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Speaker 1: it might have been Jets Giants, which was a preseason

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Speaker 1: I think it was Monday Night Football preseason game and

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Speaker 1: Victor Cruz, I looked up a stat line before the podcast,

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Speaker 1: caught six balls, had almost one hundred and fifty yards,

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Speaker 1: and caught three touchdowns. And he's a good example. He

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Speaker 1: was an undrafted free agent from UMS, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be undrafted free agents all over the league that make teams,

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Speaker 1: and that's where preseason games are huge. He was so good. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I had never even heard of the guy at the time,

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Speaker 1: and he went on before his injuries to become a

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Speaker 1: really high level player. But when you do things that

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Speaker 1: are so eye opening, and and I think he went

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Speaker 1: on to continue to dominate throughout the preseason, you can't

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Speaker 1: keep the guy off the roster because the other thing

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Speaker 1: that makes teams worried, like ideally he's a he's a

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Speaker 1: bad exam in this situation, but like you would love

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Speaker 1: to get a guy to a preseason and I think

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Speaker 1: before you know, in like the eighties and the nineties,

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Speaker 1: they used to call stashing a guy. You basically wouldn't

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Speaker 1: play him in the preseason. And if you don't play

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, you're like a six round pick. Because

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Speaker 1: once I cut a guy at the fifty three man cuts,

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Speaker 1: unlike once you go to a practice squad, which we

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Speaker 1: explain the other day. If I'm gonna take you from

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Speaker 1: another team's practice squad, I have to cut someone off

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Speaker 1: my roster, or a guy you know, got injured in

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Speaker 1: a game during the season, so I put him on

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Speaker 1: ir Then I have a spot opening, and I can

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Speaker 1: take a guy from another practice squad. But that team

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Speaker 1: can either match, you know, pay him enough money to

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Speaker 1: stay on the practice squad, elevate them to their own team.

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Speaker 1: It's not a shoeing that you get the guy at

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Speaker 1: the fifty three man cut down. When you cut, however

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Speaker 1: many players, it varies team the team because some teams

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Speaker 1: cut players before that spot. If another team, if you

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Speaker 1: cut him and he goes through waivers and another team

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Speaker 1: claims him he's gone, you do not get that guy.

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Speaker 1: So Victor Cruz is a good example that even if

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Speaker 1: they wanted to get him to the practice squad. He

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Speaker 1: never would have made it. He would have one million

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Speaker 1: percent been claimed. So even if internally they thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not quite ready, even though he was great in

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Speaker 1: the preseason, and I remember early on in his career

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Speaker 1: it might have been like Manningham or Steve Smith ended

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Speaker 1: up getting injured and then he started playing. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he played a lot early in that season, and

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Speaker 1: then a couple years later he's on the super Bowl team. Uh.

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Speaker 1: But you have to be willing if you're going to

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Speaker 1: cut a guy to lose him at the big cutdown,

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Speaker 1: and if a guy plays well enough in these preseason games.

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Speaker 1: It's much harder now because every team in the league

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Speaker 1: basically cuts up all the teams throughout the league to

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Speaker 1: their pro scouts, and they're not just monitoring the game

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Speaker 1: tape you read every day. We used to get this

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Speaker 1: thing called the clips. It essentially was like a mix

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Speaker 1: of Pro Football Talk meets Twitter, and whoever your teams were.

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Speaker 1: You would get every article written about him, and you

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Speaker 1: would go through and a guy's having success, a guy's

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Speaker 1: not out. That's just based on what reporters and press

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Speaker 1: conference you're saying, but you're monitoring that stuff closely. So

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Speaker 1: if they're highing a young guy and then he starts

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Speaker 1: making plays in the preseason game, and then they and

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Speaker 1: then he gets cut, and you're like, well, we really

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Speaker 1: need a defensive tackle. This guy was really good in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. The coach talked him up. They clearly want

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Speaker 1: this guy in the practice squad. But I think he

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Speaker 1: might be our backup right now. And you got to

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Speaker 1: be very very careful with that because that's a hard

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Speaker 1: balance to run. And I think at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: what most teams do is the stashing at least, this

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Speaker 1: is my belief, is kind of done. You just play

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Speaker 1: the guy and if he's good enough, you keep him,

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Speaker 1: and if you don't think he's good enough, you cut

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Speaker 1: him and hope to get him back on the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: But I think that was a big Al Davis move,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people copied him. So listen,

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Speaker 1: the preseason is an exciting time. You can't bury any

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Speaker 1: first round pick because he struggles in a preseason game.

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Speaker 1: That does not determine your career. Now, it can bring

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Speaker 1: up just hesitation, if a DB's getting smoked or a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver's dropping the ball or a tackle you know,

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Speaker 1: can't block edge rushers that are you know, practice squad

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Speaker 1: level players. It for sure can bring up concern, but

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Speaker 1: you gotta be very careful. You got to put everything

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Speaker 1: in context. Who's he going against? What plays are they calling.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's a very complicated time during the season

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Speaker 1: is very black and white. This guy's either good enough

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Speaker 1: or he's not. The scheme and the play calling is

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Speaker 1: either good enough and it's or it's not. But in

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Speaker 1: these situations, there's so much that were like, are they

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Speaker 1: even calling are they just calling the same three plays?

