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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecop Three and Out

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Speaker 1: Podcast back at it again for another beautiful week, awesome

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Speaker 1: Sunday games. I wouldn't necessarily call Monday night awesome recording

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Speaker 1: this that the Monday night football game just ended entertaining.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you had fives on the game money

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Speaker 1: line Chiefs can't believe they were underdogs. Honestly makes no sense,

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Speaker 1: made no sense defending champs. Everyone, everyone in the media

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Speaker 1: just couldn't stop picking the Ravens. We'll we'll dive into

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Speaker 1: that game. I I got some tanks. I have some

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Speaker 1: thoughts on just everything on just the Chiefs. It's weird

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Speaker 1: they kind of get disrespected and just this Ravens phenomenon

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Speaker 1: thing that's going on. Uh, we'll dive into a lot.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Seattle, UH, Doug Peterson some some things I

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Speaker 1: But let's dive into the Monday night football game, and

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Speaker 1: let's just start with I. I couldn't believe the defending

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Speaker 1: champs were underdogs, Like, don't we have enough information now?

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Speaker 1: With Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, they're the best team

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Speaker 1: in the league. Like, I don't care how they looked

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Speaker 1: If that's the case, they should be favored in every game,

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Speaker 1: He's calling Mike's he's calling hot routes, he's calling the

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Speaker 1: You have the best young quarterback I think we've ever seen,

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Speaker 1: you know, through the three years. Uh, he's got to

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Speaker 1: but I think we'd all agree he's sure as hell

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Speaker 1: headed that way. And Andy Reid now, who has a

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Speaker 1: resume in the early two thousand's, when he got Donovan McNabb,

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Speaker 1: but they went to NFC Championship game after NFC Championship game,

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Speaker 1: what did he do in Kansas City. He got Alex Smith,

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Speaker 1: you give Andy Reid an above average pro bowl level quarterback,

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Speaker 1: I don't't care what their record is. We have enough

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Speaker 1: evidence now the last two and of years. Two years

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Speaker 1: We'll see if they're better in Pittsburgh. They just beat

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Speaker 1: the ship out of That was an That was an

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Speaker 1: The Ravens are the opposite. There the media darling Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: And Lamar makes these incredible runs. Why he's the fastest

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Speaker 1: They can't win a super Bowl with that offense. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Ravens have got throttled in the playoffs. You know why,

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Speaker 1: How do they how do they you know, destroyed defenses,

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Speaker 1: So I never want to hear Lamar compared to Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: and I like John Harboy. He's clearly good coach. He's

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Speaker 1: the chances Jordan Loves ever good as Jimmy Garoppolo slim

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Speaker 1: to Nunn. Right, if the Packers just drafted Jimmy Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: They've had a hell of a draft pick, and it

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Speaker 1: turned Tom Brady into a guy that won another m

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Speaker 1: v P, one another super Bowl. Motive Fear is an

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Speaker 1: incredible motivator, it really is. And when you're talented like

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Speaker 1: a Rodgers, they're they're just just no ceiling, and you're

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Speaker 1: seeing a guy that I know everyone's acting like Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson's a lock m v P, but I'm watching Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers and he's every bit as good of an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 1: Right now, okay, let's dive into something. I noticed this yesterday,

436
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: but I've really noticed it all year long, and I

437
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: would imagine many people watching this team play have noticed

438
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: it too. Now we knew that Russell Wilson was the

439
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: best deep ball thrower in the league. He's the only guy.

440
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: And Rogers is like this too when he's on and

441
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 1: I mahomes too. They can throw these fifty sixty yard

442
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: bombs and they hit guys in stride, a lot of guys.

443
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: When they heave the ball downfield, the wide receiver has

444
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,160
Speaker 1: to leap, has to stop. It's just rarely hit perfectly.

445
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: And Russell Rogers throws in my homes because they just

446
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: have probably a pure arm strength, can throw more of

447
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: a rope even like forty yards. Russell throws like this

448
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: thing that you'd see in a movie a bomb. What

449
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: what are those uh those things called that you put

450
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,399
Speaker 1: the little container in and it's a mortar and it

451
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: shoots like in Wars. The mortar goes up really high

452
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: and then it comes down. That's what Russell Wilson's ball

453
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Speaker 1: looks like. It goes up and then it and it

454
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: drops right in the lock. It and DK Metcalf's hands

455
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Speaker 1: perfectly as they're running. And if you've watched football, which

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Speaker 1: anyone listening to this podcast surely has over the last

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Speaker 1: three weeks, is I'm sure you can agree with this,

458
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: guys are wide open. I thought about yesterday when I

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Speaker 1: was watching the Cowboys Seattle game. I guess if you're

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Speaker 1: listening to this, A couple of days ago and I

461
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Speaker 1: had money on the Cowboys, I don't. I don't know why,

462
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: but they can't cover a soul. I told you, Mike,

463
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy should not have hired Mike Nolan. That that is.

464
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Speaker 1: And it's one thing to be, you know, just not

465
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Speaker 1: have the players. It's another to leave guys wide open,

466
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Speaker 1: like hey, Mike Nolan. Seattle has been running these play

467
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Speaker 1: action throwbacks on the goal line, these crossing routes, and

468
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: Russell throws it back across the you know, the field

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Speaker 1: to the guy wide open. For years, I've watched Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson and Pete Carroll their entire career together. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you've not been paying attention, you want to call

472
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: me or call some of the twelves, they'll tell you

473
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: they run that play. So just can you guys communicate

474
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Speaker 1: with your defensive backs. Clearly not in Russell hl live,

475
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: but in this day and age it's and listen, some

476
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Speaker 1: of these numbers that you're gonna see moving forward and

477
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: football are inflated. It is stupid to compare Joe Montana,

478
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Speaker 1: John Elway, even like Marino, to what guys have been

479
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Speaker 1: putting up the last couple of years. We're gonna move

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Speaker 1: forward because the dbs, they can't hit the wide receivers.

