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Speaker 1: I said a coach was gonna get fired. I was

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Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks early. But Josh McDaniels, Ave

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Speaker 1: other football talk, the Packers, some other stuff going around

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Speaker 1: so we will discuss them. Uh, Mark Davis, my experience

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Speaker 1: When I got out of the NFL and I got

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Speaker 1: seventies with John Madden and Kenny the Snake Stabler. Now listen,

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Speaker 1: And obviously he's a part I don't exactly know his

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Speaker 1: And if I'm Mark Davis, I gotta go big name,

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Speaker 1: awesome as he's been in the Lions, I don't think

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Speaker 1: he can do that Like when the forty nine Ers

427
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Speaker 1: hired Kyle Shanahan, or that Sean McVay was hired. It

428
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,719
Speaker 1: obviously has worked out, but I don't think he can

429
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Speaker 1: risk that. You need something that you know. And I

430
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: heard Colin say har Harpbaugh's one hundred percent lock to work.

431
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 1: He's worked every single place San Diego, Stanford, the forty

432
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 1: nine Ers, Michigan. He's four four like there are no failures, right.

433
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Speaker 1: And to me, if you hire Harbaugh like he's gonna

434
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Speaker 1: work now when Super Bowls, who know, just get to

435
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs back to back years, Mark Davis would be

436
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: doing cartwheels down the strip. I don't think another name.

437
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: And I heard someone on the internet say this, this

438
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: is way risky because he's starting to get his ass kicked.

439
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: I do think from a bright lights and there's a

440
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: Gruden aspect and there's a salesman's aspect, I think Deon Sanders.

441
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be incredible. That would feel very Vegas,

442
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: It really would. Now we'll see where they end up picking.

443
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 1: Maybe they could pick a son, but Deon Sanders Vegas.

444
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: That feels a little far fetched at this point in time. Again,

445
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 1: every time you look up on Saturday, as they've been

446
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: in the Pac twelve, they are getting worked. I mean,

447
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: UCLA just destroyed them. They still have a lot of

448
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: tough games coming up on their schedule. They're not going

449
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,959
Speaker 1: to win. But I'd be all for that. And then

450
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: I think the other one is if Belichick becomes available,

451
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 1: and listen, I know, well a Belichick tree. He is

452
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: the tree. Like Belichick, I do not. Belichick knows what

453
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,159
Speaker 1: he's doing, like these guys, clearly don't. I think you

454
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: would entertain that if you were Mark Davis, I also

455
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: think you could sell that, even if it was just

456
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: for four years. He's given out these massive contracts. That's

457
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: the other thing Mark Davis has done. He's you can

458
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: say he's a bad businessman, but I think he has

459
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: to pay somewhat of a tax to get people to

460
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: come to his franchise. He had to give Gruden ten years,

461
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars because that was the only way

462
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: to get John Gruden to come to the Raiders. Otherwise

463
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: he was gonna go to Tampa Bay, right. The only

464
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: way to get Josh McDaniels, who kept turning people down,

465
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: it was making a ton of money for Belichick, was

466
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: to give him and his general manager six years. It's why, Like, listen,

467
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: I've been fired before I was making fifty grand. My

468
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 1: contract ended. Like what was I gonna do? I didn't

469
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: have any money. The only thing I'd ever worked in football,

470
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: Like I was like I was twenty eight years old.

471
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 1: Like it was tough. I mean it was. It was

472
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: very scary time. I'm sorry. I don't feel bad for

473
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels at all. He's got another thirty forty million

474
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: coming to him. He's already a multimillionaire. Same scene with Ziegler.

475
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: You get fired and you have four plus years on

476
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: your contract at seven figures a year. I mean Ziegal's

477
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: probably making a couple Josh is making ten plus. Like,

478
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: give me a fucking break. I don't lose a second asleep.

479
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: Even Mick Lombardi, I would imagine, was making a million dollars,

480
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: has a three year contract. Like, you're not screwed in life.

481
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: You got a lot of options. Even if you got

482
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: to take a year off, you got cash coming your way. Now,

483
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: this is gonna have big ripple effects. Guys at the

484
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: bottom of the totem pole are gonna get fired. The

485
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: guy making eighty grand or ninety grand or one hundred

486
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: grand that doesn't have a multi year contract and might

487
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: not know that many people in football. That sucks. I

488
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: feel for those people, but I never have any sympathy

489
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: for the guys at the top of the food chain

490
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: who deserve to get fired and get fired with a

491
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: lot of money coming to them, Like that's that's called

492
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: the fucking American dream. You're gonna get paid a million

493
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: dollars to go play golf. Like whenever I see that

494
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: these people are humans too, well, yeah, maybe they're kids,

