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Speaker 2: rolling here, LeVar. I don't know if this is a
Speaker 2: sign of the times or maybe we have a little
Speaker 2: bit of a problem here, but Colorado and coach Primes
Speaker 2: Colorado Buffalo's they had their spring game over the weekend
Speaker 2: and according to Colorado Sports only on social media. The
Speaker 2: attendance at the Colorado Spring Games has started to decline
Speaker 2: over the four years since Dion Sanders has taken over.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, the first year, a little over
Speaker 2: forty seven thousand showed up to Boulder for the spring game.
Speaker 2: The next year it was twenty eight thousand. The year
Speaker 2: after that it was twenty and then approximately in between
Speaker 2: seventeen and eighteen thousand over the weekend they're in Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 2: That according to Sean Keeler of the Denver Post, so
Speaker 2: the school was claiming that there was about twenty seven
Speaker 2: and change, but upon further review, they might have rounded
Speaker 2: up an extra ten thousand to get to that number.
Speaker 2: And so there's some people that have speculated that well,
Speaker 2: maybe uh, maybe the coolness and the newness of the
Speaker 2: Colorado program under Dion Sanders kind of run its course.
Speaker 2: That along with the fact that, you know, coming off
Speaker 2: a disappointing season, there's a lot of stuff going on
Speaker 2: and you don't have Shador, you don't have Travis Hunter there,
Speaker 2: and so some people are worried about the state of
Speaker 2: affairs there in Colorado.
Speaker 3: You don't have Shador, you don't have Travis Hunter. You
Speaker 3: were good enough to win four games when they were there.
Speaker 3: Let that sink in. So we're saying that the drawing
Speaker 3: card was coach prime Shador Sanders Travis Hunter. But it
Speaker 3: didn't yield you a result like they had the great start,
Speaker 3: didn't they start like three and zero?
Speaker 4: I believe is his first year there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had the big win against what was
Speaker 3: it TCU early first game or something like that?
Speaker 2: Was it the Bullthrog? I they beat Nebraska? Didn't they
Speaker 2: beat Nebraska as well too?
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken the first game out they were supposed
Speaker 3: to get. They were supposed to get spent Christian. I
Speaker 3: believe they Here's what I'll say. Coach Dion Sanders brings
Speaker 3: a lot of the spotlight and attention his way by
Speaker 3: the way he handles things. He's unapologetically who he is,
Speaker 3: and he leads with his faith and his belief. He
Speaker 3: carries it through with his commitment to his family and
Speaker 3: the people that he cares about. And he's a master salesperson.
Speaker 3: He sells what he buys into. He was able to
Speaker 3: sell himself as a player, he's been able to sell
Speaker 3: himself as a coach. He was able to sell you
Speaker 3: his kids as players. He's been able to sell you
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter, and ultimately he's been able to sell you
Speaker 3: the vision and the dream of what the Colorado Buffalo's
Speaker 3: program could potentially become under his leadership. He's along the way.
Speaker 3: He sold you some Nike shoes. He sold you some blender,
Speaker 3: you know, sunglasses. Yeah, he sold you some fried chicken.
Speaker 3: He's selling you. The year before Dion Sanders got there,
Speaker 3: I believe the attendance was reported at ten thousand, three hundred,
Speaker 3: ten thousands some change, whatever it was. So even with
Speaker 3: his fifty percent fallof on attendance to spring game, it's
Speaker 3: more relevant and more significant than what it was when
Speaker 3: he got there. And I think sometimes we forget that
Speaker 3: those three wins was better than what they did when
Speaker 3: he got there. Those four wins that he got last year,
Speaker 3: it was better than what he did, or excuse me,
Speaker 3: the four wins the first year, the three wins last year,
Speaker 3: it was better than what it was when he got there.
Speaker 3: Building programs don't always come together like it did for
Speaker 3: Kirk Signetti in Indiana. It's an outlier, and when you
Speaker 3: look at how difficult it is, and especially in the
Speaker 3: nil Era time, how difficult it is to build a team,
Speaker 3: continue to continue to grow the team, retain players, and
Speaker 3: retain coaches. I think I think it kind of comes
Speaker 3: across as there is a focal point that probably again
Speaker 3: that Diann is most likely created by his personality in
Speaker 3: a way that he is, but Jonas Ultimately, I think
Speaker 3: what we're looking at here is the Deon Sanders effect.
