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Speaker 1: And when I think of the Pittsburgh Steelers, when I

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Speaker 1: I think two thousand twenty serves as a good, uh

427
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: kind of a rule for this. Like for me personally,

428
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: I've complained about the lockdowns and the treatment of the

429
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:33,439
Speaker 1: working class. I have found it disgusting. But I also

430
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: find and I try to do this on social media,

431
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: like I try to draw a line of being just

432
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: too consistently negative and like, economically, for me, it's been

433
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 1: one of the best years of my life. Right, so

434
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: there are elements of things that I can't relate to.

435
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: Like I didn't lose a job, but I also don't

436
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: have a normal job. I kind of had a job

437
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: that was already built for Corona in a weird way,

438
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: and if anything, Corona it has helped out my business.

439
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: That being said, when I complain, I the majority of

440
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 1: people in my life during the coronavirus work jobs that

441
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: they don't work from home. I don't know that many

442
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: white collar people. I grew up around a bunch of farmers.

443
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: Most of my friends from cal pobably work in construction. Uh,

444
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: some of my good friends now work in construction. My

445
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: little brother is a farmer. Like, there is no like, oh,

446
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: you get to just work from home, Like, no, that

447
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 1: doesn't The people in my life have not. I mean

448
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: maybe they do stuff from their home office or whatever,

449
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: but every day they answered the bell, there was no

450
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: just get to work from home. It's why I've been

451
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: disgusted with the media, and they're constant celebrating lockdowns, Like

452
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,679
Speaker 1: it's easy for someone to be like lock it down

453
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: when you're getting paid to stay at home. The media

454
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: has constantly told people to shut it down and they

455
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: get paid. It's like you get to work, but no

456
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: one else does. It's it's just so hypocritical and out

457
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: of touch, and it's really pissed me off though, Like

458
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: I've been anti lockdown even though I get to work

459
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: from home, because I just have common sense. I just

460
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: I understand what people are going through. I know people

461
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: in my community that own and run restaurants. It sucks,

462
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: it's bullshit what's happening to them. But you can't complain

463
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: during two thousand twenty and I, by no means him rich,

464
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: but like rich people complaining about stuff this time of year,

465
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: especially the next wave of lockdowns during the holidays, it's

466
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: just very out of touch. No one wants to hear

467
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: your first world complaints. Nobody does. It's why, Like in

468
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: my backyard in California, Gavin Newsom, who has led the

469
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: charge on these lockdowns, is eating at the most expensive

470
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: restaurant on the West Coach French Laundry. The average played

471
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: is like five dollars. It's just a bad look, Carson Wentz.

472
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: It's pretty clear that his people or himself leaked the

473
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Speaker 1: story that he's not happy being backup. Do you know

474
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: what no one wants to hear right now from the

475
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar man complaining because he didn't get the

476
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: raw end of the stick. I guess the short end

477
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,680
Speaker 1: of the stick, raw raw end of the stick. Maybe

478
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: that works too. He did not get screwed in this situation.

479
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: The fans, the players, the coaches, we all saw the

480
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: same thing. He was god awful. He was so terrible

481
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: that when he was finally benched, nobody thought it was weird,

482
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: except clearly his own camp. What I have been saying

483
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: for a long time is that he needs to take

484
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: a step back, he needs to take a deep breath.

485
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: Of course, you don't want to be a backup. News flash,

486
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: No human has ever wanted to be demoted. Sure, people

487
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: that are listening we we've all probably had times when

488
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: something some power in professionally has been taken away from us.

489
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: It's X. But when you're not getting screwed, like when

490
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: you're actually the person not coming through, if you take

491
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: the emotion out of it and take a step back,

492
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: it is understandable. And in this situation, Carson, you were

493
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: benched because you were so bad. You were arguably the

494
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 1: worst quarterback in the NFL. The fans agreed, the coaches

495
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: around the league agreed. Your own teammates clearly agreed because

496
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: they look way better. But no one wants to hear

497
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: this player now leak and complain when you've had to

498
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: sit for one fucking game. You're one of the highest

499
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: paid players in NFL history. And now I've seen Jalen Hurts,

500
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: who I personally thought was a running back. He just

501
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: threw I think three touchdowns and he ran one. The

502
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: offense the same guys you were playing with, Jalen reagor,

503
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: Miles Sander, Greg war Jr. Got her All these random guys,

504
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: and they're not even random. Some of these are first

505
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: and second round picks look fantastic. They look good. They

506
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: look for deductive and the offensive line, which we all went, God,

507
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: this is awful. Looks functional with this guy in the game.

508
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: So listen, I have no problem with Carson Wentz being

509
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: mad right now, being just worked up in angry over

510
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: the situation. Being demoted. Your first reaction, as any competitive

511
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: human should be, this sucks. But and he earned it.

512
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: I mean his talent. He was drafted really high. You

513
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: could argue he didn't really earn the contract. The Eagles

514
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: took a forward thinking approach and took a big swing.

515
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: The contract actually hasn't even started now, the way the

516
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: NFL works, he's already got a bunch of bonus money.

517
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: He was the second pick in the draft, so he's

518
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: made huge cash. They're in a soul that wants to

519
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: hear him complain, just like nobody in their right mind

520
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: wants to hear rich people complain. Right now, with small

521
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: businesses going under, I mean literally, America and the politicians

522
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: have waged a war on small businesses. Yet I can

523
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: walk into Target, I can walk into North Rooms, I

524
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: can't even move it's so packed. Yet the restaurant business,

525
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are going under left and right.

526
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: It's just if you can't say and take a step

527
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: back and go, Yeah, that's disgusting the way it's all

528
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: playing out. Then I don't have a much in calm

529
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: with you. And then I think today they passed six

530
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: stimulus check. I mean, who the funk are we kid? Six?

531
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: But I think that's what like these rich elite people

532
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: think is actually good money for poor people. I guess

533
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't even comprehend it. But nobody

534
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL wants to hear Carson Wentz complaining. It's

535
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: a league where every single player fights for every single penny.

