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Speaker 1: Thursday night game. Actually, you know, sneaky entertaining game for

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Speaker 1: I gotta start with something, and I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: starting with Brady and starting with the Patriots. But but

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Speaker 1: I'll get into them in a second. I don't think

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Speaker 1: people fully appreciate it. Again, I I always struggle with

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Speaker 1: this because social media is a small percentage of people. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You see it with politics, the extremes on both sides.

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Speaker 1: just worried about feeding their family, paying the mortgage, you know,

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Speaker 1: feel like that with certain takes with certain players. You know,

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Speaker 1: forever people thought like Lebron was hated. Now most people

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Speaker 1: thought Lebron was sweet. People thought Lebron was really good

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Speaker 1: since he was in high school, you know, So Andrew Luck,

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Speaker 1: actually not that good, you know. I I think those

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Speaker 1: people are the dumbest people on social media. And and

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Speaker 1: if you do believe that and you're listening, you're just

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Speaker 1: you're dumb. Uh. I'm not trying to be mean, but

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Speaker 1: that's just a fact. Like Andrew Luck is not only

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Speaker 1: a star player. What he has had to overcome and

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Speaker 1: what he is still overcoming is beyond just eye opening.

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Speaker 1: First Off, he arguably had when he came into the

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Speaker 1: Then he also had a coach who the best coach

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Speaker 1: but is when Chuck Poganto got sick and Bruce arians

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Speaker 1: it what it is is a dysfunctional mess. I mean

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Speaker 1: times for drugs. Uh. The organization Peyton Manning basically band

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Speaker 1: hurt his shoulder again. But I'm watching the game the

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Speaker 1: But that is who Andrew Luck is playing with. And

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Speaker 1: And and here's another thing. The guy who's coaching the team,

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Speaker 1: the head coach. Now, I you know, I think might

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Speaker 1: they weren't their wife's first choice either. So it happen.

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Speaker 1: Like watching the two franchises, it's crazy to think that

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Speaker 1: there is no I mean, since Peyton left, the UH

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Speaker 1: Now there ain't no rivalry. There's an ass kicking by

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Speaker 1: the one side. Now let's get into the other side.

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Speaker 1: People wanted to bury them because they looked off and

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Speaker 1: they did. Their offense had issues, but people forgot. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't mind if I Julian Edelman didn't do PDS.

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Speaker 1: But juices every day. I don't care. No one's no

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Speaker 1: blame him if he was sucking down p D like

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Speaker 1: the flint Stones. We don't care. We do in baseball,

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Speaker 1: the football underneath, right over the middle. In these rules

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Speaker 1: Julian Edelman does not to be worried about getting hit.

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Speaker 1: There's no Ronny Lotts cover in the middle of the field.

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Speaker 1: he needs are his running backs James White, Sony Michelle

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Speaker 1: And then Gronk being Gronk, and they'll kick your ass

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Speaker 1: because that's usually where they play. They always end up

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Speaker 1: Brady is just gonna beat you. Tonight was just such

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Speaker 1: a major mismatch. It really wasn't fair. It's final score

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Speaker 1: thirty four, but god if it feels honestly it doesn't

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Speaker 1: did not feel that close. It really didn't. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are one of the true great dynasties you know,

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Speaker 1: of my lifetime. Uh, It'll never be seen again in

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Speaker 1: first off, that the the likelihood of a quarterback playing like

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Speaker 1: this till he's forty one, or basically Slim the Nun,

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Speaker 1: Slim the Nun. It's just it's you're not gonna see

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Speaker 1: picking him on my Draft Kings lineups. Obviously, Hopkins one

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Speaker 1: of the best receivers in the league. So I guess

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Speaker 1: we could have a worse Sunday night game, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I would probably choose something else. Okay, let's get into

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Speaker 1: the Middlecoff mail bag. Slide up in my d m

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Speaker 1: s on Instagram at John Middlecoff, and I will answer

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Speaker 1: your questions. John question for the pod, how do you

