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Speaker 1: Out podcast. It maybe twelve oh one am. I I

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Speaker 1: Then you realize you're still about fifteen minutes from home,

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Speaker 1: you're a pro and you've recorded the vast majority of

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Speaker 1: But there's so much to talk about, so we'll dive

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Speaker 1: into this game obviously, Uh, several things to talk about,

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Speaker 1: and then Cowboys Vikings. I have many thoughts on Jason Garrett,

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Speaker 1: Because if they do, you'll win at all. I'm jealous

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Speaker 1: of their their love of football. And then I'll dive

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Speaker 1: around to a bunch of different things that I saw

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail back at John Middlecoff is my Instagram handle.

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Speaker 1: Follow slide right into those d m s and I

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Speaker 1: Which it's like, Jason, you're in charge. You're making six, seven,

426
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Speaker 1: eight million, whatever you are, he's not making a six

427
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Speaker 1: or seventh of what you're making. If you want a

428
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: certain play or you want to do something, you can

429
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: tell him. So even when I see coaches that do

430
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: not call the plays, you guys are in charge in

431
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 1: the in the pyramid hierarchy of your coaching staff, you're

432
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Speaker 1: at the top. So and Jason, you're a former quarterback,

433
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: you're an offensive guy. If you want something to happen,

434
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 1: tell him to make it happen. But he would never

435
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: do that because deep down he's kind of a conservative coach.

436
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: He might rather run it than pass it. And then

437
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 1: they go you know, when they get in that situation

438
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: that forced to kick a field goal and or I

439
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: guess they went forward, excuse me, on fourth down, they

440
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: didn't get it to Zeke, they give the ball back

441
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: to Minnesota miraculously they got three time outs left. And

442
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Speaker 1: then when they get go to a don't return situation,

443
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Speaker 1: they don't try to block the punt, which okay, because actually,

444
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: when you're down four, if you somehow were to block

445
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: the punt, and get a safety. It doesn't really help

446
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: you as much as you think. You'd rather get the

447
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: ball at midfield. So they set up for a return,

448
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, the punt returner calls for a

449
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: fair catch. He had nothing but room and he had

450
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: blockers set up. When I say you're either coaching it

451
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: or allowing it to happen, that is a reflection of

452
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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett. And when you came down the stretch of

453
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings and big spots got big stops because

454
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 1: of course they do. Mike Zimmer one of the best

455
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators in the league. His defense is really aggressive.

456
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Speaker 1: They have a bunch of high end players. They're just

457
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Speaker 1: gonna tackle well. The one area you can take advantage

458
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: of them in the passing game that could well over

459
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Speaker 1: three yard. He was moving the ball right down the field,

460
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Speaker 1: and the Vikings would have paid for you to run

461
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 1: the ball in that situation, because let's let's call a

462
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 1: spade a spade. Zeke's a good player and I really

463
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: like a I think he's not looked as fast this year.

464
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: He's been solid. He runs his ass off. But the

465
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: running back for Minnesota, Dalvin Cook, is just a better

466
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: player right now. So when they gave it to Zeke

467
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: in those situations on second and short and then third,

468
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: I think it was third and five. That's what the

469
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: Vikings wanted you to do. I guess maybe it was

470
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: second and it was second and two, then it was

471
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Speaker 1: third and two, and then they got the loss on

472
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Speaker 1: the third down, so it was fourth and five. But

473
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Jason Garrett in a

474
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Speaker 1: big spot is always gonna be tight because that's just

475
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Speaker 1: who he is. We have, uh, just basically a long

476
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: line of evidence. Now his resume shows us there is

477
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,239
Speaker 1: no coach. They're gonna be in games because they got

478
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Speaker 1: a lot of talent, and that's that's really more on

479
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and people picking the players. Jason has nothing

480
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: to do with that. I know on game day that

481
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: Jason is gonna consistently let you down. And if if

482
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys were to miss the playoffs, it's pretty clear

483
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: they're not going anywhere in the playoffs. But they are

484
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: going to get the host of playoff game. How it

485
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: maybe against Minnesota in that wild card round if they

486
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: win the NFC East, so maybe they can win a game.

487
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: But whatever. They won a game last year against Seattle

488
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: and then got shoved around by the Rams. This is

489
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: the home stretch, it's it's borderline. Feels over because I

490
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: don't see any chance and this was makes me look

491
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: like an idiot. I picked them to win the NFC,

492
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: But when I look at the Vikings, another team that's

493
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: gonna be right in the mix to win the NFC,

494
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,719
Speaker 1: They're just on a different level. And it's not the talent,

495
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: it's not quarters one through three. It's the little details.

496
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 1: It's the little freaking details that get multiplied in the

497
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: playoffs that every yard matters, every play call matters. In

498
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,479
Speaker 1: a tie game in the fourth quarter, you can't afford

499
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: to screw up. And Jason Garrett always screws up. And

500
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Speaker 1: he tells you what, I'm not even the one call

501
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: in the plays. Well, Jason, you're ultimately okay because if

502
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Speaker 1: you don't want that play call, know what you can

503
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: do in the headset, Kellen, I don't want that call

504
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: a different play called this play can Are you even

505
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: capable of doing that anymore? Because think about this sometimes

506
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: he was once a play caller, But then if you're

507
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: not a play caller for a while, it's like if

508
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: you don't do anything for a while. If you're a

509
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: writer and you take two years off from writing and

510
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: then you try to write, you're not gonna be as

511
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,719
Speaker 1: good as good as a writer. If I'm a podcaster

512
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: and I take five years off from talking and then

513
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: I come back and I get to the mike and

514
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: I press record, I'm not gonna be as good. I'm

515
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: not gonna have consistent flow ideas of topics, just out

516
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: of sight, out of mind, even if you're around podcasters

517
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: every day, like he's around football coaches, he's around game

518
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: plan meetings, but he's not the one ultimately calling the

519
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: plays on game day, where Mike Zimmer has been the

520
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: defensive play callers since he's been there, so he's been

521
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: pretty locked in. And again, I like throwing the ball

522
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: a little more than him. But if you have the

523
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: best running back in the league, arguably right now, who

524
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: is the perfect zone scheme runner one ut vertical, getting

525
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: north and south, I would say no one runs harder

526
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: this season than Dalvin Cook. Every single yard is contested

527
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: on his end, physicality, like he's coming forward. If you're

528
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: gonna push him back, you're gonna need multiple people. I

529
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: love that player, but that that that was just a

530
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: clinic on when the game got really tight, two coaches

531
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: resorted to who they are. And the problem for Jason

532
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: Garrett is is who he is is is not conducive

533
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: to winning. In two thousand nine, Okay, let's dive into

534
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Steelers. And as someone now that

535
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: the last three or four years as run essentially my

536
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: own business with another podcast and in different internet media

537
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: things I'm doing. Uh, you realize how hard and anyone

538
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: you know, most of you guys you know work in

539
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: the real world, know how hard it is. And I

540
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: always had people tell me this. My dad used always

541
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: tell me this growing art, it's so hard to just

542
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: make a dollar. And then obviously it gets relative every

543
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: every time you scale, the dollar goes to ten dollars,

544
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: goes to a hundred dollars, goes to you know, fifty dollars,

545
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: goes to five hundred thousand dollars. Whatever you're doing, it's

546
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: really difficult. I think it's fair to say that most

547
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: successful people in the business world, and that's the reality

548
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: that we live in in America, capitalist society gotta love it,

549
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: is that it takes balls. You know, most people that

550
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: win in life have major stones. That's whether you're on

551
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: the football field or whether you're in the business realm.