495
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: but Josh, like Josh gotta go to the fucking gym,

496
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: get to the elliptical mix in a salad and get

497
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: your shit together, because what we just witnessed, what you

498
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: forced on us again was I mean, what I had

499
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: to witness on my couch and everyone listening to this

500
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: on Monday night was a waste of my three and

501
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: a half hours, It really was. And obviously the players

502
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: turned on you, and reports were that players were going

503
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: to dinner with Mark Davis over the last week. It's

504
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: pretty clear what they told him. Get this guy the

505
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: hell out of here, and to Mark Davis's credit, he

506
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: did to the packers because Gouda Kins talked to the

507
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: media today or at least to one of the ESPN

508
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: dot com reporters and listen. What I appreciate about people

509
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: in football is when you can just be candid and

510
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: I think there's a line, right, you don't have to

511
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: just come out and say, you know this guy sucks

512
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: or you know our defensive coordinator just blows, even if

513
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: that's what you think. There's a balance you have to

514
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: have in a team environment. Right, I can say whatever

515
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Speaker 1: I want. The only people I have to answer to

516
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: in terms of what I say is me, Like it

517
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: just reflects me. There's no one like this isn't a

518
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: team of seven people right behind me that are also

519
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: on the air. Right, if I threw the producer under

520
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: the bus, that'd be a scumback. Hey, this guy fucked

521
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: up a graphic. But I would never do that, and

522
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,679
Speaker 1: it never happens. Right. But in football, everything's such a

523
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: team oriented operation and everyone is accountable in terms they

524
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: get their opportunity to talk. They're under the microscope. You

525
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: got to be very careful what you say, especially when

526
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: it comes to a quarterback. And I think when you

527
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: look at the Packers, their quarterback situation is already settled.

528
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: Jordan Love's not going to be their quarterback next year,

529
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Speaker 1: and Gudakin said that. Here's why I really quick though,

530
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: before I say go into what he said, I give

531
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Speaker 1: them credit for not picking up his fifth year option,

532
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: because I think we see this time and time again

533
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: where teams pick up an option and then immediately regret it.

534
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: And when it comes to a quarterback or a wide

535
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: receiver or a defensive end, it can be very very expensive.

536
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: And when you pick up these expensive options and then

537
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: you turn on the player during that fourth year, you're

538
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: screwed because you can't get out of it. Ideally, you

539
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: would like to trade it, but if the guy can't play,

540
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: no one is taking that salary. So they gave him

541
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: a very very you know, cost effective on their salary

542
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: cap extension for like eleven million dollars, which obviously if

543
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: they could do it over again, they wouldn't even have

544
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: given him an extension. But you have to have a

545
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: contingency plan if he is good, because you don't truly

546
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: know until a guy plays games and it's the bright lights. Well,

547
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: they've seen him now. In his last several games have

548
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: been a disaster. I think he has eighty interceptions. But

549
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: if you just watch him, he's just not very good.

550
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: And listen, football is hard. A lot of quarterback the

551
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of quarterbacks relative to the top, you know,

552
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen guys are not that good and it's very,

553
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: very difficult to win with. And that's Jordan Love. And

554
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: like Gudikin said, he's got ten games, a lot is

555
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: on the line over the rest of the season. What

556
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: he's essentially saying is like, unless the miracle happens, he's

557
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: not gonna be our quarterback anymore. Now. I think, you know,

558
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: in some organizations you would get blamed because there was

559
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: an owner for screwing up the Aaron Rodgers situation for

560
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: not figuring it out, for ultimately trading him. But when

561
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: this team has no owner, like, these guys are gonna

562
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: get another quarterback, but this was one season that's gonna

563
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: be on their resume. Ultimately, Rogers ended up wanting out.

564
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: They just they pivoted and they didn't screw themselves financially.

565
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: But whoever their next quarterback is, and I would imagine

566
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: if they keep losing, they are gonna be in the

567
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: mix to draft a guy really high. That guy better

568
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: be good and he better be good fast, or these

569
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: people will lose their job. Because the Green Bay Packers,

570
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, Alabama Football, Texas football, USC football, there

571
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: are certain franchises that just do not tolerate losing. And

572
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: Green Bay has been lucky enough with Farvan Rodgers. They've

573
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: just always won. They've just been winning consistently for three decades.

574
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: It's one thing if you lose a game, but Rogers

575
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: threw three touchdowns. He's like, oh, defense could be a

576
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: little better. When your quarterback plays as shitty, it feels

577
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: like your whole franchise is going nowhere. So the pressure

578
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: on this Gutikins and Lafleur this offseason to figure out

579
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation. For everything that went wrong with Josh,

580
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: his interpersonal skills, his ability to relate, Greater nation not

581
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: liking him, maybe the alumni turning on him. If Jimmy

582
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: Garoppolo had just been good, if Jimmy Garoppolo is just

583
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: playing like the thirteenth best quarterback and throwing some touchdowns

584
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: and they were four and four, he wouldn't be fired. Right.

