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Speaker 3: Super big pause right there, my guys, super big pause.
Speaker 4: I knew it, but I get it, Dan Patrick?
Speaker 2: But how the hell are we feeling here on a
Speaker 2: Thursday morning. I've got a bone to pick with. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kitchen here in the studio.
Speaker 4: You're just touching all all of them, aren't you? Pause?
Speaker 3: What we got a problem in the kitchen? Go to
Speaker 3: what's going on in the kitchen. They don't have espresso
Speaker 3: in the kitchen. I you are not a Viking like
Speaker 3: you said you are.
Speaker 4: What do you no?
Speaker 3: I just want to I'm a Viking. I go up
Speaker 3: in that son of a gun. I grab these little
Speaker 3: styberfoam cups. I put it up under there. I put
Speaker 3: the dang thing in there. Boom, something comes out, something
Speaker 3: more comes out. I drink it all right. They don't
Speaker 3: have an express. I guess you'll be saying they don't
Speaker 3: have they don't have a froth either.
Speaker 4: I mean, why am I not able to froth?
Speaker 2: Here's here's the issue, and I will be accountable for
Speaker 2: you are the issue.
Speaker 3: So I brew my coffee at home, and you know
Speaker 3: how do you brew it?
Speaker 5: Exactly? Do you brew it?
Speaker 3: It drips, there is no there is no.
Speaker 5: You gotta get.
Speaker 3: Perfect shout in the kitchen and you drink.
Speaker 2: So I'm not one of these instant coffee makers where
Speaker 2: you throw a pot in and it comes out. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm old school. I like to see the coffee and
Speaker 2: you want to press it. I like for I like
Speaker 2: for it to earn its places like that.
Speaker 6: Actually the old school, by the way, Like wouldn't there'd
Speaker 6: be something more old school than that, Like once you
Speaker 6: actually grind down actually you know then you put it in,
Speaker 6: you press it, but you don't that you don't actually
Speaker 6: grind down the beach.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, yeah no, that won't be happening.
Speaker 5: No. And I've also said, you're not really that old school.
Speaker 2: And I've also done the instant coffee, uh the in laws,
Speaker 2: Like if you do it.
Speaker 4: The right way, you can do instant coffee.
Speaker 3: Really really poor grinds in and you've got to stir
Speaker 3: it yourself. It's very like the whole thing just doesn't
Speaker 3: a it's disgusting, it's it looks disgusting. French press is dope,
Speaker 3: you know that's saying. But like Jonahs doesn't do that.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work that hard, you know.
Speaker 5: All French.
Speaker 3: But I grew up on instant coffee shots out the
Speaker 3: Carolin Arrington, Carolyn Kaser Arrington. And if you don't, huh,
Speaker 3: you just gave her middle Damn No, that's her mate name.
Speaker 3: She doesn't have a middle name. Q. It's like that
Speaker 3: old school that, like, yeah, she doesn't have a middle name. Interesting,
Speaker 3: you know, it's crazy. My mother in law doesn't have
Speaker 3: a middle name either. Really, yeah, they don't have middle names.
Speaker 3: Maybe they do, they're just kind of coincidence now they're
Speaker 3: not ashamed of their name. They don't happen to have one.
Speaker 3: I think if your dad's name is what was your
Speaker 3: dad's name?
Speaker 5: Middle name?
Speaker 4: Willis?
Speaker 3: I mean, what's wrong with that? Like Willis reed, what's
Speaker 3: wrong with Willis? What you're talking about Will talk about Willis.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a problem with Willis. What's his
Speaker 3: first name? Come on man, Carls Charles Willis, there's nothing
Speaker 3: wrong with that name.
Speaker 2: I agreed, but I think he had a problem with it,
Speaker 2: which is why he named one of his sons Tyrone.
Speaker 3: Which is weird. Why would you take it out on
Speaker 3: your child. If he had to wear it, he's gonna
Speaker 3: wear it. I think the name Tyrone is kind of
Speaker 3: tough to be. Yeah, I think it's kind of tough.
Speaker 3: I didn't, man, I'm sorry. I just irock it. I
Speaker 3: vibe with Tyrone. But the point is, you have.
Speaker 4: A natural nickname.
Speaker 3: If you have a name that has a natural nickname
Speaker 3: built into it, what's the what's the first name? You
Speaker 3: meet him? First dad, school, he become your homie. What
Speaker 3: what are you calling him the rest of the way?
Speaker 3: Come on, man, come on man, yo, Tie, let's get him.
Speaker 3: And that's a tough name. Like if you call in
Speaker 3: Tie off of the sideline to come help you out
Speaker 3: with with the swing on on the on the No,
Speaker 3: don't say the whole. If you say the whole name,
Speaker 3: it's real business. It's real business. But if you hit
Speaker 3: it with I'm gonna hit Tie. Oh No, you want
Speaker 3: to swing, you can swing. You can have to swing,
Speaker 3: except well, we will wait, you call it tie off
Speaker 3: the sideline.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: You just know that mother lover can handle himself. And
Speaker 3: it's already it's already stated. So I'm just saying, and Willis,
Speaker 3: come on man tying Willis. Nah, I ain't playing with that.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see that trouble smoke.
Speaker 4: I don't want.
Speaker 3: All right, well, here's the smoke. I don't want what
Speaker 3: you don't want. I don't want to have to deal
Speaker 3: with the fact that I forgot to add espresso into
Speaker 3: my coffee this morning.
Speaker 5: And I come in and.
Speaker 3: I assume that the kitchen in there has got a
Speaker 3: little express so button on that on that whatever that
Speaker 3: Cokamimi set up is there.
Speaker 5: They don't.
Speaker 4: They don't.
Speaker 2: They got lattes, cappuccinos, but they don't have the real deal.
Speaker 2: They got mocha, they don't have the real deal. So
Speaker 2: a little disappointed in the in the effort. But they
Speaker 2: did fix a toilet. I don't know if anybody saw
Speaker 2: that brand new toilet. Really the bathroom, n I try
Speaker 2: not to go in there too often. Every once in
Speaker 2: a while get up in there, but not too often.
Speaker 2: So that's good to hear. Though Brandon, I might give
Speaker 2: it a run, you know best you will here.
Speaker 3: You are drink these every day, bro, Like it's not
Speaker 3: like it. Oh you're off to a good start. Like
Speaker 3: I drink this every day looks like mud. Like I'm
Speaker 3: drinking something that looks like mud because I'm a Viking, baby,
Speaker 3: a Norseman.
Speaker 4: Let's jump out there, let's get on the waves. Do
Speaker 4: you say for see?
Speaker 3: Do you have some Viking in you? I said, I
Speaker 3: told you I do. Really yeah, bru, Yeah.
Speaker 5: What's tel?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 5: What's the Errington son.
Speaker 4: And Ragnar son of Errington? Stay?
