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Speaker 1: tastes like. Welcome back to another edition of The Round

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Speaker 1: am joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosatal. What's up boys, Hey, Happy Thursday.

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Speaker 1: talk about more draft talk. We're getting closer and closer

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Speaker 1: to the draft. Uh. Draft talk that will include butt talk,

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Speaker 1: Also known as Dan's favorite sound drop, it is among

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Speaker 1: there is some huge NFL news that came down, UH

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Speaker 1: of the great figures, uh in the history of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: Rooney did it all in the league. He came up

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Speaker 1: the son, of course of Art Rooney UM born the

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Speaker 1: that Ryan Grigson could not do, Ballard has done in

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Speaker 1: about one fifteenth the time. It's gotta it's gotta pan out.

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Speaker 1: Of course, on the field, I'm sure he would be

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Speaker 1: happy if even to start two out of three of

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Speaker 1: the I I agree with West and I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: It's been great. And you know what's crazy in terms

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Speaker 1: of how bad Ryan Grigson was. They've added all these

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Speaker 1: pieces and I like these guys. I think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: play starters snaps. They still have about five or six

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Speaker 1: spots on that defense where they could really use upgrade.

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Speaker 1: I I was looking at kind of their draftings like

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Speaker 1: they need everything on that team except for wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: tight end, and I guess quarterback. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to worry about Scott Tolzine taking all your

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Speaker 1: off season snaps, which is what's happening right now, I'd

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Speaker 1: certainly be worried about it, a little worried. So are we,

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Speaker 1: Greg Where are we with Chris Ballard right now? I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with them. I'm saying he's bringing a different

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Speaker 1: energy and he's he's the guy that just can't quite

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Speaker 1: put my finger on, but he's different than the rest

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Speaker 1: of the gms. You two have severe issues. I would

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Speaker 1: suggest you address them. Why it was just it was

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Speaker 1: at the end of my advice. If you were there,

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Speaker 1: you have to understand the energy, that wasting energy you

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Speaker 1: guys keep talking about. There was something going on. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching the energy is bringing to a team that desperately

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Speaker 1: needed it. You can go, you know, go on with

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Speaker 1: your personal observations. I don't know what you guys are

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Speaker 1: talking about. Are you is that your is that ed?

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Speaker 1: Is that your Marxist? Very very uh defensive of Chris Ballard.

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Speaker 1: I think he has done a great job. We'll see

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Speaker 1: Colts fans. I think Colts fans finally feel like they

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Speaker 1: have someone in their in their building that that cares

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Speaker 1: about building a roster, versus arguing with the coach. Damn

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Speaker 1: Barry and Greg go, sorry, I'm not sure we are

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Speaker 1: Barry the Greg bone. As Greg shows me a screen

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Speaker 1: grab of Chris Ballard. I'm just saying, it's a mystical

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Speaker 1: energy around Chris. Sorry. Mark. Finally, Bill Belichick, you know,

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Speaker 1: for a team that's supposedly famous for um, you know,

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Speaker 1: keeping things behind closed doors and Patriot Way, this team

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Speaker 1: is in the news a lot. And maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: they're just so damn good and everyone's so interested in

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Speaker 1: the coach and the tight end and the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: everybody else. But Belichick did an interview with author and

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Speaker 1: journalist Susie Welch Uh. And in that interview, it was

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Speaker 1: a long ranging interview. West you quite liked it. I know,

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Speaker 1: um because it really bel Chick dove into a lot

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Speaker 1: of aspects of his history and his thoughts on coaching.

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Speaker 1: And one one aspect of the interview, or the aspect

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Speaker 1: of the interview that got the most play, was Belichick

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Speaker 1: and welch played a word association game. Ward association games

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Speaker 1: are sneaky good uh tools because they get people to

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Speaker 1: say things. Because the very nature of it speed answer, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you can get something, some good info. And I think

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Speaker 1: that Susie did a nice job here with Bill. It's

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Speaker 1: here some word association. I'm gonna say wordn't just want

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Speaker 1: your immediate snap reaction. Okay, sure football more sport than business,

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Speaker 1: but it's a business. But I respect the game for

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Speaker 1: the game and for the sport the media. It's how

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Speaker 1: a team connects to its fans. Ridiculous. Aaron here Land

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Speaker 1: is tragedy. Heartbreaking, Yes, that would be another word. Winning

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Speaker 1: the goal. There's no medals for trying. This isn't like

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Speaker 1: eighth grade, where everybody gets a trophy. We're in a

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Speaker 1: professional sport and it's competitive to win. That's what we do.