585
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: What ultimately did him under was Jimmy Garoppolo wasn't just bad.

586
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: He was beyond atrocious. He couldn't have gotten. He couldn't

587
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: be any worse. He's missed games, and he leads the

588
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: league interceptions, and his interceptions is one thing. Well, a

589
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,479
Speaker 1: couple were tipped. You know, one he slipped. It's like

590
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: hitting guys in the hands. Interceptions that aren't even close.

591
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: When you consistently miss on the quarterback position, you got problems.

592
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: So the Packers, you're gonna get one more bite at

593
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: the apple, and you better make a count a couple

594
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: other things looking around the league. Matt Stafford hurt. This

595
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: is why short of the Rams. When the season started,

596
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: I didn't know how it was gonna happen. I didn't

597
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: know what the injury was gonna be. I just bettered

598
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: him getting injured. And now he's got a thumb injury.

599
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: It's looking like he's not gonna play this week. I

600
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: think the Rams are in free fall. I said it

601
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: this during the trade deadline. I would have traded Aaron Donald.

602
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: I would have reset my franchise. You're losing games with him,

603
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: and every game he plays, his value diminishes a little.

604
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: Plus there's always the risk that he get injured again.

605
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: So Stafford, I don't We never really got the information

606
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: on Sets and Bennett who they drafted what in the

607
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: fourth round and then just disappeared. Bizarre situation. But Matt

608
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: Stafford's hurt the ramsoo they're screwed. Deshaun Watson still injured.

609
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,479
Speaker 1: Kind of like the Sets in Bennett situation, a little different.

610
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: It's just weird, that's all to say. It's just weird.

611
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: And when you pay a guy this much money and

612
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: he can't play and your team's good, it's pretty devastating, man,

613
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: it really is. Now. I know when he's played, he

614
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: hasn't been anywhere near what they traded for or the

615
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: guy they thought they were getting trading for. But when

616
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: you if you got to play PGA Wallucker, you're just

617
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: gonna lose more games than you win. I don't care

618
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: if your defense becomes the eighty five Bears defense. Speaking

619
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: of the Bears, it just never ends. It just never

620
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: freaking ends. Yesterday they tried to say a round pick

621
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: for a pass rusher that they're gonna eventually have to

622
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: pay twenty five million dollars when they could have just

623
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: paid him twenty five twenty six million dollars and kept

624
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: the second round pick. Still baffled by that, twenty four

625
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: hours later, today they fired their running back coach, and

626
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: I was expecting, you know, we need a spark on offense.

627
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: We wish I think his last names coach, Walker, his

628
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: family the best moving forward. We appreciate everything he did.

629
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: That was not the statement. The statement was basically, there

630
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: was a standard that we hold ourselves to and he

631
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: didn't meet the standard. So something happened again, and they

632
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: had a defensive coordinator resign, he had a fire running

633
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: back coach. This eber flu situation is getting worse. I

634
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: do not see how Matt Eberflew is the coach of

635
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears in twenty and twenty four. I can't

636
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: see it anyone else in his shoes, firing coaches left

637
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Speaker 1: and right, potential police raids on guys home, having to

638
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Speaker 1: fire a guy for hr reasons a coach, I mean,

639
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Speaker 1: that's crazy. I can't remember the last time, you know,

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Speaker 1: for something that's not public like we've seen. Remember we

641
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: saw the one coach maybe it was a executive for

642
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Speaker 1: the Lions, drive through tackle bell naked, Shanahan's offensive line coach,

643
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Speaker 1: you know, did a little line when he had the

644
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Speaker 1: stripper girlfriend. He got fired. Like we've seen the situations

645
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Speaker 1: where coaches get fired. It's like, hey, you gotta fire him,

646
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Speaker 1: even if you don't want to fire him. But you

647
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Speaker 1: don't see situations like what are the details, Like wait,

648
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Speaker 1: he doesn't just he's not just bad at his job. Now,

649
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Speaker 1: it's not really performance based, it's just something really bad happened.

