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Speaker 1: What's going on everybody? John Middlecoff Three and Out podcast

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Speaker 1: on m Colin Coward Podcast Network. Back at it again

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Speaker 1: another Tuesday. We're doing two podcasts a week now during

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Speaker 1: the football season, and we'll see how it goes. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just keep keep it flowing. I got, you know, time

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Speaker 1: on my hands, so we'll do podcast Tuesday. That's this one,

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Speaker 1: do another one Friday. We've been doing that every week

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Speaker 1: during the football season. Just got done watching Monday Night football.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it a snooze fest that it was

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Speaker 1: a very physical game, but you know it was. Anytime

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Speaker 1: you throw the Bills in Monday night football not an

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Speaker 1: ideal situation. But I'll give Buffalo and their home crowd

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Speaker 1: one thing. I say this all the time. Bad teams

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, if you give them Monday night football games,

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Speaker 1: especially home games, they're gonna play well. We saw it

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago at the forty niners. We

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Speaker 1: saw tonight with the Buffalo Bills, at least until the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, even with Derek Anderson as their quarterback, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna play well. But I want to hit on the

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Speaker 1: big news of the day. We'll get into it in

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Speaker 1: a little bit will be the Browns and just everything

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Speaker 1: that is going on there. I have several thoughts on them.

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Speaker 1: I watched because in the Bay Area, I had to

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Speaker 1: watch the two Bay Area games. Uh in the afternoon

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock. I didn't get Rams Packers. I watched

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Speaker 1: that back this morning. Have one kind of overwhelming thought

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Speaker 1: might take away from that game and and really the

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Speaker 1: entire season. I watched Andrew Luck and listen, it might

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Speaker 1: be the minority and you know on Twitter, but there

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Speaker 1: are some people that have been anti Andrew Luck, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's human nature. People resent greatness, people resent success,

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Speaker 1: people resent wealth. People resented Andrew Luck from the jump

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason was the hype was too strong. Uh well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he is just a remarkable player.

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Speaker 1: So we'll touch on that really quick, but just really quick.

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Speaker 1: On Monday night, my my, My one big takeaway is listen,

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Speaker 1: I live in the Bay Area. I've I've been watching. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I was really more locked in on the Warriors to

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Speaker 1: night than I was the Monday night football game. Clay

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Speaker 1: Thompson broken NBA record. But one thing that I've really

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Speaker 1: respected about their run now in this dynasty that they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win a championship. So this is gonna be their

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Speaker 1: fourth championship in five years. For the most part, a

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Speaker 1: little bit last year they didn't as much. But they

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Speaker 1: have kicked a living crap out of bad teams. When

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Speaker 1: they played the East, they annihilate the East. When they

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Speaker 1: play bad teams, they destroy them. And in professional sports,

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Speaker 1: good teams destroy teams they should beat. And I've heard

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Speaker 1: this for a long long time, Like, listen, you can

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Speaker 1: give me any stat that they've taken advantage of a

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Speaker 1: bad division. Uh what whatever? I know this you I

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Speaker 1: don't even know how to quantify this. Besides five championships

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Speaker 1: they've been to eight, they've been to however many straight

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Speaker 1: A f C Championship games. It feels like they've been

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Speaker 1: in ten a f C Championship games the last like

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady absolutely destroy and

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Speaker 1: take advantage and find ways to win even when they're

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Speaker 1: not playing well a game like tonight in their division,

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Speaker 1: and that's how they maintain dominance. Now you can say

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Speaker 1: their division sucks whatever, and it's not necessarily untrue. Their

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Speaker 1: division does stink, it's really bad, but you get credit

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the playoffs like forever, and I

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Speaker 1: oh that he sucks. Well, yeah, it does. And for

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Speaker 1: the most part he took advantage of it. But when

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Speaker 1: Brady need to win, and they got Buffalo Miami. You know,

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Speaker 1: I guess they've lost Miami occasionally over the years. Or

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Speaker 1: the Jets they take care of business. You know, a

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Speaker 1: over this Brady Belichick dynasty. Now, there is no disputing

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Speaker 1: that the Bills, I think last year when they made

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Speaker 1: There's a reason why they always have home field advantages

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Speaker 1: That's not what happens to the Patriots. So even the

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Speaker 1: But I thought it was a little more telling, like

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Packers are that good, Like

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Speaker 1: I doesn't really change my thoughts to night. Beside, I'm

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Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, man, I I don't quite

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Speaker 1: law of diminishing returns Like it's starting to come back

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Speaker 1: the other way. I'm a huge Ronkowski guy, best tight

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Speaker 1: I actually think this team is pretty well set up

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Speaker 1: You know what's funny about eighty four for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: And he was like this with the Raiders and like

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Speaker 1: And this is what I appreciate about Belichick the most.

