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Speaker 1: moving forward, you can still be candid and still be yourself,

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Speaker 1: but just I wouldn't waste time saying things about other

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Speaker 1: people that clearly people are just out to kind of

428
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Speaker 1: get you now, and you're gonna have a target on

429
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Speaker 1: your back when you've already kind of pumped your chest

430
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Speaker 1: out and you haven't really done anything. And that's clearly

431
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Speaker 1: kind of what's happening right now. And I I think

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Speaker 1: Cleveland and this is the problem, Like, would Baker be

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Speaker 1: acting like this if belichicker Andy Reid where his coach,

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Speaker 1: Probably not, uh, because not that he would have got

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Speaker 1: a quote unquote talking to, but they would have had

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Speaker 1: normal conversations. Just this is easier to handle it this way.

437
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Speaker 1: But I watched Belichick's press conference the other day and

438
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Speaker 1: he was getting peppered with Josh about Josh Gordon. He's

439
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: like Floyd Mayweather up on the stage and he was

440
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Speaker 1: having fun with it. But he doesn't give anything because

441
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Speaker 1: he just knows how quickly everything gets taken out of contact,

442
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Speaker 1: becomes headlines, it becomes a distraction. Like the easiest way

443
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Speaker 1: to win football games in the National Football League is

444
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Speaker 1: to eliminate distractions, so your teammates don't get asked about

445
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Speaker 1: stuff you say. And I do think as time comes,

446
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: he'll grow from it. That's just maturation of any man.

447
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Speaker 1: I'm much more mature at thirty four years old than

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Speaker 1: I was at twenty two, just like I was more

449
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Speaker 1: mature at twenty eight than I was at twenty two,

450
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Speaker 1: and hopefully one day at forty, I'll be more mature

451
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Speaker 1: than I am now. Just a reality of life. But

452
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Speaker 1: in his position and in his job, he can make

453
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Speaker 1: it easier honest team when everyone's kind of gunning for

454
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Speaker 1: them in a weird way because they haven't really done anything,

455
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Speaker 1: just just by tempering it back a little bit. And

456
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Speaker 1: I think John Dorsey his infrastructure is not great. I mean,

457
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Speaker 1: John Dorsey is a good GM, but let's call it

458
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Speaker 1: what it is. He's kind of a meat head. He's

459
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Speaker 1: not exactly Mr Dynamic. And Freddie Kitchens the first time

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Speaker 1: head coach. You know, it's clearly kind of swimming. I

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Speaker 1: mean some of his comments over training camp. And Freddie

462
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Speaker 1: seems like a good guy. Probably like to drink beer

463
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Speaker 1: with him, talk football, hang out, but it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a stretch if he's gonna be a head coach. That

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Speaker 1: Baker didn't exactly go into the easy situation like when

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Speaker 1: you go to the Raiders or when you go to

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Speaker 1: the Browns or when you go to Tampa. Just crazy

468
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Speaker 1: shit happens, and if you're not supermature, like if you're

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Speaker 1: not Peyton Manning day one, it can overwhelm you and

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Speaker 1: you can start saying things, you can start feeling yourself

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Speaker 1: because success with bad teams is viewed. But where the

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Speaker 1: success like the scales different. Success for Kansas City or

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Speaker 1: Seattle or Pittsburgh or Green Bay is so much is

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Speaker 1: valued so much higher than it is in Oakland. Like

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Speaker 1: in Oakland you have two trade games, we throw a

476
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Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns like oh sorry, does our franchise going back?

477
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Speaker 1: Or you make one interception like this guys our franchise corner.

478
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Speaker 1: Where these other franchises, the standards are just so much

479
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Speaker 1: higher that you don't get like this overhyped team before

480
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Speaker 1: you've done anything. They're just properly hyped teams because they've

481
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Speaker 1: proven themselves in the past. Their infrastructure spoke for themselves.

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Speaker 1: Like I wonder if Baker had if he had been

483
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Speaker 1: Remember there was the rumors about the Pats ended up

484
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Speaker 1: getting Baker Mayfield, they might trade up to get him.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say that would have happened. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: the way we talked about Baker. Now. Granted he wouldn't

487
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Speaker 1: be playing because Tom Brady would still be the starter,

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Speaker 1: so he wouldn't really talk at all. Uh, let's let's

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Speaker 1: just hypothetically say some you know, the Steelers or the

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Speaker 1: Packer whoever. Now, he wouldn't start on any of these

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Speaker 1: teams either, So this this nowog's probably pretty hard. But

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Speaker 1: I do think if he was at one of those

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Speaker 1: type places and was the starter, we would talk about

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Speaker 1: him a lot differently because I think he would act

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Speaker 1: a little differently, And I think they would have put

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Speaker 1: him in better positions to not let him talk to

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Speaker 1: someone from g Q, because there's there's nothing to really

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Speaker 1: gain from that at this point in time. I remember

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Speaker 1: Lee Steinberg. I heard him say after mahomes Is, like

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Speaker 1: midway through his second year, when it was clear like

501
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Speaker 1: this guy might win the m v P, they had

502
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Speaker 1: been very careful about the endorsements he had done because

503
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Speaker 1: he hadn't really proven anything. And I think Mahomes would

504
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Speaker 1: sit here and tell you right now, I haven't proven

505
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Speaker 1: anything yet. I've played, I've been, I've been. I'm a

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Speaker 1: one year starter. And it already feels like Baker carries himself,

507
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Speaker 1: which I like because he's being true to himself and

508
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Speaker 1: he's just acting like he knows how to act. And

509
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Speaker 1: that's the reason that he became a walk on to

510
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Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy winner, to the number one pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft to starting quarterback in the NFL. But I

512
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Speaker 1: I do think you can be smart about it. I mean,

513
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Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts that hit me every

514
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Speaker 1: day that probably five years ago I would have tweeted out,

515
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Speaker 1: and in two thousand nineteen, it's just not necessary, you know.

516
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Speaker 1: It's just what's really to be gained. And it's a

517
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Speaker 1: lot different. I'm not trying to say I'm like an

518
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Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, but you just mature as you get older.

