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Everybody? 20 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: Happy New Year? I guess we're gonna say that for 21 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: a couple more days. This is going to be a heavy, 22 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: heavy mail bag show. So at John Middlecoff at John 23 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: Middlecoff is my Instagram. Two f's fire in those dms 24 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: and get your question answered here on the show. Last 25 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: week of the NFL season, couple big games which will 26 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: dive into as the week goes on. Some games that 27 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: don't matter because seeding's already set. Obviously, we've got a 28 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: couple teams that have are the number one seeds locked in, 29 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: so that can't change. We know who's gonna get the buys. 30 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: We don't totally know the draft order. That's subject to 31 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: change a little bit beside the Bears having the number 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: one overall pick. So we'll dive into some of the 33 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: bigger storylines. Clearly, Harbaugh is a big story, not just 34 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: this week because he plays on Monday, but he's got 35 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: Tom Brady's old agent, Jimmy Garoppolo's agent, Don Yee. Will 36 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: he go to the NFL? Will he go? I think 37 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: to the Raiders that that would be my guess, though 38 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: I would love to see him with the Chargers. A 39 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: lot of people do believe he's gonna go to the NFL. 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that all is the week kind of 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: a takes shape here, but today heavy mail bag at 42 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: John Middlecot fire in those dms. We've had podcasts out 43 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: on Saturday night after the Cowboys game, and I think 44 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: really quick I spoke about that incident directly after the game. 45 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: There was a lot going on. I just want to 46 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: make it very clear. The ref screwed up. The Lions 47 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: tried to fool the Cowboys by sending all the offensive 48 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: linemen to the referee, and I understand Dan Campbell had 49 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: told the guy pregame what they were gonna do. A 50 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: lot transpired. These referees, you know, aren't exactly the most 51 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: competent individuals, So clearly he screwed up. Right, he called 52 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: the wrong guy. But you can't just assume that they 53 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: would have scored a touchdown when the Cowboys did not 54 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: know sixty eight was eligible, so when he went out 55 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 1: to run the pass, they hadn't called the guy eligible 56 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: on the referee, not on the Lions, right, assuming all 57 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: the Lions players are telling the truth, but to just 58 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: assume that they're scoring a touchdown with that play is insane. 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: So this notion that the Lions got screwed, well, yeah 60 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: they got screwed the moment the guy didn't call the 61 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: right guy eligible, But then we don't know if the 62 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: play would have worked or not. Cool play, Ben Johnson 63 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: impressive Again. Referees continually screw up. I've been saying this, 64 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: I've been beating this drum for a decade, like this 65 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: is not gonna change thinking. Making these guys go full 66 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: time one day would change everything. Also, to me is 67 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: kind of laughable, Like I don't think that is what 68 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: would immediately fix it. What are these guys gonna do 69 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: practice that scenario, you know, after three hours of being winded, 70 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, distracted whatever on a Wednesday at home. I 71 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna change much. I don't know. We 72 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: gotta go full time. I think it's a little different, right, 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: I really do. I don't think the impact is that big. 74 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: So I think I might have blamed the player. Obviously, 75 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: if we assume the players are telling the truth, the 76 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: referee screwed up, But the moment he screws up, like 77 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: people were acting like the Cowboys didn't know what was 78 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: going on. Of course they didn't. Why would they cover 79 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: sixty eight if if I'm playing the Niners and they 80 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: say number sixty six is eligible, and then Trent Williams 81 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: goes out for a pass and he catches the ball, Like, 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: why didn't you cover him? Well? Fuck, I had no 83 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: clue he was an option. So and maybe they wouldn't have, 84 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: maybe they would have screwed it up. But the Lions 85 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: tricked the ref and then the ref blew it, which 86 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: they do a lot. Milkoff mail bag, let's dive in. 87 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: Start with Thomas. Happy New Year. I've got a mailbag 88 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: question for you. Who are you most personally rooting for 89 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: to go into the playoffs this year? Players, coaches, organizations, 90 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: It's all on the table. Also, what's the deal with 91 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph? Pittsburgh could run the table this year and 92 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: keep playing like they have since he took over really 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: quick on the Steelers. I said it several weeks ago. 94 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: Mister Bisky's contract is the worst in the NFL. He's 95 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: a third string quarterback getting eight million dollars and he 96 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: was an absolute disaster this season. If they would have 97 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: played this version of Mason Rudolph in instead of Trubisky. 98 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: I mean, they are a eleven win team. They're in 99 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: the playoffs easily and more than likely. You know, obviously 100 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: there are several scenarios they're gonna win this week because 101 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: they're playing the Ravens with nothing to play for. They're 102 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: not gonna make the playoffs. And Almond's gonna go ten 103 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: and seven. And maybe I thought he was gonna get 104 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: traded or fired, maybe nothing happens, But the reason that 105 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs, Like they're ten and seven, what 106 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 1: does that even mean? Like they're a really good organization. 107 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: They're never gonna suck. They're never gonna suck. They're too 108 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: good at drafting, they're too good at making trades. Like 109 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: their team's always gonna have talent. Toma's good, But to 110 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: go ten and seven and to miss the playoffs in 111 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: a scenario where he started Trubisky a bunch of games 112 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: who was pitiful, where Mason Rudolph's clearly better, like Mike 113 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: Tomins the coach. Ultimately he signed off on Trubisky being 114 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: the starter once Picktt got hurt, and not going with 115 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph who's dramatically better. And I'm not acting like 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph's Ben Roethlisberger here, But if you just watch 117 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: the Steelers play like there's a Grand Canyon White gap 118 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: between him and Trubisky and clearly he's you know, invigorated 119 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: the team. That version of the Pittsburgh Steelers against Seattle's 120 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: like a real football team. But a little too little, 121 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: too late. I would say, listen, I'm rooting for the 122 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: best games possible, and to me, that would be Ravens 123 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: and the Niners I want to rematch. I don't take 124 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: the NFC that seriously at all. I mean, the Eagles 125 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: are imploding, the Cowboys are clearly very flawed. Lions have 126 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: been an incredible story. They're no lock to make it 127 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: out of the first round if they played the Rams. 128 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: Rams and assuming the Packers beat the Bears, which is 129 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: not gonna be easy, have had, you know, very very 130 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: impressive seasons. So I wouldn't mind seeing chaos in the NFC. 131 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: I don't see how anyone beats the forty nine ers. 132 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: They're gonna be They've owned all these teams, and the AFC, 133 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: I guess could get a little weird, but it's hard 134 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: to have faith in Kansas City, you know, making it 135 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: past like the second round Miami. To me, if they 136 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: lose this weekend, that they're doing nothing in the playoffs. 137 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: I think a Flaco Ravens game would be really fun. 138 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: And I just think there's a lot of pressure on 139 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: Lamar to play like he's played this season, which was awesome, 140 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: carry it into the postseason and take care of business 141 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: and Ravens forty nine ers and let's get you know, 142 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: part two and you know, see what happens. Because the 143 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: Ravens obviously kicked their asks, that's the best possible matchup 144 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: now that the curveball team to me would be the Bills. 