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

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Speaker 1: appreciate everyone listening. Recording this a little later than I

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Speaker 1: typically do on a Thursday, because we have this little

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Speaker 1: thing called schedule release. We know who everyone's playing, and

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Speaker 1: I realized I got a lot of respect now for

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Speaker 1: like the national guys that kind of have to talk

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Speaker 1: about everyone, and let's face it, a lot of them

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Speaker 1: will just talk about like the Patriots and the and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But there's a lot going on with the

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Speaker 1: schedule release, there's a lot of I didn't I haven't

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Speaker 1: done the math, but sixteen times whatever, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of games. I mean a lot of games, a lot

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Speaker 1: going on. I'll try to give a big overview of

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Speaker 1: just several things that jumped out to me. There is

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Speaker 1: one specific game that stood out to me like a

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Speaker 1: sore thumb that is just like Wow, this this is

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Speaker 1: a a transcendent, potentially moment for the NFL to kind

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Speaker 1: of put a stake in the back of the NBA

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Speaker 1: playing on Christmas Day. Will dive deep into that. Earl Thomas,

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Speaker 1: you know, has just has a crazy story. Brett Farve Fraud.

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Speaker 1: I'll dive into those two stories that were just like,

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Speaker 1: what the hell is going on? Then, of course, the

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

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Speaker 1: The direct messages are wide open. You slide up in

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Speaker 1: there and ask any question you want over the weekend

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Speaker 1: in the next several days, I'm not gonna go team

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Speaker 1: by team here, so you've got specific questions feel free

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Speaker 1: how do you think the schedule? And then I can

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Speaker 1: answer it. It's just it's too difficult to go team

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Speaker 1: by team, right, it just take too long. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: what's the point of that exercise. Let's start with opening

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Speaker 1: weekend and just the opening game. In general, I think

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Speaker 1: the NFL did a good job. They have the chief

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Speaker 1: so when you have homes you can't lose. But giving

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Speaker 1: them the Texans, it's like, to me, that's solid. You

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Speaker 1: do two things. One you get a pretty polarizing team.

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Speaker 1: I think most football fans laugh and make fun of

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Speaker 1: Billy O'Brien. Some of it justified. I think some of

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Speaker 1: it is a little extreme. He's treated like Freddy Kitchens

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Speaker 1: when he goes to the playoffs every year. He's not

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Speaker 1: the loser that he's portrayed on Twitter. You know, every

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Speaker 1: guy with a Twitter account thinks Bill O'Brien is the

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Speaker 1: village idiot. Now is he a good GM? No? But

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Speaker 1: does he win? Yes? You give me Watson, you give

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Speaker 1: me my homes solid, you know, Thursday night game. And

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Speaker 1: then I think the overall theme is a lot of

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Speaker 1: tweet tweeted out that eight teams have five prime time games.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot and that doesn't include the Saints. Now

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Speaker 1: is it a little inflated? Yes, because a lot of

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Speaker 1: the Sunday night games, as we've seen the last several years.

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Speaker 1: Like I think it's the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's after week nine or ten. They can flex, right,

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Speaker 1: Like the one thing when you're on Monday night or

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Speaker 1: you're playing that game logistically. You just can't move it.

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Speaker 1: The Sunday I think, is all I gotta do is

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Speaker 1: it doesn't change the thing. So if you have the

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Speaker 1: Sunday night games, definitely week ten to week seventeen. There's

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Speaker 1: And I think the Raiders getting to a Monday night

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Speaker 1: the last seventeen years. Now. There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: But I know one team might still take pretty seriously.

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Speaker 1: miss a specific game. And you're playing the Packers against

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Speaker 1: but gets my draft. So the eight teams, five prime

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Speaker 1: even being Tom Brady pliability. If you're a twenty three

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Speaker 1: the you know, the last two decades. They deserved it.

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Speaker 1: not me, Tom, and I think Aaron too, you do

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Speaker 1: of pigeonholed as the assholes. The other league gets pigeonholed.

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Speaker 1: they're countless people on on ESPN that said I do

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Speaker 1: not like football, Well then why are you here? Football

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of football stories going on. Because the

425
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Speaker 1: football despite having to kind of you know, work around

426
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 1: the pandemic while their season wasn't going on, they still

427
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,360
Speaker 1: had to you know, shut down buildings, do everything. They

428
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 1: just kept adapting. And the the NBA can't figure it out.

429
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: They cannot adapt. And their quote unquote the most progressive

430
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: league yet, the NFL that if you just watch the

431
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 1: media's takes over the last decade, losers Goodell's incompetent, just greedy.

432
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 1: The irony is the NBA was in bed with China

433
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: in the moment it got a little weird. They refused

434
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,920
Speaker 1: to say anything bad about him. It's like every business

435
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: is quote unquote greedy. Greed is what pays the bills,

436
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: you know. I mean that there's not a more overused

437
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 1: word in pro sports than greed. Their expenses in all

438
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: these pro leagues are insanely high. No workforce in world

439
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 1: history costs as much as professional sports, right, the amount

440
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: of money you pay players, So you have to be greedy.

441
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: It literally pays for things. Think about like the teams

442
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,199
Speaker 1: in baseball that aren't quote unquote greedy and don't do

443
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: everything possible to make money but just make money for themselves,

444
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: like the Oakland A's. I take all that moronic, it's

445
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: just poor business. Luckily, Billy Bean is a dynamic general

446
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: manager and talent evaluator. The he can keep them above

447
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, their head above water and actually win while

448
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,360
Speaker 1: their owner just pockets all the profits. But the NFL,

449
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: I just think SE's opportunity and this could be a moment.

