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Speaker 1: think we all knew. We're not planning on going into

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Speaker 1: plan on coming to OTAs because why he wants a

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Speaker 1: contract extension. Don't blame him. He makes twenty three million dollars.

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Speaker 1: He looks at guys like Brandon Ayuk making twenty nine thirty.

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Speaker 1: He looks at Deebo Samuel on his own team, who's

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Speaker 1: making more. And there are videos about Laramie Tunzel, who

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Speaker 1: hasn't been around either, kind of going viral about like

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Speaker 1: don't worry that he's not at OTA's Look how good

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Speaker 1: a shape he's in. You guys know why the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans traded Laramie Tunzel not because they thought the guy

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Speaker 1: wasn't good. Of course, they know that their offensive line sucked.

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Speaker 1: He by far was their best player, and they don't

439
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Speaker 1: just be like, yeah, we'll just trade our left tackle.

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Speaker 1: It's because they knew that he wanted a massive contract extension.

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Speaker 1: So you got Laramie Tunzel and you got Terry McLaurin.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. When you pay a linebacker or

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Speaker 1: a safety, or a tight end or certain positions, even

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Speaker 1: if they are elite players, right like how Hee given

445
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Speaker 1: Zach Bond some money or or Christian McCaffrey or Sakuon

446
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Speaker 1: Barkley or George Kittle some of these positions to get

447
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: these contract extentions. It actually doesn't cost you that much

448
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,679
Speaker 1: money when you give a contract extension or a new

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Speaker 1: con to a guy like Terry McLaurin or a guy

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Speaker 1: like Larry mc tunzel. It is really expensive. Now, part

451
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Speaker 1: of having this rookie contract with Jayden Daniels is to

452
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Speaker 1: take advantage of that with other players. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: This is Larry mc tunzel's third contract and he's gonna,

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Speaker 1: i'm sure want well over one hundred million dollars guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: What do you think Terry mclaurin's gonna cost plays wide

456
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Speaker 1: receiver who's been your star wide receiver for years? And

457
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Speaker 1: he looks around what other guys he understands. Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm not justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase. But I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: in the category of like the Ayux and the Amanas

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Speaker 1: Saint Browns and kind of that crew. And I'm a

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Speaker 1: year later. So you factor in just natural inflation of

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Speaker 1: the salary camp and I think you could be looking

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Speaker 1: at the two guys. I don't know if that's eighty

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Speaker 1: million for McLaurin guaranteed and definitely one hundred guaranteed for Tunzel.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're looking at a lot of money between

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Speaker 1: two players. It's probably why these deals haven't got done

467
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Speaker 1: quite yet because they're complicated. But this also shows like

468
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Speaker 1: how important and how different each individual year is, and

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Speaker 1: coaching and gms say this all the time. Every year

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Speaker 1: is his own entity, Every year is its own team,

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Speaker 1: Every year is his own story because what happened last

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Speaker 1: year is completely different than this year. We have a

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Speaker 1: new draft class, we have new players in free agency,

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Speaker 1: we have guys that played a role last year that

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Speaker 1: are now gone. So you just never know. You have

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Speaker 1: contractual situations that come up, you have coaching staff turnover,

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Speaker 1: and I think not that this is there's a good

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Speaker 1: problem to have. I mean, these are good players, but

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Speaker 1: you are talking large amounts of money, and you always

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Speaker 1: have to think twice before giving that out. You know, McLaurin,

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Speaker 1: I would have no hesitation giving him some big time money.

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Speaker 1: I think the Tunswell thing is, you know, a little complicated.

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Speaker 1: And let's face it, Dbo is in a situation where

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Speaker 1: he's playing for money because if he has a good season,

485
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Speaker 1: he will get paid again if he doesn't, like he

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Speaker 1: kind of probably is on a year by year basis,

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Speaker 1: and so he's a guy in that room who has

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Speaker 1: a lot to prove. And I just think there are

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Speaker 1: some more persons nowadays with expectations and you add players

490
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Speaker 1: like this, there just becomes more risk. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: jumping off the Commander's bandwagon and think like they're gonna

492
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Speaker 1: fall apart here, but they they's got more stuff going

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Speaker 1: on right now, especially when you add that they're not

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Speaker 1: like the little engine that could. They're not the team

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Speaker 1: that no one's paying attention to anymore. They're a team

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Speaker 1: that now, when you play this happened to Lions a

497
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like when the Commanders are on

498
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Speaker 1: your schedule, you're gonna take that game very fucking seriously.