650
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Speaker 1: We can't publicly say that's usually how you get fired

651
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Speaker 1: as a head coach because all these guys reflect you,

652
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: even though they're all grown ups, they're all making good

653
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: money a major major problem for the Bears. More and

654
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: more thought about Chase Young to the Niners, like the

655
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: clock sticking for Steve Wilkes. If he can't get this

656
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: defense back on track and they don't make a legit

657
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: run again and their defense underperforms, He's gonna be a

658
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: one and done defensive coordinator. He really is. You can't

659
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Speaker 1: have Chase Young and Nick Bosa and Fred Warner and

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Speaker 1: Drake green Law and Eric Armstead and Javon Hargraves and

661
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: Hufunga and Tarvarius Ward and your defense getting slicing dice

662
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Speaker 1: on a weekly base. It's one thing if you know,

663
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Speaker 1: on a given week, AJ Brown beat you and you

664
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Speaker 1: lose a game. It's another thing if P. J. Walker

665
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Speaker 1: beaccha and then Kirk Cousins has a crew day against you,

666
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: and then Joe Burrow looks like an MVP against you.

667
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Speaker 1: It's like you're gonna slow down to anybody, Do you

668
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Speaker 1: have any like If your fastball is not working right,

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Speaker 1: Eventually you gotta try another pitch. Eventually you gotta throw

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Speaker 1: a change up or a curveball. If every single person's

671
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Speaker 1: inting your fastball inside outside, high low, you gotta come

672
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Speaker 1: with a different pitch. So to me a lot of

673
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: pressure on him. Heineke starting for the Falcons, another team

674
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: with just quarterback issue, like, what are the Falcons gonna do?

675
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: Obviously Desmond Ridder backup Heinike clearly just more of a bridge.

676
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: Maybe he gives them a well sparklex. I kind of

677
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: always liked Taylor Heinike, but the Falcons I thought had

678
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins written all over them. That clearly is probably

679
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. And speaking of Kirk Cousins, Tear's Achilles

680
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Speaker 1: on Sunday and Tuesday night before he has surgery, he

681
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: goes to the Minnesota Vikings indoor like family trigger treat

682
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Speaker 1: on a scooter. I can't remember in recent memory a

683
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: guy that, like everyone kind of universally made fun of,

684
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of a puss, overrated geek to just

685
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Speaker 1: you watch that Netflix especially, you're like, God, I kind

686
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Speaker 1: of regret all the things I've said about him. I

687
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: really like Kirk Cousins. I really appreciate him. Anyone that

688
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: watches it with their wife or their girlfriend, they talk

689
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: about him a lot, like I love that guy. Is

690
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Speaker 1: his wife that was buying him, you know, Cole's bucks,

691
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: and it's just it's a sad situation. But one thing

692
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: we've seen with Cousins super high character worked his ass

693
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Speaker 1: and even if his best football now is behind him.

694
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: Talking about a guy that maximized every penny and every

695
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Speaker 1: bit and every ounce of his ability. Right, he doesn't

696
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Speaker 1: have the talent of a lot of guys that fail,

697
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: but he just refused to not make it and refused

698
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Speaker 1: to not become a good player. Still had flaws and

699
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: still not a guy ideally you would look to do better.

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Speaker 1: But if he was your quarterback, I think we've learned

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Speaker 1: you can do a lot worse. I bet a lot

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Speaker 1: here on the show. Start with Brody. Brody, longtime listener.

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Speaker 1: I've listened to every episode since nineteen. This guy's been

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Speaker 1: in it to win it for a while, usually while

727
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Speaker 1: mixing feed for my cows here in Iowa. Just a

728
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Speaker 1: blue collar guy in the Midwest farm in his way.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you just had a little chocolate milk earlier day

730
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Speaker 1: after the gym tray a little protein in me. We

731
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: have been in hell here with Iowa's horrible offense. Yet

732
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Speaker 1: despite having one of the worst offenses in the country,

733
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Speaker 1: Iowa seems to win nine or ten games. How does

734
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Speaker 1: an athletic director in college or GM in the NFL

735
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: make a coaching decision in that type of situation? Unbearable

736
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Speaker 1: games for fans to watch, yet the coach is still winning.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this the other day because I

738
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Speaker 1: saw the headline that the athletic director came out and

739
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: announced that Farrens's son will not be returning. He obviously

740
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Speaker 1: had the clause in his contract that the team had

741
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: to average was twenty five points a game. They were

742
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Speaker 1: never going to do that. But when I think about

743
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Speaker 1: Iowa football, I think it's time for a change. I

744
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, like, you're in this situation because

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Speaker 1: your offense stinks because the head coach made his son

746
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. There's a program that has a ton

747
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Speaker 1: of money. I think they lost last year early in

748
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Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, but their basketball team's good, Like you said,

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Speaker 1: their football team wins a lot of games. Now, you

750
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Speaker 1: definitely directly benefit from playing on a certain side of

751
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 1: the division, right or of the conference. Your division stinks.

