Speaker 1: Welcome in What Driving nick Wright Episode three point fifty six.
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Speaker 1: It is officially, as we have said a few times,
Speaker 1: football season and the Cowboys, once again in August, have
Speaker 1: kind of hijacked the news cycle. But this one, I
Speaker 1: think now, I think I know that I feel at
Speaker 1: least pardon me, is a little different than the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. We will explain why in a moment,
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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks debut, you know, to de monsee's kind of
Speaker 1: a sad thing that's happened. I don't even hard Knocks
Speaker 1: is gone. I'm not trying to I'm not taking shots.
Speaker 1: The Hard Knocks has gone from like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: appointment television too. I don't even like the Bills are
Speaker 1: one of the teams I'm most interested in, and now
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like backburner. And maybe that's also
Speaker 1: a part of that is the way people consume media
Speaker 1: these days. I figure, if there's anything really awesome, I'll
Speaker 1: find out about it the next day anyway and be
Speaker 1: able to go back and watch. But I Hard Knocks
Speaker 1: once one a time was one of my favorite shows ever.
Speaker 1: And now there's a super interesting team that is the
Speaker 1: only real alleged rival of my team, and I know
Speaker 1: nothing about episode one, and so I think team or
Speaker 1: something or no, that's my point. I don't think they
Speaker 1: could have picked a team other than Kansas City that
Speaker 1: I would be more interested in. And I'm still not
Speaker 1: watching it. I just think that there is now so
Speaker 1: much access and there's en season ar Knocks offseason r Knocks,
Speaker 1: that it may be lost a little bit of it's,
Speaker 1: at least for me, the flares maybe the wrong word,
Speaker 1: but exclusivity also Antonio Pierce, life comes at you fast
Speaker 1: in the NFL. One week, you've got the blueprint for
Speaker 1: stopping Mahomes. The next week, you're wearing all Chiefs gear
Speaker 1: walking down in UH Saint Joseph, Missouri, hoping to get
Speaker 1: a job like such his life. For a lot of
Speaker 1: former Raider coaches, UH, you talk a lot of big
Speaker 1: game about beating the Chiefs. You're not able to beat
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and then you say, hey, maybe you need
Speaker 1: a linebackers coach, and the NFL does not ban smelling salts.
Speaker 1: They banned the team providing smelling salts, which is odd,
Speaker 1: but it really seems like players were not gonna have
Speaker 1: it like that. Have you demontey, have you ever tried
Speaker 1: smelling salts?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done. I've smelled them one time. I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 2: like one time.
Speaker 1: So it was just like they're around really, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I've never.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was first I've never. Like it
Speaker 2: wasn't got a game or anything. It was just like
Speaker 2: a try it.
Speaker 1: You were like at a like a music festival or something,
Speaker 1: and you like huffed the smelling salt to get going.
Speaker 2: Not to get going, honestly, just took it just to
Speaker 2: see what do Like, I've always seen people's sad and
Speaker 2: they take that I needed to see.
Speaker 1: When I was like ten or eleven, I was having
Speaker 1: friends sleep over and one of my friends tried to
Speaker 1: like jump down the final few steps going into our
Speaker 1: basement and we kind of had a low overhang from
Speaker 1: the ceiling and he whacked his head on it bad
Speaker 1: bad enough that it like cracked the plaster or whatever,
Speaker 1: and he I think was pretending now that I look
Speaker 1: back on it, thirty years later to be unconscious. But
Speaker 1: we were all freaked out, and I remember vividly going
Speaker 1: upstairs and getting just table salt and putting a handful
Speaker 1: of it and like holding it up to his nose.
Speaker 1: I was ten years old. A man, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was doing.
Speaker 2: I just I thought you were gonna say you actually
Speaker 2: found some smelling salts, and you put.
Speaker 1: No, no, no. I just like I thought smelling salt was
Speaker 1: smelling was killed. I was like, let me, yeah, let
Speaker 1: me try to wake this kid up, all right. Reminder,
Speaker 1: the only place you're gonna get stories like that from
Speaker 1: my childhood and Kansady, Missouri is the What's d I
Speaker 1: even think Wright podcast? Like rate, subscribe, review uh and
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Speaker 1: Lever review It actually truly does help. I would not
Speaker 1: be having us lead with the Cowboys demands if I
Speaker 1: thought what was going on was a bunch of nothing.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's a bunch of nothing, So
Speaker 1: let's start there.
Speaker 2: So the Micah Parsons trade request drama continues, Jerry Jones
Speaker 2: saying that Micah might not play Week one or he
Speaker 2: doesn't even know if that's gonna be happening. But the
Speaker 2: weird thing is mic has already reported camp, so he
Speaker 2: has to be playing. Is this just an maneuver by
Speaker 2: Jerry to make headlines.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think it is. Now Willy or Won'ty
Speaker 1: play Week one is interesting and that is an important clarification.
Speaker 1: Micah gave up people famously, remember a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones sitting out Week one, sitting in the luxury
Speaker 1: box with his agents what watching the Chiefs lose to
Speaker 1: the Lions. The NFL rules on this are very They're
Speaker 1: very straightforward. If you never report to training camp, that
Speaker 1: is your right, and the only punitive measure the team
Speaker 1: can take against you is financial fifty thousand a day
Speaker 1: fins and then game checks if you miss games. But
Speaker 1: other than that, they can't suspend you because of it.
Speaker 1: They can't. Your contract doesn't toll because of it, and you,
Speaker 1: in theory, could hold out all the way until the
Speaker 1: night before I think it's Week ten, then show up,
Speaker 1: play the rest of the year and get credit for
Speaker 1: a full season. If you're willing to take the financial hit.
Speaker 1: That's if you never show up. If you do show up,
Speaker 1: you cannot leave. It's a weird thing when if you
Speaker 1: show up and then leave, it's like the NFL version
Speaker 1: of going a wall in the military. They give you
Speaker 1: a five day letter that says you got to show
Speaker 1: back up within five days, and if you don't, then
Speaker 1: you are on ice for the year. They can't even
Speaker 1: if they say all right, never mind, we're cool with
Speaker 1: it two weeks later, it doesn't matter. You're essentially a
Speaker 1: retired player for that season and your contract does not
Speaker 1: advance a year. So that's why nobody ever shows up
Speaker 1: and then leaves. You can't do it. That is so
Speaker 1: Micah by showing up and then when Jerry says he
Speaker 1: might not play Week one, all that means is that
Speaker 1: he thinks Micah might be like, am I back? But
Speaker 1: he can't not be there. He can just be like,
Speaker 1: I'm too injured to play. And the reason so that
Speaker 1: I just kind of sets the template for where we are.
