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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I went on with Coward.

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Speaker 1: We talked some ball, a lot of preseason, a lot

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Speaker 1: mailbag at John middlecoff is the Instagram fire into those dms?

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Speaker 1: Get your question on the show? And I also saw

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Speaker 1: on that before we get into the mailbag. So big

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Speaker 1: Mailbag Show at John Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in

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Speaker 1: those dms. Also Collins Podcast, So a lot of Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: podcast content this week. I just go third person. Didn't

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Speaker 1: let's keep it rolling. Football's here. Just buckle up. I'm

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of people are right. JJ Watt is involved,

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Speaker 1: shits and giggles. They're doing it to make money. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: to go. If you're the fifty. If you're the forty

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Speaker 1: ninth guy and they claim two guys, you're gone too.

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Speaker 1: There there's this is just I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for these guys who the players who have worked

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Speaker 1: their whole life, especially guys that did it the right way,

434
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Speaker 1: played Division I football, work their ass off to be

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Speaker 1: a six round pick this month. They're fighting for their

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Speaker 1: professional life, and if it goes really shitty, if they

437
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Speaker 1: just don't like, it could just end and within a

438
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Speaker 1: couple of years they are just doing normal people jobs.

439
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Speaker 1: And if for whatever reason, you have a good preseason,

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Speaker 1: you could go from God, I didn't even though I

441
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Speaker 1: was going to make the team, to all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: by Week four with an injury, you're the starting right guard,

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Speaker 1: you're the starting outside linebacker, you're the starting safety. And

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Speaker 1: then we look back eight years later, you're like, got,

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Speaker 1: this guy's been a seven year starter. He's made two

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowls. That's how it happens. It happens that fast

447
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,240
Speaker 1: both ways, guys getting thrown to the garbage and guys

448
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Speaker 1: becoming in two years. Like Jesus, this guy, one of

449
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Speaker 1: the better will linebackers in the league. Didn't see this

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Speaker 1: one coming. This guy never should have fallen into the

451
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Speaker 1: fifth round. That's how it happens, and it starts happening

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Speaker 1: as the pads come on in preseason, but definitely as

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Speaker 1: you start playing these other guys in preseason, because that's

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Speaker 1: how you lock up a roster spot, you know, come

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Speaker 1: week one. Hey, let's dive into the middle Cough mail

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Speaker 1: bag at John Middlecoff. This is the instagram at John

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff is the instagram firing those dms and get your

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Speaker 1: question answered here on the show. John loved the pod

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Speaker 1: thought that Seattle had overall quote unquote lost the trade

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Speaker 1: for Adams, but I just watched the video of a

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Speaker 1: breakdown and it really seems like they actually broke. Even

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Speaker 1: Adams is a very unique player, it can be very

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Speaker 1: good if used right. I coach defense for a middle

464
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Speaker 1: school and coach a kid we use as our third

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Speaker 1: safety like a nickel safety, and hardly given pass coverage

466
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Speaker 1: responsibility so they don't get caught in no man's land

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Speaker 1: while covering like Jamal Adams constantly does not really a question.

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Speaker 1: Just guess it's some content. Maybe. Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Anytime that you make a massive trade for a player, right,

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Speaker 1: multiple ones and usually when you do that. We've seen

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Speaker 1: over the last handful of years, Jalen, Ramsey, Khalil, Mack

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Speaker 1: Jamal I would put even though it was their third contract,

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Speaker 1: Tyreek and Davante. It's a double whammy, right, You're giving

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Speaker 1: up draft capital, which you're not gonna pick the same

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Speaker 1: players at the other team picks. But those picks represent

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Speaker 1: cheap labor and the ability to get impact players at

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Speaker 1: lower cost numbers. And once you invest in said player,

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Speaker 1: whoever you get back. Jalen, Khalil, Tyreek, Davante. These are

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Speaker 1: just that come to mind. I'm trying to think. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there have been others. Matt Stafford, you need that

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Speaker 1: guy to be elite because you are going to pay him.

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Speaker 1: You're always going to extend him. That's just the way

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Speaker 1: it works, right. Once you make a big trade, you're

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Speaker 1: extending the player, whether it's immediately or within a year.

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Speaker 1: I think Jalen it took him minute, Khalil had happened

486
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Speaker 1: the moment he was traded, DeVante, Tyreek moment he was traded.

