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426
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Speaker 1: can only do so much in practice. That's where I

427
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Speaker 1: think there's got to be some sort of balance, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be fascinated, or I'll be fascinated to see how

429
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Speaker 1: just it translates, like Matt Stafford's gonna look like Matt

430
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Speaker 1: Stafford whether he played in the preseason or not. Now,

431
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Speaker 1: it might take him some time to get the rhythm

432
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Speaker 1: of the offense, but the preseason whatever, I Aaron Donald,

433
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Speaker 1: I get it. But any young player who was drafted

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Speaker 1: within the last couple of drafts, who has not had

435
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Speaker 1: success on the consistent success, sustained success, I would push

436
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Speaker 1: to play those guys, you know, at least a couple

437
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Speaker 1: of series. And this is also a time when you

438
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Speaker 1: really focus on your roster. Who's gonna make the team?

439
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Speaker 1: Who do you keep. One thing you have to realize

440
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Speaker 1: is a vested veteran. I think it's a guy four

441
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Speaker 1: or five years in the league. So like most of

442
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Speaker 1: your older players on your team, if they make three, five, eight, whatever,

443
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Speaker 1: million dollars. Jimmy Roppolo's an example. He makes twenty five

444
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: million dollars if you cut him today and then re

445
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Speaker 1: sign him after week one, even at the same amount.

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Speaker 1: Let's say hypothetically the Niners cut Jimmy Garoppolo today, They're

447
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Speaker 1: not going to especially now that trade chipped his finger

448
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: and then brought Jimmy back week two at million dollars.

449
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: Then they wouldn't they wouldn't guarantee the money. They would

450
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Speaker 1: basically be on a week to week contract, where if

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo is on the roster, and just as any

452
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Speaker 1: other vested veteran, their entire salary is guaranteed. So the

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Speaker 1: number one thing you have to do as a GM

454
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Speaker 1: and as a head coach, and we know a lot

455
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Speaker 1: of head coaches now run the roster, is not be

456
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Speaker 1: emotional with players. And typically if you've been in a

457
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Speaker 1: spot for a couple of years, you're gonna be You

458
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: might like that veteran. Hell, you might be friends with

459
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Speaker 1: the guy like you might have a legit connection, and

460
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Speaker 1: there has to be a balance of to me, the

461
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: tie has to go to the younger player. If you

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Speaker 1: have a two defensive tackles and they're fighting for one spot,

463
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Speaker 1: and one guy is a seventh year guy and he

464
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Speaker 1: makes four million dollars, and the other guy's a six

465
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Speaker 1: round pick and he's gonna make eight thousand dollars. Tiges.

466
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Speaker 1: The runner tie goes to the young guy in the league. Now,

467
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 1: in some positions you're able to keep both, but these

468
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: roster spots are very, very it's tough. It's hard to

469
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Speaker 1: you kind of put your team together like a puzzle.

470
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Speaker 1: So that's with inflated salaries or just money that you

471
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Speaker 1: can trim, you gotta think about cutting them, and it's hard.

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Speaker 1: It's also hard for for coaches and general managers to

473
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Speaker 1: cut guys they've drafted. So it's like a third year

474
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Speaker 1: guy on your team who was a second or third.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to cut a fifth, six, seventh round pick

476
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Speaker 1: because a lot of times you know you can get

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Speaker 1: him back to the practice squad. It's a lot more

478
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Speaker 1: difficult to cut a third rounder from two years ago. Nobody,

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Speaker 1: let me repeat, nobody is less emotional with doing this

480
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Speaker 1: than Belichick. Sony Michelle, your third on the depth chart,

481
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Speaker 1: see you, buddy, Audios. He was a first round pick

482
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Speaker 1: two years ago or three years ago, like Belichick, once

483
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: you established who you are in the league, where he

484
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Speaker 1: drafted you is irrelevant. And we know you overdraft some guys, right.

485
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Speaker 1: A lot of general managers, because they don't have the

486
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Speaker 1: equity Bill does, can't do that. And I think it's

487
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: human nature. Once you I went pounded the table. I

488
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: drafted this guy in the second round in two thousand nineteen. Well, coach,

489
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 1: he sucks, you know, or find the coach like he

490
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: can't play talking to my general manager. You have to

491
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Speaker 1: be unemotional in this stuff. It's that Billy Bean thing.

492
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Speaker 1: Why he watched games in the in the locker room

493
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Speaker 1: and worked out. He didn't. He never wanted to feel

494
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Speaker 1: too close. And it's a hard balance because ultimately, this

495
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Speaker 1: is a people business and you get to know these guys.

496
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Speaker 1: It's hard with coaches, right. You spend so much time

497
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Speaker 1: around him and the overwhelming majority of the NFL players

498
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: are really cool and really likable. They have they're just

499
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Speaker 1: normal guys. He's you just kind of fall for him, right,

500
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Speaker 1: and you don't want to see them and that can

501
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Speaker 1: cloud your judgment, it really can. And here's the other thing,

502
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Speaker 1: and this is really hard for coaches when they're in control.

503
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Speaker 1: It's easier for general managers when when you're thinking about

504
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: these cuts and who you're gonna keep, you can't be

505
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Speaker 1: dead set on week one, even though in a building

506
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Speaker 1: right now, all the coaches they're starting their game plan

507
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: and really starting to hone it in for week one,

508
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: which from the majority of teams are are obviously Sunday

509
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Speaker 1: and Monday Night. I guess the majority or Sunday, and

510
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Speaker 1: then there's the Monday night game. Tampa and Dallas probably

511
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 1: been working on it for a while, and that's how

512
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Speaker 1: coaches live week to week. Right they are not There's

513
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: not a coach in the league who's worried about like

514
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: week six right now. They're only focused on their opponent.