Speaker 3: If this is any other school, why is this even
Speaker 3: a report? Right You're talking about a three win team,
Speaker 3: a four win team, four win team, three win team.
Speaker 3: Why else are we talking about this team right now?
Speaker 3: Because of Deon Sanders? Okay, and that's I look at
Speaker 3: this and I go, if we just want to address
Speaker 3: some of the other stuff about Colorado, So some players
Speaker 3: who transferred and entered the portal because they lost a
Speaker 3: lot of players who entered.
Speaker 4: A lot of players.
Speaker 2: I think it was like thirty five or some crazy
Speaker 2: number like that. But they've also added some players as
Speaker 2: well too. But there's some players have had made some
Speaker 2: comments about the program. Deon Sanders is pretty classy in
Speaker 2: his response to what they were saying, which that whole
Speaker 2: thing especially, look, I could understand if it was back
Speaker 2: in the day, and you didn't really have a ton
Speaker 2: of options and you were kind of stuck in this
Speaker 2: spot or whatever it was. But if you make the
Speaker 2: decision to leave someplace and you are also getting paid
Speaker 2: to leave that place, just shut up. Nobody cares about
Speaker 2: your complaints about the program. You made it clear and
Speaker 2: obvious that you wanted to go elsewhere, which is why
Speaker 2: you left to begin with. Let it be it wasn't
Speaker 2: for you. You didn't like the no social media stuff
Speaker 2: that he implemented, what like, maybe there should be more
Speaker 2: of that just in general for everybody. But I look
Speaker 2: at it and I go, you do realize the bucket
Speaker 2: of vomit that you were before he got there, right like?
Speaker 2: You do realize it was in a relevant program with
Speaker 2: zero buzz and zero interest. And I get that they
Speaker 2: haven't won a national title and they haven't won all
Speaker 2: these big games, and they haven't been a playoff team
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. But the fact that
Speaker 2: this is even a conversation, that it's even being talked about, Wow,
Speaker 2: I look at it, and I go, whatever the win
Speaker 2: loss record is, it's a success.
Speaker 3: Because zero, yeah, it's zero one. It's a success.
Speaker 2: And if you want to make the decision after this
Speaker 2: year that you've got to move on or it's just
Speaker 2: not working, or you know, his style isn't working. Then
Speaker 2: that's fine. But you look back on this era of
Speaker 2: Colorado football and you can say that it peaked early
Speaker 2: and people lost interest down the stretch. Hard to argue
Speaker 2: with the fact that there's never been more interest in
Speaker 2: that program other than when they were winning national temes.
Speaker 2: You can say that for college football it was a
Speaker 2: rock concert.
Speaker 3: You can say that for college sports that Dion Sanders
Speaker 3: invigorated all of sports with his inaugural year at Colorado.
Speaker 2: I think it was great, man.
Speaker 3: He was a rising tide for everyone his first year
Speaker 3: in Colorado. Everyone, Hey, you need to resurface, get your
Speaker 3: name out, get your brand out. Go to Colorado game.
Speaker 3: Hey you want to get your name out there. You
Speaker 3: want want to get some some press, some media. Go
Speaker 3: visit Prime in his office, say it was it Lil
Speaker 3: Wayne machine Gun like get the names are so that
Speaker 3: list is so long of people who walked through Thanks
Speaker 3: for my invitea of all those people who walked through
Speaker 3: the doors and visited Coach Prime, whether it was game day,
Speaker 3: whether it was off days, and just came into the office.
Speaker 3: It was a who's who of people circulating through Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 4: And if you.
Speaker 3: Took a poll with any of those people, those celebrities
Speaker 3: that came there, I would probably be willing to bet
Speaker 3: the bank that most of them had never been to
Speaker 3: the University of Colorado before.
Speaker 2: Then, by the way, I want to correct my I
Speaker 2: don't think Machine Gun Kelly actually performed in Boulder, Colorado.
Speaker 2: But he should have, all right, he should have, So
Speaker 2: that's all right, It's not my fault. Was he there,
Speaker 2: did he visit? Who knows? Probably, But it was a
Speaker 2: who's who of everybody that wanted to be a part
Speaker 2: of the biggest show in football. And it's why it
Speaker 2: was talked about and discussed the way that it was.