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Speaker 1: And that hasn't happened for that franchise in decades. So

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's do a little mail back here on Fugezi Friday,

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Speaker 1: and you guys know the drill at John Middlecoff at

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff is my Instagram. Fire into those dms and

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Speaker 1: get your questions answered. Here on the show, we will

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Speaker 1: start with Xander, not Shoffley, but a different Xander who's

516
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: a big Ravens fan. I big Ravens fan. It admittally

517
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Speaker 1: funny to see the dumpster fire that is the Browns. However,

518
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: at some point it becomes embarrassing for the NFL. I

519
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: feel as if upper management doesn't care about winning football

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00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 1: games and continue to not only put a terrible product

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Speaker 1: in the field, but they also hurt the rest of

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Speaker 1: the league. The Watson deal had potential to destroy the

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Speaker 1: quarterback market. The league clearly didn't want Manzel or Chaudor

524
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Speaker 1: to go as high as they did. To humble them,

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Speaker 1: it feels as if the Browns try to sabotage the

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Speaker 1: rest of the league. Do you think the Browns are

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Speaker 1: trying to mess with the rest of the NFL? Or

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Speaker 1: is there some reason they always seem to be making

529
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Speaker 1: the wrong move. I don't think anyone didn't take Shador

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Speaker 1: Sanders or Johnny Manziel to quote unquote humble them. I

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Speaker 1: think they didn't draft Johnny because at the time, I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people thought he was like a

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Speaker 1: drunk and a druggie, which played out that way. And

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Speaker 1: the Shador thing, I think a lot of people thought

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't a starting quarterback, and the draft process

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Speaker 1: has been well documented was a disaster. So I think

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Speaker 1: it was more they just weren't comfortable drafting them. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it was about It's not about humbling them.

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Speaker 1: I don't think teams think like that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just a business trying to make money, trying to win.

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Speaker 1: I think the Browns are trying to win. I think

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Speaker 1: their owner, who's really rich and successful and really you know,

543
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: outside of football, he's one of those guys that can't

544
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Speaker 1: help but be really, really involved. And you know, most

545
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Speaker 1: of these guys, no matter how much they know in

546
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: their individual industries, to make a bunch of money doesn't

547
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Speaker 1: translate to football, it really. I mean, David Tepper is

548
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Speaker 1: one of the greatest investors of all time. I mean,

549
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: look how the Panthers have been going. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: I guess this matt Ishbia guy in my backyard that

551
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: owns the Suns. Google how much that guy's worth. Look

552
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Speaker 1: at the Suns. I think these guys. You know, in business,

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Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a while, you can buy

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00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: your way out of it. In football you can't because

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00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: of these salary caps, because you only have so many resources.

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Speaker 1: You know, in business, I have unlimited resources. Right in football,

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Speaker 1: I only got so many draft picks and so much

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Speaker 1: cap space to buy a player. So the Chador thing,

559
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Speaker 1: I've said it from the beginning had the owner written

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Speaker 1: all over it. Now you could argue Dylan Gabriel in

561
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Speaker 1: the third round now, and that's on the coach and

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Speaker 1: the GM clearly. But the other thing is the NFL.

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Speaker 1: This is a television shows where they make all their

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Speaker 1: money from TV. Part of an entertaining television show. You

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Speaker 1: need heroes and you need villains. I'm not proud to

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Speaker 1: say it, but because of her, I've watched a lot

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Speaker 1: of reality television show and the train wrecks on some

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Speaker 1: of these reality television shows, especially on Bravo, are the

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Speaker 1: only reason that I can stomach it, because it's like

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Speaker 1: you can't turn away. And for every the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens and now the you know, the Eagles and

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Speaker 1: the McVeigh rams and the Shanahan Niners, like you need

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Speaker 1: some shit shows. And that adds to the drama of

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Speaker 1: the league. Never forget when the playoffs are going on

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, the two biggest stories the playoff games

576
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Speaker 1: are for the weekend. During the week it's really all

577
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Speaker 1: about the coaching firings and hirings. So it all plays

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Speaker 1: a part into the reality television show that is the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. I'm curious what your favorite team uniforms

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Speaker 1: are I don't know. I mean, I maybe I'm nostalgic.