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Speaker 1: But I need that guy to be elite. I do

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Speaker 1: because I am giving up the ability to get cost controlled,

489
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Speaker 1: cheaper assets and just cap flexibility, so that guy has

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Speaker 1: to be elite and Jamal Adams simply as not. And

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Speaker 1: I know he was injured last year, played in the

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Speaker 1: one game. Well that's part of the way he plays.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's been injured since he's been on Seattle.

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Speaker 1: And two, I hear what you're saying about the safety

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Speaker 1: that you use in your training camp. Here's the difference though,

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, when you're facing Sean McVay Kyle Shanahan,

497
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Speaker 1: who are just in the division that's four games a year,

498
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Speaker 1: they are so good at scheming to get that guy

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Speaker 1: in a matchup. And we saw two years ago when

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Speaker 1: Seattle was struggling with RUSS the year they missed the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and you know the final season of that kind of era,

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Speaker 1: Jamal couldn't cover anybody. He cannot cover people. And I'm

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Speaker 1: with you, like put players in positions to do what

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Speaker 1: their strengths are. And I believe like that in any

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Speaker 1: industry you have a talented employe, because Jamal has talents right,

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Speaker 1: very good in the run game. Well what do we

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Speaker 1: say about running backs not as valuable because it's a

508
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Speaker 1: passing league. I need you to be able to cover

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Speaker 1: and if you can't. Your value is dramatically less. Last

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Speaker 1: I checked, they gave him forty million dollars guaranteed, so

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Speaker 1: that they're paying this guy a ton of money, like

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Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars a season. So once I start compensating

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Speaker 1: you at such a high level, injuries happen. No one

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Speaker 1: can control from that. I don't know what to say,

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Speaker 1: but like, I don't blame anyone for getting injured in

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Speaker 1: terms of like no team knows, like Aaron Donald, Trent Williams.

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Speaker 1: You name it like any top player, and get injured tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: But like there are legitimate physical limitations with the player

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Speaker 1: as a cover guy, and if covering is a problem

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Speaker 1: for you at that position, I got that thing, red

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Speaker 1: flag having an issue following your link my Apple podcast

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Speaker 1: last updated three and out back in February. Is anyone

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Speaker 1: else telling you they have this issue? When I search

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Speaker 1: three and out on an Apple, I don't get yours resubscribed.

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Speaker 1: Very weird. I'm in UK based, so it might be

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Speaker 1: an issue. I can see the volume pime podcast and

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Speaker 1: see your latest, but would prefer to get three and out,

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Speaker 1: you know, every once in a while, because sometimes they

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Speaker 1: put this feed, they put the three and out podcast

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Speaker 1: on Collins Feed as well, and I am no it guide,

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Speaker 1: but clearly I think sometimes that causes issues. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, whenever anyone dms me that they're

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Speaker 1: having an issue, I immediately check and then it immediately works,

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Speaker 1: So I don't I've had people look into it, they

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Speaker 1: say there's no issues. I would just try it. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate everyone that listens on the three and out feed.

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Speaker 1: If you listen on Collins Feed, make sure you subscribe

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Speaker 1: to three and out feed. But I always double check

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Speaker 1: whenever someone reaches out and it always works for me.

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Speaker 1: If it did not, I would make a bigger issue

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Speaker 1: out of it. But I don't know what to say.

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Speaker 1: Love the show, Newish listener, not sure when you do

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Speaker 1: the mail bag, but figured i'd give this one shot.

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Speaker 1: Does this statement change your mind about the Titans at all?

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Speaker 1: Because people often forget. In twenty one and twenty two

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Speaker 1: they were the number one seed in the AFC and

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Speaker 1: barely lost to the Bengals on the last second field goal,

548
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Speaker 1: and last year they were seven and three, number three

549
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Speaker 1: seed in the AFC. When Tannehill goes down and another

550
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Speaker 1: slew of injuries, Tanny Hill also is thirty six and

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Speaker 1: nineteen as it started for the Titans and adds an

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Speaker 1: all time great receiver in Hopkins. Yeah, I mean we

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Speaker 1: got to push back on that a little bit. He's

554
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Speaker 1: a really good player, all time great receiver. Come on,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's really good player, all time great, and

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Speaker 1: he's also older, has been banged up. Ben suspended that

557
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Speaker 1: this is not twenty eighteen and we're in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three with Hopkins. I hear the pushback on Tannehill. He

559
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Speaker 1: lots of the Bengals because the guy threw three interceptions

560
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Speaker 1: and I just don't take the guy seriously in big games.