450
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to overreact and say it's gonna change forever,

451
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 1: but who knows. I mean, once upon a time when

452
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: I was growing up, you wanted to get a movie,

453
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: you had to go to Blockbuster. Then all of a sudden,

454
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 1: Blockbuster was dead and you got your DVDs delivered to you.

455
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: And then several years later, I downloaded an app, press

456
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: a button and watched the number one movie in America

457
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: on my flight home. So the NBA owned Christmas for

458
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: thirty four years of my life. When I thought Christmas

459
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: and sports, I thought National Basketball Association. Who's to say

460
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: my unborn child will will think that. Who knows, maybe

461
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: in fifteen years. I'm playing on having a kid anytime soon,

462
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: but you never know, and Uh, all of a sudden,

463
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: he's like the NFL is Christmas. That's just how just

464
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 1: aiety has never changed fast as fast as it does now.

465
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: And like Phil Knight says, business, these big especially big business,

466
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: they are so aggressive and they will do anything to

467
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: get them an extra percentage point. Because once you get

468
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: to that level, like if if you're you know, doing

469
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 1: six figures in revenue or whatever, every percentage isn't that huge.

470
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: It gets bigger. Like if you go from five hundred

471
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to a million dollars than a million to

472
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: two million, But once you get to like a hundred million,

473
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: there's a big difference between a hundred and a hundred

474
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars or a billion and two billion. You know,

475
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: it's money is all relevant relative, right, And I think

476
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: they see kind of a sinking ship, you know Lebron's career. Well,

477
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: he's actually still going strong. He looks fantastic. But I

478
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: do think humans are somewhat numb to Lebron. I mean,

479
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 1: we've heard his name for so long. He just we

480
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,360
Speaker 1: know everything about him. We know all those kids. There's

481
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: nothing to learn, Like there was a lot of mystery

482
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: with Michael jo. I'm watching this, I'm about die hard.

483
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan Fan. I don't know that much about him.

484
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: I think Tiger Woods is kind of like that. Like,

485
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,639
Speaker 1: I don't know that much about Tiger Woods. I mean,

486
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: I've learned it as years ago, but I know everything,

487
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: and to know about Lebron, you know it all he's

488
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 1: told me at all, So all of shows, I don't.

489
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: I do I know that much about Tom Brady or

490
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: even Peyton Manning. Not really Like the NFL does a

491
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: pretty good job of balancing this kind of mysterious act.

492
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: I've said it all the time. I'm not there. They

493
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: have a built in advantage with society that when you

494
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: get the amount of games that baseball and basketball have,

495
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: we don't need to pay attention is much and we

496
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: have more options to entertain us. We're football. It's just

497
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: once a week. So whoever your team is, we all

498
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 1: if you're just used to Sunday just kind of chilling.

499
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: It's built in and now with fantasy football, with gambling,

500
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: can keep you engaged even if you don't care about

501
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the teams. But don't be shocked in ten years if

502
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: when when I say Christmas Day and associated with sports,

503
00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: you think football not basketball. Okay, I'm gonna dive into

504
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: a couple of stories that I'll be completely honest, mid pandemic,

505
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: you never know exactly what you're gonna get. But I

506
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: didn't expect either one of these two. And it reminds

507
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: me of this when I was my freshman. I graduated

508
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: high school in two thousand three, so in the fall

509
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: of two thousand three, I was in college and I'm

510
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: pretty sure I am sure. I don't know if it

511
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: was the first season. It might have been of the

512
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: show playmakers remember on ESPN that had dudes just doing

513
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: everything under the sun. It was crazy. It was NFL,

514
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: but it was based on like from Free Basing, drugs,

515
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: the sex too. Just it was awesome. I mean it

516
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: was everything I like in a television show, had sports,

517
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: had violence, had drugs, had nudity. It was great. I mean,

518
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: it's it's what moves the needle for a young consumer.

519
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: But the NFL, because they were in partnership with ESPN,

520
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: like Goodell wouldn't even have been the commissioner then, I

521
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: guess it would have been Tagliaboo caused a huge stink

522
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: because it portrayed the NFL in a bad light, right

523
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: because it was pretty nuts. Though several years later, now

524
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: they're not a partner, but HBO with the rock and

525
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: UH and his show is kind of the same thing.

526
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 1: But I you could argue playmakers probably just as bad,

527
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: if not worse. The reality is, over the last fifteen years,

528
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: we've literally experienced everything and over the twenty year plus

529
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: period of the NFL for murder, UH two, suicide, to

530
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: domestic violence, to drugs, to drug trafficking, to fraud, UH

531
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: to cheating. There's literally not a story that a movie

532
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: has been made about that the NFL in some weird

533
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: way hasn't been interconnected. Or it could just say, yeah,

534
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: we we had a coach, a coach do blow, we

535
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: had a player go get drugs, we had a player

536
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: shoot someone else, we had a player you know, do

537
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: this and that. It's it's all happened everything under the

538
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: sun in the last twenty years. There's probably not an

539
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: incident that you can't find. And I'm not I'm not

540
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, the majority, the heavy majority,

541
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: most guys in the NFL are really really high level.

542
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: The percentage of these guys doing crazy stuff is small

543
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: that are definitely getting in trouble. Now, there might be

544
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: a percentage that aren't getting in trouble that are pushing

545
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: the envelope. But welcome to society. Well, I got two

546
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: stories for you. I'm gonna start with Earl Thomas. Earl

547
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: Thomas got into an argument with his wife earlier this month,

548
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: I guess it was actually in April, and left with

549
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: his brother Seth. His wife who actually was his high

550
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: school sweetheart. You snapchat and was somehow I don't even

551
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: know how this works. Now, I've always been actually a

552
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: believer in Snapchat. My younger brother when he sends me

553
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: pictures like of his newborn baby, of him, you know,

554
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: playing golf, of whatever he's doing, he sends him via Snapchat.