536
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: Yet he gets all this money guaranteed without really accomplishing

537
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: that much. And he's already complaining. You said, John, you

538
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 1: don't know he's complaining. Yeah, it's pretty clear, like how

539
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: he Roseman wasn't tweeting this out, Jeffrey Lurie wasn't leaking

540
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: this information. It's coming from Wentz's camp. The players are

541
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: telling you everything you need to know. Just watch the

542
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: e Is play against the Cardinals. I said it last week.

543
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: They have life, they have urgency, they're trying. The quarterback

544
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: just adds an element. There's also the elephant in the

545
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,479
Speaker 1: room of how is Carson Wentz? Because I don't think

546
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna get traded. I just think that you can't.

547
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: The sample size is gonna be so small on Jalen.

548
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: It's hard to trade a talent like Carson Wentz and

549
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: risk him resurrecting his career with someone else. But to me,

550
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: the main part is the money aspect. You've paid so much,

551
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: you've invested so many picks, like you gotta try to

552
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: resurrect this. But after these last couple of games, Let's

553
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: say you're two most young talented players on your offense,

554
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: or Miles Sanders and Jalen reagor, Well, they're looking at

555
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and they don't know that much, right, They've

556
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: only been around Miles for two years and Jalen his

557
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: first year. And looking at Carson and Jalen like they're

558
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: new to this. They're green. They don't understand captain implications

559
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: and dead cap. Yet they're going, this guy's just better

560
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: than the other guy. How is Carson Wentz ever gonna

561
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: win their trust back. It's gonna be very difficult because

562
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: they're having success with this other guy. That to me

563
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: is a big picture problem that the Eagles. They'll have

564
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: to figure it out later. They had to do this

565
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: and they have to keep starting him. But Carson Wentz

566
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: like it. It's gonna be difficult for him to win

567
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: everyone's trust back, and it doesn't financially pencil for them

568
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: to get rid of them. So to me, they're just

569
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: gonna have to go in this offseason with the situation

570
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: of like an open competition, which every other player at

571
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: every other position would tell you, Yeah, that's welcome to football.

572
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: If I'm not good enough at a right guard, I

573
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: get benched. If I'm not a good enough corner, I

574
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: get benched. If I'm not a good enough linebacker, I

575
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: get benched. Football is one of the rare positions where

576
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: you just write it out and you go down with

577
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: the ship with a quarterback. And the Eagles tried with wins,

578
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: but he was so got awful they had to make

579
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: a move. And now it looks like he's bitching and

580
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: complaining that he doesn't want to be a backup. Yeah, Carson,

581
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: you getting paid a lot of money. No one really

582
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: cares because no one feels sympathy for you because you're not.

583
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: You didn't get screwed in this situation. You played your

584
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: way into this. You create did this. We've all been

585
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,479
Speaker 1: in trouble growing up, and there are times when like

586
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: you're screaming at your mom or your dad, like I

587
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: didn't do this, and you're actually telling the truth, which

588
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: for me was a very small percentage. And then there

589
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: are those times where you're you're mad, but you actually

590
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: you were the one that got in trouble at school.

591
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 1: You were the one that talked back to the teacher.

592
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: You were the one that you know, got into a fight,

593
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: whatever that got you grounded, Like you created the situation.

594
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has nobody to blame and no one to

595
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: be angry about about his current lot in life then himself.

596
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: And when you're that rich and when you make that

597
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: much money in a league that doesn't give out that

598
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: many guaranteed dollars, no one wants to hear a pete

599
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: from you. One of the best stories of the weekend,

600
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: probably might be the best story of the weekend is

601
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills finally winning the a f C East.

602
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: They clinched it. They get home in a game that

603
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: I didn't even know was going playing Denver, get Home

604
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: late in buff flow show up, Bill's Mafia out and

605
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: about just crazy. It was really cool and my first

606
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: year in Philadelphia, Sean McDermott was the defensive coordinator. He

607
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: was a very very impressive guy, very very serious. Uh.

608
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: He ended up getting fired that year and we won.

609
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: We lost the first round of the playoffs to the Packers,

610
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: who ended up winning the the Super Bowl. He ends

611
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: up going to Ron Rivera becoming the defensive coordinator there,

612
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: with Luke Kickley and all those good and Thomas Davis

613
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: and good defenses, they have one of the better teams

614
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 1: in the league for a four or five year period.

615
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: Ends up becoming the coach of the Buffalo Bills. When

616
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: he first got there with Brandon Bean, I don't know

617
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: if I saw it, like they started training Sammy Watkins,

618
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: they traded their good players. I was like, what's he doing.

619
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: They had a plan and they had a vision. And Sean,

620
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: because of his time with Andy Reid, because of his

621
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: time with Ron Rivera, knew what he was doing. He

622
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: was prepared to be an NFL head coach. A lot

623
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: of guys in the NFL are not prepared when they

624
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,240
Speaker 1: get their opportunity. It's why so many of them failed.

625
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: But he spent a decade with Andy and Jim Johnson.

626
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: Then he spent time with Ron Rivera building it from

627
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: scratch and had success in both places, right him and

628
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: him and Brandon Bean, who has turned out to be

629
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: a really good general manager. They value talent, but they

630
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: value character, They value the right fit in the building.

631
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: The craziest thing they have done, though, and the ballsiest

632
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,959
Speaker 1: thing and the most important thing, was drafting Josh Allen

633
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 1: at number seven, and people like me I thought it

634
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: was insane. But the biggest reason they are where they're

635
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: at right now, winning the or the a f C

636
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: East and looking like they're gonna be a power for

637
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: the next decade is because of Josh Allen. Here's what

638
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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott told me at the combine about this team

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Speaker 1: coming into the season. Yeah, well, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: that's the important piece that you did you ended with

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Speaker 1: there is is taking the next step and really, you know,

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00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: you start every year oh and oh and so, um,

643
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: we're not just gonna start with ten wins like we

644
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: did last year and have to add a couple. You

645
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: gotta start and flush last year and start a new

646
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: and um. Having said that, though, you know, our biggest competition,

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Speaker 1: with all due respect to everyone out there, is we

648
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Speaker 1: got to compete with ourselves first, and that comes back

649
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: to our standard of performance and and how we do things.

