker 1: you sign him as a free agent, it could be

734
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: pretty devastating. Let's talk Gators. Next year, they played LSU

735
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: as good as anybody minus Baman and Clemson, and I've

736
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 1: been on the rise since Mullen got there. I don't

737
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: think there are many players, there are many people's radar,

738
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: but Trash coming in mid season last year was such

739
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: a big improvement after Franks went down. He looks good.

740
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: If he improves half as much as Burrow did in

741
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen, I really think they got a shot

742
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: at the SEC check out pits to dude balls. First

743
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: round talent for sure. So thoughts on the Gators. Full disclosure,

744
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm a home or Gainesville resident, but actually sing our

745
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: offense improved with Trash last year was such a treat

746
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: after years of scraping by wins in the East with

747
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: the shittiest offense you've ever seen your we objectively look

748
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: better or pretty good. Last year with Trask really hoping

749
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: we play. UH want to see the what the young

750
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: man can do. I don't know if you guys, if

751
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: you haven't during quarantine. Uh last year hard Docks did

752
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: four college programs. They did Florida with Mullen, they did

753
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: Penn State with James Franklin, they did uh Mike Leach

754
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: in Texas Tech, and they did one other school that

755
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: I can't remember now, but I watched the Florida and

756
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: my takeaway was Mom's a really good coach. And I

757
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: was watching some of the Alex Smith he's sixty and

758
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: they were doing things. When Urban Meyer showed up at Utah,

759
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: he didn't think Alex Smith was that good. Changed his

760
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 1: career around. He became an All American and went number

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00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: one overall. Whose offensive coordinator Mullin, who went with him

762
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: to Florida the first time, Mullen who went at Mississippi State. Mullen.

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Speaker 1: I think Mullin's big time. I think Mullen xes and

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Speaker 1: oswy Eyes is better than Kirby Smart. Now. I think

765
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart is a big time recruiter and I think

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Speaker 1: he's a good raw ra leader type. You know, he's

767
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: like a poor man saving. But even Savings and the

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Speaker 1: lad X and those guys, that's I'm not even putting

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Speaker 1: the same breath of saving. But I think Mullin has

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00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: a chance. Like Eddie, Oh, he's a leader. I think

771
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: Eddio is a better version of what Kirby Smart is.

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Speaker 1: I think Jimbo Fisher, you know, is a good XS

773
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: and O scheme guy, just like uh Gus smells on.

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Speaker 1: I think Mullen could be that. And you're gonna get

775
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Speaker 1: elite talent at Florida. I can't pretend to know their

776
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: roster inside it out, but I'm with you when I've

777
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: watched them last year, they really made strides. I think

778
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: the East is becoming a lot better. Obviously the West

779
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: had eleven first rounders this year. Well, the East Tennessee's

780
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: on the come. I've been getting just seen on Twitter.

781
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: They're landing all these five star recruits. But Jeremy Fruit

782
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: is not bad. Georgia is just stacked. Kentucky not bad

783
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: at all. They produced a bunch of NFL guys, and

784
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: Florida's is good. There's a chance though Stoops is good. Now,

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00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Mullen than Stups, But I think Stud

786
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: is really good. I mean, he wanted eleven games of

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00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: Kentucky couple years ago. That's an incredible accomplishment. Kirby solid,

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00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: but he took over. You know, it has a little

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00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: bit of a feel, a little different like when Chip

790
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: took over for Mike Ballotti at Oregon. You know, Kirby

791
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: did not take over Vanderbilt, right, Kirby did not take

792
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: over Oregon State. He took over Georgia. They had been

793
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: in the SEC championship game five years ago before he

794
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: took over. Now he's done a really good job. They've

795
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: been in consistent top ten. He's recruiting like a mofo.

796
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: But I'd rather have If you told me who did

797
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 1: you want for the next five years, I'd probably lean Mullen.

798
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: So you got the right coach, and if you got

799
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: the right coach in football, you got a chance to

800
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: win big. Since every team has settled at quarterback apparently,

801
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: and most have very little cap space with the Cowboys

802
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: possibly negotiate a better deal with Dac if they just

803
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 1: rescinded his franchise tag and have him negotiate in the market.

804
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: It's funny I tweeted this out last week. I said,

805
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: why wouldn't the cow Boys resend the franchise tag and

806
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: just go Dak, here's your offer? Five years, a hundred million,

807
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 1: five million dollars a year. Who is paying Dak Prescott money?

808
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: And I got a bunch of people, the Colts, the Raiders.

809
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: Have you googled how much salary cap space these people have?

