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Speaker 1: The volume What is going on Everybody? John Middlecoff three

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Speaker 1: and out podcast Back again for a little Tuesday action.

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Speaker 1: Just finished watching Monday Night football Sean McVeigh and the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams beat the Arizona Cardinals. We'll dive into

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Speaker 1: a couple of thoughts on that game right off the bat. Uh,

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Speaker 1: talking a lot of stuff today, the Cowboys, the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: around the NFL, A bunch of other topics. Uh. Dan

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Speaker 1: Lanning introduces the Oregon football coach. Have a couple of

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Speaker 1: full time podcaster. But let's dive into what we just witnessed.

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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes and listen, I mean I talked

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Speaker 1: I guess it's probably like a lot like this. In

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Speaker 1: on a relatively cheap deal, but he's, you know, an

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Speaker 1: which listen, I didn't think he had that much left,

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Speaker 1: we're pretty desperate. Like I don't want to say their

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Speaker 1: hadn't been playing good football for a while. They had

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Speaker 1: just been off. And to me, really it starts with

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Speaker 1: When's the last time he had this much pressure on

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Speaker 1: have made moves from a front office von Miller. Uh,

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Speaker 1: obviously the Stafford trade thinking like that. Matt Stafford was

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Speaker 1: awesome tonight. I think that's the best game I've seen

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Speaker 1: him play as a ramp. He was brilliant, hit several

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Speaker 1: I think the most heralded Texas high school football player

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Speaker 1: good season for the Cardinals. Just a miraculous play. I've

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Speaker 1: both sides. Great catch by A. J. Green, but that

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Speaker 1: Prescott who was the guy playing all those games before

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Speaker 1: his calf injury. Right, he looks like a different guy.

427
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: But because Mike Parsons is in the offensive backfield every

428
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Speaker 1: other snap, it hasn't really mattered. And now Zeke's a

429
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Speaker 1: little banged up, Pollard's banged up, like they just had

430
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: some injuries, but they got eleven. Who is just I mean,

431
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 1: he's the defensive player of the year. Like I I

432
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 1: haven't watched every play of every defensive player, but I've

433
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Speaker 1: watched enough to know that's the best defensive player in

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Speaker 1: two one. He's the most dominant physical force. I mean,

435
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Speaker 1: he's just He's an unstoppable player. He almost had an

436
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 1: interception not around the line of scrimmage, way you know,

437
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: back where the safeties are yesterday. It was incredible play.

438
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 1: The guy is everywhere he is. As a fan of football,

439
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: he's very, very fun to watch. And because you know,

440
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,960
Speaker 1: I lived in p A, I fall Penn State really

441
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: closely worked with people with the Eagles that went to

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Speaker 1: Penn State. They follow up closely. Uh, they didn't think

443
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Speaker 1: like he was gonna be No one thought these guys

444
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Speaker 1: gonna be as good because again, if they did, where's

445
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Speaker 1: he going in the draft? Fourth? Like, let's say, let's

446
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Speaker 1: face it, if you could do this over the Falcons

447
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Speaker 1: would have to take him number four. Obviously, quarterbacks go

448
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: before any other position. But you're not taking Kyle Pits

449
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: tight end over this pass rusher. No chance not happening.

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Speaker 1: So I think the Cowboys are benefiting. Like you know,

451
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Speaker 1: we talked a lot about socks on this show. They

452
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Speaker 1: kind of have a balanced portfolio. Right that they it

453
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Speaker 1: felt very offensive dependent and now it's like their defense

454
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Speaker 1: is making place and it looks they look defensively. Man,

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Speaker 1: they got they got some playmakers. Another team that has

456
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Speaker 1: some playmakers on defense nine turnovers the last three games

457
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Speaker 1: is Kansas City. Now they played a Raider team who's quit.

458
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: Uh and understandably so coach got fired after five games.

459
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 1: Star receiver is gonna go to jail for decades. Uh.

460
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Speaker 1: That they had to cut another first round pick for

461
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: flashing like uh, you know, machine guns, threatening to kill

462
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Speaker 1: a guy, complete clown. They're they're in shambles. But in

463
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: the NFL, I don't care if you're playing in the

464
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 1: Houston Texans or you're playing the Oh seven Patriots, it

465
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: is borderline impossible to score thirty five points in the

466
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Speaker 1: first half of the game. That that's that does not happen,

467
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Speaker 1: but blow us like that only happened in college. Right

468
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: when when as we talked about Urban Meyer, when you

469
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Speaker 1: have four and five stars and you're playing a team

470
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Speaker 1: with no talent in the NFL, like the Raiders are

471
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Speaker 1: paying several people a lot of money in doc ways,

472
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Speaker 1: you know, a ten plus million dollar pass rusher Derek

473
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Speaker 1: car makes million Josh Jacobs that they have real players.

474
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Speaker 1: And the Chiefs were up thirty five to three at halftime,

475
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Speaker 1: and it's leading into an enormous Thursday night game. I mean,

476
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Speaker 1: this is the a f C and NFC West are

477
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Speaker 1: my favorite divisions and Chargers Chiefs Thursday Night at so

478
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Speaker 1: far we'll get into Justin Herbert a little bit, but

479
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: it's the Chief's defense that's carrying them. And what did

480
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: I say several weeks ago, It's like it's not going

481
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Speaker 1: to sustain the amount of turnovers that Patrick is having,

482
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Speaker 1: and a lot of them. Some of them are dumb,

483
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: some of them are the hero syndrome, but some of

484
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: them are going off guys hands. And I never thought

485
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: their defense would get it turned around. But their defense

486
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Speaker 1: has been fantastic. They caused countless turnovers again, nine in

487
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Speaker 1: the last three games. Uh, they had a fumble six

488
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Speaker 1: the first play of the game. The game was over

489
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Speaker 1: yesterday against the Raiders on the first play of the game. Really,

490
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: the game was over when the Raiders did their pregame

491
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Speaker 1: break it down on the Chiefs at midfield on the

492
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Speaker 1: on the arrow like, are you guys that moronic and dumb?

493
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 1: Remember last year they upset the Chiefs in Kansas City.