515
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Speaker 1: And sometimes a player when you're thinking about building your

516
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Speaker 1: roster and who's gonna who's gonna be captain, who's gonna

517
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Speaker 1: get cut? He's gonna give you a better chance to

518
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Speaker 1: win week one because he knows ten more plays than

519
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Speaker 1: the other guy. He and and he's just he's played

520
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Speaker 1: against that team, he's played in the NFL games. I

521
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Speaker 1: feel more confident knowing what he and do, even though

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Speaker 1: his ceiling, this guy behind him probably passes him. If

523
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Speaker 1: we keep him by week eight. But because he's a

524
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Speaker 1: rookie seventh rounder, I got that guy for the next

525
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Speaker 1: four years at a cheap contract. And sometime coaches and

526
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Speaker 1: I get it because I would probably do the same.

527
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: I would do the same if I was them. It's

528
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: easier for GM in the front office to say this,

529
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Speaker 1: I want this guy for week one, And there's a

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00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: fine balance there. You have to think the season. You

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Speaker 1: have to think the upside. Well, if we give him

532
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: some snaps week one, think about how good it'll be

533
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Speaker 1: by mid October. Think how good he'll be if we're

534
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Speaker 1: a playoff team by the stretch in December. Were this veteran.

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Speaker 1: This is as good as it gets. He's only got

536
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: one way to go, and that's down because he's peaked

537
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: as a player for now three years. If he's gonna

538
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: get worse, we're screwed. So and here's the thing, and

539
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: I remember I learned this in the league, and I

540
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: think about this a lot. Free agency and the waiver wire.

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Speaker 1: If you're willing to hit, you know, let a guy

542
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Speaker 1: hit free agency. If you're willing to cut up you know,

543
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: high drafted, not high drafted, but like a fifth, six,

544
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: seventh round pick because you think you would be able

545
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: to bring him on practice squad. You have to be

546
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: okay with the understanding that he might not come back

547
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: in free agency. He might get signed in the waiver thing,

548
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: he may get claimed, and if he gets claimed, he's gone.

549
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: Now to claim to get claimed, you have to be

550
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: put on the fifty three man roster, so you can

551
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about which guys might get claimed. But

552
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Some teams claim guys utilizing like a

553
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Speaker 1: draft pick. If you cut a fifth round pick that

554
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Speaker 1: I would have taken in the third round, I may

555
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: go I want that guy. So even if he won't

556
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Speaker 1: be active on game day, I just use a claim

557
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: to get him on my roster. So it is very risky.

558
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: It's you're gonna see a lot of tweets and stuff

559
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: on social media. They've cut so and so they hate.

560
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: They hope to put him on the practice squad keyword

561
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: their hope, because if he gets claimed, he's gone. And

562
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Speaker 1: here's the other thing. There's a chance if he becomes

563
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Speaker 1: a you know, if you pass through waivers, you're technically

564
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Speaker 1: a free agent, and teams around the league, if they

565
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: like you too, they can offer you more money. They

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Speaker 1: can say, hey, instead of the practice squad salary, which

567
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: I think is like a hundred fifty thousand dollars a week,

568
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: they go, hey, I'll give you four thousand dollars. I

569
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: can give you up to the minimum salary for a

570
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster guy to be on my practice squad.

571
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Speaker 1: The Patriots have been doing that for years. Smart business.

572
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: When they love a guy, they will pay him more

573
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Speaker 1: to stay on their practice squad. And historically you wanted

574
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Speaker 1: to stay with the Patriots right because at any moment

575
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: an injury, you get bumped up, you get to play

576
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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady. I don't know if that's gonna work

577
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: as well now that Tom's gone, But just things that

578
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: be aware of. And just because you make the team,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to this on Tuesday, does not mean

580
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Speaker 1: you're on the team on Wednesday. Because if we sign

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Speaker 1: a veteran player who's been cut, because if you're a

582
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Speaker 1: vested veteran, you get cut right now, I can sign

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Speaker 1: whenever I want. That's why J. J. Watt, when he

584
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: got cut by the Texans, he was able to sign

585
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Speaker 1: with Arizona well before free agency. He doesn't have to

586
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: wait in line right, So you know, just because you

587
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: make the team does not mean you're safe. If they

588
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: can say in a veteran or if they claim a guy,

589
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: they gotta make a roster spot. So when they put

590
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: together their fifty three man roster, besides like the kicker, punter,

591
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: and long snapper, there are gonna be they're gonna order it.

592
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: So a guy is gonna be basically the fifty three

593
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: guy on the team. And if they claim a guy,

594
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: they have to put that guy on the big roster.

595
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna get cut. So a lot of people are

596
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: gonna get the phone call today, John, you have made

597
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Little do I know, I'm the last

598
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: guy on the roster. And then tomorrow they claim a

599
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver, they claim a defensive lineman. I'm gone. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's a fun time. It's a it's an incredible

601
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: time for guys accomplishing their dream. Any fifth, six seventh

602
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent making an NFL team is an incredible accomplishment.