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Speaker 1: Is this guy? And who knows? Maybe he makes a

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Speaker 1: great play and the coach would be like, he didn't

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Speaker 1: even know what he was doing. He did, he did

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing, but it worked out. And those are

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Speaker 1: things that's the hard part about football. You never know.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna watch a decent amount of preseason, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: partly because I'm bored and there's nothing really else on

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Speaker 1: television beside the final basketball game here in a couple

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Speaker 1: of days. But yeah, that's just a little breakdown of

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Speaker 1: things I thought about. I think what makes sports pretty fun.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this watching Steph Curry. He went

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Speaker 1: nuts today scored thirty six points. Is do you know

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Speaker 1: that Virginia Tech where Dell Curry went to college, which

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Speaker 1: obviously is in some college basketball blue blood. I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure Dell was a season ticket holder as well. Like

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Speaker 1: when Steph was a kid, they would not offer Steph

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Speaker 1: Curry a contract or I mean at the time, they're

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Speaker 1: not contracts, they were scholarships. Couldn't get a scholarship to

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Part of the reason he ended up with

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Speaker 1: Davidson and then went on to have I would say,

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Speaker 1: one of the most unique college careers, given that he

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Speaker 1: was playing at this random school and kind of became

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Speaker 1: a legend because of the tournament, and obviously the rest

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Speaker 1: is history. But what's cool about sports is Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: a six round can have a better career than Peyton Manning,

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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and one of the most

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Speaker 1: hype prospects of all time. You never know, and historically

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Speaker 1: in football we've had just random things happen. Right. Trent

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Speaker 1: Dilfer won a Super Bowl as a starting quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. Now Once upon a time, Trent Dilfer

548
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Speaker 1: was a top ten pick, but his career got derailed

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Speaker 1: in Tampa and it was ugly. Brad Johnson same thing

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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. When you close your eyes and

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Speaker 1: think Super Bowl champions, you think Brady, you think Manning,

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Speaker 1: you think Montana, you think Farv you know, you think

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Speaker 1: the greats Mames, but you get other random guys. And

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Speaker 1: the Nick Foles story is something that was pretty storybook.

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Speaker 1: And I was there when we drafted him. Obviously he's

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Speaker 1: a great guy. Everyone loves him. But the reason he

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Speaker 1: was on I mean a dogshit team at the University Arizona,

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Speaker 1: and I remember that Marty morning Wig and Andy really

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Speaker 1: liked him is they were getting destroyed a lot and

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Speaker 1: Bob Stoop's brother was the coach, and I think got

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Speaker 1: fired mid season next senior year, and in a lot

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Speaker 1: of games they were just getting killed and he would

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Speaker 1: bring them back in the second half, and those guys

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Speaker 1: love like his mental toughness and his just will to compete. Now,

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Speaker 1: at the time, we loved Russell Wilson and we're hoping

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Speaker 1: to draft him. Obviously misplayed that but got Nick Foles,

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Speaker 1: and long after Andy was gone. Nixt moment for the

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Speaker 1: Eagles is just something that was pretty special. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was having a MVP season, tears his acl

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and let's face it, everyone thinks the

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Speaker 1: season is over because most times in that situation, the

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Speaker 1: season is over. You have no chance. Best case scenario,

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Speaker 1: you get like a guy like Flacco out of the

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Speaker 1: pen and he just keeps your season alive and you

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but you're one and done like the

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Speaker 1: Browns were the season. But that doesn't take away from

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Speaker 1: how cool the Joe Flack story was. Nick Foles helped

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Speaker 1: lead the Eagles to a super Bowl. It'd be one

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Speaker 1: thing if it was the Steelers or the Niners or

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Speaker 1: just the Cowboys some franchise. Obviously would have been a

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Speaker 1: big deal with the Cowboys because they haven't been Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl a long time, but just a franchise with a

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Speaker 1: lot of Super Bowls. Eagles had never won a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: He leads them to a super Bowl. He makes some

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Speaker 1: historic plays. He's obviously a huge reason. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: looks at Doug Peterson and goes, how about Philly Special.

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Speaker 1: I think they called it special Special or whatever. The

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Speaker 1: specific name he said is a little different, I think

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Speaker 1: than the one we said. But regardless. I would say

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Speaker 1: it's one of the most memorable plays in Super Bowl history.

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Speaker 1: I would say the most memorable play, at least in

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Speaker 1: my lifetime, is the Malcolm Butler interception, but the Philly

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Speaker 1: special play is just an all timer. He got a statue.

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Speaker 1: He was the backup quarterback. How often does the backup

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Speaker 1: quarterback get a statue? And he earned it. And I

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Speaker 1: just think sometimes legends are made. A lot of times

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Speaker 1: legends are great players, right Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, just

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Speaker 1: go around Roger Federer, you know, usually like all time greats,

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Speaker 1: and then there's this guy. I think you can just

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, was Nick Foles any good? And I think

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Speaker 1: you'd get a million answers like, yeah, he had a

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Speaker 1: great moment, but was he a good player in the NFL?

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Speaker 1: He had a really good season in the one year

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Speaker 1: with Chip Kelly, But for the most part his career

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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, man started, I think under sixty games

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Speaker 1: after that Eagle season was clearly never the same. Did

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Speaker 1: Get had a bad injury? Jacksonville made a bunch of money,

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Speaker 1: but he had a moment that made him a legend

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Speaker 1: in the football world and a legend specifically in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and let's face it, that was the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: end of Carson Wentz because Carson could never overcome Nick Foles,

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Speaker 1: let alone himself, and which led them, you know, eventually

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Speaker 1: to Jalen Hurts. But I think Foles is to me

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Speaker 1: and I say, it's all like, I don't apologize for this.