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Speaker 1: I hear you a good regular season quarterback. He's like

562
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Speaker 1: a version of Alex to me. And maybe Alex Smith

563
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Speaker 1: is a good example of a guy that was constantly undervalued,

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Speaker 1: right because he just won. And Vrabel like Andy, when

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Speaker 1: you give a guy that's a solid quarterback with a

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Speaker 1: really good coach Jimmy Garoppolo, it is probably not as

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Speaker 1: good as these guys, but same situation, like when Jimmy's

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Speaker 1: on the field, like he's gonna win a lot with

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Speaker 1: a good coach, and uh, I hear what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and listen I'm prepared, Like, I'm not betting against you

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Speaker 1: because I laugh at the organization. I fully like, I

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Speaker 1: think Mike Rabel is fucking elite. If you told me

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff, you're a general manager tomorrow, every coach is

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Speaker 1: in the uh you know, is in the draft. Like

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Speaker 1: you're just able to draft coaches as a GM. And

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Speaker 1: you have the fourth pick, and let's just say Andy

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Speaker 1: goes right, you know, it'd be a short list of

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Speaker 1: guys that would go like Mike Rabel. And I'm drafting

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Speaker 1: fourth or fifth, like Mike Rabel is in heavy consideration.

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Speaker 1: So and I'm a big believer, is who's your quarterback?

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Speaker 1: Who's your coach? Your coach is really good? I just

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't believe it. I'm not gonna budge.

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Speaker 1: I think they're over it. Hence they just drafted a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I've seen this before. If he's arts, you know, just

585
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Speaker 1: has a couple of rough games. Even if you win,

586
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: people start, you know, kind of licking their lips to

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Speaker 1: put in the next guy. The fans, the executives, the owner.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not acting like Will Levis is the greatest

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Speaker 1: thing since sliced bread, but I just I expect the

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Speaker 1: Jags to be good. I expect the Jags to be good,

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Speaker 1: and I think that you guys will be competitive, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pick you to make the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: that not in that conference, because I only think one

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Speaker 1: team out of your division is making the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 1: a team that wins the division. I know there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of drama around the running back position, but

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Speaker 1: I think nonetheless, the league has a ton of insanely

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Speaker 1: talented running backs. I'm curious who you think the top

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Speaker 1: five in the league are right now. I'm taking Henry Barkley, McCaffrey, Taylor,

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Speaker 1: and Chuck. With that being said, I think there are

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Speaker 1: better running backs that may fit schematically like an Eckler,

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Speaker 1: but I think these guys are more physically gifted and talented.

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Speaker 1: Well like Saquon Barkley is physically gifted of a running

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Speaker 1: back as there's been in a long time. Right when

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Speaker 1: he came out of college, Absolutely chiseled, insanely strong, could

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Speaker 1: make you miss, had elite speed, could run inside, could

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Speaker 1: run outside, could do it all as a running back.

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Speaker 1: The greatest player in the passing game and doesn't pass block,

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Speaker 1: so to me, there's you can separate. Will levis a

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Speaker 1: lot of physical skills, good athlete, big arm. Is he

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Speaker 1: a great quarterback? Them? Time's gonna tell, right. I mean

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance physically gifted player, big strong, big arm. But

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Speaker 1: is he that fast the ball kind of wabbles? Is

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Speaker 1: he accurate? There's a difference between being physically gifted and

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Speaker 1: then being good at the sport. Right, see it a

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Speaker 1: lot in the NBA. It's like, this guy's a freak athlete. Well,

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Speaker 1: can't you play basketball? Like, can't you play basketball? This

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Speaker 1: guy can hit it four hundred and seventy foot home runs? Well,

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Speaker 1: can't he hit the curveball? Can he hit a single

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Speaker 1: or a double? Or is always gonna hit a home run?

