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Speaker 1: The volume What is going On Everybody three and Out

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Speaker 1: podcast with Me your Boy John Middlecoff about eight thirty

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Speaker 1: at night. Nagi Harris, my former neighbor here in the

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Speaker 1: East Bay in Northern California, just busted off a long

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Speaker 1: run as I texted a buddy in the NFL. This

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Speaker 1: guy was committed to the University of Alabama at like

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Speaker 1: sixteen years old in Antioch, California. That's where Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: You think, how good you gotta be to be committed

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Speaker 1: as like a junior sophomore in high school to Alabama

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Speaker 1: living in northern California at running back. Hint good, He's

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Speaker 1: sweet obviously. Roethlisberg is the big story tonight. The Browns

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Speaker 1: no playoffs. Audios had a cool little one year wonder. Uh.

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Speaker 1: A lot going on today, Belichick, f you season, Eagles,

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Speaker 1: Sirianni rosemand big year, the NFC playoff picture. Uh, some Raiders,

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Speaker 1: Chargers stuff. A lot of pressure this weekend on the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and the debacle that is the Jaguars season.

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Speaker 1: Dive in a little bit there, uh, Middlecoff mail bag

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Speaker 1: always do it at the end at John Middlecoff is

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Speaker 1: the Instagram we're gonna start, I think on Wednesday at least,

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Speaker 1: incorporating early on with PGA Tour golf season starting again.

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Speaker 1: I'mna started doing a golf podcast just on this feed.

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Speaker 1: So if you like golf, uh you know, probably hit

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Speaker 1: on some you know, relevant stories, some players, the tournament

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Speaker 1: that week, some gambling stuff. I'm a big gambler and golf. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I'm a golf lover. I'm a football golf business guy.

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Speaker 1: Have a huge trip this weekend planned in southern California. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. I'll probably talk about that next week.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to jinx it because you know, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to some pretty sweet courses that uh you know, I

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Speaker 1: got some friends, as Garth Brooks would say in low places,

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Speaker 1: have a few and high ones as well. And then

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna cap the weekend off by a little Niners

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Speaker 1: Rams And let me tell you that ticket going with

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Speaker 1: to see so Fi Stadium. If Kyle doesn't start Trey Lance,

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Speaker 1: I will not be happy, but I can playoff game

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Speaker 1: Rams Niners fired up so big week, I'm excited. Uh

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Speaker 1: trek down to Southern California, take in some golf and

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Speaker 1: then some football, but let's start with Monday night football

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Speaker 1: and listen. From a pure playing standpoint, all you ever

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Speaker 1: want in a high pick is to get a franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And obviously they come in nowadays in all shapes and sizes,

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Speaker 1: right from Kyler Murray to Justin Herbert. But I would

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Speaker 1: say for the most part, they tend to be bigger guys, right,

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Speaker 1: even Lamar Jackson Mahomes, they are much much bigger than

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray, Russell Wilson are somewhat outliers, but

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Speaker 1: big Ben is also an outlier. Where do you find

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Speaker 1: who in his younger days could run with a massive

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Speaker 1: arm and was just a winner? Like quarterback wins and

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Speaker 1: is reflective of how a quarterback, especially when he plays

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Speaker 1: and is the starter for a long time, how good

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Speaker 1: the guy is now. Roethlisberger benefited from going to one

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Speaker 1: of the most stable organizations in all of American business,

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Speaker 1: whether it's sports, whether it's retail, whether it's car, you

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Speaker 1: you name it. I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a

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Speaker 1: model franchise for this country. But when Roethlisberger went there,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, he helped take them to another level.

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Speaker 1: On Big Ben's watch. When he's been the starter since

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Speaker 1: two thousand four, he's a hundred and sixty three eighty

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Speaker 1: nine playoff games, but he's he's over five d in

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Speaker 1: especially a great player, is at the end of your career.

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Speaker 1: playing professional athletics most of us. Right, I just turned

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Speaker 1: thirty seven. Hopefully my prime isn't like twenty years. I'm

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Speaker 1: what I do for a long period of time. Anyone listening,

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Speaker 1: in any form of business that you're in, you should

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Speaker 1: get better with age. Where a lot of athletes, you know,

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Speaker 1: in Roethlisberger's day, you kind of peaked at like late twenties,

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Speaker 1: He played till thirty nine. Now, the last several years

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Speaker 1: And obviously the uh the Patriots owned him in his

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Speaker 1: be kind of smaller athletic guys. Roethlisberger was basically built

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Speaker 1: Think about him in the Ravens. I mean, that's one

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Speaker 1: for my generation, probably the most consistent rivalry of the

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Speaker 1: But you know, the Steelers are gonna need a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We know Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson are in a

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Speaker 1: I would say, in any walk of life to consistently win, right.

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Speaker 1: game is really really hard. Your opponents, even the shitty ones,

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Speaker 1: just his not I was in meetings with him, whether

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Speaker 1: it was draft meetings, whether it was free agent meetings,

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Speaker 1: whether it was just waiver wire meetings. This guy knew

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Speaker 1: the league as well as anyone obviously I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: And I always thought, like, God, this guy knows his ship,

429
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Speaker 1: and he's really smart, and he's really relentless, Like he

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Speaker 1: has a lot of qualities that are a big reason.

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Speaker 1: Now he's been the general manager post Chip Kelly of

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Speaker 1: the team that has been to the playoffs with multiple

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Speaker 1: head coaches. They just transition from Carson Wentz, a guy

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Speaker 1: that he went all in on to be the number

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Speaker 1: two overall pick, and they had a quarterback in the

436
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Speaker 1: hopper that I did not believe in. I thought would

437
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Speaker 1: have been a running back, and they just made the

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Speaker 1: playoffs with the guy. That's that's pretty nuts. Now, I

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Speaker 1: know their schedule has been pretty conducive over the last month.

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Speaker 1: They played the Jets, they played the Giants, they played

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Speaker 1: the football team. But they've won all the games. And

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Speaker 1: here's the one how he knows when he's building a team.

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Speaker 1: You know where they're really good the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: You know where football is typically one the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: They have a really good defensive line. Remember they lost

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Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, the heart and soul of their defense. Like

447
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Speaker 1: week one or week two towards Achille is gone for

448
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Speaker 1: the season. It was Week two because it was against

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Speaker 1: the forty niners, Bye bye. But they have drafted and

450
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Speaker 1: invested so much their defensive line, they had reinforcements, and

451
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Speaker 1: then offensive line. They have you know, one of the

452
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Speaker 1: best players in the history of the franchise, Kelsey's their

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Speaker 1: center Lane Johnson franchise right tackle. They draft a tackle

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Speaker 1: two years ago, Dillard in the first round from Washington State.

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Speaker 1: He just you know, turns out he's okay. But they

456
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Speaker 1: had signed this Australian who was this rugby player who's

457
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Speaker 1: basically become the Australian Trent Williams. And they draft landed

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Speaker 1: Dickerson in the second round, coming off in a C

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Speaker 1: l So when they lose Brandon Brooks, they have some injuries,

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Speaker 1: they get more reinforcements, and that to me has been

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Speaker 1: there on a difference. And then oh yeah, they've actually

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Speaker 1: and I know he took a lot of ship for

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Speaker 1: the Jalen Reagor pick, and obviously if they could do

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Speaker 1: a redo, they would have taken Justin Jefferson. It happens, right,

465
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Speaker 1: and sometimes if it happens at wide receiver, you can

466
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Speaker 1: overcome it. If it if it's to Woo and Herbert

467
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Speaker 1: not overcomable. So this year they draft Vante Smith. He's sweet.