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Speaker 1: And the bar that we sent for ourselves is that

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00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: the division. So here's a reality and he says all

652
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: the right things. He's an impressive guy. Their biggest obstacle,

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Speaker 1: especially once and at the time I was talking about

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Speaker 1: the combine, Tom Brady hadn't officially left. Their biggest, you know,

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Speaker 1: point of emphasis was themselves because if they took the

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Speaker 1: next step with Brady gone, it was their division to win.

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Speaker 1: And he can't say this, but the reality was if

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen took a step and he did, it was

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Speaker 1: a rap. And here's one thing I've learned, because you

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Speaker 1: get two points in life where you have philosophies, and

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Speaker 1: if you talk about football for a living or if

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00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: you scout for a living. One philosophy many people have

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00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: always had is if you're not accurate in college, you're

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Speaker 1: not accurate in high school, you will not be accurate

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Speaker 1: in the pros. I think that's changed because I don't

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00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: think it's ever been easier to play quarterback. They can't

667
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: hit you, they can't hit wide receivers. You have guys

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00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: open offenses now are tailored to quarterbacks. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a misconception, and it's just it's a point that always

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00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: ran true that I don't know if it's any longer

671
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: true now. That doesn't mean that every guy that is

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Speaker 1: inaccurate once they get to the pros can become accurate

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Speaker 1: because Josh Allen is a high character guy. He's a

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Speaker 1: hard worker. He maximizes his talent, and his raw talent

675
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: is elite. His size, his athleticism and his arm plus

676
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: plus his arms like a double plus. He's the only

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Speaker 1: guy under thirty that you could even compare physically to Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: But because of two thousand twenty in the ability to

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Speaker 1: improve rapidly at quarterback, he has and he has become

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Speaker 1: a star. He'll be a Pro bowler this year, and

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Speaker 1: he looks like he has the opportunity to be a

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00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: pro bowler for a long time. The organization, though, was equipped.

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Speaker 1: They had a good defense, they had pieces on offense.

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00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: They knew they needed a wide receiver. What did they do?

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Speaker 1: They traded pick twenty two for Digs. Well, Where's Dicks

686
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: leads the league in targets right now, second in the

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00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: league behind Keenan Allen, and catches with three, second in

688
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: the league behind Keenan Allen in yards and he has

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns. So they got Josh Allen, they knew his deficiencies,

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Speaker 1: they got him help. They add Cole Beasley, who's one

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Speaker 1: of the best slot receivers in the league. So part

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Speaker 1: of being a good organization you have to have a

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Speaker 1: good coach. You cannot win consistently in the NFL without

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Speaker 1: a good coach. The Bills now are going to the

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Speaker 1: playoffs for the third time in four years, but I'd

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Speaker 1: say the previous definitely the one four years ago. Little

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00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: Flukey remember when Andy Dalton beat the Ravens I think

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00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: it was last year, not Flukey legit wild card, but

699
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: couldn't win the division because they couldn't beat the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: This year earned it. Elite quarterback who they have drafted,

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Speaker 1: they have developed, they have built around. They have a

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Speaker 1: coach whose big time. They have a general manager who's

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Speaker 1: you know, he knows what he's doing. They're basically all

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Speaker 1: in a line, the coach, the quarterback, and the general

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Speaker 1: manager and everything falls around. Because if you watch the

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Speaker 1: Bills this year, their defense isn't as good as it

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Speaker 1: has been the last couple of years. You know what,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't fucking matter because if I have my homes,

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Speaker 1: if I have a Josh Allen, if I have a

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, if I have an Aaron Rodgers, my defense

711
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Speaker 1: doesn't need to be the eight five Bears. You know why,

712
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: because every time I step on the field, my quarterback,

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Speaker 1: unless I'm playing one of those other three or four guys,

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Speaker 1: is gonna be better than the quarterback on the other

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Speaker 1: field on the the side of the field. And we

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Speaker 1: talked about quarterbacks the most important position in all of

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00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: pro sports by a country mile. So if you have

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Speaker 1: that guy and he is legit, you got a chance

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Speaker 1: to win big. And it all goes back to several

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Speaker 1: years ago when it was clear the Bills like Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen is the best quarterback in that draft, and people

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Speaker 1: like me thought they were nuts, But now they look

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Speaker 1: like fucking geniuses because he's a star. And I treated it,

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Speaker 1: tweeted it this weekend. I think he will be the

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Speaker 1: only quarterback of that class that gets extended this offseason,

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Speaker 1: and you'll get like a hundred thirty forty million dollars guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: I think Lamar Jackson, even Baker Mayfield, they're probably they're

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Speaker 1: obviously Lamar is gonna get his fifth year option extended

729
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Speaker 1: or picked up. I don't know if they extend Lamar

730
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Speaker 1: Jackson yet. I think you just gotta learn a little

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Speaker 1: bit more. Can I win with you passing in the

732
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Speaker 1: league like I'm just in no rush to pay them

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Speaker 1: and Baker like he's shutting me up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think he gets extended this offseason for

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Speaker 1: a hundred plus million dollars. But at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: I was probably wrong. They're gonna pick up his at

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Speaker 1: your option. Josh Allen's getting extended. Josh Allen is there.

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly and Sean McDermott clearly got extended the same

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Speaker 1: with being this this season, Like those guys are going nowhere.

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00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: They have a nucleus to be a really, really to

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Speaker 1: be a powerhouse franchise, because when you have a coach

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Speaker 1: and you have a star quarterback, you can build around

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Speaker 1: the rest. Like that's that's the hard part, the heart,

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00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: the heart. The easy parts finding a right tackle, finding

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00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: a corner, finding a running back. I could do that.