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Speaker 1: feel about the trend of organizations going all in on

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Speaker 1: winning and spending big bucks while their quarterbacks are still

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Speaker 1: on rookie deals. I just think it's the most logical

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Speaker 1: business move now. But you have to draft a quarterback

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Speaker 1: and start them. You know, it's not if you don't

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Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the first round. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily gonna play out that right way. Some teams,

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Speaker 1: you know, the luck not luck, but they kind of

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Speaker 1: did it with luck, well not really, but the Wentz golf.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys didn't do it with Dak Seattle did it

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Speaker 1: with Russell for a couple of years. There is an

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Speaker 1: element of luck to it, like sometimes you don't get

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Speaker 1: good until you have to pay your quarterback and then

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Speaker 1: you have to make some tough decisions. So if you

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Speaker 1: take a quarterback in the first round, though, and he

447
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Speaker 1: becomes your starter, Mariota Goff, Wentz uh all the guys

448
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Speaker 1: this year, all those teams should throw all their chips

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the table. You have to do it.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't take a first round quarterback, like

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Speaker 1: what if you're you know you have Andrew Luck. You

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Speaker 1: know what if you have Russell Wilson would if you

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Speaker 1: have uh, Aaron Rodgers or hell even Matt Stafford. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just a two or three year window

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Speaker 1: at max. You know it's it's it's easy to say,

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Speaker 1: and and everyone talks about it because three or four

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Speaker 1: teams have gone all in. The Eagles did it, the

458
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Speaker 1: Rams have done it. I'm trying to think the Browns

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Speaker 1: kind of did it this year with Baker that I

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Speaker 1: would imagine they'll be really aggressive this offseason, like the Niners.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Niners, for example, they were handed Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo in a trade. They had all this money. I

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Speaker 1: think that was their plan to draft to Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: and Josh Roseen something like that and do that. But

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they get Jimmy Garoppolo and

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Speaker 1: then he's a free agent. Well, they're either gonna franchise

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Speaker 1: and pay him. They kind of had to pay them.

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Speaker 1: Then they pay them. They still have a lot of

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Speaker 1: other guys they can pay, and they still have a

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Speaker 1: lot of salary cap room, but they never really got

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Speaker 1: to enjoy that process. Look at the Minnesota Vike. They

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Speaker 1: had Teddy Bridgewater, but then his legs snapped and they

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Speaker 1: had to use the money that they probably would used

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Speaker 1: on other players to sign Kirk Cousins. So there is

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Speaker 1: somewhat of an element to luck. It's not like a

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Speaker 1: Black and white you just just just draft a quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the first round and then build our team paying

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Speaker 1: other guys. Sometimes, you know, that's not the way the

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Speaker 1: cookie crumbles. Is there any chance the Raiders go eight

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Speaker 1: and eighth this season, or will they be lucky to

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Speaker 1: win five? Uh? I think they're better than a five

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Speaker 1: win team. The problem with eight wins, as you saw

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Speaker 1: in the Browns game, and you really saw the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks against inver Miami, they're just too inconsistent. They are.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to a buddy, he made a great point.

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Speaker 1: They're probably the hardest team in the league just to

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Speaker 1: pull up their schedule and go win win loss, win, lost,

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Speaker 1: loss win, because any game on any given game could

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Speaker 1: be a winner a loss. Now you'd be like, of

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Speaker 1: course the NFL, but you open up the Patriots schedule

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Speaker 1: or just good team schedule, you can kind of do that,

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Speaker 1: and you can do the opposite with bad teams. The

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Speaker 1: Raiders are hard. I mean, they could easily be three

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Speaker 1: and one right now, or they could easily be owing

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Speaker 1: four and they're one and three, and they could and

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Speaker 1: they could go into the bye week in two weeks

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Speaker 1: at five hundred, at three and three, or they could

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Speaker 1: be one in five. I won't be shocked with any

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Speaker 1: of the outcomes. They're playing the Chargers this weekend, who

