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Speaker 1: But I did want to start because there's a lingering

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Speaker 1: kind of unprecedented, well, he immediately had success. He got

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Speaker 1: to the league. The first year as a starter, he

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Speaker 1: won the and honestly they beat the Patriots, say they

431
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Speaker 1: don't have an awful defense. By the next year they

432
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Speaker 1: have a comeback win against the forty nine Ers, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of comeback wins. You could also argue his first

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl win against the Niners when they're down late

435
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Speaker 1: with like five or six minutes ago. They had just

436
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Speaker 1: been down the previous two games the Houston Texans and

437
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,400
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Remember they were down big in both

438
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: those games that came storming back. So his confidence in

439
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: that moment, it literally just happened to him over the

440
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Speaker 1: course of the last month. I don't think you just

441
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Speaker 1: get in these spots and start going like I can

442
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Speaker 1: do it when you've never done it. When Scotti Scheffler

443
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: or Rory McElroy is coming down the back nine with

444
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: the lead or chasing the lead, they're much more comfortable

445
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,360
Speaker 1: because they've done it many times than a guy that's

446
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: never won. On the PGA tour, it's no different in football.

447
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: Then the longer it goes, like Josh Allen's been really

448
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: good in the playoffs. Obviously, he wasn't that great for

449
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Speaker 1: his standards in the Denver game and missed an enormous

450
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Speaker 1: pass at the end of the regulation that would have

451
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Speaker 1: probably won them the game. Now turn he was injured

452
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Speaker 1: or whatever. But the longer it goes, and I would

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Speaker 1: throw Lamar in there as well, who has not been

454
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Speaker 1: good in the playoffs till the second half of the

455
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: Bills games when he actually played really well. But a

456
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Speaker 1: lot like Peyton Manning. The longer it goes, you can't

457
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Speaker 1: win the big one. You can't win the big one.

458
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Speaker 1: Once you become a pro slash superstar. It kind of

459
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Speaker 1: grows like at this point in time, Aaron Judge, he

460
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Speaker 1: could hit fifty eight home runs, one hundred and fifty

461
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Speaker 1: RBIs bat four hundred. It's like, Okay, he's fucking awesome

462
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Speaker 1: in the regular season, what are you gonna do in

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Speaker 1: the postseason? I saw when I was a kid with

464
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Speaker 1: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and it happens in football too.

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Speaker 1: I love Peyton Manning as a kid, and you went

466
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Speaker 1: in up until that game where he comes storming back

467
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Speaker 1: against the Patriots in the AFC Championship game. The knock

468
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: on him was couldn't win the Big One? Why because

469
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: he had never won the fucking Big One. Couldn't win

470
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Speaker 1: it in Florida or it couldn't beat Florida in college.

471
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Speaker 1: And then he just kept getting beat in the playoffs

472
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Speaker 1: with these great regular season teams. And then once he

473
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Speaker 1: got over the pump, he kind of never looked back,

474
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Speaker 1: won another Super Bowl, went back to two others, like

475
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: had a lot of success, but like when you look

476
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Speaker 1: at Patrick Mahomes, he doesn't really have to deal with that.

477
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers got to knock off the Super Bowl early

478
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Speaker 1: in his career, so when he would lose playoff games

479
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Speaker 1: and some of them were not his fault, he'd be like, well,

480
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Speaker 1: it's not his fault. Well, I know this guy's won.

481
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Speaker 1: I've seen him do it, so you could never say anything.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking at Justin Herbert. I think the Charge

483
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Speaker 1: are gonna be really good this year. Why they have

484
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Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh. They already have a good team. They're just

485
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Speaker 1: they're a well run operation. They're gonna be in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But for like I'm talking about Josh and Lamar. It's

487
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Speaker 1: gonna be extremely loud on Justin Herbert because he's not

488
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Speaker 1: gonna be judged on making sweet plays in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: I've seen him do it for years. He is easily

490
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Speaker 1: one of the most talented players of the Internet era.

491
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Speaker 1: I mean six or five huge arm, can run, high character.

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Speaker 1: Teammates love him, like checks all the boxes. Plays great

493
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. It's proven he can play, hurt tough, SOB,

494
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: it's like, well, can you win playoff games? Because that's

495
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Speaker 1: you're at this point, like that's all you're gonna be

496
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Speaker 1: judged on. Now, you know that's it. You know you've

497
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: already got the big contracts or you're not trying to

498
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: like just stat pad here, it's just can you win

499
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: a January game? Fair? Not? You haven't even got close,

500
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: and you've been atrocious in most of them. So I think,

501
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: and that's it's really hard to you know, kind of

502
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Speaker 1: that momentum starts growing and growing and growing. It's hard

503
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Speaker 1: to slow it down, it really is. And once you

504
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Speaker 1: get over the hump, I think it really frees you. Right.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it with coaches when I was a kid.

506
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Speaker 1: Roy Williams forever at Kansas, gets to North Carolina, gets

507
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Speaker 1: one and then wins a bunch. Right, once you get

508
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Speaker 1: over that hump, it was easy Villanova. When I lived

509
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Speaker 1: in Philly, it felt like they underachieved in the tournament.

510
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Speaker 1: They would get ko They'd always be a top seed,

511
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 1: they'd be a top one or two seed, they'd be

512
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Speaker 1: heavily favored, and they get bounced in the first weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I just don't thing, and then all of

514
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Speaker 1: a sudden, he just he won back and back. You know.

