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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend everybody. I

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Speaker 1: survive mine, my son getting married. Some details forthcoming. And

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Speaker 1: the weekend. As we always do every Monday, what you

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Speaker 1: saw that you liked you didn't like? Poll, question, Play

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Speaker 1: of the day, stat of the Day. We'll dive into

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Speaker 1: some of the draft rumors. Albert Brier from the Monday

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Speaker 1: Morning Quarterback will join us. The Falcons have received calls

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Speaker 1: from teams asking about Julio Jones. There's multiple reports out

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Speaker 1: there that the Falcons may be trading Julio Jones later

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Speaker 1: on this summer. We'll ask Albert Brier about that and

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Speaker 1: a few other details. I'm going to tell you what

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Speaker 1: I told you a month ago, and you're starting to

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Speaker 1: see some of these reports come out now. When we

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Speaker 1: first heard that the Niners were moving up, I checked

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Speaker 1: on a source and they said, who are they going after?

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Speaker 1: And my source said, they're going after Mac Jones from Alabama.

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Speaker 1: And my source said, I don't know why. They're giving

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Speaker 1: up all of that draft capital to go up and

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Speaker 1: get mac Jones. But that's what I'm hearing. That's the

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Speaker 1: kind of quarterback that Kyle Shanahan wants in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: He said, But make sure if you're going to report this,

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Speaker 1: there is someone or some ones in the Niner organization

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Speaker 1: in their draft room who are trying to convince Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan to take Trey Lance. Now you had all this

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Speaker 1: speculation that the Niners going to Pro days and maybe

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Speaker 1: they'll take Justin Fields. Well we're coming back to where

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Speaker 1: we were a month ago. Nothing has changed from my

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Speaker 1: source who said mac Jones, but still thinks there are

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Speaker 1: people or a person inside with influence talking up Trey Lance.

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Speaker 1: Those are the stories that are coming out now here.

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Speaker 1: We our Monday of draft week. But we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Albert Brier about separating fact from fiction. Alex Smith, the

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Speaker 1: former number one overall pick, just announced his retirement. All

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Speaker 1: ask him what that is like when you're the veteran quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and it happened to him a couple of times. It

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Speaker 1: happened to him in San Francisco, it happened to him

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and he knows what Aaron Rodgers and

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan some of these other quarterbacks. You get a

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Speaker 1: little long in the tooth and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you see your team, they draft your replacement. And we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to Alex Smith coming up a little bit later on.

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Speaker 1: wedding this weekend. It was great. We love who my

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Speaker 1: son married. In fact, we love her, we like him.

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Speaker 1: But there there were a lot of great moments there.

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Speaker 1: And in case you're wondering, did I cry, the answer

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Speaker 1: And I finally said to everyone in the church, yes,

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Speaker 1: I got a tax on. I so four different people said,

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Speaker 1: welcome to draft week. We're ready to go. I'm all

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Speaker 1: Like you know all the things that he's done. I said,

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Speaker 1: Like he he found somebody and it's not that easy.

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Speaker 1: But oh my god, you know, you just you're able

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Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, it was great, wonderful And for anybody

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Speaker 1: that you go through with any prospect without having to

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Speaker 1: hide our intentions. And so, you know, I just I

426
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Speaker 1: sort of look at this dan as they knew they

427
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Speaker 1: were taking. Would it be worth going through all this

428
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: when everybody has a pretty good idea of who the

429
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Speaker 1: first two quarterbacks to go are going to be. But

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Speaker 1: the only thing, and I'll go back to what a

431
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: source told me when they made this deal, and that

432
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: was that Kyle liked Mac Jones someone or someones in

433
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: their draft room in the organization. Yeah, we're trying to

434
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: convince them of Trey Lance. So here we are a

435
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Speaker 1: month later, and that information has resurfaced as if it's

436
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: new information and it's not. Yeah, and Trey Lance, Like,

437
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Dan, I mean, you know, I

438
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Speaker 1: make phone calls the like in the summer to kind

439
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: of try to figure out who the next set of

440
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to be. Because at that point, like

441
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,479
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of teams have gone through our

442
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: our initial draft meetings, here are players we have to watch.