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Speaker 1: play at home, yet it's gonna be a road game

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Speaker 1: because it'll be all Raider fans, and then they play

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Speaker 1: Seattle in London. Like I mean, if you told me

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Speaker 1: right now the Raiders win the next two games, I

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Speaker 1: can be like, yep, I see it. You tell me

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Speaker 1: they lose the next two games. They lose in you know,

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Speaker 1: San Diego slash l A and then go to London

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Speaker 1: and lose. That's not inconceivable. So I'd probably say the

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Speaker 1: more I talked about it, like the teams, when you

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Speaker 1: describe them like that, you usually five or six wins

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Speaker 1: more likely than eight. Though I will give him credit.

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Speaker 1: The GM is not good in Jon Gruden, but the

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Speaker 1: coach is not bad. He is a He is a

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Speaker 1: good offensive coach. Question for the middlecoff mail back, not

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Speaker 1: that the Bears would, but if the Raiders offered back

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Speaker 1: the Bears the same package that they received in exchange

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Speaker 1: for Khalil Mack, so two first rounders and a and

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Speaker 1: a second rounder, do you think now I'm confusing thinking

518
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Speaker 1: about it? What? Okay? The Bears got Khalil Mack and

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Speaker 1: a second rounder, the Raiders got two first rounders and

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Speaker 1: a third rounder. Do you think the Bears would take

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Speaker 1: their picks back and whatever else they gave up? Knowing

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Speaker 1: all the money. Knowing what they know now four weeks

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Speaker 1: into it, zero chance, There is no chance on God's

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Speaker 1: green Earth the Bears would redo that trade. The big

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Speaker 1: reason that the Bears might make the playoffs this year

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Speaker 1: and just talk. Trubisky is another guy that I forgot

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Speaker 1: to mention about going all in on a rookie quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Bears did because basically, if Trubisky is

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Speaker 1: just solid, Khalil Max's next couple of years or while

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Speaker 1: he's making he still makes decent money because he was

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Speaker 1: number two overall pick, but he's by no means making

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Speaker 1: twenty plus million dollars. Uh No, I I don't. I

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Speaker 1: think Khalil Mack the next two or three years. I

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Speaker 1: mean is in the prime and I repeat the prime

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Speaker 1: of his Hall of Fame candidacy. So good question. But

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Speaker 1: I think inside the Bears building, knowing people there, uh

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Speaker 1: that they think they got an absolute steal, as they should. Well,

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Speaker 1: we got to give up two first rounders and we

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Speaker 1: got Khalil Mack and a second rounder, Like are you crazy?

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing, it's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: house money because they didn't have to give up their

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Speaker 1: pick this year, so they got ro Kwan Smith. So

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Speaker 1: they're looking at it like, we got ro Kuwan Smith

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Speaker 1: and Khalil Mack. So we don't have a first round

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Speaker 1: of the next two years, but we got these two

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Speaker 1: guys and we have a quarterback on his rookie salary.

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Speaker 1: So no, I it's a good question. And if people

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Speaker 1: brought it up before, but no chance the Bears doing that.

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Speaker 1: Just started listening to the podcast. Uh, enjoy it. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: This is Roles eight nine. Would Joe Flacco be a

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Speaker 1: good fit for the Cowboys? Also? Would they have to

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Speaker 1: give up much to get him in a trade? I

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Speaker 1: think if the Ravens, who looked pretty good this year,

554
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Speaker 1: their defense is excellent, Flacco's played really well the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Let's say go eleven and five, and

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Speaker 1: when the a f C North, Flacco is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback there next year, you know, because hardball

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Speaker 1: wouldn't get fired. Why would you get rid of Flacco,

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Speaker 1: especially if they were to win a playoff game or two.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're gonna get rid of them.