552
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: And those are the people I've admired, and I've always

553
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: admired him, and a lot of them are pro sports owners.

554
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: You know, I have one in my backyard. Joe Laca

555
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: bought the Warriors six seven years ago, and everything he's

556
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: done has just swung for the fences. Now, it doesn't

557
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: always work, but in this crazy, weird place that I

558
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: live in downtown San Francisco, I don't live in San Francisco.

559
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: He somehow got a building built, and he did in himself.

560
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: He's paying for the whole thing himself. That's why admirers

561
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: trying stand cronky. He moved to l A. He's like,

562
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: I'll pay for it myself every penny. Now he's got

563
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: the money. But most guys don't think like that. Most

564
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: guys don't do that. Jerry Jones as just one of

565
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: the great marketers in the history of America. Has huge balls.

566
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: Now again, I'm not saying these guys are one bat

567
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: and one thousand percent. They miss on stuff, but but

568
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: I give you credit for taking swings. It's why Pittsburgh

569
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: and the Rams well at the original time of both

570
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: trades that they made for Jalen Ramsey and Minka Fitzpatrick,

571
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of nuts, But as time

572
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: has gone on, We'll start with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who

573
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: got an enormous win at home against the l A.

574
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: Rams and are now five and four. When they traded

575
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: for Menca Fitzpatrick, they were oh and two, and then

576
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: they proceeded to lose that game. When he showed up

577
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: to the forty nine, where I'm pretty sure he had

578
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: a pick, a forced fumble, and a bunch of tackles,

579
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,239
Speaker 1: he was awesome. And it's been clear ever since they

580
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: got him he's the best player on their team. He

581
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: has more touchdowns this season as a Steeler than like

582
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Has as a Brown. He's been phenomenal

583
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: count I think four interceptions, multiple touchdowns, makes tackles, p bus,

584
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: forced fumbles. He's a dominant player who turns I think

585
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: twenty three here in a month. He's been fantastic. Gave

586
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: up a first round pick. I thought it was nuts.

587
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: I've said this over and over on the podcast. I've

588
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: changed my opinion over the last month because if I

589
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: was a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I would take so much

590
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: pride in this team. The first game of the season,

591
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: we lose Roethlisberger to Tommy John Surgery, who got He's

592
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: putting on some LB's who And we go to Mason's

593
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: Roodolph and we keep losing a couple of games, and

594
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: then we don't flinch and we make this trade, and

595
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: somehow we start to figure it out, and all of

596
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: a sudden, we're five and four with a four game

597
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: stretch coming up. They play on Thursday night against the Browns,

598
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: then they got the Bengals, then they got the Browns again,

599
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: then they got the Cardinals. I started thinking to myself,

600
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: and if we win three of these next four games,

601
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: are we eight and five and in position to get

602
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: a wild card? And I say, hell, yeah, big time.

603
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: Because your team had the stones, your team was aggressive,

604
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: your team refuses the tank. Though the media consistently gives

605
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: tanking teams credit, but most tanking teams consistently suck. They

606
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: just tank and tank and tank, and then they never win.

607
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: Look at the Browns, they're three and six. They tank

608
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: for like three years, and all they have to show

609
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: for it is being three and six with some good players.

610
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: Who cares the Steelers, who've never tanked, who got aggressive,

611
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: unlike what Sashy Brown and the Browns would have ever

612
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: done a year ago Boom five and four because they

613
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: traded for Menca Fitzpatrick. The point of pro sports is

614
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: to acquire good players and keep them. And the Dolphins

615
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: are like, we're good on Menka that if the Steelers

616
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, you're gonna get what picked twenty two

617
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: for Mankea Fitzpatrick. That's not ideal. Who's immediately a playoff

618
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: team's best player. Pretty big red flag on the Dolphins,

619
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: though I give them credit. They've continued to play hard.

620
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: And then the Rams, but I guess my ultimate point

621
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: on this is I need to take a step back

622
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: and not be so critical when teams kind of swing

623
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: for the fences, because sometimes you swing for the fences,

624
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna strike out, but at least you're taking a swing.

625
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: And I was hard on Bill O'Brien for the Laramie

626
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Tunzil trade. But he's six and three. He looks headed

627
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: like he's gonna cruise to a division championship. Even the

628
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: Rams they're five and four. The reason they're losing is

629
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: not Jalen Ramson. The reason they're losing is because their

630
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: offensive line is horrendous. They can't block any team with

631
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: a good front, And Jared goff is much more similar

632
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,479
Speaker 1: to like an Eli Manning Philip Rivers type quarterback in

633
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: terms of athleticism, Unlike Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson in

634
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: years when their offensive line was it was just a turnstile.

635
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: They were athletic enough and had the adjustability to move.

636
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: Jared Gofft does not, So if you can't block it

637
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: for him, you got no chance. But when you look

638
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Speaker 1: at their their even it's pretty good. I mean Aaron Donald,

639
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler, CAUs Havoc and Jalen Ramsey can just match

640
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: up on whoever your best wide receivers and take him

641
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: out of the game. So yeah, it was a lot

642
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: to pay for Jalen Ramsey, but I got well, they

643
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: got one of the best players you know in the

644
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: league on their team. That's that's the cost of doing business.

645
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: And I tweeted this yesterday like if they missed the

646
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: playoffs this year, it's a disaster, and then I took

647
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: a step back, isn't really, It's only a disaster if

648
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,919
Speaker 1: you can't figure out ways to incrementally improve your offensive line,

649
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: which can be difficult, but that puts pressure on your

650
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: offensive line. Coach on Sean McVeigh, Kyle Shanahan's proven he's

651
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: been playing with backup offensive lineman in one games. Like

652
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,919
Speaker 1: the pressure kind of then goes to McVeigh a little

653
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: less than the gentleman. The general manner has done is job. Hey,

654
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: heyy Sean, I've given you countless elite blue chip players.