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Speaker 1: The hard part is picking a legit head coach and

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Speaker 1: picking a star quarterback. That that's the most difficult thing

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00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: to do in the National Football League, and the Bills

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Speaker 1: have it both. One theory I've developed this season with

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00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: fanless games, and I've I've said from the beginning, and

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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: I think most of us know this football because it's

752
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: a violent game like boxing or UFC. Even if you're

753
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: not that excited to play a game, the moment you

754
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: get hit, you're gonna get woken up. Have you ever

755
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: been like wrestling when you were younger? How some of

756
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: you might do it when you're older with your little

757
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: brother with a friend and you're kind of horsing around

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00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you get like an elbow

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00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 1: to the tooth, or you get like clocked in the stomach,

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00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: and it pisces you off, and then you start fighting

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00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: back like it's just human nature. If you're not really

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00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: into it, and then I slap you, you might slap

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00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: me back, like you're gonna get kind of aggravated. You're

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00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: gonna get woken up. And football is like that. So

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00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: even if you walk into a place and I think

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00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: it happens a lot in football practice where you're not

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00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: that into it, well, the moment you get into three

768
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: point stance, you hit the guy across froom, you have

769
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: to tackle someone. You don't have a choice, right if

770
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: I if in basketball it's easy for me just to

771
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: float up and down the court. In baseball, I can

772
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Speaker 1: just be there in right field and strike out whatever.

773
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: And football, if if I'm playing linebacker, I'm playing wide receiver.

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00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: If I'm not careful, I will get lit up and

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00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: in the end, NFL at that level, given what's on

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00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: the line, even if you're not totally into it, the

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00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: intimidation factor in the focus it takes to get ready

778
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: for the opponent is just why I thinks start to finish,

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00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: we've consistently seen a good product the NFL. This year

780
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: has looked like the NFL. Whether there have been games

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00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: with fans or no fans, you get full effort from

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00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: everybody for the most part. Maybe late in games you do.

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00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: But one theory though, that I feel pretty confident saying,

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00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: is second half of blowout games you gotta throw out

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00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: the window a little bit. Because the Packer game on

786
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: Saturday night, they're up to three and the Panthers look

787
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: terrible and Green Bay is kicking their ass. Will you

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00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: come out of the locker room you're up one to

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00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: three with a team that has against a team that

790
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: has four wins. We're dealing with humans here. This is

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00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: not Ford Motor Company. We're not dealing with trucks. We're

792
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: not dealing with This is an Apple and deal with

793
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: iPhones and Max. These aren't products. These are human beings.

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Speaker 1: You're up three, it's cold outside. You look across and

795
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: you go the Panthers suck. They're going to be drafting

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00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: in the top five or six. I know it, talking

797
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: into a mic, Aaron Rodgers knows it. Sitting on the bench,

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Speaker 1: Za Darius, they all know it. Panthers fan know it,

799
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: we know it. It's just a fact. So the second half,

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Speaker 1: when there are no fans in Lambeau, I think some

801
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: of these home teams that are good. When you have

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00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: a lead in the second half, it's hard to stay

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Speaker 1: locked and loaded because it's not like you have a

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Speaker 1: fan for a pick me up. Part of being young

805
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: and being able to do your homework. You don't really

806
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: want to do your homework, and you might not do

807
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: your homework if you didn't have a mom, a dad,

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00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: a brother, a guardian whoever telling you every day, go

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Speaker 1: in your room and do your homework right. Part of

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00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: fans in a home game is just to pick me up. Hey,

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00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: let's go defense, just crazy chance, it's invigorating. Hell, you

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Speaker 1: go to a high school game, if there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people there, you feel a buzz. Let alone, college

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00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: or the pros places rocking. Well, who do you think

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00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: feeds off the place rocking the most? The entertainment, the players,

816
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: the coaches, but definitely the players who actually have to

817
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: physically exert stuff. So when I'm watching the Packer game

818
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: and I think this works all across the league, I

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00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: think it's hard to stay super focused in second half. Now,

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Speaker 1: I give them credit, they came short week ready to

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Speaker 1: kick ass up three easy. It was like, no problem.

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00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: I don't judge them off the second half. It's why,

823
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: like everyone's talking about the Chiefs. You know the Chiefs

824
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: can't close out Like I don't know. I think these

825
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: games are really hard with no fans to stay super

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Speaker 1: locked in and focused when you're as good as the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are. I think that the fans were there would

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Speaker 1: be a double whammy at home, that place would be

829
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 1: going to narrowhead. On the road. They'd be hated because

830
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: it's like you're playing the champs. It's easy to get

831
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: up in both those situations, one when people are cheering

832
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: for you and two when people are screaming f you.

833
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: They don't have either of that, so they just kind

834
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: of get to go through the motions sometimes. And I know,

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00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: I think they have fans at home, but it's like

836
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,879
Speaker 1: not that many. There's a big difference when there's eighty

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Speaker 1: thou people are all wearing red or going into New Orleans,

838
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: New Orleans, excuse me, and there. To me, the Chiefs

839
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: were clearly the better team, but they lose focus. Just

840
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: I saw him going to Miami. They're up thirty to ten.

841
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: So when you watch these games, and I mean we're

842
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 1: almost done with the regular season, that won't be the

843
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: case in the playoffs. But in the regular season, like

844
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Speaker 1: some of these final scores are not indicative of the

845
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: game we saw, Like the Packer game ended up being close.

846
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was not close. The Packers are on

847
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: their worst day, are way better than the Carolina Panthers,

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00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: and they showed it for a half three boop easy,

849
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: so the game is close to whatever. Like to me,

850
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: the fans, they impact football, they impact sports. I've been

851
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: a playoff baseball games have been a playoff basketball games.

852
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: There's a reason, Like when you watch college basketball at

853
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: the Cameron Crazies, I mean, these people are going nuts.

854
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: Or in college football l s U at Night or

855
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: some of these sec places, or the Horseshoe or Michigan

856
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: or Wisconsin. It matters. It makes an environment, it creates,

857
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: It adds some urgency and fire to the players, and

858
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: without them, it's just not quite the same and it

859
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: impacts the product. Okay, let's fly around the weekend with

860
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: just some things that we saw on Saturday and Sunday.