810
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: The culture paying Philip Rivers twenty five million dollars. That

811
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: is not happening. The Jaguars are not signing Dak Prescott,

812
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: Jon Gruden that they've already spent all their money. Where

813
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: where would Dak Prescott get thirty million dollars a year? Now?

814
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: It's kind of a dick move, right, Uh, you don't

815
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: treat your quarterbacks like that, but you could argue already

816
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: when you're playing him along like this on the franchise tag,

817
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: kind of shows you what you think of him. I

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Speaker 1: I would think about doing that, to be honestly, I

819
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: don't think that's crazy at all. Now. I don't think

820
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is going to do that, but I wouldn't

821
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Speaker 1: be critical of him if he did. I've been listening

822
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Speaker 1: to podcast to love your analysis. Do you think the

823
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Speaker 1: Ravens can win fourteen game games again, given that they

824
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:06,479
Speaker 1: have the easiest schedule in the league. Uh, I would

825
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: lean no. I mean most times, when you look at

826
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots run most you win twelve, you go twelve

827
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 1: and four, you have a really good team. Most teams

828
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Speaker 1: don't go back to back fourteen wins, especially when they're

829
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: predicated on running the football. Now, people have been asking

830
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: me this, like, how much time do you spend it

831
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 1: off in the off season preparing for your opponents? Well,

832
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: most teams definitely prepare either for early opponents or their division.

833
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: I would imagine Cleveland, I would imagine Pittsburgh, and I

834
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 1: would imagine the Bengals. Maybe not the Bengals, but definitely

835
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: Cleveland and Pittsburgh would be running looks in practice against

836
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens offense, so they couldn't just run the option

837
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: right through your you know, until the cows come home

838
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: and run for three yards on your ass. Now, because

839
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: there's no offseason, all the coaches have probably put together

840
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: the tape and the scouting reports, but you're not able

841
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: to rep it on the practice field. And then once

842
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: training camp hits, you have so much else to accomplish.

843
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,479
Speaker 1: I don't know how much time you have, so maybe

844
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: they'll be better just as good early, but maybe it

845
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: comes slows down a little bit as the season goes on.

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00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 1: I would imagine, though, they're not going to be fourteen

847
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: and two again. Even though the Chiefs managed to keep

848
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: twenty of twenty two starters at the Super Bowl, they

849
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: don't have a perfect roster. Last year, I felt like

850
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: they were exceptional. I feel like our exceptional safety play

851
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: between Honey Badger and Thornhill covered up below average cornerbacks

852
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: as the linebackers. What do you think the Chief's biggest

853
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: hole in their roster is and who could fix it? Well,

854
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: it definitely was linebacker speed, and they drafted the guy

855
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: at the end of the second round, Willie Gate Jr.

856
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: Who should immediately help that. And I think their corner

857
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: play should be better this year in the scheme after

858
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: the schedule being released, what is your record prediction for

859
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I feel like they have a team with

860
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: a great existing chemistry, will be a huge advantage in

861
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: our first part of the season facing some of our

862
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: more difficult opponents, which are early. Yeah, I mean I

863
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: think the chief win twelve or thirteen games. I mean

864
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be the cream of the

865
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: crop in the f C, and they're the clear team

866
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: to beat, and I would I like them more than

867
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: Baltimore regardless of what happens Week three? Do you think

868
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of Tampa are getting a little

869
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: too much hype? Tom Brady has not proven that he

870
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: still has the top end you're left in him, and

871
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: the team has established losing culture for the last decades.

872
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: Thanks uh. I look at them differently just because they

873
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: have an elite coach and Bruce Arians. The moment he

874
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: showed up in the joke franchise of the Arizona's Cardinals,

875
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: he started winning. He started kicking everyone's ass. First year

876
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: when Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh had two teams that

877
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: went to the NFC Championship, his team went ten and six.

878
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: He just belongs when he shows up, he belongs. His

879
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: quarterback through thirty interceptions, thirty interceptions and he wons seven games.

880
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: Think of what an accomplishment that was. If if they

881
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: could have just cut that at twenty five, they might

882
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: have been nine and seven. So I think it's coaching

883
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: staffs elite. I think Bruce Arians is elite. I think

884
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: if Tom is just if Pete tom Brady is a

885
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: percent like the great, the goat, the you know, the

886
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: guy that led to come back against Atlanta, the guy

887
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,240
Speaker 1: that uh, you know through five plus yards against the Eagles.