519
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Speaker 1: You learn what to say and what not to say

520
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Speaker 1: at certain times, and when the camera and the microphones

521
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Speaker 1: in front of you all the time, you know there

522
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Speaker 1: is a balance to be had. And I hope he's

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Speaker 1: never Russell Wilson, because I think Russell Wilson's a fraud.

524
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Speaker 1: I think when you give him the mic, he acts

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Speaker 1: like a human that he's not who he's actually is.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think Richard Truman and all those

527
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Speaker 1: guys over the years didn't like him, because Richard is

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Speaker 1: an exact is a great example of someone that i'd

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Speaker 1: tell Baker to try to emulate. Richard has kind of

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Speaker 1: been himself the entire time. And besides, you know the

531
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: thing with Aaron Andrews, which let's call what it is,

532
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Speaker 1: was a little overblown. Richard hasn't had any issues. He's

533
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Speaker 1: talked a bunch of ship over the years and he

534
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: backed it up, but he also kind of started talking

535
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Speaker 1: it after he had proven he was a pretty damn

536
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Speaker 1: good player. Uh So, you can have an edge and

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00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: you can be candid, just like Richard Truman has been.

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Speaker 1: But you know what Richard Sherman is now, Like when

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Speaker 1: I see him around the forty niners, he's a different

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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman than he was four or five years ago.

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Speaker 1: And I admire that he grow out. He's a smart guy,

542
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: So you grow as you get older, and I bet

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Speaker 1: Richard would say some things that maybe he changed a

544
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Speaker 1: little bit when he was younger, but I bet there's

545
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Speaker 1: a lot he wouldn't change. So I I just I

546
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: hope Baker. And this is what's hard about planning Cleveland

547
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: is there not really gonna give you a help in hand,

548
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: so you gotta learn on the fly. And I think

549
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: Baker can probably take something away from this g Q article,

550
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: like doing non sports articles. There's there's just at this

551
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: point in time in his career, probably just stay away

552
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Speaker 1: from Okay, let's get into uh my main guy. I'm

553
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: actually wearing a Michigan T shirt right now. Jim Harbaugh.

554
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Speaker 1: He made some comments and I thought they were pretty

555
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: interesting and they kind of went viral today this is

556
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: we talked more NFL. But you know, Jim Harbaugh is

557
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: pretty polarizing person. So I'm gonna dive into this. A

558
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: book came out. I don't know if he co wrote it,

559
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: if the books about him listen, I'm millennial and you know,

560
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: as a headline, but I read an article on the quote.

561
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Speaker 1: I still wasn't quite sure where the quote, like it's

562
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Speaker 1: from a book. Jim Harbaugh is a part of the book,

563
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: and his quote was pretty simple about the SEC. It's

564
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Speaker 1: hard to beat cheaters, and I think anytime you voluntarily

565
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: enter an industry that you're uh familiar with, that you

566
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Speaker 1: have an understanding of. I hate when you complain about

567
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: it after the fact, Like Jim was given the opportunity

568
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: when him and Jed York and it clearly just run

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Speaker 1: its time. He was no longer going to be the

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Speaker 1: coach of the forty. They the actual release said they

571
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: mutually departed ways. I think everyone in this area knews.

572
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: He was technically fired, but he was so good that

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Speaker 1: even regardless of how they played it, he was gonna

574
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Speaker 1: pick his next job. He had three or four teams

575
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Speaker 1: in the NFL lined up to hire him. He chose

576
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Speaker 1: to go to Michigan. Chose to go to Michigan, and

577
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: unlike Stanford, where their academics are really high, they it's

578
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Speaker 1: not they're not gonna cheat. I mean, it's just not really.

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Speaker 1: I'd say one of the big problems for the Pact twelve.

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00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: I say it all the time. We don't cheat enough.

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Speaker 1: We're not cheating in basketball and we're not cheating in football.

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00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: We're getting her as kicked. You know, that's just that's

583
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Speaker 1: a fact. So Jim Harbaugh took advantage. Now we did

584
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Speaker 1: with Pete Carroll. He pushed the envelope and Jim beat him. Now,

585
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: Jim snuck up kind of at the end of his run.

586
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Speaker 1: It took advantage. Then Jim got the thing rolling and

587
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: he did it the right way, which I always struggle

588
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: with the right way. I I the right way. Why

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00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: because the n C double A says like, if you're

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00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: not breaking any laws, you just some arbitrary n C

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00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: double A loss. They never bothered me. Like clearly in basketball,

592
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: it's not even an opinion anymore. We have FBI in

593
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: court records that all the top guys in college basketball

594
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Speaker 1: getting paid. Whether you go to Kentucky, whether you go

595
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Speaker 1: to Duke, whether you go to Arizona, wherever you go,

596
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: you're getting paid a premium six figures in cash. Well,

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00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: I've never worked in the SEC. Uh. I never scouted

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Speaker 1: the SEC like on the ground floor. Never went to

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Speaker 1: the schools. Been in the South a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: but not for football reasons. I guess maybe I've been

601
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: there one time for football reasons. But yeah, they cheat,

602
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: They paid players to go there. It's pretty common knowledge.

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00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: And I think you could throw some of the Southern

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00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: a CEC schools in there as well. Clemsing Florida State, Miami.

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Speaker 1: It does not bother me. But if I was a

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Speaker 1: head coach in college and I could have picked, I

607
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: would add the pick of the litter I could have

608
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Speaker 1: I could have gone a coach in Florida. If Michigan

609
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Speaker 1: doesn't want you to cheat, Jim, that's kind of on you.

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Speaker 1: You you knew what you were getting into. You You've

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00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: voluntarily left the NFL, a league that wanted you to

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00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: stay in. All these teams, the Colts at the time,

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00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: the Bears, all these teams would have hired you. Where

614
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: the great part about the NFL, unlike college football. Yeah,

615
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: the SEC are willing to push the envelope because they

616
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: know their fan bases and really their administration at the

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00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: schools don't care. Well. The same thing with the NFL,

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00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: even though there's an equal financial playing field. You can

619
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: push the envelope on a lot of stuff. He chose this, like, Jim,

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00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: you knew what you're getting into. Plus your big rival,

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Speaker 1: their coach who's not their coach anymore, Urban and I

622
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: call him Urban fraud Meyer clearly kind of a cheater.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't care And I have no I'm not on my

624
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: moral high horse here. I it does not bother me.

