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Speaker 1: and beside the head coaches in basketball, I remember talking

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Speaker 1: to someone around the NBM like, how many assistants make

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Speaker 1: seven figures, Like what kind of depends on the team.

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Speaker 1: Like the Warriors, for example, they had Kenny Atkinson, you know,

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown was their assistant forever. They always had a

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Speaker 1: number two guy making a lot of money, and certain

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Speaker 1: teams do, but a lot of teams do not have

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Speaker 1: a assistant coach making seven figures. There is not a

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Speaker 1: coordinator in the NFL offensive or defensive, and obviously not

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Speaker 1: every offensive coordinator even calls the plays because sometimes the

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Speaker 1: head coach does. That makes under seven figures. So the

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Speaker 1: amount of money that is getting thrown around with these coaches,

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Speaker 1: it's why the there's so much pressure. They're getting paid

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Speaker 1: so much. But it's really just a line item. Now

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Speaker 1: that the these television deals have gotten so astronomical, and

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Speaker 1: unlike golf, who had to get in bed with the

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Speaker 1: Sadi's because they could not sustain paying twenty million dollars

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Speaker 1: perses to elevated events. They couldn't do it. It was all

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Speaker 1: it was all giant fugazi. It was fake money. It

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Speaker 1: was not a sustainable thing. I mean it was it

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Speaker 1: was going to come crashing down. And still, Mike, We'll

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Speaker 1: see and see if the thing passes through the government,

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Speaker 1: but which it probably will because you know the government's

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Speaker 1: in bed with Sadi. So that's a whole other topic

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Speaker 1: that we'll discuss on go LO coming up this week.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, it's it's pretty crazy how much coin these

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Speaker 1: these first time head coaches and definitely these coordinators are making.

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Speaker 1: And I saw Sean McDermott. I think this happened on Friday,

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Speaker 1: him and Brandon Bean got extended. And I think there's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of people, you know, ask me, do

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Speaker 1: they think it's Sean McDermott on the hot seat? People

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Speaker 1: on social media like why are you extending this guy?

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I think people forget how shitty it

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Speaker 1: was for Buffalo till he got there. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: remember when Kyle Kyle Williams when Andy Dalton had to

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Speaker 1: come back and he was crying in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: The Bills hadn't made the playoffs in almost two decades,

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Speaker 1: and I look before I hopped on here and pressed

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Speaker 1: record did over the last three three seasons, thirteen, eleven

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Speaker 1: and thirteen. That's their win totals the last three years.

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Speaker 1: They have won the division every single year for three

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Speaker 1: straight years in a division that was clearly basically for

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Speaker 1: two decades dominated by Belichick and Brady, and they're going

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Speaker 1: to be the favorite to win that division again this season.

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Speaker 1: You win the division three years in a row, that

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Speaker 1: means you're hosting home playoff games. I think of the

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Speaker 1: last two years. Beat the Dolphins, beat the Patriots. Then

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Speaker 1: you start beating your division rivals in playoff games. I

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Speaker 1: know they had a big letdown the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Right last year was an ass kicking that they got

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Speaker 1: worked and two years ago, I mean a freaky ending.

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Speaker 1: It was coaches are to blame, but you know it

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Speaker 1: took a pretty crazy circumstance for that thing not to

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Speaker 1: work out. Through what are the Chiefs game? Forty yards

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Speaker 1: and thirteen seconds? You probably could simulate that one hundred

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Speaker 1: times and it would only you would only get a

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Speaker 1: field goal attempt that you could make once, and they

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Speaker 1: did works in. The Chiefs deserve credit, but the Bills.

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Speaker 1: This is a reality. Sometimes when life changes, your expectations change.

