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Speaker 1: John middlecop Three and Out Podcast. Hopefully everyone had a

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Speaker 1: good weekend. Recording this on a little Monday afternoon. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's officially now the first week of preseason games. I

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Speaker 1: uh as of recording this, we're officially a month away

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Speaker 1: from the opening night Thursday Thursday game. Bill's Ramps. So

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Speaker 1: football and obviously before that the week before football college

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Speaker 1: football season now. You watch the preseason games, they're rough,

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Speaker 1: and we all know most coaches don't play anybody. But hey,

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Speaker 1: Big show today. Darnald Baker, some Roger stuff, a couple

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Speaker 1: with the news that came out earlier today. UH rap

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Speaker 1: where we're headed. Matt Rule can say whatever he wants.

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Speaker 1: And we all make mistakes, every single one of us.

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Speaker 1: The Hiyahuaska thing does not bother me. But you date

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Speaker 1: won one. They took advantage of their opening and I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it's done yet, but like in their team

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Speaker 1: that peaked the last several years, they borderline maximized it.

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Speaker 1: Because football, you don't win the Super Bowl every year.

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Speaker 1: It's not the case. But the Bills, who now like

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Speaker 1: they just lost in the second round in a devastating way.

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Speaker 1: It was crazy, Like Josh Allen was remarkable. He was

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Speaker 1: so good in the game against the Patriots and then

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Speaker 1: the game against the Chiefs, and ultimately, like you don't

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Speaker 1: even make it in the championship game, it feels like

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Speaker 1: a major failure. And I'm not saying just because you

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Speaker 1: make it the championship game, Like two teams lost in

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Speaker 1: the then f C in the NFC Championship game last year,

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Speaker 1: right the Chiefs, that felt like the ultimate failure. They're

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Speaker 1: up at halftime, they're playing the Bengals at home. That sucked.

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Speaker 1: But the Niners, for example, it was a very successful year.

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Speaker 1: At one point in times like they're not even gonna

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Then all of a sudden they win

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Speaker 1: multiple playoff games. So you win games in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and get to the championship game like that a successful year.

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Speaker 1: And the Bills right now, their team is loaded. They

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Speaker 1: have one of the best players in the league at

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Speaker 1: the most important position. Their division is also a major

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Speaker 1: question mark. Are the Jets gonna be better? Yes, they've

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Speaker 1: drafted a lot of good players over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, but no one can say that Robert salt

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Speaker 1: is a good head coach, and no one knows if

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Speaker 1: Zack Wilson's any good. He might be, but as of

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Speaker 1: right now, I'm sorry, I have to lean like completely

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Speaker 1: unknown and I would bet against him. The new England

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Speaker 1: Patriots Bell Belichick best coach of all time. I have

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Speaker 1: no problems saying that his offensive coordinator and offensive line

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Speaker 1: coach is Matt Patricia. I'm out. The Dolphins who in

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Speaker 1: theory should be good. You know, are relying on to

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Speaker 1: a Tonka La and a head coach who a little

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Speaker 1: bit like uh, you know, it's just a major question mark.

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Speaker 1: I put Mike mcganald, who I rooting for, but a

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Speaker 1: little like Nate Hackett like that. There is a big difference,

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Speaker 1: a lot like Robert Love Robert Sala. You can be

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Speaker 1: a coordinator and honestly, Mike McDaniels never called place. He

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Speaker 1: was not the play caller in San Francisco. He was

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Speaker 1: just Kyle's right hand guy. So he goes from being

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Speaker 1: a genius and he was incredible run game coordinator to

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Speaker 1: now calling the place and not only calling the plays

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Speaker 1: like the quarterback in him gotta be tied at the hip.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on there. That's a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 1: So the Bill's division stinks that they easily should go

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Speaker 1: like five and one, and a lot of people be like, well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent. There's a lot of talent.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent in the NBA. The teams

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Speaker 1: have never been worse just because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: talent in all the sports we know in football, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't that doesn't equate twins. But to me, it's less

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Speaker 1: about winning the division. The Bills are gonna win the division.

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Speaker 1: It's more about taking advantage of this opportunity, like you

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Speaker 1: gotta make a run now, because if you don't, it

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Speaker 1: feels like what could have been. And I think anything

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Speaker 1: less than a championship birth for the Buffalo Bills is

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Speaker 1: a complete failure. And speaking of the Colts, who last

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Speaker 1: year had one of the all time implosions. They should

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Speaker 1: have walked into the playoff and somehow they lost the

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Speaker 1: last two games Raiders and Jags and the Jacks games

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Speaker 1: an all time embarrassment. You know, it's well documented. They

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Speaker 1: haven't beat the Jags, I think at home since in Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville's home since two thousand fourteen, which is an

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Speaker 1: insane stat but it's true. And I would, honestly, I

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Speaker 1: did bet the house. I bet a lot of money

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Speaker 1: against them for them to beat the Raiders. They blew

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Speaker 1: that one, and I would have doubled down. I I

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Speaker 1: didn't bet on them to beat the Jacks, and it

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Speaker 1: was it was a joke effort. But they trade for

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Speaker 1: Mattie Ice, who which they did a couple years ago.

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers easily make the playoffs. But they also had

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Speaker 1: a pretty good offseason of adding yannickn dock Way and

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Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmour. And here's the thing, the a f C

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Speaker 1: South Jacksonville complete rebuilt, Houston is technically just starting their rebuild.

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Speaker 1: That they just flipped the sean for all these picks.

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Speaker 1: It's like kind of the beginning and Tennessee you would

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Speaker 1: say is gonna be in somewhat of a transitional period,

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Speaker 1: Like is Ryan Tamiel gonna be the quarterback in two years?