655
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: You're playing Mason Rudolph on the road and they spot

656
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: you seven nothing, you should be able to beat up.

657
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: They couldn't move the ball at all if your offensive

658
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: line can't block for Jared Goff, which they could not

659
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: all game. And typically the Steelers over the last several years,

660
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 1: I've had one of the best more athletic, pressure filled

661
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: units in the league that they are a handful call

662
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: some different plays like throw a different pitch, bro your

663
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: ship isn't working, do something different, like I I've I've

664
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: always defended like, hey, you know you're starting tackles go out,

665
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: you lose your starting center, like things are gonna fall

666
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: off the map. And then I've seen Kyle Shanahan boom

667
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: nothing happens Patriots for years, boom, nothing happens. I'm watching

668
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense that they're losing offensive lineman left and right.

669
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: They throw up thirty two points like good coaches overcome,

670
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: Like what do the Marines? They adapt and overcome. That's

671
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: what good coaches do, especially offensive coaches. Unlike defense, where

672
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: you're not dictating the terms. Really you're reactive the offense.

673
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want. You're the ones calling

674
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: the plays. You're the one that dictates every play of

675
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: the game is the offense. The defense is just calling

676
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: a play based on what they think you're gonna do.

677
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: You know what you're gonna do on offense, and they

678
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: kept calling like five seven step drops they can't block

679
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: Sean that you are not gonna be able to block them.

680
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: Have you watched the tape? You have any other pitches

681
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: you know in your repertoire. Are you just gonna throw

682
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over and over again because

683
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. But when it comes to less

684
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: see less need in the organizational philosophy, I'm always gonna

685
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: support that because too often now and I just think

686
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: you often see it in media like let's hoard the

687
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: draft picks. Let's hoard the prospects for what most of

688
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: them miss. Most draft picks, even in the first round position,

689
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: look at in baseball, the majority of quote unquote prospects

690
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: traded for elite players never amount to anything. It's almost

691
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: shocking when it's like, whoa, they got that guy in

692
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: that trade, because you don't see it happened that often.

693
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: So you know, both these organizations put all their chips

694
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the table. But when you put

695
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: your chips in the middle of the table, you know,

696
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: and you're playing roulette and you put it on red.

697
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes it hits black, but you know, at least you

698
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: have the stones to pick a side and go all

699
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: in and go for it. That's the reality of taking

700
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: big swings. Let's dive into l s U Alabama, which

701
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: was the highest rated college football game of the last

702
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: eight years, and I went to a buddy's house and

703
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: watch it with several other people. I live in northern California,

704
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: so it speaks to the power of football. They're they're

705
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: probably there. Definitely hasn't been a major League baseball game

706
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: that has got that type rating. And I don't know

707
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: this for a fact, but I'm pretty sure having followed

708
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: the Warriors pretty closely, they didn't do regular season games.

709
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,479
Speaker 1: Maybe a Christmas Day game didn't rated that high. The

710
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: the NBA doesn't have that in the bag speaks to

711
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: the power of football. And even though this country leans

712
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: a little more NFL than college like, it takes a

713
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: really big non playoff, you know, college football games. Just

714
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: because college football Colin talks about this a lot has

715
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: become regionalized. This was a game just two Southern teams.

716
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: But I do think the consumer now knows this is

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Speaker 1: an NFL game. And when I worked in the NFL,

718
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: you it was like mandated. I mean, it was like

719
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: an unwritten rule that you sent a scout to the

720
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: SEC championship game that that that's the area that pumps

721
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: out the most NFL players, so you need to have

722
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: a presence there. You typically put your best scout in

723
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: the in the SEC, in the South because that's where

724
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Speaker 1: the majority of the talent comes from, and we knew

725
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: going in how much talent was on the team. I

726
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: think most people would say that Alabama is a much

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00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: better or just the superior program to l Shoe. Do

728
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: you know what my counter would be, They're the same program.

729
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: One program has just had Nick Saban for the last

730
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: twelve plus years. When Nick Saban was at l s U,

731
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Speaker 1: what did he do? He won a national championship his

732
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: last two years there in the SEC West. He was

733
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, pumping out NFL players left and right.

734
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: They're the same program. It's just like Florida. Is this

735
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: Florida suck now these last six or seven years, or

736
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: are they a powerhouse when they get an elite coach

737
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: like Spurrior urban Meyer and they'll win National Child's. You

738
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: could argue that the top four programs in the SEC Bama,

739
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: L s U, Georgia and Florida, if you put Nick

740
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: Saban or urban Meyer at any of them, they will

741
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: win Natty's. Or if you give any of them a

742
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: solid coach like Eddio is proving to be because he

743
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: has an excellent staff, if you give them an elite quarterback,

744
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: they will dominate. Because what you saw on Saturday, Listen,

745
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm not the biggest to a fan, though I don't

746
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: not like him. He throws as beautiful a deep ball

747
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 1: from a college pastor as I've ever seen. Now he's

748
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: playing with three wide receivers, two of them are gonna

749
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: go on the top twenty. One guy is gonna go

750
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: in the top ten, and another guy's as someone told

751
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: me a month ago, which that might be, that might

752
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: change because after watching that game Smith had multiple touchdowns.

753
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: He he might end up in the first round. Two.

754
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: There's a chance he's playing with three first round wide

755
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: receivers and he gets in the ball with ease down

756
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: the field. But as you saw with L. S U,

757
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is a little bit more dynamic of a

758
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: pastor short intermediate dep He can do it all, and

759
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: obviously he can run around. But when you look at L.

760
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: S U, like if you just close your eyes and

761
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: they were all wearing the same color jersey, both teams,

762
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: they'd all look the same. It's just the same team.

763
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: One team just had a slightly better quarterback. And the

764
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: running back for L. S U is pretty damn good too.

