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Speaker 1: and Out podcast, Back at it again, another just insane

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Speaker 1: football night. The football game wasn't really that crazy till

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Speaker 1: the end, but just enormous earth shattering college football news,

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Speaker 1: which we will jump into right off the top. Football

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Speaker 1: right now, the business of football college and pro is

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Speaker 1: like hedge funds is like Wall Street. I mean the

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Speaker 1: money getting thrown around right now. We'll talk about Lincoln

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Speaker 1: Riley's contract a little bit later. Brian Kelly fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars potentially a year to go to Louisiana State University

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Speaker 1: in Baton rouge. Um, don't know if I saw that

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Speaker 1: how fast it ended. Dive in a little bit there,

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, some thoughts on the Rams Packers, Uh, some

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Speaker 1: thoughts on Cliff Kingsbury in Oklahoma. Uh, just a lot

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Speaker 1: a lot of other football stuff, and then, of course

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Speaker 1: Just just produce a content because that's what we do

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Speaker 1: Big story of the night though, is Brian Kelly leaving.

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Speaker 1: And uh. If you've listened to me for a while,

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Speaker 1: you know my philosophical beliefs on regions matter and there

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Right Sean Payton. I don't have no clue

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Speaker 1: went to Romos School. I don't know. Pete Carroll's from

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Speaker 1: like Stockton, California. Coach in Seattle. This is the first

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Speaker 1: year he has been a disaster like it's been fine.

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Speaker 1: The pros do not matter in college football in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly can coach. He is legit. His resume speaks

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Speaker 1: I mean the ramp. That's a game that they think

427
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Speaker 1: they should win, especially coming off of bye. Aaron Rodgers

428
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 1: clearly at a different level. But to me, the number

429
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: one thing that stands out, and really the Packers. The

430
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: biggest difference between the La Floor Packers and the Mike

431
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 1: McCarthy Packers is a physical run game. And when you

432
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 1: have a physical run game, it permeates into your team

433
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 1: and you become a physical football team. And their team

434
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 1: is way more physical defensively as well because you practice

435
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: against it. A J. Dillon stud they can hand it

436
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: to him and he says, listen, we are going to

437
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 1: run it down your throat, and they did and A J.

438
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: Dillon truck Taylor rap on this one play. But he

439
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 1: adds an element of physicality which really works as the

440
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 1: season goes on. Cousin December, when you play for Green Bay,

441
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,679
Speaker 1: you play outside in the cold. You can't just sling

442
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 1: it around all game, even if you have one of

443
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterbacks in the history the league, and Aaron

444
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: Rodgers is the best player in the sport. Sometimes I

445
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: hear all these people talking like who's the m v P,

446
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: Who's the MPP. I would just give it to Rodgers,

447
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: and if I hear one more media person be like, well,

448
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,800
Speaker 1: he doesn't deserve it after his immunization comment, who do

449
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: you lie to the media, Like, I'm sorry, you guys

450
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: are at the gatekeepers anymore. Those days ended years ago.

451
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: You know, media landscapes changed. They're very bitter that they

452
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: don't get to set the tone for society ID anymore

453
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: like they used to back in the day. You know,

454
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: it's all changed. But the team knew, the league knew,

455
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 1: and all his teammates knew. The media just didn't know.

456
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, Like everyone that mattered, his teammates, his team,

457
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: and the league, they were all privy to the information

458
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: of where rogers vaccine status stood. But if I was

459
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: voting for the m v P and a lot of

460
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: people ask me, like Middlecoff, what are your votes, I

461
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: don't vote on this, so I don't even think that

462
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: much of it. But to me, he's been the best

463
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: player in the league for two years running. I said

464
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 1: it last week when he played the Vikings, it was

465
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: like they got thoroughly outplayed. But Rogers was just a

466
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: monster in that game, and he was the reason the

467
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: game was even close. He was just fantastic. So I

468
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: I think the Packers are They're banged up right now,

469
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: but if they can get healthy down the stretch, they're

470
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: gonna be tough man that they really are. And to

471
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: me right now, heading into the stretch, like, I think

472
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna win the m v P again. Now, the

473
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Speaker 1: media is not gonna be happy and they will not

474
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: want to vote for him, but they were again they

475
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: were the only people that didn't know. I guess. I

476
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: guess the fans too, but it's not a fan vote.

477
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cowboys and the game that they

478
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: lost on Thursday. I get the Raiders a lot of credit.

479
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: I thought they would fold. I thought they would get

480
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: their ass kick. Derek. You know, in front of thirty

481
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: eight million people, the most watch game in thirty years,

482
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: he probably had one of his better games as a pro,

483
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: especially factoring in Waller gets k owed. You know that

484
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs is out. He's basically doing it with Renfro

485
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,640
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Uh Deshaun, who has complete ownage over the Cowboys.

486
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: If Deshan played the Cowboys every week, you his career

487
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: will go down. It's like Randy Moster, Jerry Rice. But

488
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys had an opportunity this week and

489
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: they blew it, and the Jones family should have stepped in.

490
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: Is that McCarthy tested positive for COVID and he's not

491
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: gonna be able to coach. They play this Thursday night game, right,

492
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: because they played on Thursday Thanksgiving. But then they're just

493
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: playing this Thursday night game against the Saints, so really

494
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: both those teams working on a normal schedule. McCarthy's out,

495
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: and he named Dan Quinn the coach, Like, hey, Jerry,

496
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: I've seen Dan Queen coach. I've seen him be the

497
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: head coach. Why don't we give Kellen Moore a run.