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Speaker 1: I bet against it. Now. Does that mean Malik will

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Speaker 1: Is gonna be the guy? I'm not saying that, but

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Speaker 1: it does feel like they're gonna transition now. I'm not

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Speaker 1: betting against Rabel or that team to not be good,

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Speaker 1: but the Colts should win this division. To me, both

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Speaker 1: these two teams, they have all these good players. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm I think the Bills are much better than the Colts,

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Speaker 1: but the Colts to me, should be a team that

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Speaker 1: competes to win eleven or twelve wins when you factor

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Speaker 1: in the division, when you factor in the chip on

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Speaker 1: their shoulder and all their core guys are returning. So

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Speaker 1: part of life is when you get the advantage to

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Speaker 1: sit down with someone that you need for business, like

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Speaker 1: you gotta close the deal. You know, certain things open

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Speaker 1: up at certain times, and sometimes people take advantage of it,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes people don't. And sometimes teams take advantage of it,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes they don't. And to me, the Bills and

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Speaker 1: the Colts are two teams this season that, like the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs got their opportunity with Mahomes and their core guys

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Speaker 1: and they dominated for four years. I know they only

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Speaker 1: won one super Bowl, but name a team in the

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Speaker 1: league the last twenty years beside Belichick and Brady that

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Speaker 1: would not sign up for that four year stretch. I'll

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Speaker 1: hang up and listen, there won't be one. So it's

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Speaker 1: when you when you are good and you have a

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Speaker 1: corps and you have a star quarterback. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking more of the Bills now than the Colts.

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Speaker 1: It's time to do something, uh, speaking of the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: taking advantage of it. An absolutely incredible stat that I

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Speaker 1: read in Monday morning. Quarterback Andy Reid, when this season ends,

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Speaker 1: will be the first coach in NFL history to complete

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Speaker 1: one decade or decade plus. I mean he was in Philly,

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Speaker 1: I think for fourteen seasons. This will be his tenth

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Speaker 1: season with the Cancai Chiefs, for multiple teams. Think of

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Speaker 1: what an incredible accomplished that that is. There have been

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Speaker 1: so many good coaches in league history that have changed

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Speaker 1: teams and either flamed out, either struggled had success with

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Speaker 1: other ones that have just struggled to be consistent in

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Speaker 1: their second opportunity, or just you know, got tired, got exhausted.

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Speaker 1: And Andy feels like he's got another five years left

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Speaker 1: with Kansas City. And here's the thing. What Andy did

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia was pretty awesome. Consistent winner, built up a

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Speaker 1: franchise that had fallen on hard times, but he did

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Speaker 1: it with multiple quarterbacks. The majority of it was with

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Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb, but then at the end he made the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and put the guy in the MVP conversation with

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Speaker 1: Michael Vick who was fresh out of prison. And then

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Speaker 1: he goes to Kansas City and the first half of

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Speaker 1: his chief's career he does it with Alex Smith, who,

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Speaker 1: let's face it, I've been watching the Niners my whole life,

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Speaker 1: and what Hardbod did with him was impressive, but not

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Speaker 1: in a million years, what I think you could just

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Speaker 1: go to the playoffs year and year out with Alex Smith.

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Speaker 1: But you know one guy that did and I know

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Speaker 1: this for a fact because when I worked for him

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Speaker 1: with the Eagles, do you know we tried to sign

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Speaker 1: as our backup quarterback Alex Smith. Andy Reid had loved

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith since he came out of the draft and

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Speaker 1: Alex was remarkable story with him and his last season

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Speaker 1: best seasond ever that it was all they were up

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Speaker 1: able to flip him, I think for a second round pick,

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Speaker 1: and then he got Mahomes who is clearly the best

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Speaker 1: quarterback he's ever had and he's dominated the league. But

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Speaker 1: to me for his great up of football coach is

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Speaker 1: Andy Is I think his legacy will be besides being

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Speaker 1: a super Bowl champ, and probably I mean not probably

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Speaker 1: he'll be a Hall of Famer, is the impact he's

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Speaker 1: had on people. Like part of the way we talked

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Speaker 1: about Belichick is like, how about all the people that

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Speaker 1: all of his coaches a bunch of failures. At least

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Speaker 1: he has the GMS, which Belichick does. Andy has the

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Speaker 1: GMS and the coaches, but he also has people in

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Speaker 1: media left and right. Lewis Riddick was just doing Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football. Daniel Jeremiah, who worked for Andy Reid, is

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Speaker 1: now doing basically Mike Mayock's role with the NFL Network. Hell,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I say this all the time if my

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Speaker 1: three years in the NFL had been four Leslie Fraser,

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Speaker 1: who's an Andy Read guy, Freddy Kitchens, whoever, just some

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Speaker 1: Jim Tom Seula, just some random coach. I probably would

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Speaker 1: not be sitting here being able to do this. Yet

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Speaker 1: the credibility he gave me that, Yeah, I worked for

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Speaker 1: Andy Read. I mean that's that changed my life, so

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00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: I know firsthand. But this guy is just one thing

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Speaker 1: that him and Belichick have. So many coaches just get

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Speaker 1: worn out. Sean McVeigh contemplated quitting football to go work

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Speaker 1: at Monday Night football, not because he doesn't love it,

592
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: not because he doesn't enjoy coaching on Sundays, just because

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Speaker 1: it was wearing his ass out. Andy has been doing

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Speaker 1: this now as a head coach for twenty four plus

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Speaker 1: years as a head coach. Obviously, he's been working in

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Speaker 1: the NFL or in football for way longer than that.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even think he gets faced. And I

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Speaker 1: say it over and over, this division is awesome. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to watch the a f C West, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not betting against the Chiefs. There's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: team potentially too that missed the playoffs and are gonna

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Speaker 1: be complete failures. I will be stunned if it's Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which is the other team, whether it's Denver,

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Speaker 1: everyone's picking them, I'm I'm a little leary the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I like the Raiders, but their offensive line is a

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Speaker 1: major question mark. The Chargers, who I think have the

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Speaker 1: best roster in football, their head coach goes for it

