1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecoff Three and Out Podcast, 2 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Go subscribe right now if you 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: haven't a three and Out podcast. And we got a 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: lot going on, A lot is happening in the football world. 5 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: We actually had breaking news on Monday, a guy named 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: Jay Jay Watt has a new team. Some thoughts there, 7 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Alex Smith not happy, a couple more thoughts on the 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson situation. The free agent market. Seventeen games is 9 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 1: basically unofficially official. It was like all sixteen a FC 10 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: teams will host the week seventeen next year. And Jim 11 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: Harbaugh saw something today that just made me shake my head. 12 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: It's pretty understandable why he's in the predicament that he's 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: in and not winning. He has a quarterback problem. UH 14 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: and other than that, if you could would greatly appreciate it, 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: leave that little review on the uh on the Apple 16 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: iTunes really helps with everything we are doing here and 17 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: um and yeah, okay, let's dive into the news. The 18 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: breaking news of the day. J J. Watt signs with 19 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. And I'll be the first to admit 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: I was shocked, stunned. I mean I'm rarely jaw open, 21 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: but when I saw that, I had to do a 22 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 1: double take. I had to see if he was playing 23 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: with people. I didn't believe it at first. Clearly it's official. 24 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: He's going to the Arizona Cardinals. Two things jump out 25 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: to me immediately. What the Cardinals vastly overpaid. They're somewhat desperate. 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: They haven't made the playoffs for a while. They should 27 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: have made the playoffs last year. They fell apart. Their 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: defense isn't very good. They gave an older player money 29 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: that no other team would have. Sometimes, when you're desperate, 30 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: what do they say? In business? Desperate people usually make 31 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: the worst deals. Usually want to make deals from the 32 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,959 Speaker 1: position of you know, security of not have you where 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: you can always walk away. The Cardinals clearly overpaid. Here 34 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: the J. J. Watt angle as someone who aspires to 35 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: move to the Scottsdale Temper area and who plans on 36 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 1: moving there in the next eighteen months for a lot 37 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: less than twenty three million dollars, I can't blame him. 38 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: That's a boatload of money. He was scheduled to make 39 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: seventeen and a half billion dollars. I don't think most 40 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: good teams wanted to pay him more than five six 41 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: million dollars and then incentivize the rest The packers, the 42 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: Bills teams like the Chiefs in the Bucks were never 43 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: ever giving him this type money. I don't care what 44 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: gets leaked. There's a reason the Cardinals had to pay 45 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: this much because they're not a winning team and they 46 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: have to overpay for a guy like this. And listen 47 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: me personally. Part of being super rich is you can 48 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: make decisions not based strictly on money. JJ has made 49 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: a hundred on the field, probably made twenty two fifty 50 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: million off it. I mean he's made a ton off it. 51 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: Fifty maybe high, but twenty five thirty forty he's made 52 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: a ton of money. Money is not he has generational wealth. 53 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: It's really quick. The media throws around that term. You 54 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: don't need to have a hundred million dollars to have 55 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 1: generational wealth. If I give a smart guy at ten 56 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: million dollars, generational wealth can invest in a couple of 57 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: real estate deals, put some money away, or in the 58 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: interest off a couple of million dollars. It's not that complicated, 59 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: Like you can gain generational wealth from way less money 60 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: than J. J. Watt. Just signed for let alone that 61 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: he's already earned. He has an unlimited amount of money. 62 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: He made more. I understand it because if his best 63 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: offer was five to eight million dollars, they offered four 64 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: times that. Listen, who am I to tell a man 65 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: to turn down that type of money and I'm not 66 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: Now I would say, j J, You're not gonna win here. 67 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: They don't win. They have a coach that does not win. 68 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: The evidence is in Cliff Kingsbury cannot win. It's not 69 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: even disputable. Nice guy, good looking guy, hard worker, spread offense, 70 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: just ain't working this franchise. I think the moment J. J. 71 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: Watt officially signed and I saw he tweeted out picture. 72 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: Bidwell is also a pilot, took his private jet which 73 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: he flew to pick JJ and his wife up, probably 74 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: pretty cool. I actually kind of like Michael Bidwell. People 75 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: always kind of ship on the Bidwell family growing up 76 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: because the Cardinals were a joke. I think it was 77 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: his dad. Bidwell feels like a very very smart, high 78 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: level guy. It feels like a pretty good owner. They've 79 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: had a lot of success under him. Right went to 80 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with Ken wizzen Hunt and Kurt Warner 81 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: and Larry Fitzgerald. Uh years later they hired come and 82 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: they get Bruce Arians. They start winning again, like that 83 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: franchise when I was growing up out here on the 84 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: West coast, laughing stock, complete joke, viewed as cheap. This 85 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: guy is not. This guy is impressive. Now. I think 86 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: the moment J. J. Watt signed the clock and the 87 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: pressure is on on two individuals, Cliff Kingsbury and the 88 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: general manager, Steve KNT. If they do not make the 89 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: playoffs this year, I think both guys get fired because 90 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: you look at what they've accumulated and acquired the last 91 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: couple of years. Right, they draft Kyler Murray Boom. They 92 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: had a top ten pick last year. They chose to 93 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 1: take Isaiah Simmons over several players who are sweet. They 94 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: get a gift because Bill O'Brien's crazy, and they get 95 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins for a second round pick. Now they have J. J. Watt. 96 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 1: They're going, we need to make the playoffs. That's what 97 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: this signing says. I'll give you extra money to to 98 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: give probably way too much money to an older player. 99 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: But his leadership is veteran presence, all that stuff, I 100 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: get it. You bring him in high double guy playoffs 101 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: or bust because you're still like you have the worst 102 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: coach in the division, Pete Kyle McVeigh not arguable. But 103 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: other than that, like you have as much talent as 104 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: all these other teams. Like the talent on the Cardinals 105 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: is really really good. If I told you that Kyle 106 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: Shanahan or Sean McVeigh was the coach of the Arizona Cardinals, 107 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: we do all, they'll they'll win nine games, they'll win 108 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: ten games, they'll be in the playoffs. Yet it clips 109 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: their coach. We go, I don't see it. And that 110 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: is back to the amount of money they had to 111 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: give J. J. Watt so much money, because listen, we 112 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: all have a price. Even back to what I was 113 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: saying about the best part about being super rich is 114 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: being able to say no to things. But even when 115 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: you're super rich, people bring you offers or bring you opportunities. 116 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: It gets to a point where you're almost stupid saying though, 117 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: because let's say hypothetically, the Packers had said, listen, j J. 118 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: We want you to come home. Try to win a 119 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: ring with Aaron Rodgers, and you'll be a legend. You'll 120 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: be an absolute legend. You will be you'll be considered 121 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: the missing piece that helped the Packers get over the hump. 122 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: But he goes, awesome, I want to play with Rodgers, 123 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: I want to play with Davante. I want to be 124 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: a Green Bay Packer. How much? And they go, well, 125 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: j J will give you a one year deal, five 126 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed and will incentivize it if you play 127 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: in sixteen games, if you make a Pro Bowl, if 128 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: you get double digit sacks, we got no problem problem 129 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: paying you market value. That number will go up to 130 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: you know, another ten to twelve million dollars in guarantees. 131 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: So basically get back to your seventeen million dollar number 132 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: that you would have made in Houston this year. That's 133 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: what we are prepared to do because if I was 134 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: putting myself in the winning organizations, that would be what 135 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: they were thinking about. They would never in a million 136 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: years thinking about giving him twenty three million dollars guaranteed. 