603
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: It's also a time when kind of get some guys

604
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: that have been on scholarship, higher picks that have not

605
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: been good get released and and those guys because of

606
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: their high draft status at extra shots, just because it's

607
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: just the nature of the beast. Whether it's fair or not,

608
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: it's just a reality. So it's a crazy couple of

609
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: days for the NFL community. Okay, we're heading into the

610
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: regular season, and it was it was a pretty historic

611
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback draft. Right. We had five guys go in

612
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: the top fifteen, and they're all really intriguing, and all

613
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: five teams should be really really excited. I actually think,

614
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: I mean, all five are really talented. I know people

615
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: think I'm a little down on Zack Wilson. I just

616
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: think his team is gonna be really terrible. But start

617
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: let's start with Trevor Lawrence. We've talked about admire a lot.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really, really rough. I I

619
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: really do. I think that team is terrible. I think

620
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: his coaching staff is probably pretty over their head. Given

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Speaker 1: that Urban has never coached in the league, he doesn't

622
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: quite understand. He's just not gonna know personnel and other

623
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: teams scheme on other teams. Think about this. Belichick has

624
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: been in the National Football League since nineteen seventy five.

625
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's been coaching in the league since like the

626
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: mid nineties. Every defensive coordinator in the league, he knows

627
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: their strengths, their weaknesses, their go to calls. Belichick knows offense, defense,

628
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: special teams, every single coordinator. Think about that like that.

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Speaker 1: That's the type stuff that Trevor Lawrence is just not

630
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: gonna have his head coach being able to rely on

631
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: him for right. So Trevor, he just comes from a

632
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: place that was dialed, rocking and rolling, playing with a

633
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: bunch of sweet guys. It's now the opposite. Now they

634
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: open with the Houston Texans, so it's probably as easy

635
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: of a landing spot as you're gonna find. But I

636
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: think if you've seen any clips of Trevor, especially the

637
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, his talent is immense. It truly is.

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Speaker 1: He's six five, he can run, and he has a

639
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: great arm. And when I say great, like I'm not

640
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: saying he's got Josh Allen power, but he's got a

641
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: powerful enough arm and when he's dialed in, the ball

642
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: is right on the money. It's a beautiful thing to watch.

643
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: I just think, big picture, it's something we're gonna monitor

644
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: all season. Though, just be honest, on many Jaguar games,

645
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch probably not that many, but I

646
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: will watch clips, especially against Texas. I'll watch clips of

647
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: him for sure. I want to see how he looks.

648
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna be difficult, and it's really gonna test this

649
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: season kind of his mental fortitude, kind of like it

650
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: did Peyton Manning once upon a time, three and thirteen.

651
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: They were terrible. I listen to Troy Aikman tell Sean

652
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: McVeigh and Peter Schrager that first season. I don't know

653
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: if I was gonna make it. It's it's tough. When

654
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: you play on the shittiest team in the league, you

655
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: gotta be mentally tough. The reason Alex Smith, who clearly

656
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: not as good as Troy Aikman or Peyton Manning, but

657
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: has that reverence in league circles. White people love the guy.

658
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: Think of what he overcame. Mike Nolan was his head coach,

659
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: then he transitioned into Mike Singletary. Singletary got fired in

660
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: high school like two years ago. He's one of the

661
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: greatest linebackers ever. A high school team fired him. But

662
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: Alex Smith just overcame it, and he overcame like five

663
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: years of it. Trevor might just have to overcome a

664
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: couple because they're gon have really high draft picks. But

665
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult, man, it really, they're gonna lose

666
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: a lot. He's gonna get his ass kicked. It's it's

667
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. If he if he has just if

668
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: he's able to throw like thirty touchdowns this year, I'll

669
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: be impressed. Zack Wilson, I think their team stinks. I

670
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: just think they're gonna be really, really bad. Uh, they

671
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: play in a division that's loaded. Let's face it, the

672
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna be dramatically better. The Bills are a powerhouse,

673
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are really good. So I mean there's

674
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: a chance they go oh in six in those games.

675
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: And basically any team they play, beside the Texans and

676
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: the Jags, they shouldn't be favored against. They should be

677
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: an underdog and most teams a heavy underdog. They just

678
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: lost their best pass rusher and probably a top two

679
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: or three player in their team, and it's just gonna

680
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: be difficult in the New York market. Just you see

681
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: what's going on with the Mets right now. You know,

682
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: Javier Bias, they're like booing the fans through you know,

683
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: putting thumbs down, and it's become a huge controversy. That's

684
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: just dude, hits a double, puts his thumb down, and

685
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: that's a big deal in New York. Imagine once the

686
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: guy throws three picks. You know, it's a tough place

687
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: to function, especially for a guy from Utah. He's never

688
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: been outside of that you know bubble. That's just and

689
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: it is somewhat of a little bubble. Robert Sala, who

690
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: I'm a he's a stud. Unlike Drew Brees. He embraces

691
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: the Bald brotherhood. But like Robert Sala can't help Zack Wilson.

692
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: Like he's a defensive guy and their defense is not

693
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: gonna be very good. Now. He's a very positive guy,

694
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: and I think he's the right type guy for a

695
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: team that might win three or four games. Unlike Adam Gates,

696
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: who was very negative and he's had all this negative

697
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: energy around him, Sala's upbeat and he's gonna need to

698
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: be because it's gonna be a long season. Trey Lance

699
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: chipped his finger. Not even quite sure what that means. Uh.

700
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 1: He hit it on a on a throw against the Raiders.