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Speaker 1: To me, the Cowboys, you're kind of just in bed

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Speaker 1: now with Doc for the next two years. Now. I

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Speaker 1: don't think you necessarily if you go like five or

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Speaker 1: six wins this year, you don't have to pay him

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Speaker 1: this offseason, and you wouldn't pay him this offseason. But

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Speaker 1: he's your quarterback, uh, And that's when you went all

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Speaker 1: in for him when you got rid of Tony Romo

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Speaker 1: slash Tony Romo retired, which was the right move. I

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Speaker 1: I don't argue that they did the wrong thing, but

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Speaker 1: to me, the wrong thing would be paying Doc after

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Speaker 1: this year. But you don't trade like you're not trading

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Speaker 1: for Joe Flacco, mainly because Joe Flacco not gonna be available.

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Speaker 1: I would he be a good fit for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's just a better player than Dak. But it's just

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's this isn't fantasy football. It's just that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Hey, John from San Diego, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you a question for the mail bag. Why

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Speaker 1: do you think the Chargers continually underperform considering the personnel

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Speaker 1: that they have? Also, if the Bolts don't make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: would you trade Rivers to a contender and rebuild. I

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Speaker 1: feel bad for Phillips since he's continually played great but

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Speaker 1: always underperform I've always said about the Chargers that their

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Speaker 1: biggest problem is needs Manos and he has cheap tendencies.

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Speaker 1: And when you have cheap tendencies in the NFL, that

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Speaker 1: typically means paying a coach not much money. And they

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Speaker 1: the last two coaches they've had, when they've had all

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Speaker 1: this talent on the roster the last like six seven years,

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Speaker 1: they hired Mike McCoy and then Anthony Lynn. Both those guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, make two, three, four million dollars top coaches

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Speaker 1: in this league. The hard boss. I was gonna say Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: he's having a rough year, but obviously the Belichick I'm

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Speaker 1: not even talking Belichick put him in his own little world.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan makes seven. I bet Kyle Shanahan makes double

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Speaker 1: what Anthony Lynn makes. He's just a better coach. You know,

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Speaker 1: imagine if the Chargers last year when they hired Anthony

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Speaker 1: Lynn would have gone after Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVeigh.

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Speaker 1: But they never would because those guys cost some money.

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Speaker 1: And it starts with Spanos that they refuse to ever

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Speaker 1: pay a coach top dollar. You have Philip Rivers, you

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Speaker 1: have all this talent on defense, you got Keenan, Allen

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Speaker 1: Gordon solid as a running back. It's it's sad. I

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Speaker 1: I feel for Philip Rivers to one of the highest

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Speaker 1: level guys in the NFL whose career is gonna end,

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Speaker 1: and hell, he might never make the playoffs again if

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Speaker 1: they don't trade him. And I don't think they would

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Speaker 1: trade him because they do kind of need them. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're going into this new building. They they're pretty irrelevant

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, but they are pretty solid, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think they're in no man's land. Like imagine if

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers was on the New York Giants with Pat Shermer.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not sure Pat Sherman is a great coach either,

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Speaker 1: but with all that talent, with Sae Kwon Barkley, with

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. With Sterling Shepherd, with Ingram the tight end,

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Speaker 1: think how good they would be. And I Philip Rivers,

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Speaker 1: I will defend him till the day I die, in

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Speaker 1: the sense that you know he he was. He fought

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Speaker 1: an uphill battle in his organization. Uh, just the cheap tendencies,

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Speaker 1: the mindset there. I mean, without him, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: how many games they would have won? The last six

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Speaker 1: seven years if they just would have had like an

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Speaker 1: average quarterback. Imagine in him, Joe Flacco and and uh

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning switched spots. Like think how lucky Roethlisburger is

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Speaker 1: to have played his entire career in Pittsburgh. Imagine if

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Speaker 1: Rivers had played his entire career in Pittsburgh. Now Rothsburg

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Speaker 1: is an elite player too, so like he like he

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Speaker 1: would have Roethlisberger's resume, probably even the Giants, like Eli

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Speaker 1: got to play for a lot of his career for

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Speaker 1: Tom freaking Coughlin, Tom in the New York Giants organization.

