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Speaker 1: the middle of the day. What I repeat, what a weekend?

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Speaker 1: Uh that there's really just for the majority of this show,

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Speaker 1: And I was I would imagine if you're listening to show,

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Speaker 1: there's really only one big topic. I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: hit it on every angle possible, from Andrews, from the

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Speaker 1: it's just a bombshell story we don't get you know

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Speaker 1: that often it's it's an all timer, you know, in

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Speaker 1: my mind and in my thirty four years of life,

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Speaker 1: and probably you know, I don't even count like the

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Speaker 1: It's it's one of the crazier But I think when

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Speaker 1: you dive in, and I will, it's not maybe as

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Speaker 1: crazy as we think. We'll touch on Chris Ballard, who

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big fan of. I don't know

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Speaker 1: him personally, like Colin. You know, I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that know him well, from coach Read to

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Speaker 1: so we'll dive into him. I mean, there might not

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Speaker 1: be a better guy. Tass was kind of saving. The

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Speaker 1: franchise is probably too strong because they're already pretty equipped.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't like the Arizona Cardinals roster. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then the ripple effect for the players, you know

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Speaker 1: go around just some different things. I saw this weekend,

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Speaker 1: some preseason stuff. The Miami Florida game. God, I love

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Speaker 1: I love the SEC, and I include in the SEC Miami,

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Speaker 1: But God, I love Southern football. I mean it's something

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Speaker 1: I really am. Now we take our pro football. I

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Speaker 1: will be like, oh, you're just a bunch of hippie liberals,

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Speaker 1: you know. I'll tell you this football is a king

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Speaker 1: So I'm jealous how big college football is. And then

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Speaker 1: the hardest person to judge in life, not personally but

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Speaker 1: big like I've already seen this guy be handed a

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Speaker 1: ship sandwich and come out with a chicken salad like

427
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Speaker 1: we we just saw that happen last year. Now, this

428
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Speaker 1: I would say, is much more difficult because it's it's

429
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Speaker 1: easier to find a coach, just just a just a

430
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Speaker 1: functional offensive coach than it would be you know, superstar quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But I think if anyone can figure it out one

432
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 1: he already, like I said earlier, he has Jacobe already there,

433
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Speaker 1: who they feel confident of, who he traded for a

434
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And I saw Frank today say

435
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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that he acquired this guy before I

436
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Speaker 1: even got here, because where would we be if we

437
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Speaker 1: just had a couple undrafted free agents. But I truly

438
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Speaker 1: believe like the best people their their careers are defined

439
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: when it starts going wrong. That's when they kind of

440
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Speaker 1: rise above it. And when I said earlier that Lebron

441
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 1: was driven by money, he wasn't always that way. For

442
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Speaker 1: a long period of time, he was driven to win,

443
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Speaker 1: and I think that helped drive him to become one

444
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Speaker 1: of the best players ever. Never forget he was getting

445
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 1: mocked and laughed at from being a choke artist, and

446
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: he just kept he kept driving, he kept driving, and

447
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: he finally got there, and he finally did. Now he

448
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,719
Speaker 1: got to the point where he's just like, whatever, I've

449
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Speaker 1: won three I'm never gonna get sick cause it's all

450
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Speaker 1: about the money. Which that's that's his prerogative. Where Chris

451
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 1: Ballard now to me, has by far the most game

452
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Speaker 1: because one I think he's already put together a pretty

453
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Speaker 1: good team. So Jacoby might be able to win eight

454
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Speaker 1: nine games just with this team if they were to

455
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Speaker 1: go nine and seven this year with Jacoby Brissett. When

456
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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retired two weeks before the season. Now, again,

457
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna play anyway. Just but given the you know,

458
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Speaker 1: kind of the nuclear bomb that went off of just

459
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Speaker 1: that retirement and how that impact the locker room, that

460
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 1: would be incredible. It would speak to the locker room

461
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Speaker 1: that Chris Ballard is built. And then it would also

462
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Speaker 1: speak that he was able to pivot when Josh mcgannels

463
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Speaker 1: left him at the altar and find a credible coach

464
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Speaker 1: to coach his team. And three, he's loaded with assets.

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Speaker 1: He's got a ton of draft picks. I think he

466
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Speaker 1: has two second rounders this year in the first rounder,

467
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Speaker 1: and if he needs to, and this is a year

468
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Speaker 1: where there's gonna be quarterbacks in the draft. If Jacoby

469
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Speaker 1: is not that guy, Let's say they go seven and nine,

470
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Speaker 1: it's clear Jacoby's is not gonna be good enough to

471
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Speaker 1: be a starting quarterback. He can get aggressive, he can

472
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Speaker 1: go up and get a quarterback because when you look

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Speaker 1: around the NFL, a lot of teams have young quarterback

474
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Speaker 1: right now. So and some of them are gonna be terrible.

475
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Speaker 1: Like I got news for you, The Arizona Cardinals are

476
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Speaker 1: gonna stink. They're not gonna be very good. The Buffalo

477
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Speaker 1: Bills or the New York Jets, one of those teams potentially,

478
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Speaker 1: you know, could be drafting in the top five. I

479
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: don't think so, but you never know. Well, those teams

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Speaker 1: are drafting a quarterback, so you just you just look

481
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Speaker 1: around the league. The majority of teams have a guy.

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Speaker 1: Have a guy, so he can get aggressive as he

483
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Speaker 1: has if he has to. But I'm betting on him

484
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Speaker 1: because I've seen him in just a disastrous situation handle

485
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Speaker 1: himself with dignity class and then execute. Like I, I

486
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Speaker 1: don't even put that much stock into the way he

487
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: conducted himself, Like I I admire that, but at the

488
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Speaker 1: end of the day, that doesn't matter if you don't execute.

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Speaker 1: He execute, So why would I not think, like, yeah,

490
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Speaker 1: there's only one Andrew Luck alive. I mean there's been

491
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Speaker 1: one Andrew Luck, maybe two since Elway, Peyton Manning and

492
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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. So is he gonna find the next Andrew?

493
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Speaker 1: Probably not. But can he get a high level starter

494
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Speaker 1: in the draft or somehow through a trade. Why not.