765
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: But they've they've always been that really the last six

766
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: or seven years when Less kind of fell off the

767
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: map and they were losing assistant coaches, the problem was

768
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: is they couldn't scheme at the level of Alabama, and

769
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: that's the problem for Sabing these last several years. He's

770
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 1: had so much coaching turnover that it's hard to maintain that,

771
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: and he's lost a ton of coordinators, a ton of

772
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: assistant coaches. Eventually, it's gonna take its toll. And as

773
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: someone in the league told me a while back, actually

774
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: it was like last week. The one problem for Alabama

775
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: early on in their run from like two thousand nine

776
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: to like two thousand four teen, they would never or

777
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: very rarely losing underclassmen that would be like a fifth, six,

778
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: seventh round pick, because that guy would always come back

779
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: and then he would be a first or second rounder. Well,

780
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: this last three or four years, or if you've watched

781
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: them play, they're really good. Help I think they're still

782
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: really good and they could beat any team on any

783
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: given game. I don't even know how you could argue that,

784
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: but said, one big problem is they're starting to lose

785
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: a lot of players. They're like, I'm just gonna leave,

786
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: and then the guy goes in the fourth or fifth round. Well,

787
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: that guy always would come back. And he saw it

788
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: last year with Clemson. All those defensive lineman came back

789
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: and they turned out to all the first and second

790
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: round picks. Hell Cleveland Farah went fourth overall. He was

791
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: the highest draft another group, and most people thought he

792
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: was the worst prospect of the three of them, Christian

793
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: Wilkins and to do the Giants took So I watched

794
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: an Alabama thinking one that if you put them in

795
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they would not embarrass themselves. Their offense is

796
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: too good, but too Yeah, they're just not quite as good.

797
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: L s U was a little more talented. And now

798
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: they got a coaching staff they can hang and they

799
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: got the best quarterback you know, they've probably ever had,

800
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: at least in terms of the way he's playing. NFL prospect.

801
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: We all make fun of JaMarcus now he was a

802
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: really good college player. They're the same thing both programs,

803
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: and you could I think you could put Florida and

804
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: Georgia in this mix. Too. Care about football to their

805
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: core more than anything else. They care about it more

806
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: than academics. It drives the community, it drives the university.

807
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: And I've gotten these arguments with people on Twitter before,

808
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: Like the sec S motto is we it just means

809
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: more because it does. Football means more than academics at

810
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: these universities. That's not saying that these universities are not

811
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: good universities. But they care about football deep down to

812
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: their core, much more than and I just used the

813
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: Pack twelve asn example, more than U. C. L A

814
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: and more than Cal, more than Stanford, even to hell,

815
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: more than sc N sc out here probably see an

816
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: Oregon care about it the most, but they still care

817
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: about other stuff. The only reason that Oregon can really

818
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: kind of you know, throw his hat in the ring

819
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: is because they have this huge advantage. This guy named

820
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: Phil Knight just happened to be alumni there, you know,

821
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: cares about that program like it's his child. If Phil

822
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: Knight was just not Phil Knight, Oregon would just be

823
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: another Pack twelve, you know, coach. Now, obviously, if my

824
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: aunt had ball, should be my uncle so we could

825
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: play that game, if if Oklahoma State didn't have te

826
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: boom Pickings. I'm not even trying to take anything away

827
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: from Oregon. I'm just saying that out West, we care

828
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 1: about academics. Me personally, I'm not saying that academics don't matter.

829
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: I care about football more. I wish all the programs

830
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: out where I lived thought about it like the SEC

831
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: and the top end of their conference just will do

832
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: anything it takes to win. They will do app they gave.

833
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: Immediately after that game, report surface that Joe Brady, the

834
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: thirty year old passing game coordinator and wide receiver coach,

835
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: maybe he's a quarterback coach, whatever, he's basically the assistant

836
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. This thirty year old guy that they stole

837
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: from the Saints. They plan on quadrupling his salary. I

838
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: think he makes four dollars maybe not maybe tripling like

839
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: one point five million dollars so he doesn't leave again

840
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: that they are They're like when I talk about the

841
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and the Rams, like Nick, what do you need

842
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: Mark Rick or Kirby Smart? What do you need out

843
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 1: here out West? And in several programs, you know, they go, uh, yeah,

844
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: we have to think about that. I don't know if

845
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna hang. So, Ela, you and Bama are on

846
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: the highest level of that thought process. Now, is at

847
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: Oseron in a vacuum better coach than Nick statement? Of

848
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: course not. At Oseron doesn't call the offense, he doesn't

849
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: call the defense. But what he is he has a

850
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: couple of things. He is the ideal fit for that university,

851
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: like he feels l s U. I know Colin was

852
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: tweeting about it a month. This weekend in the post game,

853
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: when when when uh I don't even know who it was,

854
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: gets some on camera, you can see the tears in

855
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: his eyes because that win. Now, ultimately, if he wins

856
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: a national championship, the win will be remembered longer nationally,

857
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: but that win in that community, on that university, it

858
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: may be the greatest moment of his professional life. He

859
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: beat Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa and kind of kicked his ass.

860
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: I mean, was destroying them in the first half and two.

861
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: I hit some big plays and they came back, but

862
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: they dominated. He doesn't get any bigger than that. I

863
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: can't relate because down in the South, football is the

864
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: it just experience. For me personally, it kind of is too.

865
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it means a lot to me. I've dedicated

866
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: my life to talking about it. But to Nick, like

867
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: I think Nick can take a step back. Everyone's like

868
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: always Bama daughter or whatever. No, Bam, It's fine. They'll

869
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: keep recruiting elite players and if they get their backup

870
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: quarterback or whoever's next up the pipe is is better

871
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: than the guy else you have, they'll beat them next year,

872
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe a costum a playoff birth. But

873
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: I think we we act like Alabama is on some

874
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: different level than all these other programs. Like I think

875
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: there are four or five programs that are just completely

876
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: on a different level than every other program in the country.

877
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: I think it's Ohio State, and then I think it's

878
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: probably three or the four SEC schools, because again, there

879
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: is no hurdle or any barrier that these coaches have

880
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 1: to have to jump over because whatever they need the school,

881
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: the resources, they just knocked down that wall and the

882
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: coach walks right through it. You need an extra academic advisor,

883
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: you need more iPads for your team, you need more

884
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 1: training facilities, you need more weight, whatever you need, they'll

885
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: do it. You need two million dollars to go sign

886
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: this defensive coordina. Here, here's a check. And at L

887
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: s U and Bama get the best players in the country.

888
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 1: They always have and that's why people at L s

889
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: U and people around Bama that I knew always like

890
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,479
Speaker 1: what they got just as good at players us. Let's

891
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: just can't coach on next level. Now I'm not saying

892
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: Ed can't either, because he can't, you know, but he

893
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: did put a great staff around and their players and

894
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: he nailed this quarterback. This quarterback transfer Joe Burrow looks

895
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: like the number one pick in the draft. Probably just

896
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: cemented his status as he's gonna win the Heisman Trophy.