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Speaker 1: Like Flacco got John Harbaugh and Ozzie Newsome, Rivers has

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Speaker 1: got Dean Spanos, you know, moving an hour up the

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Speaker 1: road in a town that doesn't want him. I feel

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Speaker 1: for him. I'm with you. I don't think they trade him.

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Speaker 1: I think Phillips just kind of stuck. And hell, maybe

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Speaker 1: he's the next coach at USC. He I would fire

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Speaker 1: Clay Hilton in a heartbeat to make Philip Rivers my

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Speaker 1: head coach. And obviously he's got a lot of good

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Speaker 1: football left. But uh, Philip Rivers, if he wants, would

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Speaker 1: make a elite college football coach I could see him

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Speaker 1: in the South, like at Auburn, you know, at one

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Speaker 1: of the SEC schools, just crushing it. One day, he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be so rich. I'm not, and he's got so

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Speaker 1: many kids. I'm not sure if he would, but he's

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Speaker 1: already talked about coaching high school. I mean, just a

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Speaker 1: football junkie. Uh. I hope he one day coaches college

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Speaker 1: because I I do think he would be he'd be

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Speaker 1: really good at it. Okay, n MG one, Hey, John,

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Speaker 1: do you think the Niners should have sat Jimmy g

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Speaker 1: the last five games of this last season to prevent

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Speaker 1: them from having to pay him the big contract. They

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have known how good he actually was if they

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Speaker 1: had done it, but in return, they would have saying

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Speaker 1: that saved a ton of cap space. I understand where

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Speaker 1: you're coming from. But they had no choice. They were

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Speaker 1: one and ten when they finished, yet six and ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they were one in ten. The franchise was in

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Speaker 1: shambles and they just had to throw him in there.

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Speaker 1: They didn't know that he was gonna win the last

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Speaker 1: five and kind of put him in a tough spot.

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Speaker 1: I think they did the right thing. They felt good

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Speaker 1: about paying him you know, tearing and a c L

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Speaker 1: is kind of a freak deal. Even though on that play,

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Speaker 1: I mean he should have just slid or gone out

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Speaker 1: of bounce, so it was his fault, but you had

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Speaker 1: to pay a quarterback like Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean, Belichick

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Speaker 1: gifted him the quarterback. They didn't really have a spot.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to say mone Day Morning quarterback in hindsight

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Speaker 1: what they should have done, but at the time, as

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Speaker 1: someone that was watching them, like I couldn't take anymore

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Speaker 1: c J. Bethroom. So they were in a tough spot

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Speaker 1: that they did. They did the right thing by playing them.

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Speaker 1: Because here's the other thing, and just talking about Dean Spanish,

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Speaker 1: like the Niners don't worry about money, not saying that

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna give it away, but like that doesn't

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Speaker 1: hinder their decisions. You know, they're they're okay if by

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Speaker 1: doing something's going to ultimately cost them more money, if

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Speaker 1: they think they can win. You know, Dean Spanish doesn't

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Speaker 1: think like that. Dean goes, well, who's the most functional

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Speaker 1: coach I can get for the cheapest price, Like Jed

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Speaker 1: when he blew it up and he made some mistakes

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Speaker 1: with Trent and chip in Tom Sula, I mean, Tom

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Speaker 1: Seula is a big mistake, said, I need to fix

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Speaker 1: this thing. He gave like sixty million dollars combined to

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Speaker 1: Lynch in Shanahan because he just had to get the

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Speaker 1: train back on the tracks. And it's different with the

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Speaker 1: player's salary because the players salaries paid for by the

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Speaker 1: media revenue. But ultimately you had to throw Jimmy in there,

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Speaker 1: and that costs him big money. But again they did

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Speaker 1: the right thing also by paying Jimmy. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think Dean Spanos might have franchised him. Some organizations might

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Speaker 1: have franchised Jimmy. The Niners paid him because it actually

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Speaker 1: becomes cheaper, like if you had franchise. Let's just give

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Speaker 1: a hypothetical. Let's say the Niners played him. Let's say

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Speaker 1: they play him the last five games, but they don't

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Speaker 1: want to pay him, so they franchise him this year.