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Speaker 1: They draft the running back from Miss Memphis, he's sweet.

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Speaker 1: They have Jalen Sanders from Penn State. He's sweet. Got

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Speaker 1: her he's really sweet. I mean, they just got dudes.

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of talent on their team. And

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Speaker 1: then I watched the forty niners. They have no corners. Well,

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Speaker 1: he has Darius Slay that he traded for for a

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Speaker 1: third round pick. This guy knows how to build a team. Now,

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Speaker 1: he's always gonna be polarizing. I think there's just a

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Speaker 1: nature of that when you aren't quote unquote and I

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Speaker 1: don't even know what this means anymore. A football guy, right,

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Speaker 1: But even though I've seen it firsthand, like I think

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Speaker 1: he's a football guy. Now, there are maybe guys that

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Speaker 1: are more football guy ish, like Mike Zimmer or I

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Speaker 1: don't even know, you know, John Gruden, you know, But

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Speaker 1: this guy understands football and understands value better than or

483
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Speaker 1: equally as well as anyone in the league. And that

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Speaker 1: is the job of a general manager. So I was like,

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Speaker 1: who can play? What can we pay this guy? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're overpaying the wrong position, or you're paying a

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Speaker 1: guy three million dollars too much per year and you're

488
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Speaker 1: bidding against nobody, you're wasting vital salary cap space, and

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Speaker 1: everyone's gonna make decisions. But he understands, his relationships with

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Speaker 1: agents are excellent, and now he's in position where they

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Speaker 1: play Dallas. We'll see. I saw McCarthy said he's gonna

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Speaker 1: play as starters even if they go nine and eight.

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Speaker 1: I think most of us, including myself, thought the Eagles

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Speaker 1: were gonna win like four games, and now somehow they

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Speaker 1: got into the playoffs before Sean Payton and Kyle shanaham so,

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Speaker 1: and he hired Nick Sirianni, And let's forge not forget

497
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Speaker 1: about Nick Sirianni. The front officers credit on that, and

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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni deserves credit because after that opening press commerce,

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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni was easy to make fun of. Any time

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Speaker 1: that you blunder a press conference, people are gonna, you know,

501
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Speaker 1: make fun of you. And the reality of the people

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Speaker 1: that are making fun of you, you know, anyone, the

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Speaker 1: overwhelming majority percentage of people would struggle public speaking, would

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Speaker 1: struggle in that position because most public speakers get better

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Speaker 1: as they public speak. Most sales guys are elite sales

506
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Speaker 1: guys their second sale of their career, they're way better

507
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Speaker 1: ten years into it. Well, if you've watched Nick Sirianni

508
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Speaker 1: this year, and I have, I watched a lot of

509
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Speaker 1: Eagles press conference, he's gotten a lot more comfortable. But

510
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Speaker 1: you know what doesn't necessarily matter if you're winning games.

511
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Speaker 1: No one really gives a ship how your press conferences go.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is attacking Joe Judges press conferences him proclaiming that

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Speaker 1: all these guys want to come play for him, These

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Speaker 1: players that are gonna be free agents on his own

515
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Speaker 1: team are bagon You know why he has to do

516
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Speaker 1: desperate stuff like that because his team's getting their tea

517
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Speaker 1: kicked in every week. Sirianni has just been comfortable in

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Speaker 1: his own skin. He basically changed the scheme mid year.

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Speaker 1: He built it much more around Jalen's legs as the

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Speaker 1: season went on, because Jalen is not the best thrower

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Speaker 1: of the football, but he also won a game with

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Speaker 1: his backup quarterback, who's a better thrower of the football.

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Speaker 1: How he also deserves credit on that they have two quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: two starting NFL quarterbacks. Gardner Minshew would start on eight

525
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Speaker 1: to ten teams in the NFL right now, right now.

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Speaker 1: And obviously Jalen is, you know, pretty dynamic runner and

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Speaker 1: he can throw it well enough that you can win with.

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Speaker 1: So Sirianni and his young coaching staff have figured out

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Speaker 1: a way to just win a ton of games. And Yank,

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Speaker 1: he's taken advantage of the football team and the Giants. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Giants were kind of a sexy pick to be decent.

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Speaker 1: They've kicked their ass. And the football team was a

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Speaker 1: team that a lot of people picked to be a

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Speaker 1: wild card. Well, Eagles just swept him, beat him twice

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Speaker 1: in the last three weeks. So I don't I I

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Speaker 1: think it's a very very impressive year from Howe from

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Speaker 1: Sirianni from the Eagles players um to do something that

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Speaker 1: most people did not think they were capable of doing.

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Speaker 1: And then when you look at the NFC, obviously Dallas

540
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Speaker 1: had a really bad loss. You guys know, I you know,

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Speaker 1: I talked some ship about the Arizona Cardinals, and I

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Speaker 1: thought Dallas was gonna win this game. And it was

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Speaker 1: clear early on, uh that Dallas was just playing poorly.

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Speaker 1: Arizona got up and then Arizona made enough plays at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game with Kyler running it to

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Speaker 1: not give the ball back and they won the game

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Speaker 1: two uh. But I also think it put it into

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Speaker 1: context and a lot of people DM me last week,

549
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: like middle Coff, you're putting the Cowboys on a pedestal.

550
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: It's football, right. Every week you can change your opinion

551
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: a little bit. One day you can buy a stock.

552
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Speaker 1: Two days later it can tank. You're like, I don't

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Speaker 1: like this stock anymore. No different. One day you can

554
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Speaker 1: buy a stock and it can double in value in

555
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Speaker 1: a month, and you're like, I love this stock. You

556
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Speaker 1: should be able to change your opinions. I can only

557
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Speaker 1: go off what I watch. When you watch the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: even if they played the football team and the pass

559
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Speaker 1: rush and the players. You go, this team has a

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Speaker 1: lot of talent. Now do I trust Mike McCarthy, I

561
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Speaker 1: do not. Is dak Press Scott the most trustworthy quarterback

562
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Speaker 1: of all the top guys? Clearly not. But when you

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Speaker 1: look at the NFC and when you're stacking them, there's

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Speaker 1: no debate. They're the number one seed back to back years.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is gonna win the m v P, I

566
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Speaker 1: think pretty easily. But you can never underestimate the media,

567
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: who knows who they're gonna vote for. But he's gonna

568
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Speaker 1: win back to back, or he should. And their team

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Speaker 1: it's going through Lambeau again. They to me, are I

570
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Speaker 1: picked him last year. I'm gonna pick him again this year.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be wrong. I don't know. I don't have

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Speaker 1: a crystal ball. These are just educated Guess. If I knew,

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Speaker 1: i'd bet a hundred thousand dollars on them to win,

574
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Speaker 1: you know, But I don't. Nobody does. But there to

575
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Speaker 1: me the number one team by far, and then Tampa.

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Speaker 1: I'm just putting him at two and we'll see how

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Speaker 1: it all shakes out this week obviously because of Brady,

578
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Speaker 1: but their team is off. What happened with Antonio Brown?