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Speaker 1: I watch Sports for the Stars, just watching the basketball game,

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Speaker 1: like Maria, this is this is gonna be the biggest

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Speaker 1: loss I've ever seen. You cannot lose to Serbia when

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Speaker 1: they got like two NBA players obviously got you could

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Speaker 1: argue the best player in the world. But this USA

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Speaker 1: team cannot lose this game. And there was I mean

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Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter like they're gonna lose. They

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Speaker 1: could not lose this game. You have to win. This

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Speaker 1: would be in the history of sports, one of the

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Speaker 1: worst losses of all time. And then the dust Hittles

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Speaker 1: they didn't lose, so it's behind us. But ELI beat

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Speaker 1: him twice. And that's the other crazy part about the

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Speaker 1: Patriot dynasty, which is stuff a legend, right six super Bowls, Hell,

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Speaker 1: they went to nine. It felt I don't have the

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Speaker 1: exact number in front of me, but if I had

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Speaker 1: to guess I'd guess sixteen AFC Championship games, maybe a

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Speaker 1: fourteen to fifteen. I mean, it felt like they were

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Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship Game every year and maybe Peyton

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Speaker 1: beat him, right, the Flacco beat him, but it was

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Speaker 1: rare that they lost. And Eli has a chance of

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I think he's pretty polarizing to me, Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue if he goes in. If he doesn't,

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Speaker 1: I had no problem with it, But like, he has

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Speaker 1: two of the biggest wins in the history of league,

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Speaker 1: and it's almost his win against the undefeated Patriots, you

640
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: could argue is the biggest win in the history of

641
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: the league, because who do I see this? Os Antonio

642
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Pierce is all the part of my take, guys, and

643
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: he's like, I know we beat him, but I still

644
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,800
Speaker 1: think that's the best team of all time. Now, you

645
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: could argue saying that makes his win look better, but

646
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: I don't think he was bullshitting. I mean, they're pretty

647
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: good and Foles didn't beat that version of the team,

648
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: but he did beat a pretty damn good team. He

649
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: did beat a really good team, and he changed Philadelphia

650
00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: the franchises the way we discuss that franchise forever before

651
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: we get into Fugazi Friday and Harbom. I saw a

652
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: story that it's close to home, and I don't care

653
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: that much about Rogers and his parents. But there's a

654
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: book coming out about Aaron Rodgers. You O'Connor, who's I think?

655
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: I read? His Patriot book is really good. It might

656
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: have been a Belichick in the Patriots. It was really good.

657
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: He's a good writer. He's written about the Yankees, and

658
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: he got Aaron to talk about the book. And there's

659
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: obviously there's been a long story about Aaron and his family.

660
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: And listen, I no one knows, like I've seen a

661
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: lot of family drama in my life, and I've seen

662
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: people not talk forever. And I'm sure many people listening

663
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: have gone through a lot with uncles, aunts, grandparents. Like

664
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: it's difficult when people pass away. I say it all

665
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: the time. I was when I was in Tahoe, I

666
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: was with some family friends and they were discussing some

667
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: drama going on in their family. I don't care if

668
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: people die and they're leaving a dollar or one hundred

669
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: million dollars. People family, people that are close will have

670
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: problems it's a pretty consistent theme, and it's broken up

671
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: many of families. Now that doesn't seem to be the

672
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: situation here. Obviously, they're still alive. I don't know what happened.

673
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: And I remember hearing Darius Rucker. I was watching an

674
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: interview I think he did with Bobby Bones, and he

675
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: talked about his dad, who was not around when he

676
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: was young. I think left his family really, really, really

677
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: really young. I don't think Darius knew his dad really

678
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: at all growing up. But it's not like he moved

679
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: to different state, like I think he lived in the community,

680
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: started a new family, didn't give a shit about him.

681
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: And then when Darius and who he got big the

682
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: way I might be butchering this story a little bit,

683
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: but like Darius saw him at a concert I don't

684
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: know if it was a big concert, that might have

685
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: been a smaller venue, and went up and talked and

686
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: it was a big deal. It's like, that's my dad,

687
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: And I think Darius pretty young at this point. It

688
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: was a powerful moment for him. And I don't know

689
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: if he had given him his number, if he had

690
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: already had it, And he said, like a day or

691
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: two later, I got a voicemail from my dad, so

692
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: this would have been the mid nineties, and basically on

693
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: that voicemail it said could I get fifty thousand dollars?

694
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: And Darius was just crushed. And clearly, if your family

695
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: is not around growing up, you get to choose how

696
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: you want to view that, and that is completely on you.

697
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: And I don't blame anybody, but as someone that had

698
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: lost his dad, because Aaron told this story about then

699
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: talked in a while clearly, and he saw him at

700
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: the American Century Golf Tournament last year, and Aaron's first

701
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: thought was like, I'm not even gonna go up to

702
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: see him and listen. If your parents, in his position,

703
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: steal money from you, try to fuck you financially, I

704
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: get there sometimes a point of no return in life,

705
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: but this sure feels like and they alluded to this

706
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: in the article that I read then it was a

707
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: lot over a girlfriend and some religious beliefs. It's just

708
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: some weirdness, like that's what you're gonna throw away your

709
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: relationship with your father and your mother. That seems pretty

710
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: crazy to me because as someone whose dad's not around

711
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: and I don't get to talk to him and haven't

712
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: got talked to him since twenty eighteen. Lost my dad

713
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: when I was thirty four, thirty three years old. Like

714
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: that seems pretty dumb and pretty petty. So Aaron ended

715
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: up going talk to him and their relationship. I don't

716
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: know if it's been completely mended, but it's clearly not

717
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: as bad, and that's that's the right thing to do,

718
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: because life is too short. As Kyle Shanahana once said,

719
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: we all could, we could die tomorrow and listen for

720
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: as funny as that comment was at the time, it's true.

721
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: Anything can happen at any moment with anybody and in

722
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: life and people listening to this. As you get older,

723
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: you go through friends, you cycle through different people in business.

