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Speaker 1: thank you. We'll start with this game. I I use

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Speaker 1: the analogy last week with the Colts. They'd be like

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Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna be hard for me to win when

428
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Speaker 1: I for me to win, the strategy of my team

429
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: is I have to run the ball, and it's ultimately

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00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,640
Speaker 1: the Achilles heel of the Ravens, of Greg Roman and

431
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: of building this offense around Lamar that is purely predicated

432
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: on the run game. Let's look at a couple of

433
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 1: stories that came out of the League office. UH they're

434
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 1: based in New York City, never been there. Some people

435
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: are like Park Avenue, wherever the hell. Roger Goodell's offices

436
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: in downtown New York City. They dictate the league. Uh.

437
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: It's always crazy because people internally on different teams get

438
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 1: so mad at the league office because most people in

439
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,480
Speaker 1: the League office, but the guys like Roger Goodell have

440
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 1: never signed a player, have never coached it down. And

441
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: he doesn't look at it from that lens. He looks

442
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 1: at it from the business lens. And five years ago

443
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,239
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff would have been like on the coaches and

444
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: GM side. Now I understand both sides. At the end

445
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: of the day, what Roger does in his office generates

446
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,360
Speaker 1: all the money for these coaches that are making eight nine,

447
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars and all the assistant coaches making huge cash,

448
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 1: and they help with the you know, these huge television

449
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 1: deals and growing the league, the players getting paid like

450
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 1: the league office the business side. Who I think sometimes

451
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: in society everyone like being anti business is cool, not

452
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 1: in the real world but on social media in the

453
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 1: in the world I live in, like knowing real people

454
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,640
Speaker 1: growing your business is a good thing. That means more

455
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: people making more money. The health of whatever business entity

456
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: that you're in or any industry is a positive. So listen,

457
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: I know Roger Goodell gets a lot of ship, and

458
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't agreed with everything he's done over

459
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: his tenure, but when it comes to being the number

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Speaker 1: one sport growing the game, he's run circles on the

461
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: other commissioners. Not even debatable, not an opinion, that's a

462
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 1: fact they are. Potentially, if games get canceled and as

463
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: we go into the winner, it looks like, I mean,

464
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 1: hell in my backyard, the cal Bears might not play

465
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: a game this year. Now, college football is much different

466
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: than the NFL, but you're seeing college games goes down

467
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: left and right. The NFL has battled through some miss games. Potentially,

468
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,479
Speaker 1: if they lose more games, they're going to add a

469
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: playoff seed and you're gonna have eight and eight, so

470
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Speaker 1: basically half the teams make the league. They already added

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Speaker 1: a team this year, but they were only gonna give

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Speaker 1: the bye to one team. There would be no buys.

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Speaker 1: You would play eight games on opening playoff weekend quote

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00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: unquote wild card weekend. And listen, I saw it with baseball.

475
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: The baseball purists despised adding that extra couple of wild

476
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: card teams this year. They despised adding the d H.

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00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: They despised putting a runner on second nextra innings. I

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00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: loved it. It's two thousand twenty. Were in chaos. The

479
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: best businesses are pedal to the medal. If you listen

480
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: to the media and just shut it down, walk it

481
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: down Netflix until all your we'd all be in the gutter.

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00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: Every single person I've known in any industry, no one

483
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: wanted this, right, but they've been extra aggressive during Corona.

484
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: You have to be or or you just go under.

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00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a fact. And it's like all

486
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: these businesses they got all this money. The more money

487
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: you have, the actual harder it is to stay afloat

488
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: when crazy things like Corona or a session happens, because

489
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 1: you need more money to keep going. It's why all

490
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: these leaks came back. Now, listen, all these leaks. They're

491
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: not charities. Their businesses that their goal is to make

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Speaker 1: a profit. And I said it from the jump. The

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Speaker 1: reason they're playing this season is because they had to.

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Speaker 1: In a perfect world, you know, they probably just they

495
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,439
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone crazy and all the test they just

496
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: would have canceled the season or postponed it or whatever.

