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Speaker 1: Dude miss like a seventy hard field goal. I thought

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Speaker 1: But we'll dive into the game. Off the top. Three

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Speaker 1: Packers are starting quarterback. We'll be back. Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: just off. I'll dive into that. Matt Stafford something I

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Speaker 1: apologize yesterday. The Cliff King's Barry Steve Kim deserves a

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Speaker 1: little credit to the team he's built is really fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Uh if you guys want to get your question answered

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Speaker 1: questions answered. I guess let's really quick start with the officials. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm done complaining after this week because it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't matter. You know why it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: is because the officials in the NFL have been terrible

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Speaker 1: Tonning calls. It was clearly stupid, but just the constant

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Speaker 1: It's not driving them nuts because if they wanted them

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Speaker 1: and there just isn't. They do not care. Like a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, when the Netflix employees wanted Chappelle

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Speaker 1: They did not. You know why Chappelle makes them a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. He gets people on their couches to

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Speaker 1: click on Netflix. They're in the business of getting your eyeballs.

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Speaker 1: You know what the NFL is in the business of

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Speaker 1: doing getting people to watch their games. You know what's

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Speaker 1: we are blue in the face. It simply does not matter.

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Speaker 1: They simply at the League Office do not give a shit.

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Speaker 1: They do not care about the constant, just just never

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Speaker 1: know the NFL does not care. They're not They're buy

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Speaker 1: it because as long as ratings are up, everyone's printing money.

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Speaker 1: I say it all the time. The League office did

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Speaker 1: not care tonight who wins, who loses. They all win.

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Speaker 1: It's like, what do they say about Phil Knight. It's like,

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Speaker 1: That's with the NFL. As long as you're sitting on

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Speaker 1: They don't. Roger does not his you know, the people

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Speaker 1: And I went to Kevin Colbert's Wikipedia page the general manager, Well,

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Speaker 1: how does he have such an understanding? He's fucking worked

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Speaker 1: the ethos of the Steelers is him, Him and Tomlin combined.

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Speaker 1: It's like thirty five years worth of experience, and two

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Speaker 1: balls out and he doesn't know what's going on, and

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Speaker 1: it looks kind of like he twists it, and he

428
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Speaker 1: twists his ankle and has a high ankle sprain or whatever.

429
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Speaker 1: And I saw Mac today say, and I believe him

430
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Speaker 1: that he got he got rocked so hard. He didn't

431
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Speaker 1: know what was going on, and he assumed the guy

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Speaker 1: had the ball, so he was just trying to take

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Speaker 1: him down. And listen, based on I know, social media thinks,

434
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Speaker 1: you know Mac Jones, you should lock him up. To me,

435
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,720
Speaker 1: I believe what he said, and listen, things happen in

436
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: slow motion in football. It's so easy for us to

437
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: judge on our couches, on our desk chairs. It's another

438
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: thing in the firing line, between the lines of the game.

439
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: So I I do not think Mac Jones was trying

440
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Speaker 1: to hurt the guy, though it didn't look great on

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Speaker 1: his behalf. But I think when you heard his explanation

442
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Speaker 1: about not knowing what was going on, not knowing assuming

443
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,120
Speaker 1: the guy had the ball, you know, I take him

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Speaker 1: at face value on that one. The other game that

445
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: I didn't really see yesterday, beside the score and the ticker,

446
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: and clearly you know, I had red zone on the

447
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: second TV and it wasn't coming up that often because

448
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 1: they weren't in the red zone very often. Was the

449
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Speaker 1: packer in the Chiefs game. And if you haven't watched this,

450
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend watching it. It was a terrible game.

451
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Speaker 1: It was. It was really bad. Honestly, I'm not quite

452
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Speaker 1: exactly sure what I saw. But let's start with the Chiefs.

453
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Speaker 1: I defended Mahomes last week on Monday Night Football because

454
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Speaker 1: he was just turning the ball over and I thought

455
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Speaker 1: we were overthinking a little bit. The moment he can

456
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Speaker 1: cut out the turnovers, he'll be fine. That was one

457
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Speaker 1: of the worst games I've ever seen him play. He

458
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Speaker 1: he he was really really terrible. Uh. And again, his

459
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: standards are sky high. We now evaluate him on standards

460
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Speaker 1: of a top ten quarterback of all time, on a

461
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: guy that should walk right into the Hall of Fame,

462
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Speaker 1: on a guy that should rattle off a bunch of

463
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Speaker 1: m vps. That's the standard we hold him to. And

464
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,959
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you get paid four fifty million dollars.

465
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Speaker 1: And he knows that the Chiefs know that we all know,

466
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Speaker 1: that's just the reality of the business. And right that

467
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: type game was. He is forcing passes right now that

468
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why he's forcing. And one he's not

469
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Speaker 1: being very accurate on his deep ball. And his deep

470
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Speaker 1: ball is something that clearly separated him early on in

471
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Speaker 1: his career, and it's something he's comfortable doing. But I

472
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Speaker 1: watch a guy that I feel like it's like lost confidence.

473
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Speaker 1: Yet he still has his go to pitch, which is

474
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Speaker 1: the deep ball. Yet he can't hit it, but he

475
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: keeps going to it over and over, which shows you

476
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Speaker 1: truly how confident he is. Because most people when they

477
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Speaker 1: lose confidence that you know, the average player, goes into

478
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Speaker 1: a shell. Uh they're they're just they can't do anything.

479
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: They don't even attempt to do anything. He is not

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Speaker 1: afraid to keep firing. It's actually one of his greatest

481
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Speaker 1: strengths is that he just keeps the pedal to the metal.

482
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Speaker 1: But right now his deep ball is way off. Honestly,

483
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't really close yesterday, but it feels like and listen,

484
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Speaker 1: I don't pretend to be Bill Walsh here, like I

485
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: don't understand, you know why he won't just take a

486
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Speaker 1: shorter attempt. Everything is trying to hit these go routes

487
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Speaker 1: or these deep post routes in double coverage instead of

488
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Speaker 1: just hitting the check down. And I think it's hard

489
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Speaker 1: because they've created this monster of being the one of

490
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Speaker 1: the most explosive players we've ever seen, and now you

491
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Speaker 1: have to kind of ask him just to relax a

492
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Speaker 1: little bit, and you gotta find middle ground. And I

493
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Speaker 1: think for the Chiefs to be successful, and they're gonna

494
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Speaker 1: have a big game this week against the Raiders on

495
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, they're gonna have to find some middle

496
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Speaker 1: ground and somehow to be able to articulate it to

497
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Speaker 1: him and then for him to be able to change

498
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Speaker 1: on the field, because right now what he's doing isn't working.