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Speaker 1: I was like, we look at Jay Wright, like remember

516
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Speaker 1: when he won multiple national championships. So like, if judge

517
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Speaker 1: like the yanggs gonna be in the playoffs, He's just

518
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Speaker 1: gonna be judged simply moving forward like how he does

519
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Speaker 1: in these big spots. And baseball's tough, right, you only

520
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Speaker 1: get a couple of AB's obviously in the playoffs or

521
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: these big spots are facing the best pitchers. But if

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Speaker 1: you don't come through like you do, get judged a

523
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Speaker 1: little more harshly. I'll never forget. For Like Steph Curry's

524
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Speaker 1: a great example. A couple of years in once he

525
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Speaker 1: fixed the ankles, you just thought he was always gonna

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Speaker 1: come through. It doesn't mean he always came through, but

527
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Speaker 1: in these big spots, it's like down ten, Steph's gonna

528
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: pull some shit out of his ass, and countless times,

529
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: over and over and over he came through. You know

530
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: why because in his mind he'd been doing that since Davidson.

531
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Speaker 1: He'd been doing that in tournament games against teams with

532
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: way more firepower and figuring out a way to win.

533
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Speaker 1: And this is the question when it comes to quarterbacks, right, Like,

534
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Speaker 1: if you play at a great university with a stacked

535
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Speaker 1: team that's not the NFL. That was the thing with

536
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Speaker 1: you a Jim McCarthy, his team couldn't have been any better.

537
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: Cowrot thought it was the best Michigan team of all time.

538
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Speaker 1: From a talent standpoint, definitely from a coaching standpoint. They

539
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Speaker 1: have two NFL head coaches. One of them's a big

540
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Speaker 1: time guy and Jesse Mincher is very highly thought of.

541
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Speaker 1: So I mean it's like you had two NFL coaches

542
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: on the staff, one guy kind of operating more of

543
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: the offense, one guy leading the defense. You had NFL

544
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: players everywhere, Like that's not normal. So it's like, yeah,

545
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: you get confidence from winning, but like what are you doing? Meanwhile,

546
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's carrying Davidson against Kansas was like they have

547
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: no business winning the game. They're probably a double digit favored.

548
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: It's like, we'll figure out a way because of me.

549
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: And then that confidence grows to the pros because you

550
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: have done it before. So once you do it once,

551
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: you've felt that feeling. And I think we see that

552
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: with athletes all the time. And the one thing with

553
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: social media, the amount of podcasts, the television shows, it's

554
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: only grown in the pressure I think people. And I'm

555
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: still a huge Peyton Manning guy. Who is He's one

556
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: of my favorite player of all time. If you're younger,

557
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: you know, if you're in your early twenties and you

558
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: didn't quite live through that, you can't even imagine the conversations.

559
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: You know, Herbert kind of gets talked about a little bit.

560
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning was viewed as one of the post childs

561
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: of the league. He was viewed as the best regular

562
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: season quarterback, that that would be a conversation that would

563
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: lead this show, that would lead television shows, that would

564
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: lead everything surrounding the NFL over and it be treated

565
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: like the way we talk about the Cowboys or if

566
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: you talk about basketball Lebron and the Lakers, it would

567
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: be a nauseating conversation because he wasn't winning and it

568
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: didn't feel like he played that well in some of

569
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Speaker 1: those games. Right, So I'm fascinated by clutch. I do

570
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: think it exists, and I do think having confidence from

571
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: previous experiences when you've had success, even if it's not

572
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Speaker 1: at the same level. Right, even if you've made a

573
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: sale for twenty grand and now you're doing a deal,

574
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: hopefully for twenty million dollars, you have landed deals, you

575
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: have gotten, Yes, will do that. There is something in

576
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Speaker 1: you to go, I can do this. If you've never

577
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: done it before, you go, I don't know. So when

578
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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper hit that home runs like, I feel like

579
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: I've seen him hit that home run fifteen times, you know,

580
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: of course he did, and the next guy came up.

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Speaker 1: My first feeling was, I don't know if he's gonna

582
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: strike out again. But I didn't feel like he was

583
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: gonna get a hit, and what happened didn't get it hit.

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00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: So it's like, I think we kind of know it now.

585
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Speaker 1: I've said this before. I think Dak Prescott could win

586
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl if the Cowboys were good, right, I

587
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: thought they had a super Bowl winning team. I've seen

588
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott play well at a really high level in

589
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: the regular season and then he gets to the playoffs

590
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: and he kind of crumbles. And back to what we

591
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Speaker 1: were saying, it's one of those things that, like he

592
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: gets in a big spot in January, he hasn't gotten

593
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: over the hump. Like he hasn't won one of those

594
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: tight games like beating Tampa when he throw five touchdowns

595
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: and they're terrible doesn't count. Are you able to like

596
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: get over the hump in a seventeen to fifteen game?

597
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: And I've seen him in those spots not play well.

598
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: But I do believe he could. But it's what's so

599
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 1: fascinating about sports and the best highest paid players is

600
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: some guys do it and some guys just never do.