579
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Speaker 1: God when is injured? What's up with Leonard Fournette. The

580
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Speaker 1: defense is not as good as it was last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean even their head coach is injured. He's got

582
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Speaker 1: an achilles injury. The only reason you're confident in them

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Speaker 1: is because of Tom Brady, and as we saw against

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Speaker 1: the Jets, he does he can pull miracles out of

585
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Speaker 1: his ass. I mean, he really can't. How the Tampa

586
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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers won that game. I know everyone's like, I

587
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Speaker 1: knew they were gonna win. I didn't. I'm watching it

588
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Speaker 1: thinking they're going to lose this game. Now, the Jets

589
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: helped him out a little bit, but still for Tim

590
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Speaker 1: to drive him down the field, hit that pass towards

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Speaker 1: the end of the game, and then one of the

592
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Speaker 1: dudes that picked him off goes up to him for

593
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Speaker 1: a to get his get the ball signed. It's alread

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Speaker 1: to even blame that kid when you're that shitty. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can do that if it's like

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Speaker 1: Saints Tampa. But if you're on the Jets, a team

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Speaker 1: that's drafting the top five, I think you're allowed to

598
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Speaker 1: do that. But when you look at the rest of

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Speaker 1: the NFC like the Rams. I saw a stat today

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Speaker 1: in Albert Brewers Monday Morning, quarterback Matt Stafford is thrown

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Speaker 1: four pick six is this season. Jared Gott had four

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Speaker 1: pick sixes in his career under Sean McVeigh. Matt Stafford

603
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Speaker 1: there was a stretch yesterday when he threw a second pick.

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Speaker 1: He had gone fifty one passes and throwing five interceptions.

605
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Speaker 1: And I saw Bill Barnwell tweeted out like his season

606
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Speaker 1: in the second half, it was a ton of picks,

607
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: it was poor completion percentage, it was not that many touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He had four fumbles over that stretch. This guy is

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Speaker 1: a turnover machine. It's everyone has a bad game. You're

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Speaker 1: allowed to have a couple interception game. Peyton Mannings had him,

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Speaker 1: Dan Marinos had him. I'm sure Montana had him, right

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Speaker 1: Y A. Tittle probably had some. Terry Bradshaw, Kenny the

613
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Speaker 1: Snake Stabler. But it's just week after week and some

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Speaker 1: people like hit me on Twitter, They're like, he's still

615
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Speaker 1: winning these games to me like they want twenty to nineteen.

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Speaker 1: And I know I heard Coward today acting at like

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Speaker 1: talking about his fourth quarter performance. You're able to do

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Speaker 1: that against a Ravens team that has a million injuries.

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Speaker 1: They do that in the first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They're playing the Niners that held the Eagles the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: like you will. You can't throw two picks in a

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Speaker 1: playoff game and expect to win. That's not possible. This

623
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Speaker 1: is the level and the margin for air is so

624
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Speaker 1: much smaller, so it's hard. I love Sean McVeigh. All

625
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh has done since he's shown up in Los

626
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: Angeles is kick ass and take names. And somehow every

627
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Speaker 1: coach gets older, fatter, gray hair. Sean looks fantastic. He

628
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Speaker 1: does not look that much different now than he did

629
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Speaker 1: five years ago when he took off the job. And

630
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Speaker 1: we see how much being a head coach, being a CEO,

631
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Speaker 1: being the president can weather you. Yet he looks great.

632
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: It might just be l a. He's got a beautiful fiance,

633
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Speaker 1: big house that overlooks the hills. But still Matt Stafford

634
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Speaker 1: has to stress him out because Matt staff he throw

635
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Speaker 1: a pick six yesterday that the dude walked into the

636
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: end zone like that. That's this guy's making thirty five

637
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: million dollars. Hell, I was pounding the table. I thought

638
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: I was telling that I wanted the Niners go trade

639
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: for him. When the Rams did, I applauded it. He

640
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: makes me really really nervous. But then I go the

641
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Cardinals. Like, the Cardinals still to me

642
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: look a little off. You know, obviously they're a different

643
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: team without Hopkins. I do not trust their coach. I mean,

644
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: he's never coaching a big game, and I just you

645
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: can make all the excuses you want, but that's just

646
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: a fact. He's the playoffs like that would be by

647
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: far the biggest game he's ever been associated as the

648
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: head coach slash play caller and his quarterback. Uh, you know,

649
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: it just doesn't quite look right. He's he ran it

650
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: much better yesterday. But to me, when I watched him play,

651
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: I got do I trust this guy in a huge game.

652
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: But I say the same thing about Stafford, I'll say

653
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: the same thing about dak So I don't even know

654
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: Beside the Packers to me are the clear one. The

655
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 1: Bucks I'd put right behind him because they got Tom.

656
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: Those other three teams, I don't even know what to

657
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: make of him, Like, I don't think it's inconceivable. Did

658
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: the Eagles give someone a game. I think it's gonna

659
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: be harder for the Saints because I have a hard

660
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: time closing my eyes and seeing Tastom Hill doing it.

661
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: But if the Saints were to draw the Bucks, I'd go,

662
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they have a chance the Forts. I mean,

663
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: they might be starting a rookie quarterback and like his

664
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: fourth start. Hard for me to close my eyes and

665
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: envision them winning a playoff game. But if they can

666
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: run the ball of Boastago's nuts, you never know, you know.

667
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: I think that first round of the playoffs in the NFC,

668
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: you can see a wild card team or two upset

669
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: some of these games, especially because the Rams or Cardinals,

670
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: whoever wins that division in closed environment, weather plays no factor.

671
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay be like seventy degrees Dallas Dome. It's just

672
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: none of these are weather games. That's a difference. In

673
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: the a f C Cincinnati weather game, Kansas City weather game,

674
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: right uh, Buffalo weather game, New England weather game, whoever

675
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: wins that division. That's not the case in the NFC.

676
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a much more sunshine and rainbows.

677
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: And then the Sunday night game. And if you've listened,

678
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: I had some people DM me. They're like, you know,

679
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: I I agree with what you said about Brandon Staley

680
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: because I was hard on brand Staley because the media

681
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: puts him on a pedestal. They treat him like his resume,

682
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: like he's accomplished a lot. He was one year as

683
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, and as we see, like everyone who

684
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: coaches for the Rams wins as as an assistant coach,

685
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: So I don't give him that much credit. And as

686
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: an assistant coach. Text me today about Brandon Staley, it's like, yeah,

687
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: he's had a good pass rush. He's coached Khalil Mack,

688
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: Vaughan Miller, and Aaron Donald. You know now Joey Bosa

689
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: like yeah, I mean me and you might be able

690
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: to do that. I actually think of all the decent

691
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: teams and good teams, no team in the NFL has

692
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: underachieved more than the Chargers. That they are even in

693
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: this game against the Raiders to win and get in

694
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: is mind boggling. The Raiders just had another d u

695
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: I today, Nate Hobbs now his his agent denied it,

696
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: but the Vegas police found the kid four o'clock in

697
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: the morning, passed out on the honor ramp Vegas taken

698
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: down dudes left and right. If Mayox stays the GM

699
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: or if they bring in a new GM. The number

700
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: one thing I would say, as a lover of Las Vegas,

701
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: and there's actually someone who can go there. I'm not

702
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: the biggest drinker. I'm definitely not a late night guy.

703
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: You know. I was asleep at New Year's at ten thirty,

704
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: like I I actually I do like to drink, but

705
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: I like drink during the day. I'm not a guy

706
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: that's gonna be out at three or four in the morning.