625
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: Do whatever you have to do to win, because I'll

626
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: promise you cheating's gone on before I've lived in college,

627
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: and it will go on after I die. John Wooden,

628
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: who was held at the highest esteem possible, probably of

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Speaker 1: any coach in the history of coaching. It would be

630
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: like John Wooden and Vince Lombardi. Probably if you just thought,

631
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: like who are the it might be John Wooden. Clearly

632
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: at number one. There was a guy named Sam Gilbert,

633
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: the number one booster, paying all the players for years. Now,

634
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: maybe he was in denial, maybe he refused to know.

635
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, but U c l A. That program

636
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: was paid for, you know, the Alabama program. Bear Bryant

637
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: probably paid for two programs. Now, all the good ones

638
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Speaker 1: I got news for you. Guys are getting money into

639
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Speaker 1: the table. So, Jim, if you're gonna be in Michigan,

640
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear you complain. Either push the envelope,

641
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: break the rules, and do what your competition is doing,

642
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you're judged on

643
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: winning wins and losses. You're judge on making the playoffs.

644
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: I know how the States pushing the envelope and they're

645
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: kicking your ass. You signed up for this. This this

646
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: is not Stanford a field good story, which Bruce Felden

647
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: once told me on an interview when I had a

648
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: radio show. I thought it was the best coaching job

649
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: you'd ever seen. They were one of the leven. They've

650
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: never really won, like people don't realize, though they've produced

651
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL players over the years, Like Lways

652
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: senior year they were five and six. You don't really

653
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 1: win a Stanford. So Stanford to win the Pack twelve

654
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: and him to get them going like that was incredible.

655
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: It was an incredible feat. But he also and David

656
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: Shaw has figured this out to a t. They have

657
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: a very very niche recruit that they're getting. They're getting

658
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: a guy that academically qualifies for the school. And unlike

659
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: you don't need a two point oh and eight on

660
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: your s a t, I mean you need really good grades.

661
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: So you need to be an academic qualifier and a

662
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: potential NFL player. It's a very very small community throughout

663
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: this country that Stanford's recruiting from and recruiting against. And

664
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Speaker 1: it's a unique school and I would hope, pray to God,

665
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: my kids could go there one day, not to play football,

666
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: but just to go to school. There, in my opinion,

667
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: the number one school in America. I don't even think

668
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: there's a second. But he had a unique thing going.

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Speaker 1: If he's gonna win in Michigan and he's recruited pretty well,

670
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't want to hear them bitching in

671
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: moaning about the SEC cheat. Jim. They cheated before, like

672
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: you were in college, and they're gonna cheat forever. Ohio

673
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: State's probably cheating. So if you want to beat these teams,

674
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: you better cheat. Stop complaining about it like it's I

675
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: get you want to make headlines, and I appreciate how

676
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: candid Hardby is. I can't get enough of hardball, But

677
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: to me, this seems like sour grags, like you're just

678
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: not getting done. I watched the Ohiouse State. They kick

679
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: the crap out of you, Jim. They kicked the living

680
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: crap out of you, Like you have no excuses this year.

681
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: It's time to win. So yeah, it's hard to it's

682
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: hard to beat cheaters. Yeah, I mean, well then, uh,

683
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you can't beat them,

684
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: join them, you know, start pushing the envelope. Maybe go

685
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: Nick Nolty and blue Chips start maybe looking the other way.

686
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. You gotta do something because no one's

687
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: gonna care if you're quote unquote doing it the right way,

688
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: if you're getting your ass kick at Michigan. And for

689
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: me to think that Michigan has always done it the

690
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: right way in football, I'd be a little apprehensive about

691
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: writing that bad Boy and Sharpie, Yeah, they probably they've

692
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: pushed the envelope before. Now I do think that Harbaugh

693
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: probably wants to do it the right way and it's tried. Well,

694
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: it's not working. You have not been good enough. So

695
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: let's let's up the anty here, or just stop complaining

696
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: about it, because if you're gonna keep complaining about you

697
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: just gonna keep losing. Because that's just the reality they're

698
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: they're not gonna stop cheating. I think, as Jerry Tarkanian

699
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: once famously said when he was the head coach at

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Speaker 1: U and l V Kentucky cheated so hard that they

701
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Speaker 1: h they put I think Cleveland State on probation. So

702
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: like no one's busting Alabama, no one's busting Clemson. Like

703
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: in the SEC, when they want to get someone in trouble,

704
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: they bust Ole Miss. They don't bust l s U

705
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: in Alabama and Georgia. Those schools are like made men

706
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: in the mob. They're safe. No one, none of their

707
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: administration cares about the n C double A clems in

708
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 1: Miami Florida State, and none of them either Ohio State.

709
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:55,760
Speaker 1: I mean that they had a coach on their staff

710
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: last year that I mean it sure looked like was

711
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: beating the crap out of his life and Urban didn't

712
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: even really care. So, Jim, if you're gonna be on

713
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: this moral high horse, which again I'm not obviously the

714
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: domestic violence thing, Urban Meyer and that's why I call

715
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: him fraud Meyer because but I don't think that Urban

716
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: was just getting all those guys to come play for

717
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: him because it was the Ohio State, Like the brown

718
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: bags were full of cash. That's the way. That's the

719
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: way this thing works, and it's not. This isn't some

720
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: new revelation. It's always work like this. Stop complaining, Jim,

721
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: and just either start cheating or somehow find a way

722
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: to win some games the right way. And good luck

723
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: to you, because no one does. Okay, let's go rapid

724
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 1: fire with some NFL stories. I just kind of things

725
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: that I've seen on rtal World. I always recommend rdal World.

726
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: We use it when I was in the NFL. I

727
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: know still a lot of NFL buddies use it. It's

728
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: basically a fantasy site, but they put everything together really

729
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: well and you can just I scrawl it, you know,

730
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: three to four times a day, especially during training camp.

731
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: You just you're able to keep up with injuries and

732
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: just you know, guys that are excelling, guys that are

733
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: playing bad ad, guys that are getting benched. It's it's

734
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: my go to site, uh, to kind of stay up

735
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 1: with the stock market that is the NFL. Amari Cooper Uh.