137 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: A guy that before two thousand twenty have been missing 138 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: games and every single season, many of those seasons a 139 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: ton of games. Now good player plays hard on the 140 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: wrong side of thority, but still is a very very 141 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: productive player. The Cardinals when you're desperate team, you you 142 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: give him twenty three million dollars guaranteed. So there's a 143 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: chance that the good teams were offering him, you know, 144 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: five to eight right, guaranteed dollar, guaranteed millions and with 145 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: a ton of incentives, and he basically took three, four 146 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: or five times that to go to a team that 147 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna win at Now you can argue, listen, 148 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: you're never guaranteed to win a super Bowl. He'd go 149 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 1: to the Packers and they could go nine and seven, 150 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: Rogers get hurt. Nothing is guaranteed in life. So even 151 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: if he had gone to the Packers or the Bills, 152 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: it would have been applauded like by fans and social 153 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: media and people have been like, god, he's in a 154 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: winning environment. There's no guarantee he's going to the playoffs 155 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: next year, even on a team that looks dramatically better 156 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: than the Cardinals. And you could put the argument that, like, 157 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: the Cardinals have enough talent to make the playoffs, But 158 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: like I've talked about pretty consistently, I'm betting against their 159 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: head coach, I'm betting against their defensive coordinator and even 160 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: their quarterback who it's not. You can't argue that his 161 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: physical attributes work in the NFL. He's incredibly fast, his 162 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: arm strength is fantastic. When he's in rhythm and playing well, 163 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: he he looks awesome. He's a legitimate NFL quarterback. You 164 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: can win with him. But the size, which twenty thirty 165 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: years ago, no one would have taken him number one 166 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: overall because he was you know, you could argue like 167 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 1: a shade over five eight. He's tiny for NFL standards. 168 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's tiny by NFL standards, and he's got Kyler 169 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: by a couple of inches. And if you've ever stood 170 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: around Russell, Russell is thick. He's built like a little tank. 171 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: Kyler's slender. Now he's way faster than Russell, and he's 172 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: got the the elite speed. But we saw this year, 173 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: I think it was Seattle on Thursday night when when 174 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: Kyler got slammed into the ground, he was never the 175 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: same the rest of the season. And I'm a I'm 176 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: not a Kyler hater. I think he works in the NFL, 177 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: but I do question if he can sustain play because 178 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: of his eyes. So there's just a risk, like a 179 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 1: big part of it. J. J. Goes, I think Kyler 180 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: can be a really good player. Well what if he 181 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: gets hurt and he's the guy you would say is 182 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: more inclined to get injured just because of his his stature. 183 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: That makes me a little nervous. There's a risky move 184 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: for the Cards, uh, in the sense that they paid 185 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: an over you know, an older player. This is an 186 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: I guess, a no brainer for j J if being 187 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: the you know, getting the most amount of money was 188 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: his number one decision. Like I said, I never judge 189 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: anyone on words. Because he kept I want to go 190 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: where you win. I want to win. I want to win. 191 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: And then he goes to the Cardinals likes I judge 192 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: you on your actions. I love money as much as 193 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: the next guy, So I'm not I get it. But 194 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: no one can cry for this guy. If they go 195 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: six and ten, he's really he's gonna be a really 196 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: rich six and ten player. I think that's I think 197 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: that's fair to assume. And if that happens, if the 198 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: Cards are not in the playoffs next year, get ready 199 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals GM job and their head coaching 200 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: job to become open. Fox Sports Radio has the best 201 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our 202 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the 203 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Search f s R to listen live. Okay, 204 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: here's a story that I U I saw making the 205 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: rounds the last couple of days. I saw some clips 206 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: with a Graham Bessinger. I think you say his name. 207 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: He's always interviewing famous people. Good looking, skinny dude. He's 208 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: got great interviews. He had a good interview with Alex 209 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: Smith where Alex was talking about the dysfunction and just 210 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: his time with Hardball before Hardball with the Niners getting 211 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: traded to the Chiefs, and if anyone's seen Alex as 212 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: E sixty, it is one of the most heart wrenching, 213 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: gut wrenching and inspiring all in one documentary type things 214 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: with an athlete you'll ever see and listen. Having followed 215 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: his career very closely what he went through with the 216 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: Niners before Hardboy, get here with a bozo like Mike Singletary, 217 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: who's the worst coach maybe ever? I mean, honestly, like 218 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson, Tom Seula. Those guys are better than single Singletary, 219 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: as Mayoko said. Matt Mayoko covers the forty Niners because 220 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: I remember asking him, like during the time Sula year, 221 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: I'm like, have you ever seen anything like this? He's like, 222 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: oh yeah, this isn't even close The Singletary year tops 223 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: at all. And Singletary was dropping his trousers at halftime 224 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 1: to inspire. Was like calling out Alex Smith on game 225 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: day in front of the team for toughness. I mean, 226 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: it was crazy, complete disaster Alex toughness. No one can 227 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: ever take away Alex. His grit, his determination is second 228 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: to none in the history of sports. Right, his leg 229 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 1: almost fell off, he went to rehab where wounded warriors go, 230 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: had to have the Pentagon and people high up in 231 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: the government sign off on him to go there, and 232 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: he went, and it was It's an incredible If you 233 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: haven't seen it, I highly recommend going to watch it. 234 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: But I think sometimes a story and a headline can 235 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: draw us all in. Right, we are all suckers is 236 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: the wrong word, but we all have I think every 237 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: single human being, unless you're just a complete psychopath and 238 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: nut job, has part of our body that has ammense 239 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: amount of compassion for anyone who's been in some sort 240 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: of accident that they have they had no control over 241 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: car accidents, falling accidents, an accident like Alex had where 242 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: he got this bacteria in his leg playing football. I 243 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: I think the overwhelming majority of human beings. I always 244 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: say this is about human beings in general. I think 245 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: we've gone through this last year where a lot of 246 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: people get talked about like they're being bad people. The 247 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of people are good people, Like most people 248 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: that you come across in life, any socio, whether you're rich, poor, 249 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: middle class, whatever, just normal good people. I believe that 250 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: to my core, and I think we all when we 251 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: see something with Alex, most of us, the overwhelming majority 252 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: of people have the same reaction, like, God, H'm pulling 253 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: for this guy. We naturally pull for this guy. He's 254 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: the easiest story to pull for. It's like, you know, 255 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: it's you're gonna get universal agreements, right, and everyone when 256 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: he came back, and I'm someone who after watching that 257 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: thought like Alex, just think of this in my head, 258 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: like you're crazy, man, just retire. You have more money 259 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: than you know what to do with. What are you 260 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: doing this for? But who am I to tell that 261 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: to someone? Who am I to tell someone to stop playing? Right? 262 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: Who are any of us to tell anyone to stop playing. Now, 263 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: I think sometimes if you're like Peyton Manning, like an 264 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: all time great player, it's like Peyton, I don't want 265 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: to watch you throwballs in the dirt. And ultimately he retired, right, 266 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: Drew Brees like, why is he retiring because he's not 267 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: as good as he once was. I think it's easier 268 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: with great players. But any fringe player you you should have, 269 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: they should drag you off the field. What because your 270 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: career is gonna end at thirty two instead of thirty four. 271 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: You got the rest of your life to you. So 272 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: I I'll never tell anyone to stop playing. But I 273 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: think the Alex Smith story has become better than the 274 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: Alex Smith the player. And Alex Smith said a bunch 275 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: of things to g Q, how the Redskins excuse me, 276 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: the Washington football team didn't want them. They never really 277 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: wanted them, even though it's kind of bs because I 278 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: read Albert Breer reported and he's right that they had 279 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: him mentoring Dwayne Haskins. Ultimately, when they bench Dwayne Haskins, 280 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: Alex came in like they had paid him the last 281 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: couple of years as they should have. I'm not saying 282 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: they like they deserve a cookie for that, but they 283 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: did a lot of things well. For all, we can 284 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: crap on the organization all we want, and trust me, 285 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: they get drugged through the mud just about more than 286 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: any organization in all the sports. I think the way 287 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: they handled this Alex Smith situation, at least from my perspective, 288 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: was very commendable and was very high level, especially this year. 289 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: They even gave the opportunity for him to come back. 290 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: He ended up playing, starting multiple games, and this is 291 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: where I'm saying his story then became better than the 292 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: play because he's not any good anymore. Why he never 293 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: had a great arm. A huge part of Alex's success 294 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: with Andy in Kansas City, when he really took off, 295 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: like he became a solid starter, Hardball got like the 296 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: train back on the tracks. Andy then created a high 297 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: level NFL starter, you know, probably somewhere between like eight 298 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: to twelve, but you could definitely if your team was 299 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: good enough, you go to the playoffs every year. And 300 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: a big part of that was not because of his arm. 301 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: His arm is average. Now he's really accurate, but he's 302 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: also really athletic. That was a huge part of Alex. 303 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: He was big, and he was athletic. He could move 304 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: because he was never throwing bombs hell. He was never 305 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: thrown at like twenty five yards down the field. But 306 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: athleticism was a huge part of his game. And then 307 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: this leg injury that he came back from, he cannot 308 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: move anymore. He was a liability when you watched him play. Honestly, 309 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: I remember the game that Haskins or I can't even 310 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: remember the quarterback got k it was Kyle Allen. He 311 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: comes in in the second half they're playing the Ramps 312 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: and he got sacked a bunch and Aaron Donald's jumping 313 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: on his back, and I remember sitting on my couch, 314 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: you know, the middle of the season or early mid 315 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: you know, week six, seven, eight, somewhere in there, thinking 316 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: like I feel bad, like Aaron Donald, do not hurt 317 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,439 Speaker 1: this guy. That's what's going through my head. Because he 318 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: could not move, he could not avoid pressure, and that's 319 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: a huge part of his game. So when the when 320 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: the Washington football team released him to day, they're not 321 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: the bad guy because listen, once you take the onion 322 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: back on the incredible story and the incredible comeback, this 323 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: is a bottom line business. Like most industries, and there 324 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 1: comes to a point it would be one thing, right 325 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: if they're paying him a million dollars, like I'll keep 326 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: him around the scheduled to make nineteen million dollars. Not 327 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 1: only is he not a starter, I don't even view 328 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: him as a backup. I saw somewhere on social media 329 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,719 Speaker 1: to day someone put out is advanced analytics, like you know, 330 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 1: yards per play, effectiveness per play, all that, some of 331 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: the advanced stuff. They were terrible. He was god awful 332 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: and I think you can separate the person the player 333 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: that was pre injury. Incredible story, incredible, high level guy, 334 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 1: Man of the year type. I know the Chiefs guy. 335 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: Andy loves Alex Smith to this day. Patrick Mahomes still 336 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: mentions him when talking about his success. It shows you 337 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: the impact he had on people there and any forty 338 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: Niner fan will say what he did the first year 339 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: of hardbought leading them to the a F or the 340 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. Now, he didn't complete a third down 341 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,439 Speaker 1: in that game against the Giants, but nothing but respect 342 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: for the guy. He is a certified badass. I'm watching 343 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: that E sixty as I'm sure if any of you 344 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: that listened had to had to be thinking yourself. I 345 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 1: don't know if I could do this, I might have 346 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: just thrown in the white flag. I don't know how 347 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: he got through this. We're all thinking the same thing because, 348 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: like I said, most of us humans have the same 349 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: reaction to this stuff. We have compassion when it comes 350 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: to these accidents and these injuries. We all do. It's 351 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: something we all share. But then when you get back 352 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: to kind of the reality of Okay, is he starting quarterback? 353 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: Is he even worth having on a roster? Then I 354 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: think we get up for debate and you got to 355 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 1: separate the two because this is a very polarizing individual 356 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: because everyone just naturally is gonna root for him. And 357 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: the problem is, even as I bet Ron Rivere, Ron 358 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: Rivere just beat cancer. The dude literally coached the season 359 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: with cancer, was going to get treatments during the season, 360 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: would be so exhausted some games he'd take a nap 361 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: in the locker room before they couldn't even go out 362 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,239 Speaker 1: on the field in pregame warm ups too tired. So 363 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 1: and I've met Ron and anyone that knows Ron way 364 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: better than I do in the league. I mean, he's 365 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: like the highest character guy in the league. This guy 366 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: is not kicking him to the curb. He just simply 367 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: not even close to being good enough anymore. You can't 368 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: play with him. As sad as this sounds, I don't 369 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: even know if he's an NFL quarterback anymore. Now, Who 370 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: am I to tell Alex that he should keep trying 371 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: to play? And he will. I do believe though, this 372 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: guy is not going to be in the league come 373 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: this fall, because I think when you watch him, you 374 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: question Canny protect himself because a huge part of his 375 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: game was moving. So I know this gets shape some 376 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: time if you see this story that the Washington football team, 377 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: who historically have been the bad guy have been the idiots, 378 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: have been the low level operation. Not here. Honestly, I 379 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: think since Ron's been there, they've been pretty impressive. Just 380 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: the way they handled Haskins, the way they kicked Haskins 381 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: of the curve, like that's what high level organizations do. 382 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: It's not easy to do something like this with Alex, 383 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: and listen, I can't speak clearly. He came out with 384 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: some pretty bold words and maybe he's really mad, and 385 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: I don't blame him put a lot into it, but 386 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: he just he's simply not good enough anymore. Okay, let's 387 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: let's touch on a little really quick. Russell Wilson and 388 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: I heard watching the YouTube or maybe someone I followed 389 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: on Instagram. It was an Instagram you know, I follow 390 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: some Instagram follows. I bet if we broke down everyone's 391 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: Instagram follows, mine would be outrageous, like everything from pro athletes, 392 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: two former presidents, to business leaders to just chicks that 393 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: are naked. Two inspirational quotes from successful people. I mean, 394 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: it's all over the map. Like you, you couldn't if 395 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: you were trying to figure me out from my Instagram follows, 396 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: you'd have a hard time because I got a little 397 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: bit of everything. And I think most of you listening. 398 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: If I really dove into your Instagram follows that you 399 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: would be very similar. But I think I saw I 400 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: follow I don't even know, uh, some business Instagram account, 401 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: and it's it had this guy talking, and it gave 402 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: me some perspective because sometimes, like anyone, right wherever you live, 403 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: you're like, God, I need to move. And obviously I 404 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: want to move more like tax reasons or whatever, but 405 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,680 Speaker 1: I'm just talking about individual place, like I'm tired of 406 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: living in this condo. You need to go buy a house, right, 407 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: think about that all the time, need to go. It's 408 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: like this pless place sucks you just if you're in 409 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: a bad frame of minds easy to think that unless 410 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: you live in some sweetass house, you can always upgrade, right. 411 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: I think I have those thoughts every day. And on 412 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,239 Speaker 1: this like Instagram account, it had this guy saying, if 413 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: you think about your life from the perspective of wherever 414 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: you live, if you live in a condo, an apartment, 415 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: at home, whatever, and you go, do you know the 416 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: amount of people in this country or this world that 417 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: would die to be living in this place? They would 418 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: do anything to have what you have. I think how 419 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: often you get mad at your job? Right, You're like, God, 420 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: this job sucks you make Do you know how many 421 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: people in America would die to make? Right? And and 422 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: just listen, I say whatever you want. Like, sometimes just 423 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: having a little perspective can just get you in a 424 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: better frame of mind. Because I'll be honest, I'm naturally negative. 