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Speaker 1: on his own twenty yard line. So until they proved

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Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm picking Kansas City, who just constantly goes

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs and constantly wins playoff game. And the

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Speaker 1: main reason for as much as Mahomes, it's because their

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Speaker 1: head coach. Uh. I was at a practice on Sunday

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Speaker 1: when Trey Lance looked awful, and you see reports all

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Speaker 1: over the league where quarterbacks, especially young quarterbacks or bridge quarterbacks,

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00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: are looking terrible, and these practices. I've been going to

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Speaker 1: the NFL practice now for about thirteen years, and when

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Speaker 1: I first got in the league, it was before the

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Speaker 1: second to last c b A. So not this new one,

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Speaker 1: but the previous one. You could have double days, you

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Speaker 1: could hit. It was a physical, physical practice and a

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Speaker 1: lot of football was being played for the most part. Again,

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Speaker 1: the only training camps I've been to the last several

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Speaker 1: years have been Kyle Shanahan's not that much football is

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Speaker 1: being played. And I'm not This is not a Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan thing. This is all over the league. People do

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Speaker 1: not tackle to the ground. Uh. People go a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, a couple of days on pads and then

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Speaker 1: they don't that. You rarely have any more than three

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Speaker 1: straight days and pads, and it's I would say seventy

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Speaker 1: of what even a preseason game would be. So it

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Speaker 1: is very very hard to judge and listen. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine many people listening are following their team saying good

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Speaker 1: and bad things. And I said this, and I've been

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Speaker 1: saying it for a while. Having success in these practices,

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Speaker 1: especially for young guys, whether you're an undrafted the agent,

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Speaker 1: whether your fifth round pick, whether you're practice squad guy,

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Speaker 1: is a positive thing, but it doesn't actually mean that

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Speaker 1: much like having success then for a young guy in

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Speaker 1: a preseason game is a big deal and then taking

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Speaker 1: that to the regular season is a whole separate step.

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Speaker 1: But the first step is having success in these environments.

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00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: That's all you can go off of. But I don't

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Speaker 1: put that much stock into the practice. I really don't. Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying throwing picks is a good thing. But

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Jimmy Garoppolo had a practice

646
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Speaker 1: where he threw five let me repeat, five straight interceptions

647
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Speaker 1: in the same practice, not five straight days with a pick,

648
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: five straight plays, five straight passes, five straight picks. The

649
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: forty Niners went to the Super Bowl that year. So

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Speaker 1: I think you've got to be very very hesitant of

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Speaker 1: what you make of practices good and bad. Now, listen,

652
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Speaker 1: I don't I if star players are playing in bad,

653
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: I don't put that much like whatever to me, young guys,

654
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,479
Speaker 1: it's a positive. But I will put some stock into

655
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: the stuff that comes out of the joint practices. So

656
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: all these teams, the majority of the league, will joint

657
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Speaker 1: practice when your quarterback is throwing picks against them, or

658
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: you have players that are excelling in those situations. I

659
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: have no problem getting excited and being bullish on those examples.

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00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: I just think big picture, though, in these practices leading

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Speaker 1: up to the preseason and the joint practice, I would

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Speaker 1: take him with a grain of salt because I have

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00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: seen people look horrendous in practice and and go on

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Speaker 1: to have very very successful season, Pro Bowl years, whatever.

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00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: Hell at forty Niners, and I think this speaks for

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00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: a lot of teams. Nick Bosa doesn't take any team rips.

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00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: George Kittle barely does. Why they basically just saved them

668
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: for the season. And that happens in a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams with star players who you know that are ready

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Speaker 1: in him under no circumstances. In n would Jimmy Johnson

671
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Speaker 1: not have practiced, Charles Haley, Emmett Smith, Michael Irving, those

672
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: guys would take every rep of the team drills. If

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Speaker 1: you could get practice film of the nineteen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: New York Giants LT is taking all the reps, or

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three Walter Payton is touting all the carries

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Speaker 1: in practice. This is a completely different world. And I'm

677
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Speaker 1: not saying it's wrong. I've always leaned on preseason terrifies me,

678
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: but there is a balance of and I think one

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00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: thing we're gonna learn over time. When Mike Tyson goes

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00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: to a fight, he spars before the fight. Right when

681
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: Floyd goes to a fight, he spars to get ready.

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00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: A lot of teams now are very, very cautious with

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Speaker 1: their premium assets because they don't want them to get

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00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: hurt in the middle of August. No one does. But

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Speaker 1: can you just go even if you're like Nick Bos

686
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: is an incredible shape. Nick Bos could play every snap

687
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Speaker 1: of every game in the middle of June. He he

688
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: just three, but he doesn't practice, and I think moving forward,

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00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: he'll never practice that much again. And he he is

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Speaker 1: not alone. Players all over the league are under that

691
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: umbrella now that that's something very very new to the sport,

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Speaker 1: and it's just to me it's only time will tell.

693
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: It will never be able to prove. But is that

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Speaker 1: the right way to do things? Because when I was

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00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: a kid, all the stort Reggie White took the reps

696
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: in practice NFL like never got hurt. Now, you could

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00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: argue a lot of these guys had shorter careers because

698
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: of that, but it's just it's a different world that

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Speaker 1: we're living in. I tend to be more for it.

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Speaker 1: If I was a GM, that's what I would do.

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00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: But it's just, you know, it's not necessarily the right

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00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: way to do it in terms of it's it's gonna

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00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: lead to less injuries and last minute at least before

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Speaker 1: we get dive into the mailback. I was talking to

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Speaker 1: a friend who does who's a high end exact dive

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00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: and he does all over the country and scouting in college,

707
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: but the SEC is kind of his baby, and he

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Speaker 1: was telling me about the story of he was just

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Speaker 1: in a program, one of the SEC programs, and they

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Speaker 1: told him that all eighty five of the scholarship guys

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00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: in college football Power five you get eighty five scholarships,

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00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: and Georgia, Florida, USC, Texas, whoever, you get eighty five scholarships.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's unique that way because obviously there's not

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Speaker 1: another program in the athletic department that gets anywhere near that.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's an outlier sport. Of course it is.