499
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Speaker 1: It just isn't. That That was. That was as bad

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Speaker 1: of an offensive performance I've seen by Mahomes since I've

501
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Speaker 1: been watching him and I and I basically watched every

502
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Speaker 1: Chiefs game since he begins starting that that was that

503
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Speaker 1: was really bad. On the other end, like listen the

504
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: Roger situation they got thrown in. They had to throw,

505
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,959
Speaker 1: you know, a guy that they would never play a snap,

506
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 1: and let's face it, whether he's good or not, if

507
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Speaker 1: we hadn't seen him. They were going to do everything

508
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Speaker 1: humanly possible to keep Aaron Rodgers on the team for

509
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Speaker 1: the next five six years. Right, in a perfect world,

510
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Speaker 1: they want this offseason and clearly nothing changed on Sunday

511
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: to offer Aaron Rodgers hundred sixty million dollars guaranteed and

512
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Speaker 1: make him the quarterback for the foreseeable future. And I

513
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: mentioned this on Friday. One bright spot of this situation

514
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Speaker 1: for them because every you know, game matters. You know,

515
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Speaker 1: in a division or in a in a conference where

516
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Speaker 1: this is not the a f C, you might have

517
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Speaker 1: to get to fourteen and three to get the number

518
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Speaker 1: one overall seat. And now with the changing of the playoffs,

519
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 1: sure having the number one seed is very important. You know,

520
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: you used to have more room for error, right if

521
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: you're a really good team, because you could also get

522
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Speaker 1: the two seed, right, and you could get the two seed,

523
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: and that meant you also got home field advantage. Well,

524
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: now with you just beat the Arizona Cardinals and all

525
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden they went again. Now they're above you.

526
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Speaker 1: So this game did matter because with if Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: had played this, there's no way they lose. Like they're

528
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Speaker 1: they're just not especially with Davante back, that they're not

529
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: losing a game where the other team, you know, couldn't

530
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Speaker 1: score fifteen points, like the Packers win that game. And

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Speaker 1: I watched Jordan's Love and I tried because when I

532
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Speaker 1: watched Trey Lance originally against the Cardinals, I was pretty

533
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: harsh on them, uh, and I think maybe it's sometimes

534
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: it's unfair. And I heard Colin actually talk about it

535
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Speaker 1: on Monday. You know, when I was I watched Jordan's Love,

536
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Speaker 1: I just in my mind I was thinking about him

537
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: as a rookie. But then I remember, like he's been

538
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: in the league now a year and a half, right,

539
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: he gets drafted now, it was weird there were no

540
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: O T A s in two thousand twenty. But let's

541
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: never not forget he could not win the backup job.

542
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: And their backup last year was not Aaron Rodgers two

543
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: point oh, it was Tim Boyle and he he couldn't

544
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: do it. And then this year in limited uh preseason games,

545
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: he got hurt. Yeah, I think that first preseason game

546
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: and had to come out of half and couldn't play

547
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: the next game. So he really hasn't played that much.

548
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: Because when I just watched him in a vacuum. He

549
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: does have some talent, right, he looked pretty big, he's

550
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: pretty athletic, he's got a pretty good arm. But then

551
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: to actually play the game kind of inaccurate, pretty for

552
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: Nedick in the pocket didn't play very calm. Now, in fairness,

553
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: it's on the road against the Chiefs. Now, granted their

554
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: defense statistically had been pretty terrible, but he did not

555
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: look very good. Um not didn't look very good at

556
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: all for a guy that you had to kind of

557
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: take a step back. Is not a rookie though it

558
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: was his first start. Now, it wasn't late notice in

559
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: the sense of he found out on Friday or Saturday,

560
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: like they knew all week. He got all the first

561
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: team reps and they do have really good offensive pieces.

562
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: And I saw the flour say it was on me,

563
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: it was on the coaching staff, like I don't know Matt,

564
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: like he just you're making pretty basic calls and he

565
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: couldn't complete them. Like I watched the guy that just

566
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: didn't feel very confident. And I remember I follow the

567
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: Packers on social media and I remember watching the floor

568
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: talk during the preseason and he's like one thing Jordan

569
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: has to get better at is not trying to guide

570
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: the ball, just letting it rip. And this gets back

571
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: to Mahomes and Rogers and Russell and Tom like when

572
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 1: they're really on and we talked about this all a lot. Confidence,

573
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: and I think it's no different any walk of life,

574
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Speaker 1: whatever you do. When you are confident, Like I just

575
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: talking to the mic people like, how do you do this?

576
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: Do you right out your show? I don't know. I

577
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: just fucking talk, you know. But I've been doing this

578
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: for a while. I've been talking for a living now

579
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: for seven years, eight years a long time, and really

580
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: I've been talking my whole life. I talk a lot.

581
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: But whatever, if you're in sales, whatever your profession is,

582
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: the longer you do it, the less you get caught

583
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: up in your own own head about how to execute

584
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: whatever you have to do. But when your first kind

585
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: of embedded into a profession, when you're younger, or hell

586
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: it could be when you're older, maybe you change professions,

587
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: you can overthink. And when you overthink, it's harder to

588
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: operate as a golfer. I know that when I'm just

589
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: not thinking and I'm just playing, it's easier to play

590
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: well when you're overthinking. We've talked a lot about this

591
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: forever with baseball players with kickers, you don't want to

592
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: get into your own head. And part of being a

593
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: quarterback what makes the position so difficult is that it's

594
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: a thinking man's position. Right, you need to call the play.

595
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: You need to literally know what all other ten guys

596
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: are doing. You then also need to you don't actually

597
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: know what the other team is doing, but you need

598
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: to be to be able to decipher by looking at

599
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: the defense, what they are going to do, where the

600
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Speaker 1: blitz is gonna come from, how many guys are gonna

601
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: run you, what the coverage is, where the middle linebacker

602
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: is gonna go, what the corners are doing, what their

603
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: leverages is in the coverage, what individual corners even in

604
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: that coverage, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and then

605
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: you just have to play. So it's it's very, very difficult.