707
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: I get too tired. I like waking up early. But

708
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: the thing the Vegas Raiders need to do, you have

709
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: to put an extra premium on the character stuff because

710
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: they're just it's it could be if you have money. Hell,

711
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: even if you don't have money, you can do whatever

712
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: you want whenever you want. Unlike basically probably every place

713
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: in the country except like Miami and even in New York.

714
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: Guys don't live in New York City. Dudes live where

715
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: they practices on the outskirts. So the Raiders planned the

716
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: Chargers to get in the playoffs, like the Raiders shouldn't

717
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: even be here. The amount the Raiders have had to

718
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: overachieve this season. Their coach got fired email scandal. Their

719
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: star wide receiver, you know it's gonna go to jail

720
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: for twenty years for killing an innocent person three in

721
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: the morning. Their other first round pick got cut because

722
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: he had seventeen guns threatening to kill someone. They just

723
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: had another d hy, They got an interim coach. I mean,

724
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: they got injuries left and right. Darren Waller hasn't been

725
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: seen in two months, and somehow they're nine and seven.

726
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfros catches, Derek Carr made the play of his

727
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 1: career yesterday. And the Chargers, whose quarterback is a star

728
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: and their head coach, has absolutely nothing to do with

729
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. We saw Justin Herbert last year. Anthony Lynn

730
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: kicked ass. We saw Justin Herbert in college with Arroyal,

731
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: the coach at un l V who has won like

732
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: one games, who's been in college, do well. This guy

733
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: has overcome poor coaching. Brandon Staley, who is the defensive coordinator,

734
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Herbert. Well Herbert this year.

735
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: Only Tom Brady, who has forty touchdowns, Matt Stafford, who

736
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: has thirty eight touchdowns. He's tied for third, with Rogers

737
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: and Mahomes at thirty five passing touchdowns. That's the company

738
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: he's in. Brady uh Stafford, Rogers, Mahomes all won their division.

739
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: Yet Herbert is playing a game against the Raiders just

740
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs because his head coaches defense

741
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,720
Speaker 1: has been so abysmal. Like I said, they have easily

742
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: every single person I talked to in the NFL defensive assistance,

743
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: offensive assistance, general managers, my scouting buddies, you won't meet

744
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: one person who doesn't think Herbert is a star, because

745
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: if you have eyes and you watch him, you go God.

746
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: I want this guy on my team. But his coach

747
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: and their defense is a pretty big joke and is

748
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 1: the reason that they don't have ten or leven wins.

749
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: This game should not matter. That the Charger should not

750
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: be in this position, but they are, and to me,

751
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: it's squarely on the head coach, and all the pressure

752
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: in this game is on the Chargers. The Raiders have

753
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: no business being here. If the Raiders upset the Chargers,

754
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: and I don't think they necessarily will, even though I'm

755
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: tempted to sprinkle a little money, They're already three point underdog.

756
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how we could ever look at Brandon

757
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: Salley the same and he'd be like, well, it's his

758
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: first year coaching, first year coaching, he inherited Justin Herbert,

759
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: That's that's who he had herod It look at as

760
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: La Flour got a first year, got Rayon Rodgers Boom

761
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: thirteen games, so you can't make the playoffs. It was

762
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: seven teams the Raiders beat you in a winner get

763
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: in game that have a team that's missing several guys

764
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: their head coach. That that would be pretty nuts, and

765
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: it's it's conceivable. You know, now Herbert might just be

766
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: enough to overcome who knows, but the pressure on not

767
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: just the brand Staley playing Rich Mascochia, who was the

768
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: special team's coach three months ago and now he's done

769
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 1: a pretty valiant job as the interim coach. It's really

770
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: remarkable the Raiders. Hat tipped to them, hat tipped to

771
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: Derek Carr because most franchises will get into a joke.

772
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: Franchise usually crumble. Let's talk about Trevor Lawrence and I've

773
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: talked about ball Ky before I can, Like I said,

774
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: the only interactions I've had with him, Uh, he's never

775
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: really been a dick or mean to me. And I

776
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: know most people that you know talk about the NFL,

777
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: or scout in the NFL, coach in the NFL, they've

778
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: had interactions like that with them. I have not, but

779
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: clearly people are out to get the guy and the

780
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: coaching searches. People act like he's toxic. They don't want them.

781
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: But their franchise right now is all going to surround

782
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: and depend on the quarterback. They just drafted him number

783
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: one overall. I had friends that did the sec They

784
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: all said, this is the best prospect I've ever done.

785
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: It was universal. He was the best prospect since Andrew Luck.

786
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: He was one of the best prospects of the last

787
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: couple of decades. When you get a guy like that,

788
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: he should at least show some signs. Even if you're bad.

789
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: Peyton Mannings first year they went three and thirteen. You're

790
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: allowed to be bad with a good rookie quarterback. That's

791
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: that happens. But they haven't been bad. They've been abysible.

792
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: I understand. The Patriots are a good team. They beat

793
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: him fifty to ten. This is the National Football League.

794
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: This isn't Alabama playing. We were State fifty to ten.

795
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: He leads the league and interceptions. His completion percentage in

796
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: league that is very past friendly. Where I'd say six,

797
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: I'd say like is the new He's fifty eight point nine,

798
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: So he's inaccurate, he's turnover prone. He's having a disastrous

799
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: season no matter what they do. If I'm the owner,

800
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: and clearly their owner doesn't know what he's doing, he's

801
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: owned this team now for a decade. They have been

802
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: consistently shitty. Think how bad you have to be? Like

803
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: a lot of times if you have the number one

804
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: overall pick, more likely you're gonna be bad the next year.

805
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: But a lot of times you go like the number one.

806
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: Look at the Bengals last year they have the number

807
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: one pick, or two years ago they get Joe Burrow.

808
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: Then the next year Joe Burrow gets hurt in the

809
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: middle of the season and they end up with the

810
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: fifth pick. The Jacks are gonna have the number one pick,

811
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: you know, Trevor Lawrence and they're gonna have the number

812
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: one pick again. That's one of the biggest indictments that

813
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: what a laughing stock your organization is. And the Trent

814
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: Balky situation, the elephant in the room who's to say

815
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: that Trent Balky knows what he's doing to build around

816
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Even though I've always defended him, what he

817
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: did early on with the forty tenure was better than

818
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: it's remembered. He drafted you Pati, he drafted Navarro Bowman,

819
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: he drafted Kaepernick, He drafted Davis the right tackle who

820
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: ended up retiring quitting. He picks some good players, also

821
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: picks up Alton Smith, who before he you know, couldn't

822
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: put down the sauce. Has seventeen sacks the second year. Uh,

823
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: but you know it's a situation where they have a

824
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: quarterback that every team in the league that doesn't have

825
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback would die for and they might ruin him. Well,

826
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: we've seen this in sports before. When you go to

827
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: a team like mac Jones, is mac Jones is talented?

828
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: Is Trevor Lawrence or is talented? And when I say

829
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: when I say talented, obviously reading defenses and being smart,

830
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 1: that talent is he has physically gifted as those guys,

831
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: no chance, But did he go to one of the

832
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: greatest football situations in the history of America? Anytime Bill

833
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,280
Speaker 1: Belichick is your head coach, Yes, a place at Stable,

834
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: a place with core guys that know how to win.