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Speaker 1: It pays for everything. You know, football Without football, the

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00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: athletic department in college sports don't exist. Again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I don't even know why. Of course we all know that,

719
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: but this guy was in an SEC program, one of

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Speaker 1: the good ones, and they said that every single player

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Speaker 1: on the team, all all eighty five SAR scholared players

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Speaker 1: are receiving over forty thousand dollars a year. And listen,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of these programs now, especially the

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Speaker 1: high end Ones Texas and AM Texas, Obama, Georgia, Florida,

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Speaker 1: l s U, if not now Notre Dame, maybe you

726
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: know Ohio State, their scholarship guys are are on salary basically,

727
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Speaker 1: And he basically said, think about the irony of a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, Jeremy Pruitt, who was once the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for Alabama and who became the head coach

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Speaker 1: for Tennessee, who got popped for a bunch of violations

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Speaker 1: and fired in the middle of the season a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago. Well, just I think last week it

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Speaker 1: came out the findings of the investigation by the n

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Speaker 1: c double A that his career is basically over. He'll

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Speaker 1: never be a head coach again. And Tennessee got in trouble.

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Speaker 1: They got popped for a lot of different violations for

737
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars, not six million, not six hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars. Now, at the time n i L

739
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: didn't exist. It was technically illegal, But think about the

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Speaker 1: irony and kind of the hypocrisy that just a year

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Speaker 1: later Tennessee can pay their player, every single guy if

742
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Speaker 1: they so choose to and have the money, sixty dollars

743
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Speaker 1: just to be on the team. I'm not even talking

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Speaker 1: about endorsements. I'm not talking about the other Nile stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I can pay you sixty. Yet Jeremy

746
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: pruittt is viewed as a cheater, loser career over. Now. Listen,

747
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: one thing he did and one thing that Herm Edwards did,

748
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: which I think is pretty chicken ship and pretty bush league,

749
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: is when COVID hit and there was periods, you know,

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Speaker 1: basically college football shutdown. One main rule was you cannot

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00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: have no recruiting and no kids on campus. Both programs

752
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: did that, were the majority of teams. Even the ones

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00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: that cheated did not do it. They shut it down.

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00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: So to me, I have no problem getting in some

755
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: trouble that way. But from a financial standpoint, paying players

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00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: to come on visits, paying for their hotel rooms, paying

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Speaker 1: for their parents stuff that n I L now essentially does,

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00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: sixty dollars seems a little ass backwards. And this is

759
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: why these college coaches thinks, like, what are we doing?

760
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: Because in the pros there's a salary cap. There are rules,

761
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: and listen, I say it all the time. Rules are

762
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: meant to be broken, but they do give you the

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00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: template of where you kind of have to color in

764
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: and around. Right, you can tamper, but you know you

765
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: can negotiate deals at the combine even though you're not

766
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: technically supposed to do it for two more weeks. Now,

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00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: you can't be Stephen Ross and trying to recruit Tom

768
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: Brady when he's literally on another team. But a month

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Speaker 1: before free agency. Yeah, you're talking to agents, you're talking

770
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: to players, you're figuring out things. But in October you

771
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: can't ask Tom Brady and Sean Payton, I want you

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Speaker 1: even a quarterback in my coach, you deserve to get

773
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Speaker 1: popped for being a just like a s U and

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Speaker 1: Tennessee deserve to get in trouble for recruiting on campus

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00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: during the VID right, I got no issue with that,

776
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: But handing people a couple grand to stay in hotel

777
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Speaker 1: rooms when a year later I'm handing them fifties, sixties,

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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars. Who knows how much Texas an MP

779
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Speaker 1: fan seems just beyond stupid. And I've never taken the

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Speaker 1: n C Double A seriously and I don't typically agree

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Speaker 1: with a lot of the media when it comes to

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Speaker 1: just football stuff, especially amateurism in college. And again I'm

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00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: not pro like the n C Double A. But one

784
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: thing I know is coming and get ready for it

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Speaker 1: is Will Anderson. Who is the best player in college football? Now?

786
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Speaker 1: Will he be the number one overall pick? Typically quarterbacks go,

787
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: but there is not a quarterback who is is good

788
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: at playing their position as Will Anderson is as good

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Speaker 1: at playing their position. And last year I was told

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00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: by a scouting buddy Willia Anderson didn't take a penny

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Speaker 1: of n I l why he wanted to focus. He's

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Speaker 1: a no bullshit type guy, complete as kicker. Honestly, he's

793
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: like modern day Lawrence Taylor. And I'm not saying he's

794
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: gonna be as good as Lawrence Taylor. Just watch thirty

795
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: one for Alabama and and watch the highlights of LT

796
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: and tell me he ain't the college version. But you

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00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: watch this year, especially if you were to roll an ankle,

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00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: all of the media's like, what is he doing? Why

799
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: is he playing? I don't know. He likes playing football.

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Speaker 1: Remember it happened to Zion. Every media member wanted Zion

801
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: to quit playing at Duke and he came back. Why

802
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: he likes playing a duke? It was fun dunking on people.

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00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: What happened to Zion? Ever since number one pick made

804
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Speaker 1: like two million dollars? Remember last year Jamison Williams, who

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Speaker 1: was playing at Alabama Ohio State, transfer to his A

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Speaker 1: c L. I think it was a national championship game.

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Speaker 1: My met, she might have been the national championship. Jamis

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00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: might have been. Jamison might have been in the in

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Speaker 1: the in the first playoff game, and the media lost

810
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Speaker 1: their ever loving minds. They say, how could Nick Saban?