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Speaker 1: He's on the field, he's looking around, They're screaming at

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Speaker 1: You know what Belichick says, Just tell him what to do.

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Speaker 1: Figure it. This guy is that special with the ball

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Speaker 1: But this is the great part about America. When your

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Speaker 1: And honestly, there were a couple of times I'm like,

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Speaker 1: in the middle with Edelman, with Gordon, with CP eighty

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Speaker 1: Like everyone talks about the Rams, everyone talks about the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: it'll just eventually go out of business. Well, the thing

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Speaker 1: There's five or six teams and brands that carry the

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Speaker 1: But those teams aren't generating. Like if this was normal

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Speaker 1: is gonna have to work for John Dorsey and work

427
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: for Jimmy has them where he's just fires a coach

428
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: every other year. And I just think they've set up

429
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield the really really struggle here the rest of

430
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 1: the season. You can't have a couple of life philosophies.

431
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,120
Speaker 1: The majority of them are sports related. Uh. And obviously

432
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: as you age and you experience things, you know, your

433
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: mindset changes. Like I used to be able to eat

434
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: whatever I wanted whenever I want it. Now at in

435
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: my head into my mid thirties. I mean I'm thirty four,

436
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: is that technically my mid thirties. Like I I can't

437
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: go like pizza for lunch. I can't go Chinese food

438
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: for lunch. If I want to have a productive afternoon.

439
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,239
Speaker 1: Like the dirtiest thing I can eat, it's probably like

440
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,160
Speaker 1: a sandwich, you know, maybe a burger, but I don't

441
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: even know if I can go fries. You know, when

442
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: your metabolism slows down, you know, you can go whatever

443
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: you want for dinner, especially if you get to work out,

444
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: but you kind of gotta be careful for lunch because

445
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: it'll really slow you down, you know. With girls, I'm

446
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: a single guy. I date if you're a bad texture,

447
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: like I listen, I'm millennial. I'm not big on phone calls.

448
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: I just I am very, very dependent on our texting relationship.

449
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: If you're a bad text he's probably not gonna work.

450
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: When it comes to sports, like, there are a couple

451
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: of things that stay pretty consistent, as you saw in

452
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: the World Series, Like, if you're gonna win a World Series,

453
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: you better be good with your bullpen. I'm a Giants fan.

454
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: I saw with Bruce Bochi he's a magician. There's a

455
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: reason the Dodgers aren't winning anything there. Dave Roberts struggles

456
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: with the bullpen. Well. When it comes to football, I'm

457
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: anti taking and running back in the first round, I

458
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: really am. I'm anti paying running backs. Look at Levian Bell.

459
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: I saw. I saw a Twitter stat today that Levian

460
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: Bell is up to almost seven million dollars right now

461
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: in miss you know salary and I mean ship. It

462
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like he's coming back anytime soon. Uh, maybe

463
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: maybe he's just throwing the white flag on the season.

464
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: And I guess I'm okay. I've supported the Steelers. I

465
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: would never take a running back in the first round.

466
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: And I love Zeke Elliott like I like Leonard four Net,

467
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: I like Christian McCaffrey. But that was crazy. Though he

468
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: looks like a really good player. He's been a key

469
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: for them. For the Carolina Panthers, they drafted the Ramps

470
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: and less need Todd Gurley number ten overall when he

471
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: had a torn a c L. I thought it was

472
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. And I know a lot of people in

473
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Speaker 1: the league that love Todd Gurley. I like Todd Gurley.

474
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: He is so much better than I ever thought after

475
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: watching that game against the Packers. Clearly Aaron Rodgers is,

476
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Speaker 1: I mean, one of the greatest players ever. But the

477
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: two best players by a country mile on that field,

478
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Speaker 1: I guess three you have to factor in Aaron Donald,

479
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: but the two best offensive players in that game, like

480
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: they were just on a different level than everyone else.

481
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: We're Aaron Rodgers and Todd Gurley. I feel pretty confident

482
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Speaker 1: saying this, Like I get them homes their six and

483
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: one probably gonna be you know, a first or second seed,

484
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: first year ever starting, he might throw fifty touchdowns. It's

485
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: gonna be bore line impossible for him not to win

486
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: the MVP. But if you've watched all the Rams games,

487
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: and I've watched basically every one of their games except one,

488
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: Hodd Gurley is so dominant in every element of the game.

489
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: Clearly as a running back, he is an elite inside runner.

490
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: His vision is really improved as an outside runner, like

491
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: pitches and sweeps because of his speed. If he gets

492
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: a little crease, he can hit that hole and it's over.

493
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: But where I've been just floored by how dominant he

494
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: is is as a pass catcher, like he's basically Levy

495
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: on Bell, but a better guy, faster, and you just

496
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: feel better, as you know, in terms of having as

497
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: a teammate right now, if I had a ballot, I

498
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: don't have a ballot, probably won't ever had a ballot.