494
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: Gruden drove around arrowhead and then Andy got really mad

495
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: and they came back and kicked their ass, and then

496
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously, the Chiefs ended up in the Super Bowl.

497
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Speaker 1: The Raiders missed the playoffs by three games. But the

498
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: Chiefs are coming. And I think there's a clear hierarchy

499
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Speaker 1: in the a f C. Patriots in Chiefs. If Tennessee

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Speaker 1: gets healthy, big if and I saw rap sheets say

501
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: that they expect Derrick Henry to come back. You know,

502
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Speaker 1: if Julio is able to play in a J. Brown,

503
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Speaker 1: if they have those three guys, you know, with the

504
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Speaker 1: rest of their team for the playoffs, they have earned

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Speaker 1: the right to be in that spot, right But if

506
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Speaker 1: they don't have those three guys, they're just not the

507
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Speaker 1: same team. Part of the reason they've won playoff games.

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Speaker 1: Remember two years ago when they beat the Patriots and

509
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Speaker 1: Brady and then they beat the Ravens. Was was King

510
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: Henry going for like two yards of game? And now

511
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: they add Julio, you had a J Brown like that.

512
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: That's that's a real team we know. But like yesterday

513
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: beating the Jags or Urbans, those guys have tapped down.

514
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Speaker 1: But if if Tennessee gets those guys back, there's a

515
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Speaker 1: hierarchy to me in the a f C. And it's

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Speaker 1: the Patriots the Chiefs, and I would throw Tennessee given

517
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Speaker 1: the health and on the flip side, the Raiders and

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Speaker 1: I'll give my partner of my other podcast, guy, I

519
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: agree with him. He brought up that he thinks big

520
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: picture of the Raiders need a rebrand, and right now,

521
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: the Raiders like their brand. Just when you say the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: It resonates with people that are fifty five and older

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Speaker 1: that witness you know, some of the Kenny of the

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Speaker 1: Snake Stabler, some of those Howie Long teams. Uh. You

525
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: know Tom Flores coaching. Uh, Jim Plunkett was the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Like that, it resonates. The Raiders used to matter. At

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Speaker 1: one time. I met uh when the Super Bowl came

528
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Speaker 1: to the Bay Area. I talked to Bill Kauer and

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Speaker 1: he was just saying, the league's better when the Raiders

530
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Speaker 1: are good, and that matters to people that seventies and

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00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: the eighties. It's two one. The Raiders have been basically

532
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: irrelevant for twenty years, and the leagues had the greatest

533
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: explosion of money in the history of professional sports. I

534
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: think the Raiders if if they can somehow get Mark

535
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Speaker 1: Davis away, because Mark Davis is never gonna change the brand.

536
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Speaker 1: But the moment Mark Davis either, you know, one day,

537
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: passes on the team, pass away whatever, whoever buys the

538
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: next team. My number one recommendation, as someone who's watched

539
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: this team really closely, UH for a long time, complete rebrand.

540
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: I would change the name of the team, might even

541
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: change the colors it's just it's just time that there's

542
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: a toxicity with that team. Uh. They completely They're just

543
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: gonna reset for like the seventh time in a in

544
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: a decade. Uh. And I'm not I'm not blaming Mark Davis,

545
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: Like he didn't write those emails, he didn't drive that

546
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: car with Henry Ruggs. But for whatever reason, under his watch,

547
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: it's just embarrassment after embarrassment. And you saw yesterday the

548
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: Chiefs took advantage of it and absolutely curb stomped them

549
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Speaker 1: in a game that felt like everyone on at least

550
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: on my social media timelines were watching at least a

551
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Speaker 1: halftime when the game was over thirty five to three,

552
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 1: and their interim coach And I never understand when coaches

553
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: do this. I get, I'm always a big fan of

554
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: taking points in certain situations, like I'm not anti field

555
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: goal kickers, but when you are down thirty forty fifty

556
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: points and it's clear, you know it would take a

557
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: an act of God, an absolute miracle for you even

558
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: to come back in the game, let alone even think

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00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: about winning it. When coaches kicked field goals once they

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00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: get into the red zone and they're down thirty eight

561
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: to nothing, forty two to nothing. That is the most

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00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: gutless move you can have as a coach, because you're

563
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: almost saying, like, I just want points on the board.

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00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: We'll get points on the board. Is a big deal.

565
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: If it's you know, ten to zero, right and you're like,

566
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to get three points right in this game,

567
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: you're not in the game. The only way humanly possible

568
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: for you to cut into a deficit is scored touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: And he kicked the field goal late in that game

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Speaker 1: to make it or I mean late in the first half,

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00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: to make it thirty five three. Do you think you

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Speaker 1: get like extra points from your fans or your owners, like, well,

573
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: you got some points on the board. Nobody gives a shit. Uh.

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00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: It was just it was a pretty embarrassing moment, honestly,

575
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: kicking the field goal. Now Raiders just paid a kicker.

576
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I I still I just the Chiefs just

577
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: what a clown show that is for the Raiders, and

578
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs really exposed him. Two guys that are I

579
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: would call him rocket ships for the franchise, Joe Burrow,

580
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: who I watched. I watched him really closely the last

581
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Speaker 1: several weeks, and obviously you know since he got hurt

582
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Speaker 1: last year. Watched probably four or five of his games

583
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Speaker 1: start to finish this year, watched this whole season. L

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Speaker 1: s U. He has a spectacular player. And even if

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Speaker 1: you did a redraft in that draft, for as awesome

586
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Speaker 1: as Justin Herbert is, and I'll get into him here

587
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: in a second, I still think he goes one. It's

588
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: just pretty clear that Justin Herbert would have gone to

589
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: too if if the football team could do that bad

590
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: boy over and listen Chase Young before he got her

591
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: I think the guy is gonna be a really good player.

592
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: But there's in no world would they take Chase Young

593
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Speaker 1: over Justin Herbert if they knew how good Justin Herbert

594
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Speaker 1: was gonna be. But bur is pretty special. And I

595
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: think some of the company the comparisons because that's what

596
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: you do in in draft rooms scouts. I was not.