425 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: The first thing I think about when I get up 426 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: tends to be negative thoughts. I think it's genetic dad 427 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: a little negative. Two. I have to force positive thoughts 428 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: sometimes in my head because it's way healthier. I can 429 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 1: be way more productive, get way more things done. I'm 430 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: way more successful when I'm thinking not just clearly, but 431 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: thinking positively. Now, you can get mad, and negative thoughts 432 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 1: are natural to come at you when things happen. That's 433 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: that's human. But I think when you get obsessed with 434 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: the negative thoughts, which is easy to get into a rut, 435 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: especially this last like twelve months, and it can consume you. 436 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: And if you can get back to positive thinking, and 437 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: sometimes that's where some of the motivational stuff just helps me, 438 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: just like, Okay, I can just flip my mind. When 439 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 1: you just think about it like that, You're like, yeah, 440 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: you know what, my place isn't that bad. I'm lucky 441 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: to own this place. You know, you pay for it. 442 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: I'm not lucky I pay for it. But you get 443 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And I think all of us can 444 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: have a little perspective in our life. And I saw 445 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson in the story that came out and 446 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 1: we all saw him at the Super Bowl, is like 447 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: when the cameras panned to him and his wife, Crra 448 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: Sierra never get her name right with Roger Goodell because 449 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: he was the Man of the Year. She was happy, 450 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: Roger was happy, and they were having a conversation, and 451 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: then it looked like Russell was piste off and stories 452 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: have come out he was very, very angry watching the 453 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They definitely wanted us to know that. Right 454 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: his people have leaked that he did not enjoy watching 455 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Tom Brady win. Why because he's watching Tom Brady have success. 456 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: And if your success or your excuse me, if your 457 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: happiness is tied to comparing your life, your your lot 458 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: in life, to the success of others, you're never gonna 459 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: be happy. And right now, a big kind of elephant 460 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: in the room with Russell is that, like he's comparing 461 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: himself to Tom Brady. I got news for you, Russell Wilson. 462 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: That's moronic because there's never been a Tom Brady and 463 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: there probably will never be another Tom Brady. Patrick Mahomes. 464 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: When it's all said and done, it's not out of 465 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: the round possibility. He only wins one Super Bowl. I 466 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: think we'd all bet against it. But we said the 467 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: same thing about Aaron Rodgers. A decade later, he's got one. 468 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: Like Aaron Rodgers has been really successful, Russell Wilson has 469 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: been really successful. Obviously Tom runs circles around him both. Now, 470 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 1: I have no problem aspiring to be like that individual, right, 471 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 1: You always want to aspire to be someone, whether it's personally, professionally, whatever, 472 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: something that you're not right, something that you believe can 473 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: better yourself, whether that's money or whether it's being a 474 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 1: better person. So I understand professionally Russell Wilson aspires to 475 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: be like Tom, aspires to have that type success, which 476 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: is normal. But if his happiness, which it feels like, 477 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: you know, he's getting mad at the Seahawks because they're 478 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: not listening to him. He thinks Tom Brady's dictating personnel moves. 479 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: I don't think he is right, Like he's not they 480 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: brought and grown like that? Is that really tom Brady 481 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: dictating any team in the league if they would have 482 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: signed Tom Brady would have happily taken Gronk. So it 483 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: really wasn't like Tom like Tom's pulling strings Like no, 484 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: not really. Jason Lights like, yeah, we'll tank Gronkowski. So 485 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: would all the other thirty one teams, including Belichick. So 486 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: I think the big difference. Here's another thing, and here's 487 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: just I think sometimes when you judge yourself against other people, 488 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: you act like you are the same. And there is 489 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: a major difference in Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, excuse me, 490 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. Tom Brady was never ever babied or 491 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: play caated too in New England for two decades. For 492 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: two decades, Belichick made it hard on him, coached him hard, 493 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: held him the same high standard as everyone else. We've 494 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: all read those stories of like all his former teammates. 495 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: I remember Brian Hoyer his first ever meeting team meeting, 496 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: like the first you know, they're going through O t 497 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,719 Speaker 1: A practices or maybe it was training camp practices and 498 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: belichicked his lights into Tom. It might have been Castle. 499 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: It was either Hory or Castle. And their quote was like, 500 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: holy shit, if they're doing that to Tom, wait till 501 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: they get to me. And that was a team full, full, 502 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: full roster ninety men at the time in that room. 503 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: That's how it happened for two decades with Tom Brady. 504 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 1: Yet all the stories with Russell, it was Pete telling 505 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: the guys not to be mean to Rustle at practice. 506 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 1: It was Pete trying to get Russell the m v P. 507 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks have somewhat treated Russell like you would 508 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 1: an only child. Tom was treated like he was in 509 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: a family attend and when the food came out, you 510 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: better get to the dinner table quick because the food's 511 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: gonna disappear, and they don't care if you go to 512 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: bed hungry. It was the opposite with Seattle. With Russell, 513 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 1: they did everything that he wanted. They constantly tried to 514 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: get him help. They constantly told all the defenders that 515 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: never shut up. I don't know, because they were dominating 516 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: to treat Russell better, to not be so mean to him. 517 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: I think Albert Brier wrote about that today, or maybe 518 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: it was Peter King. Pete Carroll had to have a 519 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: meeting with his defensive guys be nicer to Russell. Do 520 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: you think Bill Belichick ever in a million fucking years, 521 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: would have had that meeting with anyone with the Patriots. Well, first, 522 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: he wouldn't have had to. But even if someone was 523 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: talking to Tom, Tom want to handle it on his own. 524 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: So Russell was comparing himself to Tom. Tom doesn't have 525 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: that much in commal Russell. Tom likes to get yelled at. 526 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: Tom's used to it. Tom one for twenty years when 527 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: his coach actually cut Corners, they didn't spend that much money. 528 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: They would only take guys on cheap contracts, where Seattle 529 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: was actually doing the opposite of everything Tom always wished 530 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: the Patriots would do, spending big money on guys, trading 531 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: for guys doing crazy things. It just shows you when 532 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: you can pair yourself to someone else, you usually don't 533 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: parallel them. And also when your happiness is based on, well, 534 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: look how good it is for them, it is stupid 535 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: because you don't usually have that much in common with them. Now, 536 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: I get Russell wants to win a Super Bowl, So 537 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: does every quarterback worth their salt in the league? Do 538 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: you think Aaron Rodgers wants to win a Super Bowl? 539 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, all these guys, what 540 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: do you think they? Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, Drew Brees, 541 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: the amount of work all these guys. You don't think 542 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was trying to win a Super Bowl with 543 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: every inch of his being. Like I just I think 544 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: we need to take a step back and go. People 545 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: need to stop comparing themselves with Tom. Right, You're not Tom. 546 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: You're never gonna beat Tom. You really don't have that 547 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: much in common with Tom. Now, I'm not saying Russell, 548 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: maybe you don't like Pete Carroll, maybe you're over the management. 549 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: Maybe you want to go somewhere else. That's not abnormal. 550 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: I can relate to that, so can most people listening. 551 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: We all get tired of working with certain people. We 552 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: all get tired of being in a certain situation. No 553 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: matter how much money you have, life is hard with 554 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: or without money. Now it's easier to purchase homes and 555 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: purchase cars, and send your kids to private schools and 556 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: stuff with money. Life is easier once you have money, 557 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: but your happiness does not change with the cash. Russell 558 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: has unlimited money. He's already want a Super Bowl now. 559 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: He's trying to chase all these like legacy stuff. One 560 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: thing I've never heard Tom talk about, and and clearly 561 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: Russell has been pretty open about this last couple of years, 562 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: legacy stuff. You know what Tom talks about the next 563 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning the next year. He's just obsessed with 564 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: that because his legacy dwarfs every quarterback in the league. 