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Speaker 1: What is up everybody? John Middlecock Three and Out Podcast,

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Speaker 1: I would shake your hand if I could now to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. A lot going on. Little Russell Wilson divorce

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Speaker 1: feels imminent. Roethlisberger Steelers, it feels like they figured out

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Speaker 1: their problems free agency, which is right around the corner. Basically,

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Speaker 1: you know when our next podcast comes out on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Starting Monday, we're about a week and a half away,

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Speaker 1: right it's it's the seventeen, but it really kicks off

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Speaker 1: on So we're here. Guys are getting caught left and right,

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Speaker 1: and I'll dive into that, and then of course Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: very easy, very two thousand. You know, back in the

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Speaker 1: day used to call radio shows used to email radio shows.

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Speaker 1: have to wait to find out. Let's start with the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, and I I think at this point we

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Speaker 1: just have to call a spade a spade. Sometimes in life, breakups, divorces,

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Speaker 1: they just become inevitable that there is no way to

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Speaker 1: get around it. Hell, Kim and Kanye got a divorce.

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Speaker 1: Is that official yet? But I think they broke up.

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Speaker 1: Who would have saw that coming? Most people? But this

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Speaker 1: is one I think Pete Harold Russell Wilson none of

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Speaker 1: us saw coming unless you really maybe a beat writer

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Speaker 1: were a player on the team and you knew kind

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Speaker 1: some of us outsiders. If you're close with Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: and you realize you know Pete's not is in love

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Speaker 1: with Russell is many people thought you But most of

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Speaker 1: us US peons, us civilians, us as they call it,

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Speaker 1: an Augusta the patrons. We don't know that. The first

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Speaker 1: I've really learned of this stuff, like most people, is

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks, the last couple of months, whenever,

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Speaker 1: since this story became a story. But at this point

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Speaker 1: in time story today, Diana Rassini works for ESPN, Like

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Speaker 1: they're making calls and maybe that Seattle is not actively

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Speaker 1: looking at shopping shop him, but they're talking. Why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you at this point? And there comes a point where

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Speaker 1: quarterback like a home, like a business, you never want

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Speaker 1: don't know of how many people listening check the stock

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Speaker 1: market on Thursday. If you didn't, more power to you.

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Speaker 1: You avoided a blood bath. It was ugly. Whether you

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Speaker 1: see a lot of red. Well, what do you never

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Speaker 1: want to do on red? You don't want to sell. Ideally,

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Speaker 1: you never sell a home when it's values down. Ideally,

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Speaker 1: that are great. Now, I've been lucky. I've never been

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Speaker 1: like a third round pick, basically to the Raiders. Now,

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Speaker 1: Whatever the equivalent of that comment is, right, if whatever

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Speaker 1: have no quarterback. Here's what I know. A seven year

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Speaker 1: Who gives him that chance? Well, darre car in some

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Speaker 1: repeat that, Ben Roethlisberger, as a member of the Steelers

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Speaker 1: has made two hundred and fifty three million dollars, So

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Speaker 1: he's made more than two and a half times what J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt has made. Now, obviously he's played in the legal longer.

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Speaker 1: But my ultimate point is money. Even taking a little

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Speaker 1: pay cut this year, given money back or allowing the

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Speaker 1: salary cap rooms some uh their teams some flexibility his life.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about generational wealth that that is

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Speaker 1: a stupid amount of money. I would imagine right now

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Speaker 1: currently now it'll change because the money is only gonna

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Speaker 1: get more inflated. He's one of the highest paid players

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Speaker 1: in the history of the sport, so it's probably easier.

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Speaker 1: Plus the Steelers knew, like their leverage is one he

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to leave and too money, Like he's made

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Speaker 1: a ton and we have some leverage here and they

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Speaker 1: used it. And now Roethlisberger, my guests would be, you know,

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Speaker 1: the way Roethlisberger is, it'll it'll either be announced or

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Speaker 1: kind of leaked or maybe just implied. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be his last season, and whether they draft a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: it probably doesn't make sense for them to like trade

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Speaker 1: for Sam Donald, because you will You're not gonna waste

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Speaker 1: one of his cheap years behind Roethlisberger is this can

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Speaker 1: be kind of his swan song and hopefully he has

448
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Speaker 1: enough in the tank. You're gonna have to get a

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Speaker 1: better backup. Do you just try to win this way?

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Speaker 1: But in a day and age when the quarterbacks have

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Speaker 1: all the juice when it comes to leverage, Roethlisberger is

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Speaker 1: one of the rare guys. Now. Part of it is

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Speaker 1: he's just not as good anymore. Didn't have much. One

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Speaker 1: thing I get a lot on this show because I've

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Speaker 1: mentioned it several times, like how I want to buy

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Speaker 1: a house in Arizona, in Scott's Dale, Tempe, just that

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Speaker 1: just that area, And I get texts all the times

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Speaker 1: or d m s like, Bro, you're really gonna leave California?

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Speaker 1: Why are you moving? What are you doing? It's not

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Speaker 1: that complicated for me. Where I live right now in

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Speaker 1: the East Bay, so about twenty minutes away from Oakland,

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Speaker 1: kind of towards Sacramento has these areas called Alamo, Dan

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Speaker 1: Villain pleasanton. I like the suburbs. I'm a suburb guy.