Speaker 3: Uh, we'd just get after it, baby, big just big
Speaker 3: Axe is slaying it. Well, yeah, I have a belief
Speaker 3: that if the Philadelphia Eagles trip son of I played
Speaker 3: for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, I think if we win
Speaker 3: Super Bowls, Slate Chiefs, if the Eagles took a twenty
Speaker 3: three and meters, they'd see a lot of Italian And
Speaker 3: then what would you say of Italy?
Speaker 4: There you Italian dog.
Speaker 2: Kevin Patulo is now the brand new offensive coordinator in Philly.
Speaker 4: There's the common He was promoted.
Speaker 3: There from within and so you got Sirianni Petullo, Fangio,
Speaker 3: big dumb I mean, listen, crime.
Speaker 4: Family up in Philly.
Speaker 2: If yeah, if the NFL ever goes Daaly, you know
Speaker 2: who's playing it.
Speaker 3: The ambassadors of Italy. Brady take a bow. Guys, you're
Speaker 3: taking over.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I had yesterday, did you it was good?
Speaker 5: You were preparing for today's show.
Speaker 4: I guess so I.
Speaker 6: I look at this higher and I think you know
Speaker 6: that this wi end up working out for them. However,
Speaker 6: last time they hired from within Brian Johnson, it didn't
Speaker 6: quite work out, and so you kind of wonder if
Speaker 6: if that could potentially play an impact, you know, on this,
Speaker 6: or if that plays and any role whatsoever.
Speaker 5: But at least for the Philadelphia Eagle.
Speaker 6: From the Philadelphia Eagle standpoint, they're coming off a super Bowl.
Speaker 6: They're they're going to be a team that I think,
Speaker 6: you know it still has a decent amount that want
Speaker 6: to prove, but a lot that want to carry over
Speaker 6: from what they did last year. So, you know, elevating
Speaker 6: him from a guy who's already a pass game coordinator
Speaker 6: associate head coach title last year, you know, into this
Speaker 6: OC position, you got to trust that they're gonna be
Speaker 6: He's gonna be ready for this. But again, recent history
Speaker 6: shows us that the last time they hired from within
Speaker 6: didn't quite work out. So I think that's the only
Speaker 6: concern is that outside of that though, you know Howie
Speaker 6: Roseman we keep talking about throwing a bouquet of flowers
Speaker 6: at He's always involved in these decisions, and I'm sure
Speaker 6: he's involved in this one too. And if he feels
Speaker 6: confident in his ability to be able to take that
Speaker 6: next step and b the OC, you know, more power
Speaker 6: to him then, and then they probably are going to
Speaker 6: get it right, because more often than not he has
Speaker 6: got it right.
Speaker 3: I just think, Hey, they have such a positive structure involved,
Speaker 3: the positive culture going on right now. And while I'll
Speaker 3: say success is always fleeing right like you're only as
Speaker 3: good as what you've done for somebody lately. And and
Speaker 3: if anybody knows that, Nick Sirianni knows that, I think
Speaker 3: right now the vibes are so good and so positive,
Speaker 3: and they have so much stability and in their personnel,
Speaker 3: it would be it's like messing up a fried chicken wing,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like that's hard to mess up.
Speaker 3: You know where you're at right now. Some people may relate,
Speaker 3: but some people may not.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just saying you season it the right way,
Speaker 3: and don't don't get carried away, even if you even
Speaker 3: if you try to figure out how to bread it,
Speaker 3: don't get carried away. On what you do. Drop that
Speaker 3: bad boy into the grease and let it. Let it cook.
Speaker 3: You tell you, and listen unless you go all the
Speaker 3: way to the end of where you just totally burn
Speaker 3: that wing, really fried.
Speaker 4: Hard wings are not bad.
Speaker 5: It loves it.
Speaker 4: He loves it Johnson.
Speaker 3: So to me where they're at right now, I think
Speaker 3: it would be hard for them to mess up a
Speaker 3: move like this to promote, And in fact, this would
Speaker 3: be the perfect time if you're going to promote from
Speaker 3: inside and internal, this would be the time to do it,
Speaker 3: because it just looks like everybody is on the same wavelength,
Speaker 3: the same frequency. So that's what I would say. I
Speaker 3: think it's important when you make big moves, especially in success,
Speaker 3: you're not doing something that could clearly disrupt the chemistry.
Speaker 3: And I think that that's why it would be the
Speaker 3: thought process of not bringing someone from the outside into
Speaker 3: the mix.
Speaker 2: Well, a good thing about Philly is, you know, if
Speaker 2: it doesn't work, hey, you will probably will get a
Speaker 2: year two anyways, so they'll get you up out of
Speaker 2: there pretty quick, as they've done in the past.
Speaker 3: I just that's a pretty what you mean now off him?
Speaker 5: Well, it's not like Brian Johnson only got one year.
Speaker 4: They're whacking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I meant one year and they made the playoffs
Speaker 2: like that, forget about it.
Speaker 3: They've made the playoffs. So I was like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 3: see you hey, forget about it. Yeah, nice, nice knowing you.
Speaker 3: But that is the the situation there in Philly for
Speaker 3: the Eagles. A mickey, I'm a Mickey. Hey a Mickey.
Speaker 3: Go pay him a visit.
Speaker 4: By the way, he made the wrong decision. Hey hey,
Speaker 4: hey Dom, your buddies with Big Dom? Hey Dom, go
Speaker 4: pay him a visit.
Speaker 5: Get it bad? Does big Dom get a ring?
Speaker 3: Hell? Yeah, he gets a ring, yes, and probably a bonus. Okay,
Speaker 3: why wouldn't he. I mean he's a major part of
Speaker 3: their staff. Really, yes. Look up his like his his
Speaker 3: his titles. He's got like multiple titles. He's like a
Speaker 3: security guard. That's what he started out as. He's like,
Speaker 3: he's got like titles.
Speaker 2: Now, bro Lee, can you look up Big Dom's titles
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia to see whether or not a warrants him
Speaker 2: getting a ring.
Speaker 3: Warned. This important stuff here.
Speaker 7: Nowadays, he's considered the director of game day coaching operations.
Speaker 4: Noam, that means he kids all in line.
Speaker 5: He plugs the headset in.
Speaker 7: He did start out as the assistant to the chief
Speaker 7: security officer.
Speaker 4: He worked, he worked.
Speaker 3: His way on up. Br He've been Bruh. That's like,
Speaker 3: that's a long ass time ago back and when ninety
Speaker 3: nine to two eleven, and that's when I was coming out.
Speaker 4: He's been there before. He's outlasted me.
Speaker 7: He's also listed as a senior advisor to the general manager.
Speaker 7: There you go and the chief Security office.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, he's.