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Speaker 1: He's proven to be one of the better general managers

496
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Speaker 1: in the and I've seen him like a lot of

497
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Speaker 1: gms have just handled had success most of their time,

498
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: like John Snyder. They've been pretty successful for the last

499
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: eight years like his worst year. As he said, two

500
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Speaker 1: years ago we went nine and seven. It felt like

501
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Speaker 1: we went two and fourteen. You know Howie Roseman is

502
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Speaker 1: a great example. He became a GM at the time,

503
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Speaker 1: I think the youngest general manager in the league, and

504
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Speaker 1: the Michael Vick Andy didn't work out and he gets

505
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Speaker 1: let go. Chips comes in. They just hired the wrong guy,

506
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Speaker 1: Chips and nut job. How he gets demoted, gets demoted,

507
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Speaker 1: thrown to the other side of the room when it's

508
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Speaker 1: clear how he's the more capable one than Chip looking back, honestly,

509
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Speaker 1: not even close. And how he would tell you right

510
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Speaker 1: now he's way better off for that experience. Think about

511
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Speaker 1: that now again, they were lucky they were able to

512
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Speaker 1: go up and get Wentz. But I do think the

513
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Speaker 1: Ballard if there is that situation with Herbert to uh,

514
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be quarterbacks and there's some you know that

515
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Speaker 1: kid at Utah stage getting a lot of hype love

516
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Speaker 1: from at Georgia. We'll see how good he is. Like

517
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna be guys if they even need one, because

518
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Speaker 1: they do have a guy that's gonna get a year chance.

519
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: And I saw that Orlowski dani Orlowski had a great

520
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Speaker 1: tweet that a coach told him a long time ago,

521
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Speaker 1: And I think this speaks for most guys in the

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Speaker 1: league besides like twenty superstars quarterbacks and then a couple

523
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: like Julio Jones, Khalil mactype players a lot of times.

524
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Speaker 1: And the majority of players in this league are not stars,

525
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: their role players or they're just functional starters. But you're

526
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: gonna get one opportunity. You're gonna get one big opportunity,

527
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Speaker 1: like you're gonna get a chance to start a regular

528
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Speaker 1: season game. I'm not I'm not even talking quarterbacks, but

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Speaker 1: you better be ready to throw a haymaker when you

530
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Speaker 1: get your chance throw a haymaker. And I think he

531
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Speaker 1: has a guy that's kind of uniquely equipped in Jacoby,

532
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Speaker 1: that's played a lot, that has experienced, has been in

533
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Speaker 1: the franchise a lot. So they're not trading for some

534
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Speaker 1: random guy two weeks before who's just ready to throw

535
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Speaker 1: a haymaker. We're gonna see this guy's best. Now may

536
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Speaker 1: turn out his best might not be good enough, but

537
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Speaker 1: it may turn out, you know what, you can win

538
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: with this guy. Maybe he's Kirk Cousins, who knows I'm

539
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: not comfortable even trying to guess what he is. Kind

540
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: of like him, kind of don't, but I haven't really

541
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Speaker 1: watched him that much. This year. I'll be able to

542
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Speaker 1: judge him, and Chris Ballard will be able to judge him,

543
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: and if he's not the guy, he'll pivot. And this

544
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: is a guy that he spoke with his head coach

545
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: to the team today. I'm just betting on him handling

546
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: it because I've seen him handle these situations before. He's

547
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: clearly a high level guy, and he's built a good team,

548
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: a well rounded team. So I actually kind of still

549
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: like the Colts. Okay, let's get into the ripple effects

550
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: that this decision is ultimately going to have on the

551
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 1: league and specifically the a f C. Because when we

552
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: looked at football post Brady, right, because Brady's forty two

553
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: years old and Big Ben's thirty seven, Rivers is going

554
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: to be thirty eight this year, these guys are getting

555
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: up there in age right. Obviously, Russell Wilson cam other division.

556
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Speaker 1: A lot of younger players you know him, Golf to

557
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: WinCE to Dak to Jimmy, a lot of other guys

558
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 1: are in the other division. So when you look at

559
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: the a f C. I think most of us thought

560
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: that once Brady and Belichick maybe they never were gonna quit.

561
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Speaker 1: But eventually, I got news for you, They're not gonna

562
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Speaker 1: be there forever right there, not just on like a

563
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: lifetime scholarship of Brady. He's forty two years old. So eventually,

564
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Speaker 1: and I love Tom Brady again, I'm going to include

565
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: him now moving forward in my Jordan's Brady and Tiger,

566
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: they played to win. That was their number one goal.

567
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: They had other goals they like, you know, Tiger likes women.

568
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: Some of these guys like their money. They're like Jordan

569
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: likes his gambling. They got other things they like. But

570
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: their number one goal is winning. But eventually his number

571
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: one goal is gonna be He's just too old to

572
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: keep playing. Now Belichick, who knows. I mean, he is

573
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: sixty seven years old. He's gonna coach at seventy five?

574
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: Probably not, but I guess you never know. But let's

575
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: just assume that dynasty, I wouldn't say comes to an end,

576
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: because Belichick could keep coaching for seven or eight more years,

577
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: but Brady will be done and they will have to transition.

578
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: So you would have said that God the culture position.

579
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: If Andrew Luck can stay healthy to be dominant, to

580
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Speaker 1: be would be them in the Chiefs White would be

581
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: the two teams that you're like Mahomes and Andy, I

582
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: mean he They have to be the biggest winner yesterday

583
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: in this whole entire ordeal that they got rid of

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck because Ballard, you know the Chiefs are will

585
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: really well run their team. Just watching them against the

586
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,479
Speaker 1: Niners the other night, they would have destroyed them if

587
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: it was a real game. They're gonna be really really

588
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Speaker 1: good this year, like really good, and they're gonna be

589
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: good for a while. Uh. That they have a guy

590
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: I got, I got news for you. The hyper on

591
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: Mahomes might even be understated. He is the truth. But

592
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: they don't have Luck to go through anymore. And Brady

593
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: eventually is gonna be gone. So when you look at

594
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: the a f C, you go, I like Sam darn

595
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Speaker 1: a lot and I like Adam Gaze. They got Joe Douglass,

596
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: but it's gonna take them a little time. Uh, Josh

597
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: Allen rooting for the guy. Sean McDermott's a defensive coach again,

598
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: solid team, but are they keeping anyone up at night?