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Speaker 1: Then Jimmy terrors his a c L. Well what do

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Speaker 1: they do? You know you're gonna franchise him again. We

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Speaker 1: can't let him walk because think of all the teams,

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Speaker 1: like the New York Giants would pay him. Like think

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Speaker 1: of all the teams that would pay a guy coming

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Speaker 1: off an a c L big money. He would get

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Speaker 1: the same contract. Some team would pay Jimmy Garoppolo huge

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Speaker 1: cash coming off on a c L, the Cowboys, I mean,

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Speaker 1: just go around the league. Teams that need quarterbacks would

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Speaker 1: pay for this guy. So I do think that the

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Speaker 1: Niners now have him under contract, they don't have to

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Speaker 1: franchise him again. They did the right thing. Hey, John,

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Speaker 1: big fan of yours, h keep up the good working pop.

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Speaker 1: Being a big Alabama fan, I was wondering when you

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Speaker 1: see Alabama's dynasty coming to an end, because all dynasties

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Speaker 1: do well, I think Uh, I think levi uh in

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Speaker 1: Alabama is pretty simple. I mean just whenever, whenever Nick

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Speaker 1: hangs it up. Then I don't know if the dynasty

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Speaker 1: will come to an end depends on who they hire. Uh.

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Speaker 1: To me, there are two clear guys they would go after.

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Speaker 1: Would number one would be Dabl Sweeney. Clemson clearly has

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Obama's budget, but it feels like pretty

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Speaker 1: damn close. There is no certainty ten years ago would

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Speaker 1: be a lock he'd come to Alabama. And if you

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Speaker 1: told me Dabl Sweeney was the next head coach at Alabama.

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Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, they might not still be Alabama with

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban, but they're gonna be in the playoffs every year.

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Speaker 1: They might not win five championships in ten years or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna win a cup pool. But if Dabbo

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Speaker 1: said no, I think they would go heavy after Kirby.

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Speaker 1: But Kirby played at Georgia. Georgia is kind of a

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Speaker 1: sleeping giant, and now he hasn't rolling, I don't think

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Speaker 1: he'd leave. So I don't really know what they do.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a big problem. Luckily, Nick, like Belichick,

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Speaker 1: football is his life. Uh he's not a big hobby guy,

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Speaker 1: so he's not I don't think he's going anywhere anytime soon.

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Speaker 1: At least you've got a couple, you know, more games,

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Speaker 1: I mean more seasons to enjoy them. Because if you're him,

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Speaker 1: why would you You're not gonna leave two as a sophomore. Well,

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Speaker 1: then next year you got him as a junior. Uh,

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Speaker 1: now maybe he would leave after his junior year if

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Speaker 1: he rattled off a couple more championships. So Bama just

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Speaker 1: won this, so they would have won three in a row.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you won three championships in a row.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what else is he doing it for? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, I think you're good there for

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Speaker 1: a minute, Hi, John, Even though I can say another

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Speaker 1: saving question, saving coach another five years? Who are a

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Speaker 1: few coaches that could replace him? Okay, this kind of

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Speaker 1: I just answered this. I know Dabbo is definitely a candidate,

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Speaker 1: But if we can't get him, who would we go with?

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Speaker 1: So let's actually talk that out a little more. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, Kirby, if they wouldn't do it, really, who

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Speaker 1: would Alabama go after? I think they would go after

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Speaker 1: NFL people, But I don't think an NFL head coach

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Speaker 1: would necessarily leave his job like Nick did back in

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Speaker 1: the day to come for Alabama. Then you look around, like,

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Speaker 1: they can't hire Jim mcwayne now that what happened at Florida.