701
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: You know, one of those where you're kind of throwing

702
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: your arm forward, clips a helmet. Probably lucky didn't shatter

703
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: a finger. Uh, Shanahan said, seven days. But listen, I

704
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: say it all the time. The Colt sold five to

705
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: twelve weeks, and Whence came back like two weeks later,

706
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: so I don't even know timetables. It could be worse,

707
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: but Trey Lance is a work in progress. At a

708
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: buddy who texted me who's clearly watching the game, pretty

709
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: high up executive for a really good team, He's like,

710
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of reminds me of Cam Newton,

711
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: And I don't think he meant that in a positive

712
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: way because he has a howitzer the ball, I mean,

713
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: out of his hand if he was a baseball pitcher

714
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: going on a hundred miles an hour. But I don't

715
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: think he always knows where it's going. So sometimes you know,

716
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: you know, if you watch that reliever who's got no clue,

717
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: but he's throwing like a hundred, and you can tell

718
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: the batter is a little nervous. Sometimes the receivers like

719
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: they don't know quite know where the ball is gonna go.

720
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: They have to work on touch. But his physical skill

721
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: set is pretty immense and unlike Zack Wilson, and and

722
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: Trevor is so much more you know, he's so much

723
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: farther along, he's played so much more. He's he's ready

724
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: to roll. We'll see what Zach Tray is a work

725
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: in progress. And he's lucky that they don't have to

726
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: throw him into the fire right away. And he can

727
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: just split reps. And Kyle is willing to do that.

728
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: So he's gonna get game reps, but he's not gonna

729
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: be dependent upon to carry the franchise. Now, listen, he's

730
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: my guy. I disagree with the way they handled this.

731
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: I I really do you make promises to Tom Brady,

732
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers, to Russell Wilson. They deserve promises, Lebron James,

733
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, No issue there, right, I'm cool with it.

734
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: Buster posey like you need assurance, I'll give you an insurance.

735
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: You're my guy. Andy Dalton did not deserve a promise

736
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: from anybody but maybe his wife and his parents. He's

737
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: a great guy. Listen, were for every time that I

738
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: hear someone talking about Andy Dalton, they always preface it.

739
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: But he's a great guy. We get it, high character,

740
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: average of football. He he really is, and I just

741
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: do not understand. And here's the problem with offensive coaches

742
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: sometimes is they really value things that we're not gonna

743
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: be able to see that. Does that do matter? Right?

744
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: You're understanding of the playbook, your ability to articulate the

745
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: plays in the huddle, your your ability to understand on

746
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: the fly how to move guys, and just the overall

747
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: understanding of the offense. Did a guy like him who

748
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: has been around the NFL for a while probably has

749
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: their playbook down like the back of his hand, has

750
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: had it for five months. Ultimately, though, as a fan,

751
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 1: the GM an owner, whoever, we're not gonna be able

752
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: to see that when we're just watching the Bears play

753
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: and he's running for his life and he's not able

754
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: to add lib because he's not an ad lib player

755
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: if the play is perfect, which they used to be

756
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: when he was with the Bengals. People forget when Andy

757
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: Dalton had a couple of good years with the Bengals.

758
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: That team was stacked Whitworth like, their offensive line was elite,

759
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: they had tight ends, they had sweet wide receivers, they

760
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: had good running backs, their defense was team was bloated,

761
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: and he was good the Bears offensive line, Spinks Jason Peters,

762
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: who God love him. When I first got to the NFL,

763
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: is like, this is what an NFL player looks like.

764
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: Absolutely freak. One of the most talented players I've ever seen.

765
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: He started nine, Like, it's kind of over for him.

766
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: He's are starting left tackle. They literally signed him like

767
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago. So I just I

768
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: would have just got on an open minded and thought

769
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: about playing Justin fields or kind of copied the Kyle

770
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: playbook playing both. Now. I had a friend in the

771
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: in the league tell me he thinks he's like, you know,

772
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is probably gonna play faster. And you think,

773
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: because Andy's not gonna last, and I don't root for

774
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: anyone to get injured. But when you can't really scramble

775
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: and you might have one of the worst offensive lines

776
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: in the league, you're gonna get killed. You just you

777
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: don't need to play the you know bears. Most teams

778
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: in the league have several good offensive or defensive lineman.

779
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: So it's just gonna be a difficult You know, it's

780
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for Andy Dalton, it really is, because

781
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: no one wants to see him play. There's not a

782
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: fan no human, I'm not. I don't even care that

783
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: much about the Bears. Beside, I want Naggy to do well.

784
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch Andy Doldon. I watched the

785
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: preseason game this year, and I'm thinking like taking Andy

786
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: Doldon out of the game and then the fifth guy.

787
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: And this goes back to what I said about building

788
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: the team is mac Jones is probably as equipped, probably

789
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: equally with Trevor Lawrence. Like he's ready right now. He

790
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: understands the playbook, understands his reads, can audible, can do

791
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: all this impressive stuff. He is an intelligent player who

792
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: got trained basically the equivalent of like Harvard Business School,

793
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: right with with saving so from a football you know,

794
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: conceptual standpoint upstairs, dude's gonna be nails. But like he's

795
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: probably ready to go and might give them the best

796
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: chance to win if they started in Week one. But

797
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: this goes back to why I didn't want the Niners

798
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: to draft him at three, Like his skill set which

799
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: does matter and can be good, Like he probably can

800
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: be a better version of Kirk Cousins. You just can't

801
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: take that guy at three. Hell, I'd say, historically, you

802
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: don't really take that guy at fifteen, but they did.