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Speaker 1: There you go. There were many interesting tidbits in this

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Speaker 1: article from Bill Belichick and his philosophy on coaching, the

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Speaker 1: lessons he's learned. The one I found most interesting was

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Speaker 1: the lesson he learned that you count on your most

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Speaker 1: dependable players, not your most talented players. And I think

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Speaker 1: when you try to figure out his philosophy of roster building,

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Speaker 1: why he jettisons some guys in their prime, why he

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Speaker 1: gets rid of a Jamie Collins and keeps a Dante

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Speaker 1: high Tower. Jamie Collins is more talented than than Dante

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Speaker 1: Hige Tower. He's found High Tower to be more dependable.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just those two as an example. There

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Speaker 1: are many examples where he leans on. He even points out, look,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady is not the most talented guy in the world,

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Speaker 1: but find a more dependable quarterback than Tom Brady in

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Speaker 1: NFL history. Yeah, people were trying to push that today

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Speaker 1: that uh, the Brady. They try to isolate that quote

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Speaker 1: and say that Belichick said that Brady wasn't the most athletic.

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Speaker 1: What was the exact wording it was, was it the

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Speaker 1: most athletic player or wasn't a very athletic player, But

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Speaker 1: he's what he's saying. Everybody knows if you know the

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Speaker 1: game that Brady started a certain way, and through hard

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Speaker 1: work and preparation and just mastering the position, became something

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Speaker 1: totally different. Obviously, somebody that you can trust above anyone else,

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Speaker 1: and that's why they've been together for fifteen years. That audio,

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Speaker 1: by the way, and video if you're watching our show,

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Speaker 1: was courtesy of c n b C see like a

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Speaker 1: big Susie Welts fan. I mean, he really like kind

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Speaker 1: of opened up for he was he was Was that

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Speaker 1: it a Buffalo Wild Wings or something? It was kind

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Speaker 1: of one of those restaurants where the license plates were

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Speaker 1: under the glass. It's like what we take a bill

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Speaker 1: there was that a real crowd behind them or or

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Speaker 1: a piped in crowd. I can't it was. It sounded

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Speaker 1: like actual like it was like boys in the middle

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Speaker 1: of like a bar and grill. M what is saying

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Speaker 1: go to and get a nice restaurant reservation? Say I

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Speaker 1: have the head coach of the New England Patriots. Uh,

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Speaker 1: do you think we can get like a private booth area, uh,

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Speaker 1: to conduct this, and I'm sure the restaurant would go yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we would hamma yeah. But instead they go to the

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Speaker 1: in a Buffalo weld Wings late, not in a while,

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Speaker 1: because it's like they're at the Bubba Gump on the

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Speaker 1: Santa Monica Pier. It's like, let's, you know, go to

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Speaker 1: a nicer place. That's all I hear that. That's what's

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Speaker 1: happening in the news. We forgot one thing. Just the

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Speaker 1: tone of his voice. By the way, when he says

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Speaker 1: ridiculous after deflagate, that's Bill Belichick right here. He's like,

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Speaker 1: contain yourself. Uh wait, sorry, West. The dates have been

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Speaker 1: announced for the Tybee Island Super Bowl. Oh s, I

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Speaker 1: did not forget. I just it was so important West

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Speaker 1: that I've breaken. I've broken it out of news. Apologies now,

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Speaker 1: no apologies, tramp. It's fine, it's fine, but it was

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Speaker 1: that important to me. The the Falcons are hosting the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl in a couple of years. The NFL announced

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Speaker 1: officially that Super Bowl fifty three will be played inside

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Speaker 1: that new stadium, Mercedes Benz Stadium, on February third, two

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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, the first game in Atlanta in nineteen years,

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Speaker 1: and and what West is getting at Chris, you are

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Speaker 1: very excited, as we all are, because what is the

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Speaker 1: possibility and play here. We need to start laying the

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Speaker 1: groundwork now that this is absolutely going to happen, because

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Speaker 1: there's no reason for it not to happen. That Friday,

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Speaker 1: most of our work is done for the week, All

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Speaker 1: the teams are done, given their interviews. We jet out

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Speaker 1: of there in a car, the four of us Connor Patra.

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Speaker 1: We hit Tybee Islands, a three hour and forty five

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Speaker 1: minute drive. I'll be happy to drive there as long

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Speaker 1: as someone else drives back. Uh. We go to Tybe Island,

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Speaker 1: we record the last podcast that that late week podcast

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Speaker 1: at Huckapoo, and then we party Friday night and Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and we get back Sunday morning, ready for revitalized and

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Speaker 1: ready for Sunday afternoon, like maybe four thirty pm, just

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Speaker 1: just ahead of kick off four something like that. Revitalized.

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Speaker 1: That's the word you're gonna use for how we would

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Speaker 1: return from this was playing around on our I am

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Speaker 1: client and uh, David Eally who is West's boss, and

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Speaker 1: My boss terrified potentially at the thought of this, as

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Speaker 1: he said, if I'm still involved in the company at

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Speaker 1: this point, you you simply have to get back to

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Speaker 1: the game on time. I would say this has potentially,

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Speaker 1: on one end of the spectrum, be one of the

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Speaker 1: greatest things we've ever done as a group. And on

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Speaker 1: the other end, West exits as sort of a Barrett

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Speaker 1: Robbins figure and we never see him at that super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of the one of the two. Yes,

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Speaker 1: just like Barrett Robbins of the Raiders went to Mexico

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Speaker 1: and uh missed the game, right, he just missed it out.