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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: I would say the big curveball in this whole group

600
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: would be Baker and Freddie. And I think Baker and

601
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: the team is gonna be good. But Freddie, I I

602
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: got news for you, he's a major question mark right now.

603
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: I got no clue if he's good or not right now.

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00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: I tend to leave it's gonna be a challenge for him. Ben,

605
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,959
Speaker 1: like I said, is thirty seven years old, so that

606
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: that's gonna They're gonna eventually have to pivot to a

607
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: new quarterback and it's just hard. I don't take the

608
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: Ravens that seriously. When you look at the ANFC South,

609
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: the Titans don't even know if Marriott is good. Fools

610
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: is an older player. He's like a really really expensive bridge.

611
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: You know, it could be good for a couple of years,

612
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: but he's not like some dynasty there off Nick Foles, uh,

613
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I would throw him in the mix. His

614
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: problem is their offensive line is terrible. They do not

615
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 1: have a general manager. Say that out loud. They don't

616
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Speaker 1: have a general manager. Then you look at the a

617
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: f C West, you go, well again, River is gonna

618
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: be thirty eight this year. Mahomes is the lead dog

619
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: right now in the pack with with luck on of

620
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: everyone under thirty. Uh, Derek hard Gruden major question mark. Uh,

621
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Speaker 1: this is a big year for him. They technically could

622
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: resurrect like this. They could be a group next year

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Speaker 1: that I go. You gotta take them seriously. They still

624
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: have a long way go. Their defense is atrocious. They

625
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: don't really have playmakers there. Their pass rush is awful.

626
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is a major wild card. He could dominate

627
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: where he could quit at any moment. Then you look

628
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: at the Broncos, You go, well, Fandel's a defensive coach.

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Speaker 1: Their defense is gonna be good. But Flacco is I

630
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: mean Joe Flacco, And of course he is, I mean

631
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: that's literally his name. But he's not that great of

632
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: a player. And the guy they draft in the first

633
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: round their head coach is even admitted he's a mile

634
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: away from doing anything. And the Chargers don't really have

635
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: a backup plan behind Philip Rivers. So to me, the

636
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 1: a f C, the ripple effect on actual the teams

637
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: there and the road post Brady just opened up like

638
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea led by Mahomes and Andy. Like to me,

639
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: now they're in the driver's seat if they do this

640
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: right to not just win, but kind of consistently win.

641
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: And I know Colin has called them the next dynasty. Uh,

642
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's hard to tell because you never know.

643
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: You need other players like it is, as we've seen

644
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: with Brady and Belichick, they have been dependent on the

645
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: Edelman you know, Hall of Fame competitor, Gronk, Hall of Famer,

646
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: mccordy just a stud. Uh. They've found very good front

647
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: seven guys over the years. They have an unreal leader

648
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: slash special teamer. So to create a long term dynasty.

649
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: And I always say this about especially the Patriots post

650
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: you know two thousand tennis, they have a core group

651
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: of guys and they kept them together so that that

652
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: will be key for you know, Mahomes to do that,

653
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: and it looked like that's what was so crazy about

654
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: the culture. Like God, they got a kind of a

655
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: young core, quitted Nelson looks like he's gonna be a star.

656
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton's a stud. They have luck if they

657
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: get Darius Leonard, like they were gonna have a core

658
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: of four or five super high character, tough guys. I

659
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: know that corner they drafted from Temple looks to be

660
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: really good. That all went out the window. That's that's

661
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: the sad part. The other thing, I see a lot

662
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: of people talking about that this will lead to more

663
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: players retiring, and I'm just gonna call bullshit on that, because, like,

664
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: like I talked about early that this was a unique situation.

665
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: This is a player that might be the smartest player

666
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: in the league. That includes coaches, that includes players, that

667
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: includes contract negotiators. This guy is brilliant. Brilliant. As he

668
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: told people in his interviews at the Combine, his hobby

669
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: was reading. As someone that wished he could read more,

670
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: I have to do audio books. I just for whatever reason,

671
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: why a d D. I can't sit there for a

672
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: book long. And that's that's a character fly. I wish

673
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: I was better at at that. I'll be the first

674
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: to tell you become and probably most people listening that

675
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: read know this. You've become a lot smarter when you read.

676
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: Like it's a it's it's a pretty it's not a

677
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: complicated formula like, oh, how do you gain intelligence? Just read, read, read,

678
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: and read, and you will become smart. And Andrew Luck

679
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: has been rattling off books probably since he could walk.

680
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: So the guy is brilliant. But here's the main kicker

681
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: here is he has ninety seven million dollars right now,

682
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: and he's twenty seven million dollars. This is not the NBA.

683
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: These big contracts do not get thrown out. So you

684
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: have to be a quarterback. So maybe another quarterback walks away.

685
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: But the curveball, I would be, well, they've never protected

686
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: these guys better. You can't hit him. You can't hit

687
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: him in practice. They don't really practice, they don't play

688
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: in preseason games. Then in the regular season they're very protected. Now.

689
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: Could we see it in years past when guys you know,

690
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: are in their early thirties and are kind of breaking

691
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: down and they've banked million for sure, and this is

692
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: I think that makes the league a little nervous moving forward.

693
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to start getting anywhere close

694
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: beside maybe quarterbacks given out these NBA type salaries. Because

695
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: if I was twenty eight years old and I was

696
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: worn down from football and I already had eighty million

697
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: dollars in the bank, and I was a middle linebacker.

698
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: Let's just say I'm Luke Keikley and I'm twenty nine

699
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: years old and I've already banked let's say the contracts

700
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: in the next CBA the equivalent of Louke Keekley. He

701
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: signed a ninety million dollar deal. Screw it. I'll play

702
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: it out and I'm out. You know. I played my

703
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: rookie contract to play my next contract four years, have

704
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: eight years in the league, and I leave if I'm

705
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: beat down, you know. But there is something in any

706
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: human there's a competitive nature, just in our society, right.

707
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: That's the great part about capitalism. It's competition. I start

708
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: a business. You can start a business to try to

709
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: take me out. It's no different football. Someone's coming from

710
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: my job. I want to keep the job. Why do

711
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: I want to keep the job? One just the competitive nature.

712
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: I want this job to a lot of people in

713
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: the league love to play football because it is so

714
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: difficult to play. You practice infinitely more than you play.