897
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time L s U

898
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: had a Heisman Trophy winner, but it sure as hell

899
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: feels like a long time ago. But just as a

900
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: football fan, it doesn't get much cooler in that game. Okay,

901
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: let's dive into uh something I saw before we dive

902
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: into things that jumped out to me on Sunday. One

903
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: thing that really jumped out to me on Saturday, beside

904
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: the L s U Bama game was Minnesota and I

905
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: texted a buddy in the league that has gone through

906
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: p J Flex schools over the years. I said, what's

907
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: his deal? And the way he described him to me

908
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: was he's like the Tony Robbins of coaching. He is

909
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 1: not for everybody. He's not even for every assistant coach,

910
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: let alone every player. He's big into like psychological inspirational

911
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: type stuff that is unique, but it works. There is

912
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: no disputing if you watch Minnesota play Penn State, they

913
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: have a bald coach, a bald quarterback as a as

914
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: a member of the Bald Brotherhood. Really, I became a

915
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: full time member in two thousand eleven, but I was

916
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: trending that way probably since about oh seven, so over

917
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: ten plus years in the club. I'm a fan. I'm

918
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: a big fan of what they got going. Uh. He's

919
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: clearly just a rising star because at Minnesota to be undefeated,

920
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: to beat Penn State like that at home, Uh, James Franklin,

921
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: that's just kind of the apple and everyone. Oh, James Franklin.

922
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: James Franklin, gonna win a big game, shoot me a

923
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: text when that happens. Minnesota, their asks physically shoved him around. Offensively,

924
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: they're really good that the quarterback makes plays. They got

925
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: a couple of wide receivers and running back was gashing them.

926
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: Penn State. I can't imagine that Penn State or excuse me,

927
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: that Minnesota has many guys on their roster that Penn

928
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: State would have taken right and and Minnesota would have

929
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: taken every single guy on Penn State's roster. So that's

930
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: the one thing unique about college football is like when

931
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: Alabama plays Oregon State, I'm just giving you some hypothetical matchup.

932
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: There's not a guy in Oregon State that Alabama would

933
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: have given a scholarship to where in the NFL, It's like, yeah,

934
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: I take that guy. I take that guy. We wanted

935
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: to draft that guy. In college football, when you play

936
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: the big boys and you get even in the conference,

937
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: like you know, when Alabama plays Arkansas, how many players

938
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: as Arkansas have that Alabama wanted? Maybe two, maybe three?

939
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: There might not be any. And that's where coaching, it's

940
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: it's the one sport we're coaching, by far has the

941
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: most impact because whatever p J. Fleck is feeding those kids,

942
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: uh you know, literally feeding them telling them it's it's working.

943
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: The guy is a really really good football coach. And

944
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you that are listening if you

945
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: know that living maybe that region no more about him

946
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: than myself. Uh. He seems like just a just a

947
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: different cat. And sometimes, you know, different is cool because

948
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: we've seen the same old meat heads coach in football forever.

949
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: I liked that some of these younger guys are just

950
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: a little off the beaten path for what you think

951
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: would be a football guy. As an enormous win by Minnesota, Okay,

952
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 1: let's get in a Sunday Mahomes was fantastic. He looked healthy.

953
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: Uh slinging the well over four hundred yards. Hill and

954
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: Kelsey dominated. They scored thirty two points on the road

955
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: and we're leading late in the fourth quarter. So to

956
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,919
Speaker 1: lose that game for Kansas City is pretty devastating. They've

957
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: lost four of their last six games. Now. Obviously Mahomes

958
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: got hurt in one of those games, even though they

959
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: won that game against Denver, and then they lost the

960
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: game against Green Bay. But sum's off with them. They

961
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: cannot get a stop in a big spot to save

962
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: their life. And Steve Spagnola, who was the you know,

963
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: kind of known for being the defensive coordinator on the

964
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: New York Giants, the team to beat the undefeated Patriots,

965
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: it's all kind of been downhill since. Because what's really

966
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 1: the difference. Last year, probably the most polarizing assistant coach

967
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: was Bob Sutton because the Chief's defense was just so terrible.

968
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: Maybe they've been a little bit better, you know, just

969
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: from the eye test, I kind of see the same ship.

970
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: Wide open holes, blown coverages, guys getting wide open and

971
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: big spots. They can't get any stops. If Chris Jones

972
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: or someone on the defensive line does not make a play,

973
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: they just give they get gashed. It's I mean, Derrick

974
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: Henry was running wild against them, and Derrick Henry is

975
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 1: a good player, but that that's that's a bad loss

976
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: for Kansas City. When your quarterback plays that well, when

977
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: your premium offensive players play that well, and you have

978
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: a lead with under a couple of minutes to go,

979
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a tough situation. You're up late

980
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: in the game. They got one time out, it's third

981
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: and two. Do you run the ball? Well, if you

982
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: run the ball and get stuffed, everyone just goes ah,

983
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: conservative idiot coaches. And then if you pass the ball

984
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work, you go, what are you doing?

985
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: Run the balls? You can't listen the best offensive coordinators already,

986
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm just as guilty as too are the ones sitting

987
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: on their couch on Sundays. But they did that and

988
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: it backfired. Ma Homes hit the ground, then the field

989
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: goal got blocked, and uh, it was a disaster. There's

990
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: no way around it. Absolute unmitigated disaster by for Kansas City.

991
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: Huge game for them this week playing the Chargers Monday

992
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: Night Football. The Raiders are playing the Bengals and I

993
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: saw on Twitter this morning. It's the first time that

994
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: they've been a double digit favorite in years I think,

995
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: like ten, maybe even more, maybe since it was like, oh,

996
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: I don't know a long time. So this the Raiders

997
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: are gonna beat the Bengals. The Chiefs have to win

998
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: this game the Bills. As someone that puts some money

999
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: on the Bills and watch that game very closely, the

1000
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: Brians are not very good. I mean, the Browns were

1001
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: like the first team in twenty six years to have

1002
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: eight chances within the two yard liner in and not

1003
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: score touchdown. So let's the Bill's defense is good. The

1004
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: Browns are an undisciplined mess. The Bill's offense is a problem.

1005
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: Like Josh Allen, who I'm rooting for, consistently throws and

1006
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is a much much higher level version of this.

1007
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: Like Josh, not every single throw needs to be a

1008
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour. Throw a change up when a

1009
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 1: guy's running a quick slant and he's subtly open, you don't.

1010
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: Not every pass needs to be Brett Farve when I

1011
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: watched Josh Allen. The accuracy. The accuracy is a problem

1012
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: for a lot of quarterbacks, Like most guys are not

1013
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: pinpoint accurate unless you're Brady or Breeze, the elitely guys.

1014
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: Even Rogers can spray the ball a little bit, but

1015
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 1: Rogers can take some off his passes, so even if

1016
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: he is a little off, it's just a more catchable

1017
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: pass when thumbe when someone throws a hundred mile in

1018
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: a hour rope and he's fifteen feet away, just hard

1019
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: to catch. And I see Josh Allen struggling to take

1020
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 1: velocity off some of his passes and and it gets

1021
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: him in trouble. Danny Dimes and the Jets um, I

1022
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: don't really have much takeaway from the game. I know

1023
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes from four touchdowns, but he also had the

1024
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: fumble when Jamal Adams ripped it out of his hands.