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Speaker 1: It's the game. Uh, it's It's definitely in play, I

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Speaker 1: would say for the Prodigal West. But I will say this,

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Speaker 1: I I absolutely think we would have to take advantage

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Speaker 1: of that. In fact, if we really really mobilized and

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Speaker 1: got this thing set up and the Shadowy League figures

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Speaker 1: shot it down through ambivalence and just you know, not

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Speaker 1: being plugged into the show and the audience, the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl show will be our last podcast and then at

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Speaker 1: that we quit, right and at that point we don't

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Speaker 1: fly back on the chartered plane with with our employees

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Speaker 1: we simply all move to TYPEE and we stay there

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Speaker 1: from now until the end of time. We start a

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Speaker 1: football podcast. There you go. We're trying to squeeze it

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Speaker 1: into one day. Let it go on post super Bowl forever. Well,

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario for me, we don't do the

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Speaker 1: podcast from there. We just Friday afternoon. I'm going anyway. Look,

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Speaker 1: we're free from Friday afternoon until game time. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've I've been pretty salty about Atlanta getting this Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl over New Orleans for a long time to crime

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Speaker 1: now I'm starting to warm up. This could be. I

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Speaker 1: think it will be our finest moment as a podcast

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Speaker 1: if we're still around, if we're still employed by the company.

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Speaker 1: That's not a lot of factors variables, all right, I

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Speaker 1: have to deliver right now, gentlemen. A draft fact time

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Speaker 1: now for draft packs driven by Hyundai, Rhymes of Sunday

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Speaker 1: and this draft back. I'll go all the way back

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Speaker 1: to the two thousand nine draft. What a year. And

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Speaker 1: um who could forget the six pick of the third

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Speaker 1: round of the two thousand nine draft. You know him,

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Speaker 1: Bradley Fletcher, defensive back St. Louis Rams went on to

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Speaker 1: play my r own seven seasons and forced four fumbles

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Speaker 1: and had a sack and jeez eight interceptions over a

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Speaker 1: career spent with the Rams, the Eagles and the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots started fifty four games. I think I wrote

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Speaker 1: a few, wrote a world blurt Bradley Fletcher back in

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Speaker 1: the day. I mean, I now know the purpose of

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Speaker 1: why we have this show on Thursday streamed and you

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Speaker 1: you can literally watch Dan Google and find the draft

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Speaker 1: backed of the day. Und getting their money's worth, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: just like any Hyundai customer, well done. Mark that was

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Speaker 1: draft backs driven by Hyundai. Sydney is furious with us,

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Speaker 1: as usually, it's not the only things she's furious. But um,

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Speaker 1: all right, now it's time to move on to the

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Speaker 1: next portion of the program, drap butts mhm's that time?

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Speaker 1: Is that time? Greg, Because and here is the conceit

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Speaker 1: of this segment, Umm, the d raft is a time

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Speaker 1: where gms and coaches, they work together with scouts, everyone

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Speaker 1: in the front office, they all come together. Hopefully they're

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Speaker 1: all pulling in the same direction. Mark, you have fears

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Speaker 1: in your team's front office that that might be might

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Speaker 1: not be the case. But the hope is everyone's working

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Speaker 1: together to identify ways to make the team better. And

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Speaker 1: if you're a GM that's coming off a disappointing year,

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Speaker 1: or if you're a player who's also come off a

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Speaker 1: disappointing year, and there's a possibility that a move could

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Speaker 1: be made in this draft that could leave your buttocks

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Speaker 1: straight up roast and dog, straight up roasted buttocks because

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Speaker 1: they're making a move to essentially potentially replace you, or

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Speaker 1: you have enough heat on you where you could be

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Speaker 1: replaced if you fang yourself in a big spot in

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Speaker 1: this draft. That's what this seg hot draft butts is

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Speaker 1: all about. So funny, I don't know, just just the

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Speaker 1: ridiculousness of the phrase buttocks straight up roast and dog.

646
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Speaker 1: It's like, let's say that this is a legitimate set

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Speaker 1: up to our our segment. Buttocks will be straight up

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Speaker 1: roast and dog. It's a very real seg in a

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Speaker 1: big spot. Here we go, and Mark you do so

650
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Speaker 1: such great work at NFL dot com. Thank you. What

651
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Speaker 1: better person to start this exercise off within you? Thank

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Speaker 1: you for that uncondescending introduction to my segment of this

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Speaker 1: sport program. There I will say this. I will go

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Speaker 1: to the state of Ohio, but I'm not going to

655
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Speaker 1: Cleveland this time. We know their butts are hot. They

656
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Speaker 1: gotta nail this thing. But I'm gonna go to Cincinnati

657
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: because under the radar, Marvin Lewis has slowly verbally been

658
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: acknowledging that his the grip he has over his job

659
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: is really, really in a precarious position at this point,

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Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis, isn't it it? That is an old sound bite.