835
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence went to the polar opposite. He went to

836
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: a place they only know how to lose. Everywhere you go,

837
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: you just smells like losing. It looks like losing. You

838
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: just you just lose. That's all you do, That's all

839
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: you know how to do. And then this year when

840
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,879
Speaker 1: you tried to get out of it with urban Meyer,

841
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: it got worse, it got more toxic. Whoever they hire

842
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: as their coach, Trevor Lawrence in his NFL career is

843
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: gonna have three head coaches in like three months. Right.

844
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: He went from urban Meyer, who was fired a month ago,

845
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: then he went to Bevil as the interim coach, and

846
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: then whoever they hire be his third head coach like

847
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: he was used to having. Did they ever lose a

848
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: staff member when he was at Clemson? Obviously his head

849
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: coach and his coordinators never moved. I'm not sure they

850
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: ever lost a staff member. All he was used to

851
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: in college with stability, and now he goes to the Jags,

852
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: this all time great prospect, you know in basketball, like

853
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: when Lebron went to the Calves, equally as big of

854
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: a joke. One player could overcome it. It doesn't matter

855
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: who the coaches, it doesn't matter the owner is. If

856
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: you are great enough at basketball, you can overcome it.

857
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: You cannot in football. And we have We don't know

858
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: because we never got to see them become guys, but

859
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: we've definitely had guys that if they would have gone

860
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: to the right situation, could have had success. But instead

861
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: they've gone to the wrong situation and they never did

862
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: and they just get kind of throttled out of the league.

863
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: I think Alex Smith is a good example, and Trevor

864
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: Lawrence is more physically gifted big time than Alex Smith.

865
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: But forever he was on the Niners team, those first

866
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: four or five years single Terry Nolan, it was like

867
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: the Jacks. And then hardball came and everything changed and

868
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: his career changed, and then he ended up getting Andy

869
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: Reid and he became a solid NFL quarterback. You know,

870
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: I hope that's not the case with Trevor Lawrence, But

871
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how. You wouldn't bet against the Jacksonville

872
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: Jaguars screwing it all up, because all they do is

873
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: screw everything up, the coaching, the players. It's It's sad.

874
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: It really, it's hard to be that bad, but somehow

875
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: Shot Khan has pulled it off. Okay, let's do a

876
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: little middlecoff mail bag. I just saw a story actually

877
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: before I'm recording this, record this part a little before

878
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: Monday night game. Caleb Williams, the star star quarterback for

879
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: Oklahoma who replaced Spencer Rattler, who was just a massive,

880
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: massive recruit, five star guy, put his name into the

881
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: transfer portal, but says he's still thinking about coming staying

882
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, UM, which is pretty good. Nuts. You know,

883
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't blame him because he went there for Lincoln

884
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: Riley and so when Lincoln leaves, you know what's he

885
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: supposed to do? But like Oklahoma because I texted a

886
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: buddy who's basically a general manager for a power five

887
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: program and they're probably, you know, not a top like

888
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: five program, but a good program. Got some good wins.

889
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: Uh bet on him in the ball game. They let

890
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: me down. But this guy, I I asked him, what

891
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: does he think, like, do you think he's just a

892
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: lot to go to USC? And his Uh, basically what

893
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: he said was, I think he'll just go to the

894
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: highest bidder and it's gonna be very very if he

895
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: goes to USC. To me, nothing nefarious, nothing shady. I

896
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: don't blame him at all. USC probably paid him, a

897
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: lot of money, goes to Lincoln Riley. But I'd imagine

898
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: Georgia will start sniffing around. Last time I checked, Jordan,

899
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: they need a quarterback. You don't think Kirby Smart can

900
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: rally up some cash, get that kid about, get him

901
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: to Georgia and be like, hey, you want to win

902
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: the next year. I also think Oklahoma can go, Hey, buddy,

903
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,919
Speaker 1: look at how much sweet firepower we have here. Now

904
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: it's an unknown head coach Levy, the new offensive coordinators

905
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: coming from Ole Miss, who's supposed to be a really

906
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: good coach who just helped Matt Corrall be really good.

907
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be interesting. College football just kind of wild,

908
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: ties man. But but it's hard for me to blame

909
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: the guy for leaving love. Listen to Pod asked, I'm

910
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: listen to your episode right now about Utah, Ohiose State,

911
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: and you're talking about how bad our dbs are. While

912
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: our starting DBS was like our second or third string

913
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: running back still got roasted by their receivers. But thought

914
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: you'd like to know I knew that guy was a

915
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: starting running back or it wasn't running back that they

916
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: moved dB. Clearly they had injuries. I understand that they're

917
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: missing some guys. My point was to give Utah credit,

918
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: like most of Kyle's teams over the last fifteen years

919
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: have NFL defenders, and you know whether it's injuries. I

920
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: don't follow him that closely day to day, but obviously

921
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: they were missing guys. They had to put a running

922
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: back at dB against Ohio State. But like I said,

923
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm a Utah fan, big Utah fan,

924
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: fly Eagles fly from most media outlets say, and we

925
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: would have three or four wins, the clinching a playoff

926
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 1: berth last night. He won't get it because of how

927
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: the media was toward him, But as Nick Sirianni Coach

928
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: of the Year, if Rabel gets the one seed, Mike

929
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: Vrabel has to get it. Because Mike Vrabel won eleven

930
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: games last year, he would win twelve games this year

931
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: when he went nine and seven. Three years ago he

932
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: won multiple playoff games. But seriality deserves votes. He's had

933
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: a hell of a season. Um yeah, I mean, it's

934
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: he's been awesome, Happy New Year fan of the show.

935
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: Refreshing alternative to the outrage factories are everyone's so mad.

936
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: It's like, it's like, no, you're not really that mad.

937
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: I don't think you really care. You know, what's crazy

938
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: is And part of the reason I think maybe I

939
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: sound different is because I'm like anyone. I'm a consumer

940
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: of sports television historically, right. I consume newspapers forever. I

941
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: haven't read a newspaper sports section minimum five years. But

942
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: growing up and even in the two thousands, probably the

943
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: early two thousand, tents I read sports sections, watched ESPN.

944
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: You couldn't pay me to watch any of that stuff.

945
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: I just think it's also fake. I don't think any

946
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: of these people believe what they're saying. I mean, and

947
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: most people I know don't like it either. And you're

948
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: talking to someone who literally dedicated his life to work

949
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: in this profession, who thinks about it, who talks about it,

950
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: And I just think of them are just so fake,

951
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what they're being told. I've never worked

952
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: at a major network, obviously, I have zero desire to

953
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: ever do that. Now I think some of them are fucked.

954
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, It's just I don't get the I can't

955
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: pretend to be outrage if I'm not outrage. If I'm

956
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: getting worked up, I'm really worked up, but I never

957
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: get worked up like I can't pretend to get worked

958
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: up about Joe Judge. I just really don't care, even

959
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,479
Speaker 1: though I thought his press conference was a little weird,

960
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: but I like it. Just don't care. You know, sometimes

961
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: it's okay to be like, yeah, I don't care, but

962
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: obviously you couldn't do that if you're on television blown

963
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: away by Stroud and Smith. Number I just call him

964
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: number eleven as a scout. How do you see them

965
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: as NFL prospects? Well, Number eleven was outstanding, you know

966
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: you you could have been my mom to notice that

967
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: one and again, like, the first thing I'm usually go

968
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: to is a negative on a guy, because when you

969
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: watch a top twenty prospect or top ten prospect, you

970
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: gotta look for what can't he do? Because you can

971
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: see all the things he can do. Number eleven's ball

972
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: skills were incredible. He can get open, he could high

973
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: point the ball, he can make plays with the ball

974
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: in his hands. He's he wasn't running away from guys.