Speaker 3: Got why are you what? I just like that this
Speaker 3: is important stuff, bruh. Really elaborate titles, you know, like
Speaker 3: logistically speaking, don't have somebody who handles it in a
Speaker 3: good way. And watch how how people talk about the operation.
Speaker 3: There has been complaints about how teams travel, how things
Speaker 3: are set up, the security when you go to and fro,
Speaker 3: when you get to hotels.
Speaker 4: All kinds of game day.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of things logistically that the only
Speaker 3: way you know about it and you hear about it
Speaker 3: is just something goes wrong. So he's got a lot
Speaker 3: that he's got to juggle and maintain. Don't don't be
Speaker 3: like diminishing that.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 3: If they're not safe, how do you how do you
Speaker 3: play well on game day? If you don't have your meals?
Speaker 3: You jump on the plane or jump on the bus
Speaker 3: on the way to the plane, stuff like that. If
Speaker 3: the coaches aren't in line with what it is they
Speaker 3: have to do in scheduling stuff like that, how is
Speaker 3: it that you are organized well enough to operate at
Speaker 3: a level to win the Super Bowl? I mean, I
Speaker 3: just was, you know, trying to don't hate on dom
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to figure out, you know what exactly that, bro,
Speaker 3: don't hate on dom id be like, can we have
Speaker 3: a success? Can we have a successful radio show? If
Speaker 3: you're not driving the show? Oh god no, no, come on,
Speaker 3: and you don't really know what it feels like until
Speaker 3: you don't have it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: True? There you go, that's true.
Speaker 3: I mean, if we won an award for Best Show,
Speaker 3: which I don't understand why Lee doesn't ever get us
Speaker 3: nominated for Best Show award the Liquor Store, I don't
Speaker 3: understand that. But what we win that Award if it
Speaker 3: was just me and Brady. I don't know, Brady and
Speaker 3: I I don't I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm not going in that direction, but I will. I
Speaker 6: will say this, you don't know you know what you
Speaker 6: have until it's gone. There is definitely is that there's like.
Speaker 4: A song or your big toe. I mean that's prime.
Speaker 6: What too soon for talking amputations?
Speaker 3: Probably as balls? Is it too soon? I'm just saying
Speaker 3: you say so, Johnson. I'm just saying, man, you don't
Speaker 3: know what you got until you don't have it, That's
Speaker 3: all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And then you realize the.
Speaker 6: Eagles and maybe gonna realize things when Kellen Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: with Kellen more moving on.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, but I think they already know that they're
Speaker 3: want to fill that loss.
Speaker 4: I'll be honestly think Callum Moore is gonna feel when
Speaker 4: he's in New Orleans. I think you're right about that too.
Speaker 4: Like the hell both ways?
Speaker 5: Did the Eagles, by the way hang bout the big dom?
Speaker 5: Didn't they drop off t and that suspension he served?
Speaker 4: Yes, that's when they fell apart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's fair. Sarianni was melting down on the satellite.
Speaker 3: He didn't have big Dom to put his hand, that
Speaker 3: big hand on his shoulder and be like, calm down,
Speaker 3: calm down.
Speaker 6: And then when Lee doesn't have his Evan Williams, he
Speaker 6: kind of falls apart to.
Speaker 5: Behind the scenes.
Speaker 7: That's that's very true. Yeah, need to uh lud the wheels,
Speaker 7: you know?
Speaker 4: Did you love your wheels last night?
Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit? It was Wednesday, of course he did. Yeah,
Speaker 5: delivery Wednesday?
Speaker 4: Was it a delivery Wednesday?
Speaker 7: He doesn't do deliveries anymore? But I did see Todd
Speaker 7: for a second, Yeah, saw ing for us a second. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we had lunch together.
Speaker 4: I had a quickie. We had lunch together. Okay, did you.
Speaker 5: Give a gentleman's lunch a few drinks? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: By the way, for people.
Speaker 2: That just so they have an understanding how Lee's mind works.
Speaker 2: So he went to go get a Philly cheese steak
Speaker 2: from someplace. It apparently sucked and they screwed up his order,
Speaker 2: and he sends over an update about his Philly and
Speaker 2: all right, back, are you drinking though? And he goes, nah,
Speaker 2: I couldn't finish my tall. He wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 3: Did have two shots of tequila though, so I.
Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, listen, I just want you to know
Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling like drinking other than those two shots
Speaker 2: at tequila, which is all the momentum you needed to
Speaker 2: go on a bender on a Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Not true, Not true? Right, I quit after that. I
Speaker 7: might have had one drink at the end of the night,
Speaker 7: but okay, I quit after that. All right, little nightcap,
Speaker 7: Little nightcap. Big fan of the nightcap.
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Speaker 2: iHeart So here we go the College Football Playoff, which
Speaker 2: featured a matchup I don't know if you guys knew
Speaker 2: this or not between Penn State and Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: The College Football Playoff could.
Speaker 4: Be very clear. Yesterday the SEC as a weapon.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankee Big Ten commission Tony Pettiti
Speaker 2: agreed that there should be a change to the way
Speaker 2: the twelve team College Football Playoff teams are seated, and
Speaker 2: the change should come this upcoming season. So for everybody
Speaker 2: out there that was bitching and moaning about you know,
Speaker 2: automatic qualifiers going to conference champions whether it be you know,
Speaker 2: Arizona State getting a bye or the bye going to
Speaker 2: Boise State.
Speaker 5: Don't worry. They've stepped up. And it looks like we
Speaker 5: could see a change coming up here pretty much.
Speaker 4: And what does that change?
Speaker 6: What does that rep Well, the change I think is
Speaker 6: going to be more in regards to the seating of
Speaker 6: how they go about doing it, which I think most
Speaker 6: would agree. If the top four teams the way they're ranked,
Speaker 6: however that falls out, those teams ultimately should be able
Speaker 6: to get to buy. And I think as far as
Speaker 6: how the rankings are awarded, it was a little bit
Speaker 6: confusing for some out there because they didn't really understand
Speaker 6: how the automatic qualifiers worked for the conference champions. And
Speaker 6: then when you had a team that was not within
Speaker 6: the autonomous for power for call what you will in
Speaker 6: Boise State, who gets a buy people were scratching their
Speaker 6: head going, wait a.
Speaker 5: Second, I didn't think that was possible.
Speaker 6: Or for example, the ACC champion Clemson, who was outside
Speaker 6: of the top twelve in the rankings, they still obviously
Speaker 6: get an automatic bid into the playoff.