498
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: We've seen these other teams have elite assistant coaches and

499
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: blown it by letting them walk out the door. Well,

500
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator who they're struggling a little bit right now,

501
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,239
Speaker 1: and dad's not playing great. And I said, I think

502
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: I said this last week. Whenever your quarterback is a

503
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: forty million dollar guy and he starts struggling, you're gonna

504
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: be in trouble. They need Dak to be, you know,

505
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: a fringe top five guy given the money they're paying him,

506
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: and he's been a little up and down. I don't

507
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: think he's been the same sinces injury, but I would

508
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: say this if I was Jerry Jones, I'd say I

509
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: want Kellen Moore to be the interim coach. Now, of

510
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: course McCarthy doesn't want to do that because that would

511
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure he would be insecure about the situation.

512
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: But in any other industry, right, I can just speak

513
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: to the industries I've been in. If I was sick

514
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: as a West Coast scout, I got sick and I

515
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 1: wasn't able to hit schools, they would send someone to

516
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: do those schools. If in radio, when I would take vacation,

517
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: they would put a fill in in those spots. A

518
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: lot of times it would be to see how good

519
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: the guy is in late night shows forever when the

520
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: guy would take and you see this on you know,

521
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: network television, when someone takes vacation, they use a fill in,

522
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: and a lot of times it's a younger, up and

523
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: coming person who maybe they think is not ready for

524
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: the job, but they get to see their opportunity get

525
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: some live reps. I flipped on It's Guilty Pleasure. This

526
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: Netflix show about like I think it's called Sunset Selling Sunset.

527
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: It's these just a bunch of babes just selling real

528
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: estate in like l A, led by this little guy

529
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: that owns this real estate company, a little bald rich guy.

530
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: It's just it's a terrible but pretty entertaining show. And

531
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: one of the ladies is having a baby, so she's

532
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: not able to do like her area in Malibu. And

533
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: the guy's like, I'm gonna hire this young up and

534
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: comer as a fill in until you're able to get back.

535
00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: And of course she doesn't want the lady to come

536
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: in in, but of course he is. He wants to see, hell,

537
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: maybe I can find the same employee at a cheaper rate.

538
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: Maybe I can find at paying the same amount of money.

539
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: Maybe she's better. You always want the opportunity to get

540
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,479
Speaker 1: a live rep. We do it with the players all

541
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: the time. When a guy gets sick, when a guy

542
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: gets injured, the next man up, Well, what happens every

543
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: once in a while, the next man up is better

544
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: than the other guy. And what happens when that happens.

545
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: You get wally pipped. Right If you find out, wow,

546
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: this guy is more talented, you are going to lose

547
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: Kellen more this offseason he's going to get a head

548
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: coaching job, so you might as well at least make

549
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: the decision. I understand Jerry's old school, he's older, he's

550
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: very loyal to his coaches. He probably likes Mike McCarthy.

551
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: But this was a fantastic opportunity. I've seen dan Quinn coach.

552
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: We've all seen it for the last you know, six

553
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: seven years Atlanta. We know exactly who dan Quinn is

554
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: the head coach. Why not been like, hey, Mike, you're out.

555
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna make the decision. Kellyn, You're gonna be the coordinator,

556
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: but you're also gonna be the head coach. Let's just

557
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: get a live rep. Just get a live look. Happen

558
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: once a time, Once upon a time, Dak right Tony

559
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: Romo hurts his back. Kellen Moore, I think broke his ankle.

560
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: Dak happened, And then I was like, oh my god,

561
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: you found your quarterback. Why not do the same thing

562
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: with a coach? Are you okay with losing Kellen Moore

563
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: of this offseason because you weren't last season when you

564
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: paid them all that money to keep him. So I

565
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: thought this was an opportunity. I completely understand why McCarthy

566
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: wanted Dan Quinn to be the head coach. But I

567
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,239
Speaker 1: thought this was a mistake. I really did. And to me,

568
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: it's on the Jones family. They should have overruled this one.

569
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: You could say it would have made it weird or whatever,

570
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: but let's face it, it's gonna get a little weird.

571
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys have not been playing good football. I mean they've

572
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: lost three or four games and that and that loss,

573
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: and I get the refs were terrible, but you can't

574
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: lose to the Raiders. You can't put yourself in that

575
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: position that that can't happen, uh not, given what they

576
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: were going through, not on a short week, not at

577
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: home that that that was a horrendous loss. And I've

578
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: been thinking about this for a while. Is when you

579
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: invest And this is what I said about Dac all

580
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: the time. And I might be wrong about Dak. I'm

581
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: giving him a little bit of some wiggle room this

582
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: last you know month, that is coming off the calf injuries.

583
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: Not the same because I thought early in the season

584
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: he was really good. Now a lot of people have

585
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: slid into my direct messages and been like, look at him. Historically,

586
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: he feasts on the crappy teams and against the better

587
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 1: teams he can be a little hit or miss. Now

588
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: I've seen him play good football against bad team, so

589
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: I would push back on that a little bit, but

590
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: I do understand, like before we annoying, this guy is

591
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: the top five guy. You have to do it year

592
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: in year out. Like what makes Aaron Rodgers one of

593
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: the greatest players of all time? He's been doing it

594
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: for a decade. What makes Tom Brady the goat, He's

595
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: been doing it for two decades. Peyton Manning did it

596
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: for fifteen years. You know, Drew Brees did it forever,

597
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: Steve Young, Joe Montana like, to be a great player,

598
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 1: you have to do it over and over and over again.

599
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: That's what makes great players at all these other positions right,

600
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: every single year you answer the bell and you bring it.

601
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: You can't just you could be a flash in the

602
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: pan or have a good year and a half. Can

603
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: you do it for a decade. It's not very easy.