736
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: It had been reported he's dealing with planner fasciitis and

737
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: there's it's just pain in your foot. He could play,

738
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: you know, he said he played with it before and

739
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: he has, but it's actually an intrinsic muscle strain. I

740
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: saw someone tweeting about it. A doctor on on Twitter.

741
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: If he's tweeting about it, basically just said it's really nothing.

742
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 1: I would say this about Amory. My big red flag

743
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: on Amory would be toughness and just inability to play

744
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: when he's a little dinged up. So I know the

745
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Amory are saying it's no big deal. I

746
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: just say, there's something to keep an eye on, you know,

747
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: just can this guy stay healthy for a season? Can

748
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: he play when he's dinged up? Because to me, that's

749
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: the big knock. Melvin Gordon willing to hold out games,

750
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: miss games, hold out the year. Like, hey, Melvin, they

751
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: ain't calling you. They have a kind tracked offer. I've

752
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: been saying this for a while. Anyone with a brain

753
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: has been saying this, go sign the contract. Because looking

754
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: through their schedule. They opened up with the Colts, but

755
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: they got Miami, they got the Texans. I think they

756
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: have bills. I looked at it yesterday. They're they're really

757
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,439
Speaker 1: good like that. They could easily start if you missed

758
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: the first month, they could be three and one. Eckler's

759
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: playing well, Josh Jackson's playing well. They got a bunch

760
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: of receivers. Hunter Henry's back. I don't know. They got

761
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: a pretty good quarterback last time I checked. Be careful

762
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: because as we talked about Zeke, at the end of

763
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: the day, Zeke has led the league in rushing and

764
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: he's way better than you. So he does have a

765
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: little leverage because he's an elite player. You're a good player,

766
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: and they like he as a guy. But I don't

767
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: think they're losing that much sleep overpaying you what you

768
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: think you're worth, because they don't think you're worth that.

769
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: Trent Williams. I knew this story was fake immediately the

770
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: Past offered their two thousand, twenty first rounder. I have

771
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: a hard time seeing them offering a first rounder for

772
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: a guy that I think crew only injured. I know

773
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: he has a Bennett camp, but is he healthy one too?

774
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: He wants a new deal, like one of the things money.

775
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: So they could offer a first round pick for a

776
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: guy that wants a huge new deal. It's not like

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00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: Trent Williams is. I mean, I have to look up

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00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: how old he is, but I'm pretty if I had

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Speaker 1: to guess typing it in right now, I'd say Trent

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Speaker 1: Williams thirty two. I mean, he's an elite player, he's

781
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: really good, but he's thirty one years old. I guess

782
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: he just turned thirty one about a month ago. I

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Speaker 1: I just I have a I'd be hard pressed to

784
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: see Bill Belichick trading a first round pick for a

785
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: thirty one year old tackle. Here's a great player, I

786
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: mean an elite player. I think seven times straight pro bowler,

787
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: an elite player. But he might be injured and wants

788
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of money. That that that to me doesn't

789
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: add up. That that seems very like Washington is just

790
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: kind of a clown show. I mean, you're gonna do.

791
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure Bill Belichick talked to him, but you don't

792
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: talk when when you when you have conversation with Bill,

793
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: you leak it out. He'll never do deals with you again.

794
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: I mean, the ridskins are a joke. So Juju, who

795
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: last year played almost six of his snaps inside, has

796
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: really been working this year playing outside. Because that's with

797
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: Antonio gone that number six, he'll probably be in the

798
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: slot half that much now. Depending on how some of

799
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Speaker 1: these young guys play well, they're gonna need him to

800
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: play well outside. They're gonna need him to be an

801
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: outside wide receiver. I'm a big Juju guy. I think

802
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: he'll thrive in this situation. Uh. And he's never gonna

803
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: be the fastest guy. But an Joan Bolden dominated forever

804
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: and couldn't run either. So to me, you don't if

805
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: you have elite ball skills. And you're tough and you're

806
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: great at contested areas, you don't need to run, you know,

807
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: a four three like Jujus a player and he's been

808
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: a player since the moment he showed up at SC

809
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: because he's tough, great ball skills, and he's just he's

810
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: a playmaker. Crabtree signed with Arizona. What what? I don't understand?

811
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Speaker 1: How many receivers do the Cardinals need? They got Larry Fitzgerald,

812
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: They have Christian Kirk. They drafted about eighteen rookies. How

813
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: many guys they need? How many? How many receivers? Is

814
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: guy gonna keep like eight receivers on the team? Geez, Louise,

815
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: Like they really need Michael Crabtree. They have Larry Fitzgerald.

816
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there at this point in times? Are

817
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: they the same player? Like? Why why do you need multiple?

818
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: Is Larry Fitzgerald gonna be on this team? Is that

819
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: kind of a wild card? Maybe they'll trade If I

820
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: was Larry Fitzgerald, trade me to some good team for

821
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: love of god. Uh. Darren Waller, I thought his little cameo,

822
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: his section during Hard Knocks was pretty interesting. I mean,

823
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: a great human story guy that was clearly an addict.

824
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: He's two years sober, but he's the Raider's best tight end,

825
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: and he's are starting tight end, and he clearly is

826
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Speaker 1: really talented. I went back and looked in two thousand fifteen,

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Speaker 1: coming out of college at Georgia Tech, he was two

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Speaker 1: forty pounds. He ran at four or four six. He's

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Speaker 1: six ft six. I mean, you see it in some

830
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: of those clips at Raiders training camp. The dude has

831
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: all the physical tools, but the Raiders are depending on

832
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: a guy that's, you know, kind of going on into

833
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: his late twenties now, who is eighteen career catches. I

834
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: would love it to be a great story, but usually

835
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: a guy like that is kind of always an under performer.

836
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: You get so caught up. You know, he's so big,

837
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: he's so fast, he can move with the ball in

838
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: his hands. But for whatever reason, I know he's sober now.

839
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: But man, I I don't like betting on players like

840
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: that as starters. Now, if that guy's my backup and

841
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,720
Speaker 1: I hit lightning in a bottle, maybe I got something.

842
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: But when I have to depend on a guy that

843
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: has been an underachiever his whole career for multiple reasons

844
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: and just has not produced in the NFL. So regardless

845
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: of his physical attributes, he just doesn't produce in the NFL.