Speaker 5: And so people are like, that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6: So I think what you're going to see as a
Speaker 6: change in the seating as far as how the teams
Speaker 6: one through twelve are going to be seeded once they
Speaker 6: get to the playoff. Now it could and by the way,
Speaker 6: it could be one through fourteen. It could be one
Speaker 6: through sixteen at this point. Which if it's sixteen, we
Speaker 6: don't have to worry about buys, or we shouldn't. We
Speaker 6: should make them all play. I would say this though,
Speaker 6: was my biggest concern about where we are at with
Speaker 6: the college football Playoff as it currently exists. If you
Speaker 6: start creating automatic qualifiers, what bothers me is this is
Speaker 6: not the NFL. And when I say that, I mean
Speaker 6: we understand that winning your division is paramount, all right,
Speaker 6: A divisions comprised of four teams. Well, look at how
Speaker 6: some of these super conferences are constructed. I mean you
Speaker 6: have Big ten with what eighteen teams? You know, maybe
Speaker 6: it stops there, maybe it keeps growing the sec et cetera,
Speaker 6: Big twelve acc And what we saw in year one
Speaker 6: was the difference sometimes in scheduling where a team like
Speaker 6: Indiana could potentially not have to really play anyone difficult outside.
Speaker 5: Of Ohio State.
Speaker 6: I guess you could throw Michigan in there, even though
Speaker 6: it was a down year for Michigan and they beat them.
Speaker 6: They got them at home, So credit to coach Signettia
Speaker 6: and crew. But that wasn't the best Michigan team we've seen, right, Clearly,
Speaker 6: the top teams were Oregon, Ohio State, Penn State as
Speaker 6: far as that goes, and then Indiana. You'd probably say
Speaker 6: it was somewhere after that. So the general point is
Speaker 6: that if you start creating automatic qualifiers for the Big
Speaker 6: Ten and the SEC and really any of the conference
Speaker 6: for that matter.
Speaker 5: It takes away from the games. You're like, everyone knows the.
Speaker 6: Ending to the story, so it takes away from the
Speaker 6: intrigue of the regular season. Like, to me, that's one
Speaker 6: of the greatest things about sports is the fact that
Speaker 6: your regular season has to matter. And if you're now
Speaker 6: basically saying that, well, the top four teams from the
Speaker 6: Big Ten will get in, the top four from the
Speaker 6: SEC will get in, it'say, well, okay, I mean, how
Speaker 6: really hard is your schedule.
Speaker 5: Going to be?
Speaker 6: You know, as far as your non conference Do you
Speaker 6: need to schedule anyone tough anymore?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 6: Or is it just about how you finish within your
Speaker 6: conference and how that that works out, how those tie
Speaker 6: breaking scenarios work out. So if they don't figure out
Speaker 6: a way for the final weekend, because ultimately what's being
Speaker 6: sacrificed is the conference championships, they're basically no one void
Speaker 6: because if there's an automatic qualifier, you'd almost rather not
Speaker 6: play as long as this season is. You'd almost rather
Speaker 6: be able to get a break, get extra rest, and
Speaker 6: if you're Ohio State, for example, be able to prepare
Speaker 6: for that home first round match of versus Tennessee and
Speaker 6: then go on the rest of the way on a
Speaker 6: warpath to win a national championship. So I sit there
Speaker 6: and just say, we got to be careful because if
Speaker 6: some of the powers that be aren't and they get
Speaker 6: a little too greedy, and I keep talking to you
Speaker 6: guys about how well you can do the math on
Speaker 6: this too, think about this. If you get four guarantee
Speaker 6: teams in for each one of those conferences every year,
Speaker 6: you're guaranteeing what your conference is at least being paid
Speaker 6: out through that first round, which is obviously important for
Speaker 6: those conferences continuing to separate themselves from the Big Twelve,
Speaker 6: from the ACC from every other group of five conference
Speaker 6: that's out there.
Speaker 5: So in part, it's about money, but it always is.
Speaker 5: But the other portion of.
Speaker 6: This is we can't sacrifice the sanctity of what us
Speaker 6: always been a regular season sport and the different ways
Speaker 6: we've kind of anointed our champion with the way we're
Speaker 6: going about looking on at this playoff format. Like that's
Speaker 6: what concerns me the most about some of the discussion
Speaker 6: about these automatic qualifiers.
Speaker 3: And so not the number of teams, it's the automatic qualifiers.
Speaker 3: Here's what I'm curious about. If we're basing it off
Speaker 3: of the ratings, what you're rated is going to dictate
Speaker 3: where you're at. What rating are we using, ranking, ranking, ranking,
Speaker 3: what ranking are we using? Are we using at ap
Speaker 3: which one are we using? Because to me, that has
Speaker 3: to be universal. If you have three different rankings and
Speaker 3: you have teams that are in different slots, then to me,
Speaker 3: that creates confusion. If you're if you're not going to
Speaker 3: honor the fact that a team actually, some way, somehow
Speaker 3: won their conference, If that's not going to be honored,
Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with that. If you're going
Speaker 3: to say we're using strictly ranking, then go with strictly
Speaker 3: rankings and that one established ranking body like you don't
Speaker 3: need a committee. You don't need a committee other than
Speaker 3: to say, okay, one plays this team, two plays this team,
Speaker 3: three plays this team for one through eight. You just
Speaker 3: figure out who they play in the next eight or
Speaker 3: whatever it may be. But to me, if you're looking
Speaker 3: at it from the standpoint of we're looking at who
Speaker 3: wins the conference, it.
Speaker 4: Has to matter. It has to matter.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you were the best team all
Speaker 3: year and you find a way to lose and you
Speaker 3: don't make it into your conference title. That's what it's
Speaker 3: all about. If you ask me a team that was
Speaker 3: able to like take for instance, a team that I
Speaker 3: don't know, like Ohio State, doesn't play for the conference championship,
Speaker 3: but yet they play for or the national championship and win. Like,
Speaker 3: to me, okay, we could say that Ohio State, in
Speaker 3: theory was the best team all year, even though Oregon
Speaker 3: proved out to be the best team. I can't see
Speaker 3: myself taking away the value from Oregon winning the Big
Speaker 3: Ten because we're saying that this team over here, even
Speaker 3: though they lost and even lost to Oregon, is the
Speaker 3: best team in college football. Either you're gonna honor who
Speaker 3: wins their conferences and say this is a way for
Speaker 3: us to differentiate these groups in the power for they
Speaker 3: won their conference, they're in. Either we're gonna differentiate it
Speaker 3: that way or we're gonna say we're totally going to
Speaker 3: the ranking system. And if you go to the ranking system,
Speaker 3: you can't have all these different rankings out here, ratings
Speaker 3: or rankings of the teams.
Speaker 5: You can't have it.
Speaker 6: But they don't factor in the coaches in ap and
Speaker 6: all that, Like, that's not I mean, obviously, the College
Speaker 6: Football Playoff Committee uses all the different analytics, and they
Speaker 6: do factor ins some of the different computer systems into
Speaker 6: their model and how they go about selecting. And in fact,
Speaker 6: like I didn't mind the BCS. I actually thought the
Speaker 6: BCS system which encompassed a lot and there was a
Speaker 6: human element, there was a computer element, And what I
Speaker 6: liked about the most, honestly was the numbers. You can
Speaker 6: kind of see how far certain teams were behind. But
Speaker 6: for the most part, it's been pretty lock and step
Speaker 6: what the committee has picked.