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00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: I actually wasn't that great at it, just because I

598
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: didn't watch NFL football growing up for like the scouting lens.

599
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: I was just a fan and then worked in college football,

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Speaker 1: and once I got in the NFL, everyone was able

601
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: to make these comparisons. And all my buddies who are

602
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: really good in the NFL can do it with just ease.

603
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: They can just comp guys. And I've gotten a lot

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Speaker 1: better at it just because I watched football from a

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Speaker 1: more you know. I. I I just I've taken several steps

606
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: back and I'm able to follow the whole league and

607
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: it's just easier to make comparisons. I just have more

608
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: players that I've watched closely over the years. But Joe Burrow,

609
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Speaker 1: I I did think coming out of college there were

610
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: some fair parallels with Tony Romo, just the way they played. Well,

611
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is going to be a much better player

612
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: than Tony Romo. And and I'm a Tony Romo fan.

613
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Speaker 1: I always enjoyed his game, but he had some flaws.

614
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: He was also an undrafted free agent. It's not like

615
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Speaker 1: Tony Romo was a top five pick. Joe Burrow was

616
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. He should be better than

617
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Speaker 1: Tony Romo. Now, obviously, if you ever did a redraft,

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo ten years later would have gone in the

619
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Speaker 1: top five of his draft. But we all viewed Joe

620
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Speaker 1: Burrow blue chip guy. Best season the history of l

621
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Speaker 1: s U, one of the best seasons in the history

622
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: of college football. Kick the secs asked now benefited from

623
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Speaker 1: being around Chase and Justin Jefferson, but he has Jamar

624
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: Chase on his team now with Tee Higgins, who also

625
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: looks really good. I would bet the farm on this guy.

626
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: I just watching him. He just kind of has it,

627
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, And I know he leads the NFL and

628
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: turnovers right now, but it's hard not to watch him

629
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Speaker 1: and go I love watching this guy play. If I

630
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Speaker 1: was a Bengal fan, I would be very very proud,

631
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Speaker 1: happy excited that I have this guy on my squad,

632
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: whether we make the playoffs or not this year. You know,

633
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: he is infinitely better than Baker Mayfield. Immediately. Uh, the

634
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: Steelers do not have a quarterback, and let's face it,

635
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: like the Ravens just have a million injuries. You're just

636
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: starting to see there's just a wear and tear when

637
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: you are so dependent on Lamar Jackson and it's one

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Speaker 1: thing to throw the ball, which every team that has

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Speaker 1: a good quarterback is dependent on that guy to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball. They ask Lamar Jackson to be like their

641
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Speaker 1: best running back and their quarterback, and eventually, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of a freak deal. I saw. I think it

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Speaker 1: was Joe Banner, who was the president of the Eagles

644
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Speaker 1: when I was there, tweeted like, this is what happens

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Speaker 1: with running quarterbacks. And I tend to agree running quarterbacks

646
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: is eventually get hit, even in a league that's gotten softer.

647
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: But Lamar Jackson got injured running away, like behind the

648
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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He was in the pocket gonna throw

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Speaker 1: the ball and a guy broke through and he tried

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Speaker 1: to run away and the guy got him on his leg. Like,

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Speaker 1: I think it was a pretty freaky deal. Like to me,

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Speaker 1: if Lamar had gotten hurt down past the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage running because he wouldn't slide, then that would be

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Speaker 1: a knock. But I don't put yesterday on on Lamar.

655
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Speaker 1: But you know, Joe Burrow obviously Lamar has accomplished more.

656
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Speaker 1: But to me, Joe is is coming for the top

657
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Speaker 1: spot in that division and Lamar not being able to play,

658
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to hold him off. Bengals can

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Speaker 1: win that division and then Herbert is in two seasons.

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Speaker 1: And I heard I think I heard Joey Taylor say

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Speaker 1: this this morning when I was driving around, that he's

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Speaker 1: the second quarter second youngest quarterback in terms of games

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Speaker 1: played to get to sixty touchdowns through two and a

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Speaker 1: half seasons a little more, I guess, because we're you know,

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Speaker 1: twelve games in. He has sixty one touchdowns through two seasons. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he missed week one last year, um and he has

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Speaker 1: so he has a three to one touchdown to interception

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Speaker 1: ratio and his completion percentages six. Obviously, the throw that

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Speaker 1: he made yesterday went firel against the Giants, where he

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00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: rolled out, stopped and through like what looked to be

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Speaker 1: a seventy yard absolute bomb slash dime hits the guy

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Speaker 1: in stride. His physical attributes are superior to Burrow. Right,

673
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Speaker 1: He's bigger, he's faster, he's stronger, and he has a

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Speaker 1: bigger arm he is to me, he you could argue

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Speaker 1: just of all the young guys, including the homes only

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, just in terms of size, athleticism and arm strength,

677
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Speaker 1: just in terms of blue chip the way you would

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Speaker 1: draw it up. Now, listen, like I just said, with

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, there there's intangible stuff to quarterback. There's leadership stuff,

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Speaker 1: there's understanding the defense. There's work ethic, which everything I've

681
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: aways heard about Herbert he has it. But to me like,

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Speaker 1: he has a long way to go to match Philip

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00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: Rivers career, But Philip Rivers can't hold a candle in

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Speaker 1: terms of this guy's talent. The crazy thing about Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers all those years with the Chargers, he didn't have

686
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Speaker 1: a great arm. I mean his arm was average at best.

687
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Speaker 1: Now he was very, very accurate. He also couldn't move

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00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: like he was a Manning level poor athlete. Again relative

689
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Speaker 1: for NFL standards, that is not a Herbert problem. If

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Speaker 1: they can do this right. The coaching staff and Brandon State.

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00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: They have a young coaching staff, right, they have a

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Speaker 1: first time head coach. They have an offensive coordinator Lombardi.

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Speaker 1: I think he maybe he's been an offensive coordinator one

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Speaker 1: other places. I've looked that up. But they got a

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Speaker 1: chance to just build a behemoth around this guy. Um

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Speaker 1: I I I love watching those two guys play. If

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Speaker 1: you asked me, like, who are your favorite players in

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Speaker 1: the league, Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert are gonna come

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Speaker 1: up in that conversation very very quickly. A couple other

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Speaker 1: just quick hitters around the league. If Seattle can beat

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Speaker 1: the Rams next week in Los Angeles, they would be

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Speaker 1: six and eight and listen, I have I'm as guilty

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Speaker 1: as anyone of shipping off on Pete Carroll. Seattle the organization.