724
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: In your life, I would say your parents, your brothers

725
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: and sisters. Obviously once you have kids, there is a

726
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: small community of people that I mean just are on

727
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: a different level of your life and you. We all

728
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: go through problems. Me and my dad butted heads a

729
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: million freaking times. We did not always agree in life,

730
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: starting at a very young age. Once you get older,

731
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: a little lighter, you don't care as much. But life

732
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: is too short to let just stupid things splinter your family.

733
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: It's just so, like honestly, reading that kind of made

734
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: me happy. I was like, this, this has been one

735
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 1: of the dumber stories. And I get like that moment

736
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: on The Bachelor when Jordan and Jordan Rogers and his

737
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 1: wife forget his name, her name follow on Instagram, set

738
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: a place at the table, Like if I was Aaron,

739
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: I would have been like, you guys are such losers.

740
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: You guys screwed you. I totally I supported him on

741
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: that one, and I didn't even know what was going on,

742
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: Like that was egregious. I mean, that was embarrassing for

743
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: their family, like you can't do that. But eventually they

744
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: say time heals wounds, it should, especially when it comes

745
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: to family, because as you get older, you're like, I

746
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: don't have the energy for this. And last, but not

747
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: least for Gazi Friday, Jim Harbaugh has been suspended by

748
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: the NCAA for a year. He has been giving a

749
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: show cause penalty, which I think essentially doesn't allow you

750
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: to recruit, which makes it impossible to be a college

751
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: head coach for almost half a decade. For four years,

752
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 1: and I thought this has to be the stupidest thing

753
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, And then I was actually upped because

754
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: Florio was like, will the NFL do it? Will they

755
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: suspend him? Because they did once with Terrell Pryor and

756
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: Jim Tressel. Now, first and foremost, the suspension of Terrell

757
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: Pryor looking back over the tattoos is pretty stupid. We

758
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: all agree with that. That is dumb, like I look nothing,

759
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: that age like like rotten milk. That's bad, like who.

760
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: But I would say Jim Harbaugh is on a completely

761
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: different level than those two cats. He is what you

762
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: call a cash cow and an important person in the NFL.

763
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. The NFL in business with the

764
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,439
Speaker 1: nc double A. They don't give a shit. Plus they're

765
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: a private entity. They can do whatever they want. I

766
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: promise you this, Jim Harbaugh will not be suspended, and

767
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: he shouldn't. But the NCAA doing this they hate Michigan

768
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: that much is you can't even argue it. They have

769
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: an agenda. They're biased on this one because he gave

770
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: a cheeseburger to a recruit during the VID when you

771
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to have recruiting, and I would say that

772
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: time also aged pretty poorly. But when it comes to

773
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: the NCUBLEA, I've said this, and I'll keep saying this.

774
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: I can't even fathom being a college football coach, being

775
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: a college assistant coach and having to pretend that what

776
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: they say matters. Now. Someone DM me the other day

777
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: and was like, middle coffee, you're talking about football getting away,

778
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: what about the other sports? Well, I think we're at

779
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: the point in time where football goes. What's the point

780
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: of this? Why are we doing why are we subsidizing everything?

781
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: It's why. I think it's pretty inevitable the way this

782
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: is trending, that they will break away from the NCUBLEA.

783
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: I don't pretend to know how it's all going to

784
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: shake out, privatize, run their own operation, maybe still send

785
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: maybe a percentage to the school, and still be the

786
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverines or the Texas Longhorns, but they will not

787
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: be under the umbrella of these loser administrators somewhere in Indianapolis.

788
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: Most of them have nothing to do with sports, right.

789
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 1: They weren't former coaches, they weren't former players. They're administrators

790
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: who somehow get to have their hand in the piggy

791
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: bank because they wouldn't be making any money if it

792
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: wasn't for the revenue football and obviously basketball generates them,

793
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: but they've also been hard on basketball. They've suspended a

794
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 1: lot of coaches and got them in trouble over the years.

795
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: So to suspend the guy Listen, it'd be one thing

796
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: to drop the hammer if he was still the coach

797
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: of Michigan. And I've never understood this. I've always thought

798
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: this was a giant FOODGAUSI when something happens in a

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00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: program with a player or a coach and then two

800
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: or three years later they popped that program and those

801
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: players have to suffer from something that they had nothing

802
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: to do with. Remember Penn State, which I was living

803
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: in Philly at the time. It was a salacious story.

804
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:16,959
Speaker 1: Jerry Sandusky all time scumbag, loser, and Mike mcquery seeing

805
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: him with the kids and running the uh, you know,

806
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 1: I forget exactly what it was, but like the charity

807
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: to funnel kids, do them like it was, doesn't get

808
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: any worse. But stuff that happened decade, two, three decades ago.

809
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: To pop a program that is going to hurt the

810
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: current players that had absolutely nothing to do with Jerry

811
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: Sandusky always seemed nuts to me. And I remember going

812
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: to a practice when Bill O'Brien took over and it

813
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: was like, this seems kind of unfair. I'm not saying

814
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: there shouldn't be repercussion somewhere like Jerry Sandusky going to jail,

815
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: maybe firing anyone president or administrator that was in charge

816
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: of his employment. But some red shirt freshman wide receiver

817
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: or quarterback or tackle. This has nothing to do with

818
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: any of us. We didn't do any of this crap.

819
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: I always thought that was insane. It happens all the time.

820
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,959
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you cheated four years ago, Pete Carroll,

821
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush, all those guys left and then USC got

822
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 1: in trouble. It's like, how is this fair to any

823
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: of these people? And I think those like in the NFL.