Speaker 5: There's been a few differences over the years, but for
Speaker 5: the most part.
Speaker 6: Like it's been in essence and extension the committee has
Speaker 6: of the BCS, I would say with ninety some percent
Speaker 6: accuracy based on what the BCS would have been, and
Speaker 6: that's ultimately what we go off of, at least in
Speaker 6: college football. Now, I think the next step moving forward,
Speaker 6: and it's too hard to do because you have more
Speaker 6: too many teams. And now maybe we get to a
Speaker 6: point where we do only have the Big Ten and
Speaker 6: SEC and they kind of create their own level of
Speaker 6: play and scheduling and a format for to turn in
Speaker 6: the national champion. Which I'm not trying to advocate for
Speaker 6: one way or another, but I'm just I'm saying, if
Speaker 6: you're looking for a more fair model, it doesn't seem
Speaker 6: like we have an issue with the NFL's model for
Speaker 6: a playoff system.
Speaker 5: How we go about.
Speaker 6: Determining the winner of division, the winner of the ranking,
Speaker 6: and as far as the conference, you know, the team
Speaker 6: that gets to buy and so forth one through seven.
Speaker 6: That would be where you ultimately want to get to.
Speaker 6: But part of the issue with that is is one
Speaker 6: the college football playof comte ankings don't come out to October.
Speaker 5: So if you're a TV network.
Speaker 6: And you've paid all this money for the regular season,
Speaker 6: which all these networks have, you need something to sell them.
Speaker 6: It can't just be the brands themselves right, even though
Speaker 6: Ohio State Michigan will always be one of the highest
Speaker 6: rated games. It helps when they're one and two, right.
Speaker 6: It helps when we feel like there's something on the
Speaker 6: line there for any of the matchups, any rivalry game,
Speaker 6: any of these Big ten matchups are big time matchups.
Speaker 5: It helps me have something to sell, and.
Speaker 6: That's one of the reasons why the AP pole has
Speaker 6: continued to still be in existence. The coach is pulled
Speaker 6: to some degree, but really most publications use the ape
Speaker 6: pole until you get to the college Football Playoff and
Speaker 6: there's that transition to everyone then using the College Fotball
Speaker 6: Playoff ranking since they ultimately matter as the ones that
Speaker 6: we use to kind of sell the game and sell
Speaker 6: the excitement enthusiasm behind it and why people should watch. So,
Speaker 6: you know, unfortunately, we're not to a spot where I
Speaker 6: think we can remove rankings altogether. We probably never will
Speaker 6: because the history behind it. But to me, at least,
Speaker 6: I do think being able to award to your point,
Speaker 6: the teams that I think not only win their conference
Speaker 6: if we're still doing conference championship games, but also the
Speaker 6: teams that should be, you know, the top four ranked
Speaker 6: if we keep it at twelve and there's four buys
Speaker 6: like that, that ultimately should be how we go about
Speaker 6: reseating this thing after it's all said and done, before
Speaker 6: we play the playoff.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the NFL way of doing it, isn't it
Speaker 3: too many teams outside of the power for that would
Speaker 3: get left out if that were the direction we went in,
Speaker 3: because there's.
Speaker 6: Too many forget that, there's too many teams outside just the.
Speaker 5: Big ten and SEC. Even with the Big ten and SEC.
Speaker 6: Like they're going to have combined more than thirty two,
Speaker 6: So it would be extremely difficult to do it. I
Speaker 6: think the other part is is you'd have a number
Speaker 6: of division winners who really wouldn't be and and it
Speaker 6: doesn't wait, well yeah, I mean they just they wouldn't
Speaker 6: be as competitive like you would have teams that would
Speaker 6: win a division that you'd say they're going to probably
Speaker 6: get smacked or blown out. And so there's there's no
Speaker 6: real easy way of going about, you know, handling that
Speaker 6: outside of saying, if you're the Big ten, let's just say, hypothetically,
Speaker 6: I mean, they can't do this, But hypothetically, if they
Speaker 6: had four divisions, if there were only sixteen teams and
Speaker 6: you sprinkled Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, and that Iowa
Speaker 6: wiscon to take your pick in one of the other divisions.
Speaker 6: You would basically be lining up the conference to have
Speaker 6: it play out so that you've got, you know, those
Speaker 6: four strongest teams win their division then to make the
Speaker 6: playoff to give you the best chance of advancing a
Speaker 6: team to the super Bowl or excuse me, to the
Speaker 6: National Challenge.
Speaker 3: Uncomfortable conversation that has to take place is if you're
Speaker 3: not a power for you're not, You're not eligible. I
Speaker 3: think that's the uncomfortable conversation that has to take place. Sorry,
Speaker 3: if you're not a power for a team, you're not,
Speaker 3: you're not eligible to compete for the national title. And
Speaker 3: just know that going in. Just know that that's what
Speaker 3: you got to deal with going in, period.
Speaker 5: Buddy.
Speaker 6: I think it's going to go a step further where
Speaker 6: the uncomfortable conversation is going to be where do the
Speaker 6: Big twelve and ACC live? Because it feels like at times,
Speaker 6: with the difference in what those conferences are paying out
Speaker 6: their teams compared to the Big ten and SEC, that
Speaker 6: the ACC and Big twelve right now are kind of
Speaker 6: closer to those group of five teams conferences yep, than
Speaker 6: then maybe they are the Big ten and the SEC.
Speaker 5: That's how it feels.
Speaker 3: So it's going to turn into the Big ten, Big
Speaker 3: twelve done, and you're playing SEC.
Speaker 4: I mean SEC. Yeah, my bad.
Speaker 3: So so so basically, what's going to have to happen
Speaker 3: is you do a pro style model of how you
Speaker 3: get through each conference. Each conference is going to represent
Speaker 3: what the NFL represents, and then the winner out of
Speaker 3: If y'all say, okay, let's bring the best team from
Speaker 3: each conference and they play for the national title, I
Speaker 3: think that makes sense. You don't even have to have
Speaker 3: a tournament. You win the Big Ten, you play for
Speaker 3: the national title, you win the SEC, you play for
Speaker 3: the national title against the winner of the Big ten,
Speaker 3: and then now I hate to say it, but then
Speaker 3: now Notre Dame has to make a choice. They got
Speaker 3: to decide are we going to Big ten route or
Speaker 3: are we going to SEC route? But we got to
Speaker 3: go into one because we want to be able to
Speaker 3: compete for a national title. I mean, I think that
Speaker 3: that ultimately, that's what it sounds like, that might be
Speaker 3: what it would turn into. I mean, that would be
Speaker 3: the most logical way of.