606
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: And I think as someone that talks about this and

607
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: someone who can just be critical, I do understand the

608
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: difficulty that the position encompasses. Right. I worked in it,

609
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: I've seen it up close in person. Now I've never

610
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: played it, but I do respect the living, you know what,

611
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: out of what it takes to be good at that position,

612
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: and I think we all that are fans of football

613
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: understand there's a reason why only so few guys even

614
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: the there's thirty two starters, and only like twelve of

615
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: them are pretty good, and five of them are dramatically

616
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: better than the other twenty seven guys. Right, it is very,

617
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: very difficult to operate. But this guy's got a long

618
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: way to go. I mean I watched this guy thinking, well,

619
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Speaker 1: he's already a year and a half into his career. Now, granted,

620
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: they drafted him in the first round, so he's got

621
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: a fifth year option. This guy's a total project now. Granted,

622
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: when he was coming out of Utah State, that was

623
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: the knock is probably the wrong word, but that was

624
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: the narrative. That was the way people inside the NFL

625
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,479
Speaker 1: talked about him. This guy is gonna need a lot

626
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: of work, but there are things to work with size, athleticism,

627
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: arm strength. The problem with quarterbacks, it's one thing if

628
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: I get a d tackle and the guy six five

629
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: to eighty, and you know he doesn't really know what

630
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: he's doing, but can you mold him? You're like, yeah,

631
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: but there's only so much you have to be able

632
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: to do right. Does he have a good get off?

633
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: Is he strong work with his hands? Is he naturally pretty,

634
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, relentless and competitive? Like we can create something

635
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: no different than like a you know, a running back

636
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: or a linebacker. It is more difficult to operate with

637
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: projects forever. Josh Allen that was a true project coming

638
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: out of coming out of college. How even Lamar was

639
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of a project though his athleticism and

640
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: run ability immediately translated, and so did Josh is a

641
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: little bit. But Josh had to pass more immediately to

642
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Speaker 1: be successful, and it took him a long time. This

643
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: guy is for a first round player. They are very

644
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: very lucky that Aaron Rodgers been on the roster because

645
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Speaker 1: if he had to play and listen, I think la

646
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: Flour is a pretty good coach, they would be in

647
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: make They wouldn't win games that they just wouldn't win

648
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: games because they couldn't beat the Chiefs, whose offense was

649
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: terrible and whose defense coming into the game was not

650
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: playing well. Game while the scoreboard was closed, I didn't

651
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: feel like it was that close watching it. Uh, And

652
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: again I recommend if you don't need to watch this

653
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: for work, don't waste your time. I talked a lot

654
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: about vrabel on on Sunday's podcast for Monday, and one

655
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: guy I went to bed thinking, like, you know, I

656
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: didn't talk enough about Stafford because and he mentioned this

657
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: after the game. He's like, I spotted them four teen points.

658
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: He threw a pick six. He threw another pick where

659
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: he was doing like a three sixty in the end zone.

660
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: I think the guy ended up getting tackled like the

661
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: five yard line. They punched it in, but he gave

662
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: up fourteen points. And I think he's such a polarizing

663
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: player because he was so easy to justify. Well, no

664
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: one can have success in Detroit. The two best players

665
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise both called it quits

666
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: at thirty years old. That's the Lions organization. And even

667
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 1: Stafford had some success in Detroit, right. He made Pro Bowls.

668
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: He helped them make the playoffs several times, though they

669
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: never won a playoff game. And I think, I listen,

670
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: if you work in you know, forever, in radio or television,

671
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: you could go this guy is a really good talent.

672
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: He's just on a station that no one's listens to.

673
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: If you put him on a bigger station. He would

674
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: be a star, right. This guy was a really talented actor.

675
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: If you put him on a good, big show, the

676
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: cream will rise. And you can always play that game.

677
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: When you think someone is talented and they're in a

678
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: shitty situation, you go put them in a good situation

679
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: and they'll thrive. It works in every walk of life.

680
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: But just because you place him in that good situation,

681
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: not everyone actually will thrive. And I'm somewhat I'm a

682
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: Stafford fan. I've known people that have played with them,

683
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: love the guy, and as you know, I'm a sucker

684
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: for armed talent and sucker for tough guys. He encapsulates

685
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: that I am rooting for Matt Stafford. But there have

686
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,879
Speaker 1: been a couple of times this year, and last night

687
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: is a good example where you just go. You know

688
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: that there's a reason that Belichick most of his assistant

689
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: coaches he tries to hire early in their twenties because

690
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: he molds them and he brings them up. Because when

691
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: you then become a coordinator or a position coach for him,

692
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: he wants you to think like him. And if he

693
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: hires someone that's forty years old that has been in

694
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: the coaching profession, for fifteen years. You already have some

695
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Speaker 1: of your philosophical beliefs. Right if if I got hired

696
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 1: to go work somewhere right now, right at thirty seven

697
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: years old, there are gonna be some fundamental things. I'll

698
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: promise you they won't ever fucking change that I will

699
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Speaker 1: stick through in terms of my philosophy when it comes

700
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: to business, when it would come to sales, when it

701
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: comes to just operating. Now, I would be open minded

702
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: if I'm around talented people. It's not like I would

703
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: not listen, but there would be some probably non negotiable stuff,

704
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: And that's just it's human nature. It's right. You can't

705
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: teach an old dog new tricks, but if you get

706
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: a puppy. It's like my my dad, my brother, big

707
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: duck hunters. When we would get young labs, they would

708
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: go for like six months to train, and then when

709
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: they would get back, they'd be ready to go. They

710
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: knew the calls, they could they would listen. Now, not

711
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: Callie didn't listen that well, but Bailey listens pretty well. Now.

712
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: Granted she's not a great hunter, but that's a whole

713
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: another story. My point is you have to train up

714
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Speaker 1: a dog, usually in their puppy stage as they're growing.

715
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Speaker 1: Once they get like five six seven, they're not just

716
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: gonna like change. Humans are no different. And I do

717
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: watch him a little bit and wonder because one of

718
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: the knocks on him was this hero syndrome, right, because

719
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: he had to be a hero in Detroit for them

720
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: to have a chance. Well, now he's on a team

721
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: with a lot more talent, with a really good defense.

722
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: Turning the ball over throwing bad picks will immediately lose

723
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: you a game in a big game on Sunday Night

724
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: football against another playoff team. He was never playing in

725
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: those type games. Most mass Stafford games happened at ten

726
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: am on Sundays. I bet the majority. If we did

727
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: a study of like the last decade of all of

728
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: his games in Detroit, I would imagine that of him

729
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: were ten am games. If you live on the East coast,

730
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: the one am games the first set of games every day,

731
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: Like that's the window he plays in. Like I got

732
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: news for you that you don't want the good teams

733
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: play for us on the West Coast Sunday night and

734
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: Monday night football. That wasn't that, that's not the Lions

735
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: time slot because they all for the most part always sucked.

736
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: Guess what the Rams do. They play in Big Boy games,

737
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: they play in standalone games, they play in you know

738
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: Al Michael's calls their games a couple of times a year.

739
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: They also play in several Monday Night games. They played

740
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: next week the Monday Night game against the forty nine.