846
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty big stretch. I think Seattle

847
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: whift on their first round pick two years ago. I

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Speaker 1: guess it was last year. And I like this guy

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Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, I'm I'm a nerd. On Saturdays,

850
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: I consume twelve plus hours of college football, and because

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00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: I'm on the West Coast, I watched a lot of

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00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: the late night games and usually we get one of

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00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: the Pack twelve games, but we also usually get a

854
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: Mountain West game, Fresno State, San Diego State, Boise State.

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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Rashad Penny. Rashad Penny, and

856
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: I I really liked him. I thought he was gonna

857
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: be a really good, you know, one of those second

858
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: round picks it becomes a really good player in the NFL.

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00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: But he just he looks terrible. And I watched the

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00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: game they played last week against Minnesota. He's so slow,

861
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's just he's such a plotter. There's there's

862
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: just nothing there. And just compared to Chris Carson's, like

863
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: Chris Carson's, you know, Adrian Peterson or Walter Payton compared

864
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Speaker 1: to this guy. You drafted him in the first round

865
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: like that. That's the problem. When you do take a

866
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: first round running back, you better hit like. It better

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Speaker 1: be Zeke, it better be Christian McCaffrey. Hell, it better

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Speaker 1: even be Melvin Gordon. If you get Rashad Penny, even

869
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: if it's at the end of the second round, that

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00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: is a disaster. And you know who got lucky because

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00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: the reason Seattle took him is because they wanted to

872
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 1: trade back, but they knew that Cleveland was gonna take him. Well,

873
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: Cleveland end up getting Nick Chubb. Who would you rather

874
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: have right now? Nick Chubb or Rashad Penny? Rashand Penny.

875
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: His mom might rather have Nick Chubb right now. So

876
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: that's that's a swing and a miss. Nelson Aguilar, this

877
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: guy's had a crazy career. Was drafted in the first

878
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: round by Chip. Then when Doug got there, it looked

879
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: like they might trade him, and then he kind of

880
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: excelled in the offense. Well, this year, the fifth year option,

881
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: I think he almost makes ten million dollars. It's like, well,

882
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: they may trade him. Well, I guess he's had an

883
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: incredible camp. He's gonna be a significant part of the offense.

884
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you have a guy like that holding on

885
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: for the long term, it works out and they might

886
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: just get lucky, like I I think some version of

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00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: this with the forty Niners with Arick Armstead, they picked

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00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: up his fifth year option. He's always kind of been

889
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: an underachiever. He's had an excellent camp. I think he's

890
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a good player for him this year in

891
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: this game. And sometimes it doesn't work. You hold on

892
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: that fifth year option and just bite you in the

893
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 1: ask because the guy sucks. So you get the Eagles

894
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: some credit holding onto this guy. I've always liked Nelson

895
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: Aguilar uh and I think this year in free agency

896
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: the Eagles won't pay him, I'm sure, but someone will

897
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: pay him. He'll get he'll get good money, and he's

898
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: he's a good player. Okay, let's get to the middle

899
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: cuff mail back. It's where I answer your questions from

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00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: Instagram at John Middlecops my handle Instagram d MS wide open,

901
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: slide on in and I will I'll answer your question. Also,

902
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 1: I do a couple of rants, usually a couple of days,

903
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: uh or every day on Instagram. Throw it up there

904
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about maybe this fall on my

905
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: Insta stories, you know on Saturdays when college football games

906
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: are going on, jumping on their going live, you know,

907
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: talking about players and even Sunday just ranting and raven

908
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: throughout the game. So just give me a fall on

909
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: Instagram and I'll be very active during this football season.

910
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: Let's give your questions. Do you think there's a scenario

911
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 1: in which the Patriots win it all in Tom Brady

912
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: retires then tank the two thousand twenty season order to

913
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: get Trevor Lawrence. I like that question. I think there's

914
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: definitely a chance he retires his contracts over. I mean,

915
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: he'll technically be a free agent at the end of

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00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: the year. Of the they structured it. They gave him

917
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: a huge bonus. I could see him retiring of his

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00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: game fell off, you know, if it dramatically slipped and

919
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: it'd be hard, you'd be I don't necessarily think it

920
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: would ever look like Peyton Manning did that last season.

921
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: But he has forty two forty three, Like, how long

922
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: is he really gonna be able to play at least

923
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: forty five? I get he eats, you know, kale smoothies

924
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: and avocado ice cream, but but eventually that that famous

925
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: thing they like to call father Time's gonna catch up

926
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: to him. Now, if Belichick's the head coach, there's one

927
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: thousand percent they're not tanking. They would not tank. Think

928
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: about the humans that have or the teams that have

929
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: tanked and the humans that led them. We've really just

930
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: had one huge tank job, and that was the seventies Sixers. Now,

931
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: it happened a couple of times in basketball, like on

932
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: individual years. The Knicks attempted it this year and it failed. Uh,

933
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: they wanted Zion and they ended up getting the third

934
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: overall pick. In the NFL, it's never really happened. Remember

935
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: that the year the Colts got lucked. They want a

936
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: game if I remember directly, kind of late. It's just

937
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: not really in the NFL. It's hard to tank. I mean,

938
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: the Niners are trying to tank lashter kind of and

939
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: they won a game in December. It's just hard to

940
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: It's hard to tank in the NFL. So I'd say

941
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: no on the tanking. But Belichick would love to get

942
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Now, would he trade a bunch of picks

943
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: to get him? You know, if a team, let's say

944
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: had a starting quarterback that they liked and was taking

945
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: number one. I wouldn't rule that out. The problem is,

946
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: as long as they have Brady or just someone functional,

947
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna win so many games. They have to trade

948
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: up pretty long. Uh, you know, a pretty far ways

949
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: to go if you're drafting in the twenties and you

950
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: want to get up to one. I mean, it's remember

951
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: how much it costs dem Trough when he traded for

952
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, and what was he coming from seven to six?

953
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: He gave up a boatload. The Bears are gonna win

954
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:49,840
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yes, no, I'm gonna say no. I

955
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: think my Super Bowl pick, loosely right now, will be

956
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: will probably be Chief Saints, maybe Chief's Eagles, maybe Chief Cowboys.