604
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: It's not easy to do that in any business, consistently

605
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: answer the bell at every day, every month, every year.

606
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: It's hard to maintain that level of play, that level

607
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: of focus, that level of intensity. It's very difficult and

608
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: in any industry, and Dak has been a little wishy

609
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: washing one guy who has gotten a lot of heat

610
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: over the years, and I've kind of turned the corner

611
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: on him. I've been like, you know, one guy, I

612
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: was like, I would never have wanted as my quarterback.

613
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: I might have been a little wrong on Kirk Cousins

614
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: because you watch him play these ten am games, you

615
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: look at his stat lines, you go, this guy is

616
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: probably better than we're giving him credit for. And then

617
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: over the years I've either watched them in big games

618
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: like that happened. What was a couple of weeks ago

619
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: on the Sunday night game against the Cowboys against Cooper

620
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: Rush and then the game both teams are five and five.

621
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: It's basically an early playoff game. Whoever won that game

622
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: was gonna be in the driver's seat for one of

623
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: the wild card spots. There basically would be a shoeing.

624
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: It would be hard for them not to make a

625
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: wild card whoever won this game. And I've been saying

626
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: over in I think Kirk Cousin is a better player

627
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: than Jimmy Garoppolo. And then I'm watching that game, I

628
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: obviously want the forty Niners to win. And besides maybe

629
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: the first quarter, I wasn't scared about against Kirk Cousins

630
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: at all, And as the game went on, I went,

631
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: I think this guy is gonna lose the game and

632
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: any time in professional sports, but you could argue in

633
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: any situation, for most human beings, our biggest purchase is

634
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: always gonna be where we live, our home, like relative

635
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: to our income right now. If you're a business owner,

636
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: it might be purchasing other businesses, but for most people,

637
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: like you purchased a home, it's gonna be a lot

638
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: of your money, especially nowadays with you know, home prices,

639
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Speaker 1: especially if you're trying to move the suburb space up

640
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: up up to ching, ch ching ch chin. I keep

641
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: waiting for him to dip. They ain't dipping. That you

642
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: put all this money in, you better like where you live.

643
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: You better not only enjoy it, you better feel comfortable

644
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: in it because you're gonna spend a lot of time there,

645
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: especially if you're working from home nowadays. And when you

646
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: purchase a quarterback, and that's what the Minnesota Vikings did.

647
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: They gave him eighty five million dollars. Then they had

648
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: him for a couple of years, and they gave him

649
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: sixty six more million dollars. So over like a five

650
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: year span, Cousins will have made over a hundred and

651
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to be the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

652
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: That is a lot of money. That's a lot of

653
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: money in any sport, but in the NFL, with the

654
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: quarterback the salary cap, all of your chips are in

655
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: the middle of the table. And if all your chips

656
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: are gonna be in the middle of the table on

657
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you better feel confident that he can beat

658
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: any team at any moment, because if he can't, you

659
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: feel like you're wasting money and watching Cousins yesterday to

660
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: short circuit. There was a play and first split second

661
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna run a trick play, and

662
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: then it's pretty clear they weren't. In a big moment

663
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: late in the game, he lined up over the guard

664
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: and he just feels like he's short circuits. His body

665
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: language is atrocious. He made in a I mean, one

666
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: of the worst picks of the day yesterday. Throw it

667
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: right to a forty niner linebacker. Their guys are wide

668
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: open all game long. Jefferson is easily a top two

669
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: or three wide receiver in the league, feelings one of

670
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: the better possession wide receivers of like the last two decades.

671
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: And he just couldn't slice and dice a defensive secondary,

672
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: which is not good. They can't cover a soul, and

673
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: you just went, you guys signed up for this, and

674
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: then you guys doubled down on this, And I think

675
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: they were just okay with living in the middle. And

676
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: that's basically what they are. They win a game, they

677
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: lose a game. They win a game, they lose a game,

678
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: and people like me are like, you know, I think

679
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: they are actually better than the narrative that's out there

680
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: this I watched them, well, yeah, I watched them against

681
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: random teams, even their divisional opponents. You're more comfortable with that,

682
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: especially at home. They beat the Packers, but whenever it matters,

683
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: in a Sunday night game, in a Monday night game,

684
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: in a Big Gas game against Kyle Shanahan and the

685
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: forty Niners were in theory, you should have the other quarterback.

686
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: You and Jimmy were the same, and Jimmy's his averages.

687
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: The day is long, but the difference in Jimmy and

688
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is Jimmy makes millions of dollars less than Cousins.

689
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy got seventy million dollars guaranteed from the Niners. Cousins

690
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: more than double that over his five years with the Vikings.

691
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: And the other thing is the forty Niners know, they're like,

692
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: you know, Jimmy has a ceiling. We have to go

693
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: all in on Trey Lance. Now. Is that gonna work?

694
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: Who knows, But at least they acknowledged it, like this

695
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: is not a long term solution to go with uh,

696
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: to go with Cousins and you know, and do this

697
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: even though once upon a time Kyle wanted to do this.

698
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: That was the best thing that ever happened in the

699
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: forty Niners that Jimmy got traded to him, and they

700
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: avoided that because they would have given him that money

701
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: and it would have been a mistake because when Kirk

702
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: Cousins is your quarterback, and we'll find out that's gonna

703
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: be put to the test over the next several years,

704
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: you have you have limitations, and you were just not

705
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: win big games, period, point blank. End of story. Brandon

706
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: Staley and the Chargers. UH. One thing, as I've aged,

707
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: did I I truly believe in just because you gain

708
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: more of it as you get older. Is experience really matters.

709
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: And when you're young and in your twenties and you

710
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: think you should make more whatever job you have, and

711
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: you think every boss you work for is an idiot.