741
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: And there's just more pressure. And I think he's still

742
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: trying to battle this. And there's a chance that if

743
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, who I think is the real deal, can

744
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: coach some of these habits out of him, if it's

745
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: even possible, you might not come to Fruition this year.

746
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: They actually might be better equipped the following year. It

747
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: happened with Kyle Shanahan and Matt Ryan. That first year,

748
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: I remember Matt Ryan saying we didn't really see eye

749
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: to eye. It was very difficult. And then the following

750
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: year I realized he had a lot of good points.

751
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: He was gonna let me do so and so that

752
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: I still wanted to do, but I was gonna capitulate

753
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: to some of his demands and I was cool with

754
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: of it. We met in the middle and we kicked ass.

755
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: That's what happened to Matt Ryan. Hell that's what happened

756
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers the second year with La Floor. So

757
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for it, though I do see some things

758
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: that I just throw up some red flags on because

759
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: anytime you're thirty three years old, you already have a

760
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: couple of hundred million dollars in the bank. It just

761
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: can be We're all humans, it can just be difficult

762
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: and you might actually have to go through some tough

763
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: times before you ever open your mind to listening to

764
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: someone else, because you know, in defense of him, now,

765
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: he's never really one big but he's made a lot

766
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: of money doing it his way. A couple other things,

767
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: and I had mentioned this with Cliff Kingsbury apologized, I

768
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: he's kicking ass and taking names and and they look fantastic.

769
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: One guy I I didn't give enough credit to as

770
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: well is the general manager. And I was thinking a

771
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: lot about it today. Actually is when Steve comb, Uh,

772
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 1: you know, when he drafted Josh Rosen and he higher,

773
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: I can't even think of the coach, the one and

774
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: done coach. He hired the Wilkes, the defensive coordinator from

775
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: Carolina who was a disaster, and you know, the the

776
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: owner clearly liked him and gave him the ability to

777
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: kind of clean house and fire the coach. And when

778
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: he when he fired the coach, it wasn't a great

779
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: crop of guys. And he hired Cliff Kingsbury, which was

780
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: a ballsy move, you know, I mean, Steve Kime is

781
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: an old school offensive line guy, and he hired a

782
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: spread offense coach. And the time he had success, he

783
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: had Bruce Arians, who is also just an old school

784
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: while he passes the ball a lot, you know, I

785
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: don't know if Bruce Arians and Cliff Kingsbury schematically have

786
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: that much in common offensively. Uh So he kind of

787
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: put his you know, nuts on the table for that

788
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: higher And then also he drafted a quarterback number ten overall,

789
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: who in the scouting community was pretty highly thought of,

790
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: was very traditional right six four pocket quarterback with a

791
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: big arm. Well, when he hired Cliff, it was clear

792
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: Cliff really wanted Kyler and for his offense to have

793
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: the most success, he had to draft Kyler. Well, part

794
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: of drafting Kyler meant getting rid of Josh Rosen So

795
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: and he also did that like that takes balls. The

796
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: Cliff Kyler thing took balls. And now it's really starting

797
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: to work, you know, and then because of Cliff, he

798
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: has Colton McCoy, who they're comfortable with. But think of

799
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: all the other moves. One move that I was like,

800
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: I don't know why they did it when they signed J. J. Watt, Like,

801
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: clearly his leadership really mattered to their operation. When they

802
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: signed A. J. Green, who I was told by a

803
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach his film last year he thought he

804
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: was shot. He's been good for them. Now. Obviously he

805
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: just missed the Niner game because he's on the COVID list,

806
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: But I I think he's been really good. And I

807
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: think if teams around the league knew that he was

808
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: gonna be this good, his interest, you know, just in

809
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: terms of free agent would have been much higher. Uh

810
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson, who the Raiders got into a position like

811
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson was one of the better Raider players the

812
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: last couple of decades. High Carrick fantastic player, starting center.

813
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: Boom trades from this offseason the moment the Raiders wanted

814
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: to get rid of him, so he acquired Rodney Hudson, J. J.

815
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: Watt and A J. Green, And then last year he

816
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: and he's always been able to like Chandler Jones available,

817
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins available. DeAndre Hopkins has accounted for thirteen touchdowns

818
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: since he's been a Cardinal. So Steve Come, I don't

819
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: think he's getting there, like he should be heavily in

820
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: the mix right now for Executive of the Year because

821
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: what the more and more I thought about the Niner

822
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Obviously they were missing a ton of starters.

823
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: But part of missing a ton of starters and being

824
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: a good GM is like, is your depth good? You

825
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: have guys that are backups that are just credible NFL players,

826
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: and they clearly do. UH. And the team that he

827
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: has built and listen, they have a pretty good operation

828
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: because Cliff just coaches the players and Steve come just

829
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: drafts and signs them and it's working, and it's working

830
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: really well, and there's a reason that they're eight in

831
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: one and they have the best record in the NFL. UH.

832
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: And I think obviously their coach is coaching his ass off.

833
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: He's been awesome. He just clowned Kyle Shanahan at Levi Stadium.

834
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Speaker 1: But I sometimes their general manager and I'm I'm a

835
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: sucker for bald guys. And obviously Steve Kimes just a

836
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: big old ball guy. Uh, he's been he's been really

837
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: good as a general manager really the last couple of years,

838
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: and you're really seeing them benefit from it this year

839
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Speaker 1: and last. But not least is you know, the m

840
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Speaker 1: v P conversation, who's gonna win it? You know, Kyler

841
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: was in the mix. I think Kyler was hurt a

842
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: little bit yesterday just because how good his team is.

843
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy comes in, it's like twenty two or twenty six,

844
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: and they scored with He's all game long. Um. I

845
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: think Lamar kind of had a moment yesterday like, hey guys,

846
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: h Lamar Jackson. You know my team six and two,

847
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: we had a million injuries. Yeah, I just ran for

848
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,479
Speaker 1: a hundred plush yards and through for over three fifty

849
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: and through for three touchdowns. Now, one of his picks

850
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: was might have been the play of the day by

851
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: bar tips into himself. But Lamar is really fantastic and

852
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: one of the knocks I had on him a couple

853
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: of years ago, I just went, you know, he's just

854
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: such a run first quarterback, you know a little bit

855
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: obviously on a much higher level than like some of

856
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the service academies in college football

857
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: that when you get them down because they can't throw, uh,

858
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: they can't ever catch up. Well, now, Lamar is coming

859
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: back from big deficits kind of with East and yesterday

860
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: he put the team on his back and said, don't worry, guys,

861
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: I got you. Let's roll and they went again. And

862
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, talking about Belichick and the a f C

863
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: being wide open that they are gonna be a mother now,

864
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: clearly they're compromised just big picture, you know, just with