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00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: Probably one of those three teams Chiefs are Patriots. I

958
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: kind of have it narrowed down to like four or

959
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: five teams Chiefs, Patriots, Eagles, Cowboys, Saints. Maybe. I like

960
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: the Bears though, and I like the Vikings. I think

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00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: I think the NFC is gonna be really hard. I

962
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be much harder in the a f C.

963
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: Like I I see the a f C A is

964
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: a pretty top heavy division I say the Chiefs and

965
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: the and the Patriots are kind of in a different

966
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: league now that Derwin James is out for the foreseeable future.

967
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: Who knows if Melvin Gordon's coming back. I think they

968
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: were the third best team. I think the Steelers are

969
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: gonna be good, but they've lost everybody, so there's a

970
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: lot of unknown there. And then you look at the

971
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: probably the most talented other team in that division, the Browns. Well,

972
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks there. Who am I missing here?

973
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: The a f C. South Luck has been injured the

974
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: entire off season. The Jaguars could bounce back, the Texans,

975
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with Clowney that There are a lot

976
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: of question marks with all the other teams. So I'd

977
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: go Chiefs, Patriots, and then the the NFS. See, I

978
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: think the Bears have a shot that they definitely do

979
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: if you think about it. Two years ago, the Rams

980
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: went from getting bounced in the first round and making

981
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So if you go this is Matt

982
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: Naggy's second year, it's a second year with Rubisky. The

983
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: Bears are built a lot differently than the Rams team.

984
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:18,720
Speaker 1: Right their defense is what carries them that they haven't.

985
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: They're running backs should be pretty good this year. If

986
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: drum Biscuity can take a little step, Allen Robinson looks good.

987
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: It's not crazy, It's it's not crazy. If my dream

988
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: scenario would be Chiefs Bears would Diddeveon Clowney fit a

989
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: four three scheme at defensive end. If so, what would

990
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,839
Speaker 1: the realistic value the Seahawks would have to give up? Uh? Yeah,

991
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean he he fits any scheme. I actually think

992
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: he's a better four three defensive end than a three

993
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: or four outside linebacker. But he one could just he

994
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: could play in their division or in their defensive scheme.

995
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: He'd be awesome in that. In the scheme that Seattle runs.

996
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: I would say Houston would ask for their first round pick.

997
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: I would say Seattle would probably say seconds as high

998
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: as we'll go, because we, like we've talked about, it's

999
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: hard to trade a first round pick for I mean,

1000
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 1: if if you had if you knew it was picked

1001
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: twenty eight, you'd probably do it. But if you're Seattle,

1002
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: you go, well, what if we kind of take a

1003
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: step back this year and that's in the teens. We

1004
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: can't sign him until December twenty nine, so what if

1005
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: he has an awesome year and just wants to hit

1006
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 1: free agency. I think it's just a huge risk. It's

1007
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: why it makes it very complicated for them to trade him,

1008
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: because any team trading for him can't immediately lock him

1009
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: up like you know, for example, the Bears did with

1010
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: Clowney or the Niners did with d Ford. I can

1011
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: trade for the guy, but I have to wait to

1012
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: sign him, so to me, that immediately diminishes the compensation

1013
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: that I would give up to acquire the player. I

1014
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: like Clowney more than most. I feel like, is it

1015
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: just me because I'm older, but I'm over Baker Mayfield.

1016
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,879
Speaker 1: Do younger NFL fans react better this crap than older fans? Yeah?

1017
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: I mean I I've been saying all week, I'm just

1018
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: kind of tired of these NBA type stories. I'm just

1019
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: ready for the season. Uh you know it's GQ magazine.

1020
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: They're talking to him. The interview probably happened in May.

1021
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: I think our culture has just become about all these

1022
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: type stories about guys talking about stuff. I I don't.

1023
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: I don't even care. I I really don't, And I'm young,

1024
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: younger this will be thirty five here. I don't know

1025
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: a couple of months. But yeah, I just I'm just

1026
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: worn out by all the fluff stories. I can't take

1027
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: it anymore. I just want the games. Just can can

1028
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the regular season start? For the love of God? And

1029
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: then we just talked about coaches and players in the

1030
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: games and the matchups, because I that's that's all I

1031
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: care about. Uh No, don't get me wrong. I mean

1032
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: I like a good Antonio Brown drama story every once

1033
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: in a while. But just like the NBA jumped the

1034
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: Shark a couple of years ago, and just following the

1035
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: Warriors like I did with Kevin Durant, it just wears

1036
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: you out. I I I don't care what the guy instagrammed,

1037
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I fall him on Instagram. Yeah I

1038
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: saw it. It's not that big a deal. But you know,

1039
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report and ESPN, they it's like, God, I just

1040
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: get I get worn out by it. I'll be honest,

1041
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: because I also think a lot of people in this

1042
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: business love that stuff because they can't talk about the games.

1043
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: They can't break down whatever sport you cover or talk

1044
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: about like that's that's where they're gonna struggle. That's where

1045
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna get exposed. Anyone can talk about some drama

1046
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: of you know, what someone said about someone else in

1047
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 1: some article. That's I mean, you could do that, I could,

1048
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: We all can do that. But it's you know, if

1049
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: you follow basketball and football, there are certain people that

1050
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: talk about the sport they just no more. Why do

1051
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: you think Colin runs circles around everyone in this business.

1052
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: He just understands sports a lot better than most hosts,

1053
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: most radio personalities, most personalities in general. He just does

1054
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: he sees it differently. You know, he understands what he's

1055
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: looking at. That's why I've been listening to him for

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Speaker 1: ten plus years or whenever I first found him, like

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00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: into college. That's why most of you guys listen to him.

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00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: It's why he's the best in the business. That's why

1059
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: when you try to listen to some radio shows, you go, Jesus,

1060
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: this guy has no clue what he's talking about now.

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00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: But again, like anyone can give an opinion on well,

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00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: you see what he instagrammed about this guy? I mean, yeah,

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00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,120
Speaker 1: it's like just normal human high school gossip. Can you

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00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: talk about what actually happened with the game? Can you

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00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: give us some opinion that will we go? Wow? The

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00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 1: guy is pretty smart hopefully, you know. I kind of

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00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: do that on this shows while you're listening, uh to

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00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: Why I listen to other certain people? They just they're smart.