145 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: They haven't played that well since the Cowboy game. But 146 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: assuming that they win this weekend, they're the two seed. 147 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: You know, they're a scary team for sure, just because 148 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: of their quarterback. Despite their flaws, and they definitely have them. 149 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well for the next mail back. 150 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: What do you think happens to Mac Jones this offseason? Well, 151 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: I think before you could ever get into what's gonna 152 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: happen to said player, you have to answer, well, who's 153 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: making the decisions? Right? For twenty five years, Bill Belichick's 154 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: made every decision in that building when it comes to 155 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: players the team contracts, right, is Bill Belichick back? And 156 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: I think that's you could argue the biggest question in 157 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: the league. I think if you wanted to say, like 158 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: what's the biggest coaching questions, like Arthur Smith whether he 159 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: gets fired or not? Like who cares? You know Ron 160 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: Rivera is gonna get fired? We already know their job openings. 161 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: To me, it's because now it's listen, I thought Tomlin 162 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: it has run its course. I still believe that. But 163 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: he goes ten and seven on the Steelers. Is gonna 164 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: fire him or trade him? Probably highly unlikely based on 165 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: the history of the organization. But what happens to Bill Belichick? 166 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: And where does Jim harboughf he go to the if 167 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: he comes to the NFL, That's what interests me. Like 168 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, where he go like all that type moving 169 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: like whatever? Who knows? This is a coin flip? Does 170 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick go? Is he coaching another team? Because I 171 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: have a hard time, well, just keep Bill Belichick and 172 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: have him stop picking the players. How often does that work? 173 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: Seventy two year old who's made hundreds of millions of dollars, 174 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: who has six Super Bowl rings, who's been to three 175 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: others who also won two coaching for one of the 176 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 1: great coaches of all time as an assistant in Parcels, 177 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna hire like some forty two year old guy 178 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: that's gonna come in and tell Bill Belichick who to pick, Like, 179 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: I don't even think that's I don't even think that's 180 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: a feasible solution. I don't think it's possible. One, I 181 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: don't even necessarily think Bill would totally listen even if 182 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: Kraft mandated it. And two, think about the position of 183 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: that person that there's opportunities are not all the same. 184 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: That is one of those opportunities, Like, is this a 185 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: good opportunity? I gotta go there now? Maybe Kraft tells you, listen, 186 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: try to work with Bill for a year. If that 187 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: doesn't work, you'll get to bring in your own coach. 188 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 1: Maybe that's worth it. But hey, Bill, we're gonna take 189 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: this dude in the second round. Bill's like, fuck you are? 190 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: I don't want that guy. What are you supposed to say? Bill? 191 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: Shut up? We're taking this guy anyway. That's pretty hard. 192 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: I know some of this stuff's easy in theory and 193 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: easy like that's what should happen. I don't think it's plausible. 194 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a reality. So to me, either 195 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: Bilichick stays as is, which you could argue probably shouldn't 196 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: because he's been such a bad gym even though as 197 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: a coach, Like listen, there are two coaches right now 198 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: who have legendary resumes. Greg Popovich has been mailing it 199 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: in for five years. Greg Popovich is an embarrassment to 200 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: the National Basketball Association as a coach, Like he's terrible, 201 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: I mean awful, Bill Belichick, bad general manager, coaching his 202 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: ass off, like actually trying google the Spurs record. They 203 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: just had the number one overall pick. It's basketball. You 204 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: get one good player, you should at least win like 205 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: fifteen games. Trying to this seam might now even win 206 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: ten games this season, Bill Belichick could have. Honestly, they're 207 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: a decent quarterback away from winning eight to nine games 208 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: because their defense is good. I mean, remember they lost 209 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 1: three games this season or the where they held the 210 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: opponent to ten points or under and they lost all 211 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: the time has ever happened in NFL history, Maybe since 212 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: like nineteen thirty or something, back when they didn't even 213 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: have the foward pass. Everyone in Chicago is changing their 214 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: tune about Fields and Eberflus. A month ago, the same 215 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: people thought they both sucked. Is there any chance either 216 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: Fluse or Fields or on the team next fall? I 217 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: would say definitely there's a chance. Anytime you have an 218 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: organization that doesn't really know what they're doing, everything's always 219 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: on the table, right, always on the table. So if 220 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: you told me they run it back, trade the number 221 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: one pick down three or four spots, accumulate more picks, 222 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: definitely plausible. I think that's pretty insane. Listen. I think 223 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: Fields has a lot of respect for him. The season started, 224 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,559 Speaker 1: it couldn't have gone any worse. He looked horrendous early on. 225 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: Then he gets injured, mentally tough, stays with it, came back, 226 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: played way better and just and just kept battling. Like 227 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: his mental toughness this year complete check his like, okay, 228 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: I can go to war with the guy like this 229 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: went from like I doesn't really look like it to yeah, 230 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: we could win games with this player. I think I 231 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: said it yesterday on the College Football podcast watch Jordan 232 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: Love play quarterback. He throws the ball like everyone wants 233 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: Fields to throw the ball. And I'm not talking velocity 234 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: I'm just talking the rhythm, the timing and the offense, 235 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: and everyone's like, well, Field's offensive coordinator sucks. Is he 236 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: that bad? Or you know that play call for Alabama? Well, yeah, 237 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: you try calling plays to a guy that isn't very accurate. 238 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: And I listen, if I can get a two and 239 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 1: a three for fields, see you take Caleb Williams, use 240 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: my other pick, replenish, restock, we move on. That's what 241 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: I would do. The coach, he'd be gone. And it's 242 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: not like he's a good defensive coach. He's a good 243 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. He's done a really good job since they 244 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: traded for Montes. Wait, but it can't be denied. Am 245 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 1: I letting the biggest off season you could argue, or 246 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: at least one of them. I don't pretend to be 247 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: some bearess historian in the history of the franchise. I'm 248 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: letting Matt Eberflus be a coach of that. Say that 249 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: out loud, one of the biggest off seasons in the 250 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: history of one of the oldest franchises in the sport 251 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: of football. I'm gonna let Matt Eberflus play a big 252 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: role in dictating our decisions that seems crazy to me. 253 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: That really does like I can't, I can't get behind that. 254 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: I think that is not just reckless but borderline. I mean, 255 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: that's what bad organizations do, especially when there are options 256 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: like think about think about Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harbaugh played 257 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: for the Bears. So he's a guy who has a 258 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: history in your organization. He is now kind of established 259 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: himself in the area in your organization right the Big 260 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: Ten Country. He's guaranteed for your team to win, and 261 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't even feel like they're interested. Maybe I hope 262 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because I think that would be an awesome 263 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: destination for Harbaugh, but feels very very unlikely. My father 264 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: is a dairy farmer in western New York, and he 265 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: was quite perplexed when he woke up to see that 266 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: you backed out of your bet on Washington to win. 267 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: He wanted me to thank you for the winning tip. 268 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: When I say I backed out, I had eight thousand 269 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: dollars that I took into the casino. I was going 270 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: to put seven on it on that game, and I 271 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: was going to put one thousand dollars on it, and 272 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: I did on the Washington Huskies to win the national 273 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: champions So if the Washington Huskies win the national championship, 274 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: I'll win eight thousand dollars. That's still riding the seven 275 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I was gonna all put on money line 276 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: right at Like at the time when I went in, 277 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: it was like one point four to two, So if 278 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: I would have put seven, it would have paid like 279 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: almost ten thousand dollars, maybe a little more, so we 280 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: would have paid a total of like sixteen thousand dollars. 