824
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: If some of these guys that got in trouble, right,

825
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison gets a dy or she Rice is racing

826
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: around like he's Lewis Hamilton, probably high or drunk, but

827
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: ran away after the crash, he gets in trouble, like

828
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: those are his problems, right when anything happened Tom Brady

829
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: with the deflated footballs, which I think is one of

830
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: the stupidest stories of all time. The New England Patriot

831
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: Organization h might get fine, but Tom gets suspended or

832
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: Bill gets fined. It's why should anyone else like you

833
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: just four feit three games. I always thought that just like,

834
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:18,240
Speaker 1: what is the how does this like? What's the point

835
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: of all this? And I've always thought there is no point.

836
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: And I would say the dumbest thing that you could

837
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: argue the NCAA has ever done is just throw this

838
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: hammer at Jim Harbaugh like you got him. Guys really

839
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,959
Speaker 1: nailed this one. Todd him a lesson. As Jim said

840
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: the other day, I do not apologize, which is one

841
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: of the great lines of all time. And I understand

842
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: people going switch the Ohio State fans. How could he

843
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: not have known? Even though I'm pretty sure all this

844
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't stem from any of that. But regardless, I

845
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,320
Speaker 1: do not apologize. I think that's what all these football

846
00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: teams will say when they break away from this eyeing

847
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: organization known as the NCAA. Okay, mail bag time at

848
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in those direct messages,

849
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Speaker 1: need your questions fire away. We are wide open, open

850
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: for business. Just my name, DM's wide open. We will

851
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: start with Alex I heard you and Colin go into

852
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: it a little but I've seriously been asking Eagles fans

853
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: for months, why would you possibly want se Rianni if

854
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: the guy is in an OC or a DC and

855
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: acts like a bonehead at halftime. No one is the

856
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: proper answer to that question, and am curious a sort

857
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: of in depth opinion from your position or yourself. Well,

858
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: I think this one's pretty simple. He's won. If the

859
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: team had not been winning, he would have been fired

860
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. He was in trouble his first year when

861
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: he was the OC and the team looked awful. He

862
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: might not have made it through the first year, but

863
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: then he made the playoffs. Then the next year he

864
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl. And while last year was

865
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: an embarrassment for the franchise and the owner, they still

866
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: were in the playoffs and won eleven games. Obviously they

867
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: were a disaster down the stretch. But someone DM me

868
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: the other day, and probably a Raider fan, and he's like,

869
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: why the Niners. There's the front office. They don't take

870
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: any shit a one. They do in two like, well

871
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: they win. Ultimately, what happens in January through August if

872
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: you win double digit games or in the playoffs shuts

873
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: everybody up. The reason things get louder. Like the Giants,

874
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: for example, if they have a rocky season, everything that

875
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: happened over the last couple of years continues to be

876
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: talked about. But when you win, no one can say anything.

877
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,479
Speaker 1: We just won eleven games one our division. The whole

878
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 1: point of the sport is to win games. On Sunday,

879
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: I don't have Sirianne's record in front of me, but

880
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: he what nine games his first year, second year he

881
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: went fourteen, and last year won eleven. I could have

882
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: been fifteen, I could have been thirteen. I kind of

883
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: forget their record, but they were the number one seed.

884
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they hosted the NFC Championship game, knock pretty

885
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: out and cruise in the championship, and then almost won

886
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So, like, listen, he's a polarizing figure.

887
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: That article was pretty salacious with Wait, you and your

888
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: quarterback got issues. He doesn't respect you schematically. That's kind

889
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: of weird. But like, if they win twelve games and

890
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: he wins a playoff game, what's Jeffrey Leurry supposed to do?

891
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: Fire him? It becomes very It's easy to fire people

892
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: when they lose. It was easy last year to fire

893
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: brands daily. It was easy, especially after Thursday Night when

894
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: they lost ninety seven to three to the Raiders on

895
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football in front of the entire country. But

896
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: when you win, it just that's the goal. That's the

897
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: whole point of this whole thing. I know, it's a

898
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: business and the goal is to make money if you're

899
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: an owner, but you make money by winning. And as

900
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: long as they're in big games like obviously, if it

901
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: looked like it did last year and they start and

902
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: lose a bunch of games at the end and get

903
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: bounced in the first round, he get fired. But if

904
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: they have a normal eleven and six season and win

905
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: the division and then win a playoff game, it is

906
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: it is difficult. It is difficult to fire a guy.

907
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: Question for the bag is from DiAngelo. Is it possible

908
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: to let a head coach go and immediately promote a

909
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: coordinator from your own staff to head coach? More specifically,

910
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: if a lot of Eagles stock, If Kellen Moore shines

911
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: this year, could the Eagles bump him up to head

912
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: coach and fire Sirianni? Hell yeah, one percent. If Kellen

913
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: Moore is good and the team still kind of struggles,

914
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: but it's clear they love Kellen Moore, they could name him. Now,

915
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: there are Rooney rules. You have to go through an

916
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: interview search. We just saw it with Antonio Pierce. He

917
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: wasn't technically the coordinator, but he became the interim coach

918
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: and then he got a job. You do have to

919
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: go the league's big on a process in interviewing other people,

920
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: like you have to fault. There are specific rules, but yeah,

921
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 1: you can do that, and I think that. I think

922
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: for Sirianni to get fired and Kellen Moore to get

923
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: the job, there would have to be some pretty unique

924
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 1: circumstances because if Sirianni's getting fired, something went pretty badly,

925
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: and it'd be hard for it to go really badly

926
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: if the offense is kicking ass. So if the offense

927
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: is struggling, then Kellen, Like, what is the scenario in

928
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: which they missed the playoffs? If they missed the playoffs,

929
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: I don't see how Kellen Moore get the job. If

930
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: they make the playoffs, it'd probably have to be a

931
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: one and done. But like, what if the offense is awesome,

932
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 1: the defense lets him down and they just like him.