555
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: And all of his friends utilized Snapchat. And I never

556
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger to buy the stock. But I'm telling you,

557
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: Snapchat the youth, they love it. Clearly Thomas and his

558
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: wife do too, because she was able to like hack

559
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: into a Snapchat find out where he was. And when

560
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: she got there, Earl Thomas was having an orgy with

561
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: his brother and several women. And he also owns a

562
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: nine millimeter which she had had in her hands. Now

563
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: she was gonna try to scare him, so she took

564
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: out the clip but clearly doesn't have much experience with

565
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: a gun, knowing there's also one in the chamber and

566
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: they're they're all naked. It sure sounds like I'm sure

567
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks, if not sooner, the

568
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: video will come out on t MZ and it'll look

569
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: like a scene in Playmakers. And she puts the gun

570
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: to his head. Now, I don't think he knew whether

571
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: it was loaded or not. I would guess he just

572
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: assumed it was. I mean, your first reaction we see

573
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: someone pointing a gun at You've never had a gun

574
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: pointed at me, at least a you know, an actual gun.

575
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I've had paintball guns and BB guns point

576
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: at You always assume it's loaded. That's why you always

577
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: turn Uh. Now, he I guess fought it off again

578
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: having an orgy with his brother. Imagine a lot of

579
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: commotion when she comes storming in with a couple of

580
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: her friends. Again, you can't make this up, even though

581
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: Playmakers kind of did over the years. And uh, he's

582
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: lucky didn't die. So, I mean, for as funny as

583
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: the story is, there was a bullet in there. If

584
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: she pulled it, it would have been one of the

585
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: great NFL tragedies like it would have been. I can't

586
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: even imagine what that. You know, you guy as a

587
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,719
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player has head blown off by his wife. Uh, now,

588
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: you could argue, shouldn't be cheating on your wife. That's

589
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: their own issues. I just know the heard enough stories,

590
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: the young, the elites, the rich. They don't live like

591
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: you and I so like I make when I say

592
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: the word orgy, it's kind of funny, but like I

593
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: think it's probably normal vernacular for some people. NFL Hollywood.

594
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: They we we don't relate us us peons a normal society,

595
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: but we do. Like you piss off a wife or

596
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: your husband or whatever, like you never know, now you

597
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: put a gun. You know. I'm not a lawyer. I'm

598
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: pretty sure even if Earl doesn't press charges, it's out

599
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: of his hands like a tempted murder, right, or at

600
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: least I don't know the exact term. But she's gonna

601
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: get in trouble. I think it'll be hard for her

602
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: to avoid jail time. But what a crazy story Only

603
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL could you have? You know, a borderline

604
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: future Hall of Fame player having an orgy with his

605
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: brother having his wife storm into the house he's at

606
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: some other house or hotel or wherever, and with her

607
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: friends kick the door open, find them all naked, point

608
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: a gun at him, have an altercation where he fights

609
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: off the weapon, and then the police come and arrest heurant.

610
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I if I made that up about

611
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: a player, you would be like, middle cooff, are you

612
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: on drugs? Put down the tequila and this this really happens.

613
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: It's just it's we can laugh at it because no

614
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: one got injured. But it's just like when you're kind

615
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: of reading it, your jaws hitting the floor. When I'm

616
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: reading this TMZ article, I'm like this, this ship is nuts.

617
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: This is this is crazy. I mean, this is you

618
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: can't make this up. The Brett Farve story. We've seen

619
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: this song and dance before. A lot of rich people

620
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: have defrauded other people. Uh. The story is that Brett

621
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: Farve in Mississippi has this thing called Farve Enterprises, which

622
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: I would imagine a lot of you know, former athletes,

623
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: famous people in Hollywood whatever that use their individual quote

624
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: unquote likeness as their money making you know, uh vehicle

625
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: just far of enterprises, Lebron Enterprises, Curry whatever, right, Tom

626
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: TV twelve, it's all you know, it's all the same ship,

627
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: just different pile. But here's what Brett Farve, here's the

628
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: problem with Brett Farve did. And I gotta I got

629
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: a big red flag on this Brett Farve. I guess

630
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: give speeches and to get Brett Farve to speak, it's

631
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: clearly not cheap because he got paid for two separate speeches,

632
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: won five hundred thousand dollars and one six thousand dollars. Now,

633
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: I've read some articles which I'm sure many of you

634
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: have stumbled upon, like I don't think you quite understand,

635
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: and I definitely didn't until you read an article like damn,

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Speaker 1: they paid that guy to speak? They pay him? How

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Speaker 1: much they pay? Who? I get like paying a former president.

638
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: But you see some of these stories about former athletes

639
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: that get paid just paid appearances. You can rack up

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Speaker 1: some cash. Brett Farve in his hometown, Mississippi or his

641
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Speaker 1: home state in Mississippi. I don't know if it's actually

642
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Speaker 1: Hattiesburger wherever he grew up, but charge this, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: Mississippi some sort of entity multiple times and got paid

644
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Speaker 1: one point one million dollars. Well, here's a kicker. He

645
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: didn't actually give a speech either, time got free money. Now,

646
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: I've seen enough true crime shows. I've known enough people

647
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: that have done some shady stuff, or at least family friends,

648
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: not actually my friends. We haven't made enough money yet.