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Speaker 1: That's not the way the real world works. You have

498
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 1: to play to make the money. And I've applauded them

499
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: from the jump, and the NFL has been the most

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00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: aggressive of the three leagues clearly. And it's not perfect

501
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: that there's it's not possible to go to a bubble

502
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: got way more people. Uh And at the end of

503
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: the day, they've been pretty i'd say, uh, successful in

504
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: what they've attempted to operate. And if they go to

505
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: eight teams, some people will be like, oh, this isn't

506
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: real football. Yeah, I've talked about it before. This isn't normal.

507
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: This isn't real. Like as Belichick said, it's kind of

508
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: a joke. It is what it is. We lose players

509
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: in games because no, they don't have the virus, they

510
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: haven't tested positive for the virus. They were just around

511
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: potentially someone with the virus and they never test positive.

512
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: And those guys miss games. That's not normal. So if

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Speaker 1: they have to add an eighth game or an eight

514
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: team to the league, to the playoffs, get rid of

515
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: the seeds, or get rid of the home field by

516
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: it is what it is they're doing that for financial stability.

517
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: They make so much money off every playoff game. You know,

518
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Speaker 1: the Thursday Night package is worth like nine million dollars,

519
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: so if you break it down per game, it's like

520
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: eighty million dollars a game or whatever. I think playoff

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00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: games are worth exponentially more than every single regular season game.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say a playoff game is worth two

523
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: or a million when you factor in the viewers, when

524
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: you factor in the ability you can make advertising. You

525
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: know who benefits from that? Everybody? The players, the coaches,

526
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: the teams, the fans because next year, you want your team.

527
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: The great part about the NFL, like in the NBA,

528
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: some teams don't have much money. Clearly in baseball there

529
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: is a huge financial divide in football. Every team has

530
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: enough money to play for the players because of the

531
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 1: way the business set up and because of the media

532
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: rights deal. So I wouldn't even added a seventh team,

533
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: but I understand why they did it. It's business. You're

534
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: either growing or you're dying. And I get in the

535
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: media circles they're very anti business and it's cool like

536
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: to be like, oh the big bad Wolf corporations like

537
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: last night look, they pay for everything, they keep all

538
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: these people employed. They made the players a lot of money.

539
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's been pretty healthy for everyone. So

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00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: it's not an ideal situation, but sometimes, especially in two

541
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Speaker 1: thousand twenty, you don't have a choice. The other thing

542
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: that came out of the league office is the minority

543
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: hiring practices, which have been a polarizing top picked the

544
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: last couple of years because all these like good looking

545
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: white guys are getting hired. And you know the Rooney rule,

546
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: which the NFL has been ahead of the curve in

547
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: terms of doing this, trying to get people in front

548
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: of the decision makers. That's what the Rooney rule essentially is.

549
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: Doesn't guarantee anyone get hired, it gets people in front

550
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: of the decision makers. And one of the best coach

551
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: in the league was once quote unquote a Rooney rule

552
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 1: ironically with the Steelers and ended up getting the job.

553
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone at the time thought Mike Tomlin,

554
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's so far away now. But when

555
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: he took the job, he was not like some quote

556
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: unquote leading candidate blow him away as the head coach.

557
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: But the last couple of years it's basically just been

558
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of dudes with thirty two inch waist lines

559
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: and slick back here. And I think the league as

560
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: try to figure out a solution for this, and again

561
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: I applaud anyone for trying to figure out a solution

562
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: like I see it right now. In California, their solution

563
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: to slow down the coronavirus, even though relative to our

564
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: state relative to the rest of America is not even

565
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: and close, has been to shut everything down. It's like,

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00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: I'll give you a like some brownie points. The first

567
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: time around, you tried it didn't work. So now if

568
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: we go into the winner and you do it again,

569
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: you're just gonna create more poverty because we already have

570
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: the market corner on historic poverty. Like lockdowns, mandatory lockdowns

571
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: up small businesses is not a solution. We we've already

572
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: been down this road. So the NFL, they've never done

573
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: anything like this. They're going to give multiple third round

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00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: picks to the teams that kind of grow and put

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00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: guys in position to get head coach, head coaching or

576
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: general manager jobs. So for example, if Eric b Enemy

577
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: gets a coach head coaching job, the Chiefs will receive

578
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: two compensed story third round picks, which I understand. They're

579
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: trying to think outside the box and do the right thing,

580
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: like their heart is in the right place, and sometimes

581
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: your heart can be in the right place. For example,

582
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: California when they originally did these crazy lockdowns which lasted

583
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: much longer in our state then everywhere else in the country.