499
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if the NFL would trust me to

500
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: I'd probably crush the NFL. But I would love a

501
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: ballot because I watched a lot of football. I would easily.

502
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 1: I think the last time there's been co m vps,

503
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: pretty sure I've double check hit me up if I'm wrong,

504
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure this was mcnairon Manning and I

505
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: was a little younger. I think I was like, I'm

506
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: still in high school when that happened. But I am

507
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: pretty confident, like this is the first year in a

508
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: in recent memory where two guys to me, there's no difference. Uh.

509
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: And it's a quarterback league, but I I do think

510
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: like with a backup quarterback that the Rams would still

511
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: win some games. Will they be as good without Golf? No?

512
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: I mean, Golf's a really good player. He just had

513
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the games against Packer. He's awesome. But

514
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: a lot of us that town passes are coming to

515
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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. I'm just watching Todd Gurley going, this guy's

516
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: the best player on the field every time he steps

517
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: on the field. Listen. I love Khalil mac too, but

518
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think Aaron Donald might be the defensive

519
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: player of the year. I mean, he was unreal and

520
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: that especially in the second half, made some plays down

521
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: the stretch. But there are exceptions to every rule, like

522
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 1: I wouldn't touch midget quarterbacks, but I messed with Russell Wilson.

523
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best quarterbacks I've ever seen.

524
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: He's a first ballot Hall of Famer without question, and

525
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: is proving to everyone why Pete didn't kiss the ass

526
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: of all the defensive players and went all in with

527
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Russ because it matters the most. And I'm not I'm

528
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: not saying that if I had to pick one and

529
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: put a gun in my head for the next five years,

530
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: you've got to go with the quarterback, you know, Jared Goff.

531
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 1: But right now, with what this team is doing and

532
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: clearly last year, this guy is the heartbeat of that offense.

533
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: This guy is as good of a running back all

534
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: around player. I know he's headed toward thirty touchdowns, and

535
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: I know he threw a fantasy and the point spread

536
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: when he went down, But I think that sums up

537
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. Frank Gore did something similar years ago against Seattle,

538
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: did the same thing, hit the ground like Todd. What's rare?

539
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: And and Todd Gurley is way better than Frank Gore

540
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: over was that a talent? Is this special, this elite,

541
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: and this good of a teammate, this explosive, This guy's

542
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: a total package. I really think like he'll probably end

543
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: up winning Defensive Player of the year. If he gets

544
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, he should get m VP votes. He should

545
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: be the MVP with Patrick Mahomes. They should split it.

546
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spend much time on this because I

547
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: do think most people listening know this. You know. It's

548
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: more just small minority on Twitter that just hated Luck

549
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: from the beginning for I don't know what, what reason.

550
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: I think a lot of time, especially with social media,

551
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: and it's just maybe maybe it's human nature that I've

552
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: always felt like this. This isn't even opinion. Humans just

553
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: resent wealth, even though in this country it is attainable.

554
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: You know, in some places in the world, it's like

555
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: it's not even possible to attain any sort of wealth. Uh,

556
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: And people, you know, resent just naturally. In sports, when

557
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: a guy is drafted really high and a hype on

558
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: an individual player is really high, there is a segment

559
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: of people that just root for that guy to fail.

560
00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: And the hype on Luck was as strong of any

561
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: East An athlete. Maybe since like Bryce Harper Lebron James,

562
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: he was called the next Lway. He was the camp

563
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: Miss guy. Since his freshman year at Stanford he was

564
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: an elite player, and then he went to Indy, a

565
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: team that had gone too and fourteen the year before

566
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: when Peyton Manning's neck chatter or whatever and he just

567
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: couldn't play, and they went to the playoffs for three

568
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: straight years. He didn't just live up to the hype.

569
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,719
Speaker 1: He ran by it, like Bryce Harper. Lebron was circling

570
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: the hype, like was way far by it. Then Ryan Grigson,

571
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: the worst general manager in the history of sports, and

572
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: Chuck Paganod that had no business being a head coach,

573
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: tried to single handedly ruin his career. And I got

574
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: asked for the last year, what's gonna happen to Andrew Luck?

575
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen to Andrew Luck? Well, these aren't robots,

576
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: you know. This isn't like my Apple computer goes down.

577
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: I just taken to the local Apple store because I

578
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: got the warranty and they'll just fix it. You know,

579
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: sometimes a shoulder just goes now because of modern medicine,

580
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: because of the you know, just the progresses in technology

581
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: with doctors and everything. It takes a lot. You know,

582
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: we all knew a guy growing up. Listen, I'm thirty four,

583
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: so growing up like in the nineties, family friends or whatever,

584
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: there was a good athlete in college. Hell, you know

585
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: that the one friend that you know, this guy played

586
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: four or five years for the forty niners or wherever

587
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: you live, you know that local team had a terrible

588
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: knee injury, and he's still like walking with a limp.