Speaker 1: I want to further flesh out how we got here
Speaker 1: because there is an element of this story that I
Speaker 1: think it's obviously been reported. It's how I know it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to act like demons. It hasn't been reported,
Speaker 1: but I think it has been under I don't think
Speaker 1: it's been focused on enough, and that is this, Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones has not had one single negotiation with Michael Parsons agent.
Speaker 1: I will say that again, Jerry Jones and the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys have not had a single negotiation with Micah Parsons agent.
Speaker 1: There is absolutely no justification for that whatsoever. Jerry has
Speaker 1: made it clear since Micah's trade demand he has not
Speaker 1: talked to Micah or his agent. There is absolutely no
Speaker 1: justification for that whatsoever. Jerry has made it clear he
Speaker 1: believes he and Micah came to terms on a deal.
Speaker 1: You guys know how I feel about that. That. I
Speaker 1: think that holding a non negotiating party to a deal
Speaker 1: that was struck via handshake with a negotiating party is unethical.
Speaker 1: But even if you think that should be the framework
Speaker 1: of the deal, Jerry needs to communicate that to Micah's
Speaker 1: agent and the fact that they will not negotiate, even
Speaker 1: if we think it's a combination of while Jerry's being
Speaker 1: stubborn and thinks he and Mike have a handshake deal,
Speaker 1: and the fact that Jerry doesn't mind the Cowboys staying
Speaker 1: in the headlines so he'll just get this done in
Speaker 1: late August or early September, like he did with Dak
Speaker 1: and Ced. I think under sells the damage with Jerry's
Speaker 1: commentary the last week he has done to this relationship. Now,
Speaker 1: is it salvageable, Sure, but there's two prongs here that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, are pretty clearly problematic. Prong one is,
Speaker 1: even if it gets done on the timeline of Dak,
Speaker 1: the night before the first game, Dak was in, was practicing.
Speaker 1: Dak was in doing all of the stuff to get
Speaker 1: ready for the season, Mike is out there just chilling.
Speaker 1: And if the cow like the Cowboys play the freaking
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles week one, if they have any hope of
Speaker 1: having a surprisingly great season that starts with a fast
Speaker 1: start with upsetting the Eagles in Week one, and you're
Speaker 1: off to the races, You're now obviously behind the eight
Speaker 1: ball on that. But the other I think longer lasting
Speaker 1: concern is this is real damage to the trust and
Speaker 1: relationship you have between you and your best player, and
Speaker 1: no one has properly explained any justification for how Jerry's
Speaker 1: handled this. There is no go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and Jerry needs to be talking to his agent.
Speaker 2: Is his agent reaching out to Jerry like as Jerry, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's what we won't talk.
Speaker 1: No. So the the one O five three the fan
Speaker 1: in Dallas, uh yesterday reported that the agent reached out
Speaker 1: twice in the last eighteen months, and then the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won't call him.
Speaker 2: Jerry's saying, and I won't engage.
Speaker 1: Say it again.
Speaker 2: Jerry's just saying, we already have it in writing.
Speaker 1: Yes, No, well not in writing that we have it.
Speaker 1: We have a handshake deal. Jerry's saying, it's not in writing,
Speaker 1: but we have it agreed upon. But here is the
Speaker 1: other problem with that, and this is you know, yesterday's
Speaker 1: price is not today's price. If you agreed to it
Speaker 1: in March and you think that's the deal you should have,
Speaker 1: that should have been done. You should have figured out
Speaker 1: out a way to get it signed in March. But
Speaker 1: you also, Jerry know, here is the problem with Jerry's
Speaker 1: comment this week about I bought the Cowboys on a
Speaker 1: handshake deal. One hundred percent. That happens like big high
Speaker 1: level business and real estate transactions and acquisitions and mergers,
Speaker 1: all this stuff that happens over a dinner or on
Speaker 1: the golf course. General framework handshake all the time. But
Speaker 1: that is when both parties involved. Are there? Are there
Speaker 1: organization's lead negotiator and the I used on TV yesterday
Speaker 1: that I was hesitant to use but because it has
Speaker 1: bad connotations, But I don't think anyone will listen interpret it.
Speaker 1: It's why if you're questioned by the police you say
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you, my lawyer is
Speaker 1: going to like, I pay this guy to do this
Speaker 1: for me. Now my lawyer cannot agree, you know, agree
Speaker 1: to a plea bargain without me signing off on it.
Speaker 1: I am the final yes or no. But I am
Speaker 1: not engaging with you professional interrogators or negotiators, you know,
Speaker 1: depending on the analogy you want to use, when I'm
Speaker 1: not that. And so I do think like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of business that is done where you verbally in
Speaker 1: a meeting agreed to something and then you paper it later.
Speaker 1: But first of all, that has to involve the people
Speaker 1: who are supposed to be the ones negotiating, and second
Speaker 1: of all, that absolutely runs the risk of facts on
Speaker 1: the ground changing and a deal not being signed. And
Speaker 1: so I I am listen. I have I like Micah
Speaker 1: full disclosure. I know Micah a little bit, but he
Speaker 1: hasn't been talking to me about his negotiation. But I've
Speaker 1: never disliked Jerry Jones. I have found him cartoonish at times,
Speaker 1: a bit of a carnival b Barker, But I think
Speaker 1: he serves a purpose in the NFL. But this is ridiculous,
Speaker 1: And to just once again remind the audience of before
Speaker 1: we move on the thing we did on Tuesday about
Speaker 1: this Micah's draft class. The first overall pick Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: got a contract extension top of the market. The fifth
Speaker 1: overall pick Jamar Chase got a contract extension top of
Speaker 1: the market. The sixth overall pick Jalen Watdo got a
Speaker 1: contract extension top of the market at the time for
Speaker 1: wide receiver twos. The seventh overall pick Penney Sewell got
Speaker 1: a contract extension top of the market for offensive tackles.