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Speaker 1: Uh would Lane Kiffin? You know, if he were to

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Speaker 1: have a couple of big years at f A, you

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Speaker 1: be entertained, doubt it, but you never know, you know,

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. As crazy as it sounds, s C got

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Speaker 1: themselves into this position several years ago. Now, granted they

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Speaker 1: got popped, you know, when Pete left, So it's a

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00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: lot harder for them to get anyone. But they got

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Speaker 1: into a desperate situation and they hired Lane, Like what

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Speaker 1: would happen at Alabama if Saban were hired? Dablo said no,

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Speaker 1: Kirby said no. They start looking around like canvassing the country,

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Speaker 1: and you got I can't get an NFL coach to come.

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Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? And then you got Lanes

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Speaker 1: in there that has Alabama ties, that won a championship,

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Speaker 1: that would bring some juice, that would keep your team

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Speaker 1: really relevant, that knows how to recruit. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: as crazy as that sounds now that I just talked

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Speaker 1: through it, I don't know if it's that far fetched.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. Okay, last question, there's been a good

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Speaker 1: little mail back. Quick question for the pod. If you

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Speaker 1: could put a draft together of the last three years

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Speaker 1: drafts of quarterbacks, what would be your order? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: clearly a couple of guys have really shoed. I do

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Speaker 1: think because this guy's coming off in a c O,

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Speaker 1: we're almost discounting him a little bit. His team's also

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Speaker 1: really injured. Now, if I if Andy Reid's my head coach,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking my homes because the combination. But let's just

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Speaker 1: say I have an average head coach. I would take

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. He's just too physically gifted, can do too much.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Mahomes is too, I would go Wentz. Mahomes goff

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Speaker 1: has established himself as as pretty special. You know. I

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Speaker 1: like Watson, never loved him, like the hype that really

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Speaker 1: kind of gathered the last couple of years. I like

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Speaker 1: Trubisky coming out now. I've been pretty put off with

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Speaker 1: standing the six touchdown game last week by what I've seen,

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Speaker 1: But my guy Matt Naggie's coaching him up. If Trubisky

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Speaker 1: can get it turned around. I'm not giving up on

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Speaker 1: Trubisky by any means, not the biggest dad guy. I

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Speaker 1: like Mariota as a person. I'm just I don't know

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Speaker 1: how good he is. We'll see if he can keep

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Speaker 1: this up. I'm out on Jamis again. So I think

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Speaker 1: Mahomes and Wentz are just in a category by themselves.

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Speaker 1: I think Golf has established himself is just a damn

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Speaker 1: good player. I think, you know, the jury is out

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Speaker 1: on Deshaun Watson and Trubisky, but you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of and then obviously I forgot about the crop of

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Speaker 1: guys this year. I would have Rosen, Donald, you know,

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Speaker 1: somewhere in there with with the Deshaun Watson, the Troubinsky say,

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Speaker 1: with Baker, I'd be out on like Jamis, I'd be

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Speaker 1: out on Josh Allen for different reasons. Obviously. Josh a

802
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Speaker 1: good kid, He's just a bad player. Jamis is okay player,

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Speaker 1: He's just a slap off the field. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's hard. I mean there was. It was

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Speaker 1: a good crop of quarterbacks this year. Actually, four guys

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Speaker 1: go in the top ten and Lamar, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: a big Lamar guy, So I I'd go Carson and

808
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Speaker 1: Mahomes in a category by themselves. Then I'd go golf.

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Speaker 1: Then I'd go the group of three that I really

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Speaker 1: like this year, Donald Rosen, Baker with you know, a

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson and Trobisky mixed in there below them, And

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Speaker 1: I'm probably leaving the Lamar's out, Josh Allen out, Amos

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Speaker 1: Mariotta out. I throw Mariota below the crop of this

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Speaker 1: year's rookies. I'm not giving up on them, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not super high on them. Okay again, slide into my

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Speaker 1: d M S. Slide up in there, and I will

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Speaker 1: answer you guys, questions, Middlecoff mail back do it every week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Uh you guys, appreciate you. We're doing

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Speaker 1: two podcasts a week now, Tuesday Friday. I'll talk to

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