649
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: But this is either two things. Either Brett is full

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Speaker 1: on defrauding these people and he was actively doing this,

651
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Speaker 1: or he had an employee go rogue, which also I

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00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: could see be very possible. Do I envision Brett Farve

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00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: the books at far of enterprises? No? I do not.

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00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: Do I envision Brett Farve uh scheduling the speaking engagements

655
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Speaker 1: at five enterprises, No I do not. Would it probably

656
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: be a pretty easy place to go rogue, just like

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Speaker 1: a lot of famous athletes, charities. We we've seen these

658
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: stories over the years where it's easy for a family member,

659
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Speaker 1: a trusted associate to take advantage of the situation. But

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Speaker 1: here's where I kind of wonder, because Brett Farve immediately

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Speaker 1: immediately like to me, if we were defrauding someone and

662
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Speaker 1: I was not involved, I would go, WHOA pump the

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Speaker 1: brakes here. I would say, let's just stop everything. I

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Speaker 1: would not move any money, I would not pay anyone back.

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Speaker 1: I would just start asking questions. Well, five Enterprise immediately

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00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: paid five thousand dollars of the one point one million

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00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: dollars back to me. That's the classic, like nothing to

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00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: see here, just giving the money back. So I would

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Speaker 1: lean again educated guests that Far of Mine had known something.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm a big Brett Farve guy. He's one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite athletes of all time. I got to meet

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00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: him months once when I worked in Philly. He was

673
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: up seeing Marty and Andy. I was I've met some

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Speaker 1: famous people over my life. I don't remember kind of

675
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: my heart beating, kind of getting shell shocked. Now I

676
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: wasn't my mid twenties or whatever, but it was still

677
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: it was still pretty cool getting to meet Brett Farr

678
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: walking right by him in the hallway. So I hope

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00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: this isn't true, and I hope that he had an

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00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: employee that went rogue. But any time that you immediately

681
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: pay someone back after you get caught and just go, oh,

682
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: nothing nothing to see here, we're just paying back. My

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00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: bad are bad. We'll figure this out. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean that he might have known a little something,

685
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: because clearly Far of Enterprises was defrauding people and you

686
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Speaker 1: just now do I think Brett Farve's gonna go to

687
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Speaker 1: jail or anything? Of course not uh, no chance. Definitely

688
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: not missed it either, but it shows you. You know,

689
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Speaker 1: what's the famous saying that don't don't meet your heroes.

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00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: This would be sad if Farv was really behind this

691
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: for just a little point one million dollar kicker to

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Speaker 1: do nothing. Okay, let's dive into the Middlecoff mail bag.

693
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: But before we dive in, I gotta remind everybody. If

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Speaker 1: you guys like the show, go to the Apple iTunes

695
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: three and out podcast and leave a review. You can

696
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: leave a review on the Apple iTunes podcast. I don't

697
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have trying to get to

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Speaker 1: four figures. I think last time I checked, it was

699
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Speaker 1: like reviews, like to get to a thousand and then

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Speaker 1: then we'll shoot for more. But appreciate everyone that's been

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Speaker 1: doing that and keep doing that at John Middlecoff is

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00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: my Instagram handle, same as my Twitter handle. That's my

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Speaker 1: name full name. Actually my full name is John David Middlecoff,

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00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: but my Twitter and my Instagram go by John Middlecoff.

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Speaker 1: Two f's unlike this, uh in the when you work

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and you like win a division, or

707
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Speaker 1: you win the NFC or a f C. You get

708
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: like a ball. You know, it says like NFC East Champs,

709
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: and then it says your name and it's like the

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Speaker 1: score of the game that you won the division the

711
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: game on they spelled my name wrong. But you know,

712
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: builds care after. Uh but I got that. I got

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00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: that in my in my office right now. Agile mental

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00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: coop Instagram. Hit me with your questions. I'm gonna need

715
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Speaker 1: a bunch because I don't think I have that many left. Hey, John,

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00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: I listen to a ton of sports talk radio and

717
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: I've been putting you on my rotation lately. Keep getting better.

718
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: You haven't peaked yet. Appreciate it. Here's my question, what

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Speaker 1: is the long term future for the Big Twelve? Sub questions?

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Speaker 1: Can Texas survive as an independent like Notre Dame. What's

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: your opinion of the Longhorn Network? Can the remaining Big

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00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: Twelve survived without Texas and Oklahoma. I'll start at the

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Speaker 1: end and work backwards. The first answer to be, no, Texas,

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma carry it. I don't watch the Longhorn Network. I

725
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: think Texas should stay in the Big Twelve, you have

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00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: built in rivalries right there. It works. Texas playing Oklahoma

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00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: State playing obviously Oklahoma, it's one of the best games

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00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: of the year. Texas Tech feels like a big game, Uh,

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00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: Iowa State, there's no reason to leave. I think the

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00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: problem with the Big Twelve right now is they have

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Speaker 1: one legit powerhouse in Oklahoma, and even Oklahoma is somewhat

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Speaker 1: flawed because you have to build this spread defense to

733
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Speaker 1: play all the spread offenses. And then, as we've seen

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Speaker 1: the last several years, when they get into the playoffs,

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00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: it's hard for them to hang with Georgia, Clemson, Bama, whatever,

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Speaker 1: And they have unreal offenses. And I think Lincoln is

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00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: fair to say is a stud But to me, for

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00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve to be legit, they need Texas to

739
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: be good with Oklahoma and then to have just some

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00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, some of the extra teams just be eight

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00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: nine wins, whether it's Texas Tech, whether it's Iowa State,

742
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: whether it's Kansas State. Teams Oklahoma State and just be

743
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: kind of nationally in the top twenty. But you need

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00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Texas to be your lead dogs competing to

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00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. And right now it's Oklahoma or bust

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00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: Tom Herman. It's just kind of been a disaster. You

747
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: know that they haven't sniffed being what they were under

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00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 1: mac in the mid two thousand's just to our house

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Speaker 1: producing NFL players and ranked in the top ten. Anytime

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Speaker 1: they've been ranked in the top ten recently, it's been fake.