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Speaker 1: But to buy a house that I would like to

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Speaker 1: buy around this area, it would easily cost over two

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Speaker 1: million dollars, and that house, I gotta be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: ain't even that nice. Then when you factor in that,

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Speaker 1: I have a business that I can kind of do wherever. Well,

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Speaker 1: the most anti business state in America buy a mile

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Speaker 1: right now, is California. It's the most expensive to get

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Speaker 1: off the ground. It's the most expensive in terms of

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Speaker 1: any sort of for us you want to run out.

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Speaker 1: The taxes are by far the highest in the country,

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Speaker 1: so it goes it's the most expensive place to live,

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Speaker 1: it's the most expensive place to do business. And then

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Speaker 1: the last twelve months of all the lockdowns and shutdowns,

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Speaker 1: no one was more extreme than California, and it's been

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Speaker 1: proven it didn't even work. So it's like the pro

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Speaker 1: business states, the Texas is, the air Zonas, the Florida's

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Speaker 1: they've been open up and it's cheaper to live there.

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Speaker 1: But I was thinking this before Corona, just based on like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't pencil. I don't have an unlimited amount of money,

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Speaker 1: and if I want a big gass house, Like why why?

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Speaker 1: And even if I have two and a half million dollars,

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Speaker 1: why would I buy a house I don't even think

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Speaker 1: that nice. That's fucking insanity to why so many people

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Speaker 1: outside of the state of California like you are crazy

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Speaker 1: for living there now. I'm born and raised here. I

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Speaker 1: am a California person at heart. I love the state.

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Speaker 1: I like being on the west. I'm a West Coast guy.

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Speaker 1: But there gets to a point where it just does

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Speaker 1: not pencil. It does not make any sense. Whether this

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Speaker 1: market right now, it's crazy Corona hit. Everyone's moved to

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Speaker 1: the bourbs. It's actually got way more expensive in like

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Speaker 1: a twenty mile radius of me right now than it

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Speaker 1: was a year ago. Pre Corona, give or take, is

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Speaker 1: up around me. It's out of control now. But even

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Speaker 1: before it was up, I didn't have that much interest

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Speaker 1: in spending what I have to spend to stay here,

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Speaker 1: mainly because I'm not stuck here, like my job is

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Speaker 1: not I don't have to be here, and I can

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Speaker 1: just keep real estate and go back and forth. But

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Speaker 1: I I can't fathom buying something that I don't even

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Speaker 1: think that nice for like a hundred and fifty cents

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Speaker 1: on the dollar when I go to when I look

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Speaker 1: in Vegas or I look in Scott's Dale, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you could live like a fucking king for a million

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Speaker 1: dollar house. And if I did have two million dollars,

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Speaker 1: I really be living like a king. But it's hard

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Speaker 1: to get there when you're getting tax left and right

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Speaker 1: in the state. So it's just it's just based on money.

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Speaker 1: My mom lives forty five minutes away from me, so

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Speaker 1: it was my brother got family and friends here. But

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Speaker 1: I'm a businessman like it. Just if it doesn't pencil,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense, mainly because the California real

516
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Speaker 1: estate market. Now, other real estate markets in different areas

517
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Speaker 1: are definitely booming, but it's the difference is here. If

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Speaker 1: it goes up are the bar was already so high.

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Speaker 1: I get. I get real estate guys in Vague or

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Speaker 1: in a Tempe they're trying to do business. And listen

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Speaker 1: to this show the Middle Coff If you moved to Tempe,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a real estate guy. And they

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Speaker 1: send me these you know, different Zillos or whatever, and

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Speaker 1: they go check out all these houses and there, you

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Speaker 1: know whatever, eight thousand dollars that down the street from

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Speaker 1: me would go for like two point two. So you're

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Speaker 1: just like, well, if I if I just had two

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Speaker 1: and a half million dollars in cash, would I be

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Speaker 1: better off buying that house for a million dollars and

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Speaker 1: having one point five million dollars cash also in my

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Speaker 1: pocket to do whatever I wanted to do. I could

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Speaker 1: buy an office down there, rent an office. I could

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Speaker 1: invest the market after today, it's really cheap because everything's

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Speaker 1: down by the time you're listening to this. Hopefully Friday

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Speaker 1: is not as ugly. So it just gets the point like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not in at this point in time in my

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Speaker 1: life paying a hundred and fifty cents on the dollar.

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Speaker 1: It just does not make sense. And when you get

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Speaker 1: into NFL free agency, if a guy is a good player,

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Speaker 1: like a a borderline pro bowler, let's just use jannikin

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Speaker 1: dock Way if he would if you were going to

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Speaker 1: extend him on your own team early, and he's a

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Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen million dollar player the moment he hits the

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Speaker 1: open market, it's why everyone wants to get free agency.

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Speaker 1: He is worth a duty cents on the dollar you

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Speaker 1: have to pay if he's a fifteen million dollar player

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Speaker 1: on the open market, he's going for nineteen twenty. If

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Speaker 1: you're an average player, Let's say, and when I say average,

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Speaker 1: I mean we'd all die for this type salary. If

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Speaker 1: you're just you're just average at your job and you

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Speaker 1: get paid six million dollars. Let's just say you're a

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Speaker 1: solid starting right guard and you're value in the league.