601
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: Before we dive into the mailbag, I I'm gambling on

602
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament and I listen. I know last year

603
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: had four number one seeds. I don't think that's gonna

604
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: happen every single year, and clearly with nil the top,

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00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen twenty teams are pretty stacked. I mean,

606
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: Kansas is a four seed, and they have a guy

607
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: that up until like two months ago is viewed as

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00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: a lock number one pick by US, a sixth seed,

609
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: and they got a guy that's probably gonna go number one. Right,

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00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: Obviously Duke has you know, loaded NBA guy Boozer, who's

611
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: a stud who's the one seed. But weird stuff happens

612
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: in this tournament. We have seen so many times pre

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00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: nil teams get bounced. Now I saw stat I think

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00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: Big Kat said this that, and this shows the nil

615
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: that all four top four seeds. So the sixteen teams

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00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: that are one through four are all double digit favorites. Now,

617
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: obviously the one and two seeds are always big favorites,

618
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: but sometimes like the four to thirteen is a little closer,

619
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: but maybe nine eight points. They're all big favorites. So

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00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: I think mainly Thursday and Friday could be a little underwhelming,

621
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: which is fine. Once we get to Saturday and Sunday

622
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: in the sweet sixteen, it could be on like Donkey

623
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: Kong and listen, I'm not the biggest Big East guy anymore.

624
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Times have changed, but I'm though dummy big events. I'm

625
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: paying attention. I watched Saint John's in Yukon and Patino

626
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: we talked about it the other day. He's one of

627
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: the greatest coaches in the history of the sport, and

628
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: his team's clearly pretty good. They just beat the shit

629
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: out of Yukon. Now it was a home game, but

630
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: still I do think that Kansas Saint John's second round matchup,

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00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: whoever wins that game. We talk about confidence and momentum.

632
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: The next game is gonna be against Duke, but the

633
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: momentum that they get and the confidence they get of

634
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: beating whoever wins that opponent, right Whoever, if if Bill

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: Self and Kansas take down Saint John's, they're gonna be

636
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good going in that two game, and same

637
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: thing vice versa with Saint John's. You can get Kansas

638
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: ten to one just to win the regent, So they'd

639
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: have to beat Duke and then take care of you know,

640
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: Michigan State or Yukon or whatever chaos is on the

641
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: other side or the Johnny's nine to one. I also

642
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: think you could make an argument that whoever won that

643
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: game could have enough momentum. You got Bill Self, Rick Bettinel,

644
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: these guys have won national titles. Obviously, Kansas has a

645
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: bunch of NBA guys. I don't know if Saint John's

646
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,239
Speaker 1: quite does, but they're clearly really well coached. They've won

647
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: a ton of games. I threw fifty dollars each on

648
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: them both sixty to one to just win the national

649
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: title because I want just a little action and feel

650
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: pretty good about hedging my bet. Like I didn't want

651
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: to pick one or the other. Whoever wins that game.

652
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them a pretty good chance against Duke.

653
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: And the other one is Arkansas, who you can get

654
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: like fifty to one on hard rock bet. You can

655
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: get them ten to one to win their region. Now,

656
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: like Saint John's and and Kansas, if they take care

657
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: of the first two rounds they're going to they'd probably

658
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: play wisconsinant potentially in the second round, though Wisconsin go

659
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: cold from outside. They would get Arizona, who was really,

660
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: really good. There is no disputing anyone that watched college basketball.

661
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: They are fucking juggernaut. Here's the thing about Arizona, they

662
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: kind of got like a Buffalo Bill's thing going. It's

663
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: like they just don't really get it done when it

664
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: really matters the most. Like Arizona, over the course of

665
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: the last fifteen plus years has had a lot of

666
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: good teams. Google last time they made a Final four

667
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: pretty sure, it's been like two and a half decades.

668
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: It's been a while, and I think there is just

669
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: that we talk about pressure. It is a blue blood

670
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: basketball school, Arizona cares about basketball. The University of Arizona deep.

671
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: It really matters. They have been doing everything possible. They

672
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: were doing nil well before nil with Loud Olson, as

673
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: Jerry Tarkanian said, I offered him a car, Lute offered

674
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: him a van. So it's like they will do whatever

675
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: it takes to get good players, and they have excellent players.

676
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: But I do believe there's a pressure when a program

677
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: just hasn't figured it out for whatever reason. Despite all

678
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: the success they've had. They just won the hardest league

679
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: in the country. Arkansas has the Acuf kid who is

680
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: just phenomenal, And I think there's an element, and this

681
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: is what makes a tournament cool. Every once in a while,

682
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: you get like a Steph Curry moment. You just get

683
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: a guy who is red hot. They just won the

684
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: SEC Conference championship. You can get them ten to one

685
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: to because if they won that game, I think they

686
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,479
Speaker 1: would be the heavy favorite to win the following game

687
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: and make it to the final four, and they would

688
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: be a team that I mean, how many straight games

689
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: that they had won, obviously they won the SEC tournament,

690
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: that they would beat Arizona. I think Arkansas is a

691
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: very very live, just under the radar like Non one

692
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: or two seed that if their star gets hot now

693
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: will make you a little nervous. Coach Cal lost a

694
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: lot of games in the tournament that he should have won,

695
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: but that will be a game where he kind of

696
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: gets to play the underdog. Like most people are not

697
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna pick Arkansas against Arizona, So I do like dabbling

698
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,280
Speaker 1: on Kansas and Saint John's whoever wins that game momentum

699
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: going into the duke game, and I'm just taking Arkansas

700
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: Coach Cal and they're just red hot. Okay, let's do

701
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: a couple of mailbag questions at John Middlecoff at John

702
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in those DMS questions answered

703
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: right here on the show. We will start with David

704
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: question for the back, I just got my head shaved

705
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Speaker 1: with some of my fraternity bros for charity. Good for

706
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: you guys, A bunch of us shaved our heads to

707
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: help raise money for veterans, these young college kids giving

708
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: back to America. Appreciate you, guys. I'm leaving for the