751
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: It's been fraudulent. They're quickly out of it. They need

752
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Speaker 1: to I don't know. I don't know. I don't have

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00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: the answer, but it's clearer. They get enough recruits coming

754
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: out of Texas. The brand's big enough where you can

755
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: go just in that general area in the Midwest. You

756
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: can see a couple of kids out of California. Austin

757
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: is a cool city. It has history, You've won a

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Speaker 1: national championship. You've got a lot of guys over the

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00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: years in the NFL, not recently, like think about how

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Speaker 1: much cooler it is to be at Oklahoma alone. How

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00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: many more guys in the last five years are in

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00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: the NFL from Oklahoma in Texas. So it's one thing

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Speaker 1: to go. I remember Vince Young, No, actually I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm eighteen years old. It's two thousand twenty, So in

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Speaker 1: two thousand five. I was what three you do the math?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's you would be born in two thousand

767
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: two right now? I don't remember Finch young, remember Ricky Williams. No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't alive some of the cool players that I

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00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: grew up on, like Roy Williams. Um trying to think

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00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: of just some of the Jamal Charles, no one remembers

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00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: these guys think of think of like, oh you watch Oklahoma?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Joe Mixon, uh ceedee, Lamb Sterling Shepherd, all

773
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Speaker 1: the offensive Lineman, Kenneth Murray, Baker, Mayfield, Kyler Murray, right,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Lincoln Riley, Bob Stoops just feels way sweeter,

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00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: producing way more. NFL played Mark Andrews Oh I love

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00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: Lamar Jack's I wrote to him on Madden all the time.

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Speaker 1: Who are you doing that with Texas? That's a that's

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Speaker 1: a problem. Hell, you could argue Texas Tech is more

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00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: relevant right now in the NFL because I got my

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00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: homes and even Baker played there for split second, and

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00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's an NFL coach with Dallas signing Dalton. I'm

782
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: hearing mix takes some say no trouble for Dak Others

783
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: say it takes pressures off the Cowboys to make a

784
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Speaker 1: deal and happen with Dak. Am I rohnd to hope

785
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,879
Speaker 1: for an open competition between Dak and Dalton. There's Zach

786
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: deserve to show up and be the quarterback one with

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Speaker 1: a new coach and show up, show us his worth.

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Speaker 1: Well if Dak is there, whether it's on the franchise

789
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Speaker 1: tag or whether it's on a new contract. And I

790
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: trying to think, Oh I saw schefter during like ESPN

791
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: schedule release show. Say one point of contention right now

792
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys want to sign him to a long

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Speaker 1: term deal, like five years. And I guess Kirk Cousins

794
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: had talked to Dak Prescott. It's like, Kirk, why are

795
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: you talking to anybody like you're not You're not good

796
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 1: enough to be given advice to people. But he told

797
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott used this at the the franchise tag, it

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00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: to your advantage. And Dak Prescott wants to sign a

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00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: shorter term deal three or four years. We'll find the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I'm not signing you unless I own your rights for

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00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: a long period of time. Irony is I don't love

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00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: doing that for Dak Prescott. I actually wouldn't mind going

803
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: short term. Clearly, I think Dak Prescott is trying to

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Speaker 1: go Kirk Cousins, Like, Dak, you're overthinking this. You can

805
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: win games with Dallas. You could help their team to

806
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: be good enough the next couple of years, maybe win

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Be a legend. All Cousins are gonna

808
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: be know for is having made a ton of money.

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00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 1: No one will ever go, you know what, Kirk Cousins

810
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 1: was pretty good at football, though he's not bad. But

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Speaker 1: no one is gonna talk like that. No one's gonna

812
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: think like that. People are gonna be like, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: overpaid guy, the guy that I got, that guy, the

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Speaker 1: guy that made three hundred million dollars and then to

815
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Speaker 1: make that much. But you know what I'm saying, he made.

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Speaker 1: I think how much money Kirk Cousins made. He got

817
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Speaker 1: franchise twice. I think what that number add up to,

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Speaker 1: Like forty seven million. The Vikings gave him eighty five

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Speaker 1: million purely guaranteed, So we're already at like a hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty million. The Vikings just gave him another sixty million.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kirk Cousins already like a hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: million dollars won one playoff game. There is no player

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Speaker 1: that's in the upper echelon a quarterbacks like top fifteen

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Speaker 1: that I would feel less confident in in a big

825
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: game than that guy. He's made a hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: million dollars, give or take in the next couple of years.

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Speaker 1: That's insanity. Like there's a Allen stack. You're gonna be

828
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Speaker 1: worth easily that much. If you just play it right

829
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: here and win big with the Dallas Cowboys, you'll be

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Speaker 1: a legend. You will be a legend. Kirk Cousins will

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00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: not be a legend. He'll be rich. But that's the

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Speaker 1: guy that everyone said, oh yeah, guy's kind of average.

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Speaker 1: Uh hey, John, after taking Chase Young, that Redskins defense

834
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: is looking very underrated. Is it just me? Or or

835
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: is the five game over under an easy over? Well,

836
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: the defense should be good and Jack and Ron defensive guys.