481
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Speaker 1: A lot of teams don't press coverage anymore, and then

482
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Speaker 1: these wide receivers have zero threat when they are either

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Speaker 1: running down the sideline or across the middle of getting

484
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Speaker 1: knocked out. When I was a kid in the in

485
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Speaker 1: the Nine East and even probably in the two thousand's,

486
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: you would just get guys destroyed. When I got to

487
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Speaker 1: the NFL in two thousand and ten, I remember several

488
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Speaker 1: players we had. Sean got carded off one time, Austin

489
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Speaker 1: Collie got card off one time. And I wouldn't even

490
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Speaker 1: call the Eagles. We weren't even that big hitting of

491
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Speaker 1: a team. Guys were getting destroyed. Like you came across

492
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Speaker 1: the middle, especially as a speed guy, you better be

493
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Speaker 1: ready when that balls in the air to get head

494
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Speaker 1: hunted and listen. I missed part of that in football

495
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Speaker 1: because I I do think part of the threat of

496
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Speaker 1: defense is being scared to run these routes. Well, that

497
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Speaker 1: threat because the CT and the way the game has changed,

498
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: and ultimately they want to keep guys healthy, which is smart.

499
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Speaker 1: Has changed football. You are not allowed to you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna decapitate. Obviously, no one ever gets decapitated, but

501
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: literally just leaping in the air and try to destroy

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Speaker 1: a guy in ko That doesn't happen anymore. And like

503
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, the three point shot has really taken

504
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Speaker 1: over the last five or six years. The Warriors figured

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00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: it out. They're like, we got these two great three

506
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: point shooters shoot an unlimited amount of threes, and it works,

507
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: and they start beating everyone, and everyone copied them, and

508
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: basketball has just become one big math equation. Like baseball.

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Speaker 1: They realize, you know, it's easier to win. And I

510
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: don't necessarily like watching this. If we we don't care

511
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: about strikeouts, we don't even care about batting average. You

512
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Speaker 1: can hit two twenty hit home runs, will batch a fifth?

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Speaker 1: What if I strike out a lot? Who gives a

514
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Speaker 1: ship hit? Those forty five home runs were good and

515
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Speaker 1: in football, the one thing I'd realized with Russell now

516
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: he's the best version of it. I would be taking

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Speaker 1: deep shots all the time. If my quarterback had a

518
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: good arm because the wide receiver, one you're gonna draw

519
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: a pass interference at a high rate, and two they're

520
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: just gonna get open a lot. Because clearly, if you

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00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: just watch football on Sunday, the communication right now by

522
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: the defensive backs are awful. No one can just say

523
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: screw it. I don't know who I'm covering. Well, when

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00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: the balls in the air, I'm gonna destroy the wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't happen anymore. And I think Seattle real, I've

526
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's like let Russ Cook, let Russ Cook.

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Speaker 1: I think they just came to grips with Yeah, we

528
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: gotta let Russ cook. But we have the best deep

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Speaker 1: ball thrower. We have two guys that can fly. I

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00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: mean d k can absolutely scoot, so can Tyler Lockett.

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Speaker 1: And and at the end of the day, none of

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Speaker 1: these defenses one most of these guys, like the wide

533
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Speaker 1: receivers that have been coming in the league, like a

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00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 1: guy like DKA, they've all all these speed demons, like

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Speaker 1: these four three wide receivers, Well, there aren't consistent for

536
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Speaker 1: three corners, and half the guys that do come into

537
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: that speed aren't any good. And then you have the

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Speaker 1: safety play just I was talking to a buddy in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, probably within the last month. He's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would one hundred percent take a cover safety like

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Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson for the Bears, who is a great at

542
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 1: playing the ball in the air. He's not gonna hit

543
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: you that hard, he doesn't have to. He'll just corral

544
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: you get to the ground. He's gonna pick the ball

545
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: off and make plays on the football that is in vogue. Well,

546
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: there aren't that many Eddie Jackson's in the league. The

547
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: day and ages of Cam Chancellor are dead. Those guys

548
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: can't really play in the league anymore, which pains me.

549
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: I love that type player. I love guys just cracking people,

550
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: but that that that day and age in the secondary

551
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: has ended. So the Seattle realized it's not just letting

552
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: them cook. It's like, we have a major advantage. We

553
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: have two speed demons, we have the best deep ball thrower,

554
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: and literally no one's allowed to cover them, and they're

555
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: definitely not allowed to hit them. And then if we're

556
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: playing bozos like Mike Nolan whose dbs don't even know

557
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: who to cover. They just stand there and take up

558
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: grass and look at the sky, and we just run

559
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: right right by them wide open. It's incredible. It's actually

560
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: pretty easy, and we'll just score touchdowns. And it's not

561
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: gonna be like the Niners secondary and even the Rams.

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00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: In theory, it should get a little more difficult. Again,

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00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: in theory, might not this. This might just be maybe

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Speaker 1: you should take multiple deep shots if you're Seattle every

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00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: single quarter and if I was a team that had

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Speaker 1: any speed on offense and a white and a quarterback

567
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: with any type arms rank like to me, this is

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00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: the modern day way to take advantage. Throw deep, Throw

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Speaker 1: deep a lot, because you're gonna get past interfearances and

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00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: your guys are just not they're not allowed to cover them,

571
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Speaker 1: and they're definitely not allowed to hit them. This is

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00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: a market inefficiency right now. And I don't think we're

573
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: ever gonna come back where the safety like the Mike

574
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Speaker 1: Mitchell's of the world, the Dante Witners of the world,

575
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: are just gonna be allowed to plow guys. Those days

576
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: ended three or four years ago, because the moment they

577
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: leave their feet, the flag comes out, even if it's

578
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: quote unquote illegal hit, which is just which is modern

579
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: day football in Seattle through three games and russ On

580
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: k and Tyler Lockett running circles around these modern day

581
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: defenses because they got no shot. Okay, one guy who's

582
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: been getting trashed and I'm gonna defend him. His name

583
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: is Doug Peterson. And last year I was at a

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Speaker 1: Monday night football game, Niners Seattle crazy game. It went