888
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: If that's a hundred, if he can just give Tampa

889
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty or Tampa, if he can give Tampa

890
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: eight of that, they'll be good enough. Because last year

891
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: Jim Jamis was fifty of the percent of that, like

892
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: Jamis was a train wreck. I made this account just

893
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: to ask you a question. Which offense do you prefer

894
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning with average receivers or Mr Whisky with Jerry Rice,

895
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Westwoker. If you want someone on the slot,

896
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, all in their primes. Basically, how much do

897
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: you think the receiver elevates a quarterback? So would I'd

898
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: rather have Peyton Manning with average wide receivers. And when

899
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: you think about it, he's never really had average wide receivers,

900
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: Like think of all the guys that he had in Indie,

901
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: from Marvin to Reggie to Austin Colley to Dallas Clark

902
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: Edgar and James Die like he and then when he

903
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: goes to Denver. They have Damarius Thomas, they got Julius Thomas,

904
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: they signed West Welker, they got Emmanuel Sanders. He's always

905
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: played with really, really good players. Now would I take

906
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: my chance with Mitt Robiskie, with Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Welker,

907
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. Yes, I would probably do that, And if

908
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: Mitch was just terrible, I would go to my backup.

909
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: I think it would be hard to suck with those guys.

910
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean I would probably do that. Now, maybe I'm wrong.

911
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: Maybe if I thought about that longer. That's type content.

912
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm here for great question, big Cowboys fan, looking for

913
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,879
Speaker 1: a Cowboys season prediction, and specifically a CD prediction. Are

914
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: we looking at the next desk? Thanks? Uh? I would

915
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: say ten and six, and I would say c D

916
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: catches sixty balls. It's hard for a rookie to have

917
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: put up huge numbers, especially in an offense that's gonna

918
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: give the ball to Zeke a lot, that's also gonna

919
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: throw it to a Mario and Gallop a lot. So

920
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: they're they do have a lot of offensive players, right,

921
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: A Marius. Since it's been a Dallas averaged you know,

922
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: a year and a half, you know, if you if

923
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: you put it out and really his entire career average

924
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: around seventy five catches a year, and think about Maris underachieved.

925
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: Zeke gets a ton of touches. So if CD gets

926
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: twenty targets now, it's probably too many. Hundred targets sixty

927
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: catches ratio seems a little crazy, maybe less. I think

928
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: it'll be hard to look up and see Ceedee Lamb

929
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: have eight ninety catches. I just usually doesn't happen for

930
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: a rookie. Last year the number and we had a

931
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: good rookie receiving class A J. Brown, DK Metcalf, Deebo Samuel.

932
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: I think that the leading rookie receiver got fifty eight balls.

933
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: So I look at the Cowboys and Eagless playoff teams

934
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: just like this year. Uh they both got injured and

935
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys lost a bunch of games, but they both

936
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: those two teams should have been playoff teams. Uh. So

937
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: I got I go ten and six big swing games.

938
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: Though the NFC East plays the NFC West, it'll act

939
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: will be harder for Philly and Dallas because you don't

940
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: just play the Niners in Seattle, you also play the Rams,

941
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: who I mean, the Rams don't suck. And Kyler Murray,

942
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: who's just kind of little. I mean, he's a scary

943
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: little guy to play. As a two thousand and seventeen

944
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: Texas Tech grad, I was lucky to get to watch

945
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: Mahomes live his entire collegiate career. I remember being floored

946
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: that the Bears passed on Watson and Mahomes for an

947
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: unproven one year starter. Do you think the Bears got

948
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: cute trying to outsmart the league and screwed themselves, or

949
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: do you think your bisky pick was truly just a

950
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: bad evaluation by the franchise. Well, at least you're admitting

951
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: your little biased I think that taking your Bisky over

952
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: Mahomes was not crazy at all. I actually think it

953
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: was the right move at the time. In theory, taking

954
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: him over Watson's a little nuts because you basically are

955
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: taking We've got two quarterbacks coming out of the A SEC.

956
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: One guy has been a multiple year starter, been a

957
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: multiple national championships, and just beat Alabama on a walk

958
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: off touchdown and through a combined like yards in two

959
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: games against Alabama and national championship games. The other guy

960
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: was a one year starter. So that that one's hard. Now,

961
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: Watson is a much better player than I thought he

962
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: would be. You know, he doesn't have a great arm,

963
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: but he's just he's got it. He just he just

964
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 1: has it, you know. Sometimes he just like Russell Wilson,

965
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: throws an elite dee ball. He has a powerful, powerful arm.

966
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: Now he has it qualities, but he actually his physical

967
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: tools are He's very athletic. He can just throw ropes.