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Speaker 1: I would go back to like some of the stuff

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Speaker 1: from the nineties. I'm a traditionalist, like I loved just

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Speaker 1: when you look at the eighties, even like the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers, the Giants, the Bears. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't even think that's the subject that I really don't care,

586
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Speaker 1: because I'm not even like turned off by weird uniforms.

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Speaker 1: Remember the uniforms that like once Seattle started going neon, Like,

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Speaker 1: I really don't care. Honestly, that's one thing like uniforms,

589
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Speaker 1: like obviously I like in college, Penn State, Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: There's a traditional nature to some of the sc But

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Speaker 1: I also don't like Oregan's eight million uniforms don't bother

592
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: me either. It's I just don't have the energy, and

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Speaker 1: you're not necessarily asking me this. But like some of

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Speaker 1: the stuff that I guess quote unquote turns people off,

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Speaker 1: like I'm indifferent. I guess I just don't care. Long

596
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Speaker 1: winded way of saying, just don't care. Love the pod

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Speaker 1: listen every day. I've seen Coward say that Breeze is

598
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Speaker 1: not a top ten all time quarterback. Probably one of

599
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: the craziest things I've ever heard, consider he played fifteen season,

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Speaker 1: second most and almost second in almost every statistical category

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Speaker 1: factoring in he inherited a dumpster fire, beat three Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame quarterbacks to win Super Bowl. Can you rank

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Speaker 1: your top ten of all time? I would say, in

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Speaker 1: no particular order, you go Brady Montana, l Way, Marino,

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Speaker 1: Farv Rogers. I would say if I could get both

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Speaker 1: for in their prime, I would take Young over Breeze Mahomes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say Breeze would be in the discussion. It's

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Speaker 1: hard I can't really speak to like, you know, they

609
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Speaker 1: a Tittles and Johnny Unitas and Roger Stallback. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a great feel. I mean, we can

611
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: bring up stats and stuff, but you guys know where

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Speaker 1: I stand. If I didn't watch him, it's hard for

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Speaker 1: me to argue. It really is like I never watched

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Speaker 1: Larry burdon his prime or Magic Johnson. I know those

615
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Speaker 1: guys are awesome. I didn't really watch Elway or Marino

616
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Speaker 1: in their prime, but like I know enough football, and

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Speaker 1: I saw both those guys play in their latter stages.

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Speaker 1: Like obviously those guys are badasses, so I would say

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Speaker 1: he would be in the discussion. If you go Brady Montana, Elway, Marino, Oh, Peyton, Manning, Rogers,

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Speaker 1: Farv Young, Mahomes, I think he'd be in the discussion.

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Speaker 1: He's fucking good. He's first about Hall of Famer. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: these arguments, Who cares whether he's eighth or eleventh, It

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Speaker 1: doesn't change anything. As a Titans fan, I'm a fan

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Speaker 1: of Brian Callahan in theory. He comes off intelligent and

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00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: thoughtful in his press conferences and interviews. However, he went

626
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: three and fourteen and his team was highly penalized. They

627
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: look sloppy, and they were blown out in half the losses.

628
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: Levis looked worse in the second year from his rookie season.

629
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Speaker 1: Even chocking quarterback up is the biggest issue. The roster

630
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: is still bottom five and no one has grand expectations

631
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Speaker 1: for this year. But our owner is a head case.