752
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: It's why before you lost to who'd you just lose

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00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: to Minnesota? Whoever you just lost to twelve to ten,

754
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: and maybe now you're not gonna represent the Big Ten

755
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Speaker 1: against Ohio State or Michigan. But if you consistently now

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Speaker 1: I don't know, depending you know, the schedule rotates. If

757
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: you played Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State every single year,

758
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: you would lose all those games, every single one of them.

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Speaker 1: You would never beat them, right, and then you just

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Speaker 1: you're randomly gonna lose to a Wisconsin or Minnesota or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So your schedule and I think next year, right, they're

762
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Speaker 1: no longer doing divisions. They packed twelve this year, didn't

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Speaker 1: do divisions. So once you stopped doing divisions, the way

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Speaker 1: you play a schedule, it changes things. And I do

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Speaker 1: wonder if Farren's like, isn't just time kind of maxed out,

766
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Speaker 1: had an incredible run, put a ton of guys into

767
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Speaker 1: the league. You can't watch an NFL game without seeing

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Speaker 1: someone from Iowa. I think it kind of peaked that

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Speaker 1: year you got to the Rose Bowl and then you

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Speaker 1: face Christian McCaffrey and Stanford and they embarrassed you. I

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Speaker 1: think the move is simply and I know financially he's

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Speaker 1: got this crazy contract. It's just hire a younger guy.

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Speaker 1: Just kinda do what some of these other programs have done. Right,

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Speaker 1: What did Wisconsin do? They went out and they got

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Speaker 1: what's his name from Cincinnati Fickle? Luke Fickle to me,

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Speaker 1: Kaylin Dubore. At Washington, I'd be all over. I would

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Speaker 1: offer him what Michigan State did, Mel Tucker. I'd go, hey,

778
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Speaker 1: here's not quite that much, but here's seventy million dollars. Washington,

779
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna match it. They never have had to. Rumors

780
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Speaker 1: have always been, it's actually a little more difficult at Washington,

781
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: Like it's not difficult at Oregon. What do you need,

782
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: They provide it. Usc they'll do anything for you. It's

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Speaker 1: actually sneaky, a little harder at UCLA, at these big

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Speaker 1: ten schools. I mean, the resources you have, the money

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Speaker 1: you guys have made, if you got a better coach

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Speaker 1: and listen ference is a good coach. I just think

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Speaker 1: it's over. You know now, A guy like him making

788
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Speaker 1: as much as he makes isn't just gonna retire, but

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Speaker 1: you fire his son. He's sixty eight years old, he's

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Speaker 1: been there since what year did he become the head coach?

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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety nine. I just think it's time. I would

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Speaker 1: get a new coach, and sometimes you get a new

793
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: coach not because you think the guy's an idiot. Right,

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Speaker 1: Look at the Patriots fire Bill Belichick at the end

795
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Speaker 1: of the season. It's not like they don't think Bill's good.

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Speaker 1: It's not like they don't know how talented Bill is

797
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: when he's got a good team. It's just time. And

798
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: in coaching, it's just not every coach can just coach forever,

799
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Speaker 1: even the Bobby Bowdens and those guys in the world

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Speaker 1: like it ends, especially the older you get. Think how

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thirty nine years old, and sometimes my

802
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: brain if I don't get a great night's sleep, it's like, God,

803
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: it's not firing like it did when I was younger. Hey, John,

804
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: regarding the Browns is from Zach. With all the weirdness

805
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: going on with Watson and Stefanski, how would you predict

806
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: it turns out? Long term? As you said, even an

807
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: average quarterback would have this team in the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: it seems like Stefanski and Watson are in a standoff.

809
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Speaker 1: Only one of them have a two hundred and fifty

810
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Speaker 1: million dollars contract two hundred and thirty but you know

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Speaker 1: who's counting side tomyaslim I would say, Stevanski's in major trouble. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The old adage you can't fire the players, Well, you

813
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: definitely can't fire a guy who has that much money

814
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Speaker 1: coming to him. So Watson's contract makes him basically a

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Speaker 1: sacred cow, basically on scholarship. There's nothing you can do.