968
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: DeSean doesn't have a great arm. He just he just

969
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: got it. I don't really, you know, And that's I

970
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: I can't totally hate. I mean, I understand it, you know.

971
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: I mean I would have taken Watson over Trabisky, but

972
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: I also like kind of like Trabisky coming out. It

973
00:50:52,920 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: looks terrible. There's no way around it looks terrible. What

974
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: do you think the NFL moving to Christmas Day? Was

975
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: there some sort of gentleman men's agreement between the NBA

976
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: and NFL that has been ignored? Personally, I love it

977
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: and will become three games somewhere Thanksgiving within five years. Yeah,

978
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: there's no gentleman's agreement. I I don't think the NFL

979
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 1: cares at all about the NBA. Uh, they would take

980
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: the every ounce of the NBA's revenue if they could.

981
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: It's just a dog eat dog world. And I think

982
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: the Roger Goodell in the league season opening, they see

983
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: they see a wounded animal and they're they're a lion

984
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: on the prairie and they're going to eat And if

985
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: that animal can either find safety and somehow figure it out,

986
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: but if they don't, the line is gonna eat them.

987
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: And that line is the NFL. And that little gazelle

988
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: the NBA is not a little gazelle. It's a big gazelle.

989
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: But it's limping right now and that line is coming

990
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: after it. So we better find some safety faster. It's

991
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: gonna get eaten. With the last dance on part of

992
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: me wants to believe that mj is the goat of

993
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: all goats. Before this doc, it's always been Tom Brady

994
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: in my eyes, I just wanted your opinion. Love the show.

995
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: I would say the biggest difference between Tom Brady and

996
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 1: Michael is Tom was an underdock right he was pick.

997
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: He was not a starter in college. Michael Jordan's hit

998
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: the game winning shot the National Championship as a freshman

999
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: at North Carolina, but like once they've got to the league,

1000
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: they are just relentless in their pursuit of greatness. And

1001
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,720
Speaker 1: I think Tom could kind of be an asshole to guys,

1002
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: just like Mike. But I also you noticed, like most

1003
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: of the teammates love playing with Mike, most guys love

1004
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: playing with Tom even though he's on them hard. Now

1005
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: there's an element in football with Belichick plays a role

1006
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: to stay on your where It's a little different basketball.

1007
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: Like Michael was kind of the hard ass, Phil was

1008
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: kind of balanced it. Uh. I would give the slight

1009
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: edge to Michael, but I think Tom is a close second.

1010
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: I I would go in my lifetime Tiger. I would

1011
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: go Michael one Tiger to Tom three as just outlier

1012
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: badass killers. I mean, just there too on a different

1013
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: level to dominate. And I would this doc has been

1014
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: great to Michael and the REP and solidified everything we

1015
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: think of it. I think Tom Brady, We've seen Tom.

1016
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: The guy is a nut. He eats avocado ice cream

1017
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: to try to stay skinny to play football. And I

1018
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: don't know, Michael smokes cigars and drinks alcohols. Do you know.

1019
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: Michael wasn't in the health kick, but he was into

1020
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,879
Speaker 1: working out, So maybe you'd argue Tiger or I mean

1021
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: Tiger too, but Tom dedicated more of his life to

1022
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: basket or to football than Tiger than Uh, Michael did

1023
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: the basketball I got Tiger on. That's why I keep

1024
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,959
Speaker 1: saying him on Golf Channel. It's like replaying some old

1025
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: PGA Tour championship that he won in like, but all

1026
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: those guys just Tom's probably the most extreme, even more

1027
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: than Tiger. You would say Michael's the least extreme. Now,

1028
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 1: he worked out hard, but he wasn't like changing his diet.

1029
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean Tom eats. Tom basically eats like air, Like

1030
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: what is how does Tom function? But he does I

1031
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: mean a pliability. I was called ice cream, no tomatoes,

1032
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: Uh water, It's crazy, but it works. I mean Tom

1033
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: probably the most extreme with all that stuff, and he's

1034
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: playing the latest I mean golf you can play forever.

1035
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: My Michael was done playing at the retired at thirty four,

1036
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 1: and he came back for the Wizards, but it wasn't

1037
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: the same. He couldn't have kept winning championships at that age.

1038
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: Pretty remarkable with Tom's done. Uh, they're all just in

1039
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: the on the pantheon of legendary goats. Appreciate everyone listening

1040
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: and UH, have a great week and I will talk

1041
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: to you. I'll talk to you Friday. Peace audios, got

1042
00:54:41,040 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: speed and