281 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: I got cold feet a little bit, not gonna lie. 282 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: I wosked out and I put half put more than half. 283 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: I put four thousand dollars on plus four because I 284 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: thought to myself, listened it. If you get the points, 285 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: it's one thing, like one point. If you're getting more 286 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: than a field goal in an enormous game, you gotta 287 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: spread a little money on that just to be safe 288 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: and listen. I was glad I did at the end 289 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: of the game because I thought Texas was going to score, 290 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: and ultimately if that would if they would have scored, 291 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: I would only lost a couple hundred dollars out of 292 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: my eight thousand dollars. So I don't necessarily regret it. 293 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: I went and picked up about fifteen thousand dollars a day. 294 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: So listen, I and we got eight k riding on 295 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: the Natty. So I'm glad I did it. I still 296 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: got a backyard to do. I don't even have window coverings. 297 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: I gotta get shutters. I can't be totally reckless. I'm 298 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: not Dave Portnoy here where I can bet a million dollars. 299 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: But if I wanted to do, I could play. I 300 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: could play with a semi big boys. In every one 301 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: of the Draftking sports books that they were listening to, Coward, 302 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: they loved the shot out. No, my guy, Jacob and 303 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: Brandon my first names. You know, shit, I might just 304 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: be a regular there. But I had to be smart. 305 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: You know I couldn't do I regret it. Well, it's 306 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: easy to say hide sight, but I bet on Washington. 307 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: I had seven thousand dollars riding on two separate bets. 308 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: So I listen, I put some of my nuts on 309 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: the table. Did I plan on putting a little more yet? 310 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: Did I get a little cold feet? I did? I 311 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: gamble and my units have grown dramatically over the years 312 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: in my life. But I'm not just throwing around that 313 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: much money consistently on sporting events, right, But I need 314 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: I've said this forever and listen to this podcast, and 315 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: my career's going pretty well. I don't get highs for money. Obviously, 316 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: you need it to pay the mortgage, to you know, eat, 317 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: to just do things in life. But like making money 318 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: to me in business, it just it kind of is 319 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: hollow in the sense of it does nothing for me. 320 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: I'm just indifferent. Sweating out five ten thousand dollars on 321 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: a bet. I can't even I don't get that feeling. 322 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: Like I understand why Phil Nicholson was addicting the gambling, 323 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: because beside playing golf and trying to like beat Tiger Woods, 324 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: nothing else in life could give you the highs and 325 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: lows of sitting there on a game and having a team. 326 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: I can't even describe it. Like I'm not a drug guy. 327 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: I do not do drugs. Don't condone it either, but 328 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: I can't imagine the highs and lows. But I get it, 329 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: like I mean, it's just something in your body. I 330 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: don't get anywhere else. I really don't maybe like success 331 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: of my close family or something. Get excited for him, 332 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: but for the most part, like you know, you get 333 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: in the routine of life, you just kind of get numb. 334 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: As you get you get jaded into everything, get unfazed. 335 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: The gambling is one thing that still gets my juices flowing. 336 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: Big fan of the pod. Not sure how true this is, 337 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: but her reports that Caleb Williams wasn't liked by his teammates. 338 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: What do you make of this? As a former scout? 339 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: Should it not be concerned for teams? Is this true? 340 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: I haven't heard about that, but I'll be honest, I 341 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: haven't done that much asking around about Caleb the guy, 342 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: but I usually you just hear about negative things. I 343 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: haven't really heard negative things, but I'd be lying if 344 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: I said I've done that much research. I've heard more 345 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: of just like concerned with its play. Now he's going 346 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: to be the number one overall pick. He is a 347 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: excellent prospect, you know, knowing people at Oklahoma, I know 348 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,879 Speaker 1: one question. His dad plays a pretty big role. But 349 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: that's happened with a lot of guys. Like once you 350 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:45,959 Speaker 1: get to the NFL, the general manager and the head 351 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: coach doesn't give a shit about like your dad's concerns. 352 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: Like this is you know, it's one thing like your 353 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: dad you know, it's like, what's your GPA. Then you 354 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 1: go work for like Google, you think, like tell the 355 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: manager your dad has a issue with where they put 356 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: your death right. So I haven't heard anything too bad. Listen, 357 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: he wrote some stuff on his fingernails a couple of 358 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: years ago, like he's got some question marks, not like 359 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: bad question marks, but so Trevor Lawrence. When you're an 360 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: elite prospect, people nitpicked you right. Zion was the number 361 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: one overall pick. There were a lot of question marks 362 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 1: on him. His weight turned out to be true, his 363 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: love of basketball, just his body composition. Like it's okay 364 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: to nitpick something that you're gonna give thirty plus million 365 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: dollars to. This is not pee wee football, this pro football. 366 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: It's multi billion dollar industry. And they're gonna be conversations 367 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: that come out over the next three months that ninety 368 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: percent of the media is gonna freak out about let's rinse, wash, 369 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 1: repete same shit every year. Can't be a group of 370 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: more naive people going in life. It's like, how do 371 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: you cover a sport and not know the realities of 372 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: the way the sport goes? Like why are you asking 373 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: these questions? Why do you want everyone to have no balance? 374 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: Cause I like people. The best players in the history 375 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: of the sport have had no bad They've been all in, 376 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: like Tom Brady had no life, Peyton Manning, zero ray 377 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: Lewis dedicated himself to football. I'm sorry, the best players 378 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: usually are like all in on football. So having questions 379 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: of like, yeah, I don't really like to have outside interest. 380 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm not paying you, you know, one hundred and twenty 381 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars here to sell some insurance. I'm paying 382 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: you millions of dollars to make plays on the field. 383 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: And with that, you know, there comes great responsibility and 384 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: a lot of jobs are on the line in the organization, 385 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: right in a fan base in a city you know, 386 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: leans on your every move. So yeah, we're gonna ask 387 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: them uncomfortable questions. This is the big leagues, So yeah, 388 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 1: I mean these questions. I don't, honest to god, I 389 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: don't have that much information on Caleb off the field, 390 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: just because I haven't really inquired yet about it, partly 391 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: because he sets a lock number one overall pick I was. 392 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to like Drake May and then I watched him. 393 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't totally see it. Jayden Daniels definitely 394 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: an intriguing prospect, is flown on boards. Obviously, Pennix is 395 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: a baller. Whenever I watched JJ McCarthy. Maybe I'm just 396 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,679 Speaker 1: not watching the right games or something. I don't totally 397 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: see it, but I definitely people like him. Who else 398 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: am I missing? Bo Nicks? An interesting prospect? These college quarterbacks, 399 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: things change so fast, Like you think you love the 400 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: guy and then they start getting nitpicked, and you know, 401 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: it gets weird quick when it comes to the draft. 402 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: You're right about Washington, But holy shit, that was stressful, 403 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: you're telling me. I got a lot of people in 404 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: my DMS about Washington feel pretty good. Not gonna lie 405 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: needed that. Needed that. How are you acting so nonchalant 406 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: about the two point conversion in the debacle in Dallas? 407 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: All you said is the Lions should have never been 408 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: in that spot. Dallas should have ran out the clock. 