443
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Speaker 1: And when I did that with Trey Lance last summer,

444
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Speaker 1: and this is before we had any idea they were

445
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: going to move off with Jimmy Garoppolo trade up any

446
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: of that, more than one team pointed out to me

447
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: he is an ideal scheme fit for Kyle Shanahan. Now

448
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot you got to wrap your head around

449
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: with Trey Lance. I would argue that the difference in

450
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: competition between North Dakota State and the teams they play

451
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: might be larger than the difference in competition between Alabama

452
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: and the teams they play. They beat the crap out

453
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: of everybody, you know what I mean. Like, so Trey

454
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,360
Speaker 1: Lance wasn't in a lot of critical situations. He wasn't

455
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 1: playing for behind a lot, He didn't throw the ball

456
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: a lot. You just you didn't see him in a

457
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: lot of the situations you want to see him, you know,

458
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: coming into the NFL. So, like I think part of

459
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Speaker 1: this for the Niners is, you know, here in mac Jones,

460
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: we see somebody who's shown us a lot of what

461
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Speaker 1: we want to see. And then over here we've got

462
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Speaker 1: Trey Lance, who's a really good schematic fit for what

463
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Speaker 1: we want to do and can bring a lot of

464
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: things to the table that will really open up Kyle

465
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Speaker 1: Shanahan's offense. We need to decide if we can get

466
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Speaker 1: him there with the other stuff. And to Trey Lance's credit,

467
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: like my understanding is like he's come across as very

468
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: very football smart and all of his meetings, which I

469
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Speaker 1: know is going to appeal to Kyle Shanahan and the Niners.

470
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: Talking to Albert Breer, senior NFL reporter, and of course

471
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: works for the Monday Morning quarterback, you know, trying to

472
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: handicap all of this and with these quarterbacks, you know,

473
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Speaker 1: and I always say, you know, my logic philosophy is

474
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: get your quarterback, not a quarterback. And a lot of

475
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: times these gems will say, we got to get a quarterback,

476
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: not your quarterback. If I said you had to bet

477
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Speaker 1: on one of these not working out in the NFL,

478
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields, Trey Lance, Mac Jones, Zach Wilson, Trevor Lawrence,

479
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: who would you pick? I think Trey Lance is the

480
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Speaker 1: iffeist just because I think it's the biggest projection and

481
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: the hit could be really big. Two, you know, so

482
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Speaker 1: if you hit on him like I mean like, and

483
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: I think the best comper him is Josh Allen. That's

484
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: the one to hear over and over and over again.

485
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is a generational prospect. I think he's separate

486
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Speaker 1: from the group. I mean, Zach Wilson. I think the

487
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: majority of teams have him number two. But I've talked

488
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: to some teams that have just and Fields number two.

489
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Speaker 1: So see, I like, I don't know about Jack Wilson. Yeah,

490
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Speaker 1: I mean I know that he had a very good

491
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Speaker 1: year and he can roll left and throw right out

492
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: of Pro day and throw at fifty yards, But I

493
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: don't know. And he's going to the Jets. I mean,

494
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: you know how this winning and losing his systemic and

495
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: I wonder about that when you put him in a

496
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: situation like that, Trey Lance could end up going to

497
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: you know, a good team. So much this is a situational,

498
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: right Dan, Yes, I mean, like, if you want to

499
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Speaker 1: bet on, you know, Zach Wilson with the Jets or

500
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Speaker 1: Trey Lance with the Niners, regardless of who they are

501
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: as players, who are you betting on? I'm betting on

502
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: Trey Lance because he's going because he's going to be

503
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: thrown to Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk and George Kittle. Yes,

504
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: he's got Trump Williams blocking for him, and he has

505
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: the best running game in the league and a really

506
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Speaker 1: really good defense and they don't have to ask the

507
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: world of him other than that, you know, Like I mean,

508
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: but so much of this is a situation. There's so

509
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: few quarterbacks I think to come into the league, and

510
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck I think is a good example of it.

511
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Speaker 1: But there's so few quarterbacks to come into the league

512
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Speaker 1: that can actually overcome bad circumstances when they're young players.