Speaker 1: The eighth overall pick j C. Horn, and the ninth
Speaker 1: overall pick Pat Sartan Junior Pat Sartan the second pardon
Speaker 1: Me got contract extensions top of the market for their
Speaker 1: for corners. The tenth overall pick Devonte Smith got a
Speaker 1: contract extension at the top of the wide receiver two market,
Speaker 1: and the thirteenth overall pick Rashaun Slater got a contract
Speaker 1: extension at the top of the tackle market. The top
Speaker 1: thirteen picks from that draft four years ago have not
Speaker 1: gotten extensions. Or Zach Wilson who's been on a bunch
Speaker 1: of teams, Trey Lance who's been on a bunch of teams,
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts who has underwhelmed, Justin Fields who's been on
Speaker 1: a bunch of teams, and Micah freaking Parsons. It's an outrage,
Speaker 1: and it's an outrage to not directly negotiate with Micah now,
Speaker 1: I mean with Mike's agent. Pardon me. Now, if after
Speaker 1: directly negotiating with David Mullagetta, you then determine Micah wants
Speaker 1: fifty million a year with two hundred million guaranteed, and
Speaker 1: then you can break off negotiations, then you can say
Speaker 1: too rich for our blood. But to never negotiate with
Speaker 1: him and instead of hide behind we came to a
Speaker 1: handshake deal in March is absolute nonsense.
Speaker 2: As you're I know you're trying to finish up with
Speaker 2: as you're likely maybe what if from Tuesday change with
Speaker 2: the with isn't he.
Speaker 1: I still think it's likely the Cowboys re sign him,
Speaker 1: but I now would say maybe maybe that he just
Speaker 1: plays out this year. And the what if is what
Speaker 1: if they trade him? And yeah, and I saw the
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald if he got trades to the Rams, he'd
Speaker 1: come out of retirement thing. I don't think the Rams
Speaker 1: can make it work. But Micah, Jared Verse and an
Speaker 1: out of retirement Aaron Donald be pretty sick. Yeah, then
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Speaker 1: Right, demonse, Let's get to shoudore.
Speaker 2: All right, one of the most highly anticipated preseason games
Speaker 2: since I've jumped on the football. So picking and Gabriel out.
Speaker 2: Black Ow obviously isn't playing for the obvious, so it
Speaker 2: sure's time to shine. He's getting He's gonna play against
Speaker 2: Carolina tomorrow. Do you think that he has more to
Speaker 2: gain here or more to lose?
Speaker 1: Oh? I think he has more to gain, but he
Speaker 1: has a lot to lose too. I think that what
Speaker 1: he has to gain is if he cooks and looks,
Speaker 1: you know, hand by cooks. He doesn't, it's just handles.
Speaker 1: The offense well, makes a couple of nice throws, doesn't
Speaker 1: make avoids any horrific mistakes, you know, running around back
Speaker 1: and forth, taking a bad sack, fumbles, those things. And
Speaker 1: then after game two of the preseason, when Dylan Gabriel
Speaker 1: will get to play, if Gabriel struggles, to me and
Speaker 1: I think Gabriel is likely to struggle. And again folks
Speaker 1: can say, Nick, this is your bias against small quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and I would say that is correct. One of two
Speaker 1: things Demons is likely to would I shouldn't say likely,
Speaker 1: would have to happen. If Sharudur plays well in preseason
Speaker 1: game one and then Gabriel struggles in preseason game two,
Speaker 1: I would think one of these two things would happen.
Speaker 1: One should or would elevate past Gabriel on the depth chart,
Speaker 1: which is all he could hope for his Shadur's goal
Speaker 1: realistic goal was never be the week one starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was personally, but it was not. You know,
Speaker 1: that shouldn't have been. I shouldn't say I don't care
Speaker 1: what his personal goal is. That's not a realistic goal
Speaker 1: for him to do as a fifth round pick with
Speaker 1: all those quarterbacks on the roster, A realistic goal, however,
Speaker 1: was when we break camp, when preseason is over, I
Speaker 1: want to be the highest ranked rookie on the quarterback
Speaker 1: depth chart. I think that's very important, and because that
Speaker 1: means when the inevitable Flacco benching happens, he can get
Speaker 1: in there. Uh So that should be his That's what
Speaker 1: he can That's one of the things he can gain.
Speaker 1: The other opportunity thing, and this might be a better opportunity,
Speaker 1: to be totally honest, is if he plays well and
Speaker 1: then Gabriel struggles in Week two and he doesn't move
Speaker 1: up the depth chart. I wonder if another team calls
Speaker 1: Cleveland's like, hey, you know we'd be interested. You drafted
Speaker 1: him for a fifth, we'll give you a fourth, Like
Speaker 1: it didn't make sense for us a few months ago.
Speaker 1: And the team that I keep going back to man
Speaker 1: is the Rams because if Stafford's back really is a problem,
Speaker 1: you can't, in my opinion, go into a year with
Speaker 1: your only real backup quarterback being Garoppolo because he is
Speaker 1: himself such an injury risk. But the Rams wouldn't be
Speaker 1: the only team that I would think it would make sense. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously the Steelers didn't have interest in Shore Dolphins. The Dolphins,
Speaker 1: I feel like I was thinking more a team that
Speaker 1: is not looking Adam for this year, but might look
Speaker 1: for him long term. Dolphins. They brought in Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: so you know what I mean, like they But that's
Speaker 1: not a bad one. I'm the The reason I said
Speaker 1: the Rams is they might have a need for spots
Speaker 1: starter this year, but also this could be Stafford's last year,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So like that to me
Speaker 1: is an interesting one, and I don't know if there aren't. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of obvious places the car, but
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh, that's interesting. I gotta look and
Speaker 1: see who the cardinals backup quarterback is. I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: Oh it's Jacoby So yeah. I mean that's not a
Speaker 1: terrible one either. If I were Shador, however, I don't
Speaker 1: think not that he would necessarily have a say. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't love if the Cardinals traded for me, because the
Speaker 1: Cardinals hope is that Kyler is their guy for the
Speaker 1: next five years. Like the Browns are not a terrible
Speaker 1: spot for him, inasmuch as they have no future plan.