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00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: They'll be physical upfront. Their front seven is good. I

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00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: just wonder about the offense, you know, I mean, I

839
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: think Dwayne Haskins was was really shitty last year. Kyle

840
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: Allen's actually okay, But you know what do they have?

841
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: They got Darius guys to bring back Adrian Peterson. You

842
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: don't have Trent Williams, but you didn't have them last

843
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: year either. You have the young kid Terry McLaren am

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Speaker 1: I saying his name right, the rookiett Ohio State, Like

845
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Speaker 1: they actually could be good and be five and eleven,

846
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: be like much improved. But yeah, I mean, if I

847
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: was gonna bet an over under on the Redskins, I'd

848
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 1: probably take the over just and that's probably just Ron Rivera.

849
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera is a good coach. I just the quarterback play.

850
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of unknown I don't think

851
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: the Redskins, no, but defensively they could be good. The division,

852
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: you know, the Giants are gonna be better, The Eagles

853
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: should be better, and the Cowboys should be better. So

854
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: the division actually, which was bad last year, should be

855
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: much improved. Love the show. What are your thoughts on

856
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert? Do you think he will be successful in

857
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: the league in the charge of franchise quarterback? Does he

858
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: start this season or red shirt in two you know,

859
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty. I don't think you're red shirt

860
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: players unless you're like Jordan's love situation. But if I

861
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: draft a guy in the top ten. I'm drafting him

862
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: to play him, and I get Jordan's love is not

863
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: like Burrow or Twa in terms of being this finished

864
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: product can like red defenses and pick you apart. Let

865
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: him learn on the job. Your team is so talented enough,

866
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think a good A good uh. Kind

867
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: of comparison is when Roethlisberger took over, the team had

868
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: so many premium players. And that's what this team has, right.

869
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: They had Kenneth Murray to go with Derwin James, to

870
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: go with Bosta, to go with Ingram, to go with Hayward.

871
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: They have a good secondary. They got Gus Bradley. Offensively,

872
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: they got Eckler, they got Mike Williams, I got Hunter Henry,

873
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: they at Keenan Allen. Just you know, I'm a big believer.

874
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: Is you know, once a kid gets to a certain age,

875
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: throw him in the deep end, let him swim a

876
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: little bit. Now stand right there and don't let him drowned,

877
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: but put him in position to swim. You know you've

878
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: taught him. He's put some floaties on, he's gonna have

879
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: the opposite. Maybe don't even need to start a week one.

880
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: But I'm not writing Tyrod Taylor out long. You know

881
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: this is the the NFL has changed. This guy's a

882
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: four year starter. Four year starter. It would be one

883
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: thing right if he was. You know, he's just one

884
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: year starter into at Oregon, kind of like a Mr

885
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: BIS because he's been starting for four years. Four I

886
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: I gotta play Herbert. I think he has a chance

887
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: to be a really good player, and I think worst case,

888
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: he's just kind of like what Josh Allen has been

889
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, kind of hit or miss.

890
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: But his talent so immense, and their talent on the

891
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: team is good. Now. One issue I have is I

892
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: don't love the head coach. I don't think that highly

893
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: of Anthony Lant. I think he's pretty average. But they're

894
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: they're defensing. I think I think highly if Gus Bradley

895
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: is a defensive coordinator, and I think highly of their personnel.

896
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: So anytime you can put a young quarterback on a

897
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: team that has good personnel, you have a chance to succeed.

898
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: If I put any young individual in any job, and

899
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: I put you in a job with it has no

900
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: clue what they're going and bad you know employees around you,

901
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: the thing's gonna suck. Right. If I take some young

902
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: producer and I throw him on Coward Show, he's got

903
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: a shot. If I take some young producer and throw

904
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: him on some dude YouTube channel that's has one follower,

905
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: it's probably not gonna be any good. So if I

906
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: take this young guy that actually does have some talent

907
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: and I put him around a bunch of outon people,

908
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: I think he's got a shot to be a pretty

909
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: good player. Chris Ballard hit the motherload with Nelson and Leonard,

910
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: but his first draft doesn't look so good these days. Hooker, Wilson,

911
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: Bosham and Banner three are gone and one has a

912
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: foot out the door. Are these players not living up

913
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: to expectations of function of Ballard just missing on players?

914
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: Or does going from Chuck Pangana's three four defense to

915
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: uber Fluss Tampa to requires so much of a different

916
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: skill set that players drafted for the old coaching staff

917
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: would have a hard time translating. Well, I'll be honestly,

918
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: I'd have to text around and get more of an

919
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: in depth scouting your port on Mully Cooker, because I

920
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: like Mulle Cooker when he was young and then he

921
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: got injured and he clearly hasn't been the same Banner

922
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: the tackle from USC I was never a big fan

923
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: of I. I don't like unathletic tackles that don't move

924
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: very well. It's just a bad fit. The other two guys,

925
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: I can't pretend to have that good of a feel on.

926
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: I just think the first time you ever draft, and

927
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: anytime you go through a draft when you have have

928
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real, a coach that was gonna

929
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: get fired at the end of the season, you're kind

930
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: of wasting a year. I always like just pulling the

931
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: trigger firing a guy and starting and just get going.

932
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: Now they didn't, and I think he's made up for it.

933
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: I think he's proven. You see it again in this draft.

934
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: You get Deforce Buckner, you get Jonathan Taylor, you get

935
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, you land Philip Rivers. Like they're just a

936
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: high level organization. I believe in Chris Ballard great John

937
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: Snyder has just some terrible draft picks. Awful you know,

938
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: look at John Lynchen cow Shanahan, who went thirteen and

939
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 1: three and dominated the NFC last year, drafted Solomon Thomas

940
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: the third overall. It happens how he's missed on some guys.