584
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: And now we're kind of rolling it back and we're

585
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: making small businesses shut down. Like the first time around,

586
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: your heart was in the right place. I'll even give

587
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: you the benefit of the doubt. This time we have

588
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: the information your heart sign in the right place. You're

589
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: just an idiot. This is the first time around for

590
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: the NFL, and the NFL right now is attempting to

591
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: get more of these guys, put them in position to

592
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: get hired. And Eric b Enemy is gonna be a

593
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: name that we hear over and over. Here's the problem

594
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: with this quote unquote solution. If I'm the almost called

595
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: the San Diego Chargers the l A Chargers, and I

596
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: need a head coach. And let's say I interviewed Joe

597
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: Brady and I interviewed the enemy. It's down to two people.

598
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: I like them both. I think they both could be

599
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: my head coach. I'm in the Chief's division. I don't

600
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: know if last you know, we've all checked, they're the

601
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: best team in the league. I know they don't quote

602
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: unquote technically have the best record in the league. They

603
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: have the best player. They're just they're defending champs. They're

604
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: they're going nowhere there, They've built a powerhouse. If I'm

605
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers, why would I hire b Enemy when I

606
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: could just hire Brady When I know that they get

607
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: extra multiple third round picks the next couple of years.

608
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: That's not a big deal, right, It's not like you're

609
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: giving him a first round pick or even a second

610
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: round pick. But why am I trying to help them out?

611
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: Let's say I'm the Jets. Now, I know the Jets

612
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are nowhere near on the same train,

613
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: but we've seen in football you can turn around fast.

614
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: The Colts pick number one, they draft Andrew Luck next

615
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: year they're in the playoffs. Now it would be a

616
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: little more difficult. I think the NFC East is gonna

617
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: be tough for the next couple of years. In the

618
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: a f C South was at the time. But still,

619
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: if you're the Jets, why do I want to help

620
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: the Chiefs out? I just I don't have a solution.

621
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: I don't pretend to, but I don't know if this

622
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: is the right move. I also think there's some randomness

623
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: to this. Now, for example, the Chiefs with their b

624
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: enemy Andy Reid, I'm pretty sure hired in the moment

625
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: he got there. Like they deserve credit for putting this

626
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: guy in a position and making him the offensive coordinator.

627
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: And he's clearly last year got some interviews. This year,

628
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a bunch of interviews. Hopefully the guy

629
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: gets a job or whatever. But why does any team

630
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: want to help about the Chiefs? I just I don't

631
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: think that is going to help. I had someone in

632
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: the league text of me, like, why would you want

633
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to be better? Like having picks, especially in

634
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: the second and third round for a team that has

635
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of high end players, Like at the end

636
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: of the day that the last pick in the first

637
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: round or the you know, if they make the a

638
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: f C Championship Game or win another Super Bowl, they're

639
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: guaranteeing a contract for those guys. The best contract for

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00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the third, fourth and fifth round guys.

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Speaker 1: Because they're on really cheap basically veteran minimum, you know,

642
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Speaker 1: making under a million dollars, and they have their costs

643
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: controlled and they're under contract for several years. The Chiefs

644
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: would sign up for unlimited second and third round picks.

645
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: They probably rather have second and third round picks than

646
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: the pick where they're gonna be in the end of

647
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: the first round, and I would imagine the next several

648
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: years they use that first round pick to trade back

649
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: into the second round because, as most people will tell

650
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: you in the NFL, when you draft between twenty five

651
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: and thirty two, you're drafting a second round pick, but

652
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: you're paying in first round money to why if you

653
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: can just move back three or four spots, you get

654
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, you get Nick Chubb, you get you know,

655
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: the Bobby Wagner's, the Fred Warners. We can list the

656
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: second and third round picks forever. But those guys are

657
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: great deals their first two or three years in the league.