712
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: When you're you know, even younger and you're living with

713
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: your parents, you think they're morons. You realize the older

714
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: you get, you're like, oh, they had some points. God,

715
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: they were kind of right on that, man. I kind

716
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: of learned a life lesson on that one. And the

717
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: more experience you have, the more times you have when

718
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: you go through tough times or face a little adversity,

719
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: you can resort back toy I've been there before. Hey,

720
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: that happened to me before. I remember when that shitty

721
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: thing happened to me and I got through it. You

722
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: know what, the sun comes up the next day. This

723
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: is what I did in this situation, it didn't work.

724
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: Maybe I should try this, Or this is what I

725
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: did in this situation and it worked, I should do

726
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: that again. It's why when you talk to older people

727
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: you can always gain some wisdom, especially older successful people

728
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: that have been around the block. In any business you

729
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: work and it always uh behooves you to pick the

730
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: brain of people that have had success in your industry.

731
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: And Brandon Staley gets a lot of hype right The

732
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: media loves Brandon Staley, and he gives a great sound bite,

733
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: and he's a very very intelligent guy, and he's gave

734
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: him some great sound bites this year on some of

735
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: the Gruden stuff and over the years on run game stuff.

736
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: He's he's an impressive individual, but as a coach, when

737
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: you get into situations, you need things to lean back on.

738
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: And when you look at Brandon Staley's resume, for example,

739
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: younger coaches in the NFL right now, Sean McVeigh is

740
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: like my age. He's like thirty six. Sean McVeigh has

741
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: been in the NFL since he was twenty two years old.

742
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: He has done every single job in the league. He's

743
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: now worked from, you know, three different organizations. He has

744
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: been a quality control guy. He's been a position coach, quarterback,

745
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: tight end, wide receiver. He's been a coordinator, and now

746
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: he's been a head coach for five years. Kyle Shanahan,

747
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: another guy that got hired when he was really young,

748
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: has been in the NFL for like fifteen years. He

749
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: was in the NFL and the mid two thousands, working

750
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: as position coaches, then working his way up as coordinators,

751
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: and then been coordinators at several spots. And now he's

752
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: still a young coach and he's only been a head

753
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: coach for five years, but he can you know, resort

754
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: back to him in McVeigh. I remember when John Gruden

755
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: did this, I remember when Gary Kubiak did this. I

756
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: remember when we went through this in Washington. Brandon Staley

757
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 1: got hired in the NFL in two thousand and sixteen,

758
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: and before that he was a lifetime small school guy.

759
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: Now I've worked at a small school. I worked at

760
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: Fresno State. Just because you're at a small school does

761
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: not mean you're a bad coach or a good coach. Right,

762
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: I was at Freszon State. I worked with some coach

763
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: position coaches there that would have been upgrades when I

764
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: was in the NFL and vice versa. Right, you can

765
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: find good coaches in high school. You can find him

766
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: in the college, you can find him in the NFL.

767
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 1: But I do think whatever sport you're in, like when

768
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: you've worked in college football for thirty years, you feel

769
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: very comfortable as things change or as things adapt, changing

770
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: with them because you've seen it all. No different than

771
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: Belichick or Andy Reid or Sean Payton. These guys have

772
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: been Belichick has been the league for fifty years, but

773
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, the Sean Payton, some of these coach Pete Carroll.

774
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: They've been a round the NFL since the early nineties.

775
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: They have so much experience with players, with schemes, with situations.

776
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley's team is kind of in shambles, and one

777
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: I think he's a little over his head. He was

778
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: a coordinator in the NFL for one season for one season,

779
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: and he did a good job, right, But he didn't

780
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: have to worry about anything else because Sean McVeigh was

781
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: a head coach and the coordinator on the other side

782
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: of the the ball. He just had to coordinate the defense

783
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: and they were really good. Well. He then becomes a

784
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: head coach and listen, you know Kyle and McVeigh did this,

785
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: but Kyl and McVeigh were coordinators for a long period

786
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: of time, especially Kyle for for a decade. Look, maybe

787
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: a little less than that. But then when you take

788
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: over the team, which is very, very intense, which is

789
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: a lot to handle. He's only been in the league

790
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: five years, and now things start kind of going haywire. Well,

791
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: their defense is not very good. Well, he's the defensive coordinator,

792
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: so if their defense is gonna be very good, that's

793
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: on him. Well, now Justin Herbert is also struggling. Well,

794
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: what's he supposed to do. He's not an offensive coach,

795
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: he's not the offensive play caller. So now it feels

796
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: like things start to snowball, and his lack of experience

797
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: kind of hurts him. I don't really know what he does,

798
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of like how he fixes this problem.

799
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: So I think sometimes we love the shiny new toy,

800
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: and the media is obsessed when people get their good

801
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: sound bites because that's their job, and Brandon's daily does.

802
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: But I think when you look at him in a

803
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: vacuum from a coaching perspective, you can go, you know,

804
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: he's been a pretty tough situation. He's been the league,

805
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: you know, basically a half decade. He only worked for

806
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: one you know, he worked Vic Fangio put him on

807
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: the map. Well, Vic Fangio was defensive coordinated the whole

808
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: time he was working for him, and then with Sean McVeigh.

809
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: He we really just saw him in one year situation.

810
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: He had a good year, but it's a pretty small

811
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: sample size, and now things start snowballing in the wrong

812
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: direction with the Chargers. What does he have to lean

813
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: back on? How does he help his star young quarterback

814
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: who continues to struggle. I don't know how he does that. Well.