565 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: Right now, let's just pick the top three Mahomes, Russell, 566 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: and Rogers in whatever order you want. I'd personally go 567 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: based on this last year, I'd go Rogers slightly above 568 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: my homes and then Russell, And obviously Roger's been doing 569 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: it longer than the homes. But those two guys, Rogers 570 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: Mahomes are better than Russell Wilson, but Russell's better than 571 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: everyone else. So I'd take those three guys. If you 572 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: combine those three guys legacies, they do not equal Tom's 573 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: if you combine their super Bowl really even their Super 574 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: Bowl appearances. Right my home has been a two, Russell's 575 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: been to two and Roger's been to one. It's five total. 576 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: Tom has been a ten. So it just shows you 577 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: like he's just in a different world and he didn't 578 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: get what you wanted for twenty years and it worked. 579 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: And I think sometimes in pro sports because the amount 580 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: of money these guys make, when you start making thirty 581 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: five plus endorsements, fifty sixty million dollars a year, well, 582 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: do you know what a lot? What happens a lot? 583 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: People want to get involved in that because if I 584 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: had a business right now making fifty million dollars a year, 585 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: I'd have to hire a ton of people, and people 586 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: could profit off the business that I had. That's essentially 587 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: what athletes become and then you get a lot of 588 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: people involved with their own ideas. Their own ideas may 589 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: not be John Schneider's ideas or Pete Carroll's ideas. They're 590 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: gonna be four pro Russell Wilson. But this is a 591 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: team game. And back to Tom what is he known 592 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: at the greatest teammate ever. So I think Russell needs 593 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: to look at a situation goes you know what, I 594 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: got it pretty fucking good here. I've never in my 595 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: career won less than nine games. And I remember after 596 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: that season John Schnyder's they went nine and seven. John 597 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: Schnyder after the season said it felt like we went 598 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: we won two games. You know why because the standards 599 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: are so high. They're a powerhouse organization right now. Now 600 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: are they perfect? Of course not. Beside the Belichick Patriots 601 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: and the Brady Patriots, most teams don't go to the 602 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: Super Bowl every year. Russell is killing it. The Seattle's 603 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: killing it. They just won the Division A division. This 604 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,560 Speaker 1: loaded got the Rams, Kyle Shannon and the Niners. You 605 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: got Cliff and looking sweet and all those you know 606 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,720 Speaker 1: Kyler running around. They want it would Jamal missed a 607 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: bunch of games. The offense didn't even work at the 608 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: end of the season, and they still won the division. 609 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: So I I just think we all need to take 610 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: a deep breath and maybe it's not fixable. I don't know. 611 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 1: I don't know all the details just from what I'm reading, 612 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: but I do think Russell might be a little in 613 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: over as skis on this one. Okay, We've talked over 614 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: and over about the sports leagues, the NFL, the NBA, 615 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: and Major League Baseball. Nothing they do is a quote 616 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: unquote money grab. They are in the business of generating revenue, 617 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: so everything they do involves money. That's the point of 618 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 1: their business, to generate cash and throwing away a little 619 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: bit the corona. We're still in it right because some 620 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: of these teams aren't allowed to have fans, uh, but 621 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: it seems more and more that fans are going to 622 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: be there in the summer. I think major League Baseball 623 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:54,280 Speaker 1: is gonna crush is absolutely think how many people once 624 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: they open up, Like you know, baseball is allowed to 625 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: have fans full stadiums this summer. People gonna want to 626 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 1: get outside. People are gonna want to go hang out 627 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: with their friends. People are gonna want to drink in 628 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: the sun. I think baseball is really gonna benefit, and 629 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 1: obviously football, if all things go as planned, will crush it. 630 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: The NBA, this NBA Top Shot thing, I'm sure many 631 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 1: of you have seen it. You basically buy a jef 632 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: It's like an electronic poster, but it's on the internet, blockchain, 633 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,760 Speaker 1: crypto whatever. I don't pretend to know, and I don't 634 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 1: my first reaction, and I try to always be careful 635 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: with this is not like that stupid that will never work, 636 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: because that's what losers say. Now, it might never work, 637 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: it might be a massive bubble that's a disaster, but 638 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: clearly they're onto something. Just supply demand, and there's a 639 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: lot of demand for this stuff. Now. The NBA, for 640 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: the Top Shot thing, owns it so they get the revenue, 641 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: so it's good for their league. If a ton of 642 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 1: people buy it, it generates a ton of money. That 643 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: gets them money that they split between the owners and 644 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: the players. And I'm pro finding new revenue streams, so 645 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: I give them credit on that one, even if I 646 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: don't pretend to quite understand it. But I don't really 647 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: understand crypto, and I just dabbled in a little A 648 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: B A over the weekend, and I plan on dabbling 649 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,840 Speaker 1: a little more because if it is a bubble, I 650 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: want to ride that bad boy and make a little 651 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 1: cash off it. But I also can think, like, yeah, 652 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: crypto is kind of weird. Is it gonna work? Is 653 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: it gonna disappear? I don't know. I don't pretend to 654 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,160 Speaker 1: have the answers to this, but I know it's something. 655 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: And the point of these leagues is to keep growing, 656 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,399 Speaker 1: just like any business you're at. If you're a sales guy, 657 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: right once you hit a number, right, if you if 658 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: you were supposed to get five dollars in new business 659 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: and that's your quota or whatever, that's where you're you know, 660 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: supposed to hit once you hit it. The following year, 661 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: getting three fifties not cool. Hell, they might want five 662 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: fifty the following year or six. People only grow, we 663 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 1: we only you know, move the finish line, move the goalposts, 664 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 1: as they say, because you never want to go backwards. 665 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: And that's why the biggest thing the NFL has been 666 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: pushing now for years is the seventeen game. Because games 667 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,799 Speaker 1: in the NFL, and we've talked over, they don't make 668 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: any money from practice. They don't make any money from workouts. 669 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: They don't make any money during the week. They make 670 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: all their cash on Sunday, and it makes so much 671 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,839 Speaker 1: freaking money that it makes all these players millionaires, makes 672 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 1: these coaches millionaires, and make these owners billionaires. It's incredible partnership. 673 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:33,360 Speaker 1: Everyone is getting filthy and the sevente game is clearly 674 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: a money grap, But like I said, there's those this 675 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 1: thing as a money grap there's just additional revenue. And 676 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: then there was also reports today that they are going 677 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: to put a Monday night football game uh in the playoffs, 678 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 1: in the wild card round. Of course they are because 679 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,279 Speaker 1: it would get huge ratings. It will work now, like 680 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: the crypto stuff like the A D A that I purchased, 681 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 1: you never know what the future holds. Is it possible 682 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: that eleventeen games is bad for the league over at 683 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: five ten year span, it creates more injury, more wear 684 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:11,279 Speaker 1: and tear. Is there ever diminishing returns of football? Because 685 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: right now football isn't just king, it's running laps around 686 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: everything else, not just in sports, but in entertainment. It 687 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: gets the most viewsed by a mile. Does that? Are 688 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 1: they ever nervous about that? Coming back to Earth? Probably 689 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,439 Speaker 1: a little, but you can't think about the worst case 690 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: scenario when your foot's on the pedal. You just gotta 691 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: keep doubling down. And so far I think the NFL 692 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: would say is like we've hit a recession in the 693 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: late two thousand's, we crushed it. We Corona, we navigated 694 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: through it. It will just keep firing through because that's 695 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,879 Speaker 1: their mindset, and it's been very successful. I understand why 696 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 1: they're doing it. Do I get nervous, as just a 697 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 1: lover of the game, a lover of the league, that 698 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: it could ever hurt the sport, of course, because I'll 699 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: be you know, we already know the NFL is not 700 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 1: gonna be on top forever, No chance, because I've seen 701 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: in my lifetime multiple sports dominated. When I was born 702 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: in baseball was by far the biggest sport in America. 