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Speaker 1: Non free agency is like a five or six million

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Speaker 1: dollar player. If the equivalent of that player hits free agency,

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Speaker 1: he's getting ten or eleven. We see it every year now.

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Speaker 1: Obviously this year with Corona the cap coming down, there's

557
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Speaker 1: not as much money out there, but that does not

558
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Speaker 1: change the fact that guys get overpaid in free agency

559
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Speaker 1: because all it takes is multiple teams bidding for you.

560
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Speaker 1: And I think the thing we have to be careful

561
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Speaker 1: of as NFL fans and people listening of your specific team,

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Speaker 1: it is very, very risky to sign higher end players.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing to an extend a free agent at

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Let's say the Cowboys last year,

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Speaker 1: remember they let him are hit free agency, and they

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Speaker 1: gave him a hundred million dollars and they guaranteed sixty

567
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Speaker 1: Amory just makes he's a twenty million dollar a year player.

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Speaker 1: I know the way they do it with the cap,

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Speaker 1: it's just I just look at it. Twenty year, five years,

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Speaker 1: give him sixty million dollars, so it's essentially a three

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Speaker 1: year contract. But they already had a Mari. They had

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Speaker 1: some success with them. Are so yeah, do I love

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Speaker 1: paying them? Are sixty million dollars guaranteed? I don't. But

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Speaker 1: I've already had him, and I had a pretty good

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Speaker 1: idea what he was and what he's not. Then obviously

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Speaker 1: this year it went pretty well. He had a career year,

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Speaker 1: even though the team was shitty. It wasn't his fault.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times, though, when you signed the equivalent

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Speaker 1: of a Mare that's not in your team, that's where

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Speaker 1: you can get, you know, getting too tough positions. You

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Speaker 1: can find yourself in predicaments because you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: overpay for eight million dollar player. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: give him twelve or thirteen a year. So that immediately

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Speaker 1: that extra four or five million dollars you're giving a

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Speaker 1: guy in free agency takes away another player that you

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Speaker 1: would have on your team, potentially multiple So it limits

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Speaker 1: your team building. And then there's a huge risk why

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Speaker 1: is that player on the open market. There's a reason

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Speaker 1: if you just think in recent memory, beside the guys

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Speaker 1: that were traded for two ones and a two right,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Jamal, Khalil Mack. We all acknowledge those teams like

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Speaker 1: just bad business. But those guys. Every team in the

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Speaker 1: league would want those guys. But you see guys like

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Speaker 1: two names that's stand out to me too, probably future

595
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: Hall of famers Richard Sherman and J. J. Watt right

596
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: where free agents. JJ was cut this year, Richard was

597
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: cut several years ago. Those guys had already signed contract

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Speaker 1: extensions with their original team. G G want to sign

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Speaker 1: multiple contract with the Texans. Richard had already signed a

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Speaker 1: massive extension with Seattle. So those guys are hitting the

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00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: open market for a reason, right. The team is basically

602
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: shorting their injury, which isn't that big a deal. It's

603
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: very understandable. It's like, okay, older players just part of

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Speaker 1: the league. Right. If you have a if you're a

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00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: non quarterback, I'd say anywhere between eight to a ten

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Speaker 1: year run with your original drafting team is very very successful.

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Speaker 1: You were good enough to get extended. You were clearly

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Speaker 1: probably a really good player, and you're a core piece

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Speaker 1: of a team, and typically if your team is good,

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Speaker 1: that's how a guy like that stays for a long

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00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: period of time. But when I get a guy who

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Speaker 1: is four or five years into his career off his

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Speaker 1: rookie contract, hits the open market, I read flag that

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Speaker 1: because any guy worth their salt unless I trade you,

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Speaker 1: like I said with Jamal Adams some of those guys.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just letting you hit the open market. The

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Speaker 1: best I can get as a team is a third

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Speaker 1: round back in the camp in the compensatory picks, and

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Speaker 1: people are like middlecoff. Can you explain that, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a capologist. It's you know, the cliff note version. If

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Speaker 1: a someone signs a player or your players that hit

622
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: free agency million dollars and you spend way less than

623
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Speaker 1: that in free agency, then you get better picks. But

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Speaker 1: if you let guys go and then you spend the

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00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: money that all those guys get on other players, then

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a wash. Is the cliff note version?

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00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: Is obviously way more complicated than that, But just know this,

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Speaker 1: I I I'm hesitating. I'm not buying a pizza. Real

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Speaker 1: estate here in the Bay Area why I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's worth it. It does not pencil for me. Now,

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Speaker 1: sometimes in football you have a need, you are a

632
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: desperate position for a defensive end, but just say it

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00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: out loud like Usually the worst deals happen in desperate situations.

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Speaker 1: I e. J. J. Watt, for example. They gave him

635
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: probably too much money, but that was the only way

636
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: they could get them. So the janikn Dock ways that

637
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson's whoever. I mean, these guys are really good players.

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Speaker 1: Just know to get them on your team, you have

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Speaker 1: to make them probably the highest paid player at your position.