709
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: beach level little charity than the little party on Friday,

710
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: and gonna be there for spring break. Any suggestions to

711
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: help prevent my head getting sunburned Before I started shaving

712
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: my head, which I've been doing probably since twenty thirteen fourteen,

713
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: range maybe with a with like a mock three or

714
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: mock five. The first several years I just took like

715
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: the equivalent of no free ads, but like the Maandscape thing,

716
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: and just went as low as it would go. The

717
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: first time I was bald, at least the first probably

718
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: six months, I went to the lake in Tahoe with

719
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Speaker 1: one of my good buddies, Ryan and his girl friend

720
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: at the time whose now his wife, and a bunch

721
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 1: of her friends, and we just got smashed and we

722
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: were on the boat all day. And if you've had

723
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Speaker 1: hair your whole life, you don't even think like about

724
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: putting sunscreen on the top of your head, so you

725
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: just live life like you had hair. And then probably

726
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 1: four or five days later, my entire head peeled off

727
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: and I never made that mistake again. So I think

728
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: there's two keys, because one, if you have hair, you're

729
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: the top of your scalp is not used to sing, son, right,

730
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: Especially if you don't wear a hat, right, it never

731
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: gets any it just I mean, if you do wear

732
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: a hat, it never gets any exposure. So if you're

733
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Speaker 1: not gonna wear a hat, which is probably the easiest

734
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: thing to do, a bucket hat, a cowboy hat, a

735
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: backward hat, whatever is, you gotta put sunscreen like you

736
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 1: would on your back, like you would on your neck

737
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: or your arms. You just put it all over your

738
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: head because if you do not, your head will peel

739
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: off and I'll never forget. It was like a week

740
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: before Fourth of July there was a big Fourth of

741
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: July party and my head was just peeled off. So

742
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: I had to wear like a hat because I look

743
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: like a like a lizard or something. I mean, it was.

744
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: It was a crazy experience. But this is what we're

745
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: gonna teach my young son. When you make a mistake

746
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: not always bad. You learn from it and you never

747
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: make that mistake again, unless you're just an idiot and

748
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: you make the same mistakes over and over. Why has

749
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson talked about going in the first round. Is

750
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: it just hype and excitement for him? He'll get drafted

751
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: too high by a bad organization like the Jets, because

752
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: that's just what they do. Haven't we seen this type

753
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: player get drafted way too high because of one good season.

754
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: Simpson was a good quarterback, but it's his only season

755
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: in college and watching about half of the Alabama games,

756
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: he never looked like a guy to take in the

757
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: first round, especially with the talent pool that lines up

758
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: this year, but also the projected quarterback depth next year.

759
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: To me, Simpson would be a good third or fourth

760
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: round pick, potentially a backup. The hype machine's real and

761
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: this time of year, if you're a GM, if you're

762
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: a scouting director, if you're the front office, you got

763
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: to be very careful about when you listen to these

764
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: people talk over and over about these prospects. It's one thing,

765
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, Daniel Jeremiah has scouted in the league. He

766
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: talks to people in the league, so it's all kind

767
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: of connected. Dan Orlowski, who again I have nothing against Dan.

768
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: I kind of like Dan, you know, just he entertains me.

769
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: But he's never scouted in the league and he's going

770
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: on these rants about how great Ty Simpson is. That's

771
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: how you get in trouble. But that type momentum, and

772
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: then you get a couple more guys that agree with him.

773
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: I am not in the business of taking lower ceiling

774
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: guys in the first round of quarterback. You know, we

775
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: have examples recently of Kenny Pickett, who was like a

776
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: five year starter, Mac Jones, who was like a one

777
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: and a half half year starter, like Ty Simpson could

778
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: be Mac Jones. Well, what is mc jon's. He's a

779
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: good backup who can win you some games. Mc john's

780
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: not a starting quarterback. He's you know, he's he'll never

781
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: be a top twenty five quarterback in the NFL, but

782
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: in short periods, if he's got the right team, he

783
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: can win you some games. I'm not into drafting those guys.

784
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Whenever I watched Alabama and I get

785
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 1: he was a little dinged up and they couldn't run

786
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: the ball, I could not take him in the first round.

787
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of teams will not have

788
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: him in the first round. I'd be a little surprised

789
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: if he goes in the first round. I mean, last year,

790
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: people saw shador shit. Maybe I was guilty too. It

791
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: was gonna go in like top five to the Browns.

792
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: He went the fifth round. So I think sometimes the

793
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: buzz is a lot different than the way the league

794
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: internally views guys. Why is Daniel Jones being so heavily criticized.

795
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: I know that everyone wants to take a dump on

796
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: him because of the Giants, but he won a playoff

797
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: game and was playing really well until the injury. You

798
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: can say his injury prone, which is true, but he's

799
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: suffered fewer injuries than guys like Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow, Herbert,

800
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: Lamar Love, Dak His contract also helps the Colts out

801
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,879
Speaker 1: since it only counts around twenty million against the cap,

802
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: which is nineteenth among NFL quarterbacks in ninety third. Overall,

803
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: it's kind of a smart move, and everyone seems just

804
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 1: to be bashing the guys you compared him to Joe Burrow, justin, Herbert,

805
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: Jordan Love, and Lamar Jackson. I mean, I even Trevor Lawrence. Now,

806
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean Trevor Lawrence has had a couple good seasons.

807
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: He's won a playoff game before I and I would

808
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: take Trevor Lawrence over Daniel Jones for sure. I just

809
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: think the criticism comes from Daniel Jones. No one's ever

810
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: done less, consistently made more money and got to keep starting.