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Speaker 1: Because that's what he's gonna do to play for the

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Speaker 1: Yankees in the miss of the playoffs? Right. So, I'm

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Speaker 1: a big believer in this modern day, the way the

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Speaker 1: game is played now, you have to factor in the

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Speaker 1: scheme because so many teams want to throw you the

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Speaker 1: ball that guys like Christian McCaffrey. I would put Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubb would be if Christian McCaffrey's going to be healthy,

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Speaker 1: Like the guy's an elite player. He might be the

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Speaker 1: best running back because of everything he encompasses. Now he's

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Speaker 1: been banged up a lot, and we'll see this season.

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Speaker 1: Can he play the whole season? I don't know. Nick Chubb.

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Speaker 1: Baller Jonathan Taylor, another guy like Christian McCaffrey. Some injury concerns,

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Speaker 1: Like right now, I'm a little confused. Is at the back?

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Speaker 1: He claims it's not. It's his ankle. What's going on

635
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: is just a pissing match between the two. But elite

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Speaker 1: player when he's healthy. Baller love Jonathan Taylor. I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: Like if you gave Andy Reid Austin Eckler, I guess

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Speaker 1: he would just keep doing what he's doing. Austin Eckler

639
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: is a the Eagles would like love Austin Eckler. Throw

640
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Speaker 1: the ball to him right, use him in a lot

641
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: of different packages like his Austin Eckler as good as

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. No, but if I put Derrick Henry on

643
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: like the forty nine Ers or the Eagles, is it

644
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: quite looking the same as just a team that's gonna

645
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: give him thirty two carries a game. So it's I

646
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: think you got a factor of this end now, Derrick

647
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: Henry to me, is like this version of Adrian Peterson.

648
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: He's just a running back, a true between the tackle,

649
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: can run outside, just an elite running back that if

650
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: you just hand them the ball constantly. If you could

651
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 1: watch a half, I think Adrian Peterson was the same way.

652
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: It's like, God, what are they doing. He's got like

653
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: twelve carries, he's got forty yards. It's not really working.

654
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: And then the second half you wear him down. He's

655
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 1: got twenty seven carries for one hundred and seventy three

656
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. It's like, what a fucking beast.

657
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: But that's not really how most teams play, even the

658
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,720
Speaker 1: forty nine ers that quote unquote love to run the ball.

659
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but they also do a lot of

660
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: like quick running back screens, quick wide receiver screens. They

661
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: just utilize the getting their players touches around the line

662
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. I remember an offensive coordinator a couple of

663
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: years ago told me everyone always in the Philadelphia days

664
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: talks about Andy. He doesn't run the ball enough, but

665
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: he always got his playmaker's touches. He's like, it's not

666
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: about balance. Run past fifty to fifty or fifty five

667
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: to forty five. It's about do your best players touch

668
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: the ball the most? Right? If Deebo Samuel has fifteen

669
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: touches at the end of the game, well if four

670
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: of those were pass attempts and the other whatever eleven

671
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: were pitches and just handoffs, who cares? It does not matter.

672
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: Get your best players the ball, and that to me

673
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 1: is the key. So I would say there's a clear

674
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: that high end. Like to me, Josh Jacobs last year

675
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: was a better player than Saquon Barkley. I like Josh

676
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: Jacobs more in the passing game than I do Saquon Barkley. Right,

677
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: I'm not anti Saguon Barkley. I think he's a freak talent,

678
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: but to me he's a little bit more one dimensional,

679
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: which his one dimensional when it's running, when it's working,

680
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: is really good. But I'm big Jonathan Taylor, guy who's

681
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: not a longtime listener enjoy both shows, is a long

682
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: time our words than Commander's fan. It's sad, I know,

683
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: but the bad man is gone. My question is involving

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Speaker 1: Chase Young. I get he has been hurt, but in

685
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: the game he has played, he's extremely disappointed. What do

686
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: you think is value around the league. Is I'm in

687
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: camp we should trade him? How would you value Chase

688
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: Young around the league? I think one thing with power rushers,

689
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: and I'd be lying if I say I've really studied

690
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: this guy over the last twelve months. But I remember

691
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: as a younger player, it was a lot of power,

692
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: and Khalil Mack is a good example. It was a

693
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: lot of power. Like his game was really in his prime,

694
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: was predicated off power, but he also had the ability

695
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: to kind of bend and use speed quickness, either inside

696
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: like on like a counter move to a tackle, or

697
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: just beat him around the corner. But at the end

698
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: of the day, when he needed it, he could just

699
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: lift you up and drive you back. But if all

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00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: you have is the power, and maybe this is a

701
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: little unfair, but it's hard to just be a dominant player.