815
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: The problem is he has to focus on his defense,

816
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: which is really struggling, which is his baby, because he's

817
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: the play caller. And now it feels like it's just

818
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: kind of overwhelming. And I think we anointed this guy

819
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: because he's really impressive, but he's he's really it's not

820
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: going that great, and I think we have to look

821
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: at it go. You know, this guy doesn't have that

822
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: much experience. Is learning curve might be a little steeper

823
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: than we thought. Okay, let's dive into the middlecoff mail

824
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 1: back at John Middlecoff is the Instagram got a little

825
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: blue check mark, No big deal. I think, uh some

826
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: of the Fox Sports did that for me. I didn't

827
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: actually get it like verified by myself, but I think

828
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: they're giving verifications away pretty easily now. But you know,

829
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Speaker 1: let's dive in a j Newer listener here. I'm a

830
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: hometown Lions fan, but I live in Kansas City. If

831
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: you were to implant Mahomes the coaching staff in front

832
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: office of the Chiefs to the Lions with the current

833
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: ownership structure, do you think they would be successful or

834
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: do you think they would be elongated rebuild? Thanks for

835
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: the question, boss, appreciate that. Uh, it looks like you

836
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: have a good looking dog too. I would say, I mean,

837
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: they wouldn't win that many games this year because the

838
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: team is pretty terrible. But if if Dan Campbell's gonna

839
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: go one, let's just assume he wins a game, one

840
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: fifteen and one would be their record. I would say

841
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: Andy and Mahomes would win six. They've been in a

842
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: lot of games, and you know, so Andy would win

843
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: six and by the second year they'd be a wild

844
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: card team. So yeah, I mean, those guys are too good.

845
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: You give him Andy and Mahomes like they would overcome

846
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: the Ford family And listen, I come from. My dad

847
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: was a farmer, drove Ford trucks. Uh do they still

848
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: my brother drive one? I think he doesn't, don't. I

849
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: don't even know if he does anymore. But I was

850
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: a Ford guy. My first car was a Ford Explorer

851
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: ninety four. Drove that bad boy in high school. When

852
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: I get my license two thousand two. One thing, well,

853
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: you know pretty shure. He's my grandpa's old car, but

854
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: he got the job done. Putting a couple of sub

855
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: will first thought, I was sweet my dad. Could he

856
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: hear me, you know about fifteen uh, probably about seven

857
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: miles away. I'd just be just slumping the whole neighborhood.

858
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: Could hear me? Actually? I think I got a fifteen

859
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: in sub thing pounded. What do you think the Rams

860
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: settlement with the City of St. Louis seven million seems

861
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: like an exorbitant amount, even for cronkey. I haven't read

862
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: that much up on it, but I'm with you. It

863
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,320
Speaker 1: seems like an astronomical amount of money. It's pretty clear.

864
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm not a not a lawyer, just a couple of

865
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: state school degrees that they broke a contract that was

866
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: pretty binding and he knew what he was doing, and

867
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: I think he didn't care. And I think we're all

868
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: like this sometimes. Obviously not on that level of wealth,

869
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: but just listen, I want to do this. I'll figure

870
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: out the cost later, and when you get that rich

871
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: how often to stand Crocky here. No, he does whatever

872
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: the hell he wants to do, whenever he wants to

873
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: do it. So maybe he just thought they could figure

874
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: it out. I'll pay my lawyer so much. Worst case scenario,

875
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: I give him forty million dollars. But that is not

876
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: the way that played out. Seven or nine million is

877
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: a lot of cash. It's gonna get ugly with him

878
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: the league because he has not what what I don't

879
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: think the radicals I call them the radicals, the wackos

880
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: and the quacks that just you know, the tax the

881
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: rich and never stop screaming about money. People don't realize,

882
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: like even Elon Musk, I know he sold some stock recently. Like,

883
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: they don't just have billions of dollars in cash sitting

884
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: in the savings account. And you'd never be dumber to

885
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 1: do that right now, because you'd be losing money at

886
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: an astronomical rate. But these guys their money. Even a

887
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: guy like Cronkey is in businesses, it's tied up now.

888
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: He might have fifty million in cash, maybe even that.

889
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: Like I would be shocked if some of these guys

890
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: now through their businesses have cash flow coming in. But

891
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: I think these and it's very political to be like, oh,

892
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 1: just tax the rich. He's got billions of dollars, yes,

893
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: in stock, in company valuations. They don't just have cash

894
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: in their bank account. Now, they don't have ten thousand

895
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: dollars in their checking account, but they don't have like

896
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty million dollars either. So a guy

897
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: like Cronkey, you know, if he was gonna write a

898
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: seven nine million dollar check, like he would have to

899
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: sell some ship. Now luckily he'd be able to do

900
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: that like me and you would not. But he does

901
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: not just have seven nine million dollars sitting in a

902
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: bank account. You know, nobody does. I think that's one

903
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: of the narratives that goes on like social media, that

904
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: it's just and especially the media, it's just how clueless

905
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: they are about being around wealthy people. And I don't

906
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: know anyone that's like that has that level of money.

907
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: But rich people do not just have an unlimited amount

908
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: of cash sitting in bank accounts. Mostly you invested, or

909
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,760
Speaker 1: you put in the business, you put it in buildings,

910
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: you put in apartment, you do something with it, you know,

911
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: just it doesn't just sit there. Not that level of

912
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: money how soon do you think Lincoln Riley can turn

913
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: USC around? As a text I got today from an

914
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: insider someone in the biz, they think he's gonna have

915
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: a record transfer portal of just people flowing in. I

916
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: could see five or six players from Oklahoma transferring. I

917
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,720
Speaker 1: could see some sweet recruits in l A decommitting and coming.