933
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: But I still think they would be very interested in

934
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: William Belichick and even Mike vrabel So I don't think

935
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: it would be a showing that Kellen Moore would get

936
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 1: the job in that scenario that he gets fired. Comment

937
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: as a Steelers fan, I thought you were making a

938
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: joke about Ben only winning one super Bowl. I honestly

939
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: just forgot because he was awful in the first Super

940
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: Bowl win versus Seattle. Love the show. I was thinking

941
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: about this the other day because I actually saw this

942
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: DM probably a couple days ago. Oh, I forgot that

943
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: Super Bowl existed, and I think about, like, over the

944
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: last let's say twenty years, is that one of the

945
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: least memorable super Bowls? And maybe it's because like the

946
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: Seattle team was not like the Seattle teams that played

947
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: Denver and that played New England were much more memorable

948
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: than that home Grin team. Like you just close your

949
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: eyes and you think super Bowls over, you know, pre Mahomes.

950
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: Let's say you remember Aaron Rodgers, the Peyton Manning ones,

951
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady ones, the Eli Flacco, the Niners. I

952
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: just don't really think of that one. You think of

953
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 1: the three pt not three, but they won three and

954
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: four years the Patriots. You think of the Rams, back

955
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: in the day. I just you even think of the

956
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: one you guys won against the against the Cardinals where

957
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: James Harrison made one of the greatest plays in the

958
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: history of the sport, the chase down. I think Larry did.

959
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: He still Store was out at the one. I think

960
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: he scored, but that that play is one of the

961
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: best plays ever or no, Larry chased James down. Warner

962
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: throws the pick to James, and that's that might be

963
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: my favorite play. Sometimes I'll just go on to YouTube

964
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: and just type that play it and watch it. Just

965
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: it's remarkable. But I just don't remember any part of

966
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: that game. I don't know where I was, Like, I

967
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: remember where I was at the Cardinals Steeler won. I

968
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: was at Pat Hill's house. He threw a party. I

969
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: think it was just for coach. I don't know if

970
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: players are there, but it was like a just all

971
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: the coaches went over. I had like a barbecue. It

972
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: was fun, drinking beers, hanging. Let's watch that game and

973
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: it was awesome. Was that man loved the content. I'm

974
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: a comedy fan twenty years old, and I've been around

975
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: the worst of Dan Snyder and cousins leaving us the

976
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: stadium being bad or firing Shanahan and with him went McVeigh,

977
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: Kyle and Lafleur. Happy we got a new owner. But

978
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: what is the time frame we're talking on success and

979
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,240
Speaker 1: overall effect on this team. This guy's like, I'm fucking

980
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: tired of sucking. I'm tired of it, Like how long

981
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: do I have to wait? Even this year is one

982
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 1: giant question mark with new everything. I'm on the edge

983
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: of my seat with Jaden. Will it pan out? Or

984
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: should we have chosen May instead of RG three or

985
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,359
Speaker 1: Chase Young all over again? Or and it's RG three

986
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: or Chase Young all over again. I would just enjoy

987
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: it this year. I wouldn't get your expectations too high

988
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: and just pray that this kid looks like he's got

989
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: a chance to be special, because if he's special, your

990
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: entire franchise is change. I think it all revolves around him.

991
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: If he's great, you're in great shape. And if he's great,

992
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 1: let's face it, your timeline speeds up at rapid speed.

993
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: There isn't a soul. I would imagine even Casario and

994
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: cal McNair, who thought the Texans wouldn't just be in

995
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they would have won a playoff game at

996
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: this point in time last year. Now your division is

997
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: better in theory, so I wouldn't be thinking playoffs quite yet.

998
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: But you never know. And that's the power of the

999
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: National Football League. What if this guy does pop? What

1000
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: if I tell you right now Jaden and Daniels Rookie

1001
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: of the Year. If I told you right now Jaden

1002
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: Daniels wins Rookie of the Year, you'd be like, well,

1003
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: does he throw twenty four touchdowns and run for another ten?

1004
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 1: Are we a nine win team and the seventh seed?

1005
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: That'd be on the table. Obviously, if he has an

1006
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: up and down season, you got no shot. But even

1007
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: if he has an up and down season, if those

1008
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: ups are like you know, Jadan Daniels, ceiling is elite.

1009
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: One more offseason, another draft, you guys could be in

1010
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. I think the most powerful thing you

1011
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: have right now is hope and optimism. But it's real,

1012
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: right Get Dan Snyder out of there, get a new

1013
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: owner in who's cutting big ass checks. You get a

1014
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: GM who worked with John Lynch, John Elway, and Bill Belichick.

1015
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: Who'd you work for, Adam? I don't know. I've been

1016
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: to I don't even know how many super Bowls he's

1017
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: been do. He won a couple with the Patriots. He

1018
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: went to two with Denver, and he went to I

1019
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: guess technically he didn't go last year with the forty

1020
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: nine ers, but I mean he was.

1021
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 2: A part of it.

1022
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: It's been a part of a lot of winning, and

1023
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: your head coach has proven like as a head like

1024
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: he took the Atlanta Falcons to the Super Bowl, so

1025
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 1: I'd be pretty excited. Messaging from my wife's account. Deleted

1026
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: my social media four years ago and ended up being

1027
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,439
Speaker 1: one of the better decisions I've made. I think about

1028
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: a lot just deleting my Twitter. I think about it.