803
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: He's in a great spot. They're pretty equipped for him

804
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: to look good. He's probably gonna look good. He's he's

805
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: gonna be a solid player. But I just don't know

806
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: how much of a ceiling there is with that guy

807
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: now if he's just an incredible in terms of accuracy

808
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: understanding defenses. Here's the other thing. Everything we saw during preseason,

809
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: there's no game plans. They're not doing exotic blitz is

810
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: that you don't know we're coming that they're not. They're

811
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: not doing all you prepared for one thing and then

812
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: they show you something else and it throws you up.

813
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: None of that happens. So it's gonna be And I

814
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: find myself thinking about this too because like, goddamn, this

815
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: guy looks sweet, or man, this guy stinks. You just

816
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: gotta pump the brakes a little bit. Because football is

817
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: dramatically different than than baseball and basketball. This way, there

818
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: is a specific game plan all week long against that

819
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: specific opponent. In the NBA, you play back to back,

820
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: you show up at the gym the next night, you

821
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: play get the ball to staff, for the ball to

822
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: honest right. In baseball, it's like, yeah, Bryce Harper just

823
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: sucking hit the fastball. In football, it's like we have

824
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: specific even for your best players, like we have these

825
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: seven plays for Juleo Jones that are gonna work against

826
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: this defense. That's why you spend all weeks. Why when

827
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: you hear these coaches they work these crazy hours because

828
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: they spend Monday and Tuesday basically twenty hours a day

829
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: putting together this game plan for Wednesday. That then they

830
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday tweaking that forty hour game

831
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: plan that they put together in two days for the

832
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: next like sixty hours just to get till Saturday, and

833
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: then they kind of walk it through and they still

834
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: do tweaks. So it is, it is, it's night and

835
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: day different. If we're just if I'm just like running

836
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: a play and you're just running a play, that is

837
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: not how a normal game comes. Now that can take

838
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: place in a regular season game, but for the most part,

839
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: everything is game planned based on what the other team does,

840
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: and you're constantly adjusting. There's no adjusting in the preseason game.

841
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: You just That's why sometimes with the quarterbacks and they

842
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: all look good at different moments, it's a it's a

843
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: lot different in the regular season. The looks, the disguises,

844
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: the blitzes. I mean, think how many quarterbacks that are

845
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: in their fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth year, Like those

846
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers are outliers, right,

847
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: they have like two stinkers a year max. Even solid

848
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: players like Kirk Cousins is a good example who just

849
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: had a really good season. It feels like he has

850
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: like eight average games, right, and then probably you know,

851
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: nine good ones. That's that's and he's thirty million dollar quarterback, right,

852
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: mosty thirty million dollar quarterbacks are probably like, if you

853
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: got really good games, you're feeling pretty good. That's why

854
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: the the all time greats, like even Dak Prescott, Like,

855
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: how many if Dak Prescott is fully healthy, of the

856
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: seventeen games, how many games would Dak have? And I

857
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: like Dak, oh, I think he's a little overpaid. Would

858
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 1: you go, God, that's a that's a that's a player

859
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: of the week type game probably be like eleven max. So,

860
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: because it's difficult, you're gonna run into good teams. You're

861
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: gonna run into when some of your teammates aren't playing well.

862
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: When the game plan was bad. You just you gotta

863
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: think about that when when you're evaluating some of these

864
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: younger players in the preseason. Okay, let's get to the

865
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: mail bag. You guys know that real at John Middlecoff

866
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: is the Instagram slide up in the d m S

867
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: give a question answer here on the show. Very easy. Obviously,

868
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a lot of questions flowing in with

869
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 1: this little thing called the football season. We got college

870
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: games this week, but the NFL season is I think

871
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: it's officially ten days away because we're it's a week

872
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: from this Thursday, three days away from Thursday. So by

873
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: the time you listen to this nine days away, Tom Brady,

874
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, and Mike McCarthy. Hey, John, one of my

875
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,720
Speaker 1: favorite listeners every week on the commute to work to school.

876
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: Appreciate it from Joel. This is not sports related, So

877
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 1: if you feel no reason to respond, I totally understand.

878
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm twenty three in balding. This feels right on, right

879
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: on point. You're a younger guy who was also bald

880
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: and you rock the funk out of it and whose confidence.

881
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: I just wondered if balding was something that bothered you

882
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: and how you dealt with it. Just saw your Instagram

883
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: story with Drew Brees. It's a good question. Uh you know, yes,

884
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean it did. I was terr fight of it.

885
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: I thought it. I got I you know, bought what's

886
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: it called Rogaine Forever rubbed it into my head. I

887
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: took propitia. You know, your insurance doesn't cover that. And

888
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: this was probably fifteen years ago. When it was it

889
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: was like a hundred and twenty a month. I started

890
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: doing the math. I'm like, I don't even think this

891
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: is working. I'm gonna spend all this money. This is

892
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: not even working. And I think I've told the story before,

893
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: but when I worked for the Eagles, I started noticing

894
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: a lot. At when I worked at Fresident State in

895
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: like two thousand eight and two thousand nine, and then

896
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: when I worked at the Eagles in the NFL, everything's

897
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: done for you, right, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, laundry. It's

898
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. Like you work a lot of hours, like

899
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: I said, but you don't have to worry about anything. Haircuts.

900
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: Once a week, a lady or dude comes and cut

901
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: your hair. You sign up, you know, the coaches, you

902
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: kind of go around their schedule. And like, you just

903
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: go down there and get your hair cut. So I

904
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: did that for like two years, got my hair cut.