632
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Speaker 1: She fired a GM head coach every year for the

633
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Speaker 1: past three off seasons, and Brian now is scarily is

634
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Speaker 1: squarely at risk of making it four. What's your read

635
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: on Callahan. I have a good buddy that works for him,

636
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: that loves him. Obviously, you know, with his dad being there,

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Speaker 1: you would think their offense, if line is going to

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Speaker 1: be good. I think most people view Brian Callahan as

639
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: very knowledgeable at the position, but their defense was solid

640
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: last year, they just kind of like, after a while

641
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,959
Speaker 1: when your offense is that shitty. I think it's hard

642
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: to underestimate when your quarterback position, there's a difference between

643
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: like unsettled and just a complete tire fire train wreck.

644
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: And that's what it was really from the jump. And

645
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: after a while, even if your defense is okay, they

646
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: eventually give up because your offense sucks so bad. So

647
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: I think you almost got to give them a little

648
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: bit of a pass. Now. I also think you've got

649
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: to be realistic. You know, it's a rookie quarterback. Most

650
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: people are not going to be Jade Daniels, so there's

651
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of ups and downs. And if

652
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: he has a season that's more like a Caleb Williams

653
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: or something, then it could be a little weird. So

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00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: I don't I think if they won six or seven games,

655
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: it would be a step in the right direction. But

656
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: does Borganzi the new GM and Brinker, do those guys

657
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: want to bring in a new guy, like you said,

658
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: the owner, who's the dog? You know? How does she

659
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: handle it? Who knows? I think there's just a lot

660
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: of question marks. But I know the Titans, I mean,

661
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: they've spoken about it, but they're really really high on

662
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: cam Ward. So to me, I have a hard time

663
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: seeing that they would pivot off him if he looks

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Speaker 1: like he's got a chance to be like a franchise

665
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback in the NFL. Why is quarterback the

666
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: only position where we seem willing to put modern guys

667
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: on the all time list Mahomes and to a lesser extent,

668
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: Lamar being ranked among all time greats. I feel like

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Speaker 1: when you talk about quarterback rankings, Mahomes is always mentioned,

670
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: but when you talk about all time running backs, someone

671
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: like Derek Henry never is. Why is that? You know?

672
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: I don't know the unwritten rules for ranking talk, but

673
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 1: you do bring up a fair point, right, like greatest

674
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. It took like Aaron Donald to retire before

675
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: everyone was like Aaron Donald right in the mix. I

676
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: don't know why that takes place. I guess you have

677
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 1: to be really, really special. I mean, Derrick Henry is unreal.

678
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: I think he's a Hall of Famer, but he started slow.

679
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: Not that necessarily matters. I mean, we've had guys starting

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a great answer for you,

681
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: but you're right, you're dead on. I'm a former PGA

682
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: pro but got out and I'm going back to school

683
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: with this fall for communications. Before I ask, I wanted

684
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Speaker 1: to let you know that you and Colin are two

685
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: of the biggest people I look up to. Well, I

686
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: appreciate being in that company, and you're probably pretty good

687
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: at golf. Always been curious about this because I never

688
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: quite seen anything like it. What was the reaction in

689
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Speaker 1: the building when Danny Watkins got caught moonlighting as a

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00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: firefighter at the end of the twenty twelve season. Not

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00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: sure if you ever come back around Philly, but would

692
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: love to play golf with you if you do. I

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00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, I was living in San Francisco and

694
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: doing the West Coast, so I don't I don't have

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Speaker 1: a great memory of that I was in the office.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I would say about Danny Watkins one

697
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: he was really good in college. I mean, he was

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Speaker 1: really good at Baylor, and you know, I think the

699
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: easy projection was he was going to be like Logan

700
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: Mankins left tackle, put him at guard and he was

701
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Speaker 1: going to be really good. Turns out he was just

702
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: and everyone knew it right away, extremely immature, and it

703
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: was clear like this guy's like wired, like a twelve

704
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: year old. Just a disastrous pick. But it's not like

705
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he was good in college. I will defend

706
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: it that way. Was having some cocktails with the boys.

707
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: What a great time to be alive having cocktails with

708
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: the boys, and got into a bait debate about the

709
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: sweetest thing in sports. Popular answer was a running back

710
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: going untouched up the middle for seventy five clean one

711
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: punch ko in UFC pure nothing but net three ball

712
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: from the logo jumping one handed catch over the middle. Personally,

713
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: nothing gets me fired up like seeing a shortstop or

714
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: outfielder throw an absolute seed across the diamond to get

715
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: someone out. What play in sports gets you fired up?