715
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: It's the by far of the three major sports, the

716
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: most mentally draining sport you spend. You ever hear like,

717
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: oh yeah in basketball, for during training camp, they had

718
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: weeks of meetings. You notice that you hear about in

719
00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: football meetings, watching film in meetings, meeting meetings. Meetings like

720
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: those are tedious. Those are mentally challenging the play have

721
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: to learn the playbook, have to learn the adjustments to

722
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: the playbook, then have to do it on the practice field.

723
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: In basketball, you just play and then you get to

724
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: implement stuff through the games. In baseball, you never practice,

725
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: like you might take batting practice before the game, but

726
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: you just play. In football, you just practice practice, practice practice.

727
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: You spend your entire off season just practice, practice, practice practice.

728
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: Then you spend the entire month of August practice practice practice.

729
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: If you're a starter, you may get twenty snaps, depending

730
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: on who you play, who you play for, and then

731
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: during the regular season you play sixteen games. I think

732
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: how many practice you have. You practice every Wednesday, you

733
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: practice every Thursday, and you practice every Friday. So if

734
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: there are seventeen or sixteen weeks times and plus you

735
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: do something on Saturday, usually kind of a lighter walkthrough.

736
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: So you're talking three and a half practice. I don't

737
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: have a calculator in front of me, but I guess

738
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: I can pull it up on my phone. You're talking

739
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: a lot of work, and I think a lot of

740
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: these guys in the league kind of like it. In again,

741
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: like they said, mad Man, that's why they pay you

742
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: the money would Ray Lewis say, you pay me Monday

743
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: for Saturday Sunday you get for free. Like the games

744
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: that there is nothing like a football game. The longest

745
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: I ever played was the high school and there was

746
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: nothing like walking out on the football field if it

747
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: was only two thousand people in Davis, California. And then

748
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: working in college football, I remember going to Fresno State

749
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: and going out to a game our first game, I

750
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: think it was a home game against Wisconsin. There was

751
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: forty thousand people there. The NFL is it's and definitely

752
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: players from the SEC and some of the bigger you know,

753
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: Big ten, big twelve. Then there's nothing like the NFL.

754
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough the team I was with was

755
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: it's a unique fan base. Home game in Philly in

756
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: a big game is special, just like I've been to

757
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: a ton of Raider games. Now most of them haven't

758
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: been that big, but there's when you get a good

759
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: game at the coliseum, it was pretty sweet. I've been

760
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: to a ton of sweet games back when they had

761
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: candlestick for the forty niners. There's something there's just something

762
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: special about a football game. Why because you don't play

763
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: that many of them many people have been to an

764
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: NBA or even a professional baseball game. There's nothing really

765
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: that's special about it. Like you just you might go

766
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: into thirty Major League Baseball games in your career. You

767
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: you know, in your lifetime, you see some home runs.

768
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: You may not see some home runs, but most football

769
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: games you go do are a pretty big deal because

770
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: you know, they don't play that often. So this notion

771
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: that guys are gonna walk away, the sport is kind

772
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: of uniquely equipped to keep guys around just because the

773
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 1: carrot in front of their you know, what they're working

774
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: for is so special. It really is that there is

775
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: nothing like a game and it and it pays a premium.

776
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: Like Luck made so much money. But if you're a

777
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: guy that's only made ten million, then you factor in

778
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: Asian FEGI, factor in taxes, so you got a decent

779
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: chuck of change. You're ahead of the game. You know,

780
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: if you retire at eight, but you got three or

781
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: four million in the in the bank, you're still only

782
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: three years old, Like, you gotta do something. And then

783
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: you start realizing, God, no one's willing to pay me

784
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: anywhere near this in the real world. I kind of

785
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: gotta start from scratch. These these jobs are elite. You

786
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: could argue there there is not any profession quite like

787
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: the NFL because i'mlike, like basketball pays the most, but

788
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: there's a small percentage of people. There's a third of

789
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: the amount of people on an NBA roster is there

790
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: is an an NFL roster. So even the guys not

791
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: making that much money money in football, those jobs don't

792
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: exist in the other sports because because there's way more positions.

793
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: And I also got news for you football because the

794
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: way the sport is, it's about you know, toughness. Uh,

795
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: the size is not crazy size. You get guys that

796
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: quote unquote aren't great athletes, smaller school guys, undrafted free

797
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: agents on every team that make the NFL. You know,

798
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: you don't need to be Julio Jones to make the NFL,

799
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: you know, you really don't. I mean, think about the

800
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: amount of undrafted free agents from a cal Pawly to

801
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: North Texas to some little schools in Ohio that make

802
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: the league every year. Think about that guys that had

803
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: no scholarships out of high school, Like that's unheard of

804
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: in the NBA, unheard of Baseball maybe a little more

805
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: because it's a little more skill oriented. But in football,

806
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: you've got guys from everywhere making it to the league

807
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: all over the country. Little schools, big schools, you name it,

808
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 1: make it to the league every year. Guys to get dread.

809
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: It's the ultimate meritocracy. Guys that get drafted, they get cut.

810
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: As we'll see in later this week, a ton of fifth, six,

811
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: and seventh round picks will have been beat out by

812
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents from war schools. Happened. It's just it's

813
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,720
Speaker 1: a never ending cycle guaranteed to happen. So the ripple

814
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: effects on the on the league or strong, but I

815
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: actually think on the players it won't have an impact

816
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: at all. Okay, let's dive into just some weekend thoughts.

817
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: Things I saw this weekend, preseason games, college, whatever, and

818
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: we'll just hit on some different topics, starting with the

819
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: first one, Miami, Florida, which I think I read was

820
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: the highest rated opening day football game has ever been

821
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: on ESPN. I don't know if either of the teams

822
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be you know, maybe Floor does a nine

823
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: win team. My guess on Miami true freshman quarterback the

824
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: a SEC kind of sucks, probably seven or eight wins.

825
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: But but the NFL speed on that field was jaw dropping.

826
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm a West Coast homer. I wish the

827
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: Pack twelve was better. It's not. It's terrible right now.

828
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: It's the fifth best conference in the country. And they

829
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: just don't have the athletes on defense that you saw.

830
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Florida, if they got a good quarterback, they'd

831
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: be at eleven win team Miami is just a couple

832
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: of years away. Like they were headed in the right direction.