918
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: I think they could be good right away, and want

919
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: to say good like eight nine wins next year and

920
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: by year two competing for a playoff spot. Now, Utah

921
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: is good and they're gonna be better next year. They're

922
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: gonna be good next year. And and Mario, you know,

923
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: Oregon's recruited really well, so they think their team is

924
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna be good the next couple of years. Now, they

925
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: gotta get better quarterback play than they had this year.

926
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: But to me, Lincoln iss a better coach than Mario

927
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: whitting Ham. Whitty Ham is a big time coach, but

928
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: he coaches at Utah and it's just hard to you know,

929
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: he's just not getting the same caliber players. Now he

930
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: beat He has beatn you know, USC for a decade, right,

931
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: He's beat them several times. And Helly beat Oregon a

932
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, like he can beat the big boys.

933
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: One thing Utah is they ain't scared a ship, which

934
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: I respect. Coming from Fresno State, we had the same

935
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: type mindset. Now they're a higher level program now that

936
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,959
Speaker 1: they've gone into the Pack twelve. But when you have

937
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: the coach that just like looks at everyone like an equal,

938
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: but has this underdog mentality and can coach like Winningham

939
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: is not going to be intimidated by Lincoln Riley and

940
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: no neither is Mario. But Mario can out coach him.

941
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: Winningham might be able to Mario might just be able

942
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: to out telling him early on, but that gap will

943
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: close fast. I would say by year three, USC is

944
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: gonna be just stacked. I mean they're gonna look like

945
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: Ohio State or Alabama would be my guess. Hey, John,

946
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: my boyfriend is a big fan. You've answered a question

947
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: of his before. And we sat down and watched it together.

948
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: It was cool. Who would you hire the next Oklahoma

949
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: head coach? I saw Bob Stoops get pretty fired up today.

950
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: I wonder if he'd get the itch and just how

951
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: to help them the next couple of years before they

952
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: get in the SEC. I wonder if they do that.

953
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: I wonder if he'd do that it. Now, would they

954
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: hire his brother Mark? If you're gonna hire his brother Mark,

955
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: why don't just hire Bob? Now? Would they hire Matt

956
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: Campbell or Dave A. Randa. I think those guys would

957
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. I could see that, like

958
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: it's Oklahoma that they would get a sweet, sweet candidate.

959
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: I had a d M. Someone asked me, like, what

960
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: do you think about urban Meyer? Would Oklahoma? Maybe it

961
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: was on Twitter, like over Notre Dame, Oklahoma cares about character.

962
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: Think about their last two coaches, Lincoln Riley, super high

963
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: character guy and obviously Bob Stoops just beyond salt of

964
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: the earth, human being. They Irban Meyer is a low

965
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: character guy, great coach, low character. Like that's the evidence

966
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: is in And I'm I'm not talking about the bar

967
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: with the women. I'm talking about his history at Ohio

968
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: State in Florida speaks for itself. Elite coach, questionable human.

969
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: Oklahoma ain't touching him. Notre Dame ideally wouldn't want to

970
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: touch him either, But you know they like winning. They

971
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: love football. Touchdown Jesus So I can see Notre Dame

972
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: and you know he was always a dream job. He

973
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: was assistant coach there a long time ago. My guest

974
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma would be Bob Stoops, Matt Campbell or Dave A.

975
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: Randa Happy Thanksgiving. My quick dot is recruiting is Recruiting

976
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: is a college thing, but in some ways it's done

977
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Do you think if Urban can use

978
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: his great recruiting skills to get free agents to Jacksonville?

979
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: Love the pod edible thoughts a good edible? I would

980
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 1: say it's so much different in the in the pros

981
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: because I can recruit a guy and I can sell

982
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: him on my vision. But if I'm offering him a

983
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: two year contract of twenty million dollars and you know

984
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing out a random team, the Minnesota Vikings

985
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: are offering him three years and thirty five million dollars,

986
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what I can recruit. The other thing

987
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: differentiating factor in recruiting in the pros like your team

988
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: has to be good. It's why the Patriots the Rams

989
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: got Odell Beckham, the Packers have landed some guys over

990
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: of the years, like if you're good, then yeah, maybe

991
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: you get a guy on a little cheaper because he

992
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,439
Speaker 1: wants to win, especially an older player that's already won

993
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: or I mean already made money. What can Urban offer you?

994
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: Like we're gonna lose? To me, Urban just has to

995
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: offer the most money. I just I have a hard

996
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: time to see in Urbans sticking around. I I really do.

997
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly where he'd go, but it looks

998
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: like you were right about Cam again. He can really

999
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: not throw the damn ball. I don't think I was right.

1000
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: I just we all saw it. He couldn't throw last year.

1001
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he just couldn't throw. I actually gained a

1002
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: lot of respect for him over the last year and

1003
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: a half. You know what he did? Just how much

1004
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: bell If Belichick likes you, I respect you. But he

1005
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: can't throw. He can't play quarterback. Can you please talk

1006
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: about the officiating and the Raiders Cowboy game. Maybe I'm

1007
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: biased as a Cowboy fan, but seems like the Raiders

1008
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: getting some crazy calls in their favor. The officiating this

1009
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: season has been an embarrassment. But as I've said over

1010
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 1: and over and over again that that officiating a that game,

1011
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: I think they were like fourteen calls? Was there like

1012
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: twenty total penalties? I forget? I mean I was having

1013
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: a few pops. It was Thanksgiving, and you know there

1014
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: are a ton of p I calls. It was the

1015
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: most watch game in the history of football. So I

1016
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell is what's he gonna say? He's gonna go,

1017
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: I have thirty eight million people. Do you think I

1018
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: care that Zay Jones got a p I call? I

1019
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: do not. Do you think I care that my my

1020
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: referees are blinder than a bat and can't make a

1021
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: consistent call and sustain just some normalcy on a week

1022
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: to week basis to save their lives. I do not

1023
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: give a ship. I pay them a nominal fee and

1024
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: they're happy because they make a couple hundred grand and

1025
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: they screw up games constantly. UH. Coaches despise them, players

1026
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: don't really respect them, and most of them aren't good

1027
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: at their job. And in fairness to them, if they're

1028
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: referees listening, it is a difficult job. But if okay,

1029
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: the job is difficult, but you can't constantly get every

1030
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: call wrong, and they just basically get every call wrong

1031
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: all the time. But the league office does not care.