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00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: I did not say that right now. But let's just

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Speaker 1: travel back in time a little bit. In December, before

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Speaker 1: the season was over, he basically said that he basically

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Speaker 1: planned to coach the team next year, all In still involved,

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Speaker 1: and that put to bed rumors that he was potentially

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Speaker 1: gonna retire. One month later, he said he was hoping

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Speaker 1: for a contract extension, using the words we'd like to

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Speaker 1: agree on something at some point. It puts I think

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Speaker 1: everybody's mind at ease going forward for their futures. One

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Speaker 1: month later, February, Lewis said it's not crucial in quotes

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Speaker 1: for him to sign a contract extension, saying, if things

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Speaker 1: work out, we would look, we would look to do that.

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Speaker 1: And now let's go to April just a few a

674
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Speaker 1: few days ago. Louis says basically there is no expectation

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00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: of a contract extension, saying it's not really a subject

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00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: that's on his mind all of a sudden, So he's

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Speaker 1: not getting one. And I think basically the one year

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Speaker 1: trial from Marvin Lewis, he's the second longest tenured coach

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, begins with this draft, and there are

680
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Speaker 1: whispers that his grip over this draft is not what

681
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: it's been in years past. Is they've got other people

682
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: in the front office with more power, and it's not

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Speaker 1: just the Marvin Lewis show the way it was for

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Speaker 1: a long time. So I think a the Bengals, we

685
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: saw what happened in free agency. This is no longer

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Speaker 1: a team that we can easily call one of the

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Speaker 1: most talented in the a f C, which we did,

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Speaker 1: no matter whether or not they want a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: That the roster was unbelievable through the way they built

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Speaker 1: that team free agency in the draft. Now you've had

691
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Speaker 1: your offensive line raided, your quarterback got killed last year

692
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Speaker 1: behind a bad offensive line. You now lost your your

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Speaker 1: right guard and you're starting left tackle. You got complete

694
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Speaker 1: question marks filling in, so you got to try to

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Speaker 1: find offensive line help in a draft that could be

696
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: one of the worst offensive line drafts. And they're saying

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. So that's a problem. And on top of

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Speaker 1: you have other holes. So it's a it's a huge

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Speaker 1: mountain climb from Marvin Lewis, and you gotta wonder if

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get out of this his butt is it's hot.

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Speaker 1: The position I have taken on this for a long

702
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Speaker 1: time and continue to be my position is that his

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00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: relationship with the Bengals ends when he wants it to end,

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Speaker 1: not when the Bengals wanted to want it to end.

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Speaker 1: M hmm. Do you think this this year is a

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Speaker 1: little different because he's been doing these one, one and

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Speaker 1: one two year contract extensions for so long and this

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Speaker 1: time around he's saying he wants it, and now he's

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Speaker 1: saying it's not in his minding, he doesn't have it.

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Speaker 1: That's the red blagu. The Bengals operate differently than every

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Speaker 1: other team in the NFL, though, and their front office

712
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Speaker 1: is convoluted. When you say that he's losing some voice

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Speaker 1: in the draft room, that likely means I would think

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Speaker 1: that Duke Tobin is running things and he's he's done

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Speaker 1: a good job. It's probably a good thing if Duke

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Speaker 1: Tobin is running things. But what you say is very

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Speaker 1: fair that it's a bad sign that he hasn't gotten

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Speaker 1: an extension. But whatever, whether the Bengals moved to action

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Speaker 1: on actually firing him, I doubt that, well they got

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Speaker 1: they have problems. I do think they need to hit

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Speaker 1: and I think that, but it's a little bit hotter

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Speaker 1: because of the way the Bengals have been doing things

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Speaker 1: the last five years. They are about drafting and developing

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Speaker 1: slowly about as much as any team in the league.

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Speaker 1: They draft guys in the first round and don't play

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Speaker 1: him until the third year, and then they become productive

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Speaker 1: starters sometimes. So they are not a team that's used

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Speaker 1: to just plugging in guys. They usually have guys already

729
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Speaker 1: there in the starting lineup that are ready to take

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Speaker 1: those roles, and they don't need rookies. And now you

731
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Speaker 1: look at this roster on the offensive line, and then

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Speaker 1: you know different parts of the deference, certainly linebacker and

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Speaker 1: up front, and they need guys to come in and

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Speaker 1: contribute right away. And that's not really what the Bengals

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Speaker 1: have done lately. Chris Westling Tucks was it about a

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Speaker 1: week and a half ago. Two weeks ago, Daniel Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: was on this very program, and when he wasn't taking

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Speaker 1: pot shots at Dan Hansas, he was giving us info. Well,

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Speaker 1: he was at least suggesting that the Chiefs might be

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Speaker 1: a team willing to draft a guy like Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and let him sit for a year before eventually taking

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Speaker 1: over Alex Smith. I believe Alex Smith has a hot butt.