409 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: But the Lions were in that spot and designed a 410 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: perfect play with the disruption, and the refs fucking blew it. 411 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: Probably the worst call I've ever seen. Probably it helped 412 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: to determine the game and lowered Detroit's chances at the 413 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: number two Seeds. It wasn't a blown call or a 414 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: picked up flag. It was a blatant fuck up. Like 415 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: I said at the beginning, I agree the ref ruined it. 416 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 1: You want to fire him on the spot, like what 417 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: can be done. But to act like the play would 418 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: have worked when Dallas did not know the guy was 419 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: eligible is fucking insane to me. I'm not It might 420 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: have worked, but it might not have. We don't know. 421 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: We're playing the results game. Like the result. They would 422 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: have got the two pointer, they would have won the game, 423 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: maybe maybe not. They had absolutely no clue, So yeah, 424 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: I agree the ref completely blew it. That also assumes 425 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: everyone's telling the truth. I've worked in the NFL. I've 426 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: been alive now for forty years. Fucking people lie all 427 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: the time when the lots on the line. I'm not 428 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: acting like they're lying. But if we want to assume 429 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: the referee is completely screwed up, I'm cool with that. 430 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: I agree. Let's say he lied because he claimed the 431 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: opposite right. Seventy said he was eligible when sixty eight 432 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: claimed he told him regardless. Let's assume what's his name, 433 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: Brad Allen or Jeff Allen is lying he knew what 434 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: was wrong was overwhelmed said the wrong number. The moment 435 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 1: he says the wrong number, Dallas doesn't pay attention to 436 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: sixty eight, So why is he wide opening the in 437 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone. They don't know. So, yeah, 438 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: it's a debacle. What are you supposed to do? Replay 439 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: the fucking game? Like, what are we supposed to do? 440 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: Be really mad? I've been really mad as a gambler 441 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: for a long time at the referees. It doesn't it's 442 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: part of the deal. It sucks. Yeah, you got screwed, right, 443 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: I guess you got screwed in the sense that you 444 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 1: didn't even have a chance to run the play. That 445 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: is a fact. You got screwed that you didn't get 446 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: a chance to run your real play. Two things, I'm 447 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: know Bill Belichick here rules expert. If they had reported 448 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: him correctly, people have said he's uncovered, meaning you can't 449 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: be the last guy in the line of scrimmage and 450 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: be uncovered. So it would have been an illegal formation. 451 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 1: Could be wrong. They're not a formation expert. But if 452 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,959 Speaker 1: that's true, you ran a play that's not even legal. 453 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: And like I said, let's assume the play is legal. 454 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: If the Cowboys. You have to tell the other team 455 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 1: the guy who's actually because when I say so and 456 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: so is eligible, what's usually happening? That guy is going 457 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: to potentially impact the passing game, right, go out on 458 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: a pass route they didn't know, they didn't know. Not 459 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: their fault, not necessarily your fault because he said it, 460 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: but like, let's not act, it's to play. That play 461 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 1: worked and the referee just screwed you like it worked 462 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: because the Cowboys had no fucking clue, none, one of 463 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: the better defenses in the league, no clue none, so nonchalant, like, okay, 464 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: you guys are all assuming and listen, listen. I have 465 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for Dan Campbell. The organization is awful. 466 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: One thing, when you're used to sucking, and I hate 467 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: to break it to you, you know you're used to 468 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: being really really bad, and even you'd have to acknowledge that, 469 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: assuming you're a Detroit fan, it's easy to get like 470 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: you're always getting screwed, guy, Like we're always getting screwed. Now, 471 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: it's like part of some of this is on you 472 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: because you and listen, it's not like your fault that 473 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: the ref can't handle it. But he couldn't handle it. 474 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: When you deal with incompetence, you have to go out 475 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: of your way telling some guy in pregame warmups like 476 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: it's four hours later the am Campbell keeps saying that, okay, great, 477 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: he forgot How often in any industry you go, why 478 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: I told the guy to do this? Well, yeah he didn't, 479 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: So we got a problem now, So you better make 480 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: sure you sent three guys over to him. These referees 481 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: are morons and completely overwhelmed. Most of them probably shouldn't 482 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: be in their job. But you did that on purpose 483 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: to try to throw off Dallas. Why because when you 484 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: tell them that Taylor Decker is eligible, what do you 485 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: think they're gonna do? Just let take Decker walked to 486 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone. Oh Taylor, good luck. 487 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,400 Speaker 1: Hopefully they throw it to you, see if you can 488 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: catch it. Or do you think one of the Dallas 489 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 1: Cowboys would have gone with them? We're not talking about 490 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers here, talking about a pretty good, pretty 491 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: well coached Dan Quinn, the highest paid defensive coordinating in 492 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: the league. I think it's fair to assume at best 493 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty chance that play works. Is that 494 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: fair to say, Like, is that fair? Because this notion 495 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: that it's just one hundred percent working is fucking laughable 496 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: to me. It's just factually incorrect. That's not how it works. 497 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: That plays hard to work. Did I say it a 498 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: little nonchalantly? Yeah, because when I go to react after 499 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: immediately after a game, I don't watch three hours of 500 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: the press conference. I'm just reacting. Watched it in real 501 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: time and as I've had time to like kind of 502 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: let it marinate. Did you get screwed by incompetence in 503 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: a sense? Yes? Did you completely lose the game? Though 504 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: in that situation? No, in what world once that thing 505 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: screws up? Is he going for it from the seven 506 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: yard line? Explain that one to me, and I'm pro 507 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 1: going for it. I'm with Dan. I think Dan Campbell's 508 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: a good coach. I defended him when all these elitists 509 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: in the media are calling him some meathead. You know, 510 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: dudes just choose on nails and you know, slams the 511 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: bench press. Like, I'm like, this guy's pretty high level, dude. 512 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: But to go for it from the seven yard line 513 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: is a Brandon's Daly level move. That's that's a joke 514 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: because it's like, Okay, you totally got screwed. Welcome to life. 515 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: But then that happens and you find yourself, Okay, kick 516 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: a field goal, getting overtime, We're just as good as 517 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: this team. Why can't we win? This is this isn't 518 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: the old overtime Hell, we get the ball first, we 519 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: score games over, we hold him a field goal, get 520 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: the ball, score, we win. Like it's not You're not 521 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: at some lock just to lose in overtime and to 522 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: go from the seven yard land and then you get 523 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: bailed out again. So I just, I'm just I'm tired 524 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: of this conversation because it always gets back to, well, 525 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: the play worked well kind of. I mean the play 526 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: worked because they didn't know the correct information. Okay, Triple 527 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: og listener, Since before your Matt Naggy interview, Wow, that's 528 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,719 Speaker 1: a long time ago. You were talking recently about segment 529 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: ideas about in the middle. Another idea might be to 530 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: lean into your scouting player evaluations. Well, I think we'll 531 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: get into that during the draft. Maybe struggling quarterback, a 532 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: single game player stretch or time even, and give us 533 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: mechanical or technical reasons. I think the problem with that 534 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: is I've been in this game long enough, and this 535 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: is why this podcast. I mean, I mean we get 536 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: into the details on individual games sometimes when we react, 537 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: but like I've seen in the business x's and o's 538 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: stuff and one that doesn't really excite me that much, 539 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: and two that fails. And luckily, like I like talking 540 