975
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: He got caught a couple of times, so he's not

976
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: the biggest guy in his top end speed is an elite.

977
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 1: But in terms of route running, in terms of getting open,

978
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: in terms of playmaking. Now I think Utah fans would

979
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: say it was going against our you know, second and

980
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: third string defensive backs, but he was the best player

981
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: on the field by a mile. Stroud is. It's just

982
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: a pure pocket passer. It's a beautiful thing to watch.

983
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: His accuracy, his poise. He's so composed. He's just a star.

984
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: He's he's legit. Now, you know Mac Jones to I

985
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: think this guy is more talented than those two guys,

986
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: but he is playing on an all star team. So

987
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: it's always the balance of this guy throws a beautiful ball.

988
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: His accuracy is outrageous. I mean's accuracy of some of

989
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: these balls on the go routes, even on deep crossing routes,

990
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: hitting guys in stride. So it's it was eye opening.

991
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: But the NFL is a lot more difficult than that.

992
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 1: So that's I think he'll be him and Bryce Um,

993
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: you know, top top five picks next year. I think

994
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear after watching this weekend that will Anderson

995
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: would be the number one pick in this year's draft

996
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: because there's no quarterbacks. Will Anderson is better in Hutchinson.

997
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: Will Anderson is better in Cavon. Will Anderson is Michael Parsons,

998
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: but maybe even a little better. He is a He

999
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: might be one of the best players Nick Saban has

1000
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: ever had, but he's not draft eligible. So next year

1001
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: Will Anderson will go pro and listen. I I'm cool,

1002
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: Like I said on Monday's pot if you want to

1003
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: opt out, opt out. If you want to stay, stay,

1004
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: and I said, I think Will Anderson's You know, if

1005
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: they win the national championship, Will Anderson will be an

1006
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: All American multiple times, who'll have won multiple national championships.

1007
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: There's literally nothing else for him to prove. The only

1008
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: thing he could do is get injured. Now you can

1009
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,239
Speaker 1: always work on your craft. Iron sharpens iron. The reason

1010
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: you get better at Alabama or Ohio State or Clemson

1011
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: because you're playing against the best. I think it was

1012
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: the one argument on the dude that went to Jackson State.

1013
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: Though the bigger picture of Jackson State is Dion ain't

1014
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: gonna be at Jackson State in a year or two.

1015
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna leave and and Hunter will go with him.

1016
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: But it's hard to improve, like it's easy to improve

1017
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL because you're going up against other pros

1018
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: depending on your school. I remember when I got to

1019
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: Fresno State and we had Ryan Matthews. No one could

1020
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: tackle the guy in practice. I mean it was I

1021
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: remember coming from cal Poly, like, holy sh it, this

1022
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: Division one football. Now. Granted, Ryan was one of the

1023
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: best players in the country, but it's like if he

1024
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, he ended up getting drafted, you know, top fifteen.

1025
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: But ultimately, like point is, he's just when you're when

1026
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: you're at usc and there, Hey Dad, you're at Alabama,

1027
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: You're at Georgie, it is just so much easier to

1028
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: get better. And you know, Will Anderson, like I don't

1029
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: know what he does. I wouldn't blame him for not playing.

1030
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: But the the reason Jamaar Chase and Sewing, all those

1031
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: guys and Parsons didn't play is because of COVID. If

1032
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 1: that hadn't happened, they would have played. And if Michael

1033
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: Parsons would have played his junior year and look like

1034
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: well Anderson, Michael Parsons ain't going where to go twelve eleven.

1035
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 1: He went twelve. Yeah, because the fields one eleven. Davante

1036
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: Smith went to he went and he went twelve, and

1037
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: he's probably going who knows three. I guess the quarterbacks

1038
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: went three. Pitts he I mean, how would the Falcons

1039
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: take Pits over him? A pass rusher? That guy? Maybe

1040
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: he goes four overall. I don't think it's out of

1041
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility that and I don't have the

1042
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: right answer for this, but like, the NFL has some

1043
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 1: sort of thing like if you're Will Anderson or even

1044
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 1: c J's round, if I'm going to be a first

1045
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: round pick, every general manager fills out a survey that

1046
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: this guy's a first round pick, this guy's the first

1047
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: round pick. I'm allowed to go pro. It's like a

1048
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 1: waiver because a couple of people said, well, why don't

1049
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: they just opt out? Well, what if the guy doesn't

1050
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: want to opt out? Ideally he'd like to go pro,

1051
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 1: but it's not available. Instead, he wants to play football

1052
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: because he's good at football. Keep you know, kicking ass

1053
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: and taking names, like you want to do things you're

1054
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: good at. When you're good at something, it's fun to

1055
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: do that, whether it's personal or professional, like it's not

1056
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: because it's easy, but because we like having success at

1057
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,919
Speaker 1: what we do. It's human nature. I think a guy

1058
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: like Willie Anderson should be able to go pro because

1059
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: he'd be the number one pick in the draft. And

1060
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: I'm not for like most sophomores in college should not

1061
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: go pro. But will Anderson is a fucking exception. He is.

1062
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: Holy Molly, did you watch that guy? Now? Most people,

1063
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: if you're listening this in the South, you've watched them

1064
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: as a guy is I've watched a lot of Alabama,

1065
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: But I mean you're really watching him these last couple games.

1066
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: It looks like Lawrence Taylor. I mean, Nick, where does

1067
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: he find these guys? I'll tell you Georgia. I looked

1068
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: him up during the game as I was drinking my

1069
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: sorrows away because I bet on Cincinnati like an idiot.

1070
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: But imagine that University of Georgia couldn't even keep will

1071
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: Anderson from Georgia. As a Viking supporter, wondering what you

1072
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: think the team needs to do to take the next step,

1073
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: we managed to lose the Lions and get taken into

1074
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: overtime by the Panthers. You beat teams like the Packers

1075
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: and the Ravens. Also, if you ever make it out

1076
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: here to Australia, because come and play some golf, drink

1077
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: some beers. I would love to. I went to New

1078
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: Zealand when I was younger with my dad. I was

1079
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: like thirteen. It was really fun, but you know I

1080
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: was thirteen, so I was you just we fished and

1081
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: ate ice cream. Remember the place? Uh? They had the

1082
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: first ever bungee. Bungee jumping was invented in New Zealand

1083
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: on this bridge. And I told my dad maybe I

1084
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: was twelve and you had to be thirteen to do it.

1085
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: And I told my dad, if he rented a car,

1086
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: we had to drive two hours, I would jump. I

1087
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: would do the jump. He's like okay, So he rents

1088
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: a car. We drive to the bridge. I walk over there.

1089
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: I see these dudes riding bikes off it doing backflips.

1090
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm buckling up. I tell the guy I lied, I'm

1091
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: only twelve years old, and they didn't let me jump.