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Speaker 1: How could they do this? How could they allow to play?

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Speaker 1: Why is Jamison? He's ruined his career and then he

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Speaker 1: went thirteenth to the Lions with a torn a c

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Speaker 1: L and his career not only will be fine, I'm

815
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Speaker 1: sure he'll come back perfectly well and get a huge

816
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: second contract. Why he's sweet? And I just prepare the

817
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: will Anderson like, why is he playing? Is gonna be NonStop?

818
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: And he's playing simply because he's awesome at football? And

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Speaker 1: you know what he doesn't want to do go to

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Speaker 1: l A and just pump weights. Do you know what

821
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: that would be boring? You know what he likes doing

822
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: playing with his team because you know what, it's a

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00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: team game. And he's choosing this because like last year,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's making n I L this year,

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00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: but you watch get ready for it. Also have some

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Speaker 1: other college takes on some specific players that I will

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Speaker 1: sprinkle in as as we get close to the college season,

828
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Speaker 1: because I got a player, a quarterback who I think

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Speaker 1: none of us have ever seen, I mean, has a

830
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Speaker 1: chance if all goes well, to just go stupid high

831
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Speaker 1: and next year's draft. You know, I'll save that for

832
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: a week or two, but just get ready because I

833
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: got a name. Help. I wrote his name down somewhere.

834
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Speaker 1: I don't even have his name off top of my head.

835
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Speaker 1: But he'll be a guy that I all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden people are gonna be buzzing about, and people are

837
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about. But I think how stupid it is.

838
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: Jeremy pruett sixty dollars career is probably over, and literally

839
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: every player now is getting paid left and right. Shocking

840
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: that the n C double a one thing I agree

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00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: with the media complete clown show. Uh just joke. Okay,

842
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: let's get to a little mail back at John Middlecoff

843
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: is the Instagram fire in my d M s I

844
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: just type of Instagram And there there Rogers was talking

845
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: with Aubrey Marcus. Okay, at John Middlecoff. Fire in the

846
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: d M started coming from bow dear niner John. Since

847
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: the Saints have installed the NASCAR pass rush, is there

848
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: any chance that they won't be the most successful successful

849
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: defense this year? Well, I would be stunned if their

850
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Speaker 1: defense has the same level, given that their defensive coordinator,

851
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: who's done a fantastic job, Dennis Allen, is now their

852
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: head coach. You know, typically it falls off a little

853
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: bit or at least like it's fair to go. Are

854
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: they gonna be as good on defense because he's not

855
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: gonna be able to give the same energy. He has

856
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: to be the head coach. He's no longer the coach

857
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: of half the team. He's coaching the whole thing now, clearly,

858
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: and obviously he'll spend more time with the defense, as

859
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: the majority of quickly transition coordinators do, like is Todd

860
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: Bowle is gonna spend more time with the offense or

861
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: the defense with the Bucks obviously the defense, But like

862
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: I I just think I don't think it's because their

863
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: NASCAR package in terms of I think what you mean

864
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: is just they're putting a lot of pass rushers on

865
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: the field at the same time. Uh, you don't do

866
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: that in like first down. I would guess it's just

867
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 1: it's just a pitch you have to kind of thrown.

868
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: I actually had I think someone DM me about the

869
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: Patriots offensive scheme in their running game. And I had

870
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: a scout buddy who text me, like, you know, every

871
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: single team in the league has gap runs and zone runs,

872
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: and he thought that the majority of runs throughout NFL

873
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 1: offenses are pretty consistently the inside zone run. Like every

874
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: team has the inside zone. I would say that's a

875
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: pretty consistent run play that every single NFL team has

876
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: in their playbook. Now, some teams surely run it more

877
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 1: than others, you know, I mean, Kyle Shanahan has wet

878
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: dreams thinking about running inside zone. But the Patriots have

879
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: done everything forever. I mean, it's kind of one thing

880
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: they've kind of hung their hat on over the years.

881
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: From New Zealand actually went to New Zealand when I

882
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: was twelve years old, also a massive Steelers fan. My

883
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: question is this, if Trubisky and Pickett don't work out,

884
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: how long do you think we try and pivot to

885
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: another quarterback after the season. Well, to me, if Trubisky

886
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, who cares? He makes no money. He

887
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 1: was hired or signed to be just a bridge quarterback.

888
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: I've been saying now for a while is that I

889
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: do think Jimmy Garoppolo makes some sense. I did not

890
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: like to pick it selection. I thought it was kind

891
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: of insane. Now I could be wrong, been wrong before.

892
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: I love Sam Donald. He's not good, So I'm not

893
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Walsh meets Bill Polian here, but I'm

894
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: out on Canny Pickett before he even plays a game.

895
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: If you tell me he's a poor man's Mac Jones

896
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: and twenty four years old and can't immediately win the

897
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 1: starting job and runs with the threes, we got some issues.

898
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: I don't like Tremisky at all. I think Jimmy Garoppolo

899
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense, and then just kind of

900
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: go from there. If Kenny Pickett's gotta be his backup

901
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: for a couple of years of your successful with Jimmy Garoppolo,

902
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: but I think they should be all over Jimmy g

903
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: Um Yeah, big fan of the PGA in the NFL content,

904
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: keep up the great work. I'm looking at future bets

905
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: heading into the NFL season. My betting platform has futures

906
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: where you can bet on where a team will finish

907
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: within their division. I currently have a bet place for

908
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: the Bears to finish last in the NFC North at

909
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: minus one. I'm also considering the Dolphins at finishing second

910
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: in the a f C East at plus one sixty.

911
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: Question have you ever looked at bets like this? Dolphins

912
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: second in the a f C East, Cardinals third in

913
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: the NFC West. Feel free to share any bets you

914
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: suggest future heading into the season. I'm not a huge

915
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: future guy unless it's like incredible value, like I like

916
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: a team to win the Super Bowl at to one

917
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: because I don't like having to wait for an r

918
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: o I at minus one twenty or plus one sixty.