589
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be less and less of those individuals,

590
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: not that they won't one day walk with a limp,

591
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: but their career if they were a legit player. Now

592
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: sometimes looking back, probably you know, we don't have the

593
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: information like question that, like if you were in the

594
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: eighties and someone just telling you about this dude in

595
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: the sixties that was like that had made it, he

596
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: would have been an all time great, like maybe, but

597
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: who knows. But but ultimately my point is that nowadays,

598
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: because of the ability to fix human beings, more than

599
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: likely they're gonna come back, but you still never know

600
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be the same. And because of Andrew Luck,

601
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: he didn't just disappear like he was gone for an

602
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: entire season and then he could not throw in the

603
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: off season and then it came out. I guess it

604
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: didn't come outntil the season, but that he had another

605
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: injury snowboarding like part of it was he had heard

606
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: his shoulder and then he had another injury when he

607
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: was snowboarding. So it is kind of crazy, like there

608
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: was almost a chance that this guy was gonna disappear

609
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: for good. But I got news for you. He not

610
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: only didn't disappear, he's come back better than ever. His

611
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: career high in touchdown passes career high was forty in

612
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. That was the best team they had.

613
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: They got to the n FC Championship game. They lost

614
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Right now, he is on pace for forty

615
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: six touchdowns. Here's the other thing. I've watched them played

616
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: multiple times, just watched him play against the Raiders, and

617
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: other Raiders weren't good. He was awesome. And he's playing

618
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: with Eric Ebron, who was a bust in Detroit. Jester Rogers.

619
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: I'd never really heard of Mac and Hines as two

620
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: running backs that actually are kind of intriguing. But again,

621
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: they're Mac and Hines. He's not playing with Todd Gurley

622
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: or Levian Bell, Jack Doyle, who I like, but he's

623
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: still Jack Doyle, a solid tight end, but he's not

624
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: great Kowski. You know, Travis Kelsey. What he's doing is

625
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: just remarkable. He also is never consistently handed a full

626
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: deck like his organization, is his owner, long history of

627
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: drugs issues, and just kind of a nut job. This year,

628
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: they tried to hire Josh McDaniels. Josh McDaniels turns him down,

629
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: frank right. Not only was he not their first choice

630
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: their first go around, they didn't even interview the guy. Now,

631
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: clearly it looks like he's gonna be a solid head coach,

632
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: and he's a good offensive mind. But I mean, jeez, Louise,

633
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,720
Speaker 1: has anyone just been handed more ship and been asked

634
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: to make chicken salad consistently than Andrew Luck in his

635
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: short career since coming into the league in two thousand

636
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: and twelve. I mean, Ryan Grigson tried to drive this

637
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: guy out of the league. Then Andrew deserves some crap

638
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Speaker 1: to This snowboarding accident did not help. But he missed

639
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: an entire season in his late twenties, in the peak

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Speaker 1: of his powers, and somehow he's come back stronger and

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00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: better than ever. Like this guy, I think we've almost

642
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Speaker 1: forgot about him again. He doesn't have Pete Carroll and

643
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Speaker 1: John Schneider in his organization. He's never had a Belichick,

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Speaker 1: He's never had a Pittsburgh Steelers. It turns out the

645
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: Colts were kind of a joke organization, and Peyton and

646
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Speaker 1: Bill Polian just kind of band aided her. Say, like

647
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: we saw R's true colors the last two years with

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00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: Luck's shoulder falling off, Griggs and Pagano and this whole mess,

649
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,399
Speaker 1: and Josh McDaniels saying kick rocks, like I think we

650
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Speaker 1: it can't be overstated what Andrew Luck is doing and

651
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: just how good the guy is. He isn't good, He's elite.

652
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Speaker 1: And I naturally talked about top five quarterbacks. I mean

653
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: the top two have been kind of set in stone

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00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: in you know, Brady Rogers, and then it's usually just

655
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Speaker 1: Breeze Russell, maybe Roethlisberger if he's playing well. But we

656
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Speaker 1: never talked about Luck anymore. Now, granted, of course we didn't.

657
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Speaker 1: He was gone, but I'm gonna start mentioning him, like

658
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: who else should I be mentioning? I mean, Mahomes, don't

659
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: get me wrong, is unreal, but let's see him do

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Speaker 1: this for two or three years. Like Luck has been

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Speaker 1: banging out wins and they're not totally mathematically eliminated though

662
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna be. I mean that, I think the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans are basically a locked to win that division.

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Speaker 1: But if somehow he can get this Indianapolis Colts team

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Speaker 1: to eight and eight, which is not out of the

666
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: realm of possibility. There three and five now, so they

667
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Speaker 1: have to go five and three in the second half.