1032
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I could see being a cowboy

1033
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: fan questioning some of the calls, but I think Raider

1034
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: fans would tell you there's not a bigger conspiracy group

1035
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: of the officials are out to get you. And I

1036
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: know I did Raiders post game for about three years

1037
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: than the Oakland Raider fans. I guess the Vegas fans now,

1038
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 1: but most of their core group are Oakland Raider fans.

1039
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 1: They led the league in penalties for like I think

1040
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: five decades. Hell they might still lead the league of penalties.

1041
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: I haven't checked the updated penalty rankings, but when I

1042
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: was doing it, they had led the league like fifteenth

1043
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: straight years, so they always thought there In screwed. A

1044
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, remember they were playing the Cowboys.

1045
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: I think it was Dessatur. I don't even know it was.

1046
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: Maybe it was Boger used the index card that really

1047
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: pissed him off. Question mail back from British Columbia, Canada,

1048
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: went there, been there multiple times. I gotta say it's

1049
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: pretty badass. I went to Whistler, I went to Vancouver.

1050
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: It does not suck. If if you ever need a

1051
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: vacation recommendation, need somewhere to go you live in the States,

1052
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: check out Vancouver. Incredible city. If you like to ski

1053
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: or you like to just hang out and drink at

1054
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: a bar in the snow. Go to Whistler, Canada places

1055
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: also badass uh. While watching many of the top quarterback

1056
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: performances this year, became very clear that dominant offensive line

1057
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: play and the ability to work from the pocket were

1058
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: the main success factors. It often feels like Brady and

1059
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: Rogers can hang in the pocket for ages, while guys

1060
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Speaker 1: like Trevor Lawrence under pressure escaping most every play. How

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Speaker 1: much of the ability to remain calm in the pocket

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00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: do you tribute to the offensive line play? And how

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00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: much of the quarterbacks awareness feet in the pocket? Ps? Rosen?

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00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: What a Rosen sighting the other day? Painful? Y? I

1065
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: think he came in through a pick six. That's a

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00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: hell of a question. And I think the hardest part

1067
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: about evaluating quarterbacks, beside throwing attempts yardage right arms. You

1068
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: can tell arm strength, it's impossible to quantify the eyes

1069
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: and the feet and listen, Tom Brady gets rid of

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00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: the ball really fast. He also knows exactly where he

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00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: wants to go with the ball, so when he snaps

1072
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,479
Speaker 1: the football, he knows precisely were what all eleven guys

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00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: are doing on his side? I guess ten because well,

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00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: I guess he knows what he's doing. But most importantly,

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00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,240
Speaker 1: he knows what all eleven guys are doing on defense.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of times with younger quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: like I don't think Trevor Lawrence is a puss, Like

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00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: I don't think he's scared. I just don't really think

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00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: he knows what's going on, because most young players do

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00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: not know what's going on. Aaron Rodgers has been in

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00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: the NFL's two thousand and fifteen or two thousand five

1082
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: and for two and a half years he was around

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00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: Jeff Tedford, one of the best college coaches of his generation.

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00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: So the knowledge that Aaron Rodgers and and Brady have

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00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,760
Speaker 1: from their coaching staffs over the years and film study

1086
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: and just experience is infinitely higher than a guy like that.

1087
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: And they're really talented to the greatest. I mean, Brady

1088
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 1: and Rodgers probably two top five quarterbacks of all time.

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00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: Brady's one, Errands like five or six. So I think

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Speaker 1: at out of it is knowing what to do, and

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00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: then Rogers is more, you know, athletic. He can kind

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00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: of smoothly slide or Brady has to get rid of

1093
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: the ball. But I think most young quarterbacks where I

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00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: think people questioned like are they scared? I I truly think,

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00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: like I just saw Trevor Lawrence truck people in college.

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00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: I don't thin he's scared. I don't think he knows

1097
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on. Zach Wilson. I think

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00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: they just freak out, like you saw moments in that

1099
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: game against I think Derek is a guy car I

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00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: think gets you know, criticized sometimes for not sticking in

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00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: the pocket when he knows what's going on right, when

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00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: he truly understands the defense, and when he gets in

1103
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: a rhythm like he did against the Cowboys, he's sliding

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00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: up in the pocket and making great plays. So I

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00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: think the older you get as a quarterback, you can

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00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: get in these rhythms in a game where you feel

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00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: like I know everything they're thrown at me because my study,

1108
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: my preparation, and then like what I'm seeing on the field,

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00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: you just feel very, very comfortable, and then you feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable with what your offensive lines doing. I just I

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00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: I think experience and uh and comfort level. Now you

1112
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: gotta have the you know, the prerequisite of toughness, and

1113
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: not everyone has it. A quarterback, and I think I've

1114
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: said this over and over. I think it's one of

1115
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: the most underrated aspects of a quarterback. People keep getting

1116
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: mad at me, like Middlecoff give Matt Jones as flowers.

1117
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: I I do think he's dinking and Duncan a little bit.