1092
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: It was it was the smartest thing I've ever done

1093
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: because I wasn't gonna jump off that bridge. My commute

1094
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: to works easier to Cintinos. As a Pats fan, Howard,

1095
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: when should I know if Mac is the guy? What

1096
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: does Bill Belichick need to see to know if Mac

1097
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,839
Speaker 1: is the guy of the future. You're You're way ahead

1098
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: of yourself. You have a rookie quarterback who led you

1099
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I think he just lived year to

1100
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: year right now, Try to, you know, add some wide

1101
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: receiver talent this offseason. Improve the offensive skill guys. I

1102
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: guess you could have good running backs, you got a

1103
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: couple of tight ends. You need some better wide receivers,

1104
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: and Mac could just be a better player. He's already proven,

1105
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,919
Speaker 1: Like he's fine. If you have a top fifteen quarter

1106
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: act and you have Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels as

1107
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,160
Speaker 1: you're head coach and offensive coordinator, you're gonna go to

1108
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, you just are. So I think

1109
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: to worry about if he's gonna get a Mahomes contract

1110
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: or like be the guy for ten years, I would

1111
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: just enjoy it. It sounds cheesy and cliche, and I'm

1112
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 1: gonna try. I'm not a big New Year's resolution guy,

1113
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: but I have been very cognizant of like you hear

1114
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: this a lot from successful people are just people that

1115
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: are happy in like about being present, coaches harp on

1116
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: this and I'm terrible at this, but I think I

1117
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: sports fans, especially if your team solid, was just present

1118
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: and it's hard because people like me were like talking

1119
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: about big picture. It's fun, but just be present and

1120
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: just enjoy having Mac Jones having a great rookie season

1121
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: helping you guys be a big time franchise again. I

1122
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: think it would make it a little more enjoyable than

1123
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: worrying about like, he's not Josh Allen or Mahomes. We're

1124
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: probably even Herbert Well, He's definitely not Herbert or Burrow.

1125
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: But there's nothing wrong with that, right, I mean, you

1126
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: can be he can even if he's like Alex Smith

1127
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: of his generation. He's got Belichick. As long as he

1128
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: got Belichick, you're gonna win. I'm from New Hampshire native

1129
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: born race. Also the same question if you're if you

1130
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: haven't seen Granite State, I don't mind being a tour

1131
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: guide seeing at golf beautiful lakes, five dollar lobsters in

1132
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: the summer ship. Mike, that sounds great. I've actually never

1133
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: been never been to Boston. I've never been to the

1134
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: like upper Northeast seaboard. Farthest I've ever been, I think

1135
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: is New York. I went to the city a couple

1136
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: of times when I lived in Philly in d C

1137
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: a lot, so I kind of stayed in that area

1138
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: that New York, Philly, d C, Hoboken. I went to

1139
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: Hoboken once for St. Patty's Day. My buddy actually he

1140
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: now works for the Chiefs. I went with him and

1141
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: some of his buddies. It was bad a hass now

1142
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: we were He's probably a year or two younger than me.

1143
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: We're probably you know. It was pretty sweet Hoboken St.

1144
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: Patty's Day. Highly recommend if any of the you young

1145
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: cats need a place to go then a couple of

1146
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: years over St. Patty's Day, it was fun. Remember puking

1147
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: when I got home the next day. I actually I

1148
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: got lost in Hoboken and my phone died. It was

1149
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: a bad deal. I ended up sleeping in this random

1150
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: guy's penthouse apartment because he kind of I I lost

1151
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: my buddy. Uh. I ended up making it into like

1152
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: the concierge kind of area. But the guy at the

1153
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: concierge guy was gone, super nice building right by the water.

1154
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: You could see New York City. I started sleeping on

1155
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: the bench this guy with his girlfriend came home. They

1156
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: woke me up because they were wasted to and invited

1157
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 1: me up to their sweet pad. I slept on his couch.

1158
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: I actually took off or even got up, but you know,

1159
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: simple times. I guess there was internet back then too.

1160
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,919
Speaker 1: I mean, this has been like two eleven. My phone

1161
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: legitimately died in an area where I didn't know a

1162
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: soul mail back question. Does this week's matchup between the

1163
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Jags have any importance in McDaniel's potentially

1164
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: leaving to be the next head coach of the Jacks. Well,

1165
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: obviously they beat him fifty to ten. I just I

1166
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: can't see Josh McDaniels working for working for Trent Balky, Like,

1167
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: I don't even think that's an option. He would not

1168
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: work for Trent Balky. So, unless I don't know what

1169
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: the Jacks are gonna do, I think Trent Balky is

1170
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: clearly a detriment two to their coaching search, and we'll

1171
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: see how that plays out, but it's it's definitely something

1172
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. I love the perspective on

1173
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: the NFL. In life, what do you think about uh

1174
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: Lynch liking that Jimmy tweet happy Holidays, my man, and

1175
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: appreciate the grinding content. Well, you know, I think you

1176
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,919
Speaker 1: can accidentally like something on Twitter pretty easily. I don't

1177
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: think that is that outrageous. If anyone of you has

1178
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: a Twitter account and someone like John Lynch, I can't

1179
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: even imagine what they're mentions and when I when you

1180
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: hear the word mentions, it's basically when someone just links

1181
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,919
Speaker 1: you in a tweet. So a guy like John Lynch,

1182
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: who's the general manager of one of the biggest brands

1183
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: in the league, there's a chance he gets fifty mentions

1184
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: on a on a game weekend, so maybe he's scrolling

1185
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: through accidentally likes it. I also think, listen, you know

1186
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: we've I wouldn't say I don't know him very well

1187
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: at all. If I text him, he will text me back. Uh,

1188
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: he's a hike. People I know that know him love him.

1189
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't think even everyone was thinking that. When Jimmy

1190
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: had the game. We all thought I I tweeted I

1191
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: would leave Jimmy in Nashville, and John had to think

1192
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: that too. He if they lose his weekend, Jimmy Garoppolo

1193
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: ruined their playoff chances in that game, They should have

1194
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: won that game by ten points sitting through two picks,

1195
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: they lost it by three. Like that game is the

1196
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 1: reason they're not officially in the playoffs right now. If

1197
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: they had beat the Tennessee Titans, the Eagles in the

1198
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: forty niners would be playoff bound. It would be over game,

1199
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: set match. But you know, you could argue, I think

1200
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: Belichick would tell you, what is the point if you're

1201
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: a head coach, if you're a m why why would

1202
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: you have a Twitter account? Now? John worked in the

1203
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: media and he's a social guy. At the end of

1204
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: the day, they draft Trey Lance. They gave up three

1205
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: first round picks. Who really gives a funk with Jimmy?

1206
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: Thinks at this point, like Jimmy has been paid five

1207
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: million dollars, Like Jimmy got paid for everything. He got

1208
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: every penny, whether he was playing or he was injured.

1209
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: So overall, I don't think that much of it. I

1210
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: actually thought it was kind of funny mail back question.

1211
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 1: If the Raiders went out, will they make the playoffs? Yes?

1212
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: Obviously this was before this weekend. They them in the

1213
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: Chargers for all the marbles. All of the pressure is

1214
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: on Brandon Staley and Herbert. But Herbert's already played a

1215
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: really Herbert's had a fantastic season. Herbert has played a

1216
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: season where they should have twelve wins, yet his coach

1217
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,520
Speaker 1: and the defense has let them down. I cannot put

1218
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: a season where he's thrown as many touchdowns as Aaron

1219
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes. I I just can't. I have

1220
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: to blame the coach Dan in Pittsburgh joint instant, just

1221
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: to ask you a question. The babes have distracted me.