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00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: You know. I was listening to some of Joe Rogan's

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00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: podcast today. Why do I listen to Joe Rogan? I like,

1071
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: I just think he's intelligent, so he just makes me think.

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00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: I don't always agree with everything he says. Sometimes I

1073
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: do agree, I you know, just I like listening to

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00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: smart people, like hopefully most of us do. But you know,

1075
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: sports has become so fluffy now. It's like I that's

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00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: why I couldn't even get into the Baker story, and

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00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: I talked about it earlier in the part like I

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00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: don't even care what he said. I just want to

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00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: watch Baker play football because I think Baker could be

1080
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: like a Drew Brees type player. That's all I care about.

1081
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: I just want to watch him play football. But that's

1082
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: not really what sports talk is about anymore. It's like

1083
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: the Lebronification of of sports. I'm a Patriot fan, but

1084
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: a family in the Twin Cities they can't stop raving

1085
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 1: about how good of a coach Mike Zimmers three part

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00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: question one, Where would you have Zimmer ranked in the

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00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: coaching hierarchy too? When analysts talk about the halftime adjustments

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00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: that coaches make, what are some specific examples that a

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00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: defensive minded coach might make? And finally, what if the

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00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: Vikings ceiling for what is the Viking ceilings for two?

1091
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: I would say Zimmers a top ten coach. Uh him

1092
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: and Fangio probably the two best defensive coaches in the league.

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00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: I would say a halftime adjustment would be, you know,

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00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: if a certain let's say you're a defensive coach and

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00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: I don't know, like they have a third receiver that's

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00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: kicking your ass and he's playing in the slot, maybe

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00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: you would adjust, like you would take one of your

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00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: outside corners that doesn't usually play in the slot, but

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00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: maybe you think he could match up, and you just

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00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: move them to the slot. So anytime that third wide

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00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,439
Speaker 1: receivers in the game, he would just follow that guy.

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Speaker 1: I'm just giving some random, arbitrary, made up example. I

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00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: had a coach told me last year that in the

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00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: first half of the playoff game, he was getting like

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00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: his center was getting killed because they had shifted the

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00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,439
Speaker 1: defensive line and basically just rushed the A gap rush.

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00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 1: The A gap rushed the A gap and blitzed. So

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00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: he made an halftime adjustment where he stopped just running

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00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,479
Speaker 1: basic you know, three and five step drops. He started

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00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: getting his quarterback on the move either to the left

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00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: or the right, and that kind of neutralized the the

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Speaker 1: A gap pressure. I can't remember if they were sending

1113
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: like they were putting two linemen in like basically over

1114
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: the center on each side, or they were rushing a

1115
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: blitzing a linebacker, but whatever, he just started moving his

1116
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: quarterback and really kind of opened up the offense. Halftime

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00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 1: adjustments are not like implement a whole new offense or defense.

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00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: It could just be a subtle change because you've game

1119
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: planned unlike the preseason. You've game planned all week four

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Speaker 1: specific things and the first half is like a feeling

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00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: out process, so you find out what your game plan

1122
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: is working and what is not working, and what you

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00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: expected to see from them and what they expect to

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00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: see from you vice versa. So then you just go

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00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: down and you go, well, I think this can work

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Speaker 1: against what they're showing me, instead of we don't know

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00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: what they're gonna show me until the game. But the

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Speaker 1: off the film getting ready all week we make all

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00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: the game plan is is an educated guess of what

1130
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 1: you're gonna see or what is if you're an offensive coach,

1131
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: what is gonna work against what you've seen on tape

1132
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: that they run on defense. That's all. It's all kind

1133
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: of an educated guess, and then the actual game is

1134
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: what actually is gonna happen. So once you go to halftime,

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00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: you get a feel for what they're doing. And I

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00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: think the Vikings just watched a little bit of that

1137
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: preseason game. I guess it would have been last Sunday

1138
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: night Vikings Seattle, maybe a Saturday night. I think they

1139
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: could be good if Cousins plays well and their defense

1140
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: is a little better than it was last year, their

1141
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: double digit win team. I think them in the UH

1142
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: and the Bears would be two playoff teams from that division.

1143
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: That their rosters is really really talented. How many more

1144
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: years do you think Antonio Brown plays in the league? Uh? Well,

1145
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: I mean he's thirty one. I mean he's in the

1146
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: prime of his career. If he wasn't just a complete nut,

1147
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: I'd say I think he had to have a long

1148
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: career ahead of him, especially the way he plays you

1149
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: know he's not a physical guy. He's had the one

1150
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: concussion against against that Cincinnati on that Monday night game.

1151
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: Uh when when Vontes killed him and then Juju got Vontes?

1152
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: I would I don't even I can't even with Antonio Brown.

1153
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 1: I can't even begin to guess. If you told me

1154
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: he played eight more years, I'd believe you. If you

1155
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: told me quit in the middle of this season, I

1156
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: believe you. As a football fan, I hope he keeps playing.

1157
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: I really enjoy watching him. Now. If you watch Hard Knocks,

1158
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: it's one crazy dude. Man is he Is he high

1159
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: on weed or is he high on life? Or is

1160
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: he just nuts? I don't know, but he's He's a

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00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: different cat. What are your thoughts on a Clowney to

1162
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: the Raiders trade. The Raiders have two first round draft picks,

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00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: which one projected from the Bears to be late the

1164
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: first round, So trading a second round pick for him

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00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt to have an elite pass rusher for a

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00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: year at least. Well, I'd have to double check, but

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the Raiders do not have a second

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00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: round pick next year because remember part of the Khalil

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00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: Mack trade was to one, so they got there one

1170
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: last year, Josh, I guess it was. It was Josh Jacobs,

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00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: the running back. Then this year they get the Bears

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00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,919
Speaker 1: first round pick. Remember they did a pick swap, so

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00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen or excuse me, two thousand twenty,

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00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: the Bears get their second round pick and then the

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00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: Raiders get the Bears third round pick, so they they

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00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: flip picks. So if the Raiders, you know, are like

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00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: five and ten or five and eleven and our picking

1178
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: relatively high in the second round, the Bears get that pick.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget that. You can't give a first round pick

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00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: for clowney when you can't resign them, so you can't

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00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: risk doing that. Uh, all they can do is trade

1182
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: the Bears through round pick. But if you're the if

1183
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: you're Houston, you go, well, that pick might be kind

1184
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: of shitty. I mean that if the if the Bears

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00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: win double digit games, are in the playoffs. Again, that's

1186
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: in the twenties of the third round. So you're talking, well,

1187
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: pick is that you're talking in like the hi eighties, nineties,

1188
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: that's that's not a great pick. Just some complimentary podcast

1189
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: thanks with Trent Williams and Clowney both not happy with

1190
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 1: their respective situations. Why not do a straight up trade.