811
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of backups, you know, Chase Daniel

812
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 1: is just I would say he's kind of the poster

813
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: child of the guy that made a ton of money

814
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: never had to play, which is a great gig if

815
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: you can get it. But Daniel Jones Zones, he's been

816
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: franchise tagged multiple times. I think how crazy that is.

817
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: He'd be like, well, one's a transition tag. Okay. Who

818
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: was paying Daniel Jones thirty seven million dollars? That's what

819
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: I part of it is just basic business. Who was

820
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: paying Daniel Jones thirty seven million dollars? He has a

821
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: fucking torn achilles? I just I don't see who's paying

822
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: on that. I really don't. Maybe I'm being too negative.

823
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mac Jones makes two year, seven million dollars.

824
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones makes signed an eighty eight million dollar contract.

825
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Question for the mail back?

826
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Speaker 1: Anybody been talking about Juwan Jennings from the Niners? Even

827
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: the local Bay area radio doesn't seem to talk much

828
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: about the contract negotiations with him. Is the market just

829
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: low form or are they having a falling out? I

830
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: think sometimes guys they And this happened to Trey Hendrickson,

831
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: though he pivoted really fast because the Ravens put enough

832
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: on the TI. Trey Hendrickson at one point in time

833
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: was telling GMS he wanted like forty million dollars a year.

834
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: So you go to the market, your agent figures out

835
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: what teams are willing to pay you, and you already

836
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: have a number in mind. As a player like Jwan

837
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 1: Buttet heeads last year with the Niners because he wanted

838
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: a big race a couple of years ago. They gave

839
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: him a two year, fifteen million dollar contract and they

840
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: gave him some incentives. And last year he made like

841
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: thirteen million dollars. But he's thinking like I was one

842
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 1: of the best wide receivers or the best wide receiver

843
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: really last year on a team that just was in

844
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 1: the second round of the playoffs. I've been highly productive

845
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 1: for the forty nine ers. I just made thirteen million dollars.

846
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: Rumors already wants like twenty million dollars a year. And

847
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: as someone told me, the combine unless he's your guy.

848
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 1: Other teams aren't enamored with people that don't get open

849
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: for a lot of money. He's a good blocker, he's

850
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: a physical player. He's made a bunch of clutch catches.

851
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: I think a lot of teams would offer him like

852
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: two for fifteen million dollars. Again, you know he had

853
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: he's become a high level, aggressive teammate. But you know,

854
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: some of these teams had character red flags on him

855
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: coming out of college. Now I think he's definitely shrugged

856
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: those off. But I think the way he views himself,

857
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,959
Speaker 1: if he was willing to pay for like six million dollars,

858
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: he'd be signed right now. If he was willing to

859
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: play for ten million dollars, maybe he would. I think

860
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: a lot of teams don't value what he thinks is important,

861
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: which is important like driving guys into the Gatorade buckets,

862
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: blocking coming through with some big third down catches. But

863
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: he's not fast. You know, he's pretty scheme dependent guy,

864
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: and he has a false sense like listen, I he's

865
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: young and he's been around. He saw Brandon a you

866
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: get thirty million dollars and quit on the team. So

867
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: it's like you can't pay me eighteen twenty million dollars.

868
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: I think the people in life that are most successful

869
00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 1: have the most common sense and eq about what they're

870
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 1: worth at a given time. So sometimes, and I've been

871
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: doing this now for a decade, where I've been negotiating

872
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: my own deals and going back and forth, and sometimes

873
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: you got to go listen, the other side's gotta win two,

874
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: or like I'm asking for a little bit much here,

875
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: or this is like they're bringing a lot of stuff

876
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: to the table too. And I think sometimes when you

877
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: get a false sense of like I'm worth this, especially

878
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: in football, the numbers of the team's view you as

879
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: worth are not even close. When you see some of

880
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: these bigger names, guys like Juwan James Jennings almost made

881
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars, I bet he's got a lot of

882
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: offers that aren't even paying him that a year. Joey

883
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: Bosa even last year made twelve million dollars. So when

884
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: his best offers are like three or four million dollars,

885
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: you're like, that's the best I can do. So I

886
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: think that's a big reason a lot of like older

887
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: players that are bigger names don't sign. And some of

888
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: those guys like trending down. I think is just he

889
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: has some flaws that are non negotiables for some teams,

890
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: especially when you're talking a substantial amount of money. So

891
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: I think the reason he is still on the street

892
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: is his view of his worth and the market's view

893
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: of his worth are in different stratospheres. I mean, there

894
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: are teams that would pay him like six million dollars

895
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: a year, nine million dollars a year maybe. I mean

896
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: some teams just don't even value them. That's the other

897
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: thing when you are a specific type player, right, Like,

898
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: if a high end guy comes to the market, we

899
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: can debate Jalen Phillips, but Jalen Phillips could play for anybody,

900
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: now how much he's worth or whatever. But every team

901
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: would be interested in Jalen Phillips right for the right price.

902
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: Every team in the league would be interested in Trey Hendrickson.

903
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: Obviously the top guys. Everyone's interested in those guys. They're

904
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: not scheme dependent. Well, there are certain players that not

905
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: every team in the league's gonna be even interested. You

906
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: don't even fit what I do. My offensive coordinator, head

907
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: coach that calls plays doesn't like your skill set. So

908
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: we wouldn't even we wouldn't might not even take you

909
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,760
Speaker 1: for free because you wouldn't even play on our roster.