941
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: Coach reads missed on some guys, Sean Payton's missed on guy.

942
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:48,959
Speaker 1: It happens. It's hard, it's hard. But I'm a huge

943
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard guy, as anyone that listens to the show knows,

944
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: just because And I'm not like I know him like Coward,

945
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: just knowing him through my friends in the league, like

946
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: I know Naggie and Veach and Andy. Those guys love him.

947
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: Just watch the way he operates. Think about Chris Ballard

948
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: takes over. Think of what happened has what what has

949
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: happened to Chris Ballard in his tenure. Uh, he gets there,

950
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: he's got a fire coach. Then he hires Josh McDaniels

951
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: and he's left at the altar, and then he has

952
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: to scramble. He gets Frank Andrew Luck retires on him,

953
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: just quits. No one sees it coming now, I mean

954
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: they they had no clue. He just quits. It's over.

955
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: And they've done a pretty good job pivoting every time

956
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 1: and not being an embarrassment. I think Chris is a really,

957
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: really impressive guy. And at the end of the day,

958
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss I mean, you're gonna miss on. You

959
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: know of your first round picks, let alone. As the

960
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: draft goes on, it only gets more difficult. So if

961
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: I was a Colts fan, I would feel good about it.

962
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even worry about that first draft and just go.

963
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: We got a team this year that can win ten

964
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: games and in the a f C. If we can

965
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: just avoid Kansas City until the a f C Championship game,

966
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: just take our chances, we're gonna be pretty good. Now.

967
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: The big question, and I and I don't know the

968
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: answer to this is Philip Rivers. Like the Philip Rivers

969
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: I saw last year, and being on the West Coast,

970
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,720
Speaker 1: I just watch a lot of Rivers games against the Raiders,

971
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: against the Broncos. I thought he was bad. And I

972
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: love Philip Rivers. I think Philip Rivers gonna be a

973
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: star and television one day if he so chooses to.

974
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: But his physical ability last year felt to me like

975
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: he fell off a cliff. He's never been able to move,

976
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: but his arms, it was just bad. Maybe it was

977
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,919
Speaker 1: just an outlier season. Maybe he knew he was leaving

978
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: the Chargers weird spot, but he he did some things

979
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: last year that was like, what the hell is going on?

980
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: So I listen, I'm rooting for Rivers. I hope he's

981
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: still good, but there is a chance he's bad. Now

982
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: you have, you have a backup like Jacobe if he's healthy,

983
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: can win you some games Easton could not. I just

984
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 1: watched the Niners versus the Bucks from Week one last season. God,

985
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: the NFL geek here passing the time in lockdown, and

986
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe the team ended up in the

987
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: super Bowl. They looked horrible. The amount they improved was unreal,

988
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: very very belichick in. You know, whenever you look at

989
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: this the week one games, I I don't think they

990
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: mean much at all. You know, when you look at

991
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: week one and you look back like week nine or ten,

992
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: you see a lot of teams that are two and

993
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: eight in week ten that look good in week one,

994
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,240
Speaker 1: and you see a lot of super Bowl level teams

995
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: that look completely different. I put no stock into week

996
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 1: one besides you win or you to lose. Especially this season,

997
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna be coming off a who knows how long

998
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: training camp is gonna be. There's gonna be no offseason.

999
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: Um I I I personally and I try to do this.

1000
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: In college is a little different because you've got to

1001
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: kind of win Week one. You can throw off your

1002
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: playoff chances in the NFL. You could lay an egg

1003
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: as long as you win. Whatever. I think in that

1004
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: game Jamis, I think he threw two picks and one

1005
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: was a pick six. So yeah, they benefited from Jamis,

1006
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I've been listening to your podcast ever

1007
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: since I heard about you through Colin Show and learned

1008
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,800
Speaker 1: you were at cal POLYI alumni. I'm about to graduate,

1009
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: cow Polly. During the shelter in place with my BSA

1010
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: mechanical engineering I see you go Mustangs. I was wondering

1011
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: what opportunities exist for engineers in the NFL and surrounding media.

1012
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: It would be awesome to combine two things I love well.

1013
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: First and foremost, you are way smarter than me, because

1014
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: not in a trillion years could I have gotten a

1015
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: cal polity with an engineering degree, And even if they

1016
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: would have allowed me in, I would have lasted about

1017
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: one class. So for those who don't know cow Polly,

1018
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: we kind of consider ourselves Harvard to the West Coast,

1019
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: and the engineering school is big time s where the

1020
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: smart kids go. So Alex, you're smart. I I don't

1021
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: know what the combination of engineering or mechanical engineering and

1022
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: UH in the NFL. But I'll say this, what your

1023
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: major is in college, if you do want to get

1024
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: into sports, you might have to leave the mechanical engineering

1025
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: element of it, at least originally. And clearly you're a

1026
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,719
Speaker 1: really intelligent guy. You could figure it out. Now. What

1027
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: I'd recommend is I would go mechanical engineering and just

1028
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: crush it and make a ton of cash and just

1029
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: and just dominate the world and UH, you know, be

1030
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 1: able to watch football on Saturdays and Sundays and chill.