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00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: They need to change, they need to reset if they

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Speaker 1: win that game next week. And I just checked their

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Speaker 1: seven and a half point underdog Fandel promo code column

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Speaker 1: that if Seattle wins that game, they'd be six and eight.

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Speaker 1: Then their next two games Chicago and Detroit. It is

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Speaker 1: that out of the realm possibility that we look up

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Speaker 1: in like, I guess you know, eighteen plus days and

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are eight and eight, and people are like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, how is this possible? And then if

713
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: you look around the playoffs, the football team and the

714
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: Eagles played each other. Both teams still play Dallas again.

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Speaker 1: You have the Saints, which just aren't that good. They're

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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to win. Like you don't get

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00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: to play the Jets every week, Panthers and shambles. Minnesota

718
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: is just not a team that you can rely on.

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00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: It's not the most insane thing ever, that Seattle all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden has a chance to make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: with about two weeks remaining. Just keep an eye on that,

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that. Joe Judge. I heard I

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00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: was driving around someone say I forget who that. If

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00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: you couldbine the Jets and the Giants, the Jets and

725
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: the Giants have the least win since two thousand seventeen.

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00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: The Giants are second and the Jets have the least

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Speaker 1: amount of wins. Both franchises are a complete abomination. The

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Speaker 1: Giants got worked now Mike Glennan was playing their teams

729
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: not that talented. I just saw on social media that

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Speaker 1: John Mara views Joe Judge like a next Belichick, like

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Speaker 1: a next Bill Parcels. To me, that's pretty bold. I

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Speaker 1: don't quite see that one. I mean, part of what

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Speaker 1: made Belichick is he was an elite scheme guy and

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Speaker 1: he at any moment can at least just call the defense.

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Speaker 1: And there is not a play on offense, and there

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Speaker 1: is not an individual position on offense that every single

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00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: play call that comes in, he doesn't know every exact

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Speaker 1: assignment what that guy is supposed to do. Like, I

739
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: don't believe Joe Judge does that clearly. I mean, Freddy Kitchens,

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00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: his offensive coordinator, give me a fucking break. And the

741
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: Jets are just a complete clown show. So I you know,

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00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: it sucks for the league. They're lucky. Football so popular

743
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: that you know, a team like the Bengals, a team

744
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: like the Chargers, you give them a sweet, sweet player

745
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: people care like that. It doesn't work that way in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, Like no matter what happened with the Timberwolves,

747
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: no one's gonna care. No matter what happens with the

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00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic Health the Atlanta Hawks half sweet players, nobody cares,

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Speaker 1: Nobody watches. I mean, the Clippers are in l A,

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00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 1: absolutely nobody cares. Luckily, in the NFL, people care about

751
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: different markets, but ideally you want your New York you

752
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 1: know fan basis to care about football, and right now

753
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: there is no reason to care about either team. And

754
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: really they're going nowhere fast. Uh. A guy that I think,

755
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: like we make fun of Joe Judge and what's going

756
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: on with Urban Meyer. But Vic Fangio say what you

757
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: want about him. He's a real NFL coach. He's been

758
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: coaching on Sundays for over three decades. You've never heard

759
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: one thing come out of Denver like you know, he

760
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: just treats the players, should he you know what? He

761
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: just doesn't get along with his coaching staff. Why he's

762
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: a real coach. Now, is he the most dynamic coach

763
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 1: of all time? Of course not. Is he gonna be

764
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: coaching up the quarterback, No he's not. But look at

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00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: the Broncos. They are seven and six, and when you

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Speaker 1: look at the a f C, the a f C

767
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: is much deeper than the NFC. They have been very

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Speaker 1: respectable their quarterbacks, Teddy Bridgewater. It's not like they're winning well, John,

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Speaker 1: they got a top ten quarterback. No, they got a

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Speaker 1: quarterback that the Carolina Panthers couldn't get rid of quick enough.

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Speaker 1: And I think they got a chance to be nine

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Speaker 1: and eight. What are the Broncos gonna do? Is their

773
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Speaker 1: new general manager gonna fire Fangio? You could do effinitely worse. Now,

774
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: I understand wanted to have an offensive guy, but like,

775
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 1: where are they getting a quarterback? Who are they getting

776
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: a quarterback from? It's not Aaron Rodgers? Why are the funk?

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Speaker 1: Would Aaron Rodgers go to the Denver Broncos? That doesn't

778
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 1: make any sense. Leave the Green Bay Packers. Russell Wilson. Maybe,

779
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: But if I'm John Schneider, like this is in the NBA,

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00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: players don't gonna dictate the terms. I'm just gonna trade

781
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: you the Denver Broncos because you want to go to

782
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. What are they giving me? I don't have

783
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Speaker 1: a quarterback and they're gonna win enough games or picks?

784
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: Not even that good? No, you know the best thing

785
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: about the NFL different from the NBA is that franchises

786
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: can just say no, we're not doing that, and that's

787
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: very fan friendly, you know, ultimately, like Seattle fans don't

788
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: just want to lose Russell Wilson one. But if he

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Speaker 1: is Adam and he's gotta leave, like, I'm not just

790
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: giving you away to for nothing, Like I pick, you know,

791
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: three first round picks. They're all gonna be in the twenties.

792
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: Screw you, We've paid you in premium here. So I

793
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a situation that comes up.

794
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: How do they get a quarterback? Maybe a Jimmy Garoppolo type.

795
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: But I've been impressed with Vic Fangio, Lamar Jackson. Hurt

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Speaker 1: turns out it's not a high ankle sprain. Uh that's

797
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: good because I I don't know how many games they

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Speaker 1: can win with Tyler Huntley. I think that's a very

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Speaker 1: very challenging. Now he runs around. He just throws the

800
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: ball up a little bit. But there is a a

801
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: dramatic drop off between the two players, as there should be.