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00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: into overtime and it went down to the last second

586
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: of overtime and Seattle kicked a game winning field goal,

587
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: but with about two minutes left, the Niners got the ball,

588
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: had to go like, you know, ninety yards but actually

589
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: like fifty maybe sixty yards because they had their backup

590
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: kicker Robbie Gold had been hurt to get in the

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00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: field goal range to try to win the game, they

592
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Speaker 1: stayed aggressive. Garoppolo goes three and out, they put it

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Speaker 1: back to Rus leads him to a field goal. A

594
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: lot of talk and at the time the Niners, I

595
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: think that was their first loss. It might have been

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Speaker 1: eight in one or nine in one, and they had

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00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: a commanding lead. But once you lost to Seattle. I

598
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: think Seattle had three losses, the Niners had one, or

599
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: maybe it was maybe they only had two losses. Like

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Speaker 1: they were just right back in the division and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. I remember driving home, sitting in the

602
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: parking lot. It takes forever to get out of Levi's

603
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: were like, should Kyle Shanahana played for the tie? And

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Speaker 1: I thought it was insanity. I said, no, you got

605
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Speaker 1: the locker room, you're you're eight. No, you're playing your rival.

606
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: You gotta play to win. Well. At the time, I

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Speaker 1: truly believe that. Now they did have an argument three

608
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Speaker 1: or four or five weeks later, going into Week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: If they had tied that game and he had played

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Speaker 1: for the tie and basically ran out the clock or

611
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: not been as aggressive and throwing the ball, the Niners

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00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: Week seventeen game at Seattle would not have been a

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Speaker 1: winner get in. The Niners would have won the division,

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Speaker 1: and they would have needed to win that game for seating,

615
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't have needed that game for a home

616
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: playoff game and the bye, so the tie would have actually,

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00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: looking back, been the right move to play. Now, I

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Speaker 1: am a believer, and at the time they were going

619
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Speaker 1: back and forth, it wasn't that crazy. Now, once you

620
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: looked up and saw two minutes, it was clearly going

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Speaker 1: to be an aggressive play. Doug Peterson is kind of

622
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Speaker 1: getting shipped on right now because he played for the

623
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Speaker 1: tie against the Bengals. And here's where I'm gonna defend one.

624
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,479
Speaker 1: His quarterback is playing atrocious. Now, you can put that

625
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: on Doug, which he's the head coach, he's the offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: He is a quarterback that is under his watch. Now. Listen,

627
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was also his quarterback when he was gonna

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Speaker 1: win the m v P in two thousand and seventeen

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Speaker 1: before he got hurt. Is it Doug's fault that Carson

630
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: is throwing atrocious interceptions? I mean you're either coaching or

631
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: allowing it to happen. But Carson is six picks through

632
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Speaker 1: three games. That's on a Jamis Winston like pace of

633
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: thirty two interceptions. Just just an atrocious effort, I mean hideous.

634
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: He couldn't play much worse football, So to me, Doug

635
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: has to take that into account. And then he has

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Speaker 1: a whatever, a fifty eight yard field goal once the

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Speaker 1: guy jumps off size and kicks him back to a

638
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: sixty three yard field goal. Your division matters, and we

639
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: saw it last year if you were playing in the

640
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: NFC West, and Doug, let's say the Eagles were in

641
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: the NFC West and he played for a tie. I'd

642
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: call him an idiot because you are gonna need to

643
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: play for wins to just make the playoffs, because it's

644
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: gonna take twelve wins to win the division and probably

645
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: another tend to make a wild card. That's not his

646
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: problem because last year he won the division at nine

647
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: and seven, and right now the Giants are beside the Jets,

648
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: the worst team in the league, second worst team in

649
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: the league. The Redskins are a disaster. Uh, They're gonna

650
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: continue to lose, even though ironically they beat the Eagles,

651
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 1: but I think it's fair to say they're gonna they're

652
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: gonna struggle. I mean, even Ron Rivera is basically admitting

653
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: our quarterback stinks. So they're gonna win four games. Then

654
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: you got the Cowboys, who have talent, but their defensive

655
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: coordinator is given Vance Joseph run for his money as

656
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: the worst defensive coordinator. I might need to annoin him

657
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: as the worst defensive coordinator in the league. And Mike

658
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Nolan they can't cover a soul. And yeah they can

659
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: score points, but who cares when you can't stop anybody?

660
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: Are the Cowboys gonna win nine games? Maybe not. So

661
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: if you're Doug, you got listen. I can't take a

662
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: loss and b O and three. But I can take

663
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: this tie because I can still with three games in.

664
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: We got thirt he left. If I could win seven,

665
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: maybe we can get in with seven wins, give ourselves

666
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: a chance, especially the two games that I'm gonna play.

667
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: I still got two games with New York in two

668
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: games with Dallas. Now is he thinking that? I don't

669
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: know at the time, but I can't totally destroy the

670
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: move when he plays in a division that is horrid,

671
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: that is awful, that just eight wins might get you

672
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: the I get your home game, because if you win

673
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: the division we saw last year the Eagles host in Seattle.

674
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 1: If he had played in the a f C North

675
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: or if he was playing in the NFC West, it

676
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't make any sense. It's like Doug point of tying,

677
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: you need wins, but he doesn't. He plays in the

678
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: NFC least, the n NFC East, the division that you know,

679
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: it's just awful. It really, we saw it last year.

680
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: He experienced it. Last year. He got into the playoffs

681
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: because of that division. So he has experienced like playing

682
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: your own division and Factoring your division while you're making

683
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: decisions matters, So I I don't think it is some

684
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: crazy move when you factor in he's really just competing

685
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, Redskins, Giants. No chance his competition as

686
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He hasn't played them yet. Dallas obviously went

687
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: on to lose to Seattle. They have a one game

688
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: lead on the Eagles, technically one and a half games,

689
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: right because they both have the same amount of losses.

690
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: The Cowboys just have a win and they have a tie.