Speaker 2: So when I see this stuff come out to where
Speaker 2: people like, oh my god, the spring game numbers are down. Okay,
Speaker 2: they give you what you want. And by the way,
Speaker 2: who knows if the weather, you know, whether the weather
Speaker 2: was cooperating. I saw that there was some thunderstorms and
Speaker 2: things like that. Maybe people didn't want to stand in
Speaker 2: the rain to go watch Colorado practice in a spring game,
Speaker 2: Like what do you it's the spring game is free
Speaker 2: for a reason, like if you show up, you show up.
Speaker 2: If not, whatever the charge of for parking.
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 2: So wow, I mean, what do you want? You wanted
Speaker 2: to be?
Speaker 4: What you want?
Speaker 2: You wanted to be Georgia Spring game where they're handing
Speaker 2: out their hand out condoms because Ludacris is performing.
Speaker 3: They did that with uh with Snoop at the Kentucky
Speaker 3: Midnight Matt Yeah, well too.
Speaker 4: It's like, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 3: Make balloon animals, shoot some rubbers out and everybody's coming.
Speaker 3: I went to I've been to the last three Penn
Speaker 3: State Blue White games.
Speaker 2: Total.
Speaker 3: Totally different from what it was in the early early
Speaker 3: two thousand's, late nineties.
Speaker 4: Totally different.
Speaker 3: You go this I went last when I went last year, No,
Speaker 3: it's just desolate like I.
Speaker 2: Went last year. Really no buzz.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about this year, but last year
Speaker 3: and we were basically being considered the national champs, like
Speaker 3: to compete for it.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 3: Nobody was there, man, Wow, nobody was there.
Speaker 4: Like it was very again, it was.
Speaker 3: Like tumbleweeds, Like it's not what I I was accustomed
Speaker 3: to when I was there. And I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: make it an eye thing, but it's different. I think
Speaker 3: the landscape of spring ball is very different than what
Speaker 3: it has been. And I think historically, if we're trying
Speaker 3: to compare what it is now to what it's becoming.
Speaker 3: And that's why you saw Dion talking about having a
Speaker 3: different team to play in the spring game. Maybe that
Speaker 3: would bring a level of excitement to the fan base.
Speaker 3: Maybe that would be a drawing card to come because
Speaker 3: outside of Dion Sanders using his influence to bring in
Speaker 3: these acts, to bring in these celebrities and superstars to
Speaker 3: come be a part of the landscape of Boulder, you.
Speaker 4: Don't have that.
Speaker 2: You don't have that anywhere.
Speaker 3: And so when you look at why he's been able
Speaker 3: to do it, who did he have performed this year?
Speaker 3: Do we know did he Do you have anybody perform
Speaker 3: this year?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, No.
Speaker 3: There's things that people can look at and say, Okay,
Speaker 3: did this person performing? Hold the weight of people coming
Speaker 3: out and wanting to see a glorified practice, a walkthrough.
Speaker 3: It's not a scrimmage anymore. Guys aren't going live. It's
Speaker 3: not your keeping score. Who wins black or gold like,
Speaker 3: It's not that anymore. It's a practice so what we're
Speaker 3: going to take off and go see this and fill
Speaker 3: in and pack out this stadium for the sake of
Speaker 3: people being able to say that forty thousand people were here,
Speaker 3: sixty thousand people were here like that used to be
Speaker 3: a flex but I don't think that exists anymore.
Speaker 2: Man who knows. By the way, you know, people got
Speaker 2: other plans. You know, it's a Saturday, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: whether it's in the seventies, it might rain, it might not.
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, you know, some guys out there
Speaker 2: smoking the hippie lettuce, having a couple of throat burners.
Speaker 2: You know, people won't have a good time if you're
Speaker 2: using it to have a good time.
Speaker 3: And that's why you went to do all that, the
Speaker 3: throat burner, the lettuce, the.
Speaker 4: High powered lettuce.
Speaker 3: Get on some of that liver loub the liverlubing, all
Speaker 3: that stuff that you're doing. You might want to do
Speaker 3: that and go in and see the new players, or
Speaker 3: go see what's going on or whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is is that the criticisms that are
Speaker 3: coming towards Dion Sanders, while I'll say the attention that
Speaker 3: he Garners would say it's justified for him to get
Speaker 3: the criticisms. I'll say on the other side of it,
Speaker 3: I don't think that it is proper in the sense
Speaker 3: that turning this into a sensational, sensationalized story of the
Speaker 3: fall or the demise of Deon Sanders and the Colorado
Speaker 3: football team when he's basically dealing with the same exact
Speaker 3: challenges that everybody.