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: bigger picture coaches, players, you know, the main stories of 541 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,719 Speaker 1: the league, Like that interests me. That that type stuff, 542 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: I just I guess I simply just talk about what 543 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: interests me. And sometimes getting two into the weeds is 544 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: stuff that I wouldn't listen to. I try to talk 545 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: about stuff that I'd want to listen to. So I think, 546 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: you know, segment ideas, the middle, the hurd, hierarchy, I 547 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: just I haven't quite figured that one out. I don't 548 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: want to just do the middle. Everyone does a top 549 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: ten ranking, like who really cares the same. It's like 550 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: the Niners and the Ravens and then everybody else. Well 551 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: what else does it say? Like you know, I got 552 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: the I got the Cowboys slightly over the Lions, I 553 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: got the chief trait behind them. It's like, well it 554 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Now, maybe I'm an idiot. Maybe it would work. 555 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: Maybe we sell it. I don't know. Maybe I'm an idiot, 556 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: but I think sometimes we're definitely gonna figure some out 557 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: in this upcoming year. But we'll just let it happen organically. Yeah, 558 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: let's bang out a couple more questions. My question is, 559 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: with technology and AI becoming so advanced, could we see 560 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: more automated refereeing in the National Football League. I think 561 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: this debacle could have been avoided if Dan Campbell can 562 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: enter sixty eight is eligible into an iPad. Sure, some 563 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: calls are subjective, like past interference. We can't allow a 564 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: simple thing like misunderstanding which player said something to a 565 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: referee change the outcome of a massive game. Yeah, I 566 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: don't think that's crazy. So you just enter in in 567 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: this play on something specific like that sixty eight is eligible, 568 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: and then maybe the stadium announces sixty eight is eligible, 569 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: and all the coaches know something like that, meaning the 570 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: other team. But the whole point of acknowledging who's eligible 571 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: is so the defense knows. It's like a It's it's 572 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: like fairness, right. It's why when a headset goes down, 573 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: the other team has to take off their headset. I 574 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: mean the Cowboys did not know so Yeah, the Lions 575 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: are mad because they knew where to go, but the 576 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't. So yeah, I'm not opposed that on a 577 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: situation like that. Or maybe it automatically goes to it, 578 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: because you could argue it's a little bit archaic the 579 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: way that you have to go to the referee, no 580 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: different than Tony looking down the sideline. Could there be 581 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: some automation to it. Yeah, maybe we're headed there. Listen, 582 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: people are gonna hate to hear this, but part of 583 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: the reason the NFL's king is because there's a lot 584 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: of drama. And listen, I understand if you're a Lions 585 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: fan being pissed off, but it's actually kind of healthy 586 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: for the league because it's like tangible stuff on the field, 587 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: but legit off the field drama. I didn't have a 588 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: dog in that in that race. Uh So people think 589 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but I don't know. Everyone just keeps acting 590 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: like the Cowboys we're just gonna lose, And maybe they 591 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: would have, but maybe they wouldn't have. I don't think 592 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: the NFL will want to make crazy change. So how 593 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: about instead of opposing team getting the ball at the twenty, 594 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: they get it at the five. I thought if I 595 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: have changing the fumble of the end zone rule, if 596 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: the defense actually recovers in the end zone, they get 597 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: it at the twenty, but if it goes out of 598 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: bounds through the end zone, put it at the five. 599 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't totally bother me, Like I'm cool 600 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: with certain things being kind of aggressively enforced, and that 601 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: just seems like, listen, this is a risk reward play. 602 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: You want to reach the ball over the corner of 603 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: the end zone. That's all on you. You get a touchdown, 604 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: get a touch you score points. But if that ball 605 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: starts coming out of your hands before you reach that 606 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: pylon in the corner, screwing your team really bad. Like 607 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: that's kind of the way the life works, right. You 608 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: can take a lot of risks, Listen, bet a lot 609 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: of money on Washington. What if they lose, You're screwed, right, 610 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,959 Speaker 1: It's it's there has to be something that comes with that. 611 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: I have no problem with it going to the twenty 612 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: yard one. It's one of those rules that just doesn't 613 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: bother me, seriously, doesn't. I get much more bothered by 614 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,719 Speaker 1: the pass interference rule that if you commit pass interference, 615 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: you you know, fifty yards down the field and no 616 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: one ever was going to catch the ball that you 617 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: get a fifty yard play, Like, that's so stupid to me. 618 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: The reaching the ball over the end zone or a 619 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: fumble right before, I kind of like it. It adds 620 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: an element of the game that it's just a massive, 621 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 1: massive swing play because it's a big play if it 622 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 1: if it converts right, if you score a touchdown, like 623 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: that's just touchdown in a game is a massive moment. 624 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: That most NFL games are a one score game going 625 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter, So I it really doesn't bother 626 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: me at all. Your thoughts in the fact that the 627 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: league has turned into a quarterback league, even though there 628 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: have been some teams who will win with just competent quarterbacking. 629 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: Are we giving those guys too much credit? Hasn't always 630 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,320 Speaker 1: kind of been a quarterback league? I mean seriously, most 631 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,879 Speaker 1: even the great teams even before I was alive, had 632 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: pretty good quarterbacks, right, Like, who are the teams? The 633 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,800 Speaker 1: best teams in the seventies Raiders? Kenny Stabler, He's in 634 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Honestly took him too long to 635 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,280 Speaker 1: get in. The Steelers won a bunch of Super Bowls. 636 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,879 Speaker 1: If Terry Bradshaw's pretty good player Cowboys, Roger Stalllback not bad. 637 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: Think about the eighties right Lway, Marino Moontana, even on 638 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: the lesser version like Phil Simms, who was probably closer 639 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: to like a game manager. But like then, definitely, as 640 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: I kind of came into my own as a sports fan, 641 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: all the best teams had the best quarterbacks, Troy Aikman, 642 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: Steve Young, even like the year Drew Bledsoe when the 643 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: Patriots made it with with Bill Parcells to obviously this generation, 644 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,200 Speaker 1: it's always been a very, very important part of the sport. 645 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: If you don't have a really good quarterback, like there 646 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,719 Speaker 1: have been some NBA teams that have won it without 647 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: Steph Curry or Lebron James, your team better be pretty stacked. 648 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: Now most of the time you have to have an 649 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 1: all time great player. But every once in a while, 650 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: he's get a team that a bunch of good players 651 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: and they come together perfectly and it just works right. 652 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: It happens sometimes in football for the most part, though, 653 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes. You know, 654 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: even this year like Lamar Jackson, brock Perty would be 655 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: an example of now his career, he's only in a 656 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: second year. We'll see how it plays out. He might 657 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: be an example of oh, it was kind of a 658 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,720 Speaker 1: one hit wonder, or he'll go on to be become 659 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,960 Speaker 1: a really good NFL quarterback for years. You've mentioned in 660 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 1: the past that you listen to a few entrepreneur finance podcasts. 661 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: Any recommendations. People always ask me this. I think I've 662 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: said it a million times. I will comment to him individually, 663 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: but I would say Josh Brown's Compound and Friends is 664 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: one of my go tos. They do something on Tuesday 665 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,439 Speaker 1: and Friday that's really good and the Animal Spirits, which 666 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: is under their umbrella to is good. Haven't missed an 667 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,919 Speaker 1: episode in four or five years. This guy's a loyal guy. 668 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: As a scout, was there a particular position you were 669 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: signed to scout? What did you look for at that position? 