691
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's not as bad as everyone made

692
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: it out to be on Twitter now where it is

693
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: bad as the quarterback play, it's just been bad. And

694
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: the irony is my guy, Matt Naggie who pulls the

695
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 1: trigger for Nick Foles. Like the cool part about sports

696
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: is like in life, you just you never truly know

697
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Like, who in their right mind would

698
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: have thought that when two thousand and twenties started. Hell,

699
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: I was at the combine in the middle at the

700
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: end of February. If you would have told told me

701
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: a month later, you know your state's basically gonna be

702
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: locked down for six months. Everywhere you go you're gonna

703
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: have to wear this thing called a mask. That you're

704
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: gonna have to wear a mask everywhere you go. You're

705
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be allowed to eat in restaurants, but you

706
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: can eat outside. And you gotta wear a mask when

707
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: you order, but then you can take it off when

708
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: you sit down. And and yeah, sports, you're gonna get

709
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: put on pause for three months. Like you can't even

710
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: make that up, just like in sports, like I can't

711
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: make up that Tom Brady came back against the Atlanta

712
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Falcons three. I mean, you can't. You can't even make

713
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: that up. You can't make up the nick fole story

714
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: that a backup quarterback comes in for a max quarterback

715
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: and then wins the Super Bowl in a city that's football,

716
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: that just loves its football team more than anything, and

717
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: that guy becomes a legend in the town and he's

718
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: not even the starting quarterback, and then the following year

719
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: he's not the starting quarterback. But then that starting quarterback

720
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: gets hurt again and that guy takes him to win

721
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: a playoff game, and then he comes in again for

722
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: a guy that's way worse than went. I mean, Mr

723
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: Biscuit stinks. I a sports center tweeted out, like his

724
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: win loss rate, he's he's His win loss record is

725
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think it's like twenty two and ten

726
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: these last or twenty two and twelve these last couple

727
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: of years. T d interception ratio is positive. But you

728
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: just watch him. Mr Bisky is not a very good player.

729
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I mean, I haven't texted my guy, Maaggie.

730
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: Could you move him to safety? He made a good

731
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: open field tackle after he threw a pick. Could he

732
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: play special teams? It's kind of like a tebow athlete.

733
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: But Nick Foles comes in and they're down huge, and

734
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: he throws three touchdowns and they win the game. Like

735
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: I I, you can't make Nick Foles up. You really can't.

736
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: And it's what's cool about sports. And then when you

737
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: factor in like Nick is just one of the more

738
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: likable guys in sports. He always says the right thing.

739
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: Everyone loves him as coaches, his teammates. He never complains

740
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: when he's not the starter, even though he's more accomplished

741
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: than the starter that he's behind. Like, think about he

742
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: was just sitting behind Mr Rbisky, How could he in

743
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: his right mind? It put yourself in Nick Fole's shoes.

744
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: He was supportive of Mitch, and I mean everything that

745
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: I had heard, like, he couldn't have been any nicer

746
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: to Mitch. He's going the first couple of games. Mr

747
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: Whisky is the starting quarterback. I've beat Brady and Belichick

748
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: in a super Bowl, I've won a playoff game against

749
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: Mr Whisky and this guy starting over me. But that's

750
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: not how he thinks. That's how you or I would think,

751
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 1: because I'd be like, what are we doing? And listen.

752
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: Mr whisky story is pretty simple. Everything I know, people

753
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: that are around him, they love him. He's a great guy.

754
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: He tries really hard. But you know the best part

755
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: about the big leagues and just it's no different than business.

756
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: At a certain point, when a lots on the line,

757
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: you either get it done or you don't. Like, Yeah,

758
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: I can like you, you could be a great You

759
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: could be your friend. I don't like doing business with

760
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: my friends. I want to get the job done. Like

761
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't want my quarterback to be the most beloved guy.

762
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: Just want to have the best quarterback. And when you

763
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: play in the NFL, like, it's not about being liked

764
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: how much guys you know like would take you out

765
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: to dinner and want to be around you. Like, if

766
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: you can't get the job done, you can't get the

767
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: job done. There have been a lot of high character

768
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: guys that suck at quarterback, Like there have been a

769
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: lot of price and questionable individuals that want a lot

770
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: of games. It's pro sports, the private sector, you know,

771
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: and Nick Foles just gets it done and Mr Bisky

772
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: just couldn't because they really he had some moments against

773
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: Detroit at the end, he did, he played well, but

774
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: they were winning these games and they were getting their

775
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: asking by the Falcons because Mitch wasn't that good and

776
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: their defense is too good. They have too many playmakers

777
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: on offense to keep rolling them out. So Naggy said,

778
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: it's a gut instinct, Like sometimes our best decisions in

779
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: life are just gut. You can't quantify people, like, what

780
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: do you mean your gut instinct? Well, you can't quantify it.

781
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: Are you married? How you quantify how much you love somebody?

782
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: How much you go I want to spend the rest

783
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: of my my life with her, or like you know,

784
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: when you get into a partnership or a business deal,

785
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes you're like this just fits. It might

786
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: not make that much sense on paper, but I trusted

787
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: and Matt Naggie clearly just saw with Mr Bisky like

788
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: this ain't working, Like we we gotta hang a left

789
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: because the path we're on right now is gonna take

790
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: us off a cliff. And we got too good of

791
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: a defense, too much talent on offense that a gut instinct,

792
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: like I saw them ask him to day, what do

793
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: you mean by gut instincts? Like I can't really describe it.

794
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: You just know it. We've all had it. I mean

795
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: if if you're dating anyone or married anyone, like you

796
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: can't quantify all this stuff. Sometimes with a quarterback situation

797
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: like once upon a time, Belichick you had no information

798
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Folds is gonna go be Brady,

799
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: but he's told Drew Bledso no, no, Moss, Drew, we're

800
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: going with Drew, or excuse me, we're not going with

801
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: you anymore. We're going with Tom and the resume you

802
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: would have said go back to Drew bledso, but he didn't.