919
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: You know, I got no problem taking an underdog on

920
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: a game at plus one sixty, but I don't want

921
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: to wait all season for plus one sixty. So to

922
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: me from a business standpoint, and I don't bet even

923
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: if I'm betting a lot of money to win money

924
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: like I mean I do, but ultimately I bet. I

925
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: bet for entertainment. I'm prepared when I gamble to lose money.

926
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: I work for my wages. I work for my money.

927
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: I invest in the stock market for cash, you know,

928
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: I invest My money is made not through gambling. Now,

929
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: I've made hit huge golf bets that have paid four

930
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: or five grand, right, I've hit big NFL bets that

931
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: have bet too whatever. But I I I was prepared

932
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: to lose that money. So I wasn't ever banking on

933
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: the cash part of betting on the future for me,

934
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: which I've done engulf before. I did it with Rory McElroy.

935
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: At the opening, I was if he had won, I

936
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: would have made forty five hundred dollars. So unless you're

937
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: betting large sums of money, it would bore me at

938
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: those prices. Now, one, I don't want to give away

939
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: my uh my college quarterback take. But the team that

940
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: that kid's ad is like thirty five to one to

941
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: win his conference. That the team like that is a

942
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: type future bet. If I bet a hundred dollars, I'd

943
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: win thirty back. It's my juices flowing. That's how I

944
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: think about it. Now your specific questions. I think the

945
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: Bears are a lock to finish last. I think the

946
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: Lions are gonna be competitive. I think the Vikings are

947
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: and the Packers are gonna be good. The Dolphins to

948
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: finish second, don't hate that at all? Uh at plus

949
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: one sixty? But again, are are you going to like

950
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: if Zack Wilson is solid? The Jets could easily finished second?

951
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: Hell Belichick, him and Patricia shock us all they finished second? Again?

952
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: Who knows? So I are you really gonna bet on

953
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: Ta and Mike McDaniel at plus one sixty to wait

954
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: all season? That that is my issue. I guess now.

955
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: I understand over unders, probably more as a future because

956
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: every week you kind of root for that team, But

957
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: even over unders, like if I take a team, let's

958
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: just pick a arbitrary number eight and let's just I

959
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: don't even know if this is the team's number, but

960
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: let's just say the Minnesota Vikings are at eight and

961
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: it's plus or it's minus one ten for them to

962
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: go over, and I take the over and I put five. Well,

963
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna win like four hundred and forty dollars.

964
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: So I gotta wait all season for that return. And

965
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: I'm not acting like some people. Five might be a lot,

966
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: but that's kind of a risky thing to wait all

967
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: year long for that type return. I guess that's the

968
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: way I look at it from a future standpoint. That's

969
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 1: my betting philosophy. Again, I say it all the time.

970
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: I bet for fun. Betting is Betting and golf are

971
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: my hobbies, you know, so I every time I bet,

972
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: I'm cool with losing. I work for my money. I

973
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: bet for entertainment. Like I don't go to Disneyland. I

974
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: don't hike on the side, you know, I don't. I

975
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: don't have a little arts and crafts like. I don't

976
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: have other hobbies. Play golf, gamble and work out. Those

977
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: are really the only things I do besides hanging out

978
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: with friends and working. Like I don't live a very

979
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 1: complicated life. So that that's my philosophy on the future stuff.

980
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: Ben a Giants fan, My whole life is Jordan's and

981
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Colins said that he thought

982
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: the Giants were most likely landing spot for Jimmy Garoppolo

983
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: can't figure out why New York would do that. He

984
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: certainly is the difference between them winning and losing the division,

985
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: as they still would have the worst roster in the

986
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: NFC East. I can't figure this one out, and I

987
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: was hoping you could give some clarity on why Jimmy

988
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: g to the Giants would make sense. Well, I don't

989
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: think I heard Coward say that. I'm in agreement with you.

990
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: If I'm the Giants, I bought them out. I think

991
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: we also the you know hell, you might have been

992
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:21,280
Speaker 1: there the video of Daniel Jones and the uh in MetLife.

993
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 1: I mean one of the worst passes you probably saw

994
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 1: this preseason or in practice or any viral video. It

995
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:31,240
Speaker 1: was bad. You just bought them out. Just lose, Just suck.

996
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: First year for both these guys. If next year, you know,

997
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: you get the number one overall pick and you want c. J.

998
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: Stroud to learn for a year behind Jimmy Garoppolo and

999
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolos were twenty million dollars just to kind of

1000
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: teach c. J. Stroud the way, No issue with that,

1001
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: but this year, wouldn't touch him with a ten football

1002
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Go down in flames with Daniel Jones. Lose.

1003
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: I think for the first time. It is okay to say,

1004
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: as the Giants, let's lose first season, be really, really bad.

1005
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 1: The Bills did that, remember Brandon Bean's first year with

1006
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. They have the highest dead cap in the league.

1007
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: It ultimately led to them getting Josh Allen now that

1008
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: they traded up in that draft, because somehow they still

1009
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: won some games, but that changed their franchise forever. You

1010
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: know who was there, your general manager in New York.

1011
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: So I I don't think getting Jimmy g makes sense

1012
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: at all. Big fan of the pod, keep of the

1013
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: grind day in and day out. I hear you throw

1014
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,640
Speaker 1: dirt on Mitch Drabinsky's name, and as a Bears fan,

1015
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 1: I was mad we even let him go. Matten Naggy

1016
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,280
Speaker 1: hands down ruined that man's development. Drabinsky does and says

1017
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: all the right things at the podium and is all

1018
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: around good person. I watched every game Mitch played for

1019
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: the Chicago and let me be clear, he was not

1020
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: all Caps. The problem Chicago hasn't had a good old

1021
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: line in over a decade, and I think he has

1022
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: a chance to prove all the doubters wrong. I'd rather

1023
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: have Mitch Whisky than Justin Fields. Well, I'm gonna say,

1024
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the hard disagree. I don't think Matt

1025
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: Naggy or Bill Walsh could have figured out Mr. R Whisky. Now,

1026
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: there were times when you lost. It wasn't all Mitch's fault.