Speaker 1: The Rams would not be a terrible spot because they
Speaker 1: have this great head coach, but an old, banged up quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's the same reason a lot of people thought the
Speaker 1: Steelers in theory could sign Rogers and still draft Shadoor like,
Speaker 1: you know, more as a long term piece. And so
Speaker 1: that is what he has to gain. Here's what he
Speaker 1: has to lose, though, Palell. If he plays poorly, he
Speaker 1: is fourth string and he's gonna stay there for the
Speaker 1: time being. And you don't rise up from fourth string
Speaker 1: your rookie year ever. And so this is listen, this
Speaker 1: is pro sports. He everything, and this this is a
Speaker 1: point Danny made yesterday on the TV show that came
Speaker 1: across as harsh but is correct. Schador did not earn
Speaker 1: starting the first preseason game. Now he has handled himself
Speaker 1: really well. He has I think practiced well that that's
Speaker 1: at least according to the reports. But the Browns still
Speaker 1: have him listed as their fourth string quarterback. He is
Speaker 1: starting because their first string quarterbacks forty, their second string
Speaker 1: quarterbacks injured, and their third string quarterbacks injured. So this
Speaker 1: isn't an instance of you know, rapid assent. This is
Speaker 1: an instance of everything falling just right to give you
Speaker 1: this opportunity. And that can be a blessing or a curse.
Speaker 1: Man that can be damn straight. This is how I
Speaker 1: get out there and show them what I can do,
Speaker 1: and it also can be a ship. I needed another
Speaker 1: few weeks, I needed more training camp practices, And now
Speaker 1: the image everyone's gonna have of me is me.
Speaker 2: Like it's not like even if Shador does bad, like
Speaker 2: doesn't mean the Gabriel is gonna do well. So no,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying is going to do poorly.
Speaker 1: But it's like I just know it's that's fair, but
Speaker 1: you've you don't move if the third string and fourth
Speaker 1: string play poorly, you don't move up the fourth string,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So like the but just as fun like as far
Speaker 2: as opportunity, like they wouldn't be looking to give them
Speaker 2: more shots.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So here's the thing, Well, let me
Speaker 1: add one other thing that I'll answer that if the
Speaker 1: other thing that I think is likely to happen to
Speaker 1: Manse if Gabriel and both played poorly, is they're just
Speaker 1: more likely to keep picking. And then you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, And then there's more of a log jam
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's that's the other kind of hang up here.
Speaker 1: And so but then there, I am not. I don't
Speaker 1: believe like the Browns are setting up Shador to fail
Speaker 1: or some of these kind of Colorado based conspiracies. I
Speaker 1: do think, however, there are some weird interoffice politics going
Speaker 1: on about who wanted Gabriel, who wanted Shador, and who
Speaker 1: gets credit for who is good? And so if it's
Speaker 1: if a lot of the speculation is true, which is
Speaker 1: the front office and coaching staff wanted Gabriel and the
Speaker 1: owner wanted Shador, does it behoove the front office and
Speaker 1: coaching staff to be on it, like to be like, well,
Speaker 1: the guy we wanted that we we're the football people
Speaker 1: that we evaluated. We were wrong. He's no yo. And
Speaker 1: so that part I think could potentially work against Shadora
Speaker 1: a little bit. But if he's good, he's good. If
Speaker 1: he plays well, he plays well.
Speaker 2: I think he should be a conservative or like you
Speaker 2: think he should be flashy or conservative.
Speaker 1: Rule No, the goal should be Martin Cabrell zero mistakes.
Speaker 1: So it's gotta just be zero mistakes, no delay games,
Speaker 1: no false starts, no twelve men in the huddle. I
Speaker 1: the you know what I mean? Like and honestly, in
Speaker 1: this this setting, interception and interception is pretty low on
Speaker 1: the list of really problems. Stuff. I would say, like
Speaker 1: most problematic oddly is like can't get the play in,
Speaker 1: can't get guys lined up in time. You know, the
Speaker 1: pre snap stuff is the stuff he's got it. Second
Speaker 1: most problematic holding onto the ball way too long, taking
Speaker 1: bad sacks. Third most problematic is trying to make a
Speaker 1: play with your legs and fumbling. And then the next
Speaker 1: problematic is interception because young quarterback, you know you haven't
Speaker 1: not on the same page with receivers. Whatever that's gonna
Speaker 1: happen the I mean you obviously hope it doesn't, but
Speaker 1: that that can happen, it's the other stuff that they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to be really tight on. I also hope,
Speaker 1: I hope he gets three full quarters. There's no reason
Speaker 1: he can't. Uh, he can't play say it again, flag play.
Speaker 2: I don't want to play.
Speaker 1: No, he would be Snoop Huntley. Oh yes, yeah, But
Speaker 1: there's no reason he can't get the workload that Trey
Speaker 1: Lance got right where you know what I mean, where
Speaker 1: he's playing the majority of the game, like he can
Speaker 1: he can get that workload. All right, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: So Mahomes came out and said, I'm gonna do whatever
Speaker 2: it takes to win, whether that's passing for a lot
Speaker 2: of yards or not passing for a lot of yards.
Speaker 2: So we've seen Kansas City win in a number of
Speaker 2: different ways. How do you think that the offense or
Speaker 2: the Chiefs need to look in order to succeed this year?
Speaker 1: Listen, I do think there's an element of they need
Speaker 1: to get their swagger back and pump the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. Now. I think people need to remember how
Speaker 1: we got kind of to the point that we got
Speaker 1: to with this offense being the way it is. And
Speaker 1: I talked about this yesterday on TV, but I think
Speaker 1: it's worth revisiting. Three years ago, they're playing the number
Speaker 1: one defense in the NFL in the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: score thirty eight points without a single play longer than
Speaker 1: twenty five yards, and the longest play of the game
Speaker 1: is a Mahomes scramble. The very next year they come back,
Speaker 1: they're in the Super Bowl, having the offense having struggled
Speaker 1: all year long, receivers just openly revolting against Patrick in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The biggest drive up to that point
Speaker 1: of Mahomes' life eleven play sixty four yard dank dunk
Speaker 1: dnk dunk field goal, and then in overtime one of
Speaker 1: the greatest drives in NFL history thirteen play seventy five
Speaker 1: yard drive where the longest play once again is a
Speaker 1: Mahomes scramble, dank dunk, dank dunk, no big explosives, and
Speaker 1: then last year offense just eking along and pulling games
Speaker 1: out of the fire. So why am I saying when
Speaker 1: they gone Super Bowl win, Super Bowl win, Super Bowl loss,
Speaker 1: after being seventeen and one going into the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with Mahomes' starter, Because I think one of the reasons
Speaker 1: Patrick started to press early in that Super Bowl demonsay
Speaker 1: is because being down fourteen for last year's Chiefs felt
Speaker 1: so different than any of the previous year Chiefs. Down
Speaker 1: fourteen teen three years ago was okay, we can start
Speaker 1: playing now. Down ten in every Super Bowl they've ever
Speaker 1: played in, take the lead back in a heartbeat, And
Speaker 1: so because it was so death by a thousand cuts,
Speaker 1: they felt they needed to. I think Patrick felt like, man,
Speaker 1: we better score right because we don't have this one playability.