670 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: What positions do you feel are the easiest or the 671 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: hardest to scout? When you'd like do an area, like 672 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,399 Speaker 1: if you have the West Coast, you just do all 673 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 1: the players, so you do every position right. So if 674 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 1: I have you know, California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, for example, 675 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:50,800 Speaker 1: so you basically have the Pac twelve in the Mountain 676 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:55,960 Speaker 1: West Conferences New Mexico, Arizona. You if I go into USC, 677 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,239 Speaker 1: I do everyone from Caleb Williams to their offensive line 678 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: to their defensive line? Do you do every position? Obviously, 679 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,360 Speaker 1: quarterback is a difficult position to, you know, to evaluate. 680 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: I'd say the easiest positions in my opinion were defensive 681 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: linemen and wide receivers. I would say the difficult positions 682 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 1: were corner and safety. It's just a very nuanced position 683 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 1: in terms of coverages, what they're asked to do. You know, 684 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,359 Speaker 1: specific skill sets work for certain defenses and don't work 685 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: for other defenses. But I think the line of scrimmage, 686 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: when you know what type of offense or defense your 687 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 1: defense you know, or lines line coaches want, it's pretty 688 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: easy relative. I mean, then there's a huge factor in 689 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: like does a skill set translate? And then you also 690 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 1: got a factor in the person how hard he works, 691 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: how much he likes football, how much he cares about football, 692 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: how much he wants to do this, how hard he 693 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 1: can get coached, how willing he is to improve. Like 694 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,919 Speaker 1: all the intangible stuff is always difficult because you're dealing 695 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:01,359 Speaker 1: with human beings, and the reason you have so many 696 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: you know, where the guy does not become a good 697 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: players because usually miss on the person as much as 698 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,640 Speaker 1: the player. I was actually texting with an assistant coach today. 699 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, and he's on one of the best teams 700 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: in the league. I'm like, how important is wiring you know, 701 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: for you know, coaching your guys. He's like, it's everything. 702 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,520 Speaker 1: It's obviously you get the highest level. Like a lot 703 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,720 Speaker 1: of guys are talented. Now some guys are better than others. 704 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: But he's like, the wiring is the difference in the 705 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: big games, in the big moments, the guys that want 706 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,719 Speaker 1: it and the guys that don't, the guys who have 707 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,719 Speaker 1: prepared and the guys who have given everything to be 708 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: ready for those moments, and the guys that have kind 709 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 1: of skated by, And it typically shows. And I think 710 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,319 Speaker 1: it's why, you know, a lot of the good teams 711 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: stay good, and a lot of the average teams and 712 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 1: blow average teams suck because they don't know what they're 713 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: looking for in players. Assuming we make it out of 714 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,399 Speaker 1: the NFC Championship, this Niner fan, who do you think 715 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,360 Speaker 1: would be the best matchup for the Niners in the 716 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 1: Super Bowl Obviously Baltimore smoked us on Christmas, but I 717 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: do believe we'd be better prepared and Kyle won't make 718 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 1: the same mistake of not giving it to McCaffrey more 719 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: and I think the defense will film and in a 720 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,320 Speaker 1: game experience to help prepare for Lamar in their offense. 721 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: So I would like our chancers chances in a rematch. 722 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: I think Buffalo would be kind of scary because of 723 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: Allen and their defense. I don't think Kansas City is 724 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 1: making out of the second round. I lowki think Cleveland 725 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,640 Speaker 1: would give Baltimore it's best fight in the playoffs and 726 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,760 Speaker 1: make it and could make it out of the AFC 727 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: another team we lost to. Interested in your thoughts, Well, 728 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: if Cleveland made it the Super Bowl, obviously they'd be 729 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,719 Speaker 1: playing unreal and they beat the Niners that they are. 730 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: The Browns and the and the Ravens are two teams 731 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 1: that can beat the Niners because they can match the 732 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,239 Speaker 1: physicality and they've proven that this year they can go 733 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 1: toe to toe with the Niners. The Niners shove everyone 734 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: around in the NFC, why they're gonna be huge favorites 735 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: in all these NFC games. But AFC North teams those 736 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 1: two teams specifically, and honestly the Bengals when they were 737 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,520 Speaker 1: healthier and Joe Burrow was played, and they beat the 738 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,400 Speaker 1: shit out of the Niners. So it's like, you just 739 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: have these physical teams who are mentally tough. It's it's 740 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: hard now. I think the Ravens game would look a 741 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,640 Speaker 1: lot different. I think that would be a hard game. 742 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: I think I would like the Niners chances against Flaco, 743 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: but I would like to see the Ravens game simply 744 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,760 Speaker 1: because I think that's just the best, like big picture, 745 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,879 Speaker 1: you know, people often ask are you a Niner fan? Like, yeah, 746 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: I mean I root for him, most people in my 747 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,799 Speaker 1: life are. But it's so different now, Like if you 748 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,000 Speaker 1: told me that if something happened to them, but my 749 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,520 Speaker 1: podcast would have more success talking about someone else. I 750 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,719 Speaker 1: have no problem, Like I'm kind of selfish that way 751 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: doing this, Like the Niners, Like it's easy for me 752 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,399 Speaker 1: to root for them and want them to do well 753 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,600 Speaker 1: and like talking about them because they're a big brand 754 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: people care. But I legitimately think easily they're the best 755 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,400 Speaker 1: team in the NFC, and I think it would be 756 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 1: an unreal Super Bowl rematch of like a decade ago 757 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,759 Speaker 1: when Harbaugh faced his brother. But these are the two 758 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: best teams, right. I think the Bills they're a team 759 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. But what's weird about them 760 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,360 Speaker 1: is like I didn't buy into them, and then you 761 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: watch them play the Cowboys're like God if they play 762 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: like that in the last two weeks against the Chargers 763 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,880 Speaker 1: and the Patriots, So who are they? I mean, I'm 764 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: really confident. I'm like, Oh, they're gonna beat the Dolphins. 765 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: Would I bet what I just bet on Washington to 766 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,279 Speaker 1: beat the Texas, to beat Texas On the Bills to 767 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: beat the Miami Dolphins, I wouldn't because they make me. 768 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,360 Speaker 1: They can be weird, and Josh can be weird, like 769 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,360 Speaker 1: Josh can sometimes the stat line you look early on 770 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 1: in that game against the Patriots the other day, I 771 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: looked he was like, I forget the exact numbers, but 772 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,279 Speaker 1: they were really bad. I'm like, what is going on? 773 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: And then you watch them sometimes you're like, this guy 774 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,440 Speaker 1: the best player in the NFL. So that they're a 775 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,799 Speaker 1: team that it just depends what team you get. If 776 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,799 Speaker 1: they're off, Niners would beat the shit out of them. 777 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: If they're on, fuck, they could beat anybody in the 778 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: league male bag ponderance? Are we sure Sean Payton was 779 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 1: solely interested in the Chargers. A year ago, there was 780 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: a lot of talk with McVeigh going into Amazon. Sean 781 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: McVay confirmed he will return in twenty four. Isn't weird? 782 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: This guy's thirty seven years old, he just made the 783 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,480 Speaker 1: playoffs and he's gonna get asked like every year, like Shawn, 784 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: are you coming back? Shahn? Are you just gonna go 785 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: chill with your wife and your kids somewhere? It's like, bro, 786 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: what else are you gonna do? Why wouldn't you coach? 787 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: You're a good coach. Sean stay in the NFL? Now, 788 00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,440 Speaker 1: I get it. I've done different professions. Maybe he's just bored. 