Speaker 4: Else in college football is a tat bit.
Speaker 3: That's that's a tad bit out of line to me,
Speaker 3: that's a little out of pocket.
Speaker 2: He didn't take over Alabama after saving left, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. He took over an awful program. They
Speaker 2: were terrible. They were a one win team before he got.
Speaker 3: There, and now you expect them to be a national
Speaker 3: title kay tender. You expect them to be in the
Speaker 3: college football playoff. And that's how it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Why because you took the cheese. Dion again, as I
Speaker 3: started the segment off with, Dion has been selling you
Speaker 3: on his greatness since he was in college.
Speaker 2: And by the way, uh, it's not exactly like he's
Speaker 2: rolling out there one hundred percent healthy either. I mean,
Speaker 2: the guy lost part of.
Speaker 3: His foot fighting. He's lost fighting hell, you know, his
Speaker 3: inside an a dope looking girlfriend though oh yeah, hey,
Speaker 3: when he's best recruited, when he's recruiting for himself, he
Speaker 3: ain't missing that's all. I'm just like, he ain't missing on.
Speaker 2: Delivering what whatever whatever happens with this whole thing if
Speaker 2: it has looked, if it ends up, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: they don't end up winning more than you know, four
Speaker 2: or five games and they decide they want to move
Speaker 2: on or whatnot. So just sold, you say thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you because because he brought he brought the program
Speaker 2: back to relevance and after and that's really I I
Speaker 2: I look at it, and I never looked at Colorado
Speaker 2: and Dion getting there as if what's our win loss
Speaker 2: record and how are they doing Bowl games? I look
Speaker 2: at it is well, are they are they interesting? Again? Yes?
Speaker 2: Would be nice to win some games, Yes, and they did,
Speaker 2: maybe not the big ones. You know. He also had
Speaker 2: a Heisman Trophy winner. Uh, he had a a guy
Speaker 2: come out of Colorado who was a fifth round pick
Speaker 2: who was the story of an entire draft as well too.
Speaker 2: All of that is to his credit, all while doing
Speaker 2: this with serious medicalition.
Speaker 3: Shut on, no gushing over Dion Either this is my
Speaker 3: former teammate. I have a ton of respect for him,
Speaker 3: a ton of admiration. I always tell the story my
Speaker 3: rookie year, I was out of shape coming into camp.
Speaker 3: Dion Sanders pulled me aside and conditioned with me after
Speaker 3: every practice and training camp. Dion is not the diva
Speaker 3: that people think he is. He is a very meticulous
Speaker 3: he meticulous. He is a very, very regiment oriented dude.
Speaker 3: He is a very processed driven dude, almost to the
Speaker 3: point of where you can say it's like a like
Speaker 3: OCD type stuff, Like, the dude is about his business.
Speaker 3: So the things that people kind of portray or experience
Speaker 3: thinks they experience or know about him may not be
Speaker 3: very accurate. And I say this all to say, what
Speaker 3: is the ultimate goal of trying? Like it always seems
Speaker 3: like the stories that surface about Dion Sanders are always
Speaker 3: negatively drink what is the ultimate goal? Because at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, if your negativity leads to Dion
Speaker 3: Sanders getting fired.
Speaker 2: He don't need no money.
Speaker 3: Dion is not hurting for money. So if you get
Speaker 3: rid of them, okay, he's not coaching anymore. He gets
Speaker 3: to go off and do whatever it is. Whatever else
Speaker 3: he's going to do, probably may may rest enjoy life,
Speaker 3: could come back into the media. He kilt it doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they didn't push him out. He rolled out to come coach.
Speaker 3: He could easily go back into that. What is the
Speaker 3: ultimate goal is what I always wonder when you see
Speaker 3: all of these stories, because it's like the fact that
Speaker 3: this man leans into who he is, his faith, his accomplishments,
Speaker 3: what he expects. It truly offends people. And I don't
Speaker 3: understand why Dion is so offensive to the people that
Speaker 3: are watching him.