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Speaker 1: Right when you get your first job out of college,

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Speaker 1: if someone pays you a thirty forty grand, you're like

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Speaker 1: a pick and shit, like I got some money, I

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Speaker 1: got a job, I got a place to go and

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Speaker 1: then his life. As you get older, maybe get in

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Speaker 1: your mid thirties and you're making two hundred grand and

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Speaker 1: you've got a family, your expectations of just life changes

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Speaker 1: one point in time. You know, everything in life is

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Speaker 1: all relative. Things that made you happy when you're eighteen

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Speaker 1: no longer make you happy sometimes when you're thirty or

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Speaker 1: when you're fifty. Right, just life changes. And once you

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Speaker 1: start sniffing success. I don't care what industry you're in,

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Speaker 1: but definitely in sports, and you start getting close, you

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Speaker 1: forget really quickly how dark the times were. I see

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Speaker 1: it with the Niners. It's like Kyle Shanahan, what he's

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Speaker 1: been to three NFC championship games in four years. I

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Speaker 1: remember for about fifteen years before orball, it was a

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Speaker 1: lot of Mike Nolan's, Mike Singletary's, and some Jim tom

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Speaker 1: Sulas and Chip Kelly mixing there as well. Like do

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Speaker 1: you want to win the Super Bowl? Only one guy

505
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Speaker 1: can really do that? Right And right now Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes feel like they have the market cornered

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And if Tom Brady now that he's gone,

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Speaker 1: like Chiefs are going to be the favorite again this

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Speaker 1: year so like you're going to the playoffs. Listen, I'm

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Speaker 1: hard on Mike McCarthy, right, I don't blame anyone that's

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Speaker 1: hard on Mike McCarthy. But if he's winning twelve plus

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Speaker 1: games every year and they're hosting playoff games winning one.

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Speaker 1: I know they haven't been in the NFC Championship game

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Speaker 1: in almost three decades, but Nimes could be a lot

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Speaker 1: worse for Dallas Cowboy fans. Remember with Jason Garrett going

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Speaker 1: eight and eight every year, how that felt? That sucked?

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Speaker 1: Now going twelve wins, winning a first round playoff game,

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Speaker 1: beating the shit out of Brady, having a close game

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Speaker 1: with the Niners could be a lot worse. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: going a little mailbag here. Very easy to get in

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Speaker 1: the mail bag. All you do is go to my

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Speaker 1: direct messages on Instagram at John Middlecoff. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people over the years President State Philadelphia Eagles have only

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Speaker 1: put one f. It's got two f's at John Middlecoff Instagram,

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Speaker 1: DMS wide open. The easiest way to get a hold

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Speaker 1: of me. Start with my man, do you think Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo was a good quarterback? Heard Collins take that he

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Speaker 1: was a b quarterback? And went on a stat field

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Speaker 1: defense of Romo. I'm a lifelong Cowboys fan, all Caps

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Speaker 1: life long. I'm so old. I remember Dan Meredith and

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Speaker 1: that young Navy guy Roger Stallback. Romo is a nice guy,

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Speaker 1: but he's not a quote unquote good quarterback. He heard

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Speaker 1: his pinky on a non throwing hand and sat out

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Speaker 1: after he got a big payday. Stallback broke his finger

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Speaker 1: on a helmet of a Washington redskin and yankso tape

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Speaker 1: from a guy's thidpad and as a crooked finger to

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Speaker 1: this day, that's the difference between great and Meh Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna compare any Dallas Cowboy quarterback to Stallbach

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Speaker 1: or Aikman, yeah, I mean we're gonna have a hard

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Speaker 1: time thinking the guy you know was good enough. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about guys winning chips, winning playoff games. But

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Speaker 1: like if you com bear Jimmy Garoppolo to Steve Young

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Speaker 1: and Joe Montana, he's gonna look pretty shitty. But when

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Speaker 1: you know you're going winning playoff games with a guy,

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Speaker 1: it's not so bad. So I think a lot like

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott relative to all time great quarterbacks or even

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Speaker 1: the rest of some of their contemporaries. He's not as good,

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Speaker 1: But is Dak Prescott pretty good? Yes? Was Tony Romo

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Speaker 1: pretty good? Yes? Both guys turned the ball over a lot.