865
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: all the guys that they had to put on injury reserve,

866
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: that does eventually, you know, come to fruition in a

867
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: big game when you're missing some star players. But as

868
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: long as you have Lamar Jackson, who is playing as

869
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: well as he's played this year in a weird way

870
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: under the radar. I don't know if it's because he's

871
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: one of m p in the past. I don't know

872
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: it's because Baltimore has been such a sexy team the

873
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: last several years. But to me, they feel like they

874
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: have more grit, like they have a little more character

875
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, they're running Levian Bell. Levian Bell

876
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: was taking staff for them at running back yesterday. But

877
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: Hollywood looks awesome. Mark Andrews is clearly a good player. Bateman,

878
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 1: the Minnesota wide receiver they draft, is a good player. Uh,

879
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: They're good. And Lamar to me is every bit as

880
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: any dude in the league right now in the mix

881
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: for m v P. And if I had a vote,

882
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: I don't Roger holler at me. If you're listening, I

883
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: would love a vote. I mean, I just spend dedicade

884
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: every Sunday in my life to watching uh, watching your league.

885
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: I think I have to think long and hard. But

886
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry out, I think I'd probably check the box

887
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: neck to Lamar Jackson's name right now. Now, it's we

888
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: still got, you know, another half of football, right, they

889
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: got eight games seventeen, so they got they got nine

890
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 1: more games. We got a lot of football left to

891
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: be played. But we know they're gonna play in big games,

892
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: right The Steelers, the Browns, they're just you know, one

893
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 1: of the sexier teams in the league. Still, Uh, I

894
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: think he has a fantastic chance to win it. I mean, yesterday,

895
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: his running ability. You know, I always thought Michael Vick

896
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: was the best runner I've ever seen. But Michael took

897
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: so many shots. He couldn't slide, he ended up always

898
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: getting hit. Lamar is not a slider either, but he

899
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: gets down so fast that he avoid so many hits.

900
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: And part of it of the rules. Now guys are

901
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: hesitant to take lake shots. Um I I've never disliked

902
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: the guy more coming out and come around and now

903
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: he's like must watch TV for me as Lamar Jackson,

904
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: So right now for me, the MVP of the league,

905
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Okay, let's get into the middle Coff mail

906
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: bag at John Middlecoff is the Instagram d ms wide open.

907
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: If my d ms look anything like my text messages.

908
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: Obviously have a lot of forty niner people in my life.

909
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: I have a lot of season ticket holders in my life. Uh,

910
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: people get angry fast. You know, there's it's you know

911
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: they say it used to be forever. In the media

912
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: has this perception like it's really hard to be a player.

913
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: I think it's just hard to be a coach and

914
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: football coach in college or pro. You take i'd say

915
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: more ship than players by far, especially when you're a

916
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: play caller. I think you consistently take more heat. And

917
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you're a player, even a quarterback

918
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: like you make thirty million dollars. You make three x

919
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: what a top coaches make, and some of them make

920
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: five or six people in my life right now, and

921
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: this guy I went to the Super Bowl two years

922
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: ago when they were in it. They hate Kyle Shanahan,

923
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: not the actual human, but his coaching, his attitude. People

924
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,479
Speaker 1: are very very mad people. And you know, anyone listening

925
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: to this you're a football fan, the coach. People get

926
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: mad at the coach, and they get mad at the

927
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 1: coach fast. You know, everyone says they like the Jews,

928
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: they liked the money. You're fucking getting that firing line.

929
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: People are coming for that ass. They onunch you gone.

930
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: It's it's not easy, man. I listen, I'm not defending him.

931
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: He's been terrible, but I I do. I do respect

932
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: how hard it is to be in that position. You know,

933
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: I've saw it firsthand with Coach Hill and a couple

934
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: of years after I left President State, he got fired.

935
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 1: I was there with Coach Read when he lost his job.

936
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: Obviously for Coach Read, he got you know, sent to

937
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: greener pastures Alex and then Mahomes. He wants super Bowl,

938
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: So you know, it doesn't define your career if you

939
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: go through a rough time. But it's not easy. And

940
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: you know, no coach wants to lose, right but some

941
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: just find themselves losing. And Kyle right now is losing

942
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: a lot. Quick question about Odell Beckham Jr. I see

943
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: he's telling people that if a team with a losing

944
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: record signs him, signs him there could be problem. See

945
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: Glazier's report. What teams really care? Why wouldn't a team

946
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: out of contention like the Lions signed him and hold

947
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 1: onto him and flip him for draft capital after the season.

948
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: If I'm the Lions and I think I can get

949
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: an extra pick, why not take it? I'm using the

950
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: Lions as an example, but it could be anyone, Miami, Houston,

951
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: any of these teams with a waiver priority. I hear

952
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I also think you know one you're

953
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: not guaranteed. The way he's been, they couldn't trade him

954
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: right now. He was an untradeable asset at the deadline.

955
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted him now. Part of that is, you know,

956
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: the salary cap space mid season. It's is a complicated situation.

957
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: But he's somewhat toxic right now. So I saw Dan Campbell.

958
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,479
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this. By the time you're listening

959
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 1: to this, maybe he's been claimed. Um. Dan Campbell obviously

960
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: said to Night that today they're not in the business.

961
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these teams don't even want

962
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: to mess with it. They got their own issues if

963
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: you're a terrible team. But I hear you like the

964
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: I mean the organization I came from Howard Roseman. You

965
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: better believe if he thinks he's an asset, he won't

966
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: give a ship. So yeah, I don't think he's a

967
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: lock to get through waivers. Also, here a quick pushback

968
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 1: in one world is Odell Beckham connect like Lebron James.

969
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: You know, like Odell, you have no leverage. You've been terrible.

970
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: You have like forty catches the last two years. You

971
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: tore your a c L. Last year, the team just

972
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,879
Speaker 1: cut you, and they proceeded to go out and kick

973
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: ass and take names. Two days after you disappeared, we

974
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: all just saw it. Hell, I didn't even watch most

975
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: of that game, but I kept looking at the ticker

976
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: and it's like, Browns are up ten, the Browns are

977
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: up twenty because you're gone. They dominate now. Part of

978
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: that's Nick Chubb's back, and god, Nick Chubb is really good.

979
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: You know, Henry is the best running back in the league.

980
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: Chubb might be second. But like Nodell Beckham's dictating terms,

981
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, what what are we doing here? What?

982
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: What world are we living in now? I also just

983
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: think at this time of year, some people are like, yeah, whatever,

984
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: you know that he doesn't need to dictate terms. A

985
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: lot of teams wouldn't even mess with him. Uh, mail bag,

986
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: Why do the Chiefs suck this year? So many drops, turnovers,

987
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: careless mistakes. I don't understand how it just keeps raining mistakes.