789 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 1: Maybe he wants a new challenge. Bored would be the 790 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,080 Speaker 1: wrong way to put it. Maybe he's just, you know, 791 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,840 Speaker 1: kind of strung out. He's on fumes in the NFL. 792 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,239 Speaker 1: But I'm glad he's coming back. So he could have 793 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,160 Speaker 1: tried to get that job. He would have had more 794 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,680 Speaker 1: opposition with less Snead having a ring and the team 795 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,759 Speaker 1: needed more of a rebuild, but Kronky and Sneed are 796 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,400 Speaker 1: always playing to win. He wouldn't have had personnel control. Additionally, 797 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,800 Speaker 1: would he have tolerated the Spanos family being cheap Peyton 798 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,760 Speaker 1: looking for a better ownership group potentially, Sorry, I'm long winded. 799 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,320 Speaker 1: You know, I think where the Spanos is really screwed 800 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,799 Speaker 1: up is he was living in Lay that game to 801 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: the Jags last year, they had what twenty seven to 802 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,879 Speaker 1: seven lead at halftime? Was twenty seven and nothing under 803 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 1: no circumstances can you and then you lose? And we 804 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,680 Speaker 1: all know brand Staley's not like everyone knows. It's not 805 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 1: one of those things that like, oh, this couple podcasters 806 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 1: think he sucks. No, I was like pretty clear fans, 807 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,440 Speaker 1: teams run the league, like, what's this guy's deal? And 808 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: they rolled it back with that, and you had Sean 809 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,200 Speaker 1: Payton right there, give him ninety million dollars. He has 810 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,760 Speaker 1: this Bronco team currently at eight and eight. I understand 811 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,840 Speaker 1: they had a million injuries. You're telling me the Chargers 812 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:39,839 Speaker 1: wouldn't have been that's an excuse, it really is. And 813 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,759 Speaker 1: then to let him go to a team in your 814 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:47,720 Speaker 1: own division, that's scary for the Chargers. I'm not confident 815 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,600 Speaker 1: they're gonna get Harbaugh. I'm really not so. I when 816 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,799 Speaker 1: he got into the Rams. I definitely could see that. 817 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure he likes Matt Stafford, Kronky Pays 818 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,960 Speaker 1: could have stayed in la. I think it's all gonna 819 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,239 Speaker 1: work out for him in Denver in a weird way. 820 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: They might take a little bit of step back next 821 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,840 Speaker 1: year as they reset, But I think he went in 822 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 1: there knowing like, I want to get real Russell Wilson, 823 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 1: and that's inevitably what he did. Big fan of the Pod, 824 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,319 Speaker 1: born and raised in Modesto, California, right down the road 825 00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,440 Speaker 1: from where I grew up. Just wanted to know if 826 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 1: you could give any advice on getting a job in sports, 827 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,560 Speaker 1: whether it's anything for a particular sports team or anything 828 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,760 Speaker 1: in media. I just feel like that is an industry 829 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,040 Speaker 1: that you're either in it or you're not. You know, 830 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:38,120 Speaker 1: I've had young people that follow me, you know, like 831 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: college kids asked me this advice over the years, and 832 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: one thing crystallized when I was talking to someone the 833 00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,640 Speaker 1: other day. The key is if you want to go in, 834 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,759 Speaker 1: you can't have any other options because the moment you 835 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,719 Speaker 1: go work in another industry, Like when I first got 836 00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,680 Speaker 1: at Fresno State and then even with Philly my first 837 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,520 Speaker 1: year with the Eagles, I made like twenty five thousand dollars. 838 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,600 Speaker 1: I had multiple degrees. I had friends working in Silicon 839 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 1: Valley making hundreds of thousands of dollars buying homes. I mean, 840 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Jeffrey Lurie not charging us tupperware 841 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:14,680 Speaker 1: to take home, I wouldn't have been able to eat. 842 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:16,919 Speaker 1: Because I worked for a team, I had a free 843 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,920 Speaker 1: gym and I could shower there. I had no money, 844 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't making I had so many friends, girls and girls, 845 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,960 Speaker 1: guys crushing it in San Francisco, but I didn't care. 846 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,640 Speaker 1: Like I liked my job. I was. It was incredible 847 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,439 Speaker 1: to be doing what I was doing, but I didn't 848 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 1: have any other options. And whenever I talked to someone, like, 849 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: you know, I really want to do this, but it's 850 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:37,960 Speaker 1: not going that well, I think I'm gonna take a 851 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,120 Speaker 1: job with Wells Fargo, or I'm gonna take a job 852 00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,960 Speaker 1: with this. It's easy to like, you start doing that, 853 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,359 Speaker 1: they're gonna pay a lot more early on, and it's 854 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,279 Speaker 1: gonna be hard to ever pivot because the older you get, right, 855 00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,240 Speaker 1: you know, you get to thirty, all of a sudden 856 00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,279 Speaker 1: you got a fiance or you have a one year old. 857 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,960 Speaker 1: It's hard to ever do this job because early on 858 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,719 Speaker 1: it pays nothing. I don't care whether you're a coach. 859 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,040 Speaker 1: I don't care whether you're a production assistant at Fox. 860 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. You don't make any 861 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: money even at these other industries when you start at 862 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: the lower end of the totem pole. If you go 863 00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:15,719 Speaker 1: work for Merrill, Lynch or Ubs or whatever your industry is, 864 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,279 Speaker 1: you're gonna make substantially more, even if relative to the 865 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: industry it's low. So you just you got to find 866 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,680 Speaker 1: a way in. And I would say I was just 867 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,719 Speaker 1: not going to be denied. I didn't know how I 868 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,480 Speaker 1: was gonna do it. It's like my dad was some 869 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,879 Speaker 1: NFL coach, or you know, my cousins ran a radio station. 870 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody in any of these industries. I 871 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,960 Speaker 1: just I just was nuts found a way. Luckily it 872 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,040 Speaker 1: all kind of worked out, But I didn't have any 873 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,240 Speaker 1: other options. Like I early on in college, I realized 874 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything else. The crazy thing is, 875 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,239 Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, I've gained more interests. Right, Like 876 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,520 Speaker 1: I remember taking business classes in college being kind of bored, 877 00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,400 Speaker 1: like accounting classes, you know, econ classes that now would 878 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: interest me much more. But part of it is like 879 00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,239 Speaker 1: I need to do it for myself. I need to 880 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,480 Speaker 1: be in the trenches, I need to experience it myself. 881 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,040 Speaker 1: Classroom was just not the way I learned. But I 882 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,719 Speaker 1: would say going to college enabled me to get my 883 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,399 Speaker 1: foot in the door. So I'm not a huge higher 884 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: education guy, but it does open more doors in the 885 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: sense of you want to work in sports, Like you 886 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,200 Speaker 1: go to college, you work for the athletic department, which 887 00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: is what I did. Then I started working for the 888 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: football program, and then that led me to Fresno State, 889 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,239 Speaker 1: a higher program, working for the football team. So you 890 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,440 Speaker 1: just you can't have other options because it's one of 891 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,200 Speaker 1: those kind of professions that will weed you out fast 892 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: because early on no one makes anything. And the other 893 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:44,640 Speaker 1: thing is the hours and the days are kind of weird, 894 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: right It just games are on NonStop, and so when 895 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,080 Speaker 1: you're working for a team, you're going to those games. 896 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:52,960 Speaker 1: But if you like, if you let's say you work 897 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,880 Speaker 1: in baseball, I mean talking every day for six months, 898 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,680 Speaker 1: even in football, like oh Thanksgiving, you're not home with 899 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: your family. Christmas, you might not be home with your family, 900 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,400 Speaker 1: even if you're in the media, like you're at the 901 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,440 Speaker 1: game covering it or helping out or doing something. So 902 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,080 Speaker 1: there are perks with every job. There are also things 903 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:15,200 Speaker 1: that arenest great, right, Like I saw Albert breertweating, like, 904 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,080 Speaker 1: I hope the NFL is not on Christmas next year. 905 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,439 Speaker 1: Alberber loves football, covers football, he's really good. At this point, 906 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,720 Speaker 1: was like, I just want to spend Christmas with my family. 