910
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: And guys like Juwan Jennings fit that mold like they are.

911
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: There are gonna be some coaches and some general managers

912
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: that philosophically like what he brings to the table. They

913
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: value little to nothing, which I think there's a value,

914
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: like he's a winning player, but like he's not just

915
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: getting open on everybody and if and a lot of

916
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: people say, and this definitely hurts him, it's like, well

917
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: he's got Kyle Shanahan, He's the guy's scheming. I'm open,

918
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: And it's kind of true, you know where It's like

919
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: George Kittle would get open for fucking the Jets. Uh,

920
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: listen to your show. Now, I'm doubling down on Max.

921
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: Can't give them three days to have second thoughts. Gotta

922
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: get on that plane immediately. And to add to that,

923
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: Max isn't a Rhodes scholar, as he is mad as hell.

924
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: He can't play while k needing surgery and is still

925
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: battling for the number one pick. Kind of crazy. Probably

926
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: what makes HI an incredible player. I don't have that

927
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: once the trade goes through. Like I haven't seen the video.

928
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: Is Jaylen Waddle in Denver yet? But once Sean Payton

929
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,800
Speaker 1: and the Broncos trade for Jaalen Waddle, who do you

930
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: think will greet him? Either at the door he'll go

931
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: see immediately Sean Payton. What is gonna happen with Jaylen

932
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: Wattle and Sean Payton and the Devin Broncos. He just

933
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:27,240
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Denver Broncos. When Trent McDuffie was trading,

934
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: he just like that trade. He just on the rams.

935
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: Whether he shows up there the next day or in

936
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: three days. Once a trade goes through, you just assume

937
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm on that team. So he had a prior engagement.

938
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: I could make it, you know, he could have made

939
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: it Sunday, But I bet the front office and the

940
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: coaches want the day off and then they gotta fly

941
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: him out Monday. I actually don't think it's that crazy.

942
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: I you just assume it's going down now. I'm in

943
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 1: agreement it led to them falling into trade for cheap

944
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 1: and then pivoting. But the more and more I think about,

945
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you this. When Jalen Waddle in that video

946
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: goes of him showing up, Sean Payton will be a

947
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: guy that greets him pretty close to immediately, if not,

948
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: the first guy waiting for him at the door would

949
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: be my guess. So I just think that you don't

950
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: even think about the trade being the give backs, the

951
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: we're out the back out. When's that happen? Right? This

952
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: is not I don't even think it was crossing anyone's mind.

953
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree once we saw the

954
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: trade had gone through the next day, you just think

955
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: Max Crosby's a raven and the trade can't even technically

956
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: go through till Wednesday anyway. So whether he shows up

957
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: on Tuesday or Sunday or Monday, it can't become official

958
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: till that day. No matter what where I am in agreement.

959
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: Is his delay change the calculation. If he shows up

960
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: on Saturday, maybe he's maybe he's still a raven. He

961
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: maybe My guess is he probably still is. I honestly

962
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: think the Niners had a really strong offseason. They trade

963
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: for osa Osa Adigazua, who's that was a good move.

964
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: Third round pick, big time pass rusher, fits scheme, That's

965
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: an excellent trade. Adding Nate Hobbs Christian Kirk. I gotta

966
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: pump the brakes a little bit on those interesting guys,

967
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: but if I had to flip a coin, one of

968
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: those guys will have an impact. I agree on Mike Evans.

969
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: They also did a solid job building some depth on

970
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: the old line. Overall looks well rounded and productive. Still

971
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: some things to tie up with Trent, but otherwise I'm

972
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: really impressed with guys coming back on IR. I'm in agreement.

973
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: I like Mike Evans, I like bringing back Drake Greenlaw,

974
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: who there's way less pressure on him to be good now.

975
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: I do think the key for the forty nine next

976
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: year are gonna be Obviously, you need Fred healthy, you

977
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: need George healthy, you need Christian healthy, you need Trent healthy,

978
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: like clearly like if they're gonna be good, those guys

979
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,760
Speaker 1: gotta play. They drafted three guys last year really high

980
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: or really two of the last three years. They need

981
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsall to play, because when Ricky Pearsoon plays, he's good.

982
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: When Ricky Pearsall is dressed and healthy, he is an

983
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: impactful NFL player. I don't know what his ceiling is,

984
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: but every time I've watched him, when's healthy, like guy

985
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 1: this fucking guy's player and the other two guys are

986
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: the two d tackles. Last year, you know, they drafted

987
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: Collins in the second round. A lot of people thought

988
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: it was pretty high. Robert Sahl loved him, made a

989
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: couple of plays last year. If he can be just

990
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: a solid player, and they're gonna need Mikel Williams to

991
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: become some version of like what Eric Arms did was

992
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,959
Speaker 1: and he tours ACL last year, but that's a guy

993
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,720
Speaker 1: that like you draft eleventh overall, they need Ricky pearsall

994
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: they need Mikel Williams. Obviously got some other guys in

995
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: the draft that were good last year. You know, CJ. West,

996
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: the Indiana kid was good. They had a couple. I'm

997
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: blanking right now, kind of out of side, out of mind.

998
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: Haven't watched him play in a while, But I do

999
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: think it's really really important, Like if they're gonna take

1000
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: the next step and sustain this is like Mikel Williams

1001
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: and Ricky Pierce will have to be impact NFL players.