988
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching them in the last three years, but

989
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: I find myself changing to a different game when they play. Yeah,

990
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm obviously I'm with you. I thoroughly enjoyed them.

991
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: I I loved I always loved watching them. I still

992
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: do watch him, but that that game against the Packers

993
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: was a tough watch. Mahomes is just out of whack.

994
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: Something's just off with him. I don't know what it is.

995
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: He's just off. I don't have any inside information. I

996
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: haven't even asked. He looks healthy, but he's just it's

997
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: just it's bizarre that there's no way around it. It

998
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: is bizarre. It's bizarre to watch you go from being

999
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: that good to just this off. Now I've said it

1000
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: over and over. This is fucking big leagues. It's hard,

1001
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: you know. It's like I was gonna say, Tiger Woods,

1002
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods miss some cuts, but actually he didn't miscuts

1003
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: in the peak of his powers. But pro sports baseball, basketball, football, tennis, golf, whatever,

1004
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: F one, NASCAR, the highest level of anything is difficult.

1005
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: And it's so much easier to hunt than be the

1006
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: hunted because the wind blows the fastest at the top

1007
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: of the mountain. Everyone is gunning for you. That's human nature, right,

1008
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: Everyone's gunning for Bezos, everyone's cunning for Elon, everyone's gunning

1009
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: for the Homes and Brady and Rogers. You know, it's

1010
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: easy to be the up and comer. It's kind of

1011
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: easy to be Josh Allen, like he's got nothing to lose,

1012
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: like even last year and obviously this year, you know,

1013
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: a little more pressure. It's hard when there's tangible pressure, right,

1014
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: there's tangible pressure on all of us, whether you have

1015
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: a family, whether you have a job, whatever. Right there,

1016
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: being a human there's pressure to survives like the animal kingdom,

1017
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: but their rules and loss right, we can't eat each other.

1018
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: But you know the private sector we kinda do. You know,

1019
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: it's a dog eat dog world. Uh. But there is

1020
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: a lot more pressure when you start having success. You

1021
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: know why, because everyone wants to see successful people fail.

1022
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: Not everyone. I don't I like celebrating success, but a

1023
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: lot of booker readers, you know, love seeing people fail,

1024
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 1: which is kind of weird, but that's just the nature

1025
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: of human psychology. And then the people in that industry

1026
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: when you're dominating, are coming after you. So just every

1027
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: day you have to maintain, you have to sustain, you

1028
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: have to improve. If you don't improve, the people coming,

1029
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, coming for your spot are improving. There is

1030
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: a segment of people that are dedicating their life to

1031
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: get your lot in land, to get your market share,

1032
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, to beat you on the field. It's very,

1033
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: very difficult to be Tom Brady, Derek Jeter, Aaron Rodgers,

1034
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, Lebron like, everyone's coming for that ass every day.

1035
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: And young up and comers think about you. What's weird

1036
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: about Mahomes is young, but he had so much success

1037
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: that now every team he plays better. Believe that defensive

1038
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: coordinator that week in his defensive unit. I mean, that's

1039
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: their super Bowl, whether it's in October or whether it's

1040
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: in January. You know, and so it's a one and

1041
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: done playoff game, or's the seventh week of the season.

1042
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: Who cares. That's a big deal. That's everyone in that

1043
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: guy's family that that's a moment they can remember the

1044
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: rest of their life. I picked off Patrick Mahomes, I

1045
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: sacked Patrick Mahomes. My team beat Patrick Mahomes in Arrowhead,

1046
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: just part of the deal. At what point do we

1047
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: acknowledge the nineteam team was an extreme outlier for the

1048
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: forty niners. Kyle and company repletedly get out played and

1049
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: outcoached at every turn. There should be wholesale changes at

1050
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,240
Speaker 1: the end of the year. I just don't wholesale changes.

1051
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,240
Speaker 1: You might want to google the history of the York family.

1052
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: Beside three hard By years and Kyle Shanahan's year, everything

1053
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: under Jed York football wise sucks. So this notion that

1054
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: like wholesale change, like who's making those Jed York what

1055
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: do we talk about now? Listen, Kyle has been an

1056
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: abomination this year. But no one's getting fired. They're not

1057
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 1: making any changes. Now, Kyle might fire an assistant coach

1058
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,399
Speaker 1: or something, but this notion of like fire Kyle. So

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00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 1: what Jed York can go hire a coach. I've seen

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00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: him hire some coaches, Jim tom Seula, Mike Singletary to

1061
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: name a few. Chip Kelly went two and fourteen, worst

1062
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: season the history of the Niners. I'd like to keep

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00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: Jed yorke out of the uh, the interviewing circuit. You know,

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00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: just Kyle's got to figure this ship out. I'm with you.

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00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: It's really ugly, no way around it. He's got to

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00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: do some internal looking. I I gotta take for you.

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00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: And it's not yesterday wasn't his fault. Jimmy Garoppolo's averages,

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00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: the day is long. Get him out there, start working

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00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: in the young quarterback. If you're not gonna make the

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00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: playoffs this year at three and five, you probably aren't.

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00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: Who cares? Get this guy ready for next year? You know,

1072
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 1: the guy that you traded multiple first round picks. Four.

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00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: Put all your chips in the middle of the table

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00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: for the young kid. Because Jimmy Garoppolo mohmeds and was hurt.

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00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: Why Jimmy throws. If you're a wide receiver for the

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00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: Niners or tight end like Kittle, you better be able

1077
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: to jump like uh, you know, like Russell Westbrook because

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00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: every single ball is high. If this was if they

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00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,919
Speaker 1: played in the nineties, every guy on the team would

1080
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: get knocked out, ribs shattered because Jimmy throws these guys

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00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 1: into harms away Jimmy, Jimmy says not that good. As

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00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 1: just an unbiased watcher of football who's been watching football

1083
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: professionally now for a long time, he gets worse. He

1084
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: is not. I don't care what his stats are. These

1085
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 1: guys against the Cardinals were pulling catches out of their ass.

1086
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: Brandon I Yuke on one ball they fumbled, jump like

1087
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: seventeen feet in the air. Kittle has having like one

1088
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: handed catches. Jimmy Garoppolo stinks. He's just not good. He

1089
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: wasn't the problem yesterday, but he's by no means a solution.

1090
00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: Is Zeke overrated, underrated, and properly rated. I want to

1091
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:01,319
Speaker 1: hear from someone who actually pays attention. His first couple

1092
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: of years, he was elite. He was he was probably underrated.

1093
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: He was a dominant, dominant force, he did everything well.