1027
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,320
Speaker 1: I agree, But to act like Mr. Bisky in no

1028
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: world would anyone in NFL history take currently Mitch dr

1029
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: Whisky over Justin Fields. Now, does your offensive line? Is

1030
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: it bad? Yes? Is that a problem? Yes? Will that

1031
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: be a disaster this year? Of course? To me, I

1032
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: haven't even seen the line. The lock of the week

1033
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 1: in the first week of the season is the forty

1034
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: Niners against the Bears. The forty Niners pass rush is

1035
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: stupid good. The Bears offensive line is the potentially the

1036
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: worst in the NFL. Justin Field Fields is screwed. He's

1037
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: gonna be running for his life. Luckily he's pretty fast,

1038
00:56:55,320 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: but he's in trouble. So I'm not I have no issue.

1039
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky, great guy. This is the NFL. The price

1040
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: of admission is be a good guy in work hard

1041
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: miss checks those boxes. Congratulations, Like I've never said he's

1042
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: a bad guy. This is not I talked about him

1043
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: as a player. Most people in the NFL are good guys.

1044
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: A lot of them aren't as good as a lot

1045
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: of other players. That's that's what happens. I mean, I

1046
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you, uh, but I to

1047
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: say that, Mr Robinsky, I don't know, man, I just

1048
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: disagree with you, But it's okay to disagree. Question for

1049
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: the pod. The media plays up camp storylines because there's

1050
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: not much else going on. But it seems silly to

1051
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: be hammering quarterbacks for looking shaky in the beginning of camp.

1052
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: So much of passing offense is about timing and chemistry.

1053
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: It feels obvious the defenses would look better in the

1054
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: beginning of camp. Why the offense while the offense struggles.

1055
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: I'm an optimistic Eagles fan, and I feel like I

1056
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: keep seeing headlines about hurts not looking sharp and we're

1057
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: only a weekend. Sounds like you're seeing the same thing

1058
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: with Lance. What say you, how much stocks should I

1059
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: put in these early reports? Well, I would say if

1060
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: you're an established quarterback, any top ten guy, Brady Rogers,

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Speaker 1: Herbert Lamar, Mahomes, Alan, even Kyler, Right Stafford, just Dak Cousins,

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Speaker 1: If they're throwing picks all the time, you like it's

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00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: a little weird. I would say with Jalen Hurts, who,

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00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: let's face it, has struggled throwing the ball Lance who

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00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: last year when he played, accuracy was an issue. It's

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00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: okay to to separate two things. The defense, historically in

1067
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: the history of football, whether it's peewee football, high school football,

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00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: Alabama football, or pro football, is always ahead. But when

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00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: guys consistently are inaccurate, that's can be a problem. So

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00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: the defense should be ahead, but accuracy, or at least

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00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: like all you can go off of is the practice

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00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: that day. So when I go to an Eagles practice

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00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts is inaccurate, or I go to a

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00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: Tray Lance practice and he's inaccurate, you can go, well,

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00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: it's only August five, that's a fact. But he was

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00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: inaccurate that day of practice, right. It's like we could

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00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: do that with the games. Well it was only one game.

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean it's the whole point of the

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00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: sport or to play these games. So I guess it's

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00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 1: twofold the defense should be ahead. But I also think

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00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: it's okay as someone who's been at these practices to go. Yeah,

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00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,920
Speaker 1: that that was a bad practice. You know that that

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00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: was not ideal, does it? The good thing is a

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00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 1: practice means nothing. A game does right. Game can cost you.

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00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: You lose, right, you get an l you only get

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00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: seventeen tries practice. Who cares? Now? I would say this

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00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: if it's August and it's like, well, we're still dealing

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00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: with some accuracy issues that you know it ready for

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01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: that during the season, I do think it's okay to go.

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01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: You know, he's still figuring some things out. These guys

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01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: are working through it. One thing I would say with

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01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: Jalen and Trey, and Jalen has played way more than Trey.

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01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: I think Jay, you know, Trey is a better prospect, bigger,

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01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: stronger arm. They both really give a ship and they

1095
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:22,600
Speaker 1: both really care about improving, and they both like that's

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01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,680
Speaker 1: to me. And I said this a couple of weeks ago, Like,

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01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: think about Kyler. Kyler won't watch film outside of the building.

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01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: That's that's not an opinion, that's a fact. The organization

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01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: admitted itself. Jalen Hursts, who's a who's a high school coach.

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01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: His son as maximized every ounce of talent. He's had

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01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,959
Speaker 1: since he entered the NFL. I respect that, and Trey

1102
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: like part of the reason the Niners drafted him because

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01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: his character and his work ethic and his desire. So

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01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: those guys, you would say, well, just maximize whatever talent

1105
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: they have. Dak Prescott is a great example. Dak Prescott

1106
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: us not throw it like Kyler Murray or Josh Allen

1107
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: or Justin Herbert, not even close. But when Dak Prescott's

1108
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: career ends, he may never win a Super Bowl. Hell,

1109
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: he may never get there or even get to a

1110
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: conference championship game, but he's gonna have the Cowboys consistently

1111
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: in the playoff mix. Why because he maximizes every ounce

1112
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: of talent that God gave the guy as a thrower

1113
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: and work ethic and as a studier. And I think

1114
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:29,479
Speaker 1: all of us who root for a team or root

1115
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: for that's all we ask for, Like do they give

1116
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: everything they have? That's why I love Like I don't

1117
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: really watch that much of the NBA anymore beside the Warriors.