803
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: And I think usually the best decisions in life are

804
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: made with a gut instinct, are made with feel People

805
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: love quantifying everything today, like what does it say on

806
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: the Excel spreadsheet. Sometimes you can't quantify things, you just

807
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: know it and uh, and it's usually the right decision

808
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: when you just follow your gut. Let's do something I

809
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: did a couple of weeks ago, and so a lot

810
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: of people are hitting me to do something like Colin

811
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: did with Collins right, Collins wrong. And I tried to

812
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: do these hits and misses, and I didn't really like

813
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: the way like my hits and misses the way that sound.

814
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: So I thought, let's do takes. Let's do buy and

815
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: sell takes it I'm gonna double down on and ones

816
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 1: that I probably gotta sell. So basically, if I was right,

817
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: I'm buying, and if I was wrong, I'm selling. We

818
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: talked a lot about the stock market here. I thought it,

819
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: I thought it works. I thought it's kind of apropos here,

820
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: and is that the right word that fits the show?

821
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: So let's do something. I gotta sell. And I crushed

822
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 1: this guy last year because I had heard just things

823
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: that he wasn't gonna be a good head coach from

824
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: people that had worked with him. Then when he was

825
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: in Tennessee as the offensive coordinator, the offense wasn't very good.

826
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: They've obviously got a lot better with Arthur Smith, and

827
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: then last year I watched him and I went, I

828
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: don't really know what he's doing. The defense is making plays,

829
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: Rogers isn't playing that well. They are running the ball decently,

830
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: but I just didn't see it with the Floor, I'll

831
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: be honest. After I bet on him on Sunday night

832
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: and really locked into that team, and I've watched every

833
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: snap Rogers played this year. He's calling a fantastic season.

834
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: He's he's awesome right now. He's really doing a good job.

835
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: And I talked about earlier with the personnel move of

836
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: getting Jordan's love. I don't Goodakins is in charge of

837
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 1: the draft, but I I gotta give the Floor credit.

838
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: I gotta sell my take that he's just some overmatch coach,

839
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: because so far, what through you know, two years ahead coach.

840
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: In the regular season, he's won six team games, like

841
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: that's pretty damn good. And this year it's definitely passing

842
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: the eye test, Unlike at times last year, something I'm

843
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: gonna buy and and sometimes I regret when I changed

844
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: my opinion on one game or two games or something.

845
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: Just I see and I got two of these. But

846
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with this one, and I've been saying

847
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: it for years now, the advanced Joseph isn't a very

848
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: good defensive coordinator, and that the Cardinals are just a

849
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 1: flawed team. They do have a lot of talent. Kyler's

850
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: a stud. He played a shitty game on Sunday against

851
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: Detroit Hopkins stud Jones and stud Buddha. Baker's stud Isaiah

852
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: Simmons as a buddy text me after Week one says, God,

853
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't see it, but they do have some high

854
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: end talent, but their head coach is never one big

855
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator I I still question and I don't

856
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,280
Speaker 1: think they're just some lock to make to the playoffs.

857
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: They still gotta play the Niners again, and they got

858
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: four games remaining with Seattle in l A. They do

859
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: get Carolina this week, which looking at the early lines,

860
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: I kind of like them to beat Carolina, though Carolina

861
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: was pretty frisky against the Charterers, I mean, won that

862
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: game and kind of took it to him. I'm just

863
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: pump let's pump the brakes a little bit on the Cardinals.

864
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: Like that. They're not just some lock to beat any team.

865
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: If you have a good quarterback and you can score,

866
00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: you can beat them. Uh, let's dive into something that

867
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: I think I need to sell a little bit. You

868
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: can't dispute this guy's talent and his physical attributes and

869
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: the moments he's had in the league. But one thing

870
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: that I think guys developed bad habits and it's not

871
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: all of his fault, and it's no one even fault. Like, listen,

872
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: I'm biased. How he hired me in the NFL. I

873
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: know Doug, I know a lot of guys on their

874
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: scouting staff. I root for the Eagles. I'm not going

875
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: to root for him this week against the Niners, but

876
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: overall I root for them to do well, and I

877
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: root for the quarterback. But right now, Carson Wentz is

878
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: playing just terrible football, I mean awful football. Six interceptions

879
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: through three games for a max quarterback and a guy

880
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: his talent, even though he's playing with random offensive lineman

881
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: is got. He went down against the Bengals. Deshan goes

882
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: down all the time. He got al Sean hasn't even

883
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: been around like it hasn't been easy. But you can't

884
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. It's listen, I'll give you a

885
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: one off game. I'll give you the Redskins game, but

886
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 1: you can't come back against the Rams and throw the

887
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,839
Speaker 1: red zone interception. Then once you have two games like that,

888
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: you can't be thrown picks in the Bengal game. So

889
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: right now, listen, I'm not selling his career, but I

890
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: do think this year is just kind of getting away

891
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: from him. And listen, really good players can have just

892
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: really terrible seasons. It's happen to Philip Rivers a couple

893
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: of times, Like you can just have an awful year

894
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, and it kind of feels like Wentz

895
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: not selling his career. I'm not even selling the player

896
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: selling this season on Carson Wentz. I do not like

897
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: what I see. One thing I'm buying and I'm doubling

898
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: down on this one is Anthony Lynn and I lead

899
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: hard Knocks because he's a good person, and I like

900
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 1: good people. I try in my life to keep good

901
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: people around me. I don't like low character guys. I

902
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: I don't like associating with people that don't have the

903
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: same like personal values, not political values, but personal values.

904
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: The way you treat people, the way you act in

905
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: front of other people, the way you treat people that

906
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: can't help you out. Like I like being around good people.

907
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: I was raised that way. I despise bad people in life,

908
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: and it was clear hard Knocks Anthony Lynn is an

909
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: A plus human being. So I was like, you know,

910
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: I kind of want to root for this guy. But

911
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: I watched his team lay an absolute egg against the

912
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: Chargers and just I mean, that was an Anthony Lynn game.

913
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: He's just, at best an average head coach. That's just

914
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: I don't even know how it's really arguable at this point.