907 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,440 Speaker 1: And it's like, I like Albert, But it's like, well, 908 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:31,759 Speaker 1: so does Kyle Shanahan, right, so would Sirianni. But it's like, 909 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,000 Speaker 1: this is kind of the business we chose, Like it's 910 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,919 Speaker 1: it's kind of the deal, you know, you think Steph 911 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,880 Speaker 1: Curry wants to be playing hoops on Christmas or rather 912 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,680 Speaker 1: be of this family kind of the deal. So that, 913 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,600 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's an industry that one you 914 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,640 Speaker 1: got to be willing to make a lot of sacrifices 915 00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,640 Speaker 1: when you're young with no money, so realize that you 916 00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,399 Speaker 1: got to pass up a lot of things that if 917 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,920 Speaker 1: you have a friend friend base that sometimes it's easy 918 00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,920 Speaker 1: in life to compare yourself to the people you know, 919 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,279 Speaker 1: making more money, having more success. You know, maybe doing 920 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,239 Speaker 1: things that you can't financially do, having free time that 921 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,759 Speaker 1: you don't You're like, wait, they're paying you one hundred grand, 922 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,960 Speaker 1: I'm making thirty five grand. You get the weekends off. 923 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm grinding my ass on the weekends. I just I 924 00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,600 Speaker 1: kind of just blinders on, unfazed by that. It can 925 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: break you. I'm not saying that. There were times like 926 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,239 Speaker 1: what am I doing now? Looking back? I wouldn't be 927 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,880 Speaker 1: able to do that at thirty nine years old, but 928 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,720 Speaker 1: I was able to do that at twenty five years 929 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,040 Speaker 1: So another key to me is you got to be 930 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,799 Speaker 1: young when you start, like, it's hard. You're not going 931 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,640 Speaker 1: to break in at thirty six, right, it's hard to pivot. 932 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,319 Speaker 1: But if you can break in, you know around the 933 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,680 Speaker 1: college age, when you're just kind of young, dumb and 934 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,320 Speaker 1: hungry and you don't care, you're willing to do anything. 935 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,840 Speaker 1: You're like, ash, shit, we're working tomorrow, let's go. You 936 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,359 Speaker 1: just want to be there. That's to me the key, right, 937 00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,880 Speaker 1: And like I like I said, I think college introduction 938 00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: somehow wherever you're going to college is the easiest way. 939 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,239 Speaker 1: But that's just my experience. Some people did it other ways. 940 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,320 Speaker 1: A lot of people sent me their their Washington bets. 941 00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,200 Speaker 1: Guys are welcome. Guys are welcome. You know. I don't 942 00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,239 Speaker 1: watch an unhealthy amount of football for four months on 943 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,480 Speaker 1: Saturdays for no reason. I try. I try to pick 944 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,480 Speaker 1: up a thing or two. People often ask like, how 945 00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,799 Speaker 1: do you bet on golf? I watch every tournament. You know, 946 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,800 Speaker 1: how did I bet on Washington? Well, I've watched a 947 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,200 Speaker 1: lot of their snaps over the last two years. Watched 948 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,520 Speaker 1: a lot of Texas too. I watched a lot of voodaball. 949 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,080 Speaker 1: You know, I gotta put it to you somehow, besides 950 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,080 Speaker 1: just talking about it, might as well gamble on it. Okay, 951 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,920 Speaker 1: last question? In an alternate universe or crazy trade. Before 952 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,280 Speaker 1: Brock gets the bag, he ends up on the Broncos 953 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 1: with Sean Payton. Sean Payton with his second Drew Brees 954 00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,400 Speaker 1: at the beginning of his career. This coming from a 955 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,760 Speaker 1: Niner fan, by the way, that would be mind blowing. 956 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,160 Speaker 1: And here's the problem with that alternate universe. Why would 957 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,160 Speaker 1: Kyle get rid of Bruckberdy? That that would be my thing? Now? 958 00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,520 Speaker 1: Things change in the NFL. You know, you have some 959 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,359 Speaker 1: moments like you're seeing it with the Eagles, like God 960 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,040 Speaker 1: where things are happening. So things can change in football 961 00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,560 Speaker 1: when you start losing, but as long as you're winning, 962 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,520 Speaker 1: you usually just keep it rolling, right, And that's just 963 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,399 Speaker 1: just the way it is. Even when things get weird, right, 964 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 1: you're just like, you're just gonna keep it rolling, keep 965 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,000 Speaker 1: it rolling, keep it rolling. It's why the conversation about 966 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,480 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson makes me laugh when everyone's in this offseasons, 967 00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,560 Speaker 1: like why did no one You mean because they were 968 00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,319 Speaker 1: gonna get denied by the Ravens? Like what were the 969 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,840 Speaker 1: Ravens gonna do at quarterback? Contracts are contentious, talking a 970 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,359 Speaker 1: lot of money. We're not signing on three or one 971 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,400 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars deal here, We're talking hundreds of millions 972 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,120 Speaker 1: of dollars. No businesses just give that away. Not the 973 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,040 Speaker 1: way the world works. So yeah, it gets ugly, it 974 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,880 Speaker 1: gets emotional. We're dealing with human beings, right, But no 975 00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,719 Speaker 1: team was gonna trade for Lamar Jackson. They would have said, sorry, 976 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,240 Speaker 1: we're keeping him, will match the offer that was always 977 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,640 Speaker 1: gonna happen. Teams knew it. The media's like, I can't 978 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,880 Speaker 1: believe what they didn't make an offer to get denied? 979 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,000 Speaker 1: You think the Raven. Oh yeah, just give us your 980 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,200 Speaker 1: two first rounders. Take Lamar Jackson. We'll just play with 981 00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,520 Speaker 1: fucking Huntley and middlecough. We'll figure it out. What are 982 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,200 Speaker 1: we talking about? They were, Yeah, they weren't comfortable paying 983 00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,319 Speaker 1: them a lot of money for a period of time 984 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,600 Speaker 1: in his career. I kind of agreed with him clearly. 985 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,440 Speaker 1: Now you're like, oh, it's no brainer. It's always easier 986 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,960 Speaker 1: to have hindsight. So I understood play hardball, like we 987 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,520 Speaker 1: all do it in parts of our life. Why can't 988 00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:29,080 Speaker 1: NFL teams do it not? Everyone's always getting screwed, you 989 00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,120 Speaker 1: know that. Sometimes that's on that as my mother calls it, 990 00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,520 Speaker 1: the X Channel. Everyone always thinks everyone's getting screwed. Like 991 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,280 Speaker 1: now in the big leagues, we're talking like Russell Wilson 992 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,640 Speaker 1: didn't get screwed. He got one hundred and fifty million 993 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,440 Speaker 1: dollars to be average as the day as long, if anything, 994 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:47,120 Speaker 1: he fleeced the Broncos, so he did not get screwed. 995 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:51,120 Speaker 1: They simply ask him a business proposition, remove the injury 996 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,320 Speaker 1: guarantee or we're benching you. And then they realized that 997 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,080 Speaker 1: they would get in trouble with the PA, so they 998 00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,239 Speaker 1: played it out. They never liked him. Sean Payton didn't 999 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,279 Speaker 1: sign them too. That contry right. I've been in a 1000 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:06,560 Speaker 1: situation twice, lost my job. When new management comes in, newsflash, 1001 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,239 Speaker 1: new management comes in, you can get in trouble really 1002 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,440 Speaker 1: quick in terms of your job status. Why they like 1003 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:19,000 Speaker 1: other people welcome to life, especially if you're not like 1004 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:24,200 Speaker 1: some premium star in the organization. And Russell Wilson and 1005 00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,520 Speaker 1: I was just at the time making in those buildings 1006 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:30,120 Speaker 1: like sixty grand and one hundred grand. You start making 1007 00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,200 Speaker 1: fifty million and they go, wait, we're paying this gay 1008 00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,720 Speaker 1: fifty million and he's producing like he's worth twenty two million. 1009 00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,560 Speaker 1: This doesn't add up. That's the business they're in to 1010 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,640 Speaker 1: figure out, like, your production better be somewhere close to 1011 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,640 Speaker 1: what I'm paying you. The moment it's under, we start 1012 00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,120 Speaker 1: questioning do you stay on the team. The moment it's 1013 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,960 Speaker 1: way under, we get rid of you. The way sports works, 1014 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,920 Speaker 1: especially in the NFL. And Russell made out like a 1015 00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,799 Speaker 1: bandit It got made one hundred plus million dollars. There 1016 00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,279 Speaker 1: was awful, awful, would be strong. Was awful last year, 1017 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,719 Speaker 1: was serviceable this year, but serviceable. I mean, what did 1018 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,240 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson when you watched him play, not his stats. 1019 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,440 Speaker 1: When you watched him play, What do you look like? 1020 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,560 Speaker 1: Fifteen million dollars quarterback fifteen I met, not fifteen fifteen eighteen. 1021 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,440 Speaker 1: Maybe not what he was making. You know now what 1022 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,520 Speaker 1: he was making. So we were hard on Deck When 1023 00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,960 Speaker 1: he was making forty million dollars and Deck's throwing lead 1024 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,520 Speaker 1: the league in touchdowns most year, You're like, is this 1025 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,120 Speaker 1: guy good enough? And Russell's like Dnking and dunk. He's 1026 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:39,759 Speaker 1: making like forty eight million dollars. What a world? The 1027 00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:40,320 Speaker 1: volume