513
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Speaker 1: You know, we talk about Patrick Mahomes, and I'm not

514
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: saying Patrick wouldn't have made it otherwise, but look at

515
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: his situation. He was dropped into a team that was

516
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,479
Speaker 1: you know, had a coach who'd been building there for

517
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Speaker 1: five years, a guy who is one of the best

518
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: play callers and quarterback developers of the of our generation.

519
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: Right Nandy Reid throwing a Tyree Hill and Travis Kelsey.

520
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: He's got Pro Bowl level tackles, and Eric Fisher and

521
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: Mitch Schwartz. He comes into the league a kid he

522
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: gets strafted with, and Kareem Hunt wins the rushing title.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's just I think so I think

524
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: sometimes we look at the quarterbacks and we say like, Okay,

525
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: like this guy's going to be counted on to change

526
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Speaker 1: everything for this franchise, when really whether or not they

527
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: make it rides a whole lot more on what situation

528
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Speaker 1: they're being dropped earlier. If Mahomes goes to the Jets,

529
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Speaker 1: he's a curiosity, like, we go, boy, that guy looks

530
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: like he has talent, but they're not a very good team.

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Speaker 1: Or if he was in Jacksonville, you know, to start,

532
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: we would look at him as a curiosity. We wouldn't

533
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: say he's the future of the sport. And I think

534
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: he got into the right situation, and one or two

535
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks are going to get in the right situation.

536
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: You know, if Justin Fields goes to New England or

537
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: you know, somebody goes to Atlanta here, you know, they

538
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: might be in a better situation than Zach Wilson and

539
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Speaking of Atlanta, this Julio Jones information is

540
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: starting to sort of trickle out that maybe he's on

541
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Speaker 1: the block. How up for grabs do you think is

542
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: Julio Jones. It depends on what the Falcons are offered.

543
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: But as he has a second round pick, I mean,

544
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: I think for a first round pick, they'd move him,

545
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, and I think they could agree to a

546
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: deal this week, like I know, like logistically they couldn't

547
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: execute it until June first. You know, I think if

548
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: somebody came along with a first round pick, now, you know,

549
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: like there's not a lot of precedent for a deal

550
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: like that, like and you know, you have to make sure, okay,

551
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: Like like it's like it's Julio gonna get hurt in

552
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: the spring, Like there's stuff like that that can happen.

553
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's not all that different than you know,

554
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Rams agreeing to the Matthew Stafford

555
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: deal in January and then executing it at March. Right,

556
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: But but do you trade Julio Jones if you're gonna

557
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: take Kyle Pitts. I think that my guests of right

558
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: now would be the Falcons. They're gonna take Kyle Pitts.

559
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: And I think if they had their druthers, they would

560
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: keep Julio Jones and throw Kyle Picks into an offense

561
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: with Julio and Calvin Ridley and three first round picks

562
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: in the offensive line, and and and Matt Ryan, who,

563
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: like I we're talking about Matt Ryan, like he's forty

564
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: five years old, Like he's still just thirty five. He's

565
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: got a few good years left. But their cap situation

566
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: is just it's such a mess, stand that they have

567
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: to do something. I mean, as of today right now,

568
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: they don't have an for him to sign their draft class,

569
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: and they've already mortgaged contracts for Matt Ryan, for Jake Matthews,

570
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: and for Dion Jones, and so something's got to give here,

571
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: And I mean for Terry Fontineau and Arthur Smith, the

572
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: new guys in charge. They're really a big piece of

573
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: this is balancing mortgaging another contract and Julio's contracts a

574
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: big one. Mortgaging another contract versus maybe just getting that

575
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: contract off the books and then getting another player in

576
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: either this year or next year who's going to be

577
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: cost controlled for the next four years, which can really

578
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: help you from a cap standpoint. People try to tell

579
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: you what the Patriots might be doing or could be doing,

580
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: and it's all speculation because they never let any information out.