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Speaker 1: So the teams that signed these type players are gonna

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Speaker 1: get a ton of credit. Fans are gonna be really excited.

642
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Speaker 1: Most of them are not gonna work out, and most

643
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Speaker 1: of them are gonna be very, very overpaid. There's a

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Speaker 1: reason a lot of the good teams typically shop the

645
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Speaker 1: second week the third week because it's way cheaper. Then

646
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Speaker 1: there's way less pressure when you miss, and you have

647
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: way more flexibility getting rid of that player. It just

648
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Speaker 1: allows you. Typically the guys I want to pay huge

649
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Speaker 1: money or guys on my team are guys that I

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Speaker 1: know in and out thoroughly. There's a reason that Belichick

651
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: and Brady they won the most. They extended the guys

652
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Speaker 1: they really liked, even people act like they traded everybody,

653
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: the guys they loved, the Gronks, the Richard C. Moore's,

654
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Speaker 1: the Logan Mankins, the whoever's got second contracts in that operation,

655
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Speaker 1: Devin mccordy Edelman. They extend guys now they cut bait

656
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Speaker 1: year seven, eight nine, but they don't shop big ticket

657
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Speaker 1: because there's typically a red flag there and way over priced. Okay,

658
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Speaker 1: let's do a little middle cuff mail back. Let's just

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Speaker 1: dive right into it from l D question for the pod.

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Speaker 1: Shouldn't Pete Carroll bear most of the responsibility for Russ's

661
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: frustration in Seattle's inability return to the Super Bowl. He

662
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: was under five his first two seasons. He did take

663
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: over a terrible team. The second year, most of his

664
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: famous defense was in place. Russ arrives at the team

665
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: wins eleven games year one and wins it all the

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Speaker 1: second year. I mean, they had the best defense in

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Speaker 1: the league and a dominant running back. Since two thousand sixteen,

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00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I'm like adding, as he's talking, my own opinion. Since

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Speaker 1: two sixteen, the defense has struggled in their draft picks

670
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: at been terrible, and he's in control of personnel. In

671
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen they drafted Penny who's a bust. Agree.

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00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: Nineteen call year reached a defensive end. Agree. And when

673
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: they chose a safety in round two, who's now their nickelback?

674
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: Before getting lucky with d K it's not. You can't

675
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: say they get lucky with picks and they miss picks,

676
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: like you hit on your picks and you miss on

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00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: your picks the Texas Tech linebacker over l s U

678
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: s Pat McQueen, Pat queen, I think McQueen queen. I

679
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: know Russ is a fraudulent diva, but maybe all of

680
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: these trash decisions is why he is a stick of possess.

681
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: I think it goes both ways. I mean, Russ does

682
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: not have a Super Bowl if he's not on a

683
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: elite team, number one scoring defense in the league. And

684
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 1: Mark Shawn Lynch they had an elite team, an unstoppable defense.

685
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: We've seen Russ with great offenses and bad defense. He

686
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: can't win like this is a team game. Pete bears responsibility.

687
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: Have they missed on picks? Of course, Belichick misses on picks. Uh,

688
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: the Steelers miss on picks. You know the Chiefs, they

689
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: miss on picks. I'm sure they have miss on that

690
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: mean Sammy Watkins. If they could do that one over again,

691
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't assigned him to the big money a

692
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And I know they like him,

693
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: but it's just they paid him a lot. Like everyone

694
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: misses him. You know when I say mr is like

695
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: obviously with Sean Penny is a massive miss because they

696
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: could have had Nick Chubb. It's it's not ideal. But

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00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: you know what does Russ think? Only Tom Brady goes

698
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl every year? No one else goes to Super

699
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: Bowl every year, Not Peyton Manning, now Brett Farve, not

700
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, now Steve Young, not always go the history

701
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: of the league, but even just the last couple of decades, Roethlisberger, No,

702
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: stop comparing yourself to Tom Brady. Every other quarterback win

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl or two. Your a legend, Russ, you're

704
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: a legend. You don't get to go Super Bowl every year.

705
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: It's not the way it works. It's too hard. So

706
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't really know what else to say. Beside I

707
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: think his expectations and which you should have huge expectations, right,

708
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: no one should have bigger expectations, uh, any high achiever

709
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: than themselves for themselves and for what they do professionally.

710
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I also think you have to

711
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: be realistic. It'd be like a guy, you know, he's

712
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: making thirty million dollars a year, but he's jealous of

713
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: the guy is making a hundred million dollars a year. Well,

714
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: you're doing pretty well making thirty million dollars a year.

715
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: Business is a movement. Could it be better? Of course,

716
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: because whether in business, whether in sports, unless you're Tom Brady,

717
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: it can always be better. But I think we're comparing

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Speaker 1: him to Brady. It doesn't get any better. He fucking

719
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Speaker 1: wins the Super Bowl. It feels like every year that

720
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: he's the all time outlier. I even saw today on

721
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: social media Joe Montana was like, yeah, he's the goat.

722
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Speaker 1: You know what? What what can I even say said it?

723
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: I just I think Russell Wilson, like, You've had an

724
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: incredible career. You make the Pro Bowl every year, You're

725
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: gonna go down as a first ballt Hall of Famer.