658
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: What do the Chiefs need really good deals? Now? I

659
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: I do think what the league is trying to do

660
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: is out of doing it for the right reasons, and

661
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can financially the problem in

662
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: a in a business like football, these teams have so

663
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: much freaking money. You can't be like, oh, we'll just

664
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Speaker 1: give you a five thousand dollar bonus if your guy

665
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: gets hired, like they don't care. They get three million

666
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: dollars from the media right deals a team, let alone

667
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: all the other money they're making. So it's such a

668
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: nominal amount. I don't know what to do, but I

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00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: think this rule specifically for Eric b Enemy might not

670
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: be an ideal situation. One thing I think we'd all

671
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: agree on is there's been an offensive explosion in football.

672
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: It's happened for a long time in high school football.

673
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: It worked its way up to college football, and now

674
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: it's in the pros and you know, in the in

675
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: the business of football, it's kind of crazy because sometimes

676
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: things go down, right, they start at the top and

677
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: they work their way down. In football, it actually starts

678
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: at the bottom and works its way up. Things are

679
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: created and tried out in high school football. There's obviously

680
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: just a lot less to lose in terms of you

681
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: don't get fired as much for wins and losses. I

682
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: know certain programs do. But you can think outside the box, right,

683
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: and it's why historically we've seen all these different crazy

684
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: offenses and philosophies happen in high school football, and then

685
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: it slowly works its way up to college football because

686
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: just naturally, especially like the Power Five, if you're at

687
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: a worse program than you know, if you're at Washington State,

688
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: to compete with Oregon and USC like, you might have

689
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: to run the air rate Texas Tech. I mean, Mike

690
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: Leach is a good example. And I think right now

691
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: in the NFL, the offensive explosion has really caught up. Now.

692
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: A huge part of that has been the rules and

693
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: the regulations on hitting right because of trying to change

694
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: the violence in the game that led to concussions in

695
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: the lawsuits. I mean, listen, we can act like it's

696
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: out of the goodness of their heart. It's all, you know,

697
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: revolves around money and litigation. Just just and period, point blank,

698
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: end of story. And I think the older you get,

699
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: you realize everything kind of revolves around money. It's just

700
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: it's just a sad reality of the world we live in. Uh.

701
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: And so the NFL changed these rules so to college,

702
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: and so did high school to try to make the

703
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: game safer. But by doing that you have created it

704
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: much easier for the offense not debatable, right. You can't

705
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: get taken out over the middle. You can't get taken

706
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: out running a go route when the safety comes over

707
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: and basically decapitate you. Those players don't happen anymore. And

708
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: the other thing is the quarterback for the most part,

709
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: doesn't fear for his life. When I was growing up,

710
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: the quarterback could get killed, not literally but figuratively, I

711
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: mean absolutely destroyed. I think how many quarterbacks, like when

712
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: I was growing up in the nineties were carded off

713
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: the field not because they broke a leg or had

714
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: you know, had like a lower extremity injury, because they

715
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: were kode. There was no flag thrown when they got

716
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: k oed. They just got knocked out. Steve Young, Troy

717
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: Aigman career over hell even a little over a decade ago,

718
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: Brett Farve, you know, k ode on the field. It

719
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: was just a different game. And I'm for that, And

720
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: I know cowards talked about this, and I agree, Like

721
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks carry the league, right, you need good quarterbacks

722
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: in the NFL for the league to be great. Even

723
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: though I love defense, I'm a sucker for a good

724
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: running back. All that stuff that they don't dictate the

725
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: success of the league. The success of the league is

726
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: dictated off the Bradies, the Mannings, the Robbers, them Homes,

727
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson's. They carry the flag like it or not,

728
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: just the way it is, and I think at this

729
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: point in time we'd all agree with that. But it's

730
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: also just a lot easier to play quarterback in the

731
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: numbers are just really inflated. It used to be if

732
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: you threw for thirty touchdowns, it was like, damn, that