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Speaker 1: I think you got to hire someone, and this is

817
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Speaker 1: where it would be tricky, and maybe it wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: hire someone who believes that they can just get him

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Speaker 1: back on track. The other thing is money talks, like

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Speaker 1: was Denver really that great of a job opportunity, especially

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Speaker 1: if you didn't think Russell Wilson still had much like

822
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Speaker 1: was never gonna get it back? Oh it really wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Well what they do, Hey, Sean Payton, you want ninety

824
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Speaker 1: million dollars money talk shit walks and listen a lot

825
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Speaker 1: of these guys are rich. But if I think the

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Speaker 1: Browns would be a unique job opportunity. But like we've

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Speaker 1: talked about earlier, the team this year is not the

828
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Speaker 1: team next year. His cap hit goes up by forty

829
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Speaker 1: three million dollars. So some of these impact players on

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Speaker 1: your team. Obviously, Miles Garrett's going nowhere right In theory,

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb wouldn't have gone anywhere if you wouldn't have

832
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: got hurt your corners. But some of your the players

833
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: that are playing well are not. Just is Amark Cooper

834
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Speaker 1: on the team next year? Is that kind of why

835
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: they traded for Elijah Moore because they're gonna need a

836
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: cheaper wide receiver in two years. It gets a lot

837
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Speaker 1: more complicated when you lose forty three million dollars in

838
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Speaker 1: cap space. Even if the salary cap is let's say

839
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million. Let's just pick a number

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Speaker 1: that's easy to do. Math two hundred and fifty million dollars.

841
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: So if your cap hit is on that given season

842
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Speaker 1: is fifty million dollars, you're taking up twenty percent of

843
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: the salary cap. Well, his is sixty three, So I

844
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Speaker 1: mean we're talking that's a lot of money. Man talking

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty eight percent of the salary cap.

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Speaker 1: All going to Sean might as well just do the

847
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Speaker 1: math right now to see exactly what it is. So

848
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: sixty three divide two fifty, Yeah, twenty five percent. So

849
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: he's taking up a quarter of your salary cap. Think

850
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: about that, man, fellow cal Poly mustang here. I like

851
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: this guy already learn by doing. Baby, you know what's crazy.

852
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this. I'm someone who makes fun

853
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: of education, not in the sense of it's not important. Obviously,

854
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: reading and writing in some of the basic things that

855
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: you learn when you're younger in school are important, But

856
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: a large majority of things you learn in a classroom

857
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: don't necessarily apply, especially like in college. Nothing I did

858
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: in a college classroom applies to what I'm doing now.

859
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: But I also if it wouldn't have been toward for education.

860
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: And listen, I think you know, higher education. Some of

861
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: the stuff, I mean a lot of it's a scam.

862
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: But I got a graduate degree because I was a

863
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: GA at President State. Well, when I bought the house

864
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: and rates were ripping, I mean headed towards seven, I

865
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: was able to get a rate in the fives because

866
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: of a program that the bank or this mortgage lender

867
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: could offer, because I had multiple degrees. And I also

868
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: got the job at Fresno State because I had an

869
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: undergraduate degree. And I'll never forget and listen, I'm not

870
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: gonna change my tune of making fun of what you

871
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: learn inside a college classroom. At least from in my experience.

872
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: A wise person once told me that, not me. I

873
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: think they talked to our class, maybe in like seventh grade.

874
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget the number one thing with doing

875
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: well in school. It just continues to keep your options open.

876
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's gonna last forever, right,

877
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: We'll see as like education, like in my parents' generation,

878
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 1: was everything with mine, it was still important. It feels

879
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: less important now, but it definitely keeps your options open. Hell,

880
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'd be paying way more money for this

881
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: house on a monthly basis, and shit, I might not

882
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: even be sitting here. So if it wasn't for cal Poly.

883
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: It feels like the season there is so much parody

884
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: in the league. Defenses seem to have stepped up in

885
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: a total lack of consistency from every team. Every week,

886
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 1: it seems like a new team is at the top

887
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: of the pyramid and they come crashing down. I can't

888
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: remember a time where this many teams have had a

889
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: chance to win it all because of the lack of

890
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: some true powerhouses. Seems to me home field advantage and

891
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: getting hot at the end of the season will basically

892
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: dictate who wins Super Bowl. Well, that and the ability

893
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: to string together a few consecutive good games. I think

894
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: an underrated part about I would say modern day football

895
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: is how different practice is than it was in the

896
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: nineties and the eighties. And I think if you go

897
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: back then pre the CBAS they have now and hell,

898
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: when I was at Fresno State, we practice in pads

899
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: a lot, and a padded practice is a lot more

900
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:02,280
Speaker 1: difficult than what they call shells. It's like this pad

901
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: on your shoulder, but you do not tackle with it

902
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 1: and a helmet. A padded practice when you're also wearing

903
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: your leg pads, even though half the guys don't, is

904
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: football and those days are done. They are they limit

905
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: your ability to practice. In the CBA, you get x

906
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: number of days, especially the second half of the season.

907
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: So if you went back to like nineteen ninety three

908
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: and think of the best teams in like the early nineties,

909
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: if you just went to a Buffalo Bills practice, or

910
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 1: a Cowboys or forty nine Ers practice, or even in

911
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: the mid to late nineties, some of those Packers teams

912
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: with homegrin right, or you know the Pittsburgh Steelers, or

913
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: who have Denver Broncos. I will bet my a lot

914
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: of money that padded practices happened all the time, that

915
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: padded practices were the overwhelming majority of practice, not shells

916
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: or just T shirts and helmet, and I would bet

917
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: now the majority is the opposite, where it's just much more.