915
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: He's just not a dynamic head coach. Great guy. I

916
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: want to be friends with him, I want to drink

917
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: beers with him, I want to talk ball with him.

918
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't want him as my head coach. One

919
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: thing I I gotta sell here is, yeah, I'm gonna

920
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: sell this because my take was I didn't think the

921
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 1: Browns are gonna make the playoffs. I just bet against

922
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. They do something really, really well. They

923
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: have an elite running attack Nick Chubb Kareem Hunter backup

924
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: running back. I think that's the best tandem in the

925
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: league because Nick Chubb's the top five running back and

926
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt's like a top twelve running back and would

927
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: start on half the teams in the league. I mean,

928
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: if Nick Chubb was in the right situation as it started,

929
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: you'ld be like, excuse me, Kareem hunting be a pro bowler.

930
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: Like they got a chance to make the playoffs. Now

931
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: it's teams are gonna make Baker Mayfield beat them in

932
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks. Handed off, handed, off, handed, off,

933
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 1: rise your horses. Stefanski knows how to hide a quarterback

934
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: and he's done a good job. But I think the

935
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: Browns have a legitimate chance to compete for a wild

936
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: card spot. They definitely have enough talent and those running

937
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: backs you know are are really good. So I'm gonna

938
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: sell my opinion of just always talking about the Browns.

939
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: I think they have a chance if they just stick

940
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: to what they're good at, and that's running the football.

941
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: And luckily they have a head coach that wants to

942
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: run the football. I think they're gonna be really competitive.

943
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: One thing I'm gonna buy and I said at the

944
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: moment it happened, and I don't regret saying any of it.

945
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: He had the first game he had against Tampay Buccaneers

946
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: is his rookie debut. I was impressed, but since then

947
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: it's been a disaster. And the moment the Giants took

948
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones six, I threw up in my mouth because

949
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: Dave Gettleman had zero understanding of value. I don't believe

950
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: for a second that Daniel Jones wouldn't have been there

951
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: at pick seventeen. I think the information is in that

952
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: people like, well, the Redskins might have taken him at fifty. No,

953
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have. The Redskins owner made that pick and

954
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: his kid was friends with Dwayne Haskins, and they took

955
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins. He would have been there at seventeen. Now

956
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,919
Speaker 1: we could argue is he worth the seventeenth pick? I'd

957
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: probably say no. But I had friends in the NFL

958
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: that do the sec the it like Daniel Jones, So

959
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: guys I trust guys that know what they're doing. And

960
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: you can see Daniel Jones has some talent, but he's

961
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: an awful football player. He's just not very good. You

962
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: can't win games with Daniel Jones. He definitely not talented

963
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: enough to elevate the team around him. And he's on

964
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: a bad team right now, and he's one of their

965
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 1: worst players, and the Giants are an absolute train wreck. Uh.

966
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: You know, Joe Judge is saying all the right things.

967
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,760
Speaker 1: He's talking about blue collar and all that crap. Which listen,

968
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: I come from a long line of blue collar farmers.

969
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: I respect that term, um, I I really do. But

970
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: I think sometimes in football you use that term when

971
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: you're really terrible. It's like, man, no, no one really cares.

972
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: You know that the fans don't care how hard you're

973
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: working in practice, how much do you lay in the

974
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: foundation when we just just judge you on Sundays. The

975
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: thing with the NFL, you just get judged on Sundays

976
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: and Monday through Saturday day that that work comes into

977
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: play Sunday and you're getting rolled. You just got beat

978
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: by the forty Niners that had forty of their salary

979
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: cap space either an injured reserve or on sweats on

980
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: the sideline. They had a backup quarterback, Nick Mullins. Nick

981
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: Mullins looks dramatically better than Daniel Jones, dramatically better. Nick

982
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: Mullins was an undrafted free agent Daniel Jones with a

983
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: six overall pick in the draft. And that's the thing

984
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: with the draft. Once the draft ends who cares where

985
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: you were picked. Like Nick Mollins is just gonna be

986
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: a more valuable player in the league than Daniel Jones

987
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: moving forward, more teams would probably want Nick Mullins than

988
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. So I I just think that the personnel mistakes.

989
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: Dave Gettleman is not very good at his job, and

990
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: I think it shows when you watch their team. I

991
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: think Joe Judge being a young head coach, it's gonna

992
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: be very difficult. And I know he's at that old

993
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: school mentality and I respected I was raised that way.

994
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 1: I still have a lot of those values in the

995
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: way I live my life. I do think in two

996
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty, like you know, when Kyle Shanahan and

997
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,280
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh were hired, like they didn't talk all that stuff.

998
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: They just tried to outscheme people. You know, it's like everyone,

999
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: this is the NFL. Everyone works hard. I'm sure any

1000
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 1: anyone listening. Whatever your job you do, if it's a

1001
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: high level job like your competition, they work their ass off.

1002
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: I got news for you. Most human beings that are

1003
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: achievers get up early, work late. Welcome to America. It's capitalism.

1004
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: Like you want something, you grind for it. That's the

1005
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: way the world works. So like, I don't give you

1006
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: all this extra credit for working hard. We're all working hard.

1007
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this, you're driving to work, you're

1008
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: doing something, you're probably working hard. I'm talking into a

1009
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: mic at nine o'clock at night, Like, do I get

1010
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 1: extra credit just because I'm like, stand up late to

1011
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: do my job. No. The only thing I'm gonna get

1012
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: judged by is my podcast entertaining, like the only thing

1013
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: the Giants are getting judged by. And Daniel Jones like,

1014
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: are you any good? Can you move the football? Can

1015
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: you make a fucking play? Because I'm watching the forty

1016
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: Niners with Nick Mullins. The team is literally thirty minutes

1017
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: down the street from me. I know countless people in

1018
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: the organization, and half the guys they rolled out I

1019
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about. There's not a team in the

1020
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: league I know more about. And I didn't even know

1021
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: some of these players they were playing because they had

1022
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: so many injuries. They won the game thirty nine to six.