702
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: Most of the great players, speed is such a huge

703
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: element to their pass rushing game, right TJ. Watt JJ Watt.

704
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: Obviously you got to be powerful, right Miles Garrett, Nick Bosa,

705
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa. But speed quickness, it's almost like I'm not

706
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: a huge I respect the shit out of the sport.

707
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: I was tweeting this the other day. I went to

708
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: school with Chad Mendez. I had never known who how

709
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: tough wrestlers were till I got to college, and then

710
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: I watched these wrestlers, these tiny little guys, beat the

711
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: living piss out of every single human at parties for

712
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: four years, from the football players to biker gangs. It

713
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: didn't matter. It's like, I would never mess with a wrestler. Now,

714
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: obviously Chad went on to be like a you know,

715
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: fight Connor McGregor, like he was a high end of

716
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 1: ass kickers, but there's a technical element to the way

717
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: they fight, like they could just Chuck Laydell was a

718
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: cow poly guy too, and I think most people went,

719
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: if you are into fighting that, watch Chuckle Deell. You

720
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: just wow. He just tries to hit you in the

721
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: face and ko you. He was a wrestler in college. Right,

722
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: If you got check Chuck Lydell with just non mma guy,

723
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: just a pretty good guy in a brawl, Chuck Adelle

724
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: can do a lot to you, right. He can obviously

725
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: hit you in the face and knock you out, But

726
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: if he got you on the ground, he's gonna kick

727
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: the ass of most just tough guys, right because he's

728
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: technically sound, and I think when we see d Lion,

729
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: he's like overpower. Well, yeah, it's also a very technical

730
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: position with your hands, with setting guys up. It's almost

731
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 1: like a pitcher right fastball, inside, fastball, outside, curveball, off speed,

732
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: fastball back, kind of setting guys up four pitches. No

733
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: different than an offensive play caller run run, play action,

734
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: double moved. You know, however, the sequence of your of

735
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: your play calling, it's no different with pass rushers. So

736
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: when I watch Chase Young, I just want the power

737
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: power and that just doesn't always work in the NFL.

738
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna work every once in a while. But I

739
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: don't think it doesn't make any sense for them to

740
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: trade him because of his value. So you just write

741
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: it out and hopefully as a big season you kind

742
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: of go from there. Wanted to hear your thoughts on

743
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: the pod about the Steelers offensive philosophy and how they

744
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: can keep up with a stacked AFC. Does Tomlin and Kannada? Canada?

745
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: Matt Canada? Is it Canada? I don't know? Why? Is

746
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 1: it Kannada really think they can win enough games twenty

747
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: to thirteen. Doesn't seem like the Steelers trust Kenny enough

748
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: to turn them loose like Jalen was in year two. Well,

749
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna push back on that because I think if

750
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Speaker 1: you do have a good defense and you have just

751
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: like a physical ethos as a squad. I think the

752
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been like this last couple of years. The

753
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: forty nine are surely have. You can win games a

754
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: little differently than like the Chiefs and the Bills. If

755
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: you're not built to put thirty plus on the scoreboard

756
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: most games, that's not how you can play, that's not

757
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: how you should play. So like, yeah, I mean not

758
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: everyone needs to try to be the Golden State Warriors.

759
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: In the NBA. I have Steph Clay and Kevin Durant.

760
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: You know, shoot some two point shots, get the ball inside.

761
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: Like some teams like, just play defense. It's okay to

762
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: punt every once in a while. It's my biggest issue

763
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,959
Speaker 1: with Brandon Staley. It's like, your defense for the most

764
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: part is not good. What are you doing right? And

765
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: I think sometimes the coaches don't embrace what they actually have,

766
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: and I think Mike over the years has consistently done that.

767
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: Now you can nitpick, obviously individual play calls or specific games,

768
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: but I think overall, I might pick the Steelers to

769
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 1: win that division, and that's no shot at the Bengals.

770
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: I think the fucking Bengals are awesome. I see it's

771
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna be really good. I really do. And I'm not

772
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Speaker 1: a big like Kenny Pickett, Mac Jones, Kirk Cousins type quarterback.