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Speaker 1: But if you get them to an eight, that's an

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Speaker 1: incredible accomplishment. Again, this was a team that was until

670
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Speaker 1: they traded back with the Jets, was drafting third overall.

671
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: The coach was like their eighth choice. And somehow that

672
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Speaker 1: they're even this competitive and they easily could be four

673
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: and four or five and three right now. They have

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Speaker 1: been in some tight games they've lost, Like, I think

675
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: we all should tip our hat to this guy because

676
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: he is awesome, just an incredible player who is playing

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00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: at an extremely high level this season. Okay, let's get

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Speaker 1: to the Middlecoff mail bag. The way I do this

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Speaker 1: go to my d M s my Instagram at John Middlecoff.

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Speaker 1: You slide up in those and I'll answer. You can

681
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Speaker 1: ask me anything. I've been so behind. I've answered a

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Speaker 1: bunths on Instagram, but I always make make room for

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00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: people here. Here's a good one. Is Scott Hansen the

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Speaker 1: best announcer commentator in football? Dude stands for seven plus

685
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: hours without going to the bathroom or even eating, and

686
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: looks just as lively at the end as he does

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: the beginning. He's not human, I agree. I mean, I

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00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: don't think he quite gets enough respect for how difficult

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Speaker 1: that job would be. He clearly doesn't take any breaks.

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Speaker 1: He might get a quick bathroom break to go pee. Uh,

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00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,720
Speaker 1: maybe he's gone on a record to say he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: For me, that wouldn't be possible. I just have to

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Speaker 1: drink water to keep my throat fresh. But he is

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Speaker 1: for all the hype of the broadcasters like Joe Buck

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Speaker 1: to me, I tweeted this out and people like Middlecoff,

696
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Speaker 1: you love to go against the grain. No, Joe Buck

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Speaker 1: is really really good. He went in a three day

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Speaker 1: stretch World Series Thursday Night Football World Series and did

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Speaker 1: not skip a beat. Was incredible. I watched about thirteen

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Speaker 1: of the eighteen innings and it was awesome. I also

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00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: watched the majority of the Thursday night game. Like, Joe

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Speaker 1: Buck is really really good at his job. Now, Scott

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Speaker 1: Hanson's job is different, right than calling a game because

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Speaker 1: he's more calling highlights kind of live, but it's really delayed,

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Speaker 1: like he knows what's going on. But yeah, he is

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Speaker 1: in the broadcasting world, he's pretty good. I mean he

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Speaker 1: is is he He's really really good? Actually I I

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Speaker 1: I don't think he probably gets the respect he deserves.

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Speaker 1: But we'll give it to him here on the Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: mail back for the mail bag. Should USC look at

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Speaker 1: Jeff Tedford after firing Hilton? I find it odd he

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Speaker 1: never got another packed uh power five shot after COW.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they will because my longstanding theory, Lynn Swan,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna go after a pro guy like a John Harbaugh,

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Speaker 1: someone like that, like what Jim Harbaugh was several years ago.

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Speaker 1: But he couldn't go wrong with Jeff Tedford. Jeff Tedford

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Speaker 1: is the best coach in the history of COW football.

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Speaker 1: They've been playing football for over a hundred years. Was

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Speaker 1: consistently the only team that pushed USC in Pete's heyday.

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Speaker 1: You're in and year out, consistently landed elite players, I

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Speaker 1: mean first littered the first round. Obviously we all know

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Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers, but Alex mac Deshan Jackson, I know

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Speaker 1: DeShawn wasn't a first round pick, but that was because

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Speaker 1: off the field, not on the field, Marshawn Lynch Cam

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Speaker 1: Jordan's I mean the list is long, like really really

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Speaker 1: good impactful players. Keenan Allen his recruit like he can recruit.

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Speaker 1: He is kicking ass at Fresnel. I saw someone tweet out, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Fresno State is the best team in California right now,

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Speaker 1: they're better in SC. They beat U C l A.

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Speaker 1: Stanford probably would beat them, but if they played ten times,

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Speaker 1: Freson State might win five. You know, they're definitely better

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Speaker 1: than CAL. Like Fresnel State is a legit program, Jeff

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Speaker 1: Tedford is a legit Power five coach. Now, I would

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Speaker 1: imagine USC views them as old. But I know this,

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Speaker 1: if they just wanted a guy to get the thing

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Speaker 1: back on track, Jeff Tedford would be the guy. If

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Speaker 1: you told me Jeff Tedford was the head coach at USC,

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Speaker 1: I think they would be in the playoffs in two years.

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Speaker 1: If you told me next year they could win the PACTUAL,

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Speaker 1: He's actly. I don't think it would be a crazy

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Speaker 1: higher at all. I just think that's unrealistic, Like that's

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Speaker 1: just that's just not what they're gonna do, even though

743
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Speaker 1: today as of Monday, I think it was this afternoon

744
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: it was announced that Clay Helton had fired the offensive

745
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: line coach who's like one of his best friends and

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Speaker 1: is taking over the play calling from t Martin. Like Clay,

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00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: it's too late, bro, your form for it's over. It's done. Audios.