1029
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what good do I get? Now? Sometimes

1030
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: for me get a story, but I get most of

1031
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: my topics. I would say, not from Twitter, but every

1032
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: once in a while I do. It's like, ugh, but

1033
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm jealous. I can on it. I still like Instagram,

1034
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: though I probably waste too much time on it. But

1035
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm legit jealous. I'm legit jealous of you. I rewatched

1036
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl from last year and there is one play

1037
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't get enough attention. With three point thirty left

1038
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: in overtime, Mahomes was just about to chuck it deep

1039
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: but held at the last second and checked it down.

1040
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: A younger Mahomes would have slung that thing, but the

1041
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: guy has matured in such a smart player. They never

1042
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: showed that was down, They never showed what was down there,

1043
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: But I have to imagine it might have changed the

1044
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: outcome of the game. If you have access to the

1045
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: end zone version, I'd love to hear what you saw.

1046
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: I might have to go check that down. And this

1047
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: is whenever I get pushed back, like, is there's too

1048
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: much hype on Mahomes iss he mastered the game because

1049
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: early on in his career he was like a young farv.

1050
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: The gun slinging he had Tyreek Andy was in his

1051
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: bag and it was like, what is this? What he's

1052
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: become last playoffs and last season is is mastery because

1053
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: part of mastering football isn't always throwing the forty yard pass.

1054
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: Maybe in double coverage that could get picked, like you

1055
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: can check it down all drive along. Joe Montana won

1056
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl doing that against the Bengals. Dunkin and

1057
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: duncan play smart, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning what made

1058
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: them great? Obviously they have incredible highlight plays, But on

1059
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: like third and four, they wouldn't force it into an

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00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: area and throw an interception. They would check it down

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00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: to their running back and get a first down and

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00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: keep the drive alive. Happened a lot question for the mailbag.

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01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm a Panther fan, Unfortunately, do you think Bryce will

1064
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: make any significant progress if he doesn't improve? Should the

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01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: Panthers drafted in the quarterback. I'm assuming they will have

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01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 1: a pick in the top three. I heard from a

1067
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: little birdies at a good camp. Obviously you're not going

1068
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: against the greatest team, but I've heard he's at a

1069
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: good camp, So listen. It's hard to unsee what we

1070
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: saw last year, but we've seen this happen before Jared

1071
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: Goff's rookie season. I don't have their statu sheet in

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01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: front of me, but you could argue it was worse.

1073
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: You could argue as worse or equally as bad. And

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01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: look at Jared Goff, He's a top ten quarterback in

1075
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: the NFL and in the NFC. He's one of the

1076
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the NFC. So I'm biased because all

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: I can get out of my head is what I

1078
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: witnessed last year. So it's like it's hard for me

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01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: to be bullish and be like, yeah, you know, this

1080
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: guy's gonna turn around. He's gonna look like CJ. Stroud

1081
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: this year. But I do think it's fair to go, hey, man,

1082
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: you get an offensive play caller in here, you add

1083
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,440
Speaker 1: the dude in the second or I guess you traded

1084
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: up in the first round to get South Carolina guy,

1085
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: which Maria loves followed him on Instagram because he's just

1086
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: his Southern accent talking about horses. He's an explosive player,

1087
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: so maybe you could just be better. Big Philly fan here,

1088
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: it seems like my team and a few others have

1089
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: a lot of noise going on within their organization this offseason,

1090
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 1: Philly of course being alleged tension between Hurts and Sirianni,

1091
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: although they claim they have moved on on the West Coast.

1092
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine a noisier offseason than the Niners

1093
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: have had, contract disputes, the lingering Super Bowl loss, the

1094
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: future contract of party, along with the age of a

1095
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 1: team getting older, and many seeing this as one of

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01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: their last chances to win with this core. As someone

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01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: who's had been in an organization, how can things affect

1098
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 1: the team and a front office from the top to

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01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: the bottom. A lot of time in interviews they feign

1100
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: ignorance or say that's all noise and don't care about

1101
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 1: Is that true or is the back of everyone's mind?

1102
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine guys like Sirianni or Debo not

1103
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 1: caring about the stuff, considering how we're all human beings,

1104
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: so the ignorance pretending you don't care is always bullshit.

1105
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: How could you be Nick Sirianni and go up to

1106
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: the podium the next time he gives a press conference

1107
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: and not be just not nervous but kind of worked out,

1108
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 1: knowing what's coming. Brandon Aiyuk is walking around the building

1109
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: every day as everyone's talking about where he's going to

1110
01:02:53,520 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: get traded. So noise is real. Now what you can control.

1111
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: Let's use the Eagles of the Niners example. They have

1112
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: a ton of guys who are high level players who

1113
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: make a lot of money that they depend on for

1114
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: being focused and working hard. So for the Niners, like

1115
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: you can depend on McCaffrey, on Kittle, on Fred Warner.

1116
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Trent, but he's not around. Deebo

1117
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: this year's having a great camp. If you're the Eagles,

1118
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, AJ Brown, DeVante Smith, right, Brandon Graham, these

1119
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: guys to just be laser focused every day working and

1120
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: you just kind of like once the game start, it's

1121
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 1: just about the games. Now. The key is to win

1122
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: and win early and it quiets everything. That's a key

1123
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL win because when you lose. We talked

1124
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: about this earlier, and there's some weird stuff going on.

1125
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: Things can snowball and things can get weird. But if

1126
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: you lose. Look at the Jets last year, it was

1127
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: taking time bomb. He gets hurt, it blew up immediately.