Speaker 1: So I think they need to get that back, and
Speaker 1: I think the better offensive line hopefully healthier receivers. Even
Speaker 1: though she's now dealing with a groin. Hollywood Brown still
Speaker 1: out with an ankle. That's not great. That should help that.
Speaker 1: I also saw there's an unbelievable stack courtesy an unbelievable
Speaker 1: stack courtesy of Warren Sharp that I would like to
Speaker 1: go over for a moment. But so, quarterbacks record when
Speaker 1: trailing entering the fourth quarter over the last five years.
Speaker 1: Let me give you the top three from three to
Speaker 1: one demonse in third place. Best record when trailing entering
Speaker 1: the fourth last five years. Okay, Jalen hurts eight and fourteen,
Speaker 1: so that's pretty good. I mean it's third best. That
Speaker 1: so thirty six percent of the time the Eagles are
Speaker 1: trailing going into the fourth, they win. Anyway, when Jalen starts.
Speaker 1: Second place Lamar Jackson seven and ten forty one percent
Speaker 1: of the time, So that's almost half the time. Bro
Speaker 1: that the Ravens are trailing entering the fourth, they win
Speaker 1: when Lamar's the quarterback. So third place is thirty six percent,
Speaker 1: Jalen second place is forty one percent. Lamar is again
Speaker 1: courtesy Warrensharp. First place record the last five years when
Speaker 1: trailing entering the fourth quarter. Patrick Mahomes fourteen and seven
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent. That means the Chiefs would be an
Speaker 1: eleven twelve win team if every game they trailed going
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and the other like CJ. Demonse
Speaker 1: is one two, three, four, five six seven, he's eighth
Speaker 1: on this list, two and ten twenty percent, Josh Allen
Speaker 1: is above average three and fourteen eighteen percent, Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: four and twenty three fifteen percent, Brock Purdy one in
Speaker 1: ten nine percent. Like, so I say that for this reason,
Speaker 1: it's understandable that the Chiefs kind of carry themselves like, eh,
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. But it's harder to do that
Speaker 1: after you've got your teeth kicked in in the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that is they need to they need to go
Speaker 1: ahead to mine say yeah, and I and I think
Speaker 1: Josh Simmons, the rookie left tackle, and Xavier Worthies ascension
Speaker 1: is going to help that quite a bit. By the way,
Speaker 1: late the Madden ratings for this year, Xavier worthy of
Speaker 1: higher rating than Marvin Harrison and Rome A doonsday to
Speaker 1: top ten now just barely, but still like that is
Speaker 1: the highest rated rookie receivers were neighbors then Brian Thomas,
Speaker 1: then Xavier Worthy. So yeah, I do think they need
Speaker 1: to bring back, as brew would call it, the light
Speaker 1: show a bit, and I'm optimistic that they can. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little more cheap before we get some
Speaker 1: other stuff.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid's been hyping up. You got Travis Kelcey. He's
Speaker 2: saying that he's calling him, he's calling him, felt saying
Speaker 2: he looks twenty, he's all slender. A year ago, you
Speaker 2: said Travis Kelsey's got about eight more good games in him,
Speaker 2: has games great games, not good? Sorry, got eight great
Speaker 2: games left at him? Has that number changed since? Like,
Speaker 2: what would he have now at this time?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: So this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I I felt he. I thought he used
Speaker 1: a couple last year. Certainly the playoff game against Houston
Speaker 1: was peak Travis. And I also thought he left a
Speaker 1: lot out on the field the Christmas Day game against
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that if they knew they won, they were going
Speaker 1: to get the long rest that they all desperately needed. Now,
Speaker 1: those aren't the only big games he had all year,
Speaker 1: but some of the other big games hey had I
Speaker 1: just thought, were you know, teams not being able to
Speaker 1: deal with him, or you know, the health, the game
Speaker 1: play in philadelp So again, swifties, please, because I got
Speaker 1: absolutely crushed for this take last year because people misunderstood
Speaker 1: what I was saying. I think when you are Travis's
Speaker 1: age at that position, you have to be very diligent
Speaker 1: about when you go full throttle. And I think he
Speaker 1: knows that he only has so many full throttle games left.
Speaker 1: Now do I think that added chip on his shoulder
Speaker 1: for the fact that he didn't play up to his
Speaker 1: standard he said last year and the way they got
Speaker 1: their ass kicked in the Super Bowl, and the fact
Speaker 1: that he shed some weight, had probably a better offseason,
Speaker 1: maybe replenish some of those games that game count. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got to see him in Week one to give
Speaker 1: this a real answer. But I'm gonna go out on
Speaker 1: a lemon say this. I think Travis this year will
Speaker 1: once again be one of the three most impactful players
Speaker 1: at his POSI I think Travis and brock Bowers and
Speaker 1: then maybe Kittle, maybe Laporta, maybe the kid in Arizona
Speaker 1: are the other candidates. But I think Travis and brock
Speaker 1: Bauers are going to be up there, and I think
Speaker 1: Travis is especially because teams are gonna have to respect
Speaker 1: the deep ball more this year. He's gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot more room to work with over that intermediate middle
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Speaker 1: let's get to Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: So Travis Hunter is listed as a starting wide receiver
Speaker 2: and backup cornerback, playing both ways in practice, and he
Speaker 2: coach Liam Cohen actually came out and told Rich Eisen
Speaker 2: he thinks as possible that Hunter wins the Offensive and
Speaker 2: Defensive Rookie of the Year. So my question to you is,
Speaker 2: wish bet do you like the most these Defensive Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year is at plus eight hundred. Offensive Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Years at plus one thousand. Either Defensive Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year or Offensive Rookie of the Year plus
Speaker 2: four twenty five and both is at plus ten thousand.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what I would ask and see if
Speaker 1: we can find this h our wonderful producers on DraftKings,
Speaker 1: what is his NFL MVP odds? Because here's the only
Speaker 1: reason I asked that if he wins, I do not
Speaker 1: let me put this on the front end. I do
Speaker 1: not think he's gonna be League MVP. I do not
Speaker 1: think he's gonna win Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I want to make that clear. But if he were
Speaker 1: to win Offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year, I
Speaker 1: think he's got to be in real consideration for League MVP.