Speaker 4: Looking at it. How many teams are in these how
Speaker 4: many teams are in these conferences?
Speaker 6: Now it's what eighteen and a big ten. The SEC
Speaker 6: has what's sixteen?
Speaker 3: Now, so I mean that's that's not quite thirty two,
Speaker 3: but that's a lot of teams that is. But yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'm just saying, I'm just saying if each conference,
Speaker 3: like think, yeah, I guess, I guess you could look
Speaker 3: at it as that represents the AFC and NFC. I'm
Speaker 3: just thinking total in total, if one side represented in total,
Speaker 3: what the playoff?
Speaker 4: The playoff looks like.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, Here's here's what it says
Speaker 6: that if that's the scenario we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Again, we're just hypothetical hypotheticals.
Speaker 4: That hypotheticals is you.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't want to leave out programs like Miami, Florida State, Clemson,
Speaker 6: North Carolina. Like, there's a lot of other teams that
Speaker 6: are either part I mean, even Colorado in the Big twelve, right,
Speaker 6: Texas Tech, who's been you know, times competitive, Oklahoma State,
Speaker 6: there's there's other teams that you could bring as part
Speaker 6: of this. Now, there'd have to be more expansion, but
Speaker 6: the truth of the matter is is, yes, there's a
Speaker 6: dividing line there, and maybe there's more realignment waiting to happen,
Speaker 6: but at this juncture, it's there's still so much to
Speaker 6: be sorted out. So again, I understand the question about
Speaker 6: Notre Dame. Our name has always found its place and
Speaker 6: found its way of still being a part of the
Speaker 6: process when it's all said and done. And I think
Speaker 6: that they would even in that case, while probably because
Speaker 6: because here's the here's the truth, like, here's the here's
Speaker 6: the truth to all this. If everyone would have went
Speaker 6: the route of Notre Dame in football, I'm saying, in football,
Speaker 6: you go back eight years ago, all right, and we
Speaker 6: just say, hey, there's something coming, and there's gonna be realignment,
Speaker 6: there's gonna be all these shifts and changes, and maybe
Speaker 6: the pack troll is not even gonna exist, Like how
Speaker 6: can we avoid that.
Speaker 5: Well, let's just do this.
Speaker 6: Let's take football and all the Power five programs. At
Speaker 6: that point, they're gonna go independent and we're gonna figure
Speaker 6: out another way of making their schedule and making a
Speaker 6: playoff system and everything else, and.
Speaker 5: We're gonna keep everything else the same.
Speaker 6: We're not gonna demolish the Pac twelve because you know
Speaker 6: of football and have to sacrifice the softball team at
Speaker 6: at UCLA falling across the country to go play Rutgers.
Speaker 5: You know, we're not gonna force those teams to do that.
Speaker 6: We're just gonna take football or to have them construct
Speaker 6: their own schedule however we deem that fit based on
Speaker 6: it could be the college football Playoff, could have been whoever.
Speaker 5: But had everyone else.
Speaker 6: Gone that exact same route, we wouldn't be in this
Speaker 6: mess that we're in, at least in regards to the
Speaker 6: conference realignments and some of the difficulties that a lot
Speaker 6: of these schools are facing, and a lot of it
Speaker 6: from a monetary standpoint too, because they even though they're
Speaker 6: getting more from the conference they maybe joined, their expenses
Speaker 6: just went way up for travel and everything else that's involved.
Speaker 6: So that's how we complicated things. Instead of like everyone
Speaker 6: who in their free world wants to say, well, not
Speaker 6: dore d even need Tom to join a conference, it's like, well, no,
Speaker 6: maybe you guys actually messed this up because instead of
Speaker 6: just allowing the conference to be what they may be,
Speaker 6: you guys should all want independent, at least in football
Speaker 6: and then you could have constructed something that worked for
Speaker 6: just football and we didn't ruin life, the student athlete
Speaker 6: life for every other college and conference and sport out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: To watch how this all play out.
Speaker 2: But it does feel like a lot college football is
Speaker 2: in its own category. And we were talking about this
Speaker 2: a little bit in New Orleans, like, I don't even
Speaker 2: think I don't like college basketball and college football feel
Speaker 2: like two different levels as far as interest what they provide,
Speaker 2: Like it just feels like college football is its own league,
Speaker 2: like the top two leagues in the world of sports,
Speaker 2: or the NFL, and then college football and everybody else
Speaker 2: is just sort of lining up, so it feels like
Speaker 2: they should be doing.
Speaker 5: Their own thing.
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Speaker 3: We do know what is going to happen in the draft,
Speaker 3: all right. We know who's not going to be there
Speaker 3: at least. The draft is coming up in April. It's
Speaker 3: in Green Bay, and apparently Shadoor Sanders will not be
Speaker 3: a part of the draft. Shadoor Sanders on overtime talking
Speaker 3: about his decision to not attend the draft in Green Bay.
Speaker 8: Let's take a listen, we most likely do Colorado Dallas.
Speaker 8: We ain't really decide like fully fully fully yet, Yeah,
Speaker 8: we plan on doing it, you know, like an event
Speaker 8: thing and.
Speaker 4: We'll be fun.
Speaker 8: There'll be more family friends be able to come because
Speaker 8: the only thing we're going to the draft is just like,
Speaker 8: you know, I want to spend those moments with my people.
Speaker 8: And yet I think having everybody come out there, Bro,
Speaker 8: it's gonna be so expensive, you feel me, so cause
Speaker 8: why you saving a lot of money? You get to
Speaker 8: be around your people and all that. Like, it's not
Speaker 8: just me, you know that I was able to get
Speaker 8: to this point.
Speaker 4: It's like a team. It was a team thing.
Speaker 8: It was a team of people that helped me allowed
Speaker 8: to get to where I am now. So I want
Speaker 8: to be able to make sure I am able to
Speaker 8: enjoy that with everybody and nobody be in uncomfortable situations
Speaker 8: just for traveling and just to show support.
Speaker 3: So there you go, and that's for the draft. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: which makes more sense these days. It does make a
Speaker 3: lot of sense.
Speaker 6: And I think it's not an easy place to get
Speaker 6: to and you know, for for some people, they'd rather
Speaker 6: be at home with their family and friends in an
Speaker 6: environment they're comfortable with.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: Depending on who you talk to, some people view shadors
Speaker 6: number one. Some people have views cam Ward, I kind
Speaker 6: of know what's that. There's another one out there for
Speaker 6: number one. Come on, throw him out there, throw his
Speaker 6: name out.
Speaker 4: Abdul Carter. No quarter I'm talking about quarterback.
Speaker 5: That's why.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, And anyway, the point is is that like
Speaker 6: those guys, you know, they probably want to say, like, hey,
Speaker 6: I don't necessarily.