773
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: But if you put Kirk Cousins right now on the Steelers,

774
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Speaker 1: like I think most people would pick them to win

775
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: thirteen games, well what if Kenny Pickett can become a

776
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: version of that what Kirk Cousins is now. I don't

777
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: know if you ever quite get there, but I like

778
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett more than I like Mac Jones, especially giving

779
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: given that he's out of play that completely knows who

780
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: they are. And see what you want about Mike Tomlin,

781
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: pretty quarterback friendly like Bill, like you know, since tom

782
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: it feels like he kind of butts heads with his

783
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: young quarterback like he's gonna I just have more belief

784
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: in Kenny Pickett in his situation than I do Mac

785
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: Jones in his situation, which is crazy because Belichick has

786
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: kicked Tomlin's ask for him, so everyone would admit Belichick's

787
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: a better coach than Tomlin. But in terms of this

788
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: individual situation. I'm taking the Steelers. I think Steelers is

789
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna be good. I really do. Now, super Bowl good.

790
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: Probably not. I mean, look at the look at the

791
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: conference and Hew, they could win the division. The Bengals

792
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: could still beat him in the playoffs just because they

793
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: have the far superior quarterback. But I'm excited to watch

794
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: the Steelers. I mean week one. You talk about an

795
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: old school football game. The Instagram algorithm much obviously knows

796
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: it's football season because I am constantly getting you know,

797
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: recommendations or just things popping up in my scroll of

798
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: just like John Lynch highlights of like nineteen ninety six

799
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: decleting people, Ronnie lot just Ronnie Lott. Here's here's a

800
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: minute and twenty seconds of Ronnie Lott giving half the

801
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: league CT. It's like, oh, I'm in It's just I'm like, yeah,

802
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: this is the shit. And uh, that forty nine or

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00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: Steeler Week one game for the modern rules and as

804
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: physical as you're allowed to be. Now, that's a buckle

805
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: your chin strap game. That is there are gonna be

806
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: bodies flying in that thing that I can't wait. That

807
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: might be the best just football game. When you just

808
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,800
Speaker 1: talk about physicality. You know, there might be some better

809
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 1: I'd be. I'm interested in watching Belichick against Jalen Hurts

810
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: week one. There's some scheme elements, but if you just

811
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: want to watch two teams like, hey we're running outside zone.

812
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: Hey we know it's coming. We're snapping it on two,

813
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: we know, let's fucking go. That's the game that that

814
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,439
Speaker 1: is my youth. As close as that we can get

815
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: it in modern day football, you know, like Jets Bills

816
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: Monday Night. Awesome storylines, but there's gonna me a lot

817
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 1: of throwing the ball. I want to watch seven eight

818
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 1: in the box. You know we're running it, they know

819
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: we're running it. You can tell them what you're snapping

820
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: it on. None of it matters. Crowds on their feet

821
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: and just watch bodies fly around. That is count me in.

822
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: Did Eric the Enemy get the job with the Commanders

823
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: because he is next in line to be the head

824
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: coach or because the rumors are true and nobody else

825
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: wanted him? You know, I have a hard time with

826
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: this one because knowing people with the Chiefs, they I've

827
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: always heard really good things about him. I think on

828
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: the outside, you know a lot of people clearly other

829
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: GMS are very hesitant to hire him for whatever reason.

830
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if you go to Google, there are some

831
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Speaker 1: things in his past that I think make people uncomfortable,

832
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: But so it could be said about some other people

833
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: that have gotten jobs. I think a lot of times

834
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: when people think Andy's making all the play calls, which

835
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: Andy always pushed back say he's not, But then he

836
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: watched the games, it looks like he's calling it in

837
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: it ultimately doesn't matter. He got his opportunity. But remember

838
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: when he got hired by Ron Rivera, Dan Sneider still

839
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: on the team. So Josh Harris, the guy that owns

840
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: the Sixers, who now owns the team, has really no

841
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: ties to this operation. And in terms of Ron Rivera's

842
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: on the hot seat right not his coach. They haven't

843
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: been winning. So if they go let's say eight to

844
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 1: nine and the offense isn't great, everyone's getting fired. Now

845
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Speaker 1: if they go nine to eight and Rivera still gets fired,

846
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 1: but the offense is really good, maybe the next coach

847
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: keeps them. But who knows what if they want to

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Speaker 1: hire an offensive coach. So I don't think he has

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Speaker 1: any guarantee to be the next coach at all. I