703 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 1: Then in the nineties Michael Jordan came, the basketball was huge. 704 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,680 Speaker 1: Maybe the NBA as a whole wasn't as big as 705 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: baseball or football, but Michael Jordan was equally bigger, if 706 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,840 Speaker 1: not bigger than all of Then he went away and 707 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 1: basketball came back to Earth, even though they still had 708 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: stars that carried him. But nothing like when Michael was 709 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: it with the balls doing like thirty million people watching 710 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: NBA finals games? And then football, which I always say, 711 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,760 Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady and Peyton Manning were the magic 712 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,920 Speaker 1: Johnson and Larry Bird in the two thousands took the 713 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,200 Speaker 1: leagues of New heights and then it just naturally. They 714 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: benefited from the Internet, they benefited from society having short 715 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,719 Speaker 1: attention spans, they benefited from low inventory only once a week, 716 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: easy to consume on an off day Sunday, a lot 717 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,399 Speaker 1: of factors. They've just kept doubling down, and we're gonna 718 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,279 Speaker 1: see if this works. Now. Initially, of course it's gonna work. 719 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,160 Speaker 1: More football people will watch, They'll be fine. I just 720 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: wonder big picture, you just asked the question extra playoff 721 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,000 Speaker 1: teams if we ever, because there is a point, I 722 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: think in anything in life where you hit like a 723 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,799 Speaker 1: breaking point where it's just like as too much, right, 724 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 1: Like I think we've realized baseball Hunter six two games 725 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 1: too much. It just it is two games in the 726 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,279 Speaker 1: NBA way too much. Sixteen games in football feels you 727 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: know about right. You could argue they probably filing forty 728 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: games create even more urgency, but they would make way 729 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 1: less money and like I said that, they an making 730 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: less money, so they're kind of at this point where 731 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,400 Speaker 1: the only way to keep making cash is more games. 732 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,040 Speaker 1: They added playoff teams, extra playoff games. Well, what does 733 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: that mean? Way more cash added a week, Way more cash. 734 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,720 Speaker 1: Let's do a primetime game in the playoffs on Monday 735 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 1: Night Football? More cash, Thursday Night Football. Heard Collins say 736 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: it's a it's a money lose. Are four Fox? I 737 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,799 Speaker 1: have to text him. I I'm fascinating how they lose 738 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: money for that, but clearly they do because Fox doesn't 739 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 1: want there's a night football anymore. You know what Jeff 740 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: Bezos says, I'm in, I got cash. We're interested in 741 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: what did Amazon do last year? They had Daniel Jeremiah, 742 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. I did reads for it on this show. 743 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,160 Speaker 1: Watch Amazon, watch Amazon Prime feeds. Because what were they doing. 744 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: They were preparing showing the NFL that they had the infrastructure. 745 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,480 Speaker 1: We know they had the money, but they had the 746 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: capabilities of hiring the right people to do this, and 747 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 1: they did seamless transition. So I'm just it's gonna be 748 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: interesting over this next decade, Like did the NBA did 749 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: the NFL peak? Like, well, I tell my kids. You know, 750 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,000 Speaker 1: the NFL peaked from like two thousand fifteen to two 751 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,840 Speaker 1: thousand or did they go on another year run of dominance. 752 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 1: I don't have the answer, but I'm gonna be fascinated 753 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,960 Speaker 1: watching it play out. I saw something today that alerted 754 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 1: me to a potential disaster now out. You could argue 755 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: that this situation has already been far from ideal, given 756 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: the hype that when the University of Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh, 757 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: it felt like maybe he wasn't gonna be like Nick 758 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,400 Speaker 1: Saban or Urban Meyer, but he'd be competing to go 759 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,240 Speaker 1: to the playoffs every year. That clearly has not happened 760 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: in Michigan. Underachieved is not fair because they were shitty 761 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: when he got there. He's been fine. He's he's done 762 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 1: better than they were doing before he got there. But 763 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: that wasn't the expectations when he was hired. They hired 764 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,719 Speaker 1: him the great applause because they thought he was gonna 765 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: win bick like he had just done in San Francisco, 766 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,280 Speaker 1: going to NFC Championships into a super Bowl. He didn't 767 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,799 Speaker 1: have to win the national championship in Michigan. Hell, if 768 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,279 Speaker 1: he just would have got to the playoffs a couple 769 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,399 Speaker 1: of times and got blown out in the first round. 770 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,320 Speaker 1: That'd be fine, but as we know, he hasn't sniffed 771 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 1: the playoffs. And the biggest thing in his biggest issue 772 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,399 Speaker 1: right now is the number one thing we talked about 773 00:41:54,440 --> 00:42:00,720 Speaker 1: in football NonStop, do you have a quarterback? And today 774 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,760 Speaker 1: I saw a story that this guy named Alan Bowman. 775 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,440 Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I don't watch a lot of Texas 776 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,200 Speaker 1: Tech football though Matt Wells, who he still you get 777 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,400 Speaker 1: fired follow each other on Twitter damned a little bit. 778 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,879 Speaker 1: I like the guy he was at Utah State. Big 779 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,000 Speaker 1: fan of the guy. Tough text text tough job. Alan Bowman, 780 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: who has thirty three career touchdowns and seventeen interceptions, who 781 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: was a three star recruit and had offers from places 782 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: like Colombia and Missouri his best offers like Ole miss 783 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: is now transferring to the University of Michigan. Here's what 784 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,160 Speaker 1: I do not understand because I'm not like necessarily anti transfers. 785 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,840 Speaker 1: Kyler was a transfer, Baker was a transfer, Justin Fields 786 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,080 Speaker 1: was a transfer. You can get good players who are 787 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,400 Speaker 1: transfers at quarterbacks, but eventually I need you to recruit 788 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:01,280 Speaker 1: a good player like Oregon they recruited Ston Herbert. Clemson, 789 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 1: they recruited Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrences the number one player, Okay, 790 00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 1: Justin Herbert was not Nick Saban recruited Mac Jones, who, 791 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,120 Speaker 1: unlike toa was not some highly towed guy at Ogeron 792 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: got Joe Burrow. When a lot of people can add 793 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Jim Harbaugh cannot find a quarterback. He can 794 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,360 Speaker 1: find other positions that go to the NFL because a 795 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,520 Speaker 1: lot of guys from Michigan get drafted. But if he 796 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,600 Speaker 1: continues to have to go to this well of transfers 797 00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: who are not future NFL players, but what's he even doing? 798 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,200 Speaker 1: This is not going to get better. You cannot put 799 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: a band aid on a bullet hole. For whatever reason, 800 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: he keeps recruiting these guys and they do not work out. McCaffrey, Milton, 801 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 1: he cannot land a quarterback for the life of them. 802 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,439 Speaker 1: Now with the San Franco forty Niners, and even let's 803 00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,400 Speaker 1: go back to the Stanford Cardinal Andrew Luck was not 804 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,640 Speaker 1: that big of a recruit. And Stanford, who was had 805 00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,240 Speaker 1: some momentum at the time, is a unique institution because 806 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,279 Speaker 1: it you know attracts the academic elites in athletics who 807 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,960 Speaker 1: are also great at sports, and as we know, Andrew 808 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 1: Luck is just kind of a unique person. He might 809 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,359 Speaker 1: have gone to Stanford, whether Jim Harball was the coach 810 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 1: or whether I was the coach. You could argue maybe 811 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,240 Speaker 1: he lucked into that. He gets the Niner job Alex 812 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,319 Speaker 1: he inherits Alex Smith, and then the following year they 813 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,760 Speaker 1: draft Kaepernick, but he wasn't the gym Balky had the juice. 814 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,319 Speaker 1: Now I do think Hardball wanted Kaepernick, but like that 815 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,520 Speaker 1: would be the one guy that you could argue that 816 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: he chose over the time. Now I get that he 817 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,919 Speaker 1: okayed giving a scholarship to Luck, but like I said, 818 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:49,359 Speaker 1: with Luck have gone to Stanford whether he was there 819 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,880 Speaker 1: or not. Possibly, but regardless of any of this information, 820 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,560 Speaker 1: he now has been like there is no one arguing 821 00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,400 Speaker 1: he's in charge, he's the general manager, and he cannot 822 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 1: find a quarterback. He keeps having to take these transfers 823 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 1: of guys that will never sniff the NFL. I'm not 824 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,000 Speaker 1: even asking him, and I know I brought this guy up. 825 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,520 Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Justin Herbert did Land a top 826 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,319 Speaker 1: five pick. Can you just recruit a guy that we 827 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,680 Speaker 1: talked about, Mike get in the second or third round 828 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,839 Speaker 1: of the draft. How can you not do that? You're 829 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,600 Speaker 1: the University of Michigan, you coach in the NFL, had 830 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: had success, You coached luck and had success. You were 831 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,080 Speaker 1: a quarterback, played in the league for fifteen years. Like, 832 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,719 Speaker 1: how can you not Whoever, just the top ten quarterbacks 833 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,680 Speaker 1: are in the country, how could you not go to 834 00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,520 Speaker 1: like two of them and land one of them? It 835 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,080 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like he's doing that. And now again, like 836 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, he's going back to the 837 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 1: well of getting this guy from a tiny little school 838 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,799 Speaker 1: to transfer to Michigan. I've never watched Alan Bowman throw 839 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,440 Speaker 1: a pass. Here's what I do know, though, under no 840 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,600 Speaker 1: circumstances should hard Boby relying on guy like this to 841 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,120 Speaker 1: be his quarterback. And until Michigan fixes this problem, which 842 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 1: clearly doesn't look like it's getting fixed anytime soon. One time, 843 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,560 Speaker 1: when I was in high school, my dad worked for 844 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,839 Speaker 1: this guy who was a big, big farmer, and he 845 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:19,920 Speaker 1: had this barge and he had some land on this 846 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,759 Speaker 1: thing called the Delta, and it's like this river. You know, 847 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,120 Speaker 1: this water kind of is basically a river that flows 848 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,879 Speaker 1: all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And he got 849 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,560 Speaker 1: this barge that also had a crane, and the crane 850 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,520 Speaker 1: the barge was from World War two, and there was 851 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: a famous story that in like the forties, right during 852 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:45,520 Speaker 1: World War two, the crew on the barge got a 853 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:50,120 Speaker 1: bad batch of moonshine and everyone died. And like, I 854 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,520 Speaker 1: don't know if the US government owned the barge or something, 855 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,280 Speaker 1: but they didn't have anything to do with the barge. 