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00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: Houston's line get a massive boost and Washington would have

1192
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: a pretty sweetie line. They would I mean, I think

1193
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: the Redskins were excuse me, the Texans would do that yesterday.

1194
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: I think the hard part for the Redskins again is

1195
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: this guy's contract. He just you can't sign him. So

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Speaker 1: you're giving your best trade asset by a mile and

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Speaker 1: Trent Williams for a good player. And I think you

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Speaker 1: do that if Trent Williams said, I'm never playing for

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Speaker 1: you again, but you can't resign the guy. So why

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Speaker 1: would Clowney stay with the Redskins? Now the owner would

1201
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: pay him a lot of money, more than likely, but

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Speaker 1: he can't do that until the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: But I like where you're I've seen that thrown around

1204
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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Let's get a couple more questions here. Shoot

1205
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 1: shouting out from Oxford, England. Love the pod. Any good

1206
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: books to start me off on the basics of playing

1207
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: and having a deeper understanding of the game. Thanks Goot

1208
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: Steelers trying to think of the I think it's the

1209
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: David David Haliber stand book, the one on Belichick The

1210
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: Education of a Coach. I'm pretty sure that Bill O'Brien

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Speaker 1: when he got to Penn State gave that book to

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01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: all of his employees because that's kind of how he

1213
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: wanted to run his operation. I might be it might

1214
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 1: be a different Belichick book, but it was just kind

1215
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: of how they've Maybe it was Michael Holly's book on Belichick.

1216
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Speaker 1: It's a it's a Belichick book. Google whatever book that

1217
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien gave to his employees at Penn State to

1218
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Speaker 1: help them run the organization. It's a it's a good read.

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01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: My mail bad question the other day? Uh, my mail

1220
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Speaker 1: bad question is the other day when I was listening

1221
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Speaker 1: to the Boston Sports radio a few days ago and

1222
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: they mentioned that Dontrell and then asked the Patriots first release.

1223
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: Then today he returned to the Chargers. What are situations

1224
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: where players ask for their release and what are their motives?

1225
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: Is it generally that they think they won't make their

1226
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: current team? Yeah, I think for the majority of players,

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Speaker 1: like a Dontrell inman, it's a numbers game where they're

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Speaker 1: a veteran player. I don't know. I'd have to ask

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Speaker 1: around the league, like Don I'm assuming he's like a

1230
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: high character guy. He has a good relationship with Belichick.

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01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon gets reinstated. What you start doing the math?

1232
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Speaker 1: You go Edelman, Gordon, um uh nikkil Harry. You know,

1233
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: obviously Slater just makes a team even though he doesn't

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01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: play on offense. And I'm sure they got you know

1235
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: they have that undrafted free agent rookie is his last name, Myers. Uh.

1236
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Speaker 1: It's something. He's crushing it. He's a lock to make

1237
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: the team. In mean, just he's right, like, you're gonna

1238
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: cut me anyway? Can you cut me now to give

1239
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 1: me a chance to go to another team this last

1240
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of training camp to try to make

1241
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: their team. I think that's usually the case with a

1242
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: veteran because a younger player wouldn't really have the juice.

1243
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: He would just play it out. So I think that

1244
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Speaker 1: would be what happened in that situation. Do you think

1245
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: that Ronald Jones makes a big jump your two under arians?

1246
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: I hope so. I'd like Ronald Jones since he came

1247
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: out of USC I did see on Rotor World the

1248
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: other day though, that he's dealing with nice wellness. So

1249
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: you know. That's I don't know how serious it is.

1250
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Evans is out too with a quad.

1251
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 1: He just it's hard to tell when some of these

1252
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: guys get injured. Is it just precautionary why they take

1253
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 1: him out of the game or why they don't practice

1254
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: because you're you're not winning the Super Bowl in the

1255
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: middle of August. But you know, I don't know. I'm

1256
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,960
Speaker 1: starting to be a little less confident. But it is

1257
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: a good offense for him to play. Remember when David

1258
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: Johnson's rookie year, how good he was with Arians. Arians

1259
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: makes running backs look good. Uh's the one thing they're

1260
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: preaching also in Tampa Bay is Jamie Jamie stopped forcing

1261
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, either throw it away or

1262
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: check the football down. Well, who do you usually check

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Speaker 1: the football down? Dude? The running back just sitting there

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Speaker 1: in the flat. Uh. And in theory, Ronald Jones should

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Speaker 1: be able to catch the ball. So I I like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if Ronald Jones healthy, I think he makes a big step.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everybody listening. Uh God, I'm still I'm still laughing

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Speaker 1: about the Raiders and the backers playing an eight yard

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Speaker 1: NFL game in Canada in the preseason. You just you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't to save the Raiders five thousand dollars. You

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Speaker 1: can't make it up. You honestly can't appreciate everybody listening. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I'm actually gonna end on this. I you guys

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Speaker 1: should hear this just because this is pretty funny. I

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Speaker 1: got this. Someone sent this to me Gruden. Gruden was

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Speaker 1: asked if they sent someone to Canada. Here's what he said,

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Speaker 1: take a look at the turf we have, yes or

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Speaker 1: just field turf. You know I did. I didn't examine

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Speaker 1: it myself, but it's a new stadium. It's a great

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Speaker 1: opportunity for us to uh make some friends. Well I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they made any friends. Uh, the league

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Speaker 1: can't be happy. Whoever they sent to check that field

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Speaker 1: turf probably lost his job, which isn't funny because we

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Speaker 1: all make mistakes. But enjoy the weekend and uh we're

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Speaker 1: all the regular season is almost here. Thank god, see

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Speaker 1: you all next week. A sing