1023
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: Think about that. I mean, it's listen. I get Kyle's

1024
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: been you know, this is fourth year or whatever, but

1025
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have been that ugly. I bet a lot

1026
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: of money on the Niners to cover the seven points

1027
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: or whatever, but I didn't expect thirty point as whooping

1028
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: with the backups. But that's what it was. So the

1029
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: floor it's I'm trending to be wrong on that. Anthony Lynn,

1030
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, the Giants and advanced Joseph. I feel pretty

1031
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: comfortable with that. The Browns, I think it's fair to say,

1032
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: if you're a Browns fan, and I've said this the

1033
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: whole time, anything less than the playoffs with that much talent,

1034
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: especially on offense and an offensive league, is a disaster. Now,

1035
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: the division is tough. You know, the Ravens laid an

1036
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: egg tonight, but they're obviously gonna win a bunch of games.

1037
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,239
Speaker 1: The Steelers are clearly back. But there's playoffs. But you

1038
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: know seven playoff spots. You know you should be better

1039
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: than the Raiders, you better than the Colts, like the

1040
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: brown should make the playoffs. Okay, let's bang out a

1041
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: couple of quick questions. Middlecoff mail Bag at John Middlecoff

1042
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: is the Instagram fire in the d MS Giants fan here,

1043
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: would love to hear your thoughts on Daniel Jones turnover

1044
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: stick was quite disappointed when they selected him with a

1045
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: six pick, but I have to say he definitely has

1046
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: some zip throwing the ball. I agree. I always told

1047
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: he had a bad arm watching him, his arm strength

1048
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: is not the problem. Do you agree with Colin that

1049
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: the Giant should tank for Trevor? I would say our

1050
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: offensive line isn't doing sake que any justice. Who knows

1051
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: how many good years we have left from him? I

1052
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: might be crazy at this point. Maybe we should trade him,

1053
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: sit him uh for season. Pains me to watch him

1054
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 1: behind those big boys. New fan. Love your content, Appreciate it, bro. Yeah,

1055
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: I would say if they get the number one pick,

1056
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has gone right the head coach didn't pick him,

1057
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: I would say it wouldn't be crazy either. If Sa

1058
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 1: Kwan the problem is, are you gonna trade se Kwan

1059
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: off a torn a c L His value'd be low,

1060
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: Plus he'd be going into what is third year of

1061
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: his contract? Second fourth year of his contract? What year

1062
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: was he drafted eighteen? So yeah, the Giants are in

1063
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: a terrible spot. Their offense, I mean, there roster sucks,

1064
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: their offensive line stinks. Their quarterback is a major question,

1065
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,720
Speaker 1: and we just it's hard to even judge their coach.

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00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: Um Kuan was drafted so eighteen nineteen. This was the

1067
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: third year. Next year will be his fourth year. You

1068
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: gotta pick up his fifth year option this year. It's

1069
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:11,760
Speaker 1: just a complicated situation. Man, huge fan, appreciate it. Huge

1070
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: Hawkeyes fan here. I'm curious what you think we'll have.

1071
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: Who you think will have a better career Noah Fan

1072
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: or t J. Hockinson in Detroit? Do you also buy

1073
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots the Super Bowl contenders? Their defense looks elite,

1074
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: but I feel we're jumping on the cambadwagon too early.

1075
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: He's way too talented a player. He's the only talented

1076
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: player on that offense. I would agree. Their defense is

1077
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: actually not even that talented. It's just Belichick and scheme up.

1078
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: Their dbs are solid, but their pass rush, I mean

1079
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: it's not great. Linebackers are okay, it's more Belichick. I

1080
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: think when the dust settles, they win nine or ten

1081
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: games and they win the wild card or they win

1082
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: a wild card Hawkeyes. The one knock I heard from

1083
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: my scouting buddies was fant didn't have natural hands, and

1084
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: clearly their offense is just kind of in shambles, but

1085
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: he is a great athlete, and you get him in space,

1086
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: he can fly. Now, the Hockinson guy is just a

1087
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: complete player. I would pick t J. I think both

1088
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: those guys. I mean one, t J plays with Matt Stafford.

1089
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: He just plays with a good quarterback. Fans, I mean

1090
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: playing with Jeff Driscoll, you know who knows. I mean

1091
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: Drew lock made it through a couple of games that

1092
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: got injured. It's just tough. So I think you just

1093
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: have to bet on the guy who's playing with a

1094
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: better quarterback. I'm very impressed with Alden Smith. Is it

1095
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: realistic for him to reach fifteen sacks or so this season? Also,

1096
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: would the Cowboys be better off and try to trade

1097
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith for a linebacker or dB? Tyronn is a

1098
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, but he has hurt a lot and

1099
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: could potentially bring in a solid player to help out

1100
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: a potential playoff run. Well, then who would play tackle?

1101
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: I guess you guys have been rotating and other guys

1102
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: when he's been banged up. I think the main problem

1103
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: is their their offense. Fine. I I don't think his

1104
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: trade value would be that much given his contract and

1105
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: given you know who's trading linebackers and defensive backs right now.

1106
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: Aldon Smith has four sacks or three games. Four sacks

1107
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: through three games, so I don't see why he wouldn't

1108
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: get to fifteen. You know, if he could get if

1109
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: you average, I mean, if he he's already well on pace,

1110
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: he gets a sack in this next game, he'd have

1111
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: five through four. So you do the math. I mean,

1112
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: he'd be on pace for twenty sacks. He's probably not

1113
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: gonna get twenty, but I'd say he's gonna get between

1114
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: thirteen and fifteen. I mean, the dude is just a freak.

1115
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: I've been to practice seeing him up close. Most NFL

1116
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: players just do not look like him. I mean, six

1117
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: ft five, six ft six, his arms hanging to the ground.