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Speaker 1: Uh okay, let's go to the questions. Hey mate, Pats

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Speaker 1: fan from Sydney, Australia, quick question, at what point do

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Speaker 1: the past start looking for the backup quarterback? I love

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00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: Brady and I'm sure maybe I've already answered this question.

752
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have, but I've answered similar questions.

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing with their backup quarterback is

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Speaker 1: there in a tough spot like they had Jimmy, and

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Speaker 1: I just think that they inevitably thought the transition was

756
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. And I saw Brady before I recorded this podcast,

757
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: you know, with like Michelle Tafoya or whoever the sideline

758
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: you know woman is for ESPN. Before he says by

759
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: mom and Dad, He's like, I hope to be playing

760
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Speaker 1: for a long time because he's three yards away from

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Speaker 1: rushing for a career or thousand yards. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Brady's going anywhere anytime soon, so it's not gonna shock

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Speaker 1: me if they take a quarterback sooner or later. But

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Speaker 1: they always drafted the end of the first round, you know,

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Speaker 1: so that means their second round pick. It's not very good.

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Speaker 1: They're just in a tough position. I just think they're

767
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: kind of just at the point in time in the

768
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Speaker 1: poker game where all their chips are in the middle

769
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Speaker 1: of the table and if eventually the flop card, you know,

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00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: flops and it's not conducive to you, the equivalent of

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00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: like Brady getting hurt, they're screwed, and they would just

772
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Speaker 1: lose all their money. It's just they're they're all in,

773
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Speaker 1: and I can't really blame them anymore. I personally would

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Speaker 1: have transitioned to Jimmy, though I would have been wrong

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00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: if Jimmy would have towards a c hell um. But

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00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta give Tom terrific TV twelve in

777
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Speaker 1: incredible amount of credit for just I get the rules

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00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: are on his side and you can't really hit him,

779
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: but he's forty freaking one years old, like it is.

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Speaker 1: It's starting to get to the point where I think

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00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: we casually. Oh, Brady's just still kicking ass at forty one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've all been watching sports here for a

783
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: long time. You know, usually in your late thirties, you

784
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: see a dramatic difference and it'd be one thing if

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00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, like forever with baseball, it was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Barry Bonds is thirty eight years old and still has

787
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: incredible power. It was clear he was on pds. Like

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Speaker 1: you just watched Tom You're like, wow, the guy's not

789
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: on p ds. You know, just look at him, like, yeah,

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00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: he is on avocado ice cream and eating kale salads

791
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: and eating chicken. You know, it's just you just just

792
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: look at him. You know, it really is remarkable. But

793
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: one day someone's gonna fall funny on his ankle. Someone's

794
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: gonna something's gonna happen. It's just inevitable. Now it might

795
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: happen at forty five, but he's still going, Hey, John,

796
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: I'm a Falcons fan, and as a die hard as

797
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: it has been to watch this attempt to play defense

798
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: with so many injuries, I can understand why we're struggling.

799
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Speaker 1: The one thing I still can't understand is why Julio

800
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Speaker 1: Jones can't doesn't have a single touchdown. Is there any

801
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Speaker 1: reason you can explain such an elite receiver can't get

802
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. That's a hell of a question. I I

803
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Speaker 1: haven't studied him. You've watched more of Julio Jones than me.

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Speaker 1: Being a Falcon fan, I don't watch them play every

805
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: snap every week, But I would say this, He's always

806
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: had somewhat of a knock. He doesn't have, you know,

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Speaker 1: like who has the best hand, like Marvin Harrison or

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Speaker 1: just a player Antonio Brown just elite, elite hands last

809
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Speaker 1: year in that playoff game, that jump ball, he's not.

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Speaker 1: What's weird is for being this physically superimposing wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: You would think he would be a like Gregkowski. Gorenkowski

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Speaker 1: has you know, in the scouting terms like plus like

813
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: plus plus hands like he doesn't get his hands are

814
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Speaker 1: as good as it gets. He might have the greatest

815
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Speaker 1: hands in the history tight end like him or Tony Gonzalez.

816
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: That's why he's such an elite red zone player like

817
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Julio is not the most natural catcher of the football

818
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: and in the red zone when you throw that jump ball,

819
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: like I watched forever, Michael Crabtree had a ton of

820
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: fade touchdowns when he came to the Raiders. He has

821
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: great hands, great tracking the ball. But you're right, it's

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00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: weird because Julio is so productive in every other element

823
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 1: of between the twenty of the twenty, just running every

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00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: route from go routes, the slants too, you know, drags

825
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: across the middle. He can do it all comebacks. But

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, whether it's the timing, I do think

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Speaker 1: it plays, he's just not comfortable the jump balls. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe that theory can be debunked. Back in the day

829
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: he used to run a lot of fades. I don't know.