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo clearly a little more reckless with his body

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Speaker 1: because I also were gonna put back it seems like

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Speaker 1: you were insinuating that Romo is a little soft, didn't

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Speaker 1: play games like a messed up spleen, didn't he battle

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Speaker 1: through injuries. I will say this about Tony Romo. When

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Speaker 1: I think my time watching Romo, I think tough guy.

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Speaker 1: I think a throwback. Now do I think a guy

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Speaker 1: that had some legendary letdowns, had some moments that left

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Speaker 1: more to be desired, of course, but the same is

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Speaker 1: currently happening with Dak Prescott. I think both are good quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Are either Mahomes or either Joe Burrow in Romo. Think

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Speaker 1: about some of his contemporaries, right, Peyton Manning, Rogers, Brady Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he's not anywhere near as good as those guys.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be a Hall of Famer, right, But

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Speaker 1: was he a damn good quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident saying that is he Roger Stallbach

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Speaker 1: or Troy Aikman no a huge fan of the pod.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big Eagles fan and wanted to ask what

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Speaker 1: you think realistic expectation is for Jalen Carter in his

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Speaker 1: rookie season. I think sometimes, and I'm guilty of this,

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Speaker 1: that we kind of our expectations get a little out

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Speaker 1: of whack with rookie, especially on good teams. Right Jordan

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Speaker 1: Davis is a good example. Right, you got drafted last

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Speaker 1: year pretty high expectations, then it gets banged up and

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Speaker 1: he's just I wouldn't say he's out of sight, out

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Speaker 1: of mind, but you know, for a guy that was

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Speaker 1: drafted really high, I would say he had somewhat of

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Speaker 1: an underwhelming individual season. As a team, as a defense,

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Speaker 1: they were awesome. Obviously you can't predict injuries, but they

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Speaker 1: do have a direct need once they lose Hardgrave to

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers with interior pass rushers. Butcher Cox

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Speaker 1: is nowhere near what he once was, so I think

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Speaker 1: between him and Davis, now Davis has been in the

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Speaker 1: league for a year now, I think if you can

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Speaker 1: get a combined eight nine sacks, I think I would

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Speaker 1: say individually for Jalen Carter. If you get five sacks

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Speaker 1: and just be active, you know, I think that'd be

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty awesome for them. I think he's going to

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Speaker 1: be used early on. They're gonna ease him into it.

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Speaker 1: What would be my guess. They're not just gonna try

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Speaker 1: to hit the ground running and make him some all

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Speaker 1: pro I also think he's gonna have to earn it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be There's a team that's pretty

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Speaker 1: well established, a lot of veteran players at every position.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're gonna hand a shit. So

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to earn it with his actions off

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Speaker 1: the field, the way he acts, the way he operates

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Speaker 1: leading up to games. Now, this is the NFL, just

598
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Speaker 1: like when he played at Georgia. It's a production based business, right,

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Speaker 1: So if he's making plays, he's gonna get to play.

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Speaker 1: But I would say my expectations for him is just

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Speaker 1: to be probably more of an impact player as the

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Speaker 1: year goes along. I wouldn't just expect like defensive rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year. I also think it's harder to be

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Speaker 1: like a standout on a team with other really good players.

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Speaker 1: Were in theory of black Eye, He's gonna have a

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Speaker 1: big season. He's playing with how many sweet players kind

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Speaker 1: of get lost in the shuff a little bit. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's just that talented. We'll see, but my expectations will

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Speaker 1: just be a lot of flash plays throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: I could also see, you know, maybe a little out

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Speaker 1: of shape come like early October, and then they kind

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Speaker 1: of whip them into, you know, in the gear the

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Speaker 1: older guys. I can see it being a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an up and down year four. But he's definitely

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Speaker 1: gonna have some plays where it's like, holy shit. Most rookies,

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Speaker 1: I would say, I lean especially talented ones that are

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Speaker 1: on talented teams. It feels like they usually come on

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Speaker 1: year two, year three. Now some guys hit the ground

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Speaker 1: running and just dominate. Bosa Miles, Garrett Khalil Mack as

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Speaker 1: a rookie was pretty unreal. But the expectation like they

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Speaker 1: just got to played unlimited amount snaps. Hey love the pod.