726
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: You're the best player in the history of the franchise.

727
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 1: You Resid, you helped, you helped resurrect the franchise. Sherman

728
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: and Earl Thomas and Pete those guys that are credit

729
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: to I just think I think Russell's I don't know.

730
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Speaker 1: And listen, I'm all for being positive and all for

731
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: shooting for the stars, but there's a balance between like

732
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: shooting for the stars and being realistic. Right, what do

733
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: you think about Kyle van Noy? Is the Dolphins preparing

734
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: to make a move for to Sean well too fold.

735
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: I saw that he wasn't happy that he got cut

736
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Speaker 1: team captain. It's like, bro, I don't pretend to have

737
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: studied Calvinoy this year with the Dolphins, solid player to

738
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: get paid fifteen million dollars. Like see, the NFL doesn't

739
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: utter their contracts. No literally in the contract. If it

740
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: says they can cut you after a year, that's the

741
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: fucking contract. It bothers me so much when I see

742
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: people like they didn't know utter the contract. No, the

743
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: contract literally says they can get out whenever they want.

744
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: If you and I have a contract for you to

745
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: take out my trash every day for a year and

746
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay you ten grand and you take out

747
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: my contract or my trash every day for a year

748
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: and I don't pay you any money, that's not honoring

749
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: the contract. Or I pay you five grand, You're like,

750
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: where's my other five grand? That's not honoring the contract

751
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: if I can if in that contract it says well

752
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: after two months, I can break the contract and I

753
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: only have to pay you two And I break the

754
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: contract after two months and I hand you two hundred dollars,

755
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: that's not not honoring the contract. It's literally following the contract. Now,

756
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. All the rumblings, Uh a little weird,

757
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: you know, it felt a little weird, But I don't know.

758
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they just didn't think he was that good.

759
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: I don't think Kyle Vanoy is also, you know, he

760
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: made a ton of money. No one's given him fifteen

761
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: million dollars. He should be he should feel good that

762
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:55,959
Speaker 1: he took you know, the Dolphins gave him all that cash.

763
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: Question for the pod, what are your view on athletes

764
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: taken p DS. I personally want to see the best

765
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: athletes and peak performance, and if drugs help with that,

766
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 1: especially with recovery from injuries, so be it. I also

767
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 1: think we'd be naive to suggest a large percentage of

768
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: NFL isn't taking h g H at a bare minimum.

769
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Speaker 1: I know this is a bit loaded question, but I

770
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: love your thoughts. Not offended by p d US at all.

771
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: I am pro pd use, I'm pro enhancement. Whatever you

772
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 1: can do to make yourself feel better, go ahead. Uh.

773
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: I think people over the years have freaked out about

774
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: the reason that they test, the reason they test for,

775
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: like recreational drugs. It's not that complicated you ever. You know,

776
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: read about the way insurance companies operate. You typically have

777
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: to do for insurance reasons. You think, how many owners

778
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: do you think smoke weed? Or how how many owners

779
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: do you think in their six sixties seventies. If you

780
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: were an owner right now, if you're Jerry Jones, you're

781
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: in late seventies, you've never been richer, wouldn't you do

782
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: everything possible to You don't think he's taking stuff? So

783
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, like what percentage of athletes take stuff?

784
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: I do think this these guys to get to that level.

785
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: You are such a genetic freak. I I've started lifting

786
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: weights in the last year, and when I stay lifting weights,

787
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: just doing like resistance, you know, like lighter stuff, curls,

788
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: you know, bench press but light and a lot of

789
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: reps just to kind of tone up. I've always been

790
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: a cardio guy, but the older you get, you feel

791
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: a little flabby. Right back when I was in my twenties,

792
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: as long as I ran a little bit, I felt

793
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: like in pretty good shape. Now it's like, even if

794
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm doing cardio, I feel like a little soft. So

795
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: I try to incorporate some weights a couple of days

796
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: a week. My body is not receptive to weights. It

797
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: never really has been. But when you watch I remember

798
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: being at Fresno State and you'd get like a rookie,

799
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: not a rookie of freshmen and they'd start in the

800
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 1: weight program. Two years later, you'd be like, God, that

801
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: guy's sucking jacked because they're they're these guys are elite.

802
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: And this is at Fresno State, let alone the dudes

803
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: at Bament, Ohio State. Once they get to the NFL,

804
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: and they even up there or there in take of

805
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,760
Speaker 1: eating the right foods, training the perfect right way, figuring

806
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: out exactly the way to train for that individual, their

807
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: bodies are really receptive. So whether ray Lewis was doing

808
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: Dear Angelers Prayer or not, I don't care. But ray

809
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: Lewis got you know, probably put on stupid amount of

810
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: weight throughout his career because naturally his body is more

811
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: receptive of that stuff. And I think it incorporates all

812
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: these NFL players NBA guys too. Do. I think guys

813
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: are doing stuff, of course, but I also think if

814
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: you gave the average even like in shape Joe Dude,

815
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: like the whoever would be the number one pick in

816
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: the UH in an office building right if you went

817
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: to the cubicles and you went, okay, I'll think James

818
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 1: he was a he was all conference high school player,

819
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: but never played past that. Like that guy. If I

820
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: gave that guy H G H, and I gave that

821
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 1: guy all the good p d s, he'll probably get bigger.