802
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar's former m v P, one of the

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00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: best players in the league, Tyler Huntley, I thinks an

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent. Uh Atlanta, I gotta give Arthur Smith

805
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: a little c at it, like there's six and seven.

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Speaker 1: If you would ask me before the season, I would

807
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Speaker 1: have given him four wins, five wins max, and you

808
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Speaker 1: know they'll probably end up seven and ten. Pretty respectable,

809
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: you know, pretty respectable first season from him. Uh. I

810
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Speaker 1: I expected them to be really, really bad. I expected

811
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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers to be better. And what we're seeing

812
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Speaker 1: is now Matt Rule. It feels like he runs more

813
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: button up operation, just a nicer guy, even though I

814
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Speaker 1: had people in college football tell me not that he's

815
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Speaker 1: not a good guy to deal with as a scout,

816
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: but I think it can be really hard on the

817
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Speaker 1: people that work for him. And listen on the Urban

818
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: Meyer thing, there's nothing wrong with making people that work

819
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Speaker 1: for you, coaches, you know, anyone under you a little

820
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at times if you don't feel they're doing a

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Speaker 1: good enough job. That's that's that's what happens in high

822
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Speaker 1: level businesses. People should feel uncomfortable. Hell I feel uncomfortable

823
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Speaker 1: every day, and it's just self inflicted. Like being uncomfortable

824
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: is healthy in any competitive business. But when you treat

825
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Speaker 1: people like just you're just a full an asshole and

826
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Speaker 1: you're not getting it done. That's why I was difficult

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Speaker 1: or hard on urban Meyer because he's making it difficult

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Speaker 1: to like wrap your head around, like Urban, what are

829
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Speaker 1: you bringing the table where? I do think Matt Rule,

830
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Speaker 1: people like them, people like being around him, but I

831
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: don't see how they get any better anytime soon. They

832
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: just have no quarterback. I mean they're a franchise. The

833
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: earl's pointing down right now that their owner has a

834
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: lot of money, but I don't know what he does

835
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Speaker 1: to change it. And then lastly, Oregon, I would say

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Speaker 1: made a pretty shocking coaching higher. Dan Lanning is the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator UH for the Georgia Bulldogs. Works under Kirby

838
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Speaker 1: Smart And if you remember, if you listen to the

839
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Speaker 1: podcast I did with with Jake J Boy J Boy

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Speaker 1: Show checked that out, if you left college football is fantastic.

841
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: I asked him if he had to buy stock and

842
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: two guys. One was Lebby who is now the offensive

843
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,760
Speaker 1: coordinator from Oklahoma, who Jeff Levy who was Lane Kiffins

844
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator who Bret Venables just hired, and Dan Lanning

845
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Speaker 1: who was Kirby's defensive coordinator. Both of them were making

846
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: a over a million dollars at uh you know, coaching

847
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Speaker 1: at George. You I think Landing made one point to

848
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Speaker 1: five that's how much of thirty five year old defensive

849
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: coordinator in the SEC. One point to five and Levy

850
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: was making like a million dollars. Both of them are

851
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, call in place, but both guys worked for

852
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, Landing works for a defensive head coach in

853
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: Kirby and obviously Lanes and offensive head coach. My first

854
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: reaction when they hired Dan Landing was, it's a pretty

855
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: big swing because you guys know where I stand about

856
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 1: regionally with college coaches in the pros. It does not matter.

857
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: If if Oregon was Seattle Seahawks and they were hiring

858
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: a guy from Georgia, you know, the Atlanta Falcons, I

859
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: would not care. It doesn't matter. But in college it

860
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: does because ultimately you hire a guy he has success

861
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: he leaves you for the SEC, which that would mean

862
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: you're doing well. Because I was texting with a buddy

863
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,760
Speaker 1: in the SEC that scouts the SEC for the NFL,

864
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: and I said, do you know where I would compare

865
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: Oregon to They are our l s U out West,

866
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: because SC is our Alabama, right, it's our It's a

867
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: really our premium brand. But Oregans not far behind, and

868
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: their expectations are just like s C. You know, they're

869
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: competing for playoffs every every year. But it's not just

870
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: that eight and four is unacceptable. You cannot go eating

871
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: four and keep your job. You go six and six,

872
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: you might get fired. And this team, listen, they did

873
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: not take the easy route. The easy route would have

874
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: been hiring Chip Kelly, because Chip Kelly, who hates recruiting,

875
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: refuses to recruit. Well, Mario already did that. When Mario

876
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: left a couple of days after he went to Miami,

877
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: he did a radio interview with Oregon one of their

878
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: local radio stations. It might even have been in Portland,

879
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: which I gave Mario credit. He did not have to

880
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: do that. I would imagine Lincoln Riley, Brian Kelly, none

881
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: of those guys did that. So and listen, it's like

882
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: it's pretty low bar. Yeah, bars Low and Mario I get.

883
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: I give him some character credit points for that. And

884
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: the one thing he said, he said, whoever comes in

885
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: the cupboard is stalked because they have had elite recruiting

886
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: classes in a conference that doesn't have elite recruiting classes.

887
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: So if you got Chip Kelly, who just led U

888
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: C l A, they had the number one offense in

889
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: the Pact, well, he would have won next year. I'd

890
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: say there's a fifty fifty chance if they would have

891
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: hired Chip Kelly, they could have been in the playoffs

892
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty two. But it's a short term fix.

893
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: And anytime you think short term, I would say in

894
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: any business, you get yourself in trouble. When you know

895
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: a place like Oregon like they're thinking about the next five, ten,

896
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: twenty years, Well this season is gonna matter. It's always

897
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: big picture. And I give them credit for not hiring

898
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: them because it would have been the easy thing to do.

899
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: But Chip doesn't like recruiting, so eventually you're recruiting would

900
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: have fallen off. And I think the one reason they

901
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: hired this guy because you work for Kirby Smart. You

902
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: worked for Nick Saban, you work at Ohio State, you

903
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: worked for Dabbo. You are recruiting. Recruiting is a big deal.