1222
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: But here I am. It can be in a distracting place.

1223
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: You can go down rabbit holes of people that would

1224
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: get you in trouble with your significant under very fast.

1225
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here locally hearing about how Tomlin should go

1226
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: too much of a player's coach. What does he really do?

1227
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: His message has gone stale, etcetera, etcetera. I know nashally

1228
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: is held in great regard. I personally am a fan,

1229
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: great winning percentage, never losing season. Players want to play

1230
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: for him, love his Tomlin is ms at the podium

1231
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: wondering your take on if he ever realized he has

1232
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,480
Speaker 1: no coaching tree. Always hear about the Walsh parcels homebrew

1233
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 1: Belichick coaching trees. Coward's guys got plucked away regularly. We've

1234
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: not had a coordinator sought after that I can think of.

1235
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: Lebou doesn't count. He was a legend before Tomlin was born.

1236
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. I just wondering your take on what

1237
01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,479
Speaker 1: it means for Tomlin. I'm recording this part before Monday

1238
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: Night Football. But let's face it doesn't really matter. I

1239
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 1: think Mike Tomlin's pretty good. Okay, let's say, let's say

1240
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: you fire Mike Tomlin. Who are you gonna hire? Do

1241
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: you know what happened to Mike Tomlin? I think three

1242
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: or four teams would be lined up to hire Mike Tomlin.

1243
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: I think Joe Judge would get fired so fast for

1244
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, your head would spend. If Mike Tomlin was

1245
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: relieved of his duties, I think the New York Giants

1246
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: would immediately hire him. I guess the Bears would probably

1247
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: be very interested as well. I don't think he'd go

1248
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: to the Vikings, though he's coached there before. I just

1249
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: don't know how you upgrade. Now. You could argue that's

1250
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: the wrong mindset to have. You can't always think like that,

1251
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: But that's how I'd think in this scenario, like they've

1252
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: been pretty competitive the last couple of years with no

1253
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: quarterback in old ask Ben what's she's supposed to do.

1254
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of the Arizona Cardinals. What do you

1255
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: think they need to do to get to the next level?

1256
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: I think if they would have said healthy this year,

1257
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: they would have been a mother right. I mean J J. Watt,

1258
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 1: he was playing awesome. Now he gets hurt a lot,

1259
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: so you can't really be that shocked. Hopkins he also

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Speaker 1: gets hurt a lot. But they just need Kyler to

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Speaker 1: be more consistent as a pastor. If you can be

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Speaker 1: consistent as a passer, they're pretty deadly because they do

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Speaker 1: have a ton of skill. Guys, I gotta get a

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Speaker 1: lot of questions here. Not a Browns fan, but can

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Speaker 1: you let Coward know that his Baker criticism is tired

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Speaker 1: and that available quarterback talent is and will be thin.

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Speaker 1: I can't see them moving on from him unless they

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Speaker 1: want to unload talent for somebody. Yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: just they're just gonna play out the spring the string.

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Speaker 1: He'll be the quarterback next year and they'll just take

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Speaker 1: it year by year. Like I said, be present with

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Speaker 1: your team there, they don't have many options. They will

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Speaker 1: sniff around the options that are available and if an

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, if Russell Wilson becomes available to them, they

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Speaker 1: would kick Russell Baker the curb. Of course, Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be in on that as well. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna get any of those guys,

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Speaker 1: so I think Baker Mayfield will be back, but it

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Speaker 1: I think every Browns fan will admit, even if he's healthy,

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Speaker 1: you don't look at him quite the same. You just don't.

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Speaker 1: So if if if you don't, as a fan, what

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Speaker 1: do you think the head coach and the GM do

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Speaker 1: that did not draft him. I know you don't touch

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Speaker 1: on college football that much, but curious to get your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the college football semi boll schedule. Wouldn't it

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Speaker 1: make sense to schedule these games New Year's Day and

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Speaker 1: not New Year's Eve? Seems like ratings would be higher

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Speaker 1: having everyone hungover and watching at home during New Year's

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Speaker 1: Day compared to twelve thirty a New Year's Eve game time.

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Speaker 1: You know you'd have to ask a TV executive because

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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl has always owned New Year's Day. So

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Speaker 1: when there's a rotation, like when the Rose Bowl and

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Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl get the playoff games. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: they play those games on New Year's Day. I think

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Speaker 1: it just matters on the rotation of the bowl games.

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Speaker 1: Could be wrong. I need to get Jay Boy up

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Speaker 1: on this little detective work, but I'm pretty sure if

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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl hosts one of the semifinal games, the

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Speaker 1: Rose bowls played on New Year's Day with the Sugar

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Speaker 1: Bowl or with the uh, the Peach Bowl, whatever, the

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Speaker 1: main Bowl. I guess it's the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl. Uh. I'm getting my bowls and there's

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Speaker 1: so many bowls going on there. There's a ball game

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday with l s U. It's hard to keep

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Speaker 1: up with these bowl games. But the Rose Bowl. I

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Speaker 1: love the Rose Bowl. I really do. I've been listening

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Speaker 1: to you guys for years, keeping the good work. I

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Speaker 1: know you're a sucker for the money and management side

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Speaker 1: of football, and with the offseason looming for several teams,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to know with which organization you would have

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Speaker 1: the most fun trying to rebuild if you were hired

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Speaker 1: on as a GM. Mike Gut says you picked the

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Speaker 1: Raiders given your history of friends le State Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: in previous broadcasting experience with the team, thanks wishing you

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Speaker 1: happy holiday season. I yeah, I mean I'm a West

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Speaker 1: Coast guy. So the Raiders Vegas. I love Vegas. I

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Speaker 1: gave you. I've always said this about Mark Davis. He's

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Speaker 1: not a meddler. When he hired Gruden, he let John

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Speaker 1: Gruden do whatever. When he hired Jack del Rio, he

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Speaker 1: let Jack del Rio do whatever. So if he hires you,

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Speaker 1: you get to just do whatever you want. Now it

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Speaker 1: would just you know, Derek, Derek's the top twelve quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Is he ever gonna be a top five quarterback? He

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Speaker 1: was pretty good when they had Rugs and Waller early

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Speaker 1: in the season. Now, I think the most intriguing if

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Speaker 1: you're like a true, true kind of football junkie nut,

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Speaker 1: if Shot Kun would hire you to be the GM,

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Speaker 1: let you hire a coach and not and leave you alone,

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Speaker 1: it would be interesting. Now the Jacks brand. I would

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Speaker 1: never want to be the GM of the Jacks. That

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Speaker 1: sounds shitty. If you're the GM of the Raiders, conference

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Speaker 1: or the division, just feels more important. You play the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs now, the Charges with Herbert. I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: the Bears would be intriguing. I really like Justin Fields

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Speaker 1: coming out watching him, but it's the Chicago Bears. I

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Speaker 1: would say the Bears are the Raiders. But I'm a

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Speaker 1: sucker for big brands. You I like a I like

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Speaker 1: a big city. I like to matter, and in Vegas, obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you're the GM of the Bears, you really matter.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders, you'd have to prove your worth, you'd have

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Speaker 1: to get people interested. But it's a it's a show

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Speaker 1: me down, and when you're doing big things in Vegas,

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Speaker 1: people will care. So it'd be Vegas or the Bears

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Speaker 1: for sure. Appreciate everyone hitting me up. Uh, have a

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Speaker 1: good week. How else the volume