1094
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: He could run inside, he can run outside. He's a

1095
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: great pass blocker. He can't catch. He's not quite as

1096
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: fast anymore. I know he got hurt yesterday. I didn't

1097
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: watch that much of the game, but I think when

1098
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: I've watched him this year, he's been solid. I'd say

1099
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: most people don't think he's an elite guy. Now. If

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00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: you factor in his money, he's overrated. If you just

1101
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: factor in like an NFL guy watching him and just saying, yeah,

1102
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: he's an average, solid starter, he's probably properly rated. He's

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00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: definitely not underrated anymore. And he, I mean, Paul ARD's faster. Zeke,

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00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: I just think you just lose, you know, you just

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00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: you lose some of your short area explosion. He's not

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00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: quite as quick, He's still I'll tell you this, I

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00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 1: would not want to tackle that guy. He's a fucking load.

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00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: You blitz on Zeke Elliott, He's gonna blast you in

1109
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: the chin. Strap say you couldn't pay sa Ke one

1110
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: Barkley a million dollars to block a soul in fast protection.

1111
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: And I don't say Kwan's hurt and not even good anymore.

1112
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: But Zeke's the best pass blocker in the league. He's

1113
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: a tank. So there's more to football sometimes than just

1114
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: running right. He's protects DAC the last time I checked,

1115
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: makes forty million dollars. Why do some coaches pull the

1116
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: ship that Avalos tried with Boise State playing well and

1117
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: have momentum and you bring in the fucking third string guy,

1118
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: just classic trying to outthink the room. I don't know.

1119
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't hate on Avelos's performance. I put

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00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: five bones on the on the Dogs. They were heavy

1121
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: favorites at home six and two or seven and two,

1122
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: and Boise you know, absolutely rolled him. They clowned him.

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00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: So I I was pretty hammered probably by the time

1124
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 1: they brought in the third string guy. But let's be real,

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00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. That was a Boise State ass kicking

1126
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: Fresno State needs to lick their wounds and figure their

1127
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: ship out. Unacceptable, that was. But Boyse, when I was

1128
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:00,080
Speaker 1: at Fresno State, Boise was so good it was stoop it.

1129
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: I think they had twelve guys drafted. Kellen Moore is

1130
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: one of the best players I've ever seen live, college

1131
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: or pro. Now, obviously he wasn't a pro quarterback, but

1132
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: how good he was as a college player. I'd say

1133
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush is the best player I've ever seen live

1134
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: in college. Matt Leiner was pretty unreal. I didn't see

1135
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: Tebow or cam but obviously those guys were fantastic. I'd

1136
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: put Kellen Moore up, you know, on a top ten

1137
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: list as a college player, an unstoppable force. Uh love

1138
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: the pod, the inside the development storylines. Have only been

1139
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: listening three months, but look forward to Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.

1140
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: My friends and I started a podcast a couple of

1141
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: months ago, and we're getting a momentum. I like it.

1142
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to see I wanted to reach out and

1143
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: see what tips and guidance you have, Uh that could help? Well,

1144
00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: I'd say the number one thing is be consistent. And

1145
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, doing a podcast, especially if you're not making

1146
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: any money off it, you're like, oh, we don't have

1147
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: to do it today, or we don't have to do

1148
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: it Sunday. You know, like you gotta you gotta be consistent.

1149
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: So whatever the days you do it, you have to

1150
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: be consistently do them NonStop for several years. It may

1151
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: take I didn't make a dime off the Three and

1152
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: Out podcast for a couple of years. My other podcast,

1153
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: we made very very nominal money the first couple of years,

1154
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: and I easily could have quit or try to do

1155
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: something else or I don't even know. I mean, I

1156
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna go sell insurance, but I had a vision

1157
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: and I thought it was gonna be worked. But every

1158
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: single I mean producing six seven podcasts a week and

1159
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: then several other you know, hours of content. You just

1160
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: gotta keep swinging. If you keep swinging, even if you're

1161
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: not the best or the most talented, your podcast is

1162
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: never gonna have calor Daddy or Joe Rogan numbers. If

1163
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,920
Speaker 1: you just keep swinging, most people will quit. Most people

1164
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: will stop. Most of these podcasts going right now will

1165
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: not exist in a couple of years, I'll promise you that.

1166
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 1: But you know, a small percentage of them will and

1167
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: they will keep, you know, gaining on market here just

1168
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: because every single day or every other day, you know

1169
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: they're coming. And that would be my number one piece

1170
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: of advice. Stay consistent with your production. So if you

1171
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: if you produce it Tuesdays and Fridays, every Tuesday and

1172
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: Friday all year long. Now if you take a week

1173
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: off in the summer or whatever slow months is. But

1174
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 1: you can't be like, where where have you been June,

1175
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: July and August. You're like, oh, we just took the

1176
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: summer off. You get forgot, you get past, you get

1177
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: lapped in two thousand society, we barely remember a week ago,

1178
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: let alone two years ago. So you get forgotten fast.

1179
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: So you just gotta keep keep it coming. And then

1180
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: obviously you've got to be good, and you're probably gonna

1181
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: need some breaks. You know, someone to I don't know,

1182
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, kind of publish you as the wrong word,

1183
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 1: but promote, push you, help you. Maybe you blow up

1184
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I don't know, but I do think and

1185
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: I listen. You can make fun of the Tiktoker's or

1186
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: the Paul Brothers or whatever all you want, every single

1187
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: one of them that is blown up online. They've all

1188
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: said the same thing for years. We did content before

1189
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: anyone knew about it, every day consistently. I I truly

1190
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: believe more than like how famous a guest you can get,

1191
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: because even if you get the most famous guest, let's

1192
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: just I'm just gonna pull a d Matthew McConaughey, Tom Brady,

1193
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: what whatever, It's just a one off situation. That guy

1194
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: is not guaranteed to come back and in terms of

1195
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: the listener and the consumer in like a month, right,

1196
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: But if maybe he just subscribes your podcast, it's like,

1197
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: oh he did another podcast today. Oh he did another

1198
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: podcast the next day. Oh he's doing this. Maybe they

1199
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: follow you on social media, maybe they start liking you, right,

1200
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: and they tell you they're friends about you. That's my

1201
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 1: number one piece of advice, more than like the microphone

1202
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 1: you use. Obviously, sound quality matters. I'm a sucker for

1203
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: sound quality. I hate any time that I'm I'm trying

1204
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,439
Speaker 1: to trying a new podcast and their their equipment is bad,

1205
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm out. But I might be an outlier. Maybe you

1206
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: don't care as much. I don't know how the consumer

1207
01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 1: thinks about that. I know me personally. If I'm in

1208
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: the car, an interview on a radio, not that I

1209
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: really listened to the radio anymore, has bad cell phone service,

1210
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: James channel immediately, it's the number one way to get

1211
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: me to tune off. Religious listener of three and out

1212
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: could not agree more with your takes. You're always spot on.