733
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: was a really good season. We have our historical outliers

734
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 1: over the years that hit that fifty mark, right Marino,

735
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: then Manning did it, and then Brady did it, and

736
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: then Mahomes did it a couple of years ago. That's

737
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: a big deal. I think for four or five fifty

738
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: touchdown seasons we've seen over the last thirty years, I

739
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: could see that happen in six or seven times over

740
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: the next decade. I look back today, I just stumbled

741
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: upon the coaching or excuse me, the quarterback like just

742
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: the stats page, and the number jumped out to me,

743
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: and it was touchdowns. Because right now we're on pace

744
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: for fifteen plus individuals to have over thirty touch snowns

745
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: and potentially on pace for four or five guys. It's

746
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: a little hard to tell because Herbert hasn't started all

747
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: the games. Some guys are at nine, so you can't

748
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: just project their number to double. But I think if

749
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: I had to take an educated guest, we get five

750
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: guys with over forty touchdown passes at the end of

751
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: the season. Now I'd have to really dive into schedule. Clearly,

752
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: sometimes the weather for some of these guys that play

753
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 1: in cold weather situations impact the game, like Russell Wilson,

754
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: who knows what, maybe playing some crrential downpours in Seattle.

755
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: But I think four or five guys over forty touchdowns

756
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: for example last year, just last year, four quarterbacks through

757
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: over thirty touchdowns. Now two years ago eight quarterbacks through

758
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: over thirty and then the one mahomes through fifty. But

759
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: in two thousands of seventeen just three guys through over

760
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: thirty touchdowns. So I think moving forward, so many of

761
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: these offensive coaches over really the last two or three years,

762
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: have studied so intently these college concepts and the spread offenses,

763
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: where you know, back in the day, two wide receivers,

764
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: a fullback, a running back, and a tight end on

765
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: the field was base offense. That's what the majority of

766
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: teams in college, but definitely in the pros ran that

767
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: is not the base offense anymore. Most teams do not

768
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: have a fullback, and even the teams that employ multiple

769
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: tight ends like to me, Travis Kelsey, I mean it's

770
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: a borderline wide receiver. George Kittle, Darren Waller, I mean,

771
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna catch between eight and a hundred

772
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: balls this season. Kittle's not because he's hurt, but Waller

773
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: and Kelsey. Look at you watch Evan Ingram, he might

774
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: drop the ball too much. The dude runs a four four.

775
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: So the athletes have changed clearly. The amount of wide

776
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: receivers that keep coming in the league is just stupid.

777
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: I mean, every dude that's come in the last couple

778
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: of years can play. Look at last year's crop of

779
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: just the second rounders, d k A. J. Brown, DK Metcalf,

780
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: Claypool Oles, the us the Justin Jefferson's, the Judies, the CDs. Like,

781
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: all these dudes can ball. We're gonna get even more

782
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: this year with Waddle Jamaar Chase in the quarterback position.

783
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: It's just listen, I'm not trying to be an old

784
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: guy here. I'm not. I'm only thirty six, even though

785
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel my age a little bit. But

786
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: when you hear like Steve Young talk, he's like, yeah,

787
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: I wish I would have played in this era because

788
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: back when you know, I had a good season, throw

789
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: touchdowns that's probably forty five. Now it's just so much

790
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: easier to be an explosive pastor one because teams allow

791
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: you to pass it more the run and really the

792
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: running back it's kind of a hybrid wide receiver like

793
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook is really more of an outlier. Most of

794
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: these guys Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara then catch the football

795
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. That's what all these teams are

796
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: looking for, guys that can be productive in the passing

797
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: game because that is where you can really say, Kwan Barkley,

798
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: great catcher the football, and I you know, I don't know,

799
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: like I don't just see it slowing down because the

800
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: game is not gonna get more violent. They're not gonna

801
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: start under regulating the ability to hit right that you're

802
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: going to continue to get fifteen yard flags and thrown

803
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: out of games in college you get thrown out of

804
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: the game and missed the next half, which I hate

805
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: that rule, but as someone who wants the game to

806
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: stay around and not disappear, I understand it, even if

807
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a little over the top. I think

808
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: throwing a guy out of a game is enough. I

809
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: hate having to miss the next half of football for

810
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: the next game, but it is what it is, and

811
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: it's done a good job of, you know, forcing guys

812
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: and a not hit like that. We don't have head

813
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: hunters anymore. But it's also lent us to this offensive

814
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: explosion where clearly the wide receivers have never been more skilled.