Speaker 5: Know where exactly I could be going.
Speaker 6: I mean I went through that when when I when
Speaker 6: I went to New York, and so there's there's always
Speaker 6: that potential chance that maybe it doesn't work out exactly
Speaker 6: the way you think or exactly the way you would
Speaker 6: hope for.
Speaker 5: So there's there's elements of that.
Speaker 6: But I think the other thing is and I remember,
Speaker 6: like the NFL brought me in at one point in
Speaker 6: time after the draft.
Speaker 5: Me was like a couple of years later, two or
Speaker 5: three years later, and we.
Speaker 6: Talked about some of the things that would make it
Speaker 6: easier to get more guys to go because they wanted
Speaker 6: to create an environment where more guys want to go
Speaker 6: to the draft, to walk out on stage to shake
Speaker 6: Roger Goodell's hand. And I kind of said to them, like, look,
Speaker 6: if you guys aren't paying guys to be here, like,
Speaker 6: there's gonna come a time when these guys can make
Speaker 6: more money staying at home and doing a draft party
Speaker 6: somewhere else. And it sounds like that's something that Sanders
Speaker 6: family is gonna be able to capitalize off of. You know,
Speaker 6: whether it's Shador or it's Travis Hunter as well. I'd
Speaker 6: assume there's a few other players too. You know, Shepherd
Speaker 6: their wide receiver, He's gonna get drafted, Horne will get drafted.
Speaker 6: Like there's a number of players who I think will
Speaker 6: get drafted from that team, and there might be something
Speaker 6: they're doing for all of them and all those guys
Speaker 6: getting paid off that. So that's the hard part is
Speaker 6: I think people sometimes aren't aware that a lot of
Speaker 6: these athletes now have the potential and chance to make
Speaker 6: a lot of money before they get into the NFL.
Speaker 6: And even that week leading up to the draft, whether
Speaker 6: you go to the draft or not.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you there's going to be a ton of KFC.
Speaker 3: There no cat. The Sanders family have been doing a
Speaker 3: lot of KFC reads, a lot of KFC commercials.
Speaker 6: So here's my question for you, though, Can you call
Speaker 6: it KFC if KFC is moving its headquarters from Kentucky
Speaker 6: to Texas.
Speaker 3: I mean yes, because it's still it's still the recipe
Speaker 3: originated from Kentucky. That's why it's like, why are you
Speaker 3: able to call Philly cheese steaks Philly cheese steaks in
Speaker 3: different places? Why can you call them French fries? I
Speaker 3: don't get all of that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Is it not a French fry because it's not in France.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, is it not a Philly cheese steak
Speaker 3: because it's not in Philly? So I think it would
Speaker 3: still be Kentucky Fried Chicken. I mean, I could go
Speaker 3: buy some KFC today in Cali and it's still be
Speaker 3: called KFC in a bucket.
Speaker 4: But I'm being joke. I'm joking, but I think the point.
Speaker 3: It's not churches. But okay, churches does have some good chicken.
Speaker 3: But I really do like pop Eyes chicken. Man, it's
Speaker 3: Popeye's flavor, man, telling you, I love me some pop Popeyes,
Speaker 3: Like Popeyes almost stole my career.
Speaker 4: Man, it almost stole my career.
Speaker 5: Without Popeyes, you may have never had PhD.
Speaker 4: That is very true. That is very true that I
Speaker 4: was reminded of that as well.
Speaker 3: Uh. But you know, if I could do it all
Speaker 3: over again, going back to my draft day, I one
Speaker 3: hundred percent would have did it somewhere where all my
Speaker 3: family could be there. It would have probably most likely
Speaker 3: and and all actuality been at my high school. I
Speaker 3: think that would have made the most sense to me
Speaker 3: when I look back on it, and things move so
Speaker 3: fast and so quickly that you know, you just kind
Speaker 3: of go with the flow of what people tell you,
Speaker 3: the status quo of what it's supposed to be. But
Speaker 3: I think the cool thing about you know, where things
Speaker 3: are now is that athlete to have more of an
Speaker 3: understanding of what they represent and the value that they hold.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't say that I knew that when
Speaker 3: I was coming out in terms of that value being
Speaker 3: me saying you know what, I think we should coordinate
Speaker 3: me doing it here, or I can use this like
Speaker 3: if somebody took it to a whole other level where
Speaker 3: I'm going to take this moment that's for me getting drafted,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to use this as as a platform
Speaker 3: and the opportunity to shine light on something that I'm
Speaker 3: truly passionate about. Like those are the things that I
Speaker 3: would have if I could do it all over again.
Speaker 4: That's how I would do it.
Speaker 3: I would shine light on our Wounded Warriors programming. Not
Speaker 3: understanding what you know, what goes into all of it,
Speaker 3: and how many people can be impacted and affected in
Speaker 3: a positive way if people just got involved. You know,
Speaker 3: there's like for me, that would be my passion and
Speaker 3: that would be something that I would think. Understanding your brand,
Speaker 3: understanding what you command in terms of time and attention,
Speaker 3: being able to leverage that. I think it's a great
Speaker 3: it's a great step forward for athletes that understand it.
Speaker 3: Generally quarterbacks have that understanding, they had that support group
Speaker 3: where they're they're the planning of what their careers look like,
Speaker 3: how they are handling things. I mean Tim Tebow being
Speaker 3: one of the best examples that you could ever throw
Speaker 3: out there in terms of just leveraging your passion and
Speaker 3: your purpose along with what you do on the field
Speaker 3: and how you can build your community that way, I
Speaker 3: would have definitely been a part of my community. I
Speaker 3: would have made sure Penn State community was a part
Speaker 3: of it. I would have made sure that that my
Speaker 3: North Hills family was a part of it as well,
Speaker 3: and obviously my immediate family members like my grandparents and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. So I think it's a good I
Speaker 3: think it's great reasoning from Shador to say he wants
Speaker 3: to be, you know, where the people that were with
Speaker 3: him can can attend with all of them can attend
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 5: It is awesome.
Speaker 3: Now, if the draft was in South Beach, here you go,
Speaker 3: I might change my mind and I might just do
Speaker 3: it there. I might have to do all those things
Speaker 3: that I mentioned. Just do it in South Beach, you.
Speaker 2: Know, just throw everything at the clevelander and say anybody
Speaker 2: want to come now? And I feel like you have
Speaker 2: a different answer.
Speaker 3: I would still do it at home. I think I
Speaker 3: would if today, I would still do it at home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but back then you were what twenty one?
Speaker 4: Well, but let's go.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think that that is truly the
Speaker 3: the wild card of having Dion primetime Sanders. You know,
Speaker 3: his guidance, his his mentorship, his understanding. Uh, he is
Speaker 3: an ultimate master Brander I mean, he is as good
Speaker 3: as it has ever been, and they get the benefit
Speaker 3: of him being their coach, and in Chador's case, he
Speaker 3: gets the benefit of that being his father. So I
Speaker 3: think that that plays a part. I did not have
Speaker 3: that type of guidance.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: Let me uh, let me ask you you guys a question.