822
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: But I bet if I went to an NFL and

823
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: I gave that guy, his body is are gonna be

824
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: more receptive. These guys are the biggest freaks on the planet.

825
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: So I I think sometimes and even I'm guilty of

826
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: this too, I overvalue like all these guys are on pds.

827
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: Maybe I think all these guys are taking supplements, and

828
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: but I think it's a smaller percentage doing true true

829
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: like illegal stuff. Our guys pushing the envelope. Of course,

830
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: if you ain't pushing the envelope, you ain't gonna make

831
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: it simple. Period, point blank, end of story. Our guys

832
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: full on quote unquote cheating. Relative to the rules, I

833
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: would imagine it's a smaller percentage than most of us think.

834
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: Even when you work in the NFL, it's not like

835
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: you're going up to players like using pds. How about

836
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: the pd s there, it's you're not coaches, They're not asked.

837
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: They don't want to know. Now you do want to know.

838
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: Here's where you do want to know. Like if I

839
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: get a Boasta brother or whatever, right, and those guys

840
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 1: are not on pds, and I go, God, this guy's

841
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: a freak. This guy is a dominant player, right, I

842
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: feel good he's gonna get to the league and dominate.

843
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: And both those guys got to the eage it was

844
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: clear they're pretty good. But for example, I don't I'm

845
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: not going to use a name, but there have been

846
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: players over the years that are like first round talents.

847
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not on the Bosses levels or Khlil Mac

848
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: or like a top five pick, but like a first

849
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: round level player. And if you get rumors in college.

850
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: If someone tells you at that program, they go, be careful,

851
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: this guy's a steroid guy. You have to tell your

852
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: GM and your coach that because you might end up

853
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: really liking that player. But if you find out like

854
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: this guy is not gonna be able to pass tests

855
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: once he gets to the pros, and if he can't,

856
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: then he won't be any good and that that happens sometimes, right,

857
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: So that that's something to that doesn't really get out.

858
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: Uh So, I don't know if I answer your question there,

859
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: but that's I I really don't care if you told

860
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: me everyone want to use steroids, cool with me. Really

861
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: hope Justin Fields and mac Jones end up in New

862
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: England or San Francisco. Shanahan needs to go all in

863
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: on one of these quarterbacks. If he's a quarterback whisper,

864
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: he and Lynch can get a cheap labor for four

865
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: to five years, make another Super Bowl run with studs

866
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: other areas making big money. Boast of Warner O line,

867
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: et cetera. I agree, I would always. I think the

868
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: Rams are a good example. They were in such uh

869
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: draft pick hell, they didn't have any picks. They don't

870
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: have any money. The only route they could take to

871
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: upgrade their quarterback was do something crazy like they did.

872
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: They almost had to triple down, right, they had doubled

873
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: down with Jalen Ramsey. They were stuck. The only way

874
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: they could maneuver was doing what they did with Matt Stafford.

875
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: In a perfect world, if they had more flexibility, maybe

876
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: they would have tried to draft a guy because it

877
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: would have been much cheaper. But they didn't have a choice.

878
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: If you, if you can, you would always rather get

879
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 1: your rookie quarterback who can become a top twelve guy.

880
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: The problem is you just never know, you know, I

881
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: mean more than likely Mac Jones or Justin Fields. And

882
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: I like both those players. There's a decent chance one

883
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: of them is a complete terrible NFL player. It's not

884
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 1: out of the realm possibility. If we just use those

885
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: two guys as examples, they're both bad. That's the hard

886
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: part about the draft. It's and I'm guilty right in theory,

887
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: Draft a guy, draft a guy. And I keep saying

888
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: this about the Niners. Draft a guy, draft a guy. Well,

889
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: what if you don't love any of the guys, But

890
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: if you don't think any of the you know from

891
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks three to six are gonna be franchise quarterbacks because

892
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: if you do draft a guy in the first round

893
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: and you miss, you're in trouble. Giving your NFL experiences,

894
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: can you give some perspective on how much the past

895
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: culture of an organization plays into the approach, philosophy of

896
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: the present and future of the organization. How much does

897
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: it affect team decisions on personnel and money and is

898
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: it something that's explicitly talked about. Compliments, Thanks so much

899
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: for reading a question, So no totally fan gurable listen.

900
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: Uh Josh okay, Josh gave a bunch of compliments. Don't

901
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: want to read on the air. Very nice, appreciate your

902
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: kind words. Well, I've only been on one team and

903
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: just you don't like the culture. The culture, don't talk

904
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: about it. You just your culture is just the building

905
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: every day, right, It's just your coaches and your personnel

906
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: people and your players. It's why I said that I

907
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: thought the Patriot culture was a little overrated because it

908
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: turned out like Tom is a huge part of it.