815
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: I talked to a high school coach. He's like, I've

816
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: been running the spread now for twenty years. You know,

817
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: Like when I was in high school football in the

818
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: early two thousand's, we were in the wing t You

819
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 1: didn't develop skill guys. I think how many high schools

820
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: ran the option in the eighties, nineties, and even early

821
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: two thousand's. Throwing in a high school game when ESPN

822
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: comes on, they're all running spread. Think how much more

823
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: work now. I didn't have any Blue Jim guys in

824
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 1: my high school, but others do, and they don't run

825
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: the option anymore. They spread it out, they throw the ball.

826
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: So think how much more skilled the wide receiver and

827
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Speaker 1: quarterback is in high school, let alone, then in college,

828
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: let alone come into the league. So you know, I, I

829
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see records shattered. And that's not

830
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: to say these guys are better than guys previously, because

831
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: we'd all I didn't see Marino in Elway in their prime.

832
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: But I'm not an idiot to know that they would

833
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: have kicked freaking ass with the rules now far young.

834
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: Just go around Jim Kelly, the guys that could sling it,

835
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: they would have dominated. And these guys benefit from that.

836
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: So the offense explosion is great for fantasy, it's great

837
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: for gambling over that's for sure. I wouldn't be in

838
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: two into the enders anymore, but you know, it just

839
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: kind of is what it is. They let's dive into

840
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: three for the money, and from a gambling perspective, I

841
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: have an unhealthy amount of wagers spread out throughout the Masters.

842
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 1: I am well represented winners, top five, top tens. I

843
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: got a little cash basically every other guy you watch

844
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: on the telecast. If you watch the Masters, I might

845
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: have dabbled bucks on him. It's betting football is I mean,

846
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: it's not easy, but it's way easier just you just

847
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: pick a team. In golf, you're betting on individuals against

848
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: the whole field, even top fives and tens. But the

849
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: odds are incredible. I mean I put like bucks down

850
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: on Lee Westwood. He pays thirty dollars. The only way

851
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: I get that type return. Now, the likelihood of that

852
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: him winning is I mean, he's never one a major.

853
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: But in football, for me to do forty five into three,

854
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, thirty hundred, I have to hit like a

855
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: nine team parlay even just it's just it's awesome. I

856
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: mean I got five bucks on Tony Fine now to win.

857
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: Gambling golf is suite. Gambling football is the best and

858
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: the easiest to understand. But I'm telling you, if you're

859
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: into golf or into gambling, just start peeking. You know,

860
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: wherever you place your bets some of the odds. It's

861
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: it's a game changer, I'll promise you. So let's get

862
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: the three and out. Excuse me, this is three and

863
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: out three for the money, and based on last week,

864
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: I hit two out of three Arizona State plus ten

865
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: and a half. I don't know how they win out right.

866
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: The Giants plus two and a half against Washington and

867
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 1: the Broncos plus four did not hit against the Falcons.

868
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: So I'm eighteen and twelve this game I don't like.

869
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: I love. It's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coming off a

870
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: loss that was just terrible. I mean, they got the

871
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: living you know what kicked out of him. It was

872
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: I basically turned the game off at half time. I

873
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: felt like that. I think they were down thirty one

874
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 1: nothing in half. They were down twenty eight nothing before

875
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: you could even bela Antonio Brown. I think we forget

876
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: this one. He's living with Tom Brady. And two. When

877
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: he left the NFL last year from you know when

878
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: after New England cut him, the Raiders cut him, then

879
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: New England cut him. He was the best player, or

880
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: one of them in the league. This isn't like some

881
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: over the hill guy. When he left the league, he

882
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: was at the peak of his powers. Six straight thousand

883
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 1: yard seasons. I think he had just had a fifteen

884
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: touchdown season the year before. I mean, this guy a

885
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. A six straight six year stretch that

886
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,879
Speaker 1: is as good as any people in the Hall of Fame.