Speaker 1: So like if the bet is of see so plus
Speaker 1: thirty thousand, so he's plus ten. So you get three
Speaker 1: times better odds on him to be League MVP than
Speaker 1: you do on him to win offensive and Defensive Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year simultaneously. And I'm just telling you, man,
Speaker 1: if he were to have the type of season where
Speaker 1: he went offensive and defensive Rookie of the Year, he's
Speaker 1: going to be a real MVP candidate. Like the so,
Speaker 1: how many what was Brian Thomas Junior's numbers last year?
Speaker 1: And I don't even think he who was the offensive Oh,
Speaker 1: Jayden of course was Offensive Rookie of the Year, but
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Junior became closest of any of the receivers,
Speaker 1: so he had thirteen hundred yards basically in ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And then Jared Verse, I think was defensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. Not I think I know because that was
Speaker 1: one of our pre season bets. And Jared Vers last
Speaker 1: year had four and a half sacks, two forced fumbles,
Speaker 1: two fumble recoveries, sixty five tackles. I mean, if the
Speaker 1: guy threw if you were to throw up a and
Speaker 1: I guess that's a bad comp because versus pass rusher,
Speaker 1: so his stats are gonna be different. My answer to
Speaker 1: this question, by the way, is Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Because Greg Jennings pointed this out, He's not wrong. It's
Speaker 1: very difficult for receiver to win offensive Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year if you're not your team's number one option. And
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Junior will be the number one option. He'll
Speaker 1: be a strong two. But it's just is he gonna
Speaker 1: get the volume you know, of numbers. I mean, Randy
Speaker 1: did it with Chris Carter on the team, but that year,
Speaker 1: as great as Cci was, Randy was the number one option.
Speaker 1: Randy was just you know, he came in and totally
Speaker 1: changed the Vikings lives. I here is to me, though,
Speaker 1: why I like this story. Oh thank you, and Sauce
Speaker 1: when he won Defensive Rookie of the Year had uh wow,
Speaker 1: only two picks. That surprises me, but obviously was awesome.
Speaker 1: Was all pro as a rookie. I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 1: was all Pro's rookie regardless the no. I mean, Sauce
Speaker 1: is a great player. Seventy five tackles, twenty pass breakups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an amazing season. Here's to me, though,
Speaker 1: why I liked what Liam Cohen said. It means demon's
Speaker 1: a They're gonna give this kid a chance to go
Speaker 1: both ways for real, and I just want to see it.
Speaker 1: I just don't want a false ceiling on what he
Speaker 1: can do. Now, maybe it the downside is you just
Speaker 1: have to pair it back a bit. The upside is
Speaker 1: he changes the way your team can be run. Like
Speaker 1: that's the that to me, it prematurely going out and
Speaker 1: being like, listen, he's only playing in spots on defense
Speaker 1: or vice versa would just be silly. I understand folks
Speaker 1: talking about he's got to tackle, he's gotta cover, you're
Speaker 1: gonna run nine routes. It's not the Big twelve anymore.
Speaker 1: I get all of that. But every coach that's ever
Speaker 1: been around this player has said he is literally built differently,
Speaker 1: So give him a try like and I think the
Speaker 1: Jags are going to and it's one of the reasons.
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm starting to think, Demansey, everybody is
Speaker 1: gonna have a bunch of you know, AFC North, you
Speaker 1: have the Ravens, you have the Bengals, you have the
Speaker 1: Steelers with Rogers AFC West, you have the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Chargers. Like everybody is gonna have
Speaker 1: one playoff team out of the East and one playoff
Speaker 1: team out of the South. I think we could have
Speaker 1: two playoff teams from the South. I think the Texans
Speaker 1: and the Jags might end up being able to come
Speaker 1: out of the South. The Jags with the nice little
Speaker 1: resurgent uh Trevor Lawrence here. The Texans with maybe the
Speaker 1: best defense in football. Like, I think, I just think
Speaker 1: there is there's something there. That's all something there. You
Speaker 1: ain't lying, bro. The big year for my guy and
Speaker 1: the facto a big year for me. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk Matt Stafford.
Speaker 2: Stafford is dealing with an aggravated disc and has been
Speaker 2: taking has been getting epidurals. You said the Rams don't
Speaker 2: work without Stafford. With that said, is this team going
Speaker 2: to be a stay away for you as far as
Speaker 2: betting with this whole injury thing?
Speaker 1: Wow, right now, I'm staying away. I need to see
Speaker 1: you know, talk to me in three weeks. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Here is my glass way too full? Oh? Texans and
Speaker 1: Jags both make the playoffs plus three ninety five intriguing.
Speaker 1: Interesting that eveny interesting. What are the Jags to win
Speaker 1: the division?
Speaker 2: Like this six hundred or something like that. No, No,
Speaker 2: plus three hundred. It's like plus three hundred three.
Speaker 1: Fifty of them.
Speaker 2: It's either plus three hundred to be fifty.
Speaker 1: All right, believe it or not. When I was I
Speaker 1: was not asking you, like to just guess off the
Speaker 1: top of your head from memory, plus two ninety, but
Speaker 1: you you yeah, plus three hundred plus two ninety. Maybe
Speaker 1: we moved it already just that quick. But uh, okay,
Speaker 1: all right. These are things to consider now when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Rams. Yeah, right now, they're a stay
Speaker 1: away because the Stafford stuff here is the probably overly
Speaker 1: optimistic view. The Rams are actually, unlike most teams that
Speaker 1: under sell injuries, the Rams are over selling this because
Speaker 1: he's actually mostly fine. But part of their negotiation member,
Speaker 1: he thought he might be traded and they will give
Speaker 1: you a little more money, and you got to do
Speaker 1: it in September.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I said this.
Speaker 1: I said this like two weeks.