904
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: There's no you know, I don't really like it. That's

905
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: that's that's unacceptable. So they saw a guy they're taking

906
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: a swing on to be like a McVeigh, to be

907
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: like a Kyle Shanahan, to be that floor. But obviously

908
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: in college the differences. You don't get one draft pick

909
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: every round, you know, you get twenty scholarships. And they

910
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: think this guy will hold a similar bar as he's

911
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: held as the team that you could argue them in

912
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: Bama in Ohio State are the best recruiting your schools

913
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: right now in the nation. So it's very, very risky.

914
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's not from out here. He's

915
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: coaching the Pack twelve I think for one year at

916
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: Arizona State and he was like a quality control guy.

917
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: But they're swinging for the fences and they've done it before.

918
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't win, and when I say win,

919
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: if he doesn't win ten games next year, I think

920
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: people he will be on the hot seat. It's gonna

921
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: happen that fast. There is a ton of responsibility and

922
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: just pressure in this job. And it's not like that

923
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: most of the jobs out here. This job gets treated

924
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: like a Michigan, like Ohio State, like an l s U,

925
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: like in Alabama, like a Georgia, like a Florida. Just

926
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: and in fairness, this season, they should be treated like

927
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: that because their team is stacked. And I also saw

928
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: that the other guy's gonna hire to be his offensive coordinators.

929
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: Thirty one. Listen, I'm thirty seven years old. I am

930
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: pro young guys, but it's we've talked about like Lincoln

931
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: Riley has been a head coached now for five years,

932
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly has been a head coach like twenty eight years.

933
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: Like there's something to be said about experience. How Mark

934
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: christa ball now has been a coach at multiple different institutions.

935
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: Nick Saban's been a coach at Michigan State, at l

936
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: s U, at Miami, at Alabama like the first time

937
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: had coaching job. Just like anytime you do a job,

938
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: I don't care how much responsibilities behind it, but definitely

939
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: at the highest end of the totem pole. That's that's hard,

940
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: that there's a new pressure that you're not used to

941
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: feeling right. Mario is going to Miami. There's pressure on

942
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 1: him to win and recruit, but he knows the pressure

943
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: of sitting at the you know, top of the table,

944
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: having everyone look at him like he's used to being

945
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: a head coach. This guy's used to being a number two.

946
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: Write a number two at a institution and a program

947
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: where the head coach is a defensive guy by nature.

948
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: So even if they're allowing him to call the plays,

949
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: you better believe Kirby Smart is influencing the game plan.

950
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 1: So I I give Oregon credit for swinging for the fences. Uh.

951
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: I don't love the regional fit, but I appreciate that

952
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 1: it didn't go the easy ride with Chip Kelly because

953
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: I think big picture, short term it would have worked.

954
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: Big picture would have been a big mistake. Okay, let's

955
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: diving in the middle. Cufmail back at John middlecoff is

956
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: the Instagram d MS wide open and uh firing and

957
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: asked me the questions. So let's start with Weston, longtime listener,

958
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: big Texas football fan. But I haven't seen us win

959
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: a Natty since I was in sixth grade. Damn, you're

960
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,280
Speaker 1: a young cat, bro I was. I was in college.

961
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: I was probably a sophomore. June I was a junior.

962
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: It would have been my third year cal Pauly. I

963
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: remember watching it with a couple of USC fans. That

964
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: game was crazy. Man. I lived at three or six

965
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: Hathaway drinking beers Monday night. That game was sweet. As

966
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: far as we know, Mac Brown isn't a high level coach,

967
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: and we've cycled through three coaches since we've been gone

968
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: with low success. What's the biggest issue facing Texas coaching players?

969
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: As far as we know Mac Brown, he was pretty

970
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: damn good when he was with you guys. I mean

971
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: you guys had he had great assistant coaches, he was

972
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: recruiting at an elite level. Mac that in his peak

973
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: at Texas the early two thousands, mid two thousand's, he

974
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: was good. So I wouldn't say that he's been much

975
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: better than anything you've had. I'd say the biggest issue

976
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: you have currently is your head coach? In what world?

977
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: And listen it sounds like I'm I have. I don't

978
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: have no issue with Sark. Like I listen, I probably

979
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: I would say drink beers. I don't even know if

980
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: he's allowed to drink, But I hang out with the guy.

981
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: But I just don't think he's a great head coach.

982
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: I'd want him as my offensive coordinator in college, for sure.

983
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: If I was Kirby Smart, I'd be all over him.

984
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,919
Speaker 1: Like can you imagine if Kirby Smart had Stark asked

985
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: Nick Saban how that went? He's a great offensive court

986
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: as a head coach, I just don't see it. So

987
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: I just I don't think you'll be able to be

988
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: good with him as your head coach going into the SEC.

989
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: Start going to the SEC. You have to play defense

990
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: in the SEC. I just don't see Sarks teams playing defense.

991
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: Players are not going to be your issue. Like you

992
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: you guys get players now, they don't develop when you're there.

993
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: That's a problem. But the talent in your backyard is

994
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, plentiful, and but it's gonna be more difficult

995
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: you go into the SEC, you know, because Oklahoma, Texas

996
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: A and m Alabama comes there, l s U comes there.

997
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: It's just you know, I don't know. I I think

998
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: your coach is just pretty average, to be honest with you,

999
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: that's I think that's your number one issue. And like,

1000
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: I don't know enough. Sure many of you listening that

1001
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: that live in Texas or follow the program more closely.

1002
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: I've just always heard this from the outside. A lot

1003
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: of cooks in the kitchen, you know, a lot of

1004
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: boosters feel there the owner of the program, A lot

1005
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: of people. The answer to that can be challenging, and

1006
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: that's why Mac was good. Mac is a natural politician,

1007
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: big a politician. The NFL is irrelevant, like Urban is

1008
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: a politician, but he but he can't. No one gives

1009
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: a fuck. It's like, bro, this Sunday, you win or

1010
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: you lose. We just want you to win games. You

1011
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: don't need to go to boost your club meetings. You

1012
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: don't need to rally the troops. Just win games. The

1013
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: only troops you need to rally as your team the

1014
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: fan base. They'll follow you when you win. In the pros.