861
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: First and foremost, starting with college football, I do not

862
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: care did Ohio State or Notre Dame got in this

863
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: year in two thousand twenty two, obviously the games that

864
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: are played on New Year's and then it's irrelevant. Neither

865
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Notre Dame, A and M, none of these

866
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: teams in the country. Do you know what we should do?

867
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: Take Alabama and Clemson, who are in a different stratosphere

868
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: of this season than everyone else, and have them play

869
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: a best of three. If you want to have a

870
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: final four, go Ohio State, Take you know, Cincinnati, Notre Dame,

871
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: and A and M. Because Alabama and Clemson have nothing

872
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: in common with those schools, including Ohio State and even

873
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: Ohio State fans know your team is not as good

874
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: this year they have been in the past, and they

875
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: probably are moving forward. Here's the one thing though about

876
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State. If Urban was there, I would feel complete confidence.

877
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: Like Brian Day, like, let's see he's winning with you know,

878
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: he's winning with Urban's guys. It's like Dan Mullen. I

879
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: think Dan mullins a stud as a scout, text me, like,

880
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: he's winning with Jim mcawayen's guys, Trask, Tony Pitts mcaway's guys. Right,

881
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: you know what, Saban and Dabble are winning with their guys,

882
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 1: their program. We'll see. I I think Ryan Day, everyone

883
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: I know likes him, but we'll see. Time will tell,

884
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: Like Kirby's had some moments like it's harder to do

885
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: it consistently on your own, Like it was like, okay,

886
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: let's see what Lincoln Riley taking over from Bob Stoops

887
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: in the first year was like, Okay, his guy, his guy.

888
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: Now it's like his guy. You know what Lincoln Riley does,

889
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: he's good, he's really good. But Alabama Clemson, like that's

890
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: the national championship. I would I would maybe lean Clemson,

891
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: but just because I'm giving them the quarterback edge. But

892
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: Alabama is really good. You know, if they had Jalen Waddle,

893
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,360
Speaker 1: they probably might pick but I don't know. To me,

894
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: it's probably a coin flip game. Alabamas like a one

895
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: point favorite against Notre Dame. The line Ohio State Clemson

896
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: is I think eight seven and a half and eight

897
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: and a half like to me, that line should be

898
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: fifteen points. Clemson is dramatically better than Ohio State. Even

899
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: Ohio State would admit that he's just Alabama. Clemson are

900
00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: a different level this year. The FC wild are for

901
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. You know, I know a lot

902
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: of Raider fans, and they thought they were in the

903
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: They thought they were in the playoff mix, and could

904
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: they get to ten wins? It turns out they're not

905
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: even gonna get to ten wins. But in the a

906
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: f C, all the all the wild card teams are

907
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: gonna have eleven wins. Whoever doesn't win the a f

908
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: C South. Do you know what the Tennessee and the

909
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 1: Colts are. They're really good. Both of those two teams

910
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: could win twelve games, but I think both probably end

911
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: up at eleven. The Ravens, their schedule is a joke.

912
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna end up at eleven. The Browns are at

913
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: ten and they get to play the Jets. They're gonna

914
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: get to eleven, and there's your there's your wild card

915
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: right there. Like the three wild card teams in the

916
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: a f C are gonna all have eleven wins. That's

917
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: really impressive. The a f C this year is deeper

918
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: with good teams to me than the NFC. Like the NFC,

919
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: right now, the Bears are still alive. I don't sleep

920
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: on Trabisky, which is really bizarre. Let's talk about that.

921
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: Everyone's like fire Matt Naggie, Well, like, if he just

922
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: has a good decent quarterback, he can function and he'll win.

923
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: Will they bring Mitch back? Who, like, no one can

924
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: blame them for Benja Mitch Trabisky was terrible. Now He's

925
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,879
Speaker 1: played like three or four of the best games I've

926
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: seen him play ever. Last week again, he was really

927
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: good against Minnesota. He did have a bone headed pick,

928
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: but when he plays better, the defense has more urgency.

929
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: David Montgomery's running well. They basically just need to win out,

930
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: which is gonna be hard. Because they gotta be green

931
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: Bay week seventeen. But who knows, maybe green Bay has

932
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: the one seed locked up and they're gonna need the

933
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: Rams to beat the Cardinals Week seventeen. Who watching the

934
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: Cardinals against the Eagles, Like, I don't know. I'm a

935
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: big Kyler Murray fan, but he hasn't really looked the

936
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: same in the second half of the year, And I

937
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: think part of that is the guy falling on him.

938
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: As someone a scout texted me, he's like, gotta hate

939
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: his body language. He's always like yawning on the sideline.

940
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: It is a little weird. He's not you know, you

941
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: watch my homes He's pretty into it. Like the guy

942
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: looks like he's ready for a nap on the sideline.

943
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: I like his talent, but I don't know. That team's

944
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: bizarre right now. The Rams, I don't even know how

945
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: you lose that game. I know how you find yourself

946
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: down in the game, right Like I said, these are

947
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: human beings. The Packers when they see the Carolina Panthers,

948
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: they know they're better the Rams all week long, Like

949
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 1: they understand they're better than the Jets, And I understand

950
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: falling down seven nothing or ten nothing, But you can't

951
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: lose that game. It's like that to me, like Jared Goff,

952
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: you're the highest one of the highest paid players in

953
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: the league, like you should be able to throw three

954
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: or four touchdowns on them with ease. This is awful

955
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: for McVeigh and Gough. It doesn't get any worse. You

956
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: cannot lose that game. Now, technically they still control their

957
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: own destiny to win the division. They play Seattle this

958
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: week and then, like I said, they played the Arizona

959
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 1: but man, what a terrible loss. The Dolphins just at

960
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: nine wins right now is really impressive. Hat tipped to

961
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: the Dolphins this year. I never in a million years

962
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: thought they would be this good. It's crazy, and they're

963
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: not like it's not the prettiest operation. But if they

964
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 1: get to ten wins and probably missed the playoffs, that

965
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 1: is a fantastic coaching job by Brian Flores. He has

966
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: a legitimate operation. I mean every week is kind of ugly,

967
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: but it but it works. The Jacks general manager job,

968
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: I know Albert Brier wrote this texting with people in

969
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: the league. They were all saying this, it by far

970
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: is the best job in the league. Now. My pushback is.