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00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this watching the first game one

717
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: of the Stanley Cup Finals. I guess football, if you

718
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: throw a touchdown, but if it's late in the game

719
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: or an overtime, you're kind of on the edge of

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Speaker 1: your seat. Hockey, you are like on the edge of

721
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: your seat, the action, but the moment that goal happens,

722
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Speaker 1: the game just ends. It's extremely abrupt. So I would

723
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Speaker 1: say a goal in hockey at the end is pretty exhilarating.

724
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: I would say the same thing about baseball. You know,

725
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: in a playoff game, in a tie game, whether they're

726
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: not doing the runner at second and someone just hits

727
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: a home run and the game immediately ends. I think

728
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: anything that ends the game is that that could be

729
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: a game winning shot. In basketball, we saw like Aaron Gordon,

730
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Speaker 1: for example, in the playoffs for Denver, like that moment

731
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: where there's no time left from the shot and everyone

732
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Speaker 1: just goes nuts. Whether you're at home and the place

733
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: goes bananas, or whether you're on the road and the

734
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: place goes silent. I think, you know, in football, most

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Speaker 1: of the walkoffs, I would say, tend to be a

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Speaker 1: field goal. So in basketball, you know, anytime it's a

737
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: long shot, it's pretty exhilarating. Baseball, anytime there's a walk

738
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Speaker 1: off home run, that's a pretty badass. There was a

739
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: moment I was dialed in shows you what time of

740
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: year we're at the softball game. It was the Semis

741
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: Oklahoma against Texas Tech Oklahoma has won four straight national championships,

742
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: and that they were headed toward their fifth and they're

743
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Speaker 1: losing in the bottom of the seventh, which in softball

744
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: you only play seven innings, and the ninth hitter hit

745
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: a gameing home run to make it to two. Now

746
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: they ended up losing in the bottom of the d

747
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: maybe it was the top of the ending, they lost

748
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the inning, but it was just

749
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: like it was a jaw dropping moment. So I think

750
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: there's something special. We can debate baseball's cultural importance. What

751
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: I do think we can't debate is there are moments

752
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: in that sport with a home run that in the

753
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Speaker 1: bottom or top of the last ending of a game

754
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: that are freaking awesome. Question for the pod, how do

755
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: you keep your sanity with working from home and never leaving? Well,

756
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: I would say a couple of things. I leave every day.

757
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: I mean, at minimum go to the gym and try

758
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: to go for a walk, So I mean I'm never

759
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: not leaving the house. I've been working from home well

760
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: before anyone even talked about working from home in twenty seventeen.

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00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: Part of it, I was just fired. I had to

762
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: start my own thing and started podcasting in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: For the first four or five years, I live by myself,

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00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: so I had a two bedroom condo. I've never worked

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00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: from home while my office was in my bedroom, that

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00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: that would be difficult for me. A second, when I

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00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: first started dating Maria, we lived in an apartment. I

768
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: rented a second studio apartment and just turned that into

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Speaker 1: my office, so I left every day. And then since

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00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: I've been here at the house, I mean we got

771
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: some I got four bedrooms, so I got some rooms

772
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: to go to. But we don't have children yet. I

773
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: don't think it would be possible to keep my sanity

774
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: with kids and work from home. It's why I gotta

775
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: have to find an office. I'm already doing some initial

776
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: digging and to have a place to separate church and state.

777
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: But early on I didn't have a choice. I didn't

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Speaker 1: have any money in any options to do anything else,

779
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: so it was out of necessity. And I would say

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Speaker 1: lately it's been con venions slash it just I haven't

781
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: needed one yet, so I've been able to balance it.

782
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: I've been doing it long enough to you know, I'm

783
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Speaker 1: not doing. What I do is kind of unique, so

784
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: it's in some businesses it would be more difficult than others.