1025
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: These two teams are terrible. And I know there are

1026
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: reports from Giants media that John Morrow was walking around

1027
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: super piste off head down like he was ready to

1028
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: fire everyone, Like, John, what do you expect was gonna

1029
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: happen when you hired Pat Shermer and then made Dave

1030
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: Gettleman the general manager. Do you think you're gonna win?

1031
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,839
Speaker 1: Do you think you're gonna be competitive? Do you live

1032
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: in a state of denial. How is anyone shocked at this?

1033
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: Because I'm not. Honestly, I'm a little shocked of the

1034
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: Jets because now part of it is Donald went out

1035
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: with the motto, but still then he wasn't good after

1036
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys game. But I thought the Jets would win

1037
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: five or six games. They'll probably end up winning four.

1038
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: I know Sam Donald said yesterday that he thinks they

1039
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: can still make the playoffs. Uh, memo to you, Sam,

1040
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: You're not making the playoffs. But Danny Dimes, I don't know.

1041
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really see it. Again. One of

1042
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 1: the touchdowns was on a quick screen to Golden Tate.

1043
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: Another Golden Tate touchdown came where the dB just fell down.

1044
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: So sometimes you have to put plays with context when

1045
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: you're judging them. Like if a guy is wide open

1046
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: and you hit a and you hit a score touchdown,

1047
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: like was it really that difficult of a pass? If

1048
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman falls down and you get a sack,

1049
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: like all sacks, all touchdowns, they are not all equal.

1050
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: The Pat Schrumer and Dave Gettelman are just a royal disaster.

1051
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 1: But again, anyone with the pulse knew this was gonna happen.

1052
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: The Saints they got destroyed by the Atlanta Falcons. Now

1053
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, who have been uh dumpster fire all

1054
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: season long. The thing that troubled I think most people

1055
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,240
Speaker 1: in football was trying to like come up with reasons

1056
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: why they were so bad is because they do have

1057
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: a lot of talent. Julio Jones, star, Calvin Ridley, stud

1058
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. I mean, offensively, they got dudes everywhere, and

1059
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,879
Speaker 1: defensively they do have a lot of athletic I don't

1060
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: know if they have too many Blue Chippers on defense,

1061
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: but they don't have scrubs. They don't have scrubs at all.

1062
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: So anytime in the NFL you played divisional games and

1063
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: the opponent, you know, the same coaching staffs have been

1064
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: there for a little bit, weird things can happen. I

1065
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 1: also think that people overreact to like a one bad loss.

1066
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: If you're like the Chiefs and you've had several bad losses,

1067
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to like have a strong take

1068
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: like this team's got some issues, like you should throw

1069
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: up a red flag right now. In the Chiefs. I'm

1070
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: not throwing up a red flag on the Saints, because

1071
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: if you go thirteen and three. More than likely two

1072
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: of those three losses are gonna look pretty bad. And

1073
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of that team, Monday morning, you're

1074
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: gonna be like, what the hell just happened. But at

1075
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you're gonna be thirteen and three,

1076
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: and the Saints more than likely are still gonna get

1077
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: a home field by and if they don't, they'll be

1078
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: the three seats, like they're gonna be a top three seat.

1079
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: You are allowed to have a clunker, and you'd rather

1080
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: have a clunker. I think it's hard sometimes when you

1081
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: your clunker comes against a team with a really bad record.

1082
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:11,280
Speaker 1: I also say this all the time, that players are humans.

1083
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: And as we get into November and your record is

1084
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: really kind of established. When you're a bad team, the

1085
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: coach can get up in front of the squad all

1086
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: he wants and say how talented the team is, how

1087
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: they beat us in years past, all that bullshit. But

1088
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: when the player looks down at a scouting report and

1089
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: sees the record underneath that team's name, and he sees

1090
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: one intent or two in twelve or you know, three

1091
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: and two four, you know, not three and four like

1092
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: three And I was gonna say three and four team,

1093
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: but that'd be seventeen games. Was I was trying to

1094
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: think of a bigger number three in ten? You just

1095
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: know that team is bad, you do so. I give

1096
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: the human element sometimes for a for good teams to

1097
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: overlook bad teams. Now, should it happen in a division,

1098
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: of course not, But it did, and I don't I

1099
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: don't make much of it because I have an enough

1100
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: evidence watching the Saints with breeze and without breeze, of

1101
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: kicking the crap out of people winning games on the

1102
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: road in in situations where they had Teddy Bridgewater, they

1103
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: shouldn't have won like they're they're gonna be fine. Kyle

1104
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: Allen solid, you know, he really is. I watched that

1105
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: game against green Bay. They moved the ball up and

1106
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: down against green Bay pretty much at ease all game.

1107
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: It took a turnover from Kyle Allen to kind of

1108
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: keep that game, to make it, you know, the score

1109
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: a little closer. Uh or actually, at one point in

1110
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: time the score was to ten. It felt more like

1111
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: Carolina be winning this game. Now. It's hard for me

1112
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: sometimes as judge games that it was a major snowstorm

1113
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: by the second half. I think Green Bay is really good.

1114
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: Their defense, though, is not quite as good as it

1115
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: showed that first month that there are gaping holes. Now,

1116
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, what's he either first or second best running

1117
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: back in the league. He's just a baller. He is

1118
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: an elite player. So if if he makes plays against you,

1119
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: to me, that's not always an indictment of your team.

1120
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: But it's pretty clear that the Packers defense is I

1121
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: can't consider them top notch anymore. They're solid that there

1122
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: are an above average NFL defense, but I don't put

1123
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: them in that category where that first several weeks of

1124
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: the season it looked like they had one of the

1125
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: best defense in the league. I just I can't say

1126
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: that right now. And the Carolina Panthers there five and

1127
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: two since they started owing to in you know, Cam

1128
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: Newton last played a game. Their two losses are at

1129
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: Green Bay in the snow and at San Francisco. Like,

1130
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna go nine and seven, more than likely

1131
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs. But that's a really really impressive season

1132
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: because if they go nine and seven, they basically went

1133
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: nine and five without camp and that was all Kyle

1134
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: Allen playing. Being the quarterback. I tipped my hat to

1135
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera. He's done an excellent job. Titans are a

1136
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: really weird team. Uh. Ryan tanne Hills now three and

1137
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: one as a starter. Derrick Henry's established himself as a

1138
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: really good player. I think Mike Vrabel is a good coach,

1139
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: but you can watch him some weeks where you're like,

1140
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: what is going on now? Titans fans may tell me, well,

1141
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 1: if tanney Hill had been starting the whole time, maybe

1142
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: we would be six and four. Hell maybe even seven

1143
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: and three, because there were points early in the season

1144
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: with Mariota where their offense was beyond anemic. He was

1145
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: struggling to complete running back screens. It's crazy, just from

1146
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: the eye test, how much better Ryan tanney Hill as

1147
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: a player than Marcus Mariota one, just as a runner.