887
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking Jerry, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, dude is elite.

888
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: Him and Brady are gonna figure it out. And their

889
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: offense is clearly pretty good. They had an off game

890
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: and their defense is good. Another thing, they had an

891
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: off game. I think they beat the crap out of

892
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, like the Bucks minus five. The green

893
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: Bay defense is not great. Now, green Bay is exponentially

894
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: better than the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they're giving him thirteen

895
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: and a half points. Uh so, you could be up

896
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: twenty going into the fourth quarter, throttle it back and

897
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: the Jags get you know, a basically, you know, some

898
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: garbage time touchdowns or garbage time scores. Thirteen and a

899
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: half is a lot of points for Jacksonville Jaguars team,

900
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: which listen, they're gonna win two to three games, but

901
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: they can score some points. They have skill guys, deef.

902
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: Green Bay's defense is just not good. That's just way

903
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: too many points to give. And one thing, now, we've

904
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: consistently seen the Giants against the Bucks a couple of

905
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: weeks ago getting a huge line. They cover last week Dallas,

906
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: who was the Dallas was playing the Steelers and they

907
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: were getting fourteen points. They covered. Like when really good teams,

908
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: when playoff level teams like Tampa, like the Steelers, like

909
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: Green Bay play these teams who are god awful, I'm

910
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: just gonna lean probably anything above eleven twelve points. It's

911
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: just too many points, especially if you just have some

912
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: capable offensive skill guys. So I like Um, I like

913
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: the Jags plus thirteen and a half. Then we have

914
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: Seattle versus the Ramps. My philosophy is pretty simple. In

915
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: the NFC West, I'm probably gonna remove the Niners just

916
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 1: because they have too many injuries. Now Jimmy Garoppolo's gone,

917
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: it's Nick Mullins. But if the Niners were healthy, I

918
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: would throw all four teams in this category. Any team

919
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: that is getting points in that matchup I would bet

920
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 1: on and Seattle Seahawks are getting one and a half

921
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 1: points at the Ramps. No fans indoor u. Jared Goff

922
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: has not been that good this year. I I like

923
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: Seattle a lot in this game, coming off a loss.

924
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: Not just a loss they got, they gave up forty

925
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: four points of the Buffalo Bills that they got destroyed.

926
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: I just think that you know, Jared Goffaint Josh Allen.

927
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: Right now, I like Seattle really to win this game

928
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: out right, but definitely plus one and a half. So

929
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: I'm going Seattle plus one and a half at the

930
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: Ramps so Far Stadium. I'm going to Tampa Bay Tampa

931
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers minus five at Carolina, and I'm gonna go

932
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville plus thirteen and a half at Lambeau. I probably

933
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 1: feel the worst about the Jags, but I also feel

934
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: the best because I love huge point spreads, especially this

935
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: late in the season when teams records look bad. I

936
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 1: just think it's human nature for some of these players

937
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: to overlook them and the games to be a little

938
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: closer than all of us vision. Okay, I was gonna

939
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: do the Middlecoff mail bag, but I have a little

940
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: bit of a problem. My phone is a disaster, and

941
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: my pad is that I didn't charge it today. I

942
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: don't have access to Instagram as I'm as I'm recording

943
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: this currently. And not to go off on a tangent

944
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: about the Apple iPhones, maybe some of you can relate.

945
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: I have a ton of friends my Apple iPhone the

946
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: last couple of months, maybe not months, but like two

947
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: or three weeks is a disaster. Nothing works. I can't

948
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: take a picture right now, I can't talk on it.