1002
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: Pearsall is he's got to be on the field. And

1003
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: Mikeel coming off that ACL injury, I think the jury's out,

1004
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: Like what is exactly his skill set. He's not the

1005
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: twitchiest guy off the edge. He's more of like an

1006
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: inside kind of hybrid defensive tackle more than like an

1007
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: edge rusher. But he's, you know, in theory, good against

1008
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: the run. So it's you draft guys in the first round,

1009
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: the eleventh pick, like you need that guy to be good.

1010
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean, when's last time the forty nine ers draft that.

1011
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: I one, they didn't have first round picks forever, and

1012
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: even this year they're drafted in the late twenties. You

1013
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: had the eleventh pick, So I think a ton of

1014
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: pressure on him to be good. I do think Collins

1015
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: and CJ. West like they'll have enough defensive tackles now

1016
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: with Osa, but you get Mikel Williams back, now you

1017
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: got a deep defensive line like both the same thing

1018
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 1: with Trent and Fred. Those guys have to be healthy.

1019
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: Like if you're gonna beat the Rams, if you're gonna

1020
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: beat Seattle, like their best players are healthy, So your

1021
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 1: best players need to be healthy. For as great as

1022
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: the Eagles win was, and it was an incredible victory,

1023
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: kind of that's not gonna happen that often where you're

1024
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: gonna play teams in big games, that have way more

1025
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: talent and you're playing with like four stringers, you're gonna

1026
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: be able to beat them. It was really cool. I'm

1027
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: not gonna lie but that. I think they'd be the

1028
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: first to say, like, that's an outlier situation. We need

1029
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: our guys, we need to go to war with our

1030
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: best players, and in theory that includes Ricky Piersoll and

1031
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: mikel Williams. Okay, a couple more questions. I'd love to

1032
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: get your perspective on coaching hierarchies. Fancier titles like assistant

1033
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: head coach, passing game coordinator, associate head coach, but it's

1034
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 1: not always clear the real chain of command. For example,

1035
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 1: Terrell Williams was recently named the assistance head coach while

1036
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: on staffs, it feels like the offensive coordinator like Mike

1037
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: McDaniel was under Jim Harball with the Chargers, functions as

1038
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: the true number two. From your experience inside buildings, how

1039
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: does the hierarchy actually work behind the scenes. Who's really

1040
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: the head coach, who's in their ear and decision making

1041
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: priority each game day, week to week. I think it's

1042
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: very team to team. I think the Terrell Williams thing

1043
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,760
Speaker 1: is like he was Rabel's guy who's the defensive coordinator.

1044
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: Then he gets sick and they elevate I forget his name,

1045
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: but the younger kid, and then their defense was really good.

1046
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: So he keeps the job. But Rabel loves Williams, so

1047
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: he wants to keep him on the staff, so he

1048
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: makes him the assistant head coach. He's probably more of

1049
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: now of a roamer guy. I think it's fair to

1050
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: say Trell Williams has Vrabel's ear, and now Josh has

1051
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: proven in their year working together he's gonna have Rabel's eer, right,

1052
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:54,720
Speaker 1: And I think in some situations like is Sirianni telling

1053
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio what to do and that's not a shot it,

1054
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: do you think like Andy's like riding spat Like there's

1055
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: a lot of Kyle was with Salah, Like there are

1056
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: a lot of situations Shula now with with Sean McVay

1057
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: has like once you get a little equity built up,

1058
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: like on the other side of the ball, they kind

1059
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: of leave you alone. Obviously they talk to you all

1060
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: the time, but they're in your ear about like if

1061
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: this guy's screwing up or this guy's not focused, for sure,

1062
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: but you're not micromanaging them, and I think that's where

1063
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: assistant head coach sometimes is to take care of a

1064
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: guy that you can't name the coordinator, so it's more

1065
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: of a money thing. But I think Mike McDaniel is

1066
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: either true number two, like I would say that's with hardball,

1067
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: that's more of the defensive coordinator because Jim's pretty active

1068
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks. So I think it's just so teamed

1069
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: a team. You know, Kyle is kind of notorious. He's

1070
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: I think he has every meeting room is Mike and videoed,

1071
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: so if he's in his office and you're running the

1072
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: linebacker room, he can watch and listen. And part of

1073
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: that goes back to his dad in Walsh, so like

1074
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: when Raheem Morris comes in, like you can use his

1075
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: teach tapes and stuff, but he has access all the

1076
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: time to everybody. You know, Belichick would have been the same.

1077
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: So I just think it's so teamed to team. How

1078
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: much your GM has Jews telling you what to do

1079
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: as well. Like I also think when you have turnover

1080
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: with the staff, like if Kubiak had come back with Seattle,

1081
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: I bet he. I don't know what how evolved Mike was.

1082
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was a little involved, but he would

1083
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: be like, I'm not even this Clint's baby. But he leaves,

1084
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: you get a new offensive coordinator who's never called plays.

1085
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: I bet Mike is gonna be a little more hands on.

1086
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: So it's like, in theory, you're the offensive coordinator for

1087
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: a defensive head coaches calling the plays that should be

1088
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: your baby. But who knows, maybe Mike gets a little

1089
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: more active. I think titles in general in life are

1090
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: really really overrated, unless you're the CEO or the head

1091
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: coach or whatever that there have been a lot of

1092
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: I remember living with a guy who very very successful now,

1093
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: but at the time he made a big move. He

1094
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: worked in the finance world, got with a big bank,

1095
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: and he was like, I was so adamant about a

1096
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: title I wanted to be. I wanted this vice president title.