1015
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: In college football, you gotta play Kate to the people

1016
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: cutting the check. It's kind of a pain. And you

1017
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: gotta the parents of the kids. It's you gotta be

1018
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: a politician. I would be terrible at it. I you know,

1019
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: if I was a coach, I would have to be

1020
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And I think Sark actually has some

1021
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: ability to do that, But I don't think he has

1022
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: the ability to coach. So yeah, that'd be my number

1023
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: one issue for the pod uh Niners in trouble if

1024
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: they don't get to ten wins if the Eagles are

1025
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: Washington and Minnesota and New Orleans because head to head

1026
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: thrown out and the Niners loose tiebreakers. If they all

1027
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 1: finished nine and eight, especially if Seattle adds to the mix,

1028
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,240
Speaker 1: a loss to Atlanta may actually eliminate the Niners unless

1029
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: they went three and oh. This assumes the Saints go

1030
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: three and oh, phill your Washington go three and one,

1031
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: Minnesota goes three and one. Well, here's what not what

1032
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,439
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen. The football team is not going

1033
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: three and one. They don't have that capability with hin

1034
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: a key. The Eagles are probably not gonna go three

1035
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,959
Speaker 1: in one either, Minnesota potentially could. The Saints are not either.

1036
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: So the Niners to me are gonna be ten and seven.

1037
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: I think the seven seed is nine and eight. It's

1038
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: probably one of these teams. If I had to bet

1039
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: right now, I would probably bet on the Eagles. But

1040
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: if the Niners lose to Atlanta, then someone should get fired. Uh.

1041
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: You in calarative really facilitated my interests in the National

1042
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: Football League. My question is regarding kickers. With so many

1043
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: one possession games plus games that go to overtime, I

1044
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: think that having a clutch kickers very valuable. They have

1045
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: a direct impact on the outcome of games. If the

1046
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: next Vinitary or Tucker was entering next year's NFL draft,

1047
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: where would you draft them? I wouldn't hesitate to take

1048
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: them in the first round, obviously, not if your team

1049
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: was a ship house and needed a quarterback. They can

1050
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: literally be the difference between winning a Super Bowl or not.

1051
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. I you know, Justin Tucker was an

1052
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents remember Roberto Aguayo, most accomplished kicker in

1053
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: the history of college football. Jason light who is a

1054
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: legit general manager, drafted him, if I remember correctly, in

1055
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: the second round. In training camp he couldn't make a kick.

1056
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: They didn't even get to the season. He couldn't make

1057
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: kicks in training camp. When I was with the Eagles

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Speaker 1: my second year, we let David Ecker Acres walk. We

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00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: let David Acres hit free agency and he actually Hardbos

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00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: signed him and he went on to have one of

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00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: the greatest years of his career. But we drafted this guy,

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Speaker 1: not Derrick Henry, Alex Henry. I think his name was

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00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: this really accomplished kicker from Nebraska and like Aguayo. I

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00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: remember I had been in the league then for over

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Speaker 1: a year, so I had good feel for like a

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Speaker 1: training camp practice and what it kind of looked like.

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Speaker 1: I swear to God. By the third, I mean, this

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00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: was a pretty big story in Philly. He couldn't make

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00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: kicks in practice and everyone was kind of looking at

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Speaker 1: each other and kickers. It's not like alignment or a

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00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: slot receiver or a linebacker that like your position coaches

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00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: and your coordinators can really impact. What can your special

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Speaker 1: teams coach do when your kickers missing kicks? It's like

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00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: psychological warfare. So I I see what you're saying, But

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Speaker 1: you had never ever know who was going to be

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Speaker 1: an elite kicker. I think Adam Vina Terry, if I

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Speaker 1: remember correctly, is a undrafted free agent too. I know

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Speaker 1: Tucker is Adam Vina Terry, forty years old from South Dakota,

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent. So the two best kickers of the

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00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: last two decades are undraft the free agents. No one

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00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: knows these guys are gonna be that good it's not

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00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: like other positions because it doesn't translate. I hear what

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00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 1: you're saying, and I would agree if you knew Justin Tucker.

1084
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: Like if Justin Tucker was twenty five years old and

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00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: the football gods came down to your draft room and

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00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: they looked at you and they said, listen, you have

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00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna be Justin Tucker. Yes, you would

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00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: think about drafting me in the first round, but the

1089
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: reality is you wouldn't have to. You can take them

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Speaker 1: like the fifth because no one would take him. Bonus question,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on rugby? It's the number one

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Speaker 1: sport here by a mile. It's like a religion for us.

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00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: All my roommates in college played rugby. A lot of

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Speaker 1: respect for rugby. You gotta be a tough s ob

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00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,479
Speaker 1: to play rugby takes a lot of skill. I've always said,

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00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: if we focused on rugby in America, we dominate. But

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00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: our best athletes, you know, play basketball and football. Can

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00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: you imagine like Ray Lewis and Odell Beckham and you

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00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,959
Speaker 1: know Kareem Hunt, like you know Luke Keikley, think about

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Speaker 1: Ed Reid, some of these guys that they played rugby

1101
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 1: when they were like ten years old. Growing up, we'd

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Speaker 1: kick ass and take names. I say the same thing

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Speaker 1: about soccer and soccer guys like, it's just skill. I

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00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: get it. I've spent time in Spain and Italy and

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00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: you walk around and kids play soccer. If we did

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00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: that here, we would dominate. We dominate and everything we

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Speaker 1: put our mind to. It might sound like an American elitist.

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00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,439
Speaker 1: I am. You know, it's just because everything we've ever

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Speaker 1: really tried to do and got together as and you know,

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Speaker 1: politically now everything split. But sports is something we put

1111
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: a lot of effort into. We kick ass every sport

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00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: we've like, think about every sport, think about worldwide Soccer

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00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,959
Speaker 1: we never have because we don't. We don't care about

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00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: it enough. Golf we have best player ever Tiger Woods. Tennis.