Speaker 6: If the draft was in New York, do you think
Speaker 6: they'd be going. I must say I think they they're
Speaker 6: going to stick to the plan. That would say that
Speaker 6: may be the case, but there's probably a better chance
Speaker 6: based off of what they could parlay leverage in New York.
Speaker 6: I would say there's a chance that they would do that.
Speaker 3: That's why I throw out Miami. I don't think the
Speaker 3: market is in Miami that the market definitely isn't crazy
Speaker 3: attractive to want to do it there.
Speaker 6: Here's the thing, is the Draft, just like the combine,
Speaker 6: just like the Pro Bowl two. Often times the NFL
Speaker 6: tinkers and tweaks this stuff, and it's really so there's
Speaker 6: like a you know, bidding process, and ya. Look, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of cities that've gotten left out of Super
Speaker 6: Bowls because they're not gonna either have the confines of
Speaker 6: a stadium.
Speaker 5: To host one, you know, or you know, even if.
Speaker 6: They do, it might be a one and done unless
Speaker 6: it's a dome, because they don't want to have to
Speaker 6: necessarily be in a cool weather place. So that's the
Speaker 6: truth and the harsh reality. So what do they do
Speaker 6: to circumvent that. They came up with the draft where
Speaker 6: they're going to rotate now in different cities. And I
Speaker 6: get it there's excitement around it, but just from my experience, man,
Speaker 6: there was people who came to New York who've never
Speaker 6: been back in my family, like they solely came for
Speaker 6: that event, that moment, to share with me everything else
Speaker 6: and just to experience New York like that was Like
Speaker 6: one of the things too, is oh it's in New York.
Speaker 6: I mean, if it was in another city where they go,
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe maybe not. But there's something about that,
Speaker 6: you know, there's something about having the Pro Bowl and
Speaker 6: Hawaii that made it special. And I think this is
Speaker 6: one of the mistakes that the NFL has made in
Speaker 6: a way. I understand in saying that it's probably gonna
Speaker 6: upset some Green Bay fans, people who live in Green Bay.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry if that upsets you.
Speaker 6: I just can only talk from my perspective on it,
Speaker 6: and I regardless of how long it took me to
Speaker 6: get drafted on a draft day, I still wouldn't have
Speaker 6: changed a thing in regards to especially going to New
Speaker 6: York and being a part of it and all the
Speaker 6: different things that we did that week leading up was
Speaker 6: it's the children in's hospital visits, some of the community
Speaker 6: service visits.
Speaker 5: Like any of those other things. It was.
Speaker 6: It was all incredible, was awesome. It was well put
Speaker 6: on by the NFL. That's why I'm a bit I'm
Speaker 6: not surprised when players opt to not go because it's
Speaker 6: not always, you know, the same, it doesn't feel the same.
Speaker 6: You know, if they move the heisman from New York
Speaker 6: to somewhere else, I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Quite feel the same.
Speaker 6: So that's that's kind of one of those things that
Speaker 6: it's it's synonymous with that, you know, when you think
Speaker 6: about the draft, like I always think about New York,
Speaker 6: but you know, that's changed now and I think that
Speaker 6: might play a role in some of these guys opting not.
Speaker 5: To go, you know.
Speaker 3: And I've always thought that the draft has now turned
Speaker 3: into the consolation prize for a city that can't get
Speaker 3: a super Bowl at three of the draft. You know,
Speaker 3: whether it's Green Bay next year is going to be Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: A super Bowl's never going to Pittsburgh. But the draft
Speaker 3: can go and you can come out there for you know,
Speaker 3: two three days, hang out and infuse some something to
Speaker 3: the economy there. And it was such a hit in Tennessee.
Speaker 3: I think people felt like, Okay, this is something that
Speaker 3: could work. But then you get I just gotta be honest.
Speaker 3: When you hit a market like Green Bay, I think
Speaker 3: you take a lot and it may turn out to
Speaker 3: be a win, but I think going into it, I
Speaker 3: don't think it's very attractive.
Speaker 5: You almost signed with Green Bay.
Speaker 3: And I got offered by New York and went to
Speaker 3: New York for less money. Why New York even the
Speaker 3: preference over Green Bay? It just it just seems like
Speaker 3: what Q said. I think the the tradition of it
Speaker 3: just seems to be right, you know, the way you
Speaker 3: handle things. Because I did enjoy my time for the
Speaker 3: draft as well in New York. I will say as
Speaker 3: much family as I had there, I will say again
Speaker 3: I'm standing on what I just said. I would have
Speaker 3: knowing the value that you brought to them going to
Speaker 3: those children's hospitals.
Speaker 6: On what you said, you have to stand on it,
Speaker 6: and I'm a stand on it because just sitting on
Speaker 6: it is kind of like when you sit on something
Speaker 6: that that would kind of imply lazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would imply sit on it is not. Yeah, no, cap,
Speaker 3: thank you off top Jonas. Yeah, okay, all right, there
Speaker 3: you go. I just think that having the value that
Speaker 3: you bring to the table and and and what that represents,
Speaker 3: I think that you can maximize that in your in
Speaker 3: your own community. You come out and unless you're from
Speaker 3: New York, I think you come outside of your community
Speaker 3: to go into somebody else's to bring that value. They
Speaker 3: bring your value into it. Whereas I think in a
Speaker 3: moment where you're accomplishing something that it represents a closing
Speaker 3: of of a major chapter, which is the pursuit of
Speaker 3: becoming a professional at what you're doing.
Speaker 4: I think in those moments it.
Speaker 3: Definitely should be focused in on how you can maximize
Speaker 3: what you're doing and what that plan represents versus somebody
Speaker 3: else maximizing it. And I think that that's what people
Speaker 3: do that's connected to the NFL draft, that's what they do.
Speaker 3: And if you don't have any plan, then it's fine
Speaker 3: if you're a part of it. But I would just
Speaker 3: say if I was a Shadoor Sanders or an Abdual
Speaker 3: Carter or a cam Ward, I think that I would
Speaker 3: want to bring awareness and use my brand to bring
Speaker 3: awareness to the things that I'm passionate about in connection
Speaker 3: to my community. And that's a tremendous value that you
Speaker 3: would be able to bring to your community that otherwise,
Speaker 3: Like if I could go back and do it all
Speaker 3: over again, it would be veterans, it would be bringing thorn,
Speaker 3: you know, pediatric cancer, bringing awareness to those things. That's
Speaker 3: ultimately what growing your brand and growing your reputation and
Speaker 3: status is really should be for is to assist them
Speaker 3: to push other people forward.