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Speaker 1: As much as they've come out and said he's our guy,

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Speaker 1: I think they know their ceilings capped with him in

745
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. They're not gonna beat the Steelers or the

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Speaker 1: Patriots with Alex Smith as their quarterback. So it would

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Speaker 1: not surprise me at all if a first or second

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Speaker 1: round draft pick, and this draft is used to a

749
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Speaker 1: select his successor, and when you get into something like that,

750
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: extended slumps mean there's pressure to start playing the guy

751
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Speaker 1: behind the starter makes sense. Not getting any younger alexmeth

752
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: not that he's old, but he's thirty three. You're not

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Speaker 1: expecting him to take a big, massive leap and he

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Speaker 1: and he had a year last year that was not

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Speaker 1: as good as his other seasons in Kansas City certainly

756
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Speaker 1: not the as good as the two previous seasons. So

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00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: that's and his weapons were better great, and that that's

758
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: a bit of a concern. I think it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: It's almost amazing if you would have said in two

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Speaker 1: thousand thirteen when they traded for him, that he would

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Speaker 1: have lasted four straight years as an unquestioned starter and

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Speaker 1: win as many games as he did, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they they've they've been among the winningness teams. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he he's had a really strange career, obviously, and when

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Speaker 1: he went to the Chiefs, remember he was playing extremely

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Speaker 1: well before he got hurt in his last year in

767
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Speaker 1: San Francisco and then got wiped away by Colin Kaepernick's rise.

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Speaker 1: The Niners were I'm just looking at out nineteen and

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Speaker 1: five in in his two seasons before he got me.

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Speaker 1: So I guess I'm not that surprised that he started

771
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Speaker 1: there for four years because he's always been a proficient quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And they just just yesterday on NFL Network they played

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Speaker 1: that heartbreaking Chiefs lost to the Colts. I think it

774
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Speaker 1: was forty four in the playoffs. A couple of years ago,

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00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: where Smith played out of his mind in that game.

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Speaker 1: But obviously that is not the Alex Smith that you're

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Speaker 1: getting week to week in the regular season. And I

778
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: totally get it, uh and West, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: It's a great name to bring up because if you're

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Speaker 1: going into this this will be his fourth year, fifth,

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00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: this will this will be his fifth I mean, it's

782
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: kind of sit or get off the pot time. Even

783
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Speaker 1: if you have been a provision starter, they need to

784
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: decide that this guy's a super Bowl guy. Well, and

785
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: and to your point, where's like when we talk about

786
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: the messaging now, is we're gonna draft someone to groom

787
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: for one to maybe even three years before they become

788
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: a starter. That just does not exist anymore. Remember Ryan

789
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 1: Tannehill the red shirt year, Blake Bortles the red shirt year.

790
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: It is it is April nonsense, when nut, when those

791
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: words are being used. If Alex Smith comes out and

792
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: the Chiefs who have high expectations are not getting the

793
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: job done, someone like Patrick mahomes is, the fans are

794
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: gonna go nuts to want to see someone like that

795
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: moving up. Alright, So Blake Bortles, that's hot, but that

796
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: guy's his buns are on fire. Uh, it's a hot heinie.

797
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: And you know I because I don't care that they

798
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: resigned Chad Henny and I don't care that Bortles is

799
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: telling people that his mechanics are back on track. Uh.

800
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: I look at this situation and as Tom Coughlin has

801
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: taken the reins of that organization, and he has no

802
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: like relationship with he doesn't. I don't know if he's

803
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: even talked to him yet because of the rules of

804
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: the league, so it's not like he has anything invested

805
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: in borders and making that work. He's gonna look at

806
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: it clinically, and all he has to go off is

807
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: some pretty grizzly tape. Uh watching it right now? Yeah,

808
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: if you're watching the video show, Um, you could check

809
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: it out. But like Grizzly tape last year. And let's

810
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: let's come down with the that he played so great

811
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: for two games at the end of season. Even forget

812
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: about all that, and and remember that even the quote

813
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: unquote breakout season maybe could have been a little bit

814
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: of a mirage on some level. And understand this, and

815
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Speaker 1: this is where his butt gets really hot. The draft

816
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 1: is what April outside it. Yes, the draft is April

817
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 1: Thursday nine. Alright, April outdoors. We did say before the

818
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: show West doesn't have bits. I mean this is usually

819
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: just more straight. You're more of the straight man. Yeah, straight.

820
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: I think not having bits is a credit to you.

821
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Speaker 1: I don't know not having bits. It's one of my

822
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: bits anyway. April ninth to dress in Philadelphia outdoors. May

823
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: second is when the Jaguars have to decide to pick

824
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:33,720
Speaker 1: up that fift year option. He'll know by April whether

825
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: that app option uh will definitely not be picked up.

826
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: He won't know for sure if it will be. But

827
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Speaker 1: if they go and Tom Coffin identifies a guy he likes, uh,

828
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: they I absolutely think the Jaguars are in play to

829
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Speaker 1: take one of these quarterbacks. Probably don't have a newcomer

830
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Speaker 1: come in. I disagree. Yeah, I think there's a very

831
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: real chance that a newcomer could come in and steal

832
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: the show, and Blake Borders should be very nervous. What

833
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: didn't you say it's far more likely to happen at

834
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: the top of the second round than the number four

835
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: overall pick. Absolutely, okay, yeah, I agree with that, And

836
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: they've had guys like Deshaun Watson in there, for visits.