581
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: But you're Boston base, do you have any idea what

582
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is capable of doing in the first round. So,

583
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: like they've explored, they've made the exploratory phone calls about

584
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: going up into the top ten, and um, you know,

585
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: I know they've talked to Atlanta, they talked to Carolina,

586
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: and look like, I don't want to make that big

587
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: a deal out of that that because these things happen

588
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,719
Speaker 1: this time of year, you know, And I don't think

589
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: they're down the road with any of those teams quite yet,

590
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: at least to my knowledge. But I do think they're

591
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: in sort of a similar spot to where they were

592
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: in two thousand and twelve. And if you remember, they

593
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: made this, they made it to the Super Bowl and eleven,

594
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: but their defense was really it was a mess. And

595
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: that was the year if you remember, they had Gronkowski

596
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: and Hernandez and I think Brady either won the MVP

597
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: or had an MVP type of season, but they were

598
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: playing Julian Edelman on defense, you know. And so if

599
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: you if you go back and you look at that year,

600
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: then everybody's built trays down, trades down, trays down. He

601
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: traded up twice that year, traded up for Dante high

602
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: Tower and traded up for Chandler Jones. So try and

603
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: fix their defense. Both those guys were hits. You know,

604
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: a couple of years later, the defense is completely fixed.

605
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, if you look at the

606
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: quarterback position, I'd sort of line it up like that. Now, like,

607
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: how do they value justin Fields. I don't know if

608
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: they value him enough to make the sort of move

609
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: that it would take to go up to four to

610
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: get him. But if he starts to slide into that

611
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: seven eight nine range. Now I think we might be

612
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: talking about something. So, you know, I like where I

613
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: think the rubber could hit the road there. They've got

614
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: relationships with Miami obviously at number six. I think if

615
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: Pitts and Chase are off the board, Miami might consider

616
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,959
Speaker 1: moving down. They've got you know, I mean, obviously Detroit's there,

617
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: and Matt Patricia's in the building in New England. He

618
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: knows the Detroit people. The Lions are looking to trade down.

619
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: And then Carolina has a director of player personnel and

620
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: Pat Stewart who used to work in New England, who

621
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: has all kinds of relationships in the Patriots building. So

622
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 1: I look at that sort of alley of picks there

623
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Speaker 1: at six, seven eight, where if a quarterback they like,

624
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: and I think they've got some interest in fields, were

625
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: to fall in that range, you know, maybe they might

626
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: look at the idea of going up. Do you want

627
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: to get in on our Julian Edelman bent, sure, Polly,

628
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: give Albert the bet. Albert, sincere Boston guy, you like this.

629
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I made the bet that Julian Edelman will attempt to

630
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: play professional football for the Buccaneers next year instead of

631
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: just going flat retirements. Attempt to steak is a pie

632
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: of the face the steaks. So I gotta take a

633
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 1: pie of the face if I'm wrong, Well are you

634
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: You want to be in with Poulie and say that

635
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: Edelman will at least attempt to play for the Buccaneers.

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he won't. Okay, right, Well, he's bone

637
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Speaker 1: on bone, guys. I don't know. I can't see it.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. I mean, maybe he decides what six games

639
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Speaker 1: left he wants to do it, and I know he's

640
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: got aspirations in Hollywood and everything else, and maybe those

641
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: don't work out, and he decides I gotta go be

642
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Speaker 1: a football player again. Like I don't know. I just

643
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: I'm not counting on it. But he's Gronk playing this year. Yeah, okay, yeah,

644
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Speaker 1: And that was the one for me. So like I dan, like,

645
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Speaker 1: you're right, like because I look back, like I was

646
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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl standing next to Rob Gronk after

647
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: the page seat the Rams. I was staying next to

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Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski in that locker room after the super Bowl,

649
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Speaker 1: and I was convinced he was done. And he retired

650
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: shortly thereafter, and I thought this guy's just had it

651
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Speaker 1: with football, and a year later he's coming back, So

652
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Speaker 1: I guess anything's possible. Enjoy this week, Humbert. I'll always

653
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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us, and thank you. We'll talk to you. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until

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Speaker 1: FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm John Middlecoff and I host the Three and Out podcast.