1213
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate that and one of the real ones. Love

1214
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: the show and the segment on Zach Wilson, just a

1215
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: positive response here love the show. I think Rogers thought

1216
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: if he contracted COVID, he'd be fine, recover and then

1217
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: get treated like a vax player until or before the

1218
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Obviously he had no idea if when he

1219
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: might get it, but that's what I would do, considering

1220
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: what I heard on the McAfee interview, likely a stale

1221
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: narrative by the time you read this. I don't know

1222
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: if he thought that he could avoid it, because you

1223
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: don't you have no clue when you get it or not.

1224
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: I just think that he didn't want to get it,

1225
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: just that simple. I just don't think he wanted to

1226
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: get the vaccine. And there are players there are a

1227
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: lot of players in the NFL that didn't want to

1228
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: get the vaccine either, and they got it just because

1229
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: they knew it would be easier. There's also no guarantee

1230
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: that if he had the vaccine that he would have

1231
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: been able to play this week, right Davante Adams got

1232
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: it last week and missed the game. Now it was

1233
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: different because it was a short week, but he still

1234
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: might have missed the game if he was vaccinated and

1235
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: listen to media like what he said about the masks

1236
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: is not wrong. Now what he said, I I don't know.

1237
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 1: I've mect in. I can't even pretend to tell you

1238
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: what that is. I know Joe Rogan's talked about it

1239
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: to me. It's simple, and I truly do not care.

1240
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: I have never once once, and I'm just telling you

1241
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: my opinion, never thought is this person vaccinated or not?

1242
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: I don't care. It does not bother me. Now. I

1243
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: know my mother he's got seven booster shots already, so

1244
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: she's all is thinking about that. I've never once in

1245
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 1: nineteen months thought does this person have COVID? Well before

1246
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: the vaccine? Can I get COVID? Is this guy vaccinated?

1247
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: I just do not. You're asking the wrong person, So

1248
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: if you I was unlike the media, I was not

1249
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: triggered at Aaron Rodgers at all. And I actually thought

1250
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 1: he made a lot of good points at the Theater

1251
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: of the mass which is not really debatable at this point.

1252
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: But no one in the media is going to write

1253
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,640
Speaker 1: an article on that because they're just gonna get viewed

1254
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: as an anti vaxer. But said this about college football,

1255
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: and I say this about the NFL the moment Nick

1256
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: Saban got the JAB in the moment Tom Brady and

1257
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick got the job, like it was gonna be

1258
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: hard for any excuse, no matter what your research was

1259
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: or what your opinion was right now, And I get like,

1260
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: I want to have children if it ever comes out

1261
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 1: there for whatever reason, I'm sterile because of the JAB,

1262
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,280
Speaker 1: that would be a problem. So like that honestly kind

1263
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Speaker 1: of resonated with me, even though I've already got the shot.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, we'll see, Only time will tell. You. Just

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Speaker 1: gotta keep practicing up until then. But like I I

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Speaker 1: was not angered at all by what he was saying.

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Speaker 1: And I honestly think hot take. I don't think most

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Speaker 1: people are that angry any of these opinions. I I

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Speaker 1: think it's such fake outrage by all these people, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, like shouldn't we be angry about it costs

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Speaker 1: me a hundred twenty dollars to fill up my gas

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Speaker 1: tank or if I go to safe Way what used

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Speaker 1: to cost me a hundred dollars now cost me like

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Speaker 1: a like shouldn't that's where o're anger be? But listen,

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Speaker 1: I I understand, like my mother cancer survivor, everyone is

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Speaker 1: different with the COVID and the reaction to it. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to someone who was pretty unfaced by it all,

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Speaker 1: and also it was pretty disgusted by a lot of

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Speaker 1: the reactions of the of the shutdowns. I also live

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Speaker 1: in California where, uh we arbitrarily still mask mandate yet

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Speaker 1: we I gotta have a vaccine card everywhere I go.

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Speaker 1: My gym just lifted that like last week because of

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Speaker 1: the county. So it doesn't add up. None of this

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Speaker 1: makes sense to us normal people. It just stuff just

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Speaker 1: does not add up, you know, And I understand people.

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Speaker 1: You know, uh, I guess the uncertainty. Now, I would

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Speaker 1: never spend that much time doing research the moment. You know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of people that I know and trusted got it.

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Speaker 1: I would just get it. But I'm also, you know,

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Speaker 1: not as rich as him, and wouldn't you know, give

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Speaker 1: up a paycheck like Rodgers didn't get paid last week.

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Speaker 1: He did not get paid because he's treated as an

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Speaker 1: unvaccinated player. Now will he be back this week? I

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Speaker 1: also think he gained a lot of leverage because everyone

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Speaker 1: realized that Aaron Rodgers stinks or not, I mean, Jordan's

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Speaker 1: love stinks would be strong, but has a long way

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Speaker 1: to go, Like, they can't replace Rogers with Jordan's love.

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Speaker 1: But if you went on Twitter, everyone would have acted

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Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers would be kicked out of the league,

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Speaker 1: get rid of him. I would imagine a lot of

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Speaker 1: people that watch that he resonated with them. And that's

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Speaker 1: where I think we gotta be careful with the media's

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Speaker 1: react and that obviously doesn't represent everybody. Clearly, the information

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Speaker 1: is in. You know, I saw Coward retweets something today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little skewed on the on the Twitter streets.

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Speaker 1: Uh So we just I try to be cognizant of

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Speaker 1: that because my friends don't think like that. People I

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Speaker 1: associate with don't think like that. I wasn't around people

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Speaker 1: that celebrated. I don't know when the economy got shut

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Speaker 1: down because a lot of people in my life weren't

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Speaker 1: like me can just work from home. My brother doesn't

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Speaker 1: work from home and work never stopped quote unquote essential worker.

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Speaker 1: You know. So it's just everyone's reaction over the eight

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Speaker 1: last eighteen months is not the same. But everyone's is

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Speaker 1: when they pull out their wallet right now because things

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Speaker 1: are very very expensive. Hell, some of my favorite items

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Speaker 1: that I order an Amazon or out of stock, supply

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Speaker 1: and demand. The supply chain is starting to piss me off.

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Speaker 1: Just some basic things you kind of take for granted. Um,

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Speaker 1: but that's a I don't want to rant on this

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Speaker 1: for too long. Enjoy the week, Talk to one a

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Speaker 1: little later. God Speak the volume