833
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 1: The speed in the SEC is the game changer. It's

834
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: the speed and the NFL players on defense at every unit, D,

835
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: line linebacker in dB, the speed and the violence in

836
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: which they play. And I thought Miami held their head

837
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: high and went toe to toe with them just in

838
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: terms of the physical nature. And I was impressed. But

839
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: I I include the SEC and I also include I

840
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: said so earlier, the three teams Clemson, Miami, and Florida State.

841
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: And I know Florida States a little down, Miami's a

842
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: little down. But when those schools are right, they get

843
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,479
Speaker 1: SEC level players. As as I've said many times, Phil

844
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: Savage told me Jimbo Fisher's advantage. You know, seven years

845
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: ago at Florida State was he recruited an SEC player

846
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: and he played in a SEC schedule. Same thing that's

847
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: happened to Dabbo. And that's the advantage that I think

848
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 1: that Miami and Florida State, if they get back on track,

849
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: they should be able to at least push each other.

850
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: And I do think that Miami true freshman quarterback will

851
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: be headed in the right direction. But man, you don't

852
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: need to be Bill Polian to realize there were some

853
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: NFL dudes on that field, and that just to go

854
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: from that game to Arizona Hawaii was like varsity playing

855
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: the first game and then j v playing the second game.

856
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney, Uh, it sure feels like he's gonna get traded.

857
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: I'll just be a little surprised when he does get traded,

858
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: or I guess anticipating, anticipating what they're gonna give up

859
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: for him, Like what is it gonna take to get

860
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney, because I know you're gonna have to pay them,

861
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: and that I did read yesterday because I've said before

862
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: that you can't pay him if you trade for him. Well,

863
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: if he signs his tender and then they trade him.

864
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: I guess that he can do that, even though I

865
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: thought the date already passed, And maybe I'm a little confused.

866
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: I'm not a cap expert, but I'm fascinating because they

867
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: won't sniff what the Bears got for clil Mac last year,

868
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: and the two first rounders and a third rounder not

869
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: a second rounder because it was a pick swap. I'm fascinating,

870
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: but it's all signs are pointing to him not being

871
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans too much longer. And Bill O'Brien, really,

872
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, screwed up on this one. You should have

873
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: traded him in March right when the league started, or

874
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: within the first couple of days like d Ford. Then

875
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: either get draft capital to use, get the cap space

876
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: to use, just you would have functional ability for this

877
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: season instead. More than likely, unless they get a player

878
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: for him, which I wouldn't say is out of the

879
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: realm of possibility, they're probably not gonna get much beside

880
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: draft picks and cap relief, which I don't know what

881
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: that does for you. On September one or whenever the

882
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: hell they end up trading him. Mahomes Jimmy, Uh, Jimmy's alive.

883
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: I didn't think Jimmy Garoppolo was great. Uh. I thought

884
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: he looked much more calm uh and he listen, he's

885
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: a good player. They just need to get his confidence back.

886
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: He's still a little rattled, but he made some big

887
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 1: time throws. Still made a couple of head scratching throws.

888
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw picks and that drives Kyle nuts. But

889
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy's alive. He's no longer gonna get cut. Uh. He's

890
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: no longer going to be benched for Nick Mullins. He's

891
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: still a good player. We witnessed it. Mahomes. Listen, I'm

892
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 1: trying not to live in the moment, be a prisoner

893
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: of the moment. You know, everyone's like middle Colf, so

894
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: much hyperbole. Mahomes is fantastic. He's elite. He is so good.

895
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: The hype on him is not even strong enough. He

896
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: could have thrown for four fifty yards against the forty niners.

897
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: He's a bad at ass. He he really is now

898
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: to me. His one flaw right now is being a

899
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: little reckless with his body when he scrambles. Uh. He

900
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: did it. I think in the first preseason game he

901
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: dove with the line of scrimmage in this one, he

902
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: had some crazy scramble where he ended up diving head first,

903
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: kind of left his ribs exposed. He's got to be

904
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: careful with that. That, to me, is his only flaw

905
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: right now, is being a little reckless with his body. Bro,

906
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: Just slide, get out of bounds, throw the ball. Why

907
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: you can't take unneeded hits. It's a hard balance he's got.

908
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: He's got some far v into him because he doesn't

909
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: give a damn. I mean he does not play scared,

910
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: which is awesome, but he's too valuable to quote unquote

911
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: be reckless. Uh. Keenum named the officially named the starter

912
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: for the Washington Redskins. What a debuckle the Redskins. Jay

913
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 1: Gruden is gonna be fired at the end of the season.

914
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: The Redskins are gonna be awful. Uh, It's just crazy.

915
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: What a what a train wreck that franchise is really,

916
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean it's really eye opening. How poor a franchise

917
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: and one of the biggest markets in America with some

918
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: great history is just consistently so terrible. Case Keenum, Like,

919
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: didn't we see that last year in Denver? What are

920
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: you guys doing? Uh? Rosen. I'll give Flora's credit he

921
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: has not named a starting quarterback. Watching a little bit

922
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: of Rosen in third preseason game, he made some plays.

923
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: It's a no brainer to me, Josh Rosen should be

924
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,919
Speaker 1: the starter for the Miami Dolphins. You traded a second

925
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: round pick for him, he was a first round er

926
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 1: a year ago. Just sink or swim with him, find

927
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: out what you have. Maybe you'll find out you have

928
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: a legit starting quarterback that's young and doesn't make that

929
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: much money. Maybe you'll find out he's not good enough.

930
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: But either away you will know. The one thing you

931
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: will not find or the one way that you won't

932
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: find any information out if he sits on the bench

933
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: behind Ryan Fitzpatrick. Well, what's the point of that. Fitzpatrick

934
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: is a fantastic backup. He's a good you know, great

935
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: to have if Rosen were to go down, great to

936
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: have just a men toward Josh. But you have to

937
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: play Josh Rosen. This is a no brainer. I saw

938
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: three plays in the preseason game from this weekend thinking,

939
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: come on, guys, what are we doing here? So hopefully

940
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: Flora's makes the right decision and then we just have,

941
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good weekend a college football games coming up,

942
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: this week. Maybe on Friday, I'll pick like three or

943
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: four of my favorite games, pick them against the spread

944
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: because I do love to gamble. I actually might go

945
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: to cal Vers UC Davis on Saturday. I love college football.