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Speaker 1: Do you like football? Do you like the NFL? Do

661
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Speaker 1: you like the NFL draft? Quarterbacks? Coaches? Well, I talk

662
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Speaker 1: about it all on the show. I used to work

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Speaker 1: for Andy Reid as a scout. Now I give you

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Speaker 1: my unfiltered and raw opinions on everything that goes on

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And you know we're talking college football

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Speaker 1: because of how important the draft is year round. Listen

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith, he is the former Utah star went to

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, also went to Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Washington football team had one of the more serious, severe

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Speaker 1: near fatal injuries in football history and decided to announce

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Speaker 1: his retirement. Recently and Alex Smith joining us on the program,

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like a former player now? You know?

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Speaker 1: It's funny because you know, through the injury, I kind

676
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Speaker 1: of almost fell into that as well. Like I you know,

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Speaker 1: I was on the brink of former football player for

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Speaker 1: a while, so I felt like I've dabbled in this

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Speaker 1: this pool before, and so yeah, it's not unnatural for me.

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Speaker 1: But also like, is your routine the same? Like you

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Speaker 1: are you still training working out? How does that work? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I honestly, I think my routine very much this time

683
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: of year is the same. Yeah, I still I still

684
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Speaker 1: mix it up. I love enjoying me as a quarterback. Listen,

685
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, you know, me getting under a squat rack.

686
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Speaker 1: You know, three hundred sixty five days a year isn't

687
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Speaker 1: practical nor does it help me be a better quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So for the last several years, I've enjoyed doing different

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Speaker 1: things in the off season as far as training goes,

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Speaker 1: and I still do those things, so that part of

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Speaker 1: my life hasn't changed. I think here as you know,

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Speaker 1: as we creep towards summer and fall, obviously that's going

693
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Speaker 1: to be the true test, you know, because for every fall,

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Speaker 1: for the last you know, twenty five plus years of

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Speaker 1: my life, it's revolved around football. And you know that

696
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: that obviously is set to change. So I'm excited for it,

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Speaker 1: you know. I know, I know it's not always going

698
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Speaker 1: to be a smooth transition, but but I look forward

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Speaker 1: to the unknown and what lays a head. But is

700
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Speaker 1: it your mind or your body that has to be

701
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Speaker 1: convinced right now? Like, oh, my mind, without a doubt

702
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Speaker 1: in my mind has nothing to do with it. My

703
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: body could, I could still roll. I'm in better shape

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Speaker 1: than I was a year ago. I mean, I think

705
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Speaker 1: the further I get removed from this injury, the only

706
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Speaker 1: I'm only getting stronger, So my body feels better and

707
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Speaker 1: better or no, but your body reminds you. There's certain

708
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Speaker 1: times of the year where you go, I'm supposed to

709
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Speaker 1: be doing this, like late July or August, Like, what

710
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Speaker 1: are you going to be like on a Sunday in September? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a great question. I don't

712
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm you know, if I totally

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Speaker 1: know what that's going to be like, you know, if

714
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Speaker 1: I'm ready for it, and obviously a time will tell

715
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Speaker 1: when we get there. I do think yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: for chunk of my life, Yeah, that I've always had

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Speaker 1: that release, you know, to go to to lace up

718
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Speaker 1: cleats and get back out on the field and um,

719
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Speaker 1: you know, push yourself in that kind of environment. And

720
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Speaker 1: you can't simulate that anywhere else. You can't get that feeling,

721
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Speaker 1: that rush, that's and sation anywhere else, and so it

722
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: is incredibly unique. So we'll see, we'll see if yeah,

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Speaker 1: if I do miss it, I feel at this point

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Speaker 1: I'm in a great place. You know, I've played a

725
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Speaker 1: ton of football. I'm I'm looking forward to all the

726
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Speaker 1: things I can go do with my family and my kids,

727
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Speaker 1: things that I've put off for a long time because

728
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Speaker 1: of football. When did you have that epiphany that you went, Okay,

729
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Speaker 1: I'm good with this. Honestly, the first the first time

730
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Speaker 1: I ever thought it that it first hit me. This

731
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Speaker 1: is no joke. I was I went skiing and so

732
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Speaker 1: boarding with my kids, and it was something that I

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Speaker 1: put off for a long time because of football. Ever