905
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: You know, I used to have like bushy hair. The

906
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 1: last day that I ever got my haircut, I remember

907
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: getting my hair cut and going to the bathroom to just,

908
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: you know, see what it looked like my the haircut,

909
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: and I kind of put my head down and I

910
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: could see my entire scalp. I'm like, I'm done, it's over.

911
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: And that night I had an intern in like the

912
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: player's locker room just shave my head. And for about

913
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: two years I used to go like a zero, like um,

914
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, with an electric razor. I think it's called

915
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: the peanut. And then probably by like two or three

916
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: years of of trimming my head, I just started picking it.

917
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: It's way easier that way now, don't get me wrong.

918
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I feel like I wish I had hair,

919
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: but you just you just gotta do it and never

920
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: looked back. Okay, Robert, with the rise of Ryan Tannehill

921
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: being under Arthur Smith, do you think that we start

922
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 1: to see a regression from him in the entire Tennessee

923
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: offense now that Arthur Smith is in Atlanta, Well, The

924
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: thing that would make me the most nervous about the

925
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, excuse me, the Tennessee Titans is that for

926
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: two straight years they went from they hired Lafleur before

927
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: they hired Arthur Smith. Now that offense struggle, but it

928
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: turns out Mariota wasn't that good and the floor is

929
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 1: pretty good. And then they got Arthur Smith and clearly

930
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: the running back became a star. Tanny Hill became a

931
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: good player, A j uh Brown became awesome. Now they

932
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: got Julio their offensive coordinator this year. I had a

933
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: front row seat when he took over from Bill Musgrave

934
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: with the Oakland Raiders, and I think two thousand sixteen,

935
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: maybe seventeen, Jack del Rio's last year, Todd Downing. He's

936
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: a great guy. He was terrible. He had no feel

937
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: for calling plays. And I do think, like listen, every

938
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: play caller, whether you're Kyle Shanahan, whether you're Andy Reader,

939
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, you gotta start somewhere so you don't just

940
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: get to be like a twenty year vet. But I

941
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: do believe that you either have the instincts to call

942
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 1: plays or you don't. Now you get better as time

943
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: goes on. But when I witnessed from Todd Downing was

944
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: a terrible offensive coordinator, just no feel. And he had

945
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: good players. They had a really good offensive line. They

946
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: had Derek Carr, they had Crabtree, they had Mary Cooper

947
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: like they were good. I think they had Octavius Murray

948
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: that they had a bunch of players. It wasn't like

949
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: they had no talent. So I actually liked Tannehill. I

950
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: love Rabel the their offense with the three headed monster

951
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: right with the Derrick Henry Julio and a J like,

952
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: that's pretty legit. I just I don't know, man, It's

953
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to feel great about that one.

954
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: And if Rabel was an offensive coach, I would probably

955
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: even feel better. I've been following the show for a

956
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: few months, A big fan from southern Ohio and a

957
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: huge cowboy fan, so Zeke is ob obviously my guy.

958
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: I had the statistic that seems crazy to me, but

959
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: between two thousand and sixteen and nineteen, Zeke received twelve

960
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: carries or less four times Jesus, but in two thousand

961
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: and twenty he received twelve or less five times. Had

962
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: he also carried the ball as many times as Derrick Henry,

963
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: he would have had over fifteen hundred yards. I don't

964
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: believe Zeke has lost a step. I just believe a

965
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: terrible coaching staff and bad play calling along with a

966
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: bad defense hurt his reputation at the top tier back.

967
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: I think if he has used right, he could easily

968
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: have six yards and fifteen touchdowns. I want to know

969
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: your thoughts and predictions on Zeke. I was a huge

970
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: fan of him coming out and early. Zeke is a badass.

971
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: Running back is probably my favorite position because running back

972
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: in linebacker because it truly encompasses everything. If you're a

973
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: badass back, you run the ball between the tackles, so

974
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: you're going at defensive tackles and linebackers. You go outside,

975
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: so you're going to you know, defensive ends and safeties

976
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: and linebackers. Then you catch the ball and you have

977
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: to block, like Sa Kwan Barkley. I love sake Won

978
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: Barkley the talent he won't block. You go back and

979
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: google some of the highlights Zeke as a blocker, even

980
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,919
Speaker 1: though how State dude is a badass. I do believe

981
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: he got a little fat last year though he looked

982
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: kind of heavy footed and the one episode I did

983
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: watch a Hard Knocks. He even talked about it. He's slimmer,

984
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: he looks better, he looks faster, he looks good. So

985
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: I yeah, I mean I I would say historically, though,

986
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: here's the problem. Sometimes receivers or defensive lineman or corner

987
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: can have a bounce back season. How often do do

988
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,959
Speaker 1: running backs when they feel like they lost a step.

989
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: I do think it's fair to think to say he

990
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: looked a little slower, he didn't quite look as explosive.

991
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't because he has some degenerate knee like girly,

992
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't trust McCarthy. Mccartony historically

993
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,720
Speaker 1: never used running backs very well. But if they can balance,

994
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 1: you know, a potent passing attack, which I think how

995
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: much they have invested. I mean, they gave him Aria

996
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 1: a hunter million, they gave Dak like seven million, Ceedee

997
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: Lamb's top seventeen pick and Gallops a really good player,

998
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: and they got a bunch of famous offensive lineman. So

999
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: you should be able to like mirror the run game

1000
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: with the pass game and be a dynamic offense. So

1001
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him to be back. I don't feel

1002
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: great about it though. Is it possible that Week one

1003
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Bucks game will be the most watch football

1004
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: game ever out side of the Super Bowl? And what

1005
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: are the realistic expectations for the Bucks this season? I

1006
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: do think it's fair to say this is the most

1007
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: anticipated NFL season of my lifetime. Uh, the NFL has

1008
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: never been more popular. And obviously it's been popular. I

1009
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: mean I was born in the mid eighties, but these

1010
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: last like fifteen years, it's kind of even got bigger

1011
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger. It has felt these last couple

1012
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: of years has gone into a different stratosphere. The gambling aspect,

1013
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: the fantasy aspect are all kind of colliding. And then

1014
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Think about baseball, how many teams

1015
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,479
Speaker 1: can legitimately win the World Series when the season starts five?