946
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: There's something special about the pageantry, about the student sections,

947
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: the band. Nothing like opening weekend. Great start with Miami

948
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: and Florida, but this should be. This isn't the great

949
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,439
Speaker 1: week when you look at the games, but it's better

950
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: than nothing, for sure. So I'm excited for uh. I

951
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: think games started on Thursday. Starting Thursday, we'll start getting

952
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: some legit football games. Okay, let's let's get to this

953
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: thing we like to call the middle Coff mail bag.

954
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: Slide up into my d m s Instagram at John

955
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: Middlecoff is my handle same as my Twitter account, and

956
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: do post videos there. My d MS on Instagram wide

957
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,720
Speaker 1: open you slide in. I answer your questions. Start with Jeff.

958
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: With most teams in the NFL having an established, veteran

959
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: or young quarterback, do you think the next few years

960
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: quarterbacks will be drafted lower due to lack of need

961
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: across the board? Interesting question here. The one curveball currently

962
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: in the league is the Steelers are gonna need a

963
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. Chargers are gonna need a backup quarterback. Think

964
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,280
Speaker 1: about some of the older teams. I mean, the Patriots

965
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: are a wild card, even though I know Stidham is

966
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: playing well right now. Uh to think some older you know,

967
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: the Packers are gonna need a quarterback. So you're gonna

968
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: get some of these teams that might pull a My

969
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Homes or an Aaron Rodgers, or they take a guy

970
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: in the first round and he sits. That would be

971
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: my guests of something happening. Uh like that. I love

972
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: the podcast. You and Colin are the two most informed

973
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: media people when it comes to football in my opinion, Sam,

974
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: I agree with question about call about cornerbacks. I've seen

975
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about some rookie corners Rocky on

976
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: sim the Colts guy, among others, being better in man

977
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: coverage than the zone. Just wondering how hard it is

978
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: to develop the zone coverage skill and if it's normal

979
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: for college cornerbacks to have strength playing one type of

980
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: coverage versus other, or is it a college issue where

981
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: some dcs don't scheme. Zone coverage is often the man

982
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: to man. I think it would tend to be an

983
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: individual program situation. Some programs run a lot of zonn

984
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: some programs run a lot of man. If you get

985
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: a saving corner, he's done a lot. Same with a

986
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: lot of the guys in the SEC run a lot

987
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: of different coverages. I think to make a general statement

988
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 1: would be impossible. I think it completely depends on the individual. Now,

989
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: some guys maybe at a school that runs a lot

990
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: of zone, but he has the physical attributes where he

991
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: could line up to be a good man corner, and

992
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: if he has good ball skills and he's fast, I

993
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: think it will translate. But they're gonna be some guys

994
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: that are man demand corners that if they don't have

995
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: good instincts, they might not be a good zone cover guy.

996
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: I think, beside quarterbacks, at least in my scouting life,

997
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: my years working in the league, and definitely in college

998
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: football and just watching football obviously really closely since the

999
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: last five or six years talking about it for a living,

1000
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: corners is a really hard position to evaluate. To project,

1001
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: uh that there are a lot of things that you know,

1002
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: maybe the tape doesn't show guys some guys, do you know.

1003
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: I was having this conversation a couple of weeks ago.

1004
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: How many corners come into the league that have poor

1005
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: ball skills that ever become a good corner. I think

1006
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: like an end all be all, like non starter for

1007
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: me with a corner. If you don't have good ball

1008
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: skills slash instincts, like you can't make plays on the ball,

1009
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to be a good corner, especially

1010
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: in man to man, but even a zone you have

1011
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 1: to have good instincts. It's probably a little bit different

1012
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: in zone because you're more like pattern matching, so you

1013
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: can put yourself in right positions, but you still have

1014
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: to make plays on the ball. I don't need you

1015
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: to be Odell Beckham catch the ball, but just make

1016
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: plays on the ball, break up passes and that that

1017
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: to me is a skill that's it's hard to find.

1018
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just not many good corners. It's why

1019
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: my theory is just load up on the defensive line,

1020
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: just have a lot of shitty corners and just try to,

1021
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, get fifty plus acts. I'm watching the Steeler

1022
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: game the other night. They were destroying the Titans. They

1023
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: don't have great dbs. It just brushed the pass. The

1024
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: same thing with the Chiefs I'm just I'm gonna get

1025
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: a lead because we're gonna score points. You're gonna be behind,

1026
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to throw, and I'm gonna have

1027
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: my edge rushers just tee off on you. That that

1028
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 1: would be my philosophy. I saw a report that there

1029
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: is no way the NFL will have four preseason games

1030
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 1: next year. Thoughts on having two preseason games eighteen weeks

1031
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: and two buys for each team, Well, I think that

1032
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: reports off because nothing's gonna change until the new cb A.

1033
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: So I would say that that's impossible, like that's just

1034
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Now. In two years, whever the

1035
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: cb A runs out, they're definitely gonna have a change,

1036
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, whether that's two preseason games to joint practices,

1037
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,319
Speaker 1: one preseason game and two mandated joint practice I don't

1038
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: know how they're gonna do it, but I think the

1039
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: day and age of four preseason games with the next

1040
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: c b A is dead. I think it's dead. But

1041
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: as I noticed as a media guy and as someone

1042
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: you know who thinks about content and distribution and it's

1043
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: just a fan of football, what do we do in

1044
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: the month of August? You know, I mean, if you're

1045
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,479
Speaker 1: if you're a baseball fan and your baseball team sucks,

1046
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: you're not really watching that much baseball. There's no basketball.

1047
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: There's a little golf on the weekends. But the NFL

1048
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: games throughout the month of August take inventory up before

1049
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: college football, So they get three weeks basically a content

1050
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: of the preseason games that we think suck. Really four

1051
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: I don't count the last that preseason game four where

1052
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: they just play all the scrubs where every team plays

1053
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: this Thursday. But those three preseason games are basically spread

1054
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: out every week, three straight weekends from Thursday to Monday.

1055
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: Like that takes a lot of space. It takes a

1056
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: lot of inventory for these networks that are in bed

1057
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: with the league. So I think it's somewhat complicated. I

1058
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: saw Bill O'Brien today said he had an idea where

1059
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: you go to preseason games and then you go to

1060
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: joint practices in you and you televise the joint practice,

1061
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: maybe mike up the coaches. That's not a terrible idea.