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Speaker 1: You guys should consider talking about sports cards. People would

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Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I just don't know much about them.

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Speaker 1: I don't really play that game. We just kind of

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Speaker 1: talk about on the show. What I like. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that everyone likes it. I probably leave some stuff out. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we don't do a huge fantasy football once the season

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Speaker 1: starts on the show, but that's just not really my

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Speaker 1: cup of tea. I just can be me though. I've

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Speaker 1: always been fascinated ever since Gary Ve started hyping up

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Speaker 1: those sports cards. Hey, John, love the work you've been doing.

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Speaker 1: What are your expectations for Justin Fields and the Bears

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Speaker 1: with their improved roster. I feel like they could be

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Speaker 1: anywhere in the range of seven to ten to eleven

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Speaker 1: and six if the Chicago Bears want eleven and six

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Speaker 1: this year. I mean, Justin Fields might be a pro bowler,

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Speaker 1: you said, because they're easy schedule. I don't know their

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00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: schedule up. I think my expectations for Justin Fields is

639
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: to be a much more explosive, explosive passer. As we

640
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: saw last year, his running ability was like shades of

641
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 1: Pete Lamar. It was pretty freaking incredible. You know, remember

642
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,919
Speaker 1: the one clip that kind of went viral of Mike

643
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: McDaniel's telling him to stop running because he was killing them.

644
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: As a runner. Fields is every bit the athlete and

645
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: every bit as instinctive and natural as anyone that watched

646
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: him in his collegiate career, or you could just YouTube

647
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: his high school highlights. To me, it's gonna be like,

648
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: can he have consistent sustain twenty two of thirty eight

649
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: that's not even great, but twenty two of thirty six

650
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: ring that you know he's not going to be just

651
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: a field, is not gonna be a sixty six percent passer?

652
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: Can he be like low sixties but beat throw for

653
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: three hundred yards, throw a couple of touchdowns, and just

654
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: kind of build on those back to back to back

655
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: to back weeks. Because I think, and I've heard Michael

656
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: Lombardi say this, they were the worst team league. Obviously,

657
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: they drafted number one overall until they traded the pick.

658
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: They averaged I think twenty two pass attempts a game.

659
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let him throw. Now, you could argue that's

660
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: because of their personnel around him. You add DJ Moore,

661
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: you know, Infory Chase Claypool. Now there have been some

662
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: rumors coming out do they like him? Is he all in?

663
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,280
Speaker 1: Does he even like football? So there was a viral

664
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: video today of him in France. He's like a male

665
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: model or something. I would never do business with the

666
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers wanting to trade me a wide receiver. Like, wait,

667
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: you guys are the best wide receiver drafting team in

668
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: the league, and you want to trade me one of them.

669
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: I got a red flag. I don't see that. Leave

670
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: the last couple, Claypool. That was a heist. They got

671
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: the thirty third overall draft pick Antonio Brown. Remember how

672
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: that thing went for the Raiders. I'm a die hard

673
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: Hawks fan and used to being a small market, but

674
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: no one is giving them their They got Draymond Jones

675
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: and Bobby Wagner this offseason to pair with another big

676
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: rookie class with some college stars. Not to mention Jamal

677
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: Adams coming back healthy pretty big. If Jamal Adams gets

678
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: hurt a lot, don't see how we don't improve and

679
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: give the Niners a run for their money. We also

680
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: have a lot to work for you in any facet,

681
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: especially on your go lopod big golf guy. Oh, you

682
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: want to work for me? Currently working toward a sports

683
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: business degree. I like this guy. Get some Joey good

684
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: luck to you. I think Seattle's I'm going to pick

685
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: him to make the playoffs again. I do think it's

686
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: fair to go. They got thirty touchdowns out of Gino Simith,

687
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: and he was awesome. He was a Pro Bowl level player,

688
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: comeback player of the Year, easy to root for, seemed

689
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: just like a fantastic guy. Right They wrote him off,

690
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: but he didn't write back one of the best lines.