734
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Speaker 1: since I'm in Vin, since college, and then when the

735
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Speaker 1: injury happened, I wondered if I doubt it, if I'd

736
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Speaker 1: ever be able to go again. And my dad is

737
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Speaker 1: my parents have taken my kids, so they they're pretty

738
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Speaker 1: decent scared at this point. I haven't ever been with them,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I grew up my dad taught me

740
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Speaker 1: to ski when I was two years old. I grew

741
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Speaker 1: up going with my family and it was always this

742
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Speaker 1: family environment. So I got to go this year. It

743
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Speaker 1: was amazing. It was an amazing experience for me, full

744
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: of the same range emotions and before I had a

745
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Speaker 1: ton of anxiety, couldn't couldn't sleep, you know, wondering about

746
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Speaker 1: my leg and how it hold up. And then to

747
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Speaker 1: get out there with my kids and my dad also

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Speaker 1: and for all of us to be on the mound

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Speaker 1: together and my mom and you know, it was it

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Speaker 1: was an amazing experience. So for me, Yeah, there was

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Speaker 1: a moment where I we paused on the side of

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Speaker 1: the mountain and my two boys were next to me

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Speaker 1: and my dad was there as well, and yeah, it

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Speaker 1: definitely hit me that I want more of that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to chase more of that.

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Speaker 1: I've been putting that off for a long long time,

757
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Speaker 1: and I can go do that now. And the reason

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Speaker 1: I can go do it is partly because I pursued football.

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Speaker 1: You know that. I knew if I pushed football as

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Speaker 1: hard as I could all the other things in life,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have any limitations. So I'm excited to go

762
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Speaker 1: to go and knock down some more walls that I've

763
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: built up. Yeah, but I thought it was a little

764
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Speaker 1: pretension of you to hold a press conference on the

765
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Speaker 1: ski mountain there to announced that you were retiring. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean nobody was there, but you know, you had

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Speaker 1: your moment, had your press conference. And I thought all

768
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Speaker 1: along the last month or so six weeks that you

769
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Speaker 1: would join Urban and and go to Jacksonville and help

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Speaker 1: tutor Trevor Lawrence. But I didn't know the competitor in

771
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Speaker 1: you that wants to start, you know, like it do

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Speaker 1: I want to be a mentor, And so I wondered,

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Speaker 1: how what was that? How difficult was that decision? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I think you hit it. I battled that a lot internally,

775
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Speaker 1: that role, and I have no problem obviously mentoring. I

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Speaker 1: love it. In fact, you know, being a m quarterback,

777
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Speaker 1: especially a high draft pick and expectations, and I enjoy

778
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Speaker 1: talking about a way not to do it, you know.

779
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: For me, how I struggled with those expectations and anxiety

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00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to get validation every single day.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I never allowed myself that process

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Speaker 1: to grow into that franchise quarterback. I felt like I

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00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: had to be that day one and put a ton

784
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Speaker 1: of pressure on myself to be that, and it just

785
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: mounted and mounted, and it was this this cycle that

786
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Speaker 1: was not productive at all. So I enjoy you know,

787
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Speaker 1: trying to help Obviously, yeah, the young quarterbacks not go

788
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Speaker 1: down that road, you know, and there's a better way

789
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Speaker 1: to do it. And but I do struggle with the

790
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Speaker 1: sense of doing it in a role where you're playing,

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Speaker 1: you know, and preparing and to be the starter and

792
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: to go out there and do that versus the back

793
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: seat that you really now you know, obviously it's a

794
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: lot of talk. It's a lot of talk less play,

795
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: and so UH struggled if I wanted to do that,

796
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Speaker 1: what that looked like. Um so, yeah, all all those things,

797
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: but Jacksonville definitely was the same thing was it was

798
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Speaker 1: something that was really interesting to me. Um coach Meyern

799
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Speaker 1: and I are still still close to this day. So

800
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: you know for a fact that I'll be close to

801
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: twenty years down the line and he's now in the

802
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: pros and and to think about potentially helping him build

803
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: that thing was exciting to me. But in the end,

804
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: you know, I think all those other things went out.