971
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: It's also the most irrelevant job in the league. And

972
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: part of being the general manager for you know, the Jets,

973
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: the Eagles, the the Vikings, the Niners, right, the Falcons

974
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: like you have big fan basis. The Saints like you

975
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: matter to a lot of people. It's a big time deal.

976
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars, they're probably five teams in like a

977
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: sixty mile adios that are more important. They're all college

978
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: football like that. There is not the least important team

979
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,919
Speaker 1: in the NFL than the Jaguars, not even close. It's

980
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: not it's not even a competition. Now. They have a

981
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: roster that probably gonna have the number one overall pick.

982
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: They have a ton of cap space, they have a

983
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: ton of picks. And if they let you fire the

984
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: coach and hire your own guy, it's a fantastic job.

985
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: And the owner has a lot of cash. But as

986
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: I talked about last week, for whatever reason, something is

987
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: toxic with this owner. His teams in Europe and soccer

988
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: all lose and get relegated. His teams with the Jags

989
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: always suck. They're just terrible, and they have good players.

990
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: I get that that organization red flag, but just in

991
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: terms of what the job is on paper, beside the

992
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: amount of fans. Like part of pressure is a pressure

993
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: is a privilege. Being the general manager of the New

994
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,280
Speaker 1: York Yankees, of the New York Giants, of the Philadelphia Eagles,

995
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 1: of the l A Dodgers, of the l A Lakers,

996
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: it's a big fucking deal. I mean it matters to

997
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: a lot of Being the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

998
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: It's a big deal, right, Being the coach of Ohio

999
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: State football, Alabama football. There's a reason everyone wants those

1000
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: jobs because it matters, and people want to be where

1001
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: stuff matters. Right, I just don't I look at the

1002
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: Jackson going doesn't. In the NFL, I'd say most jobs matter, right,

1003
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: whether you're the head coach of the Rams or you're

1004
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: the coach of the Patriots, Like it's a big deal

1005
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: coach of the Jags, Like, I just I don't really

1006
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: see it. But what I do see. If you are

1007
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: a future GM candidate, you go, they got a good

1008
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: chance to win. I got I get Trevor Lawrence, I

1009
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: get a bunch of other picks, I got cap space, already,

1010
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: got some talent on the roster. Get to pick my

1011
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: coach The other story I saw today is Marty Hernie

1012
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: has been fired by the Carolina Panthers and Temper said

1013
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: that he wants to align Matt Rule with his next

1014
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: general manager. News for you, that's bullshit. The only way

1015
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: to align a coaching general manager hire them at the

1016
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: same time. You don't get to align, like when John

1017
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: Gruden hires Mike Mayock a year after he's already been there,

1018
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: that they're not aligned. That's not how it works. You're

1019
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: aligned when you hire, when you come in together, like

1020
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: when Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, they were a package deal.

1021
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and John Sneider package deal. That's how that's aligned.

1022
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: You're basically admitting that Matt Rule who's gonna help hire

1023
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: the general manager. And I think Matt Rule is a

1024
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: really impressive guy. I think he's a good coach. I'd

1025
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: want him to be if I was an owner, I'd

1026
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: want the guy on my team. But when he's in

1027
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: charge of hiring a general manager, he's the boss. That

1028
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: guy answers to him. So just let's just admit it.

1029
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,959
Speaker 1: You're not really looking to Aligne. You're just giving Rule

1030
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: the juice, and that general manager is gonna answer the Rule,

1031
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: because what has Rule been doing in college picking all

1032
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: the fucking players Marty Herny's not bad, actually he's actually

1033
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: picked a lot of good players. But there's gonna be

1034
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure now on Matt Rule, Like, if

1035
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: he's smart, he should really try to just hire the

1036
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: best general manager possible and give that guy a lot

1037
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: of power because it makes your job so much easier

1038
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: as a head coach. Like part of Sean Payton and

1039
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and Mike Zimmer what makes their jobs easier

1040
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: is Spielman, Loomis, Beach Schneider with Pete like, it helps

1041
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:29,919
Speaker 1: when you have a guy that you can just have

1042
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: handle all that stuff. If you try to do it

1043
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: all in in the NFL, it's just too difficult. You

1044
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: spend too much time in the season focused on football.

1045
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: The NFL football where in college you recruit during the season.

1046
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: Matt rules not watching college tape during the season. He's

1047
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: focused on the season, developing players, developing his coaches. That's

1048
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: where the general manager in the scouting department comes in.

1049
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: They're watching college guy six five. So then when the

1050
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: season ends, everyone gets caught up to spe eat. So

1051
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: I just not everyone's Belichick. He's not liar, and we've

1052
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: even seen like Belichick's I love the guy as a coach,

1053
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally. He's not the best general manager.

1054
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 1: He's just not you know, he's missing a lot of players.

1055
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: He probably would have benefited if he'd have someone to

1056
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: listen to. Baker Mayfield's playing really well right now. Credit

1057
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Speaker 1: to Kevin Stefanski, who has been awesome. But Baker Mayfield

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00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: these last four games, touchdowns, one pick, and if he's

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00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna play well, the Browns are gonna be good because

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00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: they have a good run game and they have a

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00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: good pass rush. Their defense a little suspect, but their

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00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: their offense is really good and their pass rush is good.

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00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: So you give me Baker Mayfield this version of what

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00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: we've seen this last month that they got a chance to.

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00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: You know, it wouldn't be crazy to see them win

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00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: a playoff game. He's gonna play like this, like they're

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Speaker 1: gonna compete in the playoffs to win a game. Okay,

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00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: let's do a little middle Coff mail bag. You guys

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00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: know the drill at John Middlecoff Direct messages open. You

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00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: come in there, you ask a question. That's how we Uh,

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00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: do some two thousand twenties interacting. Back in the day,

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00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: they used to take calls, they used to take emails.