1118
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: You know why, because I know Clay Thompson. You'd have

1119
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: to drag that guy off the court, off working on

1120
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: his game, off his craft because he eats Breeze and

1121
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,439
Speaker 1: sleep basketball. Now he's he's a Hall of Famer, he's

1122
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, won four championships. His resume is awesome, but

1123
01:01:57,680 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: basketball means everything to him. Same thing with Steph kur,

1124
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 1: same thing with Draymond, Like they really really care and

1125
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: that's that's enjoyable as a consumer to watch a guy

1126
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: where we go, you know what, Like, ultimately, do I

1127
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: respect Kyler that much? Not really. God gave him the

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01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: ability to run faster than everybody and an incredible arm,

1129
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: and he's not maximizing his talent and he's still having success.

1130
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: But like, I'm sorry, I root for people did give

1131
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: it their all, whether you work at a deli or

1132
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: whether you're the quarterback in the NFL. So I say

1133
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: this about Jalen where I was wrong about him in

1134
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: terms of I didn't like him coming out. I underestimated

1135
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: the person. Now I don't ever envision him being a

1136
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback. He's not. He'll never be better than

1137
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. But unlike Kyler, he'll maximize his talent. Guys

1138
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: like Kyler just never do. Just listen to the pod

1139
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 1: with Sobel about college golf recruiting. Yes, the best American

1140
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: players wind up at the powerhouses. I did my undergrad

1141
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: at Augusta Universe one back to back D one golf

1142
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: national championships, built off strong international recruiting and having Patrick

1143
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: read Fall in our lap for two years. The international

1144
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: kids don't care about US football. Augusta sells on them

1145
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: being in Augusta playing Augusta once a year, and there

1146
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: is no football team, so the golf team is the

1147
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,440
Speaker 1: biggest thing at the school. I love the pod Man

1148
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: heard you on the tour Junkies last week. dB has

1149
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: been one of my best friends for twenty years. I

1150
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Basically, what you know in my backyard. St

1151
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 1: Mary's basketball they're basically the second best program in Gonzagas Conference. Uh.

1152
01:03:38,480 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: One of my good buddies, Brian Hawkins, played baseball there

1153
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: and we always talked about St. Mary's athletics, and obviously

1154
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 1: they're a basketball school. They make the tournament a lot.

1155
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,959
Speaker 1: Randy Bennett no football team, and they have recruited guys

1156
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: like Matt Delavadova and Patty Mills. And in basketball, some

1157
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,919
Speaker 1: of the smaller programs get these international guys. In same

1158
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 1: thing with golf. Obviously, in football you're just recruiting in America.

1159
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: But one thing I always heard about St. Mary's is

1160
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 1: why they get this Australian pipeline is because in Australia, like,

1161
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 1: they don't know the difference between Kentucky Duke and St. Mary's.

1162
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: All they know is all their star players go to St.

1163
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: Mary's and they show the St. Mary's games on television Australia.

1164
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: So it's a big deal. As Sobel told me last week,

1165
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy, you know where he was gonna go to

1166
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: college if he didn't turn pro. East Tennessee State, That's

1167
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: where he was gonna go. Jordan Smith, Texas, justin Thomas, Alabama,

1168
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, Stanford, Right, Patrick can't Ley U c l A.

1169
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: Most of the big boys go to big schools. Even

1170
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: Patrick Reed went to Georgia. But I always think it's

1171
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 1: kind of cool in college basketball. Some of these international guys,

1172
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: they just what Baraga California and Lexington, Kentucky? What the

1173
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: hell does that mean to those guys? Right? Uh Graham

1174
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,800
Speaker 1: McDowell went to Uh, you A. A lot of these

1175
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: guys go to random colleges because they don't even know

1176
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: the difference. I think that's pretty funny, not even funny.

1177
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of a cool little antidote.

1178
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: Last question, Steve, question about Cleveland and the Watson suspension.

1179
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: If the NFL adds more games and the Union fights it,

1180
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: then Watson would start game one. If that happened and

1181
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: he played out the season, wouldn't he be playing for

1182
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: one million dollars and get the suspension took took place

1183
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: in the next year, he would lose game day money

1184
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 1: on next year salary. Correct. I mentioned this last week.

1185
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 1: It makes no sense for Watson to fight it this

1186
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: year with the potential to lose all the money. Next year,

1187
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: he scheduled to make forty five million dollars. So I'm

1188
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: no mathematician, but if I got divide seventeen, that is

1189
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: two point six million dollars a game. So think about this.

1190
01:05:55,560 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: He's making one million dollars total this season. So if

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01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: he missed ten games next year, let's just pick that number.

1192
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: The NFL added four games, he fought it, he loses,

1193
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: he gets a ten game suspension in two thousand three,

1194
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 1: he would lose twenty six million dollars. So, as I

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01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: said over and over, whether it's a full season, whether

1196
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: it's ten games, whether it's twelve games. It makes zero

1197
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: sense to not accept the suspension this year, eat the

1198
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: million dollars, whether it's six games, ten games a year,

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01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 1: and next year play and get your full freight of money.

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01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,479
Speaker 1: Um that that's just for me sitting here who didn't

1201
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: go to Harvard. But I can, I can add and

1202
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: it it makes zero financial sense. No one would advise

1203
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: him to make that financial trade off. Appreciate everyone listening.

1204
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: Subscribe to the podcast. If you listen on Collins Feed

1205
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: greatly appreciate it. Subscribe to three and outfeed. Uh Middlecoff

1206
01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: mail bag at John Middlecoff. Fire in those d M

1207
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: I know I have a lot of questions to answer

1208
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: that I have to. I'll probably attack that sometimes this

1209
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 1: this week, I will dedicate a couple of hours to

1210
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: answering a lot of the questions of people that I

1211
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: have not answered yet manually, but firing those d m s.

1212
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: Get your question here, I answered on the podcast, and

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01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: I will talk to everyone soon. Peace. Volume