830
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to pull something out of my ass

831
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: here because it doesn't quite make sense. He they don't

832
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: do a good enough job going to him. Maybe it's

833
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: as simple as maybe Dan Quinn would tell you over

834
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Speaker 1: a beer if he was being truthful. Well, so often

835
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: they basically double team him, you know, so we just

836
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Speaker 1: go to someone else who's open. It's maybe why Calvin

837
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: Ridley has had, you know, a really good Season's why

838
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: they're running backs the last couple of years, scored a

839
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Speaker 1: lot of touchdowns. I don't know, it's it's one of

840
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: the bizarre stats you know all time. I had a

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00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: guy tell me at the combine he thought for all

842
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: the hype on Julio talking about him, like he thought

843
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Speaker 1: that Hopkins and Antonio Brown just like when you're really

844
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: nitpicking the top guys, because again we when we're talking

845
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Speaker 1: about the elite of elite, you can still nitpick those

846
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Speaker 1: guys that you know, his hands were the differentiating factor

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Speaker 1: why those guys were better, even even O'Dell. Now, Julio

848
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: is a more complete player now he's obviously played with

849
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: a much better at least regular season quarterback the last

850
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: five years then O'Dell has with Eli. But if you

851
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Speaker 1: told me for the next three years, if my quarterback

852
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: was good, I could have like I would take Antonio

853
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: Brown and would take Hopkins over both of them. If

854
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: you told me O'Dell or Julio, that'd be a tough one.

855
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: I mean, people might say I might go with O'Dell.

856
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: I might go with O'Dell, and that's that's no shot

857
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: at Julio. I just think O'Dell is incredible. Now. Then

858
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: the thing with Julio is he's just much easier to

859
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: deal with, right, just a better guy, more consistent human being. Hey, John,

860
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: do you think the Raiders should draft a top running

861
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: back in the draft. If so, who do you see

862
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: matching their scheme coming out of college. I was talking

863
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: to a guy in the NFL. Like many of you,

864
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: I watched a ton of college football. I've noticed, like

865
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 1: last year, it was so clear that Nick Chubbs, Sony

866
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: Michelle uh Ronald Jones, the third, like all these running

867
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: backs that were coming out, guys that were gonna go

868
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: really high, Royce Freeman, you know, just there were running

869
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: backs everywhere all over the country, and it was like God,

870
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you can get a running back at every

871
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: level of this draft. I watched a lot of college football.

872
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: It's not a good running background. And I had a

873
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: college scout telling me he didn't see that many running

874
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Speaker 1: backs in the college market. So I haven't noticed a

875
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Speaker 1: lot of the guys are underclassmen or like sophomores and

876
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: freshmen that I've noticed, I can't think of the top

877
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: quote unquote running back prospect. I think it's a real,

878
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: real down year for running back draft, which should benefit actually,

879
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: and that's that's hurt the running back market the last

880
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: couple of years. In defense of Levi on Bell and

881
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: I don't think his agent or him are thinking this

882
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: way because how would they know? But it may just

883
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: by luck of the draw. Like last year, you would

884
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: never pay Levy on Bell big money if you were

885
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: Team X needed running back because you could just draft

886
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: one in the second, third or fourth round. Right. Well,

887
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: this year, if you go, oh, they're like five draftable

888
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: running backs. You know, I'm just throwing out some arbitrary number. Well,

889
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, we have all this cap space, why don't

890
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: we just Levion Bell. I did the math the other

891
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: day because I was doing something about the Raiders and

892
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 1: the Niners. The Raiders of the Niners are the six

893
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: and seven team with cap space in the league projected

894
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: cap space. Now, obviously that changes as teams cut players,

895
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: but projected right now, the top five teams, I think

896
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: it's like Indie, Buffalo, Cleveland, and the Jets and one

897
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: more team the Cardinals or just another team with the

898
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. They have over five hundred and fifty million

899
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: dollars of cap space. There's gonna be historic amount of caps.

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00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: And then I think the Raiders were seventy and the

901
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 1: Niners were like sixty three million dollars, So that's another

902
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, I mean We're talking hell, almost seven million

903
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: dollars of cap space just the top seven teams. There's

904
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: gonna be so much money out there that maybe it's

905
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: not crazy, like if you're the Raiders or you're the Jets. Actually,

906
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: the Jets run games okay, but Indie's run game doesn't

907
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: look that bad either. Maybe it's just the Raiders, Like,

908
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: it's not crazy. The Raider signed Levian Bell. They're gonna

909
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: need something a little splashy. Gruden loves offensive players. They're

910
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of money. Maybe they give him

911
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: like twelve million dollars a year for three or four years.