909
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: And Tom creates the Belichick culture because his best player,

910
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 1: the best player in you know, one of arguably league history,

911
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: doesn't make that much money, can get coached. Everyone's kind

912
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: of on edge because Tom's kind of on edge and

913
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: just kind of gets created. When I was in Philly,

914
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: like it was just Andy kind of set the culture

915
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: just by the way he acted, the way the way

916
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: he operated, and the players and the coaches. It's just

917
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't think you just I don't know how to

918
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: describe this. I never felt like the culture was this. Yes,

919
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: some days were good, you know, some days people are

920
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: mad after loss. I don't know. I think it gets

921
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: a little overvalued, I guess is my ultimate point. Now,

922
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: good culture, Like I can't imagine in a place that

923
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: always loses. Everyone's negative. There's something that I've never been

924
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: around that I've been around, you know, I thought pretty

925
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: soon people that were very positive. Last mailbag, somebody said

926
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: the Niners need to put their big boy pants on

927
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: and go get to Sean, which I'm a fan of

928
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: them doing. Since that's in the air, then why not

929
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: use the same mentality to trade up to number one

930
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: and grab Trevor Lawrence and give Kyle the quarterback he needs.

931
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: Niners would be giving up around the same number of

932
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: picks in that scenario, and most likely be giving up

933
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: less since we wouldn't be losing out on core players

934
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: in a trade and possibly less picks. Lawrence would be

935
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: cheaper for many reasons. Worst case, trade four pick two

936
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: instead and get Wilson. Well, the Trevor Lawrence thing, it

937
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: takes two to tango, right. You can't ask. You can't

938
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: get a dance with a girl if she won't dance

939
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: with you, and there is under no circumstances. If the

940
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: Jaguar said today, if if Trent Balky and the Jags

941
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: just tweeted out we're open or just leaked to schefter,

942
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: the Jags are open to listening to offers about the

943
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: number one pick. Every fucking team in the league would call.

944
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: Teams would be lined up. Why would the Jags trade

945
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: with the Niners? What do the Niners have to give them?

946
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: Whyhy wouldn't the Jacks want Trevor Lawrence. I just it's

947
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: just not an option, because I think they would like

948
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: with the Niners trade three first round picks and two

949
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: second round picks to get Trevor Lawrence. Probably it's just

950
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: not available. I'm with you. I would do that yesterday

951
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: to get Trevor Lawrence. The Zach Wilson thing, you just

952
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: to trade up to get a player. Here's the key.

953
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: You gotta believe him. And then one of the great

954
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: conviction trades of of modern day of the Internet age

955
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: was a non quarterback was Julio Jones. When the Falcons

956
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: traded up to get Julio Jones, Remember Belichick told him

957
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: not to do it, and he said in his gut

958
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: he believed in it, and he drafted a Hall of

959
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: Fame player. It was it was worth it. Sometimes you

960
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: know when you trade up for quarterback that that guy

961
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: has to be a a Pro Bowl level guy. Where

962
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: doesn't feel it's a it's a bad decision. What do

963
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: you ultimately see the Washington football team doing a quarterback

964
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 1: going with what they have free agent or drafting someone. Well,

965
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs, so their pick is not that high. Uh,

966
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: they could trade for Mariota. Rumors were out there that

967
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: they tried to a month ago and then they kind

968
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: of pulled back and because there's a chance to Raiders

969
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: cut them. I would say Mariota would make some sense.

970
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: I would say drafting maybe a Mac Jones would make

971
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: some sense. And I would say, you know, if a

972
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: player like Jimmy Garoppolo or Sam Donald will become available,

973
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: would make some sense. I get asked all the time, like,

974
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: what is my team going to do a quarterback? I

975
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 1: don't think anyone knows because there are crazy, you know,

976
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: kind of variables out there right now. Start with Sean

977
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: and Russell. Do those guys get traded? Because if they do,

978
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: then what happens with Sam Donald? What do the Miami

979
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: Dolphins do with to uh? Do the Niners draft a

980
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: quarterback or they keep Jimmy Garoppolo? What the hell are

981
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: the Bears gonna do? Is there any chance that Kirk

982
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: Cousins or Matt Ryan were to get traded? I hate

983
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: not being able to answer the question, but I honestly

984
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 1: don't know, because I see it could be like ten options.

985
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: It's one of those years, whether it's not just what

986
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: are the Saints gonna do? For someone who aspires the

987
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: work in player development and ultimately a front office one day,

988
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: the insight you provide is refreshment. I'm in my last

989
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: semester of college right now and want to get into

990
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: the game of baseball. My end goal is to be

991
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: a GM in the game, but I feel as if

992
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: scouting is the best route for me to break into

993
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: the game. I wanted to see if you had any

994
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: advice for someone like me. My plan after graduation is

995
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: to try to find a somewhat normal nine to five

996
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: job to give me some more capital for when I

997
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: do slide into the baseball world, because I know I

998
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: won't be making a lot of money, especially after the

999
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: pandemic has done to sports and we love uh I

1000
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: can you know talking about economically speaking once again, huge fan,

1001
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: appreciate that Brett. My advice would be this, and this

1002
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,280
Speaker 1: is gonna sound a little crazy. I would do everything

1003
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: possible to get your foot in the door as soon

1004
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: as possible. I saw someone say this the other day,

1005
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: and I do think it's true when you give yourself

1006
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: an out. Like when I got into sports, I never

1007
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: took another job. I never like before, and I was lucky,

1008
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: right I got a g a job at Fresson State

1009
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: right out of college. But I remember thinking like Freso

1010
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: State was paying me the equivalent of a college scholarship,

1011
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: like what the players were getting. You know, I got

1012
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: like seven to eight hundred dollars a month and I

1013
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: didn't make any money. I was on scholarship. But if

1014
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: I had done a job. Let's say, and I was

1015
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: I graduated college right when the recession hit No. Eight.