949
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: I have to be on Bluetooth. It's like Tim Cook

950
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: and Apple are actively I was gonna get a new

951
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: phone no matter what. He didn't need to screw me

952
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: like this. But everyone I've talked to, they're like, yeah,

953
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: my Apple iPhone has been acting all weird, and clearly

954
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: they're coming out with all these you know, the new

955
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: phones during a pandemic of its sales are hurting a

956
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: little bit, trying to boost them up. Kind of shady

957
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: business practice. You can't tell me. Randomly the phone comes

958
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: out and then my iPhone stops working, and every single

959
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: person I know with an iPhone all is having a

960
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: little weird glitches going. It's pretty crazy. Like I'm pro technology,

961
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: but I also acknowledge they do some shady ship, you know,

962
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: and I'm a loyal Apple guy. I'm literally recording a

963
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: podcast that helps fund my life into an Apple MacBook.

964
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: I got a uh, I'm looking at an iPad this

965
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: out of batteries. It's sitting right next to me, and

966
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 1: I got an iPhone it. I can't access my apps

967
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: right now, so I just if if any of you

968
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: guys are having the same issue with your Apple iPhone.

969
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm not even complaining. I was about

970
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 1: to buy the new one, and I went to buy

971
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: the new twelve, but they were, you know, like the

972
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: local AT and T store, and they haven't got the

973
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: shipman in yet. I was gonna do it anyway, Tim Cook,

974
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: you don't need to screw with me. Just give me

975
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: whenever they come in. I'm gonna go buy your thousand

976
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: dollar phone. But when I right now, I need to

977
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: read my my Instagram d M S. I can't talk

978
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,439
Speaker 1: on my phone without a bluetooth. Come on, man, Uh,

979
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 1: you guys are doing just fine. You guys have a

980
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:39,919
Speaker 1: big campus with a bunch of cash in the bank.

981
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: I have seen your guys financial statements. I invested in

982
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: your company for many, many years. Unbelievable. But you don't

983
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: need to do this because right now you're messing my phone,

984
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: and like many millennials, I'm way too dependent on this thing.

985
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: It's basically like my you know, uh, how to be

986
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: who wants to be a millionaire? You know, like a lifeline.

987
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 1: Think about the lifeline your phone is. You really can't

988
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: operate without it. And ever since Tim Cook and Apple

989
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: have been messing with me, I've just I've been a

990
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: shell of my former self. You know, my my business

991
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: is very dependent on that little phone and your Apple

992
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: iPhones twelves aren't in yet, and until they're in, I

993
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: just gotta deal with my my glitched iPhone and just

994
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: try to make the next week or two. But if

995
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: you're having the same issues, tweet at me or instagram

996
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: at me in my d MS. Hopefully I'll be able

997
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: to access them. Tell me you're having the same problem,

998
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,240
Speaker 1: because it's kind of b s. It's kind of ticking

999
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: me off. Appreciate everyone listening at John Middlecoff Instagram. Give

1000
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: give that a little follow, shoot me a d M.

1001
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: If you guys three and Out podcast, leave a leave

1002
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: a review, if you subscribe and you like the show,

1003
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: I greatly appreciate it helps. Uh. You know, us do

1004
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: some advertising stuff which you know, keeps me going, keep

1005
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: keeps food on the table. And uh and yeah, that's

1006
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: that'll wrap it up. Have a good weekend. Enjoy the Masters.

1007
00:50:55,719 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't hear Quick Masters prediction Bryson D. Shambo who

1008
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: hits the ball like eight hundred yards he shot he

1009
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: was couldn't have been any let me repeat, couldn't have

1010
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: been any shittier today on Thursday my prediction, and he's

1011
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: still shot two under. I think he's gonna be a

1012
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: factor all weekend. I got money on him. I got

1013
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: money on Dustin Johnson. I wish I had money on Tiger,

1014
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: but I didn't expect him to play this well. But

1015
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's just magic there. But I'm telling you, you

1016
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: watch Bryson D. Shambo is gonna come storming back and

1017
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: be a factor. I think probably Dustin Johnson probably would be.

1018
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: My guest ends up pointing it or JT. But enjoy

1019
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: your master's weekend, enjoy football on on mainland Sunday. I

1020
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: think all these college games are getting canceled on Saturday,

1021
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: at least a large amount of them. I think the

1022
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: SEC is missing like all their games. But I have

1023
00:51:43,680 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: a great weekend. Eight