Speaker 2: You mentioned OCD. You ever been around somebody who had
Speaker 2: full blown o CD. Yes, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: I used to work with this I used to used
Speaker 2: to I used to well, I used to work with
Speaker 2: this guy at a previous job who had I mean
Speaker 2: full I mean we're talking this guy had heavy duty
Speaker 2: o c D where he had to like touch the
Speaker 2: wall a certain number of times as he walked by,
Speaker 2: and hold the railing a certain number of times as
Speaker 2: he walked by. And every time I'd see him, and
Speaker 2: the guy looked like Beethoven too, which is awesome. I
Speaker 2: don't know what.
Speaker 3: Beethoven was like. Well, you know, I'll just use my imagination.
Speaker 2: But so every time I'd see this guy walk, I
Speaker 2: knew he had to touch the railing a certain way
Speaker 2: to walk by. I would cut in between him and
Speaker 2: the railing just.
Speaker 4: Right at that point. Oh, it's great. Did he stop?
Speaker 3: I can't. If I could to stop, I almost went
Speaker 3: into convulsions. Yeah, yes, stop. You disrupted his process. That
Speaker 3: ain't right, brouh Hey, that's you wanted him, do they had?
Speaker 3: You know he was growing up with your nose in
Speaker 3: the corner. That's what you wanted him.
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Speaker 2: Roger Goodell over the Weekend, this is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: There's been some speculation that Kyle Shanahan not exactly thrilled
Speaker 2: with the idea of the forty nine ers opening up
Speaker 2: the year in Australia, especially when you're opening up the
Speaker 2: year in Australia against a team that you can literally
Speaker 2: get on a flight and be there in fifty minutes
Speaker 2: in the La Rams and Roger Goodell over the Weekend
Speaker 2: was asked about Kyle Shanahan having some concerns and some
Speaker 2: issue with the fact that the Niners got to go
Speaker 2: all the way to Australia to start their season.
Speaker 6: Eddie had this to say, Coach Shanahan is enthusiastic and
Speaker 6: a great football coach, but also someone who truly understands
Speaker 6: the importance of expanding our game.
Speaker 2: Go aboid. But his job is to win. His job
Speaker 2: is to play.
Speaker 6: And I always say coaches like to play at one
Speaker 6: o'clock at four o'clock and.
Speaker 4: Don't get in the way of that.
Speaker 6: So we're going to make it a great experience.
Speaker 2: For the team, which is code for yeah, that's cool. Anyways,
Speaker 2: up and get on that plan.
Speaker 4: It's like, but just the idea.
Speaker 2: This just further points to the fact, whether it's the
Speaker 2: eighteen games, whether it's the flexing, whether it's Roger Goodell,
Speaker 2: and the people atop the NFL do not give a
Speaker 2: crap whether or not the players or the coaches like
Speaker 2: the scheduling or care about what it does to their
Speaker 2: body physically. If it means they can make money in
Speaker 2: a new market or in a new time slot or
Speaker 2: on a new streaming service, they're.
Speaker 3: Going to do it. Are there in store? Are there
Speaker 3: any hit coaches around? From Paul Tagle I know Andy
Speaker 3: Reid was coaching the Eagles, but did Goodell take over
Speaker 3: before he went to My whole thing is I think
Speaker 3: how many six how many players from when Roger Goodell
Speaker 3: took over are still in the league. How many coaches
Speaker 3: are head coaches that were head coaches when Roger Goodell
Speaker 3: took over?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, six o six, same year, Yeah, two thousand
Speaker 2: and six, when he took over as commissioner.
Speaker 3: How many players from two thousand and six are still
Speaker 3: in the league. I don't think any. Okay, Yeah, So
Speaker 3: here's the reality of it. Kyle Shanahan is right. Protect
Speaker 3: protect your best interest as best you can, because your
Speaker 3: interest is only the interests while you are still the
Speaker 3: head coach of the team that you're the head coach of.
Speaker 3: That could change at any point in time. Roger Goodell
Speaker 3: does have a job to do, and he's doing it,
Speaker 3: and he's doing it fine and well enough where he
Speaker 3: has continued to be the leadership of this National Football
Speaker 3: League and these franchises business is booming. Look at the
Speaker 3: amount of money that these franchises are selling for on
Speaker 3: the open market.
Speaker 2: They're in the bees.