1062
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: I actually think it's one of the smartest ideas ever.

1063
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: You could probably do mandate two joint practices where they're filmed. Uh,

1064
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,959
Speaker 1: their TV products. You know, you picked two or three

1065
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: a week and you just put them on national television

1066
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: and then maybe one preseason game. I wouldn't be opposed

1067
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 1: to that college football question for the pod, and each

1068
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: of people are overlooking Penn State as a contender in

1069
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. They have three likely first rounders and

1070
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,280
Speaker 1: could have a top five overall d They have unknowns

1071
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: at quarterback, running back, and wide receiver. It's pretty big if,

1072
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: but upgrade talent and all those spots. They upgraded at quarterback,

1073
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: I mean they're a quarterback. Trace McSorley is good. I

1074
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: got you want to keep one a bold prediction for

1075
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: middle coffe here, Yeah, just one third person, keep an

1076
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,720
Speaker 1: eye on Trace McSorley being better than Lamar Jackson one day,

1077
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: Hammler and formouth our potential all Americans. They get Michigan

1078
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: at home, avoid Wisconsin, Nebraska and Northwestern in the West. Well,

1079
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: they've lost Sa Kuan Barkley. They've lost and obviously this

1080
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: is the second year without Say Kwan. They lost the

1081
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: quarterback with he is a flawed college player. But Trace

1082
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: McSorley is a winner. I like Trace McSorley. Now their

1083
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: coach can really recruit, So I don't know. I have

1084
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 1: to go and like look up all these guys. I'm

1085
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: not some die hard pen Stead guy, but James Franklin

1086
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: clearly crushes and recruiting. I think the question is like

1087
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: when they get Michigan, when they get you know, Ohio State,

1088
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: when they play in some of these big games, if

1089
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: they get it to the Big Ten championship game, can

1090
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: he out scheme those programs? Can he out scheme Wisconsin?

1091
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: You know? Can he out scheme Scott Frost? You know?

1092
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: Once the talent is relatively you know, equal, That's to

1093
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: me the knock on Franklin, because there's no disputing I

1094
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 1: always root for a bald guy. I like his energy.

1095
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: He can really recruit. Just Candy dial up place and

1096
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, John. I hear everyone always

1097
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: saying that numbers in little league football are declining and

1098
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 1: that football, overalls a sport, is waning. As a longtime

1099
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: football plant fan, I pray this isn't true. Yeah, I

1100
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: don't have kids, I can't speak on that. I have noticed, though,

1101
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: that local high school teams seem to have smaller rosters

1102
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,720
Speaker 1: than when I played. Do you think that the overall

1103
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: participation in football is waning, and if so, do you

1104
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: think that the sport is linked to fan interest in

1105
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: the sport? If so, do you think that is linked

1106
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: to fan interests in the sport? I think it has

1107
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: more to do with like, what is I'm a millennial whatever,

1108
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: the generation is older than me. You know that are

1109
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: now like forty five to fifty that have fifteen year

1110
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: old kids. Like if you're a fifth year old guy

1111
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: and you have a fifteen year old kid, I think

1112
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: there are a large percent to people that are a

1113
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,959
Speaker 1: little uneasy with CT and just the stories that they've heard,

1114
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: and I think there is something to be said about that.

1115
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 1: I know, like where I grew up in Davis, the

1116
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: rosters have been smaller, but a lot of kids play

1117
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: like you know, water polo, swimming, soccer. But we're kind

1118
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: of like we've always kind of had that. But I

1119
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: I don't know my pulse on high school football, and

1120
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: even even a youth football is not strong enough to

1121
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: have an informed opinion on this. I do know a

1122
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: decent amount of people between probably forty five and their

1123
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: early fifties, you know, with kids that are getting closer

1124
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: to high school, and they often ask me they go

1125
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: that is the ct you know, really like, is this

1126
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: something that I should be afraid of? Should I let

1127
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: my kids play football? So it's definitely a real conversation happening.

1128
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: Uh will it have you know, big impacts long term?

1129
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a question. I I don't have.

1130
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: I hope not, but you can't be disputed. And I

1131
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,720
Speaker 1: think the league has actively, you know, tried to change

1132
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: the sport and make it, you know, safer. I think

1133
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: they've actively tried to make it safe for these last

1134
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: four or five years. Do you think fantasy football has

1135
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: peaked in popularity now that more and more states are

1136
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: legalizing gambling. That's a good question. I I think fantasy

1137
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: is pretty unique because you get a squad, you get

1138
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: to play with your friends, you get to do it

1139
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: all year long. Gambling is kind of separate. Gambling something

1140
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: you do as an individual. I mean maybe you brag

1141
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: about with your friends, but you don't really get to

1142
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: like brag about with your wife, you know, like especially

1143
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: when you lose. I think they're kind of separate entities

1144
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: because I can enter a fantasy football league with my

1145
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: buddy for hunter bucks and be pretty entertained all season long. Now,

1146
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,280
Speaker 1: I'm not a big I'm a more of a daily

1147
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: fantasy guy than a long term fantasy guy. But I

1148
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 1: am a big gambler. Uh and I really I've never

1149
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: had the patience to do fantasy leagues. That's why I

1150
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: like daily fantasy. But daily fantasy and same with gambling.

1151
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't view them as the same thing. Though they

1152
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,840
Speaker 1: have some similarities because you're putting money up. But I

1153
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: don't know. I would say that they won't have that

1154
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: much impact or direct, you know, correlation of one getting

1155
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,479
Speaker 1: hurt based on the other. I I think they'll both

1156
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: be fine. I don't think fantasies peaked. Actually, question for

1157
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: the mail back how much of andrew lux retirement is

1158
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: solely centered on the Colts organization failing to protect him

1159
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: over the years and their mismanagement of handling his health.

1160
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: If he wanted to return to the NFL but not

1161
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: the Colts, would that be possible and how would that

1162
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: play out? That's a great question. I don't know the

1163
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,720
Speaker 1: logistics of I know they put him on you know

1164
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: I are retired or whatever. I'm pretty sure they have

1165
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: his rights. That's part of paying him the money. I

1166
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: don't think he's just if he just comes back next year,

1167
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: he's not a free agent like the Colts. The Colts

1168
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: control him. I'd have to ask someone in the league,

1169
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: like the exact rules for how long. But like if

1170
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson wanted to come back this year, the Lions

1171
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: have them, you know, they decide his fate whether he

1172
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: wants to play for them or they'd have to trade them.