1016
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: Think about the NBA, how many teams truly can win

1017
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: an NBA championship? Historically it's like four or five. In

1018
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: the NFL, I would say that twelve the fifteen teams

1019
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: feel they got a shot, and maybe not to win

1020
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, but like we could legit make the

1021
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game, right the Chiefs think about

1022
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: just let's go through the f C. The Argers could

1023
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: definitely say that. Now they may not, but they have

1024
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: the talent to. We know the Chiefs, Raiders, Broncos. Probably not.

1025
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: Three teams in the a f C North, the Ravens,

1026
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and the brown I mean the Browns think

1027
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: they're making a legit run, and hell they should. I

1028
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: mean their team stacked. Uh. The a f C South,

1029
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Colts feel pretty good about their chances. Hell,

1030
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 1: the Titans were there two years ago and the Colts call,

1031
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: got if we just get some good quarterback play, we

1032
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 1: got a powerhouse. I think with the a f C East,

1033
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: you're bet against Belichick. The Bills were there last year

1034
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins, I mean they were a ten win

1035
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: team in their quarterback situation was bad. Now two of

1036
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: might not be good, but that's like more than half

1037
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: the a f C can be. Like, we can make

1038
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: a run to the a f C Championship game. And

1039
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: unlike basketball and baseball, I don't have to play a

1040
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: series like if I go up against a team in

1041
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: the the a l C s if they got two

1042
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: legit starters and I really only got one and kind

1043
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: of got a piece mail bullpen. It's gonna be difficult,

1044
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: but in football because I gotta win four out of seven.

1045
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: Same with the NBA. In football, you get one shot

1046
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: and unless you got my homes, who's capable of coming

1047
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: back from like thirty nothing. We've seen time and time again,

1048
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: like a team's just off and you get put in

1049
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: a hole and all of a sudden, you're just screwed.

1050
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: It's not last year with the Steelers. The Browns just

1051
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: jumped out to that early leading. That playoff game got

1052
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: a big cushion. It's just over. Even if you kind

1053
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: of turned it around in the second, it's just too much.

1054
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: But if they played a three game series, maybe they

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Speaker 1: can win it. That's not how it works in football,

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Speaker 1: so you just kind of gotta get it in the dance.

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Speaker 1: Let men think about the Giants there two Super Bowls

1058
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: came as wild card teams. I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: they ever hosted a playoff game in those two runs.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. So it's it's the one sport just

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Speaker 1: because of the nature of it. It's got the n

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Speaker 1: C double a tournament deal. Uh, you said you that

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00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,280
Speaker 1: you lived and died Scouting players in the preseason Raheem

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00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: most was a stud in the preseason, but seemingly was

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00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: never considered a serious option and always hit the waivers

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Speaker 1: or practice squad. How can some with his skills and

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00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:06,839
Speaker 1: preseason production still be overlooked. It's a pretty good question. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I I think running backs, it's just

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Speaker 1: supply demand. So the supply of running backs, Like I

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Speaker 1: would say the overwhelming majority of teams feel pretty good

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Speaker 1: about like their three deep and probably at five guys

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Speaker 1: in camp that you know could play in an NFL game.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like wide receivers. There's just a lot

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00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: of them. Right. If Raheem Mochart had been a guard,

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Speaker 1: he it never would have taken him as long to

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Speaker 1: get a shot. But when you play running back, it's

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Speaker 1: just difficult to break through. It's kind of like being

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Speaker 1: a kicker, right, It's just you only get to compete

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Speaker 1: against one guy, and if you go to the team

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Speaker 1: where that kicker is really good, you just may never

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Speaker 1: get a shot running back, Like a lot of guys.

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Speaker 1: Just you watch some of these preseason games. I try

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Speaker 1: not to, but if you stumble upon like the third

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Speaker 1: and fourth quarter, the guys making plays are typically the

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Speaker 1: running backs. There are a ton of running backs that

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00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: you've never heard of that make plays in preseason games

1087
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: and never get their shot. And you know, fair not.

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00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's based on college production, your college grade. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's just not an exact science. You know, you're you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with human beings and you're dealing Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I think the supply and demand is is a big

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00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: reason that guys like that at running back and wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it can take him a couple of years. Okay, Cody,

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Speaker 1: as a Steeler fan bias, decide, what do you think

1095
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: the Steelers coaches see that I don't When it comes

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00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: to Mason Rudolph, I see a quarterback that has a

1097
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: very low ceiling and is the best a game manager

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Speaker 1: that needs his defense to win games. Not a long

1099
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Speaker 1: term solution to me. But Ben's only got maybe your left.