Speaker 3: So while you can sit there and say there are
Speaker 3: no real pros for Cole Shanahan and the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers to go play in Australia, this is something that
Speaker 3: is like you look at it and it's like it's
Speaker 3: with the Rams. It's the Rams game. So now not
Speaker 3: only are you pulling them away from from America and
Speaker 3: putting them in an entirely different an entirely different time
Speaker 3: slot with being in Australia, but you're talking about that's
Speaker 3: a how long? That's a forty minute our minute, our flight.
Speaker 2: Forty five to fifty minute flight from LA to San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and which is right next to LAX, which is a
Speaker 2: home game for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: Yes, because the forty nine ers take over so far
Speaker 3: when they play them there. So this is automatically a
Speaker 3: mental advantage, a gamesmanship advantage for the Rams going.
Speaker 2: Into the season. This is a divisional opponent.
Speaker 3: I just don't understand how to me in these moments.
Speaker 2: You don't waigit and measure out what.
Speaker 3: Would be a more feasible game to put in these
Speaker 3: these overseas markets. I think that's too big of a game,
Speaker 3: that's too good of a game to put over there.
Speaker 2: Because I look at it and I go, well, maybe
Speaker 2: the thought process was they're both West Coast teams, so
Speaker 2: you don't want to give somebody an advantage because I
Speaker 2: believe the flight from San Francisco to Australia is between
Speaker 2: fourteen to sixteen hours, which is wild. You could get
Speaker 2: drunk four times on that flight and get some naps in.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping to be on it, and if you're
Speaker 2: doing it, it's going to be with the Miller light.
Speaker 2: But the point is, maybe the thought process was, well,
Speaker 2: we'll send a couple of West Coast teams over there.
Speaker 2: Maybe that would make more sense, or teams in the
Speaker 2: same time zone so that nobody had in any ill
Speaker 2: you that because if you think about it, and there's
Speaker 2: been some conversation, and I know Sean McVeigh got some
Speaker 2: heat for this and they were kind of busting his
Speaker 2: balls a little bit, but Kyle Shannan and Matt Lafleur
Speaker 2: are making the point, well, we think Sean McVay campaigned
Speaker 2: to have this game played in Australia because they didn't
Speaker 2: like the fact that the Niners took over so far
Speaker 2: every year, which in defense and I've said this before,
Speaker 2: in defense of LA Football fans, the franchise is left
Speaker 2: for twenty years, so people started shopping elsewhere. So it's
Speaker 2: going to take some time for the Rams and or
Speaker 2: the Chargers, but specifically the Rams to really dominate. And
Speaker 2: it doesn't help that when you do win a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl one of the politicians is giving a speech is
Speaker 2: weren't a Saint Louis Rams. That doesn't help either. But
Speaker 2: if I look at this and I'm Kyle Shanahan, or
Speaker 2: even if I'm Sean McVay, I'm thinking that that's not
Speaker 2: a great start to the year, man like that.
Speaker 3: And if I'm Sean McVay, I don't have that opinion
Speaker 3: of it, Like I feel better about it if I'm McVeigh. Really,
Speaker 3: it's gamesmanship because it's an away game. It's an extra
Speaker 3: away game where you would have had to have used
Speaker 3: or looked at so far as an extra extended home
Speaker 3: game for the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Speaker 2: Let me raise another couple points for you too.
Speaker 3: By the way, if if the forty nine Ers in
Speaker 3: this game were to lose this game and they missed
Speaker 3: the playoffs by let's just say one game, does this
Speaker 3: does this comeback as a story a storyline connected to
Speaker 3: why going overseas in some in some instances are detrimental
Speaker 3: to a season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 3: You do know what date this game is being played
Speaker 3: on right now. I'm a first responder guy. If you
Speaker 3: know me, you know I'm very very intense on first responders,
Speaker 3: our military, and our veterans. If you know me, you
Speaker 3: know that that's what I'm into. My family, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Dad's wounded warrior. You get that this game is on
Speaker 3: what day, Jonas, September eleventh. Why the hell are you
Speaker 3: taking America's game somewhere else and playing it on September eleventh,
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be technically September tenth. Out here, it's
Speaker 3: September eleventh. There. I don't give a good gosh darn
Speaker 3: on the technically too close, too sentimental, too much value.
Speaker 4: Don't do it. There's a different date.
Speaker 3: At least respect our country's history in this moment and
Speaker 3: do it on a different date.