912
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: Gruden clearly doesn't care about character. Uh So, yeah, maybe

913
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: they had Levan Bell. Question, is Sean McDermott a top

914
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: ten NFL coach? I think he'd be up there if

915
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: you want Belichick? Andy Tomlin, Pete, Uh who am I

916
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:41,720
Speaker 1: missing here? McVeigh, I still go Zimmer. I know people

917
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: crush McCarthy, but you know, as resume speaks for itself,

918
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: Tomlin's kind of fallen out of favor. Did I say?

919
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: I said? Andy? Uh? NFC West not very good coaches,

920
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 1: a f C South not a good year NFC South

921
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: Shawn Peyton clearly as a top four or five coach,

922
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: might be might be the second best coach. I think

923
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: Ron Revere is really good. Uh Cutter, No, who's the

924
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: other South team? Know, Dan Quinn. I think it's really

925
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: good too. I know they're Yeah, i'd say he's top fifteen.

926
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: I think Sean McDermott is good. So I think he

927
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: has the opportunity to become one. His team's tough, his

928
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: team plays hard. Uh. The question for him is gonna

929
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: be he clearly liked his organization, clearly liked Josh Allen,

930
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: and they've gone all in all the chips from the table.

931
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: When you take a number seven overall, I think that

932
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: could end up being his undoing. Now, maybe he'd tell

933
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: you they had experience with the inaccurate quarterback in Carolina

934
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: when he was the defensive coordinator. I'm just trying to

935
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: defend if I'm Sean McDermott. I'm not saying I agree

936
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: with that because Josh Allen isn't anywhere near cam Newton.

937
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: I just, at the end of the day, I just

938
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna be able to win with Josh Allen.

939
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: But I with your top ten No, but he's a

940
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: he's a really good coach. He's actually done a hell

941
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: of a job these last two years. You just watch

942
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: them there will coach, They're tough, they play hard. Uh,

943
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: first time, long time big fan of Colin and big

944
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Speaker 1: fan of you as well. Sliding in on my d M.

945
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: So what's up? What have you thought of the Colts

946
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: so far? Is Andrew Luck back? Talked about that earlier?

947
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: What would you rate Frank Wright out of a ten?

948
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: So far? Agree with? This? Is a lot of questions

949
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 1: in this outside of the Chiefs. Once the old gold

950
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: Guard falls off retires, are the Colts one of the

951
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: phase in the a f C. I will say this

952
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: I hit on Andrew Luck a lot earlier. If they

953
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: can just continue to build this offseason, they're not gonna

954
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: make the playoffs this year. And then gets a seven

955
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: and nine, eight and eight and maybe sign a Levian Bell,

956
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: get some defensive help. Darius Leonard, the guy they draft

957
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,959
Speaker 1: in the second round, is really good. If Andrew Luck

958
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: has four or five more years at a high level,

959
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: it's hard to say he's got ten more years because

960
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: he's already had a major injury. But if they can

961
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: keep protecting Andrew Luck, get another offensive weapon or two.

962
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,800
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. The great part about having

963
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and this forever with Tom Brady or an

964
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or Drew Brees, you can go pluck an

965
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron who was a bust and then all of

966
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're like every week I looked up, it's like, God,

967
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: I wish I would have had Eric Ebron on my

968
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: DraftKings team. He's excellent. So if Andrew Luck is good,

969
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: he makes these no Namers good. He has twenty three

970
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: touchdowns with Chester Rogers, with Eric Ebron, with Jack Doyle

971
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: missing a bunch of games, with Hines and and Marlon Mack.

972
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: You know, t Y Hilton's missed a bunch of games

973
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: and he's still producing. It really is incredible. So yeah,

974
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: if they can build this offseason, I don't see why

975
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be a playoff team next year. Frank clearly

976
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: is a good offensive coach. Everyone I know in the

977
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: NFL speaks very, very highly of Ballard. I'll give him

978
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: a lot of credit because I know people that did

979
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: not like Darius Leonard. He looks really good. He is

980
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: a good player. But they need to keep adding offensive players.

981
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: They need to protect Andrew and if their defense is good. Yeah,

982
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't see why next year they couldn't

983
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I don't think it's that out of

984
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility at all. Well, I know what

985
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: is out of the realm possibility at all. Keep for

986
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 1: me to keep going. It's late at night, Monday. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the pod. Thanks for listening again, and I'll see you

988
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: guys Friday after the Thursday night. For those of you

989
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: don't live in the Berry, you don't quite feel the

990
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: buzz yet. Derek Carr, c J. Bethard, Grooden Kyle, you know,

991
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: it basically feels like a Super Bowl except the exact

992
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: polar opposite terrible Thursday night game. But I'll record one

993
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Speaker 1: after the Thursday night game and enjoy the week. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the pod. Audio John Middle cop three our podcast Second

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