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00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: You know, when I was in radio, we had a

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00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: text line. Now we do Instagram, d M s. Uh.

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00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: You just gotta go with the times. You know. Can

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00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz waive his current contract if he wants to

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00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: so he can make it easier on a team trading

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00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: for him and get his way to a different team.

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00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 1: Is there any way that Philly doesn't have to wear

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00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: dead cap space next year? The answer is no, because

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00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: dead cap space. And I'm not a capologist. I've just

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00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: been explained to this by people that are. When I

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00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: give you a hundred ten million dollar guaranteed, basically I

1084
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: have to put all the guaranteed money into escrow and

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00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: you get that money in a very short period of time,

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00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: right within twelve the eighteen months, depending on how the contract,

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00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: but you get the majority. Remember Aaron Rodgers when he

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01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: signed his contract, got like eighty million dollars and eight months.

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: It's you know, like Steph Curry signs two million dollars,

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01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: he has forty million dollars a year, and football it

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Speaker 1: works a little differently than that. Well, part of that.

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01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 1: If I give Carson Wentz basically a hundred million dollars

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01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: over uh twenty four months or eighteen months or whatever

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01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: it is, the contract actually hasn't started yet. He's on

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01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: his fifth year option right now. That it was a

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01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: contract extension, So you amortize that for all my accountants

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01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: and auditors, right, You then amortize that and put it

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01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: on the books over a period of time. So that's

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01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: where the dead cap is the dead cap because it's

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Speaker 1: based on money that's already been paid. And again, if

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Speaker 1: I had a Howie or a Parogue, they could probably

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Speaker 1: explain this a little better. But that's kind of the

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01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: gist of it. I remember hearing when matt Ryan signed

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Speaker 1: his hundred million dollar contract. The craziest part about that is,

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01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: like you have a hundred million dollars on you, you

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01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: have to have it on you in cash within two weeks,

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01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: as the team Arthur Blank did, and then they, you know,

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01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: give it to Mattie Ice over a short period of time.

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Speaker 1: It's these kind of archaic escrow rules that were built

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01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: in back in like the seventies and eighties, when the

1111
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: monopoly money didn't exist and teams not every team had cash,

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01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: so it was basically away for the union, the players union.

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01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: That is the way that it has been explained to

1114
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: me to kind of cover their ass, like you're gonna

1115
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: sign these contracts. Like imagine, we've all done deals, have

1116
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: not been paid for contracts, or at least I have

1117
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: right throughout my business life. Because you you do a

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01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: deal with someone, you think you're gonna get let's say

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars, and then you only get thirty dollars for

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01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the deal goes bad. Maybe you get half,

1121
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: maybe you get none, and sometimes there's no money there,

1122
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: and that happens. It's why a wise man once taught me,

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01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,919
Speaker 1: don't ever waste your time suing a broke person because

1124
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 1: there ain't any money to be had. So when you

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01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: do a business deal with companies or individuals don't have

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01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: any money, good luck trying to get that money from

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01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: them if they don't have any cash. Right, It's why

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Speaker 1: so many big time corporations are always getting sued. And

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01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: that's shady, but I mean people are going after the money.

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Speaker 1: You don't see, like no one's suing John Middlcoff, Like

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01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: what but if I tomorrow announced that I had twenty

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01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 1: million dollars. Who knows, you know, people start knocking on

1133
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,479
Speaker 1: my door want some cash, You never know. Uh, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so, that's the gist of it. So the short

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Speaker 1: answer is no, just wondering if you see the Texans

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01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: ever getting back to the playoffs in the next few years.

1137
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: That division, with the Colts defense, the Titans dominating, and

1138
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: the Jags possibly getting Trevor Lawrence looks stacked too. Do

1139
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: you think Watson can make a comeback next year? Because

1140
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 1: the division and overall schedule this year was brutal and

1141
01:02:58,600 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: I see it getting harder. It's gonna be difficult. They

1142
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: don't have picks, right. They don't have a first round

1143
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: pick because they got rid of or they traded for

1144
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunzil. They don't have DeAndre Hopkins, they have pretty

1145
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: average wide receivers, their defense stinks. They don't have a coach. Uh.

1146
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: They do have a really good quarterback. But like you said,

1147
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: the culture built the kick ass right now, so are

1148
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Jags are gonna be on the

1149
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: come if they get a good coach in the GM.

1150
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: Gonna be difficult, man, It's got a little bit Stafford

1151
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:35,240
Speaker 1: Lions you know, eight nine years ago, feel to it,

1152
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: except they never traded Calvin Johnson like they traded DeAndre Hopkins,

1153
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: so it's doesn't quite parallel each other. I feel bad

1154
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: for him. I'm hearing everyone talking about the Jets and

1155
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: not having the first pick of the draft, but on

1156
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: the NFL website they're dead last in the rankings. So

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01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: how why is Jacksonville getting all the tension? Is it

1158
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: in relation with the strength of their schedule on the

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01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: teams they've want to get us. That's what's weird. Like

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01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: when you have teams tied for example, like right now

1161
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of five and nine teams, it's

1162
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: based on strength of schedule. Same thing with the Jags

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01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: and the Jets. So it's it's never based on head

1164
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: to head it's based on because it shouldn't be. It

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01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: should be based on the culmination of the entire season.

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Speaker 1: So right now, and talking to someone with the Jets

1167
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: last week, he's like, if we finished with the same

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Speaker 1: record as the Jags, we are screwed. And that is true.

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Speaker 1: So it's not the Jets statistically are worse than the Jags.

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01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: The eye tests, they've been worse than the Jags, but

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Speaker 1: if they end up with the same record, you know

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01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: what's crazy is I would say if we did a

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01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: study of the last thirty years, it feels like most

1174
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: teams the draft number one overall have two or three wins.