918
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not full speed and you're sweating,

919
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: but you're not playing football. And I do wonder if

920
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: that has hindered the ability to develop offensive linemen, because

921
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: let's face it, the amount of good offensive linemen in

922
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: the NFL has never felt less a guy that you

923
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 1: just felt like, oh, this guy's just really good guard.

924
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: Like how many when I was a kid. The amount

925
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,720
Speaker 1: of star offensive linemen. I'm not saying they were famous

926
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: in the sense of like getting commercials, but just some

927
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league were offensive linemen, tackles, guards,

928
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: and centers. It's like, I feel like we can name

929
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: the elite offensive linemen on like two hands. That was different,

930
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking just Hall of famers. I'm just

931
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: talking about really good, impact, pro Bowl level guys. Now

932
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: it feels like most guys are average to below. That's

933
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: not the case on defense. Think about every think about

934
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: half the league has multiple defensive linemen that you would

935
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: and then even the shitty teams have one good defensive

936
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: lineman that you'd want. Some of these teams, like have

937
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: an offensive line, you wouldn't want any of them. So

938
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: I think that's an underrated part about modern day football.

939
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: What does the NFL community, players, GMS coaches think of

940
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: the games creator of Madden's ability to analyze player and

941
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: create game situations simulations. I've full disclosure, I've never talked

942
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: to anybody about that. Obviously, players get worked up about

943
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: their rating, but in terms of when it comes to

944
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, like getting ready for games, simulating an opponent

945
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: or anything, I know Tyreek Hill made a joke about that.

946
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 1: I don't think he's totally serious. I don't think it's

947
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: as as impactful as you'd think. Maybe you don't even

948
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: think that. I don't think it's impactful at all. But

949
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: I would imagine most people in the NFL under fifty

950
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: non players play made Madden when they were a kid,

951
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: and obviously all these players have played Madden and some

952
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: still do. So I think that's the bigger impact is

953
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: just like everyone's played. I think if you pulled the NFL,

954
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: some coaches would be old, but any coach under I

955
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: don't know, fifty to fifty five and every player, I

956
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: think he'd be hard pressed to not be. Ninety five

957
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: percent have played, and I'd bet a large percentage like

958
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: consistently played in their youth. I know I did. I

959
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: remember freshman year of college played all the time. My

960
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: squad was the Denver Broncos. Clinton Portis dominated. Couldn't stop me.

961
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: Do you think the Raiders will go after Hardball as

962
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: their new head coach at the end of the season.

963
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: I think he's definitely square under their in terms of

964
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: the scope of who they're going to look at. I'd

965
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: be stunned, stunned if he wasn't near the top of

966
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: the list. Can't believe the Raiders made this move after

967
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. They can't even get tanking right. Can't

968
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: wait to hear. Well, here's the thing, Mark Davis did

969
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: not want to trade. Mark Davis. The one thing he

970
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 1: has going for him, the one thing his franchise has

971
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,320
Speaker 1: going for him that's not winning that now no longer

972
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: has a coach are a couple of star players. And

973
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: the one thing about his star players is like they're

974
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: pretty good guys. They're guys you want on your team.

975
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: Every team in the league, every team in the league

976
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: would take in a New York minute, in the blink

977
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: of an eye, Davante and Max Crosby every single team

978
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: and they would start on every single team, and that

979
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: they would be captains on every single team. So when

980
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: you have guys like that, I get it from the

981
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: owner's perspective. Now, big picture, should they have blown it up,

982
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: you can always trade those guys in the offseason. But

983
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: I think Mark Davis because it's hard not to like.

984
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: You're around Max Crosby or Devanta Adams. There's the easy

985
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: guys to like. Who do you ever hear saying a

986
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: bad word about either guy? I know you touched on

987
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: this when it happened, but as a Bears fan, seeing

988
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: the Sweat trade made me want to go bald. Is

989
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: that a shot at me? Embarrassing move by the front office.

990
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: This is a losing team with no chance to win,

991
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 1: and what did they not learn from the mistake last year?

992
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: And will ultimately partake in the most expensive way to

993
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: acquire a pay a player and give premium draft capital

994
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: for him. It almost doesn't matter whether the sweat's good

995
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: or bad or not if it's a bad or good move.