691
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: I don't care any industry in twenty twenty two or

692
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, I was twenty two. That was awesome.

693
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: But is he gonna do it again? So he's just

694
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna throw sixty touchdowns in two years. It'd be an

695
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: all time career resurrection. Now you'd go, well, John, They

696
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: got DK Metcalf, one of the best wide receivers in

697
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: the league. They got Jackson Smith, who those players in Seattle,

698
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: O Tas are claiming like he's going to be a

699
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Tyler Lockett could still play. Kenneth Walker's

700
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: a stud. They drafted Charbonney, the running back from UCLA,

701
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: who I'm pretty sure he started his career at the

702
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: University of Michigan. He's a stud. So we know the

703
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: two tackles they drafted two years ago should be better.

704
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 1: I do think the Niners top to bottom are better.

705
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: And you know what I saw at a purty like,

706
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: what the hell's the difference. So the Niners team is

707
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,479
Speaker 1: just better. I mean they swept him last year three

708
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,919
Speaker 1: and zero. Now, when Russell was there, the Niners could

709
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: not beat Seattle. It was very, very difficult. Well, I

710
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: think Russell's career record against the forty nine ers in

711
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: his whatever nine years with the Seahawks was like it

712
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: was something stupid. I forgot to top my Maybe it

713
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: was like seventeen to three. He owned them. The owner

714
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: ag ended last year. So I'm gonna pick the Niners

715
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: doing the division. But I'm with you, Seattle's gonna be good.

716
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: I thought last year. I don't want to say it

717
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: was flooky, but towards the end of the year they

718
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: were running out of steam a little bit. I think

719
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: consistently they'll just be better. I think their team is better.

720
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm not counting on Jamal Adams. Like what is Jamal Adams?

721
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: A linebacker? Can't cover a soul? He gets injured a lot.

722
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: To me, you don't even need them. But he went

723
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: away and you guys run faced. I would say, can

724
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: you run? Can you be a top five run team

725
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: in the league with those running backs? And then anytime

726
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: you can run it like that, which they have in

727
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: the past, the play action game with those wide receivers.

728
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: Maybe Gino does have another good year, but I would

729
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: still pick them to be like a one and done

730
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: playoff team, which if you tell me you traded Russell

731
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: Wilson got everything and then you went to the playoffs

732
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: back to back years, it's pretty impressive. Man, really is

733
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: definitely my favorite sports person. What was a player that

734
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: you scouted that you were really high on that wasn't

735
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: what you thought and a more underrated player that you

736
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: were high on that was really good. Also, if you

737
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: weren't let go from scouting in the NFL, would you

738
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: still be doing it. I don't know. I would say

739
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: probably not. But sometimes in life, you know, I think

740
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: there's a small percentage of people that know that aren't

741
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: like athletes or singers or something. They're just so talented

742
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: that it's like, what I'm gonna do that, just go

743
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be this, I'm gonna do this. And I

744
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: worked with some of those guys. Howie Rosaman is one.

745
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to be an NFL GM over my dead body,

746
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to work in football, And I wasn't really

747
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: like that. It's just one of those things that happened,

748
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: so I, you know, have changed professions multiple times, and

749
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: so I would doubt it. I really would that. I

750
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd be doing this. There's an element

751
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: of luck that led me to the podcasting world, but

752
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd still be scouting. You know, for

753
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: my first couple of years, I was doing much more

754
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: pro football, and when you do pro I didn't like

755
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: it as much. You're basically just sitting in the office

756
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: fifteen hours a day just watching football players. But it's

757
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: not like you're watching it on television like you and

758
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: I do now on Sunday or Saturday. It's quiet. You're

759
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 1: just watching the All twenty two and you're just writing

760
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: reports on guys in the league and the character stuff.

761
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: One thing I really enjoyed when I did college for

762
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: a year and worked on the road was the character

763
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: stuff and finding out about the guy. Once the guy's

764
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you're just writing them up as a player.