837
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: They're clearly interested in in this crop of rookies. Well,

838
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: I've been mystified all offseason about their approach uh supporting Bordles,

839
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Speaker 1: So it would make a lot more sense if they,

840
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: if they actually in this whole time have had it

841
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: in their head, we probably will draft a quarterback in

842
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: the first two or three rounds and have someone there

843
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: that can possibly place sooner than or David Caldwell, who

844
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: you know put his neck out to draft Boardles and

845
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: was the voice of the front office, was that support

846
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: for Blake Bortles, and you know he's he's found some

847
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: good players. But Tom Coflan has coming and completely changed

848
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: the power structure. The voice of the organization is now

849
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin, Dave Caldwell. You could find him actually in

850
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: the Poconosa State formally occupied by Howie Roseman during the

851
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: early Chip Kelly years. He actually is now sub letting

852
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: it out to Caldwell. That's a true story. I mean,

853
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: no one, no one's gotten more of a pass from

854
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: the media in general than the Jaguars. I was looking at,

855
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: I get it, but the most you know, I looked

856
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: at the most wins and losses over the last five years,

857
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: the Jaguars have more losses than the Browns. They are

858
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: the worst team, and the Jaguars are ten losses clear

859
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: of the even the third worst team. So the Jaguars

860
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: and the Browns were the two worst by a long shot.

861
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: And you don't really think of them. Maybe you do

862
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: think of them at that that lower level. I think

863
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: they're on the They have not won more than five

864
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: games in six years, Like that's hard to think. I

865
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: don't think of them as winning anything, but just the

866
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: perception was always hope filled. There was always hope, and

867
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: now it's like, come on. They definitely got on people's

868
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: radar this past year because everyone got sucked in and

869
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: then they stunk, and now Gus Bradley finally got wiped away.

870
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: And I look at that roster and I like it.

871
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for quarterback, I'm I would be I

872
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: would be in on this year. Alright, Greg, your turn,

873
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: talk about some but well, this is a surprising one

874
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: to suddenly be feeling the flame out of nowhere. Some

875
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: whispers about Carlos hide in San Francisco could be worried

876
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: about a number two overall draft pick, perhaps Leonard four

877
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Nett landing there. Who knows if they trade down, who

878
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: knows if they take a running back later in the draft.

879
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: Multiple reports, and granted these are from draft analysts, um

880
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: you know, not not always the most trustworthy reports in

881
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: the world, but some reports that they were ready to

882
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: move on from Carlos Hide. And more interesting to me

883
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: is the fact that John Lynch, their general manager, was

884
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: asked about that report and he just kind of talked

885
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: around it. I mean, he he said, they're hopeful that

886
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: they can that he could fit in the offense, but

887
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: particularly when there's a new regime, they want to kind

888
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: of see it. You're not sure if this skill sets

889
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: going to translate, which I think reading between the line

890
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: is that they're not too sure about Carlos Hide. And

891
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: I think they're a team that's gonna want to really

892
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: focus on running the football and get it running back

893
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: or or a couple running backs that fits what Kyle

894
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: Sannahan wants to do, and maybe Carlos Hyde is not

895
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: that guy. This one does not pass my smell test

896
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: for several reasons. First of all, a roster this week

897
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: cannot afford to spend the number two overall pick on

898
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: a running back. Second of all. Kyle Shanahan came out

899
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: in early March and already named Carlos Hide the starter. Well,

900
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: there's no one else on the roster, said when he

901
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: watched the tape, he's the guy who stood out. He

902
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: also said people overrate too much. What what the scheme

903
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: is that if you're a good running back, you can

904
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: run in any scheme. And third, when I watched all

905
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: of Colin Kaepernick's games, Carlos High jumped off jumped off

906
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: the film. He was their best offensive player by a

907
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: long shot. This guy's too talented to give up on.

908
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: When I hear John Lynch say those things, he's talking

909
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: about motivation, he's trying to motivate Carlos Hide stay on

910
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 1: the field. It seems like the wrong guy to pick

911
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: on outside of the motivation side on that roster. There's

912
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: just not that much talent. And he did put good

913
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: he did play some good games. And also, what is

914
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: number two back? But what is his number one criticism

915
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: of Carlos Side doesn't stay on the field. Maybe that

916
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: would be number one. I would say on the field,

917
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: what's the number one criticism? Not not involved in the pack,

918
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: Like is the guy that loves to bounce it outside

919
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: all the time. I mean that's they they killed him, like,

920
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: just hit the whole stop trying to make a big

921
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: play all the time. I mean, he is an incredible

922
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: running back to watch in terms of his skill and

923
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: the way to make people miss his His size is

924
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: unbelievable as so much talent, and I think that's why

925
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: he pops off the tape. But I think the coaches

926
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,799
Speaker 1: get driven a little crazy that he just won't just

927
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: take the whole you're given. And that is the opposite

928
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: of what Kyle Sanahan looks for in a running back.