1173
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: So uh, I think that if Andrew luck had been protected,

1174
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: had a good GM, had a decent coach, and had

1175
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: an offensive line those first couple of years and just

1176
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: play like a normal player, like just had like the

1177
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: start like a Mahomes or like you know, maybe it

1178
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: looks like Baker's gonna have, or even Donald or Josh Allen,

1179
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: he'd still be in the league for sure. Uh. Pretty sad, actually, John,

1180
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: what am I missing about the Dack situation? Turning down

1181
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars offer to play quarterback for the Dallas

1182
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: freaking Cowboys maybe the most coveted position of all American sports.

1183
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: Thirty million is insane amount of money that people would

1184
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: kill for in their lifetime, let alone one year pre tax.

1185
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: I know, but still, and that does not include all

1186
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: the endorsement money that comes when you're being the most

1187
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: being the quarterback of the most popular team. It's proven

1188
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: that the quarterback contracts bring teams down. Big fat quarterback contracts,

1189
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: you know, brings teams down. Agree, I just can't understand

1190
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: why more quarterbacks don't take a little less to help

1191
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: the team freaking win. That's what the ultimate team game

1192
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: is all about. The NFL is hard enough as it is.

1193
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: Making a few million more just to show up and

1194
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: get your ass kicked, never have a chance to win

1195
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: anything of significance. Just doesn't compute with me. What am

1196
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: I missing? And why do more guys not choose the

1197
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: money when it will make a difference in their lives anyway?

1198
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: In fact, it may make it worse. Hell on a question,

1199
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: I think the greed of the agent for sure, because

1200
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: like you said, if you're Dak Prescott and you can

1201
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: look at Jerry Jones to be like, you know what,

1202
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: I'll take twenty six million dollars a year, I'll sign

1203
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: a five year deal, so five years, you know, a

1204
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: hundred million let's say five years, a hundred million dollars

1205
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: twenty five you guarantee every penny. I'll easily make that up.

1206
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: I live in Dallas, Texas. So I'm no state income

1207
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: tax and I'm giving you an extra Instead of taking

1208
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: thirty five year, I'm taking twenty five, giving you an

1209
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: extra ten. Take care of Seke, take care of him, Mari,

1210
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: and let's kick the ship out of everybody. And I'm

1211
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: gonna become I'm worth hundred million dollars a great part

1212
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: about being a quarterback. I'm gonna get another contract and

1213
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be such a rock star in Dallas. I'm

1214
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: gonna get huge endorsements. Now, I completely understand. Instead of

1215
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: taking thirty two million, like I wouldn't take like fifteen.

1216
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: But if I trusted my GM, which I don't know

1217
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: why you wouldn't. If you're Dack, it's your GM is

1218
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: also your owner that's paying everybody. Why wouldn't you take

1219
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: more of a team friendly deal, especially at that team

1220
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: where you could win a lot of money. I'm with you, like,

1221
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: I think you know we love painting the owners like

1222
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: greedy pigs. Well, why aren't the player's greedy pigs too?

1223
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: Like if Dak Prescott really has to take thirty four

1224
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: million dollars like Bro, couldn't you just take like twenty

1225
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: five and help your team out because you know you're

1226
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: gonna get more contracts. Look, Russell Wilson is already on

1227
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: his third contract. How many contracts Roethlisberger and Rivers and

1228
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: all those guys get. Flacco has had like six contracts,

1229
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, it'd be one thing if we're

1230
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: talking like five or six million dollars, you know, like

1231
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: a five year, twenty five million dollar deal. We're talking

1232
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: like nineteen million dollars when you're the quarterback of the Cowboys.

1233
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: I'm with you to think that I have any sympathy

1234
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: or think that like, Okay, Dak signed thirty five, Well,

1235
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: your team is not gonna be as good. You're gonna

1236
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: get throttled. I'll promise you that. I got a question

1237
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: for your show. What do you think about the protection

1238
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks? Too much or too little? I think right

1239
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: now is just right because the league's very dependent on

1240
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: the players on the quarterback and when a quarterback goes out,

1241
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: when a couple of quarterbacks go out from injury, it

1242
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: can ruin the league because the team's already set on

1243
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: primetime games. It's just hard to watch, you know, So

1244
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 1: keeping those guys healthy to me is very very important.

1245
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: You know keeping, Dak keeping, mahomes keeping, Baker keeping, Jimmy.

1246
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: Keeping all these guys upright is key to the health

1247
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: of the league. No different in the NBA, making sure

1248
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: the top fifteen players play Like that's Adam Silver has

1249
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: an epidemic on his hands, Like you can't roll out

1250
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,959
Speaker 1: a product when your best players play, you know, sevent

1251
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 1: of the games, Like Adam, this bad business, buddy, Just

1252
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: like Roger Gondale realized, I can't have a league where

1253
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: three of my top ten quarterbacks are on injury reserved

1254
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: by October one. That's bad business because at the end

1255
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: of the day, it's all a business. We need the

1256
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: fans to generate interest to make everyone money, the players,

1257
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 1: the teams, people like me like, it's all dependent on

1258
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: the fans being interested. And I know as a fan

1259
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: that's how I started off, and I still kind of.

1260
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a fan of football. Uh, the moment

1261
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: you give me two backups on a Thursday night or

1262
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: a Monday night game, I mean, it's terrible. It's hard

1263
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: to watch. I can relate to everyone being like this sucks.

1264
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: So if I know it and you know it, you

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Speaker 1: better believe they know it. Because the television ratings say

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Speaker 1: so so I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you can never do enough to keep the quarterback healthy.

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Speaker 1: I know it sucks, but it's it's the right thing

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Speaker 1: to do. Appreciate everyone listening on this pretty luck heavy

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Speaker 1: pet podcast. Pretty crazy, what a crazy forty eight you know,

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Speaker 1: seventy two hours. It would be a crazy week just

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Speaker 1: with him retiring. But appreciate everyone listening. And uh see

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Speaker 1: later this week football college football is here, regular season

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Speaker 1: right around the corner. Can't wait. Audio eight