765
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: You have all the character information, so you just is

766
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: the guy playing well? Is he not playing well? Is

767
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: he a free agent? Should we be interested? Is he

768
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: a practice squad guy? Should we try to claim him?

769
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: Spent a lot of time doing that it's just very

770
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: cut and dry. There's not much emotion behind it once

771
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: you get to college. You know, I wasn't big Matt

772
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:04,280
Speaker 1: Barkley guy. Now, Chip and I argued about it because

773
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: I said, this guy can never play in Philadelphia. Well,

774
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: he drafted him, and in fairness to Matt, I was wrong.

775
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: He's still in the league, pretty sure. He's on the

776
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: Bills right now, so he's had a decade long career.

777
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: I would have thought he would have made it in

778
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: the NFL a couple of seasons. Now there are guys that,

779
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: you know, Ziggiyansa's or Deon Jordan's or Star Lotali. Do

780
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: you just think are going to be impact level players

781
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 1: that whether it be injuries, whether it be focus slash,

782
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: character stuff, or whether it just be you know, the

783
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: game kind of changed and it was much more of

784
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: a pass heavy league and run stuffing defensive tackles aren't

785
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: as valuable. So things change on you. But the year

786
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 1: I did the West Coast, I was a big Robert

787
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: Woods guy, and once he got with the Rams, he

788
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,720
Speaker 1: he kind of proved that he was a really good player.

789
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, talk to my buddies once

790
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: you do an area or college for a decade, you

791
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: have a million of those. The majority of the guys

792
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: that I watched when I was in the NFL were

793
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and you just like, you know, I

794
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: really like ray Lewis, getting old, trending down. You're spending

795
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: a lot of time doing stuff like that. What's your

796
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: take on the Lions in Seattle trading away their franchise

797
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and thus, in my opinion, reinvigorating their franchises for

798
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: the players in draft capital they received. Especially for the Lions,

799
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: I think this was the best move the Lions have

800
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: made in the last decade. Even though I still hate

801
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: what the Lions did in the first round of the

802
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: twenty three draft, I disagree. I like the Lions draft.

803
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: I think both teams fall under this category. If they

804
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: would have had Baker Mayfield or some random quarterback, it

805
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: probably would have looked ugly and we would not be positive.

806
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: Where they both deserve credit is the Lions asked for

807
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: Jared Goff in the trade, and Jared Goff last year

808
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: was really good, and Seattle felt pretty good about having

809
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: gdol on their ross and said we can play and

810
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: win with this guy. So part of the reason we

811
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: look at those two teams is like trending in the

812
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: right direction, making good moves, trading the quarterback is because

813
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: they had veteran quarterbacks that, let's face it, I thought

814
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: Jared Goff sucked. I never would have thought in a

815
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: million years Geno Smith could throw thirty touchdowns in a

816
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: season for a playoff team. It is early thirties. So

817
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: those teams deserve a lot of credit for scouting, whether

818
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: it be you know, acquiring golf or a guy on

819
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: their team, believing in them and then coaching the guy

820
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 1: up and putting him in a position to have success.

821
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: Because if you give a team a random look at

822
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: the Saints, look at their quarterback situation last year, you

823
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: give some of these teams like Andy Dalton or Baker

824
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: Mayfield or not trying to shit on Baker Mayfield, but

825
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: he's your quarterback right now, you're gonna lose. So that's

826
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: a big, big reason is they had guys that they

827
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: could plug in and immediately, I would say, not just function,

828
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:07,959
Speaker 1: but have some success. Love the show, listen all the time,

829
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: love your insight. Don't always agree, but that is what

830
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: makes America great. Big freedom of speech guy here, so

831
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: I really tired of hearing Colin and others saying that

832
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: the Giants screwed themselves by signing Daniel Jones and now

833
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: they have to pay Barkley. I love Barkley as a player,

834
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: but think that you can find a running back like

835
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: him in the second or third in later rounds and

836
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: not have to pay them. Totally agree. What are your

837
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on not having to pay Barkley? I just wouldn't

838
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: do it, but I'm just not doing it. I've said

839
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: over and over that this has been a very lucrative

840
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: deal for Saquon Barkley. He was drafted number two overall,

841
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: He's made thirty eight million dollars. Most running backs this

842
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: year were making five or six million dollars in free agency.