929
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: He wants someone like Tevin Coleman that might not have

930
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: much wiggle but just kind of goes. He don't even

931
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 1: had a chance to coach him. He's not give it

932
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 1: a month, give it some time. I mean, Shanahan has

933
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: done a great job with running backs who were not

934
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: as successful before he found them. He could plug a

935
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: guy in off the street and have him run for

936
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: a thousand yards. I just think it's I I get

937
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: where you're coming from. And if they draft someone, and

938
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: if they drafted running back at number two, then I

939
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: think then then the lays the lazy foundation. But I

940
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: just don't think that at this point where getting rid

941
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 1: of Carlos Hide on the forty niners, Greg, there's some

942
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: good points are made. Let's see, do you still feel

943
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: as strongly as you did four minutes ago. I mean,

944
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: i'm I'm I know. West made some good points. Mark

945
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 1: made some good points. Well, that was you don't even

946
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: believe in the second part of your stay. I don't

947
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: know what I was. I'm more confused because this was

948
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: West's idea. But then he shot. I was like, oh,

949
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: that's a good idea because it is a good story.

950
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: That there is some smoke there. But I think more

951
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: smoke than fire. I I think it makes sense. Maybe

952
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: it's not the number two overall pick. I don't think

953
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: it needs to be the number two. In the third round, right,

954
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: you can get your starting we're all getting cozy. You

955
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: can get your starting running back in the third round.

956
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: They'll draft a guy in the third round and then

957
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde will beat him out fair segment over This

958
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: surprisingly got on Mark's radar. Yes, I was, I was waiting.

959
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: I believe me. I understand why it's on my radar.

960
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: I was waiting. It was like Fury Smarmie. It was

961
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: like forty minutes, but you know, into the show and

962
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: I still hadn't had Mark mad at me, and maybe

963
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: well it was highly smarmy comment by you, and what

964
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,919
Speaker 1: it's late on a Thursday afternoon. I don't even enough.

965
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the SMARMI one was this um,

966
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: people are worried about us, Smark. I'm starting to get worried.

967
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm not worried. Heat on Twitter from our Thursday hit

968
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: that came from me. It's like it's like, I know

969
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: Mark hates me, but now it's like everyone not everyone.

970
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: I do not hate you, but I will not take

971
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: I will not accept smarminess smartiness. That's two very different things.

972
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: It's it's all real, folks. Um alright, uh so that's

973
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: our that's our talk, that's our hot draft butts talk.

974
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: And I enjoyed it at anytime I can say, but

975
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: twenty five times in fifteen minutes on a podcast that's

976
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: listened to by hundreds of thousands of people, I feel like,

977
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: including your bosses, I feel lucky. We know that you

978
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: like that aspect. Cheating life, cheating life. All right, here

979
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: we go to end the show today, We're gonna bring

980
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: on a special guest, as we teased live from his

981
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: haunted mansion in New Jersey. There's nobody better than Connor Or.

982
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: Let's welcome him to the Around the NFL podcast driven

983
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: by One Day. There he is Connor Or on Skype.

984
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: This one's for the ladies, and this is where the

985
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: video podcast really pays off. You gotta watch this. Look

986
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: at that headset too. You are you are really important

987
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: looking right now. You also kind of look like an

988
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: assistant baseball coach for the local high school. Yeah, that's

989
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 1: what I'm going for, like out of work umpire. That's

990
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: the That's kind of my thing right now. Alright. So

991
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: Connor reached out to me earlier this week as he's

992
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: wont to do, and said, hey, or you kidding me,

993
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: it's time to bring it back because I have something

994
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: that's really grinding my gears. And and if you're not

995
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: familiar with or you kidding me, it is the platform

996
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 1: for Connor or one of our gifted writers for NFL

997
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: dot com, to let people know what's going on in

998
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: his mind, something that he's seeing out there in the

999
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: pop monoculture, and you want to take it down a notch.

1000
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: Just typically how this goes is that correct. Yeah, I

1001
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: would say you're nailing it. Yeah, alright, So today's topic

1002
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: is gonna be uh Tony Romo and his his issue

1003
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 1: or his decision to travel with the MAVs to their

1004
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: final regular season game. That got on Connor's grid. And

1005
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: I will tell you this, Connor, because it's so special,

1006
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: because we're on a video show, because it is a

1007
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: juicy topic. We gotta bring back an old friend. He's

1008
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: from the second floor. Uh, he works in product. His

1009
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: name is Patrick Kagogo. Oh yeah, Incogogo, welcome back, be

1010
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: around the NFL podcast. He brought us his axe at

1011
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: don't know the model, what is it? A Fender jazz Master.

1012
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: And what he's gonna do, that's what he's gonna do.