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Speaker 1: think everyone in Washington, obviously so are coaching for their

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Speaker 1: jobs because of the situation with a new ownership. That's

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Speaker 1: just just the way it works. But he is going

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Speaker 1: to be a big story if he is successful. With

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Speaker 1: Sam Howell and Jacoby Brissett quarterbacks, no one's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to argue that the guy is not sweet. Last

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Speaker 1: question here, big time fan Steelers Diehard from Kentucky. Question

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Speaker 1: for the pot Why has TJ. Watt talked about as

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Speaker 1: the best edge rusher in the league. He doesn't just

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Speaker 1: get sacks, he gets forced fumbles, doesn't just get deflections,

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Speaker 1: he gets interceptions. The Boses Garretts have way more national

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Speaker 1: conversation than what keep living the Dream. I think TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt gets talked about a lot. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: talk about the Watts, what's the difference between the Watts

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Speaker 1: and the boss I think they're both viewed as like

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Speaker 1: elite players. JJ's the most accomplished. I would say Nick.

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Speaker 1: I would probably take Nick over TJ. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking splitting hairs here, but I think you're being

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Speaker 1: a little probably. I don't know if defensive is the

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Speaker 1: right word, but I wouldn't worry about it. You have

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Speaker 1: easily one of the best players in the league. Everyone

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Speaker 1: in the league knows it. I've never heard anyone say

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Speaker 1: anything negative about the guy as a player. Maybe Bosa

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Speaker 1: just gets talked about more because he's literally in a

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Speaker 1: holdout right now. I mean TJ's holed in. He was,

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Speaker 1: at least at practice. I don't actually feel Miles Garrett

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Speaker 1: gets talked about that much. I haven't heard anyone say

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Speaker 1: his name in a long long time. If the Browns

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna be good, no one's really gonna talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Part of it also is going to the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Bosa is playing in playoff games. You guys got to

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Speaker 1: get back to the playoffs and got to make runs.

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Speaker 1: Were you in the playoffs last year? Was that two

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Speaker 1: years ago? Yeah? It was Roethlisberger's last year, So you

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Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs last year. I mean that helps

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Speaker 1: part of, like von Miller, part of just getting conversation

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Speaker 1: about you. Aaron Donald's like making Super Bowl runs. Right

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about Chris Jones right now. Why

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Speaker 1: he's on the best team in the league. You get

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Speaker 1: on the best team in the league. We talked about

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Speaker 1: you a lot. Does anyone care about Stefan Diggs. If

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is on the Jags doing this, No, he's

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Speaker 1: on the Bills, one of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: So we went his controversy of like him one now

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Speaker 1: or whatever the hell was going on. They can downplay

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Speaker 1: it all they want, but he's in the Bills. So

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Speaker 1: if you're on a team that's winning twelve plus games

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Speaker 1: and hosting playoff games, we're gonna discuss you at nauseum.

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Speaker 1: So to me, Miles Garrett can get twenty sacks this year,

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Speaker 1: but if the Browns win six games, no one's really

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Speaker 1: gonna give a shit. Like his conversation can only go

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Speaker 1: so far. You give me a fifteen sack guy on

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Speaker 1: a fourteen win team. You get to lead a lot

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Speaker 1: of conversations just the way it goes. The reason we

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Speaker 1: talk the most about Mahomes and Josh Allen and Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: they're on the best teams. Tom Brady Forever, Peyton Benning,

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Speaker 1: they win the most, So four of rogers whoever right.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a complicated formula. And when you're a position

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Speaker 1: player like Christian McCaffrey, kind of out of sight, out

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Speaker 1: of mind. I didn't really talk about him for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, didn't matter. Gets the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: ors kicking the shit out of everybody dominating in playoff

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Speaker 1: games talk about him. Deebo Samuel didn't mention them two

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Speaker 1: years ago. Starts going nuts on a sweet It's all

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Speaker 1: it takes, like, is DK Metcalf getting the run if

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Speaker 1: you hadn't been on the Seahawks and winning, it's all.

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Speaker 1: It all goes hand in hand, right like a J. Brown?

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Speaker 1: Why are we talk about him? He's on the Eagles

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Speaker 1: star player. So it's just this isn't a complicated formula.

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Speaker 1: Firing those d ms at John Middlecoff easy to do.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk soon. Have a good weekend, Audios. The volume