843
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: They're almost paying him eleven. But at the end of

844
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: this year he will have made forty eight million dollars

845
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: over six seasons, an average close to eight million dollars.

846
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: I think it actually is eight million dollars a year,

847
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 1: kind of properly paid for what he's brought to the table.

848
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: And did I love the Daniel Jones. I might have

849
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Speaker 1: let him both hit free agency, right, Like, who's paying

850
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones? Who was I competing against. I think a

851
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley hit free agency. I just don't see who

852
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: pays him, not more than maybe I would say the

853
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: most twenty million dollars. Remember Leveon Bell sat out a

854
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: season and since he said that's the worst decision of

855
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: his life, even though everyone in the media and all

856
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: the former players were saying, like, this guy is a trailblazer. Yeah,

857
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: trailblazing his career right out of the league and losing

858
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: fifteen or fourteen million dollars on a second franchise stack

859
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: one of the stupidest business decisions in the history of

860
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: America that was celebrated by these fucking morons with too

861
00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: many journalism degrees working at ESPN. But I don't want

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00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: to go down that rabbit hole. That's still that's that's

863
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: one of my one take that I do not regret

864
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: having feel like I nailed that one. I would just

865
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 1: say I would have let both these guys hit free

866
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: agency and sign them both for cheaper deals. Now, maybe

867
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,240
Speaker 1: Joe Shane and Brian day Ball would say we can't

868
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: take that risk, and I go, I can hear you.

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00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: With Daniel Jones, I couldn't take the risk of letting

870
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Speaker 1: him hit free agency and go, okay, see what you

871
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 1: can get, and then someone does pay me as a quarterback.

872
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: But I just don't see who would have paid Saquon Barkley.

873
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: I really don't, So I would just play it on

874
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: the franchise tag like I don't think Saquon Barkley. It's

875
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: not like he last year when DK metcalf, aj Brown

876
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: and Deebo Samuel all wanted to get paid. I ran

877
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: into this guy at the gym today who said he

878
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: was at Talking Stick, which is the anyone that's been

879
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: to Scottsdales the It's the Indian casino right off the highway.

880
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: He was playing craps and he's like, you know, I

881
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: was playing crap with I don't think a guy quite

882
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: knows what I do, even though I talked to him

883
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: a decent amount. He's like, Deebo Samuel, you know who

884
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: that is. I'm like, yeah, I've heard of him. I've

885
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:10,919
Speaker 1: heard of him. I was like, then I started picking

886
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: for what was he like. He's like, he was great.

887
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 1: We were had a great time. They played crafts for

888
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: a couple hours. So Debo's Deebo's doing pretty well. I

889
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: guess they had a guy came in. It was just

890
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: was hot until a lot of people were making money.

891
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: But those guys, remember were you know, second round picks,

892
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: especially AJ and DK late second round picks. It was

893
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: like time to get paid. We've been Pro bowlers. I'm sorry,

894
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: saquanm like you've been broken off. Same with Daniel Jones,

895
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: like he'd been paid a lot. So you can't risk

896
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 1: not having a quarterback. You could definitely risk the running

897
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: back situation. So I'm with you. You could find even

898
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: if you can't find Saquon Barkley, I could find eighty

899
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Speaker 1: five percent of his value in the third round. That's

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00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: an objective fact. We see it all the time. And hell,

901
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: even if you miss on the running back, you get

902
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent, it might be good. So I

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00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: hear you. I I would just pay take one Barba

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Speaker 1: with the franchise tag my kind. That's that's what we're

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Speaker 1: going to play on now. I do expect the Giants

906
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: to give them like some three year, forty million dollar

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Speaker 1: thirty guaranteed, which I just think is bad business. That's

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Speaker 1: my that's my prediction. Appreciate everyone listening, Audios, the volume