Speaker 2: Ago, and you were like, uh no, I hope that's
Speaker 2: the case. I think you said, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a I think it's on the board,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, I'm the team leader, like I
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to not be. It's like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll make up a back injury like that's
Speaker 1: the hope. That's the hope. It also doesn't help that
Speaker 1: I just can't take these NFL insiders, a lot of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the real injury report is. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be the only person that cares about this, but
Speaker 1: I care about this. Fourth or July Najie Harris Chargers
Speaker 1: running back is in a fireworks incident. Okay, the local
Speaker 1: newspaper in Los Angeles or some local paper report it's
Speaker 1: a this is bad man. This guy like mess up
Speaker 1: his eyes badly. The then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: insiders parachute in and say, oh no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: don't you worry. Talk to the agent. Minor, no big
Speaker 1: deal escaped, major injury. Well it's August seventh. Then Harbaugh
Speaker 1: can give us no update on him whatsoever. So like
Speaker 1: I don't there is so much much manicuring of injury.
Speaker 1: Every surgery went better than expected, Every injury is reported
Speaker 1: as what a relief, He's only gonna be out four
Speaker 1: to six weeks. Everything is just put in such rose
Speaker 1: colored glasses because so much of this is just relationship
Speaker 1: building with agents that I don't know what real injury
Speaker 1: news is. So when I hear Stafford, they're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: the team's not worried, he'll be ready by week one.
Speaker 1: I have no idea if that's true. I just have none.
Speaker 1: So he could be hugely concerning. Also, maybe it's he's
Speaker 1: just chilling. Maybe he's just he and his wife are
Speaker 1: developing the next podcast product project. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: hope he's just chilling because I like Stafford.
Speaker 2: No, Like he just his big new contract with him, right,
Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, is that over the last year
Speaker 2: or four?
Speaker 1: Well, no, he got he got a contract this adjustment,
Speaker 1: yeah this summer exactly, he got an adjustment this summer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And like the disc like that thing had to have
Speaker 2: been lingering and I just don't think they would have.
Speaker 1: Well he's he's at a back stuff for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, man. But the short too long
Speaker 1: didn't read is yes, I'm concerned, but I'm opt you know,
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful you follow up here.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, so you talked about them trading for Shador.
Speaker 2: Do you think that they're a candidate to go after
Speaker 2: someone like Kirk Cousins if this goes left.
Speaker 1: No, because at this point, Jimmy garoppolo, Kirk Cousins tomato tomato,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like they already have Jimmy
Speaker 1: g there, and I think Kirk is an injury concerned
Speaker 1: in a different way. So I don't you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the way they would go. All right,
Speaker 1: I want to power rank coaches and fights. But before
Speaker 1: I do that, I want to I'll take care of
Speaker 1: this part demon say. I'm not gonna ask you to
Speaker 1: read this. I just want to say something to the
Speaker 1: dumbest people in the world. Stop throwing shit on the
Speaker 1: court at WNBA games. And I'm not approved, but this
Speaker 1: is objectively fucking horrifying, Like what if we really like, oh, Nick, it,
Speaker 1: fund's fun. It if you really just peel back a
Speaker 1: quarter of a layer, Why you're throwing that at those
Speaker 1: women in that league. It's just it's the type of
Speaker 1: shit that would get eyes rolled by high school juniors,
Speaker 1: and now it's happened three times. I am not going
Speaker 1: to overstate the danger of it. I don't think you
Speaker 1: could do real injury, but it would certainly hurt getting hit,
Speaker 1: but more importantly demons. As one of my favorite sayings goes,
Speaker 1: we live in a society like can we all just
Speaker 1: recognize a certain level of human adult decency and not
Speaker 1: do shit like this?
Speaker 2: I think these are kids? Is I think that I got?
Speaker 1: I got.
Speaker 2: They showed me a picture of the last guy that
Speaker 2: did it, like that guy's like eighteen.
Speaker 1: Maybe okay, maybe like eighteen. I'm here to tell you, buddy.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not hold on, hold on, I'm not excusing anything,
Speaker 2: but it's like you're like, grow up. These aren't like
Speaker 2: twenty five thirty year old people going in there.
Speaker 1: These are the type of people expect. Sure, I feel
Speaker 1: like I understand that, I get that, and I here's
Speaker 1: the I guess maybe the more refined take. I'd feel
Speaker 1: less strongly about this if there were eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: doing this across sports, just watching Mets Phillies and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, down the third baseline, this pops up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We're watching a Pacers Nicks
Speaker 1: and it's like, stop the game. I know that once
Speaker 1: upon a time, I think it happened like in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: like a snowstorm or something I feel like I vaguely
Speaker 1: remember it a few years ago, but it just feels targeted.
Speaker 1: And throwing sex toys on the court in that league,
Speaker 1: with that gender and sexual orientation demographics of the league,
Speaker 1: I just find to be extra objectionable. And I will add,
Speaker 1: as far as the eighteen year old piece of it,
Speaker 1: you did a lot of dumb shit as a teenager.
Speaker 1: There is nothing you did that would have made me
Speaker 1: as mad as this would have. I think of your
Speaker 1: worst five transgressions and my reaction to it. I promise
Speaker 1: you if I had gotten the phone call, I got
Speaker 1: arrested for what whatever they called it, disturbing the piece
Speaker 1: what you do well, I was at the Fever game
Speaker 1: and dot dot dot I might have left you in there.
Speaker 1: I might have been like, you know what, figure it
Speaker 1: out like that is just yeah, okay, all right, real
Speaker 1: now let's get to ask me the So Mike Vrabel,
Speaker 1: let's let's do this together real quick before we go.
Speaker 1: Rabel got in a skill like, tried to break up
Speaker 1: a training camp fight, got his face bloodied, so top
Speaker 1: of the head.
Speaker 2: That's another rule like that, you gotta throw that in
Speaker 2: And you said there are like three rules.
Speaker 1: I think the.
Speaker 2: Fourth was the coach cannot jump in and like try
Speaker 2: to stop the fight.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a foreign player, you can. I think
Speaker 1: your foreign player in the shape that he's in. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm try I want to all right, list of current
Speaker 1: NFL head coaches. I wish I could sort by age,
Speaker 1: But so is the number one coach Battle Royale? If
Speaker 1: they're all it's an NFL head coach fight to the death,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to figure out. I like, I'm I
Speaker 1: know who the last draft pick is. I know that
Speaker 1: who new is it. I don't want to pick on
Speaker 1: the guy, but it's Mike McDaniel. Jeez, he's the last
Speaker 1: draft pick. Mike McDaniel's our last pick of that draft.