1097
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: And he was at the time probably thirty years old,

1098
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: Ivy League guy, and he said, looking back, and he

1099
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: had a bunch of issues with bonuses and stuff once

1100
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: he started working there. He's like, all that should have

1101
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: mattered was I fought for my compensation package. They could

1102
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: have called me an intern who cares. So I think

1103
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: titles sometimes can be a little overrated, And it's one

1104
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: of those things internally players know and that definitely the

1105
00:58:55,920 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: coaches know, but it's really hard unless someone tells you

1106
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: the exact story, you don't really know. Like a lot

1107
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: of offensive coordinators, who's head coach if it's Lafleur, Sean Payton,

1108
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: who's not calling plays anymore, Kyle McVeigh or whatever. Some

1109
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: of those guys probably have a bigger role than others.

1110
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: Some guys, hell, some of their coaches let them call

1111
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: plays during the game sometimes and others it's like, nah,

1112
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,439
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of there to cut up some tape

1113
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: and give some ideas, but he runs the show. So

1114
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: I think it's very dependent on the individual and the

1115
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: every staff's different, right trusts the big thing too. So

1116
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: it's like if you have a brand new staff, like

1117
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: some of these guys like Kubiak or mentor McCarthy, Like

1118
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,479
Speaker 1: if you ever't worked with a guy, or you haven't

1119
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: worked with a guy in a long time, like there's

1120
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: still a feeling out process. Even the good teams, you

1121
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: lose players all the or coaches all the time, so

1122
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: you're constantly like on board a new guy to a

1123
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: classic tech term and getting them up to speed and

1124
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: having them speak your language, and then them proving that

1125
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: they're good enough that you can trust them not micromanage.

1126
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: It's complicated. I guess that's a long wited way to say.

1127
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: Question from the back, what about Kyler? The Vikings makes

1128
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: you think they would be worse than last year? They

1129
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: were likely a playoff team with a healthy Cartson Wentz.

1130
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: Even with all the injuries and inconsistent quarterback play. They

1131
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: were nine to eight and a half game from the playoffs.

1132
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: Is Kyler not a half game upgrade over Carson Wentz?

1133
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: Colin seems in on the move. Well, here's my thing.

1134
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: If you go to the Minnesota Vikings schedule from last year,

1135
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: they them like the Lions. It was a fantastic division,

1136
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: right They had three teams win nine and then obviously

1137
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: the Bears one to eleven, so back to back years

1138
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: of just being a loaded division. If you go to

1139
01:00:54,880 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: their two thousand and twenty five season, they won their

1140
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: last four games, actually they won their last five games.

1141
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: Here were their opponents, So at one point in time

1142
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: they were one, two, three, four wits, So they had

1143
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: four wins going in to December seventh. Again, November ended

1144
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving ended they had four wins. They played Washington, who

1145
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:26,439
Speaker 1: was fucking horrendous, and let's see the box score there.

1146
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:31,479
Speaker 1: Who was the quarterback for the Commanders. It was Jayden

1147
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: Daniels who went nine of twenty in an interception and

1148
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: through seventy eight yards. But they had been they were

1149
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: terrible Dallas, who defense was atrocious, and they won that

1150
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: game thirty four to twenty six. Okay, now they're six

1151
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: to eight. Then they played the Giants, whose quarterback at

1152
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: the time was that was Jackson Dart had to be

1153
01:01:56,720 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: one of his last games seven to thirteen for an

1154
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: interception and thirty three passing yards, so Flores punked them.

1155
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: Jj threw one hundred yards. They won that thing sixteen

1156
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: to thirteen. They played the Lions. They won that thing

1157
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: twenty three to ten. That's a good win. Then they

1158
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: played the Packers, who didn't try. So they played Washington,

1159
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: who's drafting in the top ten. They played Dallas, who

1160
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: his defense was horrendous. They scored thirty four points. They

1161
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: played the Giants, whose coaching staff was all fired, and

1162
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: they played the Packers who tanked. Were not tanked, but

1163
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: I mean tanked the game, right, they didn't it was

1164
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: over and won sixteen to three. So at one point

1165
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 1: in time they were four and eight. I think we

1166
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: got to be a little careful talking about them as

1167
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: they were a competitive nine to eight team, because if

1168
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,439
Speaker 1: you go to the Lions, like the Lions were seven,

1169
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: the Lions were eight and five and kind of fell apart.

1170
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: They lost three of their last four games. They lost

1171
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: to the Rams, they lost to the Steelers, and they

1172
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: lost the Minnesota game, which was a devastating loss. Golf

1173
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: was terrible, Brian Flores. Again, their defense is good, but

1174
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: again that Minnesota team was four and eight. And I'm

1175
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: not acting like Kyler some scrub, but I also think

1176
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: he gets talked about like he's gonna be really impactful.

1177
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: This was not a team like the Lions who were

1178
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: eight and five and then fell apart. They were four

1179
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: and eight. That would be my counter to that one.

1180
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: So one of their wins team not trying to win

1181
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: another win, Giants who were an abomination, Commanders who had

1182
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: a terrible season. Some of those wins were not great

1183
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: because I think when you look at their records here,

1184
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: if I go to the standings and I go to

1185
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: the NFC East, the Commanders won five games, and the

1186
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: Giants won four, so combined they won nine and the

1187
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: Cowboys won seven. But how many games did they lose

1188
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 1: down the stretch. They lost one, two, three, They lost

1189
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: four the last five, so they actually were competitive until

1190
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: that Lion's game and then they kind of crumbled. That

1191
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: would be my pushback on that one. The volume