1031
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: But that's just me. But I I don't necessarily know

1032
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: the connection of mechanical engineering and UH and football or

1033
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: just sports in general. But you're you're talking to a

1034
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: guy that's not smart enough to I wouldn't have lasted

1035
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: with you. See, I appreciate what you've been doing to

1036
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: help us get through quarantine. Question from your position, what

1037
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 1: will it take for the Jaguars to become a respected

1038
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: organization like you? I've gotten a lot less of a

1039
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: fanatic I've become and just more of a lover of

1040
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: the sport itself, the business, the game. Of course, I

1041
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: want to see the Jacks win one day, I mean,

1042
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: that's why we play and why we're close to a

1043
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: few years back. But truthfully, I'd rather see them involved

1044
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: into an organization. The Ravens that by Kings, the Niners,

1045
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: the Eagles teams they may not win the Super Bowl

1046
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: every year, but they're always in the conversation, exude excellence

1047
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: from the top down. Regarding your experience with the Eagles,

1048
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: what do you think what starts with the owner? With Philly? Uh?

1049
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: And you know, in fairness, like I wouldn't quite put

1050
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: the Niners there yet. They had one good season though.

1051
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: I think Lynch and Shannan are really good. I think

1052
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: like the Eagles, the Patch, the Steelers, and it all

1053
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: starts with the owner, and it starts with the consistency

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Speaker 1: of top and there's just a consistent vision within the organization.

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Speaker 1: I think the problem for the Jags is they got

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Speaker 1: this new owner, shot Con. They're trying to be like innovative,

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Speaker 1: but they don't really know what they're doing, and then

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Speaker 1: they don't understand what's going on, and they always missing

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Speaker 1: on these draft picks, and when they do hit on

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Speaker 1: the draft picks, the players end up not liking the place.

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Speaker 1: Just kind of a bizarre place. And maybe there's an

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Speaker 1: element of it. As a football player, you feel like

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Speaker 1: you're kind of irrelevant in Jacksonville. That's why a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys kind of forced their way out or get unhappy.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I don't know. I'm just throwing this kind

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Speaker 1: of out of my ass and I'm not quite sure.

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Speaker 1: But I also think if you win in foot all

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Speaker 1: people like it and you become a star. Right, It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the NBA, like Russell Westbrook and Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant became superstars in Oklahoma City, Like you could become

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Speaker 1: a star in Jacksonville. You know, if if Leonard Fournette

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Speaker 1: had been Christian McCaffrey, he would be a really big deal.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey became a star right uh Yannick and dock Ways,

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Speaker 1: he's maybe a little under the radar, but he's a

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Speaker 1: pretty big deal. Players over, you can become a big

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Speaker 1: deal there. Just look at like Carolina. Uh now, Carolina,

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Speaker 1: the market size is bigger. But you get to my drift.

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Speaker 1: I think they just need to get a good coach,

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Speaker 1: and they need to get a good general manager, and

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Speaker 1: they just need to let it play out. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they've Dave Caldwell has been there forever. They draft in

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Speaker 1: the top ten every year, so I would say he's

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Speaker 1: not the guy. I would say Doug Moron not the

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Speaker 1: guy either. So can you just fire everyone at the

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Speaker 1: end of the season and get a good general manager

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Speaker 1: and a good head coach in there. That that would

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Speaker 1: be what I would attempt to do and be my

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Speaker 1: goal if I were them, because right now they're they're

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00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: constantly turning over coaches. Tom Coflin and they fired Tom Coughlin.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's kind of feel like a rudderless ship.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers never feel like that. The Eagles. The Eagles

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00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: have one weird year. Chip Kelly's acting weird. Jeffrey Leary's

1093
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: like packers ship up and get out of here. You

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00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: get it, You're not welcome here anymore. And they haven't

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Speaker 1: looked back since. Two years later and win Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs, it's like, God, Scott Pioli's leaving Snickers bars

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Speaker 1: and in the uh, you know, in the staircase, get

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Speaker 1: out of here. Hire Andy Reid never looked back. Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: John Schneider Boom kicking everyone's ass. You know. The Steelers

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Speaker 1: and Rooneys, they just keep the same coaches and and

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Speaker 1: are just consistent every year. I think you just gotta

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Speaker 1: attempt to be consistent. It just starts at the top owner,

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Speaker 1: head coach. You could argue the head coach is more

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Speaker 1: important the quarterback, because if you've got a good head coach,

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Speaker 1: you'll find a quarterback. You know, we all would love

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Speaker 1: to have Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers, but both those got

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Speaker 1: one guy went twenty four, the other guy went on right.

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Speaker 1: So like, look at the top quarterbacks in the league,

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Speaker 1: just go west to east. Russell Wilson third round pick,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolos second round pick, Dak Prescott fourth round pick.

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Speaker 1: You can find really good players, you know, the say

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Speaker 1: what you want about Cousins. The Vikings won a playoff

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Speaker 1: game last year. He's a fourth round pick. Now, he

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Speaker 1: costs a lot of money. But you guys might drift,

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Speaker 1: so you don't always need to be draft the number

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Speaker 1: one overall to get your quarterback garnerment. You might turn

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Speaker 1: out to just be like a top fifteen, top twenty quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You can win with him if you have a good organization.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean win big, but you could win eight

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Speaker 1: nine games. It feels like they're their leadership is always

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Speaker 1: just out of it. Appreciate everyone listening. Damn, this thing

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Speaker 1: already went an hour. Basically, Uh, enjoy the weekend. Hope

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Speaker 1: I entertained you, and uh keep I guess quarantine at

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Speaker 1: hell some of where some of you guys living. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're reopening the economy. You guys might be out and

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Speaker 1: about this weekend. Uh, happy Mother's Day. Tell your mom.

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Speaker 1: I say hello, and uh, I don't know or anything,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just trying to be friendly. I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: that in a in a weird way. And um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the review and