1118
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: But that's what his offense, you know, asked for. Here's

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00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: why I will give him a ton of credit. I

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00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: have seen that kid, and he's a kid, he's twenty

1121
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: two years old, get the ship kicked out of him

1122
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: several times this season, get destroyed. I mean I've seen

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00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: him a couple of times, get sandwiched by defense, beat

1124
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. He hops right back up every time. Do

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Speaker 1: you know the thing I've not heard one person talk

1126
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: about with Mac Jones that I bet Belichick and Josh

1127
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: McDaniels love about him. He is tough as nails. And

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Speaker 1: when you're tough at quarterback, you got a chance. Because

1129
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: is Mac is not the most skilled guy. Now, his

1130
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: pocket presence and his eyes they're all good. He is

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00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: not scared and he will hang in there for that

1132
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: extra second. Where that's what Trevor Lawrence Zack Wilson will

1133
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 1: not do. Trey Lance hard to even judge only played

1134
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: the one game. Who's the other guy fields? He's kind

1135
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 1: of cotton between because his offensive line is so shitty

1136
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: and he's a runner. But he's gonna have to learn

1137
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,720
Speaker 1: that because part of being a good quarterback in the NFL?

1138
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,720
Speaker 1: Can you sit for that extra split second when Vaughan Miller,

1139
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: when Aaron Donald win a Bosa Brother, when Cam Hayward,

1140
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: when some big motherfucker is a foot away from you,

1141
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: coming full speed, gonna bury you into the turf for

1142
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: the graphs and you know it, but you need to

1143
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: wait for that last split second for your guy to

1144
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: get that step and for you to get that first down,

1145
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: for you to get that you know, drive clinching touchdown.

1146
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 1: Can you do that and listen? I couldn't. I'd be terrified.

1147
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: Who wants to get thrown to the ground. But that's

1148
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,919
Speaker 1: why quarterbacks, you know, they say get all the money

1149
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: and get all the girls when you're good. You could

1150
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: argue you don't even need to be that good. You know,

1151
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles probably pulled with work in school. I can't

1152
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: watch YouTube, but please keep doing shave it or save it.

1153
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: It's a segment we did on my other podcast, shave

1154
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: it or save it? Send me a d M with

1155
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: your hair, um and if you think you should shave

1156
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: it or you think you should keep it. You know,

1157
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: it's a question that all of us guys have, right.

1158
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: I went through it. I was balding in my mid

1159
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: twenties and I shaved my head probably at I guess

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Speaker 1: I would have been twenty seven or twenty eight years old,

1161
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: but I I was balding. I remember being at cal

1162
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: Poly probably twenty three and seeing hair follicles on my

1163
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: desk at Fresno State, I was losing my hair. It sucks,

1164
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: so shave it or save It's just we're gonna try

1165
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: to change the world. I'm a big fan of pods.

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00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking time to read my question in advance.

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Speaker 1: What is your impression of Matt Rule's job in Carolina?

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00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: Do you think you could bolt back to college? I

1169
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: think Notre Dame would be all over, and I think

1170
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: Oklahoma would be all over. I think I forgot about him.

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00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 1: Here's Matt Rule's problem, Like Ron Rivera, how do you

1172
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: get a quarterback? On? How do you get a quarterback?

1173
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: They tried and I commended him. I supported them. Go

1174
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: get Sam Donald second round pick. Do it. He's an

1175
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: undervalued asset. Turns out he stinks. Then they got p J. Walker,

1176
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: who's an a F guy, and Cam Newton, who camp throw.

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Speaker 1: How is he going to get a quarterback? If I

1178
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: was Oklahoma, I would call Matt rule. That's what I

1179
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: would do. He's a guy that I don't think about enough.

1180
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: Same with Notre Dame. Obviously, the Browns have got to

1181
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: be frustrated with Baker Mayfield. I think resigning him would

1182
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: be dooming themselves for another several seasons. One idea I

1183
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: had was that if they just let Baker walk in

1184
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: free agency and drafted Bailey Zapp late second or early

1185
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: third round. Not sure how much college football you've scouted

1186
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: this draft so far, but he's a quarterback with a

1187
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: very similar skill set. Broke FCS passing records at Houston

1188
00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: Baptist and lead Kentucky Western Kentucky to the offered US

1189
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: a title game this coming weekend. I know what's unorthodox

1190
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: in today's NFL not to spend a top ten pick

1191
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: or forty million dollars a year on a quarterback, but

1192
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: this would ensure they have the space to extend Chubb,

1193
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: maybe bring back Kareem or secure the old line as

1194
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: well as patch up the defense. I'll be honest, I

1195
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: haven't scouted Western Kentucky or Houston Baptist, but I don't

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00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: think it's out of the round possibility. Draft a guy

1197
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: in the third, fourth round case Keenum, and maybe you're

1198
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: just what the hell is the difference? Because this version

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Speaker 1: of Baker is not very good. Now he's injured. He's

1200
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: a shell of himself, but he's small, So why why

1201
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't he get injured for years to come? I saw

1202
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: Stefanski say today that he's getting healthier. I don't know.

1203
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: I mean the Ravens scored sixteen points through four picks.

1204
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: You couldn't win. That was a bad loss for the Browns.

1205
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: The Ravens through four inter I mean Lamar did four interceptions.

1206
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: You get four interceptions. I think you gotta win the game, right,

1207
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: just like you have to win that game and they end.

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01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: So I would not sign him, but I think he'll

1209
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: be on the team next to your fifth year option

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Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of go from there. Appreciate everyone

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Speaker 1: DM and me, Appreciate everyone listening to the show, Share

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Speaker 1: with your friends, enjoy the week, and I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: everyone Friday. How eos the volume