1016
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: But let's say I have gotten a job like some

1017
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: of my friends making sixty seventy dollars with my you know,

1018
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 1: selling insurance Morgan Stanley whatever that is. So even that

1019
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: is so much more money sixty grand, than I was

1020
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 1: making at the time. Who knows, Maybe it kind of comfortable.

1021
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: Maybe you realize some people tell you, like, you can

1022
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: make a lot of money doing this, and you just

1023
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: kind of get into a rut. But I just went

1024
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: right into the world, and it's all I knew. Now

1025
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: eventually looking back, like I could never go back and

1026
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: do that now what I knew now, But at the

1027
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: time I didn't know that. Now, I just knew what

1028
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to do, and I went all in. I

1029
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: would always advise someone to put all their chips in

1030
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: the middle of the table, because then if you hate it,

1031
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: at least you tried and you took a big swing. Now,

1032
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: obviously you need money to eat and need money to live,

1033
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 1: but sometimes you just gotta suck it up. And the

1034
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: good thing with working in sports, especially if you can

1035
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: work in the front office, you know, you know when

1036
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: on my first year in Philly, I made like grand

1037
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: twenty grand. I can't maybe it was. I don't think

1038
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 1: it was thirty. I think it might have been twenty.

1039
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: But then with sports I had a free gym, I

1040
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: got free food. Same thing at first of the state.

1041
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of free food. I didn't have

1042
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: to pay for a gym. I got free clothes. I

1043
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: wore sweats every day, Like you can live pretty simply.

1044
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: It is a big advantage, right. I like to work out,

1045
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: I like to eat, and I was all in there.

1046
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: That's basically all I did. I didn't have much of

1047
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: a life. I didn't go on vacations. I didn't I

1048
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: didn't go on any vacations in my twenties. Vacations didn't exist.

1049
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,360
Speaker 1: Didn't have any fucking money. I didn't care. I was

1050
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: just trying to climb up the ladder of what I

1051
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I think sometimes when you give yourself

1052
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: an out, I never have, But just knowing people that

1053
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: ask me questions about getting in as they get older,

1054
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: it's hard because you're like, how am I gonna go

1055
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: from making sixty grand to make in ten? Well, if

1056
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: all you know is ten, you learn how to survive. Right,

1057
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: It's just like animal instincts. You can make do with

1058
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: what you got, but it's harder to take a huge

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Speaker 1: step back. Okay, one more. I've been a Chargers fan

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Speaker 1: for fifteen years and I've experienced the most pain, mostly

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Speaker 1: pain and suffering watching this team. However, with Herbert at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I am hopeful he can one day lead us to

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Speaker 1: a championship. What's your take on the situation? Well, he

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Speaker 1: literally just had the greatest rookie season in the history

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Speaker 1: of the position, So is our his expectations probably a

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Speaker 1: little outrageous, yes, but you do not have to be

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Speaker 1: Parcels or Bill Walsh to realize his talent is stupid.

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Speaker 1: His arm strength, his mobility, just his overall ability is

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Speaker 1: eye popping, even at the NFL level. Then you factor

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Speaker 1: in their team pretty talented, got a ton of studs

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Speaker 1: on the squad. They're built to win. Now, to me,

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Speaker 1: the only like I actually don't have that many questions

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Speaker 1: with Herbert. Now, once fans come back, it's gonna get

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Speaker 1: harder transition period, will it? You know? Could he have

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Speaker 1: some struggles, of course, but he's pretty damn good. The

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Speaker 1: question for me is the coach the hire brands Daley

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Speaker 1: who had been a coordinator for a year to meet

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Speaker 1: less about being a coordinator for a year. He'd only

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Speaker 1: been in the NFL for four or five years, so

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Speaker 1: there's a big transition. Now. It seems like a smart guy,

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Speaker 1: seems like an impressive guy. There is a ton of

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Speaker 1: pressure on him. He inherits uh, Justin Herbert and Bosa

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Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen and all these guys, Mike Williams Hopefully

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Speaker 1: what's his name, the Derwin James can stay healthy because

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Speaker 1: if he can, that guy, their team is just loaded.

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Speaker 1: They drafted Kenneth Murray last year from from Oklahoma. They

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Speaker 1: have a ton of talent on their squad. They just

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Speaker 1: have been poorly coached, Like Anthony Lynn's gone now. I

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Speaker 1: just don't know if Stalley is any good. He was

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Speaker 1: an awesome coordinator for Sean McVeigh, best defense in the league.

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Speaker 1: He was awesome. Can you do that with these guys

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Speaker 1: We're about to find out. I can't wait to watch.

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Speaker 1: I I would be I would be really excited if

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Speaker 1: I were you, I would expect to be in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs next year. Thanks for listening, Have a great weekend,

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Speaker 1: and uh and yeah, I have a great weekend.