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00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sitting on calls all day and

786
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But yeah, I mean it's definitely sometimes

787
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 1: I'm probably fatter because of it. I can just go

788
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: to the kitchen. But who's to say if I had

789
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: an office, I wouldn't have snacks. Good question. I'm very

790
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: low on the Dolphins this year. How realistic do you

791
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: think Gruden to the Dolphins is in twenty six? I

792
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: would say it'd be on the table. I think if

793
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 1: they suck this year, which I think is a decent chance,

794
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: that owner's proven to be nuts, He's proven to be

795
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: going after big fish. I mean, he tried to get

796
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: Harbaugh multiple times. Who were his options? Like? Who are

797
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: I guess if Mike Tomlin was available, maybe like a

798
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart type. But yeah, I would say that Gruden.

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Speaker 1: My guess would be is in January of twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: John Gruden is either the head coach of a college

801
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: like a I'm just gonna use this team even though

802
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: Billy Napier they might be good this year, like a

803
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: Florida you know, like an SEC team, or a team

804
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: like the Dolphins. I was thinking that the AFC is

805
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: better than the NFC. It seems like the AFC is

806
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 1: has starting quarterbacks and less impressive rosters, and the NFC

807
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: has less good quarterbacks with better rosters. I think at

808
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Speaker 1: the playoffs were merged between the top fourteen teams, we

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00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't see NFC teams make it to the Super Bowl. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we saw the Eagles beat the

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Speaker 1: shit out of the Chiefs, So I think the Eagles

812
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: proved that they would they could play with the Ravens,

813
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,360
Speaker 1: the Bills, and obviously the Chiefs. I think that the

814
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: Eagles could. I think the Lions are healthy depending on

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Speaker 1: where they're playing. Like, I like the Lions a lot

816
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: more at home against the Bills or the Ravens than

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00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: I would on the road. But yeah, like what I

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Speaker 1: like Washington last year against those teams. No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're you're looking at, you know, the Chiefs from the

820
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: middle of a dynasty and you got josh Allen Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: So even if you got a healthy Lion's again, the

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00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: Eagles are pretty good. So I I I would say

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00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: the Eagles are every bit obviously, I mean, we just

824
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: saw it, but they would have no problem, but I

825
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. I just think you got to

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Speaker 1: just watch how this year plays out, you know, every

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Speaker 1: years new so we'll see uh contacts on Brazil and

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Speaker 1: why it's smart for the NFL. I spent months in

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Speaker 1: Brazil as an ex Jane student last year, and most

830
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: people would be shocked about how popular American entertainment is

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Speaker 1: in the country, for sports, music, and TV and movies.

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Speaker 1: The country is huge, with over two hundred million people,

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Speaker 1: many of who are just recently getting internet access and

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Speaker 1: learning English. The market is ripe for the picking. Living

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00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: there a relatively short time, I saw countless NBA Baseball

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Speaker 1: and NFL jerseys and heard older and newer American music,

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00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: with quote unquote localized television dying a slow death and

838
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 1: streaming to continue to dominate. The writing is on the wall,

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Speaker 1: not really a question, just a statement. Appreciate all you do.

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Speaker 1: That's that's good knowledge. That's why we incorporate the people here.

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00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: Your boys never been to Brazil, would love to get

842
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: on those nude beaches, walk around and like you said,

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00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: watch some American sports. So good tay two hundred million people. People.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure Brazil is that many people could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: Brazil population here you are, Jesus, I didn't realize Brazil

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00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 1: was that big. If you would have said how many

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00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: people live in Brazil or what's the population of Brazil,

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00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: it shows you. I mean it's gonna I'm gonna sound

849
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Speaker 1: like an idiot. I think I would have said like

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Speaker 1: twenty million people, maybe fifty It's hard to know exactly

851
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: what you would say after the fact. I just know

852
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 1: I never would have got anywhere near two hundred million people.

853
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: I think I used to respect how dominant they were

854
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: in soccer because I assumed they were smaller. I was like,

855
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: it's crazy how good they are with yeah, see like

856
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: Spain fifty million people, Italy fifty eight million people. I

857
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: would have thought in that ballpark, I really would have.