1128
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 1: Now they don't have any success like these the Eagles

1129
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: and the Niners, but like ultimately they're gonna pay Tret

1130
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: and he's gonna come. But I would say the Eagles

1131
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: the Sirianna Jalen thing, it's gonna be a story all

1132
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: year long. If a yuk is traded, that situation is

1133
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: something that lingers all year long. Did you have to

1134
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: do that? Did that ruin your offense? Did that limit party?

1135
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: His favorite target? So it's like there are these tipping

1136
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: points that what if Jalen doesn't play well? The first

1137
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Well, okay, Nick Sirianna gets asked, well,

1138
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: are you guys buddies? Can you even talk to him?

1139
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: Imagine the forty nine Ers their offense struggles the first

1140
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: couple of weeks could have use Brandon Ayuk. He's on

1141
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: the Steelers, that first round pick can't play for you

1142
01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, I mean, I think it's something

1143
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: one thing I've always said, and I've been doing this

1144
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: a lot long longer now than I worked in the NFL.

1145
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: But the conversations we used to have in the building,

1146
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: you know, the other scouts or assistant coaches are no

1147
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: different than the conversations we have. Like you just talk

1148
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: about the same shit. Now you gotta be careful. I mean,

1149
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, the Syrianic thing would be a little you'd

1150
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 1: have to that's probably not an open conversation. Uh, But like,

1151
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: what do you think the conversation with Ayuk is going

1152
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: on in the building, Like let's just talk about this

1153
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent. It's like, what are we gonna do?

1154
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: You see the guy every day in the cafeteria. So

1155
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: I would imagine, I mean, through my experience and what

1156
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: I would imagine, the Patriots were unique because everyone's kind

1157
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: of like on Edge. But most of these places are

1158
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: having the same conversations we're having. Obviously they got more

1159
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: information or some of the conversations about like this dude's

1160
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: gonna make the team when everyone in the building knows

1161
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: he's not going to make the team. Shit like that.

1162
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: But if you're with the forty nine ers, like I

1163
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: would imagine, Brandy comes up in the building literally all

1164
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 1: the time. Love the podcast. I discover it when you

1165
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: are on with Bobby Bones. Love Bobby. I'm a Native Texan,

1166
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: but I live near Phoenix. I'm probably one of the

1167
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: only Native Texans that hates the Cowboys. I grew up

1168
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: a massive Joe Montana fan because of my dad. My

1169
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: dad loved Joe too. My question is, do you see

1170
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: a world where McCarthy and Nick Sirianni keep their jobs.

1171
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: Both of them are on the hot seat for different reasons.

1172
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,320
Speaker 1: With them being in the same division, it's hard to

1173
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: imagine that both could do enough to keep their jobs

1174
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: by the end of the season. Maybe if they both

1175
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: win ten twelve games and face each other in the

1176
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 1: NFC Championship Game. I think if they both win twelve

1177
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: games and face each other in the Championship game. They

1178
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: will both be back next year. McCarthy for sure. If

1179
01:06:59,040 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 1: McCarthy gets the Cowboys to the NFC championship game for

1180
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,800
Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen ninety six, he is going

1181
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: to be the Cowboys coach. And Dak Prescott was awesome

1182
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: last year. Mike McCarthy called the place so like. Mike

1183
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: is a head coach, which he's clearly pretty good at

1184
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 1: in the regular season, and he can call the place

1185
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: like he Mike's more valuable than Sirianni. Let's not argue that.

1186
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: I think Sirianni's a little more different, you know. I mean,

1187
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: what if they get to the second round of the

1188
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: playoffs and get destroyed by like the Lions, Packers, or

1189
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: Niners or the Cowboys. I think he's a little more fickle.

1190
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: McCarthy cannot lose in the first round. But if McCarthy

1191
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: wins a playoff game, I could see Jerry rolling it back.

1192
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: I would say if both guys, if we're in the

1193
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: second week of the playoffs, so there's wild card week

1194
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: and then there's a divisional round and both guys are

1195
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 1: not there for whatever reason, one misses the play If

1196
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: you miss if you're not in the playoffs, they're gone.

1197
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: We know that. Like that, that's a fact. If either

1198
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:10,960
Speaker 1: one of these teams miss the playoffs, they will get

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01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 1: a new head coach. I will say this, Sirianni is

1200
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 1: not that hard to replace, because, like we said, what's

1201
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: he really doing? If they got Belichick? I don't understand it,

1202
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: But I don't think McCarthy is the easiest coach to replace.

1203
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 1: He clearly knows what he's doing, and he can be

1204
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: your play color. He's better than Jason Garrett. And Jason

1205
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: Garrett kept his job for fucking eight years or ten

1206
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:40,520
Speaker 1: years or whatever his coach there forever nine years, ten years,

1207
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: Like you upgraded with Jason Garrett. You know with McCarthy

1208
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: from Jason, what's your upgrade? If you can't get Bill

1209
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: like is there? I'll give you an example. Would you

1210
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: fire him for Mike Vrabel? Like I don't know if

1211
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: I do that, And I like Mike Veribel a lot,

1212
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: But if McCarthy's getting to the playoffs every year, it's

1213
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 1: not like Vrabels won a Super Bowl as a head coach.

1214
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: Is Rabel gonna have a better play caller than McCarthy

1215
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: and his relationship with Dak assuming you keep dak, it

1216
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:14,800
Speaker 1: gets complicated fast. So I mean, there are two of

1217
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: the bigger stories in the league, the coaches for the

1218
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Cowboys on the hot seat. Both of

1219
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:25,280
Speaker 1: them playoff teams coming off double digit win seasons. And

1220
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: that's what's cool about the sport. Super high expectations, super

1221
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: high standards, and these teams man the volume