1013
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: He's gotta strap. That's what he's gotta stre You know why,

1014
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 1: because we're about to play. Are you kidding me? What

1015
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: are we doing? All right, Connor, let's go alright. So

1016
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: I think this has been woefully misrepresented in the media

1017
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: this week. But I was watching Good Morning Football this

1018
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: morning and they were talking about shameless product. Sorry, go ahead,

1019
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: that's that's okay. They were talking about Tony Romo's quote

1020
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,959
Speaker 1: special we and they said like you know that he's

1021
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: getting Tony Rum was getting all these fun experiences, like

1022
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,760
Speaker 1: he's some sort of fourth grader that won the spelling

1023
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: be but there's no ice cream at their house. So

1024
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: like he just to play with the Mavericks for a

1025
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: night just because he was good at basketball once and

1026
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: just felt like and I think that's like the stupidest

1027
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: thing ever, Tony. You're a little too lucky to get

1028
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: what you get in this world, aren't you. I could

1029
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: do better than that, going like he's he's already decided, okay,

1030
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: like I'm just gonna be a broadcaster and then kick

1031
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: this other guy out. He's been doing this for thirty years,

1032
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: and now they're like, well I I vaguely like golf too,

1033
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: so let's put him on the Masters because that seems important. Like,

1034
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, in my hometown right now is hiring a

1035
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: building inspector, so like Tony has been in buildings, Like

1036
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: why don't we just you know, how do we do?

1037
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: I think it's just like so the Albert player, he

1038
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 1: was like like low fit to Tupu retired five years ago.

1039
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: But maybe he wanted to drive Tony Stewart's car at

1040
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: the d Let's let him do that, Like we'll check

1041
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: with him and make sure that that's something that he

1042
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: didn't want to do first. It's Tony's world, we're just

1043
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: living in it, and that ain't fair. So what are

1044
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: you saying, though, What are you saying that Tony Romo

1045
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: uh should kind of quietly go into the next phase

1046
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: of his career, not be celebrated by the city of Dallas,

1047
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: where he was one of their favorite sons for a

1048
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: decade plus. I mean, let's be fair, you're being a

1049
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: little crotchety. It's true because he brought them so many

1050
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and uh titles and everything like that, but

1051
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: total burn. He never won nothing that was dark, that

1052
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: was so But like, you know, so where do we

1053
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: draw the line? Now, does like John Beeson get to

1054
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: play for the Mighty Ducks when he's you know, like

1055
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: now that he's done doing whatever he wants to do,

1056
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: and like we're we're just like I almost made the

1057
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: mock trial team. Can I sit on the Supreme Court

1058
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: for one day before you know, I'm done with the

1059
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: NFL just to over try to overturn something save it

1060
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: for the politics podcast. So your point is that Tony

1061
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: Ramo just wasn't enough of a legend to be able

1062
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: to kind of pick and choose whatever he wants to

1063
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: do in this dream week. Why doesn't like, let's find

1064
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: like a like a kid who broke his arm at

1065
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: school and can't play baseball, so he can sit on

1066
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: the bench. Let's let him do it, or like, you know,

1067
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: let's let some you know, this girl that gets picked

1068
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: on or something like that, and she's having a bad week.

1069
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: Let's let her sit on the bench and and hang

1070
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: out with the mavericks. I think that's a way better

1071
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: use of everyone in time. Then oh and then like

1072
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: the crowd was channing to get and he wanted to

1073
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: get into the game, Like what do you do and

1074
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: you're not You're on the roster, Kna, you seem a

1075
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: little bit petty. My counterpoint, Connor, because we did write

1076
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: about this on the end around that people take everything

1077
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: so seriously and anybody that got got got their britches

1078
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: in a bunch about the the mean he's in a

1079
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: bunch about there this idea that Tony Romo can't sit

1080
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the bench and get loud ovation

1081
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: from the people of Dallas for a one off thing

1082
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: where it will be forgotten. But everyone that was there

1083
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: enjoyed it, and it got some good pub and moved

1084
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: some merch I mean, there's so many worse things to

1085
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: get to get upset about, and you choose Tony Romo.

1086
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't understand. This is going to be the start

1087
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: of one of the dumbest traditions in sports history. That's fair.

1088
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: Like when Drew Brees retires, he's going to get to

1089
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: play for the Pelicans. And then when I don't know

1090
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: when Eli Manning or tires, Oh, let's let him back

1091
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: clean up in the Yankees one night and out of

1092
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs Yankees. Yeah, it's and then like you know,

1093
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: it's it's such a shameless way to push merchandise. And

1094
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: how many like Sheep went in there and bought jerseys

1095
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: that that thing sold out in the first quarter. That's

1096
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: so ridiculous. You've all been fooled. Is there anything else

1097
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: you would like to add? Connor? Were you kidding me?

1098
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: By Connor? Thanks Connor? Looking good? Thank you love that guy, Patrick,

1099
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all you've done. Maybe give

1100
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: us Can you play us out again like you did

1101
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 1: last time? Yeah, put a little pressure on you yet,

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Speaker 1: I'll do you up, I'll kee you up. We'll be back.

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Speaker 1: We will be back on Monday with another round of shows.

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Speaker 1: Three shows next week. Thank you to everyone listening. Remember

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Speaker 1: if you're if you happen to be hearing this before

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01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: nine pm Eastern six pm Pacific, check this show out

1107
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: and also we'll send out a link so you can

1108
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 1: watch it at any time. UM. That's it, so signing off.

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Speaker 1: UH this is Dan Hansas for a Quiet Storm, the Mailman,

1110
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Speaker 1: the Boss, uh Connor or you kidding me? And new

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01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: money behind the glass till Monday. Take it away, kagango

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Speaker 1: m but don't who