Speaker 2: Well, but out here in the States, where I think
Speaker 2: that date matters the most, it's September tenth. It's so
Speaker 2: it's September eleventh. In Australia, it's it's Friday morning. Out
Speaker 2: here it's Thursday evening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got you heard me. I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I just I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I think that too close any any international game, if
Speaker 2: you're going to put teams out of their rhythm. And look,
Speaker 2: you and Brady have talked about this before, team like
Speaker 2: and I've heard like guys like Brian Urlacker said, look,
Speaker 2: Monday night's cool. The primetime games are cool. If it
Speaker 2: were up to me, I play every game at noon
Speaker 2: Central Time, every game at noon, so at least you
Speaker 2: know going into it. I think every international game that
Speaker 2: they send teams over to play should be built around
Speaker 2: a bye week everyone because it makes it more because
Speaker 2: then look rest wise, health wise, flight back wise, all
Speaker 2: of that stuff. It doesn't get you out of your rhythm.
Speaker 2: And if those guys want to hang out in whatever
Speaker 2: country they're visiting for a little while. You'll see UFC
Speaker 2: fighters and boxers do this all the time. They'll go
Speaker 2: fight internationally or someplace like that, and they'll hang out
Speaker 2: after the fight for a little bit just to enjoy
Speaker 2: and take in the sights and sounds of a new place.
Speaker 2: The fact that you're starting out your year on a
Speaker 2: fifteen hour flight or whatever it is, from the West
Speaker 2: Coast to Australia and it's against a team that you
Speaker 2: could be playing at their doorstep in forty five minutes
Speaker 2: on a plane. It just that's the part I don't
Speaker 2: really understand. I just I don't. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any I understand the financial aspect of it,
Speaker 2: but from a scheduling standpoint, I just don't understand.
Speaker 3: Again, it comes back down, and I'm standing on September eleventh,
Speaker 3: by the way, like you're not going to talk me
Speaker 3: out of it. You ain't going to hit me with
Speaker 3: a it's the tenth and this and that. I'm standing
Speaker 3: on the fact that that close to September eleventh, on
Speaker 3: September eleve that that should be a game that is
Speaker 3: on American soil. I'm standing on that it's America's game.
Speaker 3: It should be being played in America at that point
Speaker 3: in time. I'm standing on that. But here's another issue
Speaker 3: that I take with these games and the expansion of
Speaker 3: how many games they're trying to have overseas during the
Speaker 3: course of a season, is that we have continued to
Speaker 3: have the conversation of how important football became to American people,
Speaker 3: what it represented during war times, what it represented during
Speaker 3: the transition from you know, radio to television television production,
Speaker 3: what it looked like what our personality as a country
Speaker 3: was built on. It was built on really the brands
Speaker 3: and the personalities that we saw in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: It was and became America's past. Time you look, get
Speaker 3: away took the throne away from baseball, and to turn
Speaker 3: this game into such a corporately driven game where you're
Speaker 3: taking the game away from the people who made it
Speaker 3: what it is now today, the bohemoth that it has
Speaker 3: become to me, I find it to be a tad
Speaker 3: bit disingenuous in terms of how I view them moving forward,
Speaker 3: because you are now proving and showing that this isn't
Speaker 3: about the family, this is about the dollar. And while
Speaker 3: it was probably about the dollar when it was about
Speaker 3: the family, your business model centered around the game being
Speaker 3: about the family. When people like me were growing up,
Speaker 3: it was something that you did as a family. You
Speaker 3: could do it because it was right here, right in
Speaker 3: front of you. You could go, you could afford it,
Speaker 3: you could get food, you could you could take the
Speaker 3: bus or you could drive, you could tailgate.
Speaker 4: You met people, talk to people. I on God.
Speaker 3: I saw people with my family that would talk on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and you see some of them same people in the
Speaker 3: grocery store on Monday, Tuesday, no words, that was the
Speaker 3: day and age I grew up in no words, Sunday,
Speaker 3: subbrow Steelers.
Speaker 4: Baby the curtain, let's get it today.
Speaker 3: Dada, you want a hot dog? You want to link? Hey,
Speaker 3: you want a Kbasi like Tuesday Monday crickets. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: brought everybody together. Now it's not that anymore.
Speaker 4: Jonas.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I also think, you know, think about the fans
Speaker 2: of these getting, like, you know, season ticket holders, fans
Speaker 2: who have you know, those attached with them. Now all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they lose a home game because it
Speaker 2: goes to austro correct, So there's that as well too.