Speaker 1: My I mean he just and uh, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a few Dave Zach Taylor, Ben Johnson, those guys are
Speaker 1: not doing.
Speaker 2: I feel like Ben Johnson can get in there.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe I guess he's six to one, maybe he's
Speaker 1: bigger than I thought. But I don't want to do
Speaker 1: the bottom of the draft. I want to do number
Speaker 1: one draft pick.
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1: I think this is I I think I think we
Speaker 1: have a pretty strong top three. I think we are
Speaker 1: going number one draft pick. You know what, it's between
Speaker 1: two guys. Campbell to me is a clear third. It's
Speaker 1: either Vrabel or Demiko as number one. I just feel
Speaker 1: like Vrabel has fought more in his life than Demiko.
Speaker 1: So I'm going He's got all those sons. They're big,
Speaker 1: I like, So I'm going number one, Vrabel, number two,
Speaker 1: Demico number three, Dan Campbell, dude, and what what are
Speaker 1: you laughing about? What are you laughing about? I don't
Speaker 1: even know what you're king. This guy says Daniel.
Speaker 2: I mean not Daniel, but Andy Reid. I don't know
Speaker 2: who was gonna say this, but Andy Reid with a
Speaker 2: cheeseburg on the line.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good. And Andy's even though he's old,
Speaker 1: Andy's like, he's not a top three or a top five,
Speaker 1: but Andy he was ready to fight Travis, like Andy's not.
Speaker 1: Andy's not screwing around, all right. So there's my top three.
Speaker 1: We're going Vrabel, Demiico, Dan Campbell number four. I'm going
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, head coach of the Commander's big dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: number five.
Speaker 2: Where's time with that?
Speaker 1: Not as high as you'd think he I mean, he's
Speaker 1: gonna show up. Oh, honestly. Oh yeah, but like mcveigo
Speaker 1: is not that big. He's Jack, but not that big.
Speaker 1: I'm going so number five. I had someone, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know who I'm going number five because I think
Speaker 1: he'd fight dirty. I think he's he fight dirty. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's nuts. I think that you like, he could have,
Speaker 1: you know, suffer traumatic injury and just keep going. I'm
Speaker 1: going Jim Harball.
Speaker 2: I got I got to say one of the Harbor balls. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's Jim goug you in the eye.
Speaker 1: I'm going. I'm going Jim now at six. Now I'll
Speaker 1: start to listen to Tomlin. I I am oh, Todd
Speaker 1: Bowles bulls beat somebody's yeah to y, Todd Bowles has
Speaker 1: whooped some acid fight. I don't care that he's sixty Tod, Yes,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles is six. Tomlin is seven. And now once
Speaker 1: I get there, I'm taking a long, hard look at
Speaker 1: Andy I the like I'm taking a real look at
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. I think I'm going Andy eight. The thing
Speaker 1: about John Harball's sneaky old John Harbor's horrorball sixty one.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 1: I'm going Andy eight. Kevin O'Connell's young and really big
Speaker 1: but feels like not a fighter. Dable I'm certain has
Speaker 1: been in some scuffles, but obviously Sirianni fights. I still
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I mean, you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: walk around for forty years with that personality and I can.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. I mean that guy's got in
Speaker 1: some fights. I gotta tell you another guy who again
Speaker 1: is not going to be a high draft pick, but
Speaker 1: would you know, wouldn't stop coming. And that's the oldest
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. Pete Carroll Carroll, Pete Carrolls wants
Speaker 1: to mix it up. But there it is. There's my list.
Speaker 1: They don't have to go through anymore. I think, I
Speaker 1: think that was good. But it is a very very
Speaker 1: strong top three. It's a very strong top three. All right. Reminder,
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Speaker 1: before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: Pal ws Why Stafford so highly regarded He's never made
Speaker 2: an All Pro team as a career, losing record, only
Speaker 2: two Pro Bowls, a ninety one career quarterback rating in
Speaker 2: the passing era and a five munch of playoff record.
Speaker 1: Jeez, this guy does not like that, So I listen.
Speaker 1: I think that it's a combination of number one draft
Speaker 1: pick who had like individual super high highs instantly his
Speaker 1: third year in the league, his first year as a
Speaker 1: full time starter, he threw for five thousand yards, forty touchdown,
Speaker 1: sixteen picks, So it was like, bam, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So I think I think when your number
Speaker 1: one draft pick and your first real chance as a
Speaker 1: starter you pop like that, people are like, holy shit.
Speaker 1: So I think that. I then think the fact that
Speaker 1: people felt like, man, if only he could get out
Speaker 1: of Detroit, wonder what would happen? And then he got
Speaker 1: out of Detroit and instantly won the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: that you know what I mean. So it's big, strong,
Speaker 1: huge arm talent, was a big what if, and then
Speaker 1: when the what if actually played out, he kicked ass
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with the Rams. It's not only they's
Speaker 1: five and two. He has a one oh nine rating,
Speaker 1: fifteen touchdowns, three picks. Beat Brady like you know. So
Speaker 1: I understand the raw numbers haven't always been there, but
Speaker 1: I think combination of ice, draft, pedigree, super high highs,
Speaker 1: all of it. All right, let's go to Ben.
Speaker 2: Ben asked what was your best and worst bet from
Speaker 2: last year?
Speaker 1: Worst bet? Best bet was Broncos over five and a half.
Speaker 1: They ended up making the playoffs. Worst bet was Steelers
Speaker 1: miss everything, and I tied that into a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So that one's that one
Speaker 1: the All right, let's go to uh Danny.
Speaker 2: Danny asked what's your favorite pre Mahomes era Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Moment about ten Jamal Charles games. Jamal was my favorite
Speaker 1: player ever before Patrick and Travis and U. I mean Jamal.
Speaker 1: Jamal had like a five touchdown game against the Broncos
Speaker 1: that was sick. He a bunch of Jamal Charles moments.
Speaker 1: Dorian says, new nickname is Nick. We live in a society, right,
Speaker 1: I like that? All right? Thank you to Booze, to
Speaker 1: Draft Gang, to Volume, to Blue Duck, to all of
Speaker 1: you guys for listening, uh, and for Mike Vrabel for
Speaker 1: giving us that great content at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: See you guys on Tuesday. What's right