1118
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: He's a fluid athlete. He hadn't played a game since

1119
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen. I don't care who you are, let

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Speaker 1: alone a guy over thirty to come back in the

1121
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: league and have three sacks or four sacks or three games,

1122
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: that is an incredible story. Bears fan here, your pot

1123
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: is great. Love to takes, appreciate it. Scouting question. As

1124
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: a former scouting having experience in the front office. Why

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00:58:57,920 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: do you feel it so difficult for teams to play

1126
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: the draft safe. If I were GM, my whole philosophy

1127
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: would be have ten plus picks every year and take

1128
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: guys from big schools that have high floors in early rounds.

1129
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: Ravens seemed to do it every year. That way that

1130
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: you improve with more ammo to trade up for a

1131
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: quarterback if you need one in the future. I think

1132
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: it's easy to say that, and listen, it's it's easy

1133
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: for me to say that right now, or you to

1134
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: tweet that. And then you get to the draft, and

1135
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: let's just say, for example, Alden Smith when he came

1136
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: out of Missouri, he was a pretty raw product. But

1137
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: you go to his pro day or you see him

1138
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: in these games, you see the film, and then you

1139
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: get up and you meet him, and you're like to

1140
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: take a high floor guy. And then you meet Alden

1141
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: Smith and he's six ft five and a half, he's

1142
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: got the longest arms in the draft. He's a freak athlete,

1143
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: and you go, God, if we could hit on this player,

1144
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: he could be a Hall of Famer. Right there are

1145
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: only so many like von Miller's or Miles Garris. There

1146
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: can't miss this. Most guys are somewhat of a projection. J. G.

1147
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: Watt was a projection, Aaron Donald's projection. And you like,

1148
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,479
Speaker 1: like I'm a I'm a believer in the first round,

1149
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: Like I'm a ceiling guy. I like guys with higher ceiling.

1150
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: Now that that backfires, it does backfire. But when you

1151
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: also hit with high ceiling guys, you know, you get

1152
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: elite players. It's how you get Now you can go

1153
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: low floor guys, you can go Mike mcglinchey's and you'll

1154
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: be fine. You just you just take low floor guys,

1155
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: you'll be okay. You know, Like I think the Chiefs

1156
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: did that with Clyde, Like he was not gonna suck.

1157
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: Is he ever gonna be like Sae Kwon? You know,

1158
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: he's never probably gonna be the best running back in

1159
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: the league. He's never probably gonna be like a top

1160
01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: two or three running back in the league. But it'll

1161
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: be like five to ten, especially in that offense. Like

1162
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: he's a really good player, and they just they just

1163
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: knew it. He to me, he's it won't get talked

1164
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: about it, but he was. He's a camp miss. He

1165
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: was gonna be good for them. And some people like

1166
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: shooting for the stars, which I get. I'm probably somewhere

1167
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: in the middle. I think it's easy to have these

1168
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: cut and dry philosophies and then you run into a

1169
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: player you're like, oh, my god, would if, for example,

1170
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: the Niners like Javon Kinlaw, like he was kind of

1171
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: a raw product, they could have taken guys with higher floors,

1172
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: And they're just like, I could have just taken like

1173
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 1: Seedee Lamp Instead, They're like, fuck it, Let's take this

1174
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: guy who's six ft five three pounds dominated Florida and

1175
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: Georgia and let's just try to hit a home run.

1176
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: And so far through the first couple of games you

1177
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:28,479
Speaker 1: see him, You're like, guy, this guy is a freak.

1178
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: You got a ways to go. But the talent the

1179
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: ceilings there now is floor is probably low. That's that's

1180
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: the risky part about the first round. But I would

1181
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: agree once you get past, like the second round, I

1182
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: would go high floor guys. I think sometimes when you

1183
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: swing for the fences and like the third and fourth

1184
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: round with guys that have fallen, is where you can

1185
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: get in trouble. For sure. I'm a lifelong Falcons fan,

1186
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: and this season has been depressing to say the least.

1187
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: Which coach would you pick to replace dan Quinn? Thanks,

1188
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: keep up the great work. Well, I can't even imagine

1189
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: being a Falcons fan to lose those last two games.

1190
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't been like a true true fan

1191
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: and like fifteen years of a football team, I I

1192
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: can't even I would just be inconsolable to watch a

1193
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: game on the couch back to back weeks. Have that happened,

1194
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: and get your ass kick week one that this would

1195
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: have been. I mean, I don't think you could have

1196
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: the worst possible start. You got Ridley, you got Julio,

1197
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: you got Matt Ryan. To me, the way the league is,

1198
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,959
Speaker 1: you've got to get an offensive coach. So whether that's

1199
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: whoever you think the best offensive coaches, Eric b Enemy,

1200
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:45,240
Speaker 1: whether that's you know, Greg Roman, whether that's I'm just

1201
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: thinking out Josh McDaniels. You know you just Byron Leftwich

1202
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You need, whether it's a

1203
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: Shanahan McVeigh guy, whether you get Lincoln Riley, you need

1204
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 1: to get an the lead offensive coach. You just had

1205
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: a defensive coach who's not a good defensive coach. So

1206
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: I would just go offense, and the last two coaches

1207
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: they've had have been defense, Mike Smith and Dan Quinn.

1208
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: I need offense, and I just i'd interview and whoever

1209
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: the best offensive coaches, whoever I think is the next

1210
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: you know McVeigh, Kyle that type guy obviously, I mean

1211
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: that's no Ship John Yes, sorry, that's kind of stupid.

1212
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: Just even Kevin Stefanski. Just a guy who I think

1213
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good offensive coach is what I'm

1214
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 1: looking for. It's easier said than done. Um, but that's

1215
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 1: that to me, would be the goal off on the Falcons.

1216
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:35,439
Speaker 1: Get a get an offensive coach who's a tough guy.

1217
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 1: So maybe that is Eric Banamy. I'd be shocked if

1218
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,200
Speaker 1: he's not interviewed. Appreciate everyone listening. Have a great week.

1219
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoyed the game's last couple of days.

1220
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 1: And uh see a little bit later this week. Audios,

1221
01:03:48,560 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: godspeed again and