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00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,320
Speaker 1: We probably argue that as Djokovic, but you know, Pete

1116
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: Samper's pretty accomplished, no big deal. Uh. Swimming, Michael Phelps, Yeah,

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00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: you know, baseball, international sport. Greatest player ever, you know,

1118
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: Barry Bonds. Yeah, you used to a rights but you

1119
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: see how far as home runs went? Uh? Basketball, Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 1: Lebron James. We just kick ass and take names I'm kidding,

1121
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: but not really. Uh. Last year it was painfully obvious

1122
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: that two teams needed quality running back. The Steelers use

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Speaker 1: their first round pick to solve their problem, but the

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00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: Bills seem to have ignored Their running back is by

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00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: far or have ignored that position, and their quarterback is

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00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: by far their best running option. How many of the

1127
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: issues we see with them would be solved with the

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Speaker 1: number one running back? And how different would they look? Yeah,

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00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: if I gave them Naji Harris, they would be a

1130
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: lot better. But I think sometimes here's the problem with

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00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: running back being devalued. You feel you can piece, you know,

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00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: kind of work it together. You can kind of patch

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00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: two or three guys, and sometimes that works, right, I

1134
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: have seen Shanahan's done it for years, But sometimes you

1135
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: just need a couple of dudes. Like I give the

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00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: Packers a lot of credit. They signed Aaron Jones and

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00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: they drafted Dillon High and those two guys kick ass

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00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: every single week. Right, Look at the Rams lost a

1139
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 1: guy and they have no run game, Like Seattle's missed

1140
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: on some picks and their run games sucks. Now, sometimes

1141
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: you can just hit on a guy an he's sweet

1142
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: right away, But sometimes it doesn't work that way. And

1143
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: if you go all in on one guy and that

1144
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 1: guy gets hurt Kamara Christian McCaffrey, you're kind of screwed.

1145
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: So I kind of like having a group or having

1146
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: a top guy. But then also I give the Vikings credit.

1147
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: They cook the second rounder, pay him, but then they

1148
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: also I think he's a third. Might have been a fourth,

1149
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: but I think it was a third on Madison. So

1150
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: like they have multiple running backs, you have to have

1151
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: multiple guys. It's such a violent position. It's such a

1152
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: physical position. And like to me, I'm not trying to

1153
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: toot my own horn, but I feel like I can

1154
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: scout a running back pretty easily. If you can't find

1155
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: running backs on your roster, you're scouting team is not

1156
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 1: doing a good job. Now, obviously the most important positions

1157
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: are quarterback, tackle, pass rusher, but like running backs, like

1158
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: you should be able to find those guys. That's you're scouting, salt,

1159
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: you're scouting staff, Like I'd argue, is you got a

1160
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: hole in it if you can't find some running backs. Now,

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00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: I like Zack Moss, but I wouldn't build my offense

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00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: around the guy. So I put that less on the

1163
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: coaching staff with the Bills and on the front office,

1164
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: like that's they've dropped the ball there a little bit.

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00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: And it might be I'd be lying if I've said

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00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: I've studied their offensive line. I know their left tackles good,

1167
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: but their garden center is that strong? Is their offensive

1168
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: line that good? Feels like it's not. Really I could

1169
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: be wrong. I'm not like a die hard Bills follower here,

1170
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: but they just feel a little off. The whole thing

1171
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: just feels a little off. I was watching some of

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00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: that game earlier day on the iPad. Brady made a

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00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: throw to Mike Evans I think, to make a one three.

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00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: It was just a remarkable play. I mean, you just

1175
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: talk about like that's why the guys the goat, that's

1176
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: why Mike Evans one of the best players in the league.

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00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: It was just like it was just that that play.

1178
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: Watch the touchdown corner of the end zone. I think

1179
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 1: Plawyer's covering him. It's just that play screams all pro,

1180
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: Elite Pro Bowl. That's a fifty million dollar play, a

1181
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: five million dollar quarterback that should be making forty and

1182
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollar wide receiver. That's that's a sixty

1183
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: million dollar play based on real value. But Brady keeps

1184
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: taking uh discounts, so his value he makes Jimmy g money,

1185
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: Uh not not Josh Allen money because he wants to

1186
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: load his team. He's no dummy because you guess what,

1187
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: you can make a lot of money when you win.

1188
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: You're very, very marketable when you win, you really are.

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00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: No one's a better example of that than Tom. Tom

1190
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: Brady is gonna be pretty cash so the day he

1191
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: dies because everyone views him as the ultimate winner. And

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00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: he took some pay cuts along the way, and it

1193
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: was all worth it because you get paid on the

1194
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: back end when you're a winner. When you're a loser,

1195
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: all you make is when you play. No one gives

1196
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: a shit about you after so winnings the only thing

1197
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: that should matter. Everything else follows. When you win. Everything follows,

1198
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: including the cash in bundles ask paidon Manning. He's been

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01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 1: printing it for twenty years because he won. You know,

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01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: we don't talk about losers. It's not the business we're in.

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01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: Don't have time, don't have the energy. Unless we talk

1202
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: about loser coaches when they get fired, and then we

1203
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: make fun of them. Unless I'm friends with them, and

1204
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: then I just avoid talking about them. I see you bears,

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01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: have a good week. Talk to you guys later. Uh,

1206
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast, send it to your friends and

1207
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,479
Speaker 1: uh and yeah, enjoy Christmas right around the corner. Get

1208
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: in the spirit, get yourself some presents to give out.

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01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: I need to get some presents to give to my

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01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:41,439
Speaker 1: family and friends. I haven't ordered any. I think about

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Speaker 1: sending out a group tex Actually, like, don't eat, let's

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01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: go no presents this year. Just do hugs and cocktails

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01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: and food. Can we just do that? Like, especially if

1214
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: you get into a family. I understand if you got

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01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: little kids, but if if everyone's you know, over thirty

1216
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: years old and your parents are sixties and their seventies, Like,

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01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Can we just give our love?

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01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 1: Can we spend some time? Do we really have to

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01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: get presents that most of us don't even want to

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01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: each other. Unless you have a sweet present, then you

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01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: can always give that. I will never I'll never talk

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01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 1: to about a sweet you know, a sweet present. And

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Speaker 1: obviously the kids, you gotta you gotta take care of

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Speaker 1: the kids. It's Christmas is for the kids. Audios. The

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