996
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: And to top it all off, John Lynch humiliates the Bears

997
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: organization by trading a third for Chase Young. The poverty

998
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: seems to have no end in sight. I can't believe

999
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: after doing the same thing last year. To me, if

1000
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool had never existed and they had just used

1001
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: that pick on Joey Porter Junior, so maybe they had

1002
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: two good corners, you could somewhat be like, hey, listen,

1003
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: they're a pass rusher or two away. Their defense is

1004
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: coming along their defense and stinks. You could put Reggie

1005
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: White or LT in their prime on this team and

1006
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: it wouldn't matter. I think I read because on the

1007
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: athletic because Naggy's my guy and he used to be

1008
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 1: the coach. I used to some of the teams that

1009
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 1: I just get all their articles one as the Bears,

1010
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: and I read some of their local reporters kind of

1011
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: did this thought on just the trade and the impact

1012
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: gave their different opinions. I think the Bears have ten

1013
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: total sacks this season, and five of them, let me repeat,

1014
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: five of them came against Washington, who obviously has one

1015
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: of the worst offensive line slash. I don't even know

1016
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 1: if their offensive line is, their scheme whatever, there might

1017
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,959
Speaker 1: break David carr sack record. So if you remove those

1018
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: five sacks against that team, they have five sacks in

1019
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: seven other games. It happens a lot with college prospects,

1020
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, this guy had ten sacks his

1021
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: senior year, and then you're like, well, four of them

1022
00:54:56,320 --> 00:55:00,320
Speaker 1: came against UC Davis. He plays in the SEC. You

1023
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: have against the two tackles that he played that were

1024
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: going to get drafted. Oh, none, Well, so four came

1025
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: against UC Davis, three came against a two win Vanderbilt.

1026
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: You're like, well, where did the other four sacks come from? That?

1027
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: That sneaky. Happens a lot with evaluating players. Context matters.

1028
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: I think the same thing with the Bears. I think

1029
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: their defense isn't even remotely close. Still baffled by it,

1030
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: really am, really am, And I listen, people might think

1031
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm just a Bears hater. I have nothing. I've only

1032
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: heard positive things about Ryan Poles as a guy. Right,

1033
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: I've heard these people really liked him that I knew

1034
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. But you do get judged on player

1035
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: acquisition when he become the GM. So good guy, bad

1036
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: guy whatever, he's been pretty terrible as a jam did

1037
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: fleece the Panthers. I'll give him that big fan of show.

1038
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: Happy belated birthday. I'm a diehards Packers fan. It's very

1039
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: odd to me to be this crappy. I've had my

1040
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: whole Packer fan hood of great quarterback and team play.

1041
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,919
Speaker 1: Welcome to life. Do you think they might clean house

1042
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: this offseason or trade up to get Drake May Also,

1043
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: you discuss the Super Bowl being played overseas. I'm not

1044
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: fond of that idea. Do you want to watch the

1045
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: Big Game at ten thirty am local time? Good point

1046
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: didn't think about that. I would someone I always on

1047
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: some text chains last night once Harball or not Harbam

1048
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: once the Raiders fired, and it's like, do you think

1049
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: Harball would go the Packers, the Bears or the Raiders?

1050
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I don't think the Packers are firing anybody.

1051
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: I think those guys are safe. I think those guys

1052
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: are gonna be the coach in the GM next year.

1053
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: I really do. Here's a take. I haven't heard many

1054
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: people talking about Cleveland would have been better off keeping Baker.

1055
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: I know things ended bad for him there, but compare

1056
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: how he is playing to DeShawn this season. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can do that. I really don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can compare to Shaun Watson situation and just

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Speaker 1: go oh, Baker would have been much better. Because I

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Speaker 1: watch Baker, I think he's pretty terrible too. I think

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Speaker 1: Baker after the first couple of games has been really bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's losing them games for sure. So I

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Speaker 1: will say I think you would have been in the

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Speaker 1: same exact situation now financially, it wouldn't have been as expensive.

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Speaker 1: I think the hard part about Deshaun is, Listen, sometimes

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks just play bad. Sometimes they just are not good anymore.

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Speaker 1: What are you paying them? Right? What are you paying them?

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Speaker 1: Like with Matt Ryan once he kind of was not

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Speaker 1: good anymore. It was a problem for the Falcons. They

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Speaker 1: were paying him a lot of money, right the Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson's not quite the same guy. If Russell Wilson's making

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year, wouldn't be that big a deal.

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Speaker 1: He's making like forty five like that. That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: That's why everyone nitpicks Cousins and Dak If they were

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Speaker 1: making ten million, it'd be like God, this best deal

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Speaker 1: in football. Well, once you start making forty plus million,

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Speaker 1: it becomes a problem. Appreciate everyone listening, have a great week,

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Speaker 1: Talk to everyone soon. Audios the volume