856 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,879 Speaker 1: So he got it, you know, like twenty thirty years 857 00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,440 Speaker 1: later at like a complete discount, you know, for fifty 858 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,600 Speaker 1: bucks or whatever, and he just put it in the delta. Well, 859 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,640 Speaker 1: one day there were leaks in the barge and we 860 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,319 Speaker 1: had gone out there because they used to go out 861 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:13,319 Speaker 1: there to duck hunt past where the barge was, and 862 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,360 Speaker 1: they saw oil was all in the delta and it 863 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,400 Speaker 1: was gonna be a problem. So we realized we gotta 864 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,880 Speaker 1: get some pumps and get the barge back elevated. So 865 00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,879 Speaker 1: we tried to use these little pumps and it didn't 866 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,600 Speaker 1: do a thing. The barge was sinking the irony. Then 867 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:34,719 Speaker 1: this dude went off the levy. The Coast Guard randomly 868 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,200 Speaker 1: had to come save them. They drove by the barge 869 00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:41,160 Speaker 1: bunch of oil. It was a disaster because no pump, 870 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,359 Speaker 1: especially handheld pumps. We're gonna save the barge, just like 871 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,799 Speaker 1: no transfers are gonna save Michigan. Do you know how 872 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 1: Michigan won in the past. They recruited elite players, they 873 00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,560 Speaker 1: developed them, and then they won. That's what Ohio State 874 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,799 Speaker 1: is doing right now. That's what Wisconsin is doing right now. 875 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,600 Speaker 1: That's what Penn State is trying to do right now. 876 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,200 Speaker 1: Michigan kind of feels like they don't have any direction 877 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,680 Speaker 1: because they keep trying to band aid these problems at 878 00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:15,520 Speaker 1: the biggest, most important position. I hate to say it, 879 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: but I think this Jim Harbaugh thing could get even uglier. Okay, 880 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,160 Speaker 1: let's get to the Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff 881 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,920 Speaker 1: is the Instagram handle and uh, you guys know the 882 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,239 Speaker 1: drill slide up in the direct messages and you get 883 00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,080 Speaker 1: read here on the podcast. Also gonna start posting it 884 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,840 Speaker 1: on YouTube John Middlecoff YouTube channel. If you're watching this 885 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:37,279 Speaker 1: on YouTube, give your thumbs up. Hey brother, We'll keep 886 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,760 Speaker 1: it short this time. Thank you. Shouldn't what Cam Newton 887 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,560 Speaker 1: consider playing a position outside of quarterback. Haven't heard this 888 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,799 Speaker 1: one before, but I fucking like it. You cannot tell 889 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:49,920 Speaker 1: me that he isn't more athletic than Taysom Hill. And like, 890 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: obviously a few teams run those type of packages, but 891 00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,640 Speaker 1: the idea of Cam lining up wide is a scary thought. 892 00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,400 Speaker 1: He's massive and still got wheels. I like what you're 893 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,520 Speaker 1: thinking here. If Cam and cannot throw anymore, and clearly 894 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,000 Speaker 1: if you watch them last year with the Patriot, there 895 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: would be games they just just rode him like a horse. 896 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,560 Speaker 1: He's secretariat. There is not a bigger stronger. Might be 897 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 1: some faster athletes, but pound for pound, he might be 898 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,480 Speaker 1: the fast athlete in the league. Did I'm with you. 899 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what position. I just think kind of 900 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,120 Speaker 1: hybrid quarterback? Pay him my Taysom Hill? Could he make 901 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,840 Speaker 1: two years twelve million dollars six million a year? He 902 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,880 Speaker 1: made a million dollars last year? Why why wouldn't he 903 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,279 Speaker 1: take six to be a hybrid player? Now? Does he 904 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,640 Speaker 1: want that pounding? He's already really rich. But I'm with you. 905 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,400 Speaker 1: The one thing you'd say about Cam Newton because remember, 906 00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,920 Speaker 1: like Tebow, I'm only a quarterback and Cam obviously is too, 907 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,080 Speaker 1: but would Cam be more open to just doing stuff 908 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,840 Speaker 1: like that. I don't think that's nuts at all. What 909 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:55,120 Speaker 1: a good team, you know, just get him, people like him, 910 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,799 Speaker 1: he works hard. I'm not against that at all. I 911 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,600 Speaker 1: don't know what the position. Basically, I think you would 912 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,920 Speaker 1: still consider him a quarterback. You just asked him to 913 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,280 Speaker 1: play a Taysom Hill roll. I love that. You're a genius. Honestly, 914 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:14,239 Speaker 1: I like what you're doing there. Hello, John, this is 915 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:19,560 Speaker 1: from It looks like a spam porno. I can't wait 916 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,319 Speaker 1: to hear your take on J J. Watt based on 917 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,920 Speaker 1: previous takes on Vance, Joseph and Cliff Love the Pod. 918 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,759 Speaker 1: I guess you can't blame him for taking the money, 919 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,480 Speaker 1: but he did say he wanted to win a ring. 920 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,840 Speaker 1: I think we all say a lot of things in life, 921 00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 1: and if someone presents you with and I've never been 922 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,080 Speaker 1: have the difference of, well, you want to work for 923 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,080 Speaker 1: five million or you want to work for twenty three million, 924 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,799 Speaker 1: because I think and I saw someone tweeted out from 925 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,279 Speaker 1: Arizona that he had similar offers from you know, the 926 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,120 Speaker 1: Titans and the Colts. Bullshit. I I don't believe that 927 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,919 Speaker 1: of course, the Cardinals want that out. I don't think 928 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,360 Speaker 1: any good team would be in that stratosphere. But listen, 929 00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,759 Speaker 1: I'll never tell a man they should take less money. 930 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,480 Speaker 1: But I'm also like, when your career ends and you 931 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,359 Speaker 1: have one career playoff victory, I don't necessarily feel bad 932 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:10,560 Speaker 1: for you. What up, cough, keep up the work. Do 933 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,040 Speaker 1: you think that there's a possibility the Niners roll back 934 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,400 Speaker 1: Jimmy Like, there's a legitimate chance. Any inside chatter about it? 935 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,000 Speaker 1: If so, what are some legitimate alternatives with the twelfth pick? Also, 936 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,479 Speaker 1: and in depth middle coff Niners mock draft would be cool. 937 00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,439 Speaker 1: You know, I'm a big first and second round guy. 938 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,200 Speaker 1: I I give the rest of the rounds four fIF six, 939 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,640 Speaker 1: I give that to the to the draft nick community 940 00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,160 Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'll just play the hits. I have no problem. 941 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,680 Speaker 1: I'll talk first round till your you know, till your 942 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,720 Speaker 1: ears fall off. I think there's a chance that Jimmy 943 00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:48,200 Speaker 1: garoppolos a quarterback. Yes, because they don't control this right 944 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,880 Speaker 1: the forty Niners want Deshaun Watson right now, he's not available. 945 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,319 Speaker 1: They're not willing to trade him, so the nothing they 946 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,879 Speaker 1: can do, they would obviously take Russell Wilson. Seattle would 947 00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,800 Speaker 1: never trade them Russell Wilson. It's not even an option. 948 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,560 Speaker 1: And Russell has a no trade class, so that's not 949 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,840 Speaker 1: even an option. Deshaun Watson their number one target. I 950 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:07,840 Speaker 1: don't think the Texans will trade him to the Niners. 