1148
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: Mariota is quote unquote an athletic runner as well. Tanne

1149
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: Hill yesterday was lowering his shoulder running guys over at

1150
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: the goal line. That ain't Mariota's deal, And then when

1151
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: he had to, he was pulling the trigger and hitting

1152
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: some big passes. At one point in time in the game,

1153
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: it was a seven point game with the Chiefs leading,

1154
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 1: and I remember I was watching the game and the

1155
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: stats came up and and Mahomes had over three yards

1156
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: passing and Tanny Hill had a hundred, and You're like,

1157
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: how are they only down seven? And then as the

1158
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 1: game went on he made some big passes. Obviously Derrick

1159
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: Henry bust is a big run and they found a

1160
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: way to win. Now the five and five, they are

1161
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: not dead in terms of from the playoff. Next the

1162
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: Browns they're holding on for dear life. You know, they're

1163
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: just they're gonna take pride in that win. I didn't

1164
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: learn much about you. I still don't think you're very good.

1165
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: It turns out Matt Stafford as a broken back or

1166
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: broken vertebrates or you know, his backs messed up and

1167
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: did not play, and it was still hard for the

1168
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: Bears to beat Jeff driscoll. Uh. Khalil Mack to me

1169
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: has had a pretty underwhelming season. I don't know if

1170
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: just missing a Chem Hicks is hurting a spirit. If

1171
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: Chuck Pogano is not getting the most out of him,

1172
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: I know they want. I'm pretty sure he hasn't had

1173
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: a sack in five Strade games. When I watched Khalil Mack,

1174
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: the guy that played balls to the wall and just

1175
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 1: consistently dominated weekend weekend. I don't see that guy right now.

1176
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't see a guy necessarily going through the motions.

1177
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 1: But I don't see the elite Blue Ship player like

1178
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 1: when I I don't see a pro Bowl player right now,

1179
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,080
Speaker 1: which is kind of embarrassing. He is too good to

1180
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: not take over games, and in his career he has

1181
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:16,919
Speaker 1: consistently taken over games every two or three weeks. He's

1182
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: just kind of been m I A. And you know,

1183
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 1: you're either coaching allow it to happen. Part of it's

1184
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: he's such a good player. It's on him too. But

1185
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: they gotta figure out if they're just gonna get back

1186
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: to win eight or nine games or win six, it's

1187
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,479
Speaker 1: gonna be him, and someone needs to kind of rev

1188
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 1: him back up because right now he's he just hasn't

1189
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: been playing very well. Okay, let's dive into the middlecoff

1190
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: mail back, Uh, some of these are from before the weekend,

1191
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: So if it is, I'll try to kind of spin

1192
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: it forward. I'm a Bearrass fan who feels like his

1193
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 1: parents are going through divorce. Mitch and Naggy could not

1194
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: be worse for each other fairness, Mitch made some nice throws.

1195
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: Granted it was against the Lions. Mitch would greatly benefit

1196
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 1: from being in an offense like the forty nine as

1197
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: Ravens or early Seahawks, where the play calling is run

1198
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: heavy and the quarterback doesn't have to think as much.

1199
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 1: Is it possible reasonable for Naggy to transform the offense

1200
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: to be more like Kyle side note, Watson and Mahomes

1201
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: would be sweet with Naggy. Uh? Did I answer this

1202
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: question last week? Maybe I didn't resent it. If I did,

1203
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: sorry if you're listening to this again, I think the

1204
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: most basic level, regardless what offense you run, if Mitch

1205
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: is not going to be accurate and up until I

1206
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: don't have his box score against the Lions, but he

1207
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: did make a couple of nice touchdown throws. If he

1208
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: is airmailing balls all over the yard, you got no

1209
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: chance in any offense Kyle would hate. He hates inaccurate quarterbacks,

1210
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: So I would say that that might be a little

1211
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: bit of a stretch. M just needs to be more accurate,

1212
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 1: especially on big downs, third downs in the red zone.

1213
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: That that's just the bottom line. There's no other way

1214
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: around it. He has to be more accurate. Big fan

1215
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: of the show. I'm a realistic Raiders fan. I don't

1216
01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: think we're gonna make the playoffs, but will be extremely

1217
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: hopeful looking at what Gruden has done with the team.

1218
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: Do you think they could be in the super Bowl

1219
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: in the next three or five years or do you

1220
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: think the defense will hold them back? Like it seems

1221
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: all the offensive moves in free agency, ab doesn't Uh,

1222
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 1: couldn't cause f a b. I can't fall there. And

1223
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: draft have been doing great, but the defense one is

1224
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: not so much. Yeah, clearly he's good enough of an

1225
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: offensive coach to compete with anybody. Their defense is god awful. Uh. Now,

1226
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: granted they drafted a guy Mullins in the second round.

1227
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 1: He started really the last two weeks. Jonathan Abrom, the

1228
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: hard hitting safety went and I are because of course

1229
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 1: he did. He destroys people. He's gonna have to adapt

1230
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: his style. He's a good enough athlete. He's gonna have

1231
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:43,439
Speaker 1: to become a little bit more of a cover guy

1232
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: and balance the big hitting. Their pass rushers are a

1233
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 1: major question mark. I mean Cleveland Farrell, who had a

1234
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: good statistical game against the Chargers. If you watch the game,

1235
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: wasn't great. Arden Key was actually coming on until he

1236
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: broke his foot I think two weeks ago, and then

1237
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: mad Max Cross. He is a really good player. But

1238
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna need, you know, a couple of just elite

1239
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: defensive lineman and their linebacker situation has been abysmal for years,

1240
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 1: so they're going to need a draft, preferably in this draft.

1241
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna have two first round picks, probably

1242
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 1: in the top eighteen. You know, the Bears go six

1243
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 1: or seven wins and the Raiders win seven or eight wins.