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01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: If you have one win, you're usually a lock for

1176
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:58,920
Speaker 1: the top pick one win. I mean, think about this.

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01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: They were they had no wins up until December, and

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01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: the Jags are right at their heels. So I mean,

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01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: it just shows you how just two terrible teams this

1180
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: year kind of bad luck for the Jets to just

1181
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: be that shitty in a year when the Jacks stunk too.

1182
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: With Josh Gordon activation for the Hawks, how much do

1183
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: you think they could get if they shop lock It

1184
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: in the off season. The situation that I'm picturing is

1185
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: Gordon becomes as we're more productive is Locket. But Lockett

1186
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: will have more robust market than Gordon. Given the the

1187
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 1: history in the league, you don't really need three high

1188
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: productive wide receivers when you have a wizard at quarterback,

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 1: So why not shop lock It and see if you

1190
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: can patch up the defense or pick up some good

1191
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: draft picks after a playoff season. I love Tyler Lockett

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01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: and I totally get what you're saying. My issue is, like,

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01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 1: you can't. There's no depending on Josh Gordon. So I'm

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01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: okay with shopping Tyler Lockett, thinking you could maybe signed

1195
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 1: some other solid wide receiver DCS your star. You got

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01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: some tight ends. But to me, depending on Josh Gordon

1197
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: is not an option like history is in He's not

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01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: a dependable individual. And listen, some people just aren't. He's talented,

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01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: but like I, I just you can't depend on them.

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01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: I think it's really that simple. Now that New York

1201
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: looked like they missed out on Trevor Lawrence and people

1202
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: are saying that, people are saying there is a massive

1203
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: talent gap between Trevor and Justin. Would New York consider

1204
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: keeping Sam Donald and hoping that a new coach can

1205
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: turn them around, maybe trade back and get more players,

1206
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: almost choosing Sam over Justin Fields. Yeah, I mean I

1207
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier, right, I think that is the

1208
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 1: entire evaluation right now? Is Sam Donald better than all

1209
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: these other Cats? And I think that would probably change

1210
01:06:54,280 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: from team to team depending on who you asked. But yeah,

1211
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I I think it's kind of a complicated situation.

1212
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: And I think it's a situation that they had to

1213
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: be bracing for a little bit. It had to be

1214
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: in the back of their minds. But I think today

1215
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of official that you know that they have

1216
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: to start valuing him on their draft board. And and

1217
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, it's complicated because of money. Part

1218
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: of getting rookie contracts is they're under contract for four

1219
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: years with a fifth year option. They're cheap. Sam Donald's

1220
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: going into his fourth year next year. That means you

1221
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: gotta pick up a fifth year option. That means his

1222
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: money starts going up. It's it is a complicated situation.

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Speaker 1: If I had to guess right now, sitting here in

1224
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,120
Speaker 1: December one, I don't even know who their coaches, So

1225
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a this is a big, big,

1226
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: educated guess. I'd say Sam Donald is back. But that's

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01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big guess. With the victory over the Rams,

1228
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: the Jets have all but sealed their fate as being

1229
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: the second pick in the draft, so it would look

1230
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: as though they're out of the running for Lawrence with

1231
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: Greg Williams already gone and Gaze, along with the rest

1232
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 1: of the coachings, have more than likely leaving after the season.

1233
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 1: Do you think the victory could have been a middle

1234
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 1: finger to the organization as they walk out the door.

1235
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: I just don't see how you go all year winless

1236
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: and have a number one pick locked up and you

1237
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: win an otherwise meaningless game to land Lawrence to the Jacks.

1238
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 1: Or could it be Sam Donald has a great relationship

1239
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: with the team and they tried to win in order

1240
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,879
Speaker 1: to keep them on the Jets just seems pretty suspect

1241
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: to me. Would love to hear your opinion. Well, like,

1242
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 1: there just isn't tanking in football, So the Jets were

1243
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: not trying to lose those games. They lost because they sucked.

1244
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think guys like Sam Donald, I think

1245
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: guys on that team. I mean, they've been playing hard

1246
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 1: the last month. Uh, and they easily could have three wins.

1247
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean they almost beat the Patriots on Monday Night,

1248
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: and they easily could have beat the Raiders. So they

1249
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: could be three and whatever, three and nine or three

1250
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: and ten right now. I guess it would be three

1251
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: in fourteen funk. I can't even do my math, you know,

1252
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: three and eleven whatever their record would be, But they

1253
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: could have three wins right now. Uh. Gaze has been

1254
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: trying to win every game Gaze has played in this season.

1255
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 1: He has done everything in his deep down to his

1256
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: core as a football coach, as a human being, as

1257
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: a worker to try to get the result of a win,

1258
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: and he just hasn't been able to because he's not

1259
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: very good. But it's not because of lack of effort.

1260
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: So to me, it really comes down to I don't

1261
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: know if it's necessarily an fu. It's just guys try

1262
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, coaches and players because a lot of

1263
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: those players and all the coaches are gonna be in

1264
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: different venues next year. So if you just stop trying, well,

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Speaker 1: what if no one else wants you? At least if

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Speaker 1: you keep trying, you get to kind of one. It's

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Speaker 1: just the character of a human. You should never give

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Speaker 1: up or quit, right. Most of us are taught that

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Speaker 1: as a young age. But as a professional. You know,

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Speaker 1: Adam Gates is making five million dollars same Donald was

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Speaker 1: a third pick in the draft. He is making a

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Speaker 1: lot of cash. Quent and Williams is drafted third in

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Speaker 1: the draft. He is making a lot of cash. They

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Speaker 1: got some of these guys are making a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore is a lot of pride, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's just it's just part of football, part of football culture.

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Speaker 1: You just don't really tap out until the game's over.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta give them credit, like they have really tried.

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Speaker 1: It just is also a reflection they're not any good.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening. If you leave an itune, Spotify, I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if they have reviews, but wherever possible,

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Speaker 1: leave a review and uh yeah, I'll see a little

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Speaker 1: earlier this week with a quick little pod and uh,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. S