951 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,200 Speaker 1: Could just be me. If they do trade him, he's 952 00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,080 Speaker 1: going to the Jets. He's going to the Dolphins because 953 00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:18,000 Speaker 1: their picks. I do think a viable possibility is they 954 00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,799 Speaker 1: keep Jimmy and they signed some backup, like a like 955 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,840 Speaker 1: a Andy Dalton type Trabinsky maybe for like three or 956 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,040 Speaker 1: four million dollars, have that guy and Jimmy on the 957 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 1: team as they go to the draft. Then on draft day, 958 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,640 Speaker 1: because they do not control right there drafting twelve, there 959 00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,560 Speaker 1: are a ton of teams above them. By then, we 960 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,319 Speaker 1: would know the Dolphins, the Texans, slash, the Jets, what 961 00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,320 Speaker 1: that little group was doing. But we don't know like 962 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,239 Speaker 1: a Falcon's gonna take quarterback or the Eagle is gonna 963 00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,000 Speaker 1: take a quarterback. We know that Jacksonville Jaguars are gonna 964 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,560 Speaker 1: take a quarterback, the Lions probably not Cowboys. I don't know. 965 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,920 Speaker 1: There's a lot of unknown now. I do think it's 966 00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,720 Speaker 1: possible that the Niners could jump up in that draft 967 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,319 Speaker 1: take a quarterback, let's say Justin Fields. Then if the 968 00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,880 Speaker 1: Patriots don't have a quarterback, take Jimmy Garoppolo, send them 969 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,120 Speaker 1: to the Patriots, and basically their quarterback room would be 970 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,799 Speaker 1: Justin Fields and Mr Bisky or Andy Dalton. I think 971 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,320 Speaker 1: that's a possibility. So just because they don't make a 972 00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,600 Speaker 1: quarterback change in the middle of March, when free agency 973 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,439 Speaker 1: and all these trades become official, does not mean that 974 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:25,000 Speaker 1: they're not still looking and that change is not I 975 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,520 Speaker 1: don't even say inevitable, but possible, which is fun right now. 976 00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:33,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of hypotheticals out there. Great show, keep 977 00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,480 Speaker 1: up the work. Heard you say the Tiger winning the 978 00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:39,439 Speaker 1: Masters about I heard what you said about Tiger winning 979 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,120 Speaker 1: the Masters and fully agree with the emotional connection. I'm 980 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,759 Speaker 1: one year older than Tiger, so it's pretty interesting to 981 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,239 Speaker 1: follow these guys TV twelve other dudes in the same 982 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:51,880 Speaker 1: age bracket. Follow Up question two Tiger's injury, what do 983 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,080 Speaker 1: you think about his chances to come back in the 984 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,359 Speaker 1: Senior p G A And as a football fan, I've 985 00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,480 Speaker 1: been a Bears fan since Walter Payton sent me an 986 00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,400 Speaker 1: autograph eight by ten when I was in fifth grade. 987 00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:05,080 Speaker 1: What should be done in Chicago to get back to 988 00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,560 Speaker 1: the playoffs consistently? Do you know what's cool is clearly, 989 00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,520 Speaker 1: when you were growing up, Clay, and when I was 990 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,880 Speaker 1: growing up, even I'm a little younger than you, you 991 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,000 Speaker 1: could send a note from your class to like Jerry Rice, 992 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,440 Speaker 1: Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, Brett Farve, Steve Young, whoever, Elway, 993 00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,680 Speaker 1: and they would have days where the PR guy would 994 00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,640 Speaker 1: clearly give him a bunch of stuff. They would sign 995 00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,600 Speaker 1: stuff and they'd send it back. I love technology, and 996 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:33,879 Speaker 1: I'm glad to be living at the time we're living in. 997 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,919 Speaker 1: It's great for my personal business. I think it's great 998 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,640 Speaker 1: for anyone's business. It's a lot of opportunities to grow. 999 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,200 Speaker 1: There are pretty cool things, though they get lost. Now. 1000 00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,440 Speaker 1: You could argue that players can tweet or instagram comment 1001 00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:49,000 Speaker 1: and stuff. For sure, that's true, but there still was 1002 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,440 Speaker 1: nothing like getting I remember had a friend that had 1003 00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,840 Speaker 1: a frame picture of Jerry Rice sent him, just signed 1004 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:59,080 Speaker 1: it and send it back to him. That's pretty cool. Uh. 1005 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 1: I don't think Tiger was Tiger healthy was never gonna 1006 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:06,600 Speaker 1: play on the senior PGA Tour too rich doesn't need it. Um, 1007 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,399 Speaker 1: you can't. I can't see it. Maybe you play an 1008 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,319 Speaker 1: event or two. I also don't see Tiger playing golf 1009 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,919 Speaker 1: in his fifties, like his body, like Phil is gonna 1010 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,399 Speaker 1: play until he can't walk, Tiger might not be able 1011 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,680 Speaker 1: to walk, and obviously the car accident. But I'm just saying, 1012 00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,520 Speaker 1: like the path he was on with all his injuries, 1013 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,719 Speaker 1: he was not gonna be a healthy fifty six year old, 1014 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,240 Speaker 1: like watching some of the guys that play, like Phil's 1015 00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:31,600 Speaker 1: gonna be healthy, Tiger is just Tiger broke down before 1016 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,919 Speaker 1: the car accident, let alone the car accident. We don't 1017 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,480 Speaker 1: we don't know for sure the extent of all these injuries. 1018 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:44,760 Speaker 1: Like if you read tiger statements, they've been pretty mum, 1019 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,040 Speaker 1: they've been positive, but they have not made like concrete 1020 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,640 Speaker 1: statements about the situation about hey, his legs are stable, 1021 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,279 Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to walk again, or there's no 1022 00:55:53,360 --> 00:56:00,239 Speaker 1: infections or it's been you know, pretty just they given 1023 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,799 Speaker 1: you as much information as as little information as they 1024 00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,640 Speaker 1: can by also acting like they're giving you a lot 1025 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,640 Speaker 1: because they're not really. So I've just keep my fingers 1026 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:11,880 Speaker 1: crossed knock on wood that the guy comes out and 1027 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,080 Speaker 1: he's able to walk again. Who knows. The Bears, they 1028 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,200 Speaker 1: just need to get a quarterback. For the love of God, 1029 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,920 Speaker 1: the franchise has never had a quarterback. Just get a quarterback. 1030 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,120 Speaker 1: You get a quarterback. You got a chance. Look at 1031 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,560 Speaker 1: the team in your division agreement, Packers, you've been playing 1032 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,760 Speaker 1: for three decades, far Rogers, because every year for almost 1033 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,759 Speaker 1: thirty years they've had a quarterback. It really changes things. 1034 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,560 Speaker 1: Look at the Patriots for twenty years they had Brady. 1035 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,920 Speaker 1: For the Colts fifteen years they had Manning. The Seahawks 1036 00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,040 Speaker 1: for a decade, they've had Russell. It's for fifteen years. 1037 00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,719 Speaker 1: The Saints had Drew Brees. Help for the Falcon's head. 1038 00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:46,880 Speaker 1: Matt Right, you just need to get some consistent quarterback 1039 00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,919 Speaker 1: play that's above average. You don't even need Roger's best 1040 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,840 Speaker 1: case scenario. You just take Matt Ryan. Right. You would 1041 00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,439 Speaker 1: give anything from Matt Ryan, twenty three year old Matt Ryan, 1042 00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:01,440 Speaker 1: just for a decade. You're like, oh my god, so 1043 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,080 Speaker 1: so our soul for that. I don't know how you 1044 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:10,360 Speaker 1: do that, though, who your options are. I would appreciate 1045 00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,840 Speaker 1: it if you could fucking please stop Apolo's apologizing for 1046 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,360 Speaker 1: saying your curse words. Your profanity is why I love 1047 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,240 Speaker 1: you and listen to your podcast. If you keep apologizing 1048 00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,200 Speaker 1: or hold back, I'm gonna have to fucking stop listening 1049 00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:27,360 Speaker 1: to you. I appreciate it. I do it more as 1050 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,640 Speaker 1: a joke, but also in fairness. I know some people 1051 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:35,720 Speaker 1: listen with their kids in the car. Um. Yeah, that's 1052 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,600 Speaker 1: I'm being sarcastic over it. Obviously I don't really care, 1053 00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,960 Speaker 1: but I don't want, you know, I don't know. I 1054 00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,120 Speaker 1: just I try to be respectful, you know. But I 1055 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:51,280 Speaker 1: talk like I talk. Uh, I'm gonna cut to the chase. 1056 00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,840 Speaker 1: Why don't the Niners pull out their big dicks and 1057 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,800 Speaker 1: start swinging for the fences and go after Deshaun Watson. 1058 00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:01,439 Speaker 1: See my my listeners talk like I talk too. I'm 1059 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,200 Speaker 1: tired of this half assid Jimmy g having bullshit winners closed. 1060 00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:09,560 Speaker 1: John and Garoppolo isn't going to close. I'm with you, bro, 1061 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,800 Speaker 1: I I think um, I think they're trying. I I've 1062 00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:18,680 Speaker 1: told by very good sources they would they would be very, 1063 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:22,000 Speaker 1: very aggressive for Deshaun Watson. But I just don't think 1064 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,400 Speaker 1: it's an option. And if Deshan truly, if the Texans go, 1065 00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:29,440 Speaker 1: he's available. The Jets and the Dolphins just have things 1066 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,360 Speaker 1: to give them, like the second and third pick in 1067 00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,880 Speaker 1: this draft. I'm sure, as Casario they're putting their draft 1068 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,920 Speaker 1: board together, they're evaluating these quarterbacks. I mean, the Dolphins 1069 00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,920 Speaker 1: will just be giving them their pick back. Pick three 1070 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,040 Speaker 1: is way better than pick twelve. And if you're the Texans, 1071 00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:44,680 Speaker 1: you would rather have picks than like even if the 1072 00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,320 Speaker 1: night I wouldn't do this if I were the Niners, 1073 00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,680 Speaker 1: Fred Warner, George Kittle, you're not trying to win. You're 1074 00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,840 Speaker 1: trying to reset your franchise. I want picks. You give 1075 00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,000 Speaker 1: me three first rounders and one of them is picked three, 1076 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,760 Speaker 1: and I can draft a quarterback and start over. That's 1077 00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,200 Speaker 1: where I think the Niners are in trouble, because if 1078 00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm the Texas, I don't want your players. I'd rather 1079 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,400 Speaker 1: have second in first round picks. I want picks. I 1080 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,120 Speaker 1: want to reset. I want to blow this bad boy up. 1081 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,640 Speaker 1: That's what I think they're doing. They're blowing the bad 1082 00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,880 Speaker 1: boy up. Uh, that's it. I appreciate everyone uh firing 1083 00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,040 Speaker 1: in those d m s. Once you have a great week, 1084 00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,800 Speaker 1: stay positive, and see a little bit later this week. 1085 00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,840 Speaker 1: See me on YouTube. I'll have some content up there 1086 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:21,880 Speaker 1: as well. Peace,