805
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: But if somebody offered you a starting job, if Washington said, hey,

806
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: would we be having this conversation, would it be a

807
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: different conversation. Yeah, oh maybe. I mean I think for me,

808
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see all the all the options out there.

809
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: I wanted to see everything that was on the table,

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Speaker 1: obviously including retirement, and then make the most informed decision

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Speaker 1: I could. I didn't want to rush anything. I wanted

812
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: to see everything that was out there. And yeah, so

813
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: I felt like I did that and then based off

814
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Speaker 1: all of those options, you know, yeah, I at this point,

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Speaker 1: I'm moving forward with retirement. You know, I don't think

816
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: you ever want to never say never, but yeah, I'm

817
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Speaker 1: I'm full steam ahead with that at this point. He's

818
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, former football player. You know, your one leg

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Speaker 1: got all the attention. It's your other leg that I'd

820
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: like to give some attention to today. Yeah all right,

821
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, like it's done a lot of work.

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Speaker 1: There never gets any coverage, angs never, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's uh, I still I stole some muscle

824
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Speaker 1: from it too, my right leg from from my left,

825
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: so my left, my left's been really you know, picking

826
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: up the slack and it's been shorthanded. So um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing what the human body can do. And I

828
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: remember when they were explaining to this the procedure to

829
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Speaker 1: me in the hospital, and I'm like, you're gonna take

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Speaker 1: You're gonna make my good leg. You're gonna make it weaker.

831
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Speaker 1: You know, you were going to take one of my

832
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: quad muscles. And I remember thinking at that point my

833
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: left leg was everything. I mean, the only way I

834
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: got around was jumping around on my left leg at all.

835
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Speaker 1: I mean it was And I kept thinking where we

836
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: were gonna make this weaker so that I can you know,

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00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: and this one it might not even work, you know,

838
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: is what they keep telling you. And so it's funny

839
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Speaker 1: now looking back they tell you that you're you know,

840
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: your your left leg will adapt and you'll be surprised

841
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: at how strong it will get. And um, they were right,

842
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: If any of those doctors were right, It's it's crazy

843
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:07,439
Speaker 1: how how the human body can adapt. And I feel

844
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Speaker 1: like my left legs probably stronger than it was but

845
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: before the injury and the operation where they took my muscle.

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Speaker 1: You remember the last time we had you in person

847
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: was in Minneapolis. I remember it well, and you got

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Speaker 1: traded five hours later. Yeah, when you came in to

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Speaker 1: do that interview, did you know you were going to

850
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Speaker 1: be traded? Absolutely? Without it done? Okay, it was one

851
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: of those things like that. You know, basically the trade

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Speaker 1: had been had been done, nothing had been signed or anything,

853
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Speaker 1: but they're, you know, still working out the details. Essentially,

854
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're you're signing an extension as well.

855
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Speaker 1: But yeah, that was all basically kind of in the

856
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Speaker 1: works and pretty much done at that point where I

857
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: was with you guys that day. What's it like though,

858
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: when you know and you're going to see Matt Ryan's

859
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: probably going to see this. You know, the veterans see this,

860
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:04,720
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is seeing this. When all of a sudden,

861
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,919
Speaker 1: you see the future and you go, we certainly could

862
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: have used that draft pick on somebody who could help

863
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: us this year. So when the Chiefs take Patrick Mahomes

864
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: what you know, you know, your days are numbered? Did

865
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Speaker 1: you feel your days were numbered? You know? I think

866
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: there were a couple of things. Yeah, I mean, well,

867
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Speaker 1: obviously they're taking it. We moved up to take Patrick early,

868
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Speaker 1: so I knew, you know, no question, obviously the future

869
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 1: was in him. I think for me, I was going

870
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Speaker 1: into my thirteenth year, and I could either let this

871
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Speaker 1: distract me from continuing to play good football, play winning football,

872
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: you know, and certainly there were a lot of you know,

873
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: media distractions to try to pit us against each other,

874
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: or you know, I could choose not to buy into

875
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Speaker 1: that and really not let it distract me from what

876
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to go do and continue down my road

877
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Speaker 1: towards trying to reach my potential and play the best