858
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: So I actually respect some of these European countries with

859
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: dominating at soccer. Brazil, no shit, they're good. So they're

860
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: number one sport and they got fucking two hundred million people.

861
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: I used to think of them really, really highly at soccer,

862
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: which obviously I still do because they're a great soccer team.

863
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: But look how many people they got to pick from

864
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: for the mailbag. Ashon genty Hampton and RJ. Harvey were

865
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: drafted in the top sixty by rival teams in the

866
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: AFC West. Fans of the three teams think they got

867
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: the best running back in the draft. Who is your

868
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: favorite to have the best rookie among these three backs?

869
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: Taking into account each team's O line, coaching and overall offense,

870
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: I would say Bronco fans don't think they got the

871
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: best running back in the draft. But I hear what

872
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: you're saying. I actually watched a little RJ. Harvey today

873
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: after you gave me this question. He clearly has some

874
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: a skill set. I don't I don't want to compare

875
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: him exactly to this guy because I think, what the

876
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: hell is his name? Running back? My brain's not working

877
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon. Alvin Kamara. He's a more fluid player.

878
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: But his ability to catch the ball, which is clearly

879
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: something that Sean Payton's going to want to do, and

880
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: for bo Nicks spreading the offense out a little bit

881
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: to throw them the ball. He's talented player. And if

882
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: he would have played at a bigger school, I do

883
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: think that he I do think that he would have

884
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: gotten higher. I would say we still have a lot

885
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: of questions. How good the Raiders are going to be.

886
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: You know, if you're down in games, you're not running

887
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: the ball as much in the second half. How good

888
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: is their offensive line? There's this question marks with the

889
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: team I was thinking about after I talked to Spikes Act.

890
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: Their team in twenty twenty six is probably gonna be

891
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: so much better than it is gonna be this year.

892
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: They're in a transitional year, and sometimes when you have

893
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: a bad transition team, just a team I don't want

894
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: to say in flux, but just a lot of moving parts.

895
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: It's not the easiest spot. From running back, I do

896
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: think the easiest guy to pick is gonna be with

897
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: the Chargers. They're gonna have a big time. They have

898
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: two stud tackles. They signed Beckden in free agency, who's

899
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: a road grader who just started for the Eagles. And

900
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: we know their coach has, like I mean, just fantasizes

901
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: about running the ball. So I would be stunned again

902
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: all these guys' health, you know, factoring in in terms

903
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: of pure rushing stats. If Hampton doesn't have a massive season,

904
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: now I could see RG Harvey catching the ball a

905
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: lot and having a well rounded season, and I would

906
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: be stunned if if Gent doesn't have moments. But I mean,

907
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: what realistically are the Raiders going to be right six

908
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: to seven win team? But you know, one of those

909
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: teams that, like next year everyone's picking to potentially be

910
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: a wild card, it can be tough spot for running

911
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: back and if they prove that, like they're not a

912
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: threat to pass the ball. I mean, Bower's really good,

913
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: but you load the box and how good is their

914
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: offensive line? How good is their defense going to be?

915
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 1: There's just a lot more question marks with the Raiders

916
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: than there are with those other two teams, and to me,

917
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: that helps the running back. The other thing is Chip Kelly,

918
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: like we'll see I mean, I you know, I think

919
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: look at the other two offensive coordinators. Say what you

920
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,839
Speaker 1: want about Greg Grumman. We know he can run the ball.

921
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: And obviously Sean Payton, I mean just been out of

922
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: the NFL for a little while, and when he got

923
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: ran out of the NFL, it wasn't exactly going well

924
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: it's been a while. That was twenty sixteen, But he

925
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: doesn't have the advantage like he did last year at

926
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State and real even two years ago when UCLA

927
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 1: was solid it was not because of their offense. Their

928
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: defense was elite. That's why Anthony Linson Deanton Lynn is

929
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: now at USC as a defensive coordinator because he had

930
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 1: He was awesome as a coordinator. So I would say

931
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: that Genty just has question marks because of what's around him.

932
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: But all those guys, I'd be stunned if they're all

933
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: three not really really good NFL players. Obviously, the volume