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Speaker 1: What's their plan? Yeah, I think it's pretty well established

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Speaker 1: that Mason Rutop is just a guy. I mean, think

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Speaker 1: about he plays on one of the better teams in

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Speaker 1: the league. When it comes to school guys, no team

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00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: consistently has more wide receivers than the Steelers, and he's

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Speaker 1: got to play the last couple of years and it

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00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: never looks good on offense. So it's like Mason, that's

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Speaker 1: a you problem. Now, the reality is makes she's just

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Speaker 1: not that good, right. He's probably more like a practice

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Speaker 1: squad guy than a true backup. Now. He looks the part,

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Speaker 1: good looking dude, but let's face it, they drafted him,

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Speaker 1: I think, in the third round. So when you get drafted,

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Speaker 1: if he had been a seventh round pick, he's probably

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Speaker 1: not in the situation he is now because by no

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Speaker 1: means is he the best option for them as a backup. Now.

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Speaker 1: I will give them credit though I wouldn't have done this,

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Speaker 1: but they did it, and he's looked pretty good. They

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Speaker 1: went got Dayne Haskins, who was a first round player

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Speaker 1: and has played pretty well this preseason. So they're kind

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Speaker 1: of saying like, as of recording this, I don't I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen Mason ben Cutt, but maybe they keep all

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Speaker 1: three guys. I don't think it's inconceivable that you keep

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins is the backup if you think he's just

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Speaker 1: he's just a more physically gifted thing. With Mason rudolph Is,

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Speaker 1: he's like six four or six five. I've always been

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Speaker 1: fascinated with his in baseball, like a six five guy

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Speaker 1: that can only throw like ninety I never understand these

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Speaker 1: big quarterbacks in fairness, like Rivers and Peyton Manning were

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Speaker 1: like this too, and they don't throw of the football

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Speaker 1: very hard. They don't have much velocity on it. Like

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is an enormous human being, yet he had

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00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: one of the softer ball he threw like Alex Smith.

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Speaker 1: But but it works. He figured it out. But I

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Speaker 1: just a guy that big and that's strong, but he

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00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: can't put any velocity on the football. And then you

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Speaker 1: get guys super tiny, like a Russell Wilson or even

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Speaker 1: a Kyla. I mean Kyler Murray throws seeds. He's like

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Speaker 1: five six, he's like five nine, but he's for NFL standards.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's tiny and he just throws bullets. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I I don't see it, Mason Rudolf

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Speaker 1: at all. Okay, last question wondering how you would rank

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Speaker 1: the top five tight ends is from Chase in the

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Speaker 1: league going into the start of the season, factoring in

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Speaker 1: things like leadership, availability, importance to the team, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: I saw the NFL top one hundred had the top

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Speaker 1: three is Kelsey Waller Kittle, and I'm wondering if you

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Speaker 1: share that view. Kelsey has to be first because if

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Speaker 1: you're factoring in all ability, competitiveness, production, I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: he's dominated at the highest level. He's he's the total package.

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Speaker 1: He he really is. I was watching some of the

1150
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Speaker 1: Chiefs game, when the hell do they plan maybe Friday night,

1151
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Speaker 1: Saturday night? Tyree Kielly threw a bomb to Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: that they're that big three. I mean, I'd say in

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Speaker 1: my lifetime the best Big three was Aikman, Emmett and

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Speaker 1: Michael Like Mahomes, Hill and Kelsey is gonna go down

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Speaker 1: as an all time great trio. Honestly, if they rack

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Speaker 1: rattle off like two or three super Bowls, they might

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Speaker 1: go down as the best. That's pretty elite. And Kelsey

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Speaker 1: they love him. He brings a swag and a confidence

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Speaker 1: to that team. Obviously with Mahomes, but from my point

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Speaker 1: of view, I know Mahomes is viewed as like the

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Speaker 1: team leader. I think Kelsey's right there. Now. I can't

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Speaker 1: speak for Waller Kittle, is that guy too? Like going

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Speaker 1: to Niner practice. Kittle is an elite player. He can

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00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: be goofy or whatever in press conferences. At practice, that

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00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: guy is so fucking dialed in his practice habits. I've

1166
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: been going to NFL practice now for about a decade.

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Speaker 1: It's as good as it gets, as good as I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. Everything is a hundred miles an hour. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's incredible. But his knock and it's not all

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Speaker 1: of his fault is injuries. He just misses games. He

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Speaker 1: and part of it, I think is the way he plays.

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Speaker 1: Even in the preseason game the other day, Garoppolo hits

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Speaker 1: him in the flat. He sees two dbs. He's thinking

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Speaker 1: one thing, I'm gonna destroy both these dudes, and he did,

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Speaker 1: and it was a huge collision, and I'm thinking, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, George, it's it's freaking August. Let's just run

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00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: out of bounds. I could think of like Kyle on

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Speaker 1: the side of like what are we doing? And Waller.

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Speaker 1: Waller to me is much different than George. Uh, he's

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Speaker 1: just more of a receiver and he's a elite he's

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00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: an elite player. Uh. It feels like he's been pretty available,

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Speaker 1: but he's not running guys over like George. So to me,

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00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: he's more dependable. But Keittle brings his element for his

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Speaker 1: team in the run game. That is, they can't do

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Speaker 1: without like Kills, the best blocking tight end the league.

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Speaker 1: So I would have Kelsey one and I would lean George.

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Speaker 1: But I love Darren Waller as well, so I I

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Speaker 1: would probably go. I'm biased. I'd go Kelsey. George Waller

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Speaker 1: is like a two A and two be what Waller

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Speaker 1: is a baller? He really is. Appreciate everyone listening, excited

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Speaker 1: to be on the volume. Share with your friends, tell

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Speaker 1: your friends, and uh, I'll see a little bit later

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Speaker 1: this week. Peace Volume