1244
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: You know that's boom. Pick thirteen and picked seventeen. Maybe

1245
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: draft a linebacker. They need, you know, a fast, just

1246
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: tackling machine at linebacker. I'm watching the Steeler game yesterday

1247
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: or two days ago. Now, if you're listening to this

1248
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: and Devin Bush is all over the place, you know

1249
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: you watch Keek Lee's of the World. You held the forty,

1250
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: Fred Warner, Bobby Wagner, you gotta have that guy. Unless

1251
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,959
Speaker 1: the Rams are an example of a team they haven't

1252
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: really had great linebacking play the last several years, but

1253
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: their defensive line has been elite and their corners have

1254
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 1: been good. So you gotta have difference makers, preferably at

1255
01:05:56,360 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: every level, but they don't really have what would call

1256
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: a difference maker on defense. You know, they have several

1257
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: on offense with Waller Jacobs, a lot of the offensive

1258
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: lineman car can play like that, Gruden as a play caller,

1259
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: But defense in the NFL is you know, it's a

1260
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: combination of the xs and os and the Jimmy's and

1261
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: the joe's, because without the Jimmy's and the joe's, you

1262
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: can't make place. And right now they just don't have

1263
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: the Jimmy's and the joe's. With all the O'Dell talk

1264
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: about a trade at the end of the year, what

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Philly picking him up? Is that possible?

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Speaker 1: Keep up the hustle, appreciate it. Yeah, I would say that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, to be completely honest, I

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Speaker 1: I just we have to see what Cleveland does. Are

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Speaker 1: they just gonna trade him for a first round pick

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. You could argue they

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily need him, but if they're ever gonna get good,

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Speaker 1: you would like to have Odell Beckham on the team.

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Speaker 1: So unless he demands a trade or for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff doesn't like him. I will be surprised

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Speaker 1: if O'Dell Beckham's not on the on the team next year. Now,

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Speaker 1: will he be on the team going into year three?

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Speaker 1: That's a bigger question mark. But to give up after

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Speaker 1: one year. If they did, I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people would be interested, though the risk would be a

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Speaker 1: little higher given than it wasn't just not that he's

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Speaker 1: been the problem, but it hasn't been smooth sailing, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean the shoes. He's a little bit of pain

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Speaker 1: in the ass. Now. I think most gms will tell

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Speaker 1: you we already know that we don't really care, and

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Speaker 1: that that might be true. Listen on three and our

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Speaker 1: podcasts about Jacksonville moving to London. I like the idea,

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Speaker 1: but the problem is that the Jacksonville Jaguars people might

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Speaker 1: not go to games. People might go to games then,

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Speaker 1: but no one wants to watch them on TV. I

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Speaker 1: think the ratings will stink in the US. You know, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it would face anyone that much. If

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars were good and you know, had a record

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Speaker 1: of you know, three and you know, six and one

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Speaker 1: playing the five and two Houston Texans and you put

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Speaker 1: that game on Sunday night, football, people are gonna watch.

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Speaker 1: I think good football and the records have more to do.

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Speaker 1: Football's national. You know, baseball and basketball are regional. L

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Speaker 1: s U Bama did a nine point five rating. The

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Speaker 1: average like Major League Baseball game on Sunday night Baseball

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Speaker 1: and ESPN is like a one. The average NBA game

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Speaker 1: there's like a two and a half. So if you

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Speaker 1: put good football on TV, people watch, whether it's their

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Speaker 1: team or not. With gambling, and obviously in the NFL

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01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: we got fantasy football, so that the draw to the

1305
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 1: NFL is so much different than UH then other sports

1306
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: that have to worry a little bit more about that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Just started listening to this UH this season of the

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Speaker 1: podcast after listening Friday morning and watching Thursday night football.

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Speaker 1: I have a theory that Rivers is tanking because he's

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Speaker 1: sick of losing and running running for his life. Their

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01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: offensive line has been horrible for years, and Dean seems

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Speaker 1: not to care about the old line. What are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on Rivers trying to get traded this offseason. Well,

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Speaker 1: I definitely think there's a chance that he demands a

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Speaker 1: trade or slash They franchise. He's a free agent, so

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Speaker 1: they they're probably gonna franchise him, the trade him, maybe

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Speaker 1: they let him walk. I be a little shocked, but

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Speaker 1: you can never discount any possibility with with Dean Spanos.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's throwing games at all. I think

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Speaker 1: he's desperately trying to win desperately. I actually think his

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Speaker 1: flaws now when I say ball security, for him, it's

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball into just terrible places, you know, throwing

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Speaker 1: these yolo passes that make no freaking sense. I think

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Speaker 1: that's his issue right now, much more than he's trying

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Speaker 1: to complete these passes. I think there's a chance sometimes

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Speaker 1: he can't control with the ball goes, which is a

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Speaker 1: little bit scary, which you'd have to question. What is uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, what his trade value would be he keeps

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Speaker 1: putting up games like he did the other night against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. If you franchise him, like you're not getting

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Speaker 1: maybe a fourth or fifth round pick, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: thirty eight years old, he's turnover prone. Would someone give

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Speaker 1: like a first round pick? I I doubt it. Here's

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Speaker 1: a question for the three and out should a team

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Speaker 1: such as the Jets of the Browns consider contacting coach

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Speaker 1: Dungee in a desperate try to get a good coaching

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Speaker 1: staff also in Chicago. A good landing spot for Cam Newton. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, Cam Newton would be any team

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Speaker 1: that needs a quarterback would be an interesting good landing spot.

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Speaker 1: I think Tony Dunge's done. Uh you know, he's a

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Speaker 1: defensive coach in an offensive world. I don't see that happening.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I always like the mindset of thinking outside

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Speaker 1: the box and former coaches that have had success, But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that's a possibility. Appreciate everybody listening.

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail back at John Middlecoff's line up in those

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Speaker 1: d m uh Thursday night football. Pretty big game, Brown Steelers.

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Speaker 1: I think it's Steelers at the Browns. But you know,

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers they'd be six and forward boom. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about a wild card and the Browns

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Speaker 1: would be four and six and be like, well they

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Speaker 1: played the Steelers in again in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be dead. I think I saw today on

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Speaker 1: Twitter they have one of the easiest remaining schedules. So

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01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: football is getting good. That this has to be the

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Speaker 1: most open season, you know. I'm thinking maybe on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: I'll do a power rankings, like just my top five teams.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot Collins is a top ten, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. I'll just do my top five teams.

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Speaker 1: But it's pretty clear that six or seven, you know,

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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL are gonna enter the playoffs feeling

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Speaker 1: they got a legit shot to win it all. There's

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Speaker 1: no O seven Patriots, you know, There's no teams like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Seattle a couple of years ago, even

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons the year they won fifteen and one.

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Speaker 1: I I think regardless of where the forty nine are

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Speaker 1: seating ends up when it's all said and done, I

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Speaker 1: don't think people are gonna look at them like just

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Speaker 1: a team that cannot be beat unless they you know

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Speaker 1: who knows. But I I really think that this is

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Speaker 1: the most open season that I can ever remember in

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Speaker 1: this decade of just what there are Well, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about this Thursday, but appreciate everyone listening and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: week and got a football stands so