878
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: you know football I could play, which I felt like

879
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: I was still going down that road. So I think,

880
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: to everything I've been through is really meet determined to

881
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: not you know, essentially here not let this become another

882
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 1: distraction for me. Um and I, you know, I think

883
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: thankfully and proud of the fact that you know, we

884
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Speaker 1: everybody included that Patrick, you know, coach read the entire

885
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: organization shows not to not let that be what everybody

886
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: was trying to make it be. You know, that it

887
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,439
Speaker 1: could be done a different way that that we could

888
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: coexisted are we weren't pitted against each other, and so yeah,

889
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: and ended up having probably one of the best years

890
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Speaker 1: of my career, maybe the best in the face of that,

891
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: and essentially determined to tell myself that if I played

892
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: good football, I was I was going to have a job,

893
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, and or I could let this distract me

894
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: and not play good football and then it would become

895
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: this self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah, you made it tough on

896
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: all the Comeback Players of the Year that will follow you,

897
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: because probably not a lot of them. Well did you

898
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 1: nearly die? Did you only lose your leg? Well, Alex

899
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: Smith did, Like, uh, like what did you come back from?

900
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: You know, like you really made it tough. Um, you know,

901
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: I think that, uh it's hard. I mean football. The

902
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: crazy thing is, I think there's so much that goes

903
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: on that doesn't get seen. I mean, obviously this is

904
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Speaker 1: one of the most violent games on the planet. And

905
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: the carnage, you know, like the amount of guys that

906
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: are up for Comeback Player of the year, every single year,

907
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: and what they go through behind the scenes to get back,

908
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: the surgeries, the toll this game takes on the human body. Um,

909
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: there's so many guys that deserve recognition. Um. Certainly, obviously

910
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: what happened with me was unique, you know in the

911
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: sense of obviously the breaking my leg and then the

912
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: infection on top of it. So um, no, I mean

913
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Speaker 1: every all those I mean everybody. You know, there's so

914
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Speaker 1: many guys that deserve recognition for what they put in,

915
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: especially this time of you when no one's looking. Yeah,

916
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 1: but if they come back from meniscus tear or something

917
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: like that, like turf toe. Come on, Alex, I mean,

918
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Speaker 1: you know you made it tough. You made it tough

919
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Speaker 1: for all these other people. How do you look in shorts?

920
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: By the way, does your you know your legs? Thank you?

921
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Speaker 1: So it's funny. It's funny you asked, like, Yeah, it

922
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Speaker 1: took me a long time to be able to wear shorts,

923
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Speaker 1: you know, and show my leg. It was it was

924
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 1: a long time before I could even own that that

925
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Speaker 1: that that this was me, that I wanted that I

926
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Speaker 1: was proud of my leg. Do you have your shorts not?

927
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Speaker 1: It's not pretty? Dan do you have shot right now?

928
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Speaker 1: I have pants. I would show it off. Take your

929
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: pants off right now. Let me see what you look like,

930
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: Alex M No, it's it's not pretty, but I am

931
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Speaker 1: proud of it, you know, and what it's been through

932
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Speaker 1: and what it means to me. But yeah, it took

933
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Speaker 1: me a long time before I could I could show

934
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Speaker 1: it off and flaunt it, uh, you know, and that

935
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Speaker 1: that I could own it. Um, thank you. It's been

936
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Speaker 1: great watching you from from you know, the days in

937
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: Utah to where you are today. And uh, you know,

938
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Speaker 1: you get to spend time with your family, and I think,

939
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Speaker 1: although I want to know what it's like, you know,

940
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Speaker 1: because when I left ESPN, I went home and I

941
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: didn't have a job for six months, and you know,

942
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Speaker 1: I was going to spend time with the kids. And

943
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Speaker 1: I got home for about two weeks and I went,

944
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: oh my god, what am I doing here? So you

945
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: might have think you're right. I think you're right. I mean,

946
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: and I'm not planning. I don't. You can't do nothing,

947
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, I can't do nothing. So I got to

948
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: find something. But I think you know what it is.

949
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: Can I can I find a balance? You know? Good luck? Alex,

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00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Thank you, I appreciate it.