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe they have first I don't know
Speaker 2: how the season ticket stuff works in the NFL. Maybe
Speaker 2: they have first write a refusal on those tickets that
Speaker 2: they want it. But man, maybe not everybody you know
Speaker 2: in and around El Segundo wants to get on a
Speaker 2: plane for close to twenty hours to go fly to Australia,
Speaker 2: to go get run over by a kangaroo and watch
Speaker 2: Matt Stafford throw one yard touchdowns to Devonte Adams, like like,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe they don't want to be a
Speaker 2: part of that whole thing. Build it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I look at it.
Speaker 2: And I go, it's just it's kind of it's a
Speaker 2: strange decision by the NFL, but you know, if they
Speaker 2: can make a bug, they can make a buck. Despite
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Speaker 2: Bain Junior. Who's you know, one of the top prospects
Speaker 2: in the NFL draft first round pick, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: There was a story that came out a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago that I it was the first time I
Speaker 2: had heard the story. But in twenty twenty four, Bain
Speaker 2: was cited for careless driving for the accident that occurred
Speaker 2: at about four am local time in Florida, and according
Speaker 2: to this the crash report alleges that Bain was driving
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty one land Rover SUV that had three
Speaker 2: other passengers in the car, one of which was twenty
Speaker 2: two year old Destiny Betts. Bain's vehicle rear ended another car,
Speaker 2: veered into a concrete barrier, then ricocheted into another barrier
Speaker 2: before coming to a rest on the shoulder of the highway.
Speaker 2: Destiny Betts was taken to Writer Trauma Center Miami. According
Speaker 2: to The read Optional, it reported that she was in
Speaker 2: a coma for nearly three months before she died from
Speaker 2: her injuries in June of twenty twenty four. And so,
Speaker 2: while Bain was cited at the time of the incident,
Speaker 2: charges were dropped prior to her death. And in his
Speaker 2: statement given to the read Optional, Bets's family called the
Speaker 2: crash quote a tragic accident and they wish mister Bain
Speaker 2: the best as he continues his life and career. So
Speaker 2: he was entering his sophomore season at the time of
Speaker 2: the accident. I had not heard of this story before
Speaker 2: reading about this over the past, you know, twenty four
Speaker 2: forty eight hours. But apparently, and according to CBS, teams
Speaker 2: in the NFL knew about this. So they knew about
Speaker 2: this report and I look at it and I go
Speaker 2: and we kind of mentioned this briefly yesterday. But I
Speaker 2: don't know, since teams know about this, whether or not
Speaker 2: it's going to drop him on draft boards or if
Speaker 2: there's going to be some teams that may be shy
Speaker 2: away because of this. But it does, I guess, point
Speaker 2: to the fact that the NFL draft, if you've got
Speaker 2: a flaw, if you've got to blemish some that are fair,
Speaker 2: some that are unfair through this process, man, they do
Speaker 2: some digging and they find some things out, and they
Speaker 2: will figure out what it is. And look, some of
Speaker 2: this stuff is manufactured. This clearly is not. And so
Speaker 2: I do wonder what the narrative is on him and
Speaker 2: how it's changed going into this draft.
Speaker 3: I don't think it changes at all. It doesn't make
Speaker 3: his arms longer, it doesn't change what he's done in
Speaker 3: his workouts. And so when you look at the gravity
Speaker 3: of this situation, one has nothing to do with the
Speaker 3: other because it wasn't It doesn't appear that it was
Speaker 3: an irresponsible car accident that took place. It was what
Speaker 3: it was, a car accident. They didn't find any drugs
Speaker 3: or alcohol in his system. The charges of careless or
Speaker 3: or whatever type of driving they charged them with. Those
Speaker 3: charges were dropped. So I don't think that there's any
Speaker 3: bearing on his draft stock and his status based upon,
Speaker 3: you know, based upon this information that they've already had
Speaker 3: for quite some time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we heard, you know, similar stuff about Jalen
Speaker 2: Carter when that came out when he was coming out
Speaker 2: of the draft, So it's a little different. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: now we'll see there's a little different. It is LeVar
Speaker 2: Arrington Jonas Knox in for the Dan Patrick Show right
Speaker 2: here on Fox Sports Radio.