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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. John Middletop Being Out podcast brought to

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Speaker 1: dot Com. We got a big show today. Uh gonna

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Speaker 1: touch on Baker Mayfield Hard Knocks debuted Tuesday night. Uh,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dive in a little about this Khalil Mack situation.

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Speaker 1: It feels like it gets a little more tenuous every day.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something new today, a little uh, a

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Speaker 1: little Jim Kramer style, bye bye bye, and sell sell

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Speaker 1: sell on some things around the football world and get

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Speaker 1: a little nerdy, you know, and why the preseason matters,

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Speaker 1: and a little how the preseason is viewed from a

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag. Some people have been getting mad at

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Speaker 1: me in the Middlecoff mail bag because I said that

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Speaker 1: and I'll answer them. And some people were like, I

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Speaker 1: leave your question on iTunes. I'm not an accounting major,

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Speaker 1: I just you know I'm not. This isn't a perfect

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Speaker 1: You can go to Instagram at John Middlecoff and I

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Speaker 1: will also answer it. And we'll do that at the

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Speaker 1: end like we do every show. But I gotta start

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Speaker 1: with Baker Mayfield. Sometimes that they say you gotta be

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Speaker 1: careful who you follow in life, and you see this

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Speaker 1: a lot in sports, right, like you do not want

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Speaker 1: be Josh McDaniel's that follows Bill Belichick. You do not

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Speaker 1: want to be the coach at Alabama that follows Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: But I would have said a long time ago that

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Speaker 1: who's gonna run Apple after Steve Jobs died? That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be pretty tough. Well, it turns out actually it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: The company was absolutely rolling. It was like an avalanche

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Speaker 1: He's printed cash ever since. Now if you look at

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Speaker 1: know if you've read the news, but he's in a

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Speaker 1: really that complicated. Well, in two thousand and eighteen, relative

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Speaker 1: The game is completely changed. Unlike Apple, when Tim Cook

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Speaker 1: It is the complete opposite. At CBS, they are screwed.

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Speaker 1: Big picture, I got news for everyone. They are in trouble.

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Speaker 1: The network is in trouble. No one is watching network

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Speaker 1: television shows. I would not have been wanted to be

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Speaker 1: the guy that followed Jim Harbaugh. Now, Jim tom Seula

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Speaker 1: any relevancy. Baker's the first perfect balance of polarization of

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Speaker 1: This time around, he shows up John Dorsey, who was

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Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna be Lebron James. He is not

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Speaker 1: But this might be the perfect time to show up,

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Speaker 1: Baker's talent. And you watch a couple and I know

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Speaker 1: And I think my first reaction is, well, if one

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Speaker 1: your own team, evaluate who the best eight offensive linemen are,

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Speaker 1: who the best backup quarterback on your team is. All

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Speaker 1: the other ship doesn't necessarily matter. But if you do

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Speaker 1: that well, then going around the rest of the league.

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Speaker 1: I don't think most people understand this, and this is

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Speaker 1: what I wrote. I put it in print, and I'll

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Speaker 1: say it right now. Every pro scout that they divvy up,

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Speaker 1: you know, you each get four or five, six, seven

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Speaker 1: preseason teams and you watch from the previous draft. So

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Speaker 1: this draft that just happened earlier this year, every fifth

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Speaker 1: rounder to undrafted free agent, you evaluate them all. Some

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Speaker 1: teams do fourth rounders too, because some but fourth rounders

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Speaker 1: are probably very a lot less likely to get cut,

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Speaker 1: but fifth, six, seventh rounders get cut every year, and

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Speaker 1: then obviously undrafted free agents. Now some of those guys

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Speaker 1: will also make the team, but you evaluate them and

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Speaker 1: sometimes you'll go, God, this guy might not make you know,

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Speaker 1: Team X, because he's a wide receiver and they got

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Speaker 1: five legit wide receivers. They're gonna try to stash him

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Speaker 1: on his practice squad. But I think this guy can

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Speaker 1: be our fifth wide receiver. And that is the key.

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Speaker 1: You go out and you evaluate and the communication from

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Speaker 1: the top down, you know exactly what you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: So you have to know your team well first. Then

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Speaker 1: you're also evaluating guys from previous team. You know from

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Speaker 1: previous seasons that may have been a fifth rounder that

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Speaker 1: made the team last year. Well, every year they get

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Speaker 1: an influx of talent, so that guy's spot might be

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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. And then also you know, one story I

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Speaker 1: just saw this morning was Donald Penn has been asked

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Speaker 1: to take a pay cut. He might not. And there

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Speaker 1: are players like Donald Penn all over the league, veteran

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Speaker 1: players that have been long time starters that might just

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Speaker 1: get cut for financial reasons. Now he's I don't even

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Speaker 1: know if he's gonna play in the preseason. He's on pop.

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Speaker 1: But players that will play in the preseason, you have

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Speaker 1: to know that. Covering this league like you're basically a

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Speaker 1: detective as a pro scout. This time of the year,

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Speaker 1: you're constantly going on Rotal World, going on Twitter, updating injuries,

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Speaker 1: following whatever teams you are following, following their beat reporters.

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Speaker 1: Just information is power right now, but also knowing what

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Speaker 1: you're looking for, because you can waste a lot of

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Speaker 1: time if your team has seven legit wide receivers, spending

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Speaker 1: a lot of time watching the preseason teams that you've

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Speaker 1: been allocated to do watching their wide receivers somewhat of

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Speaker 1: a waste of time. And I'm not saying you don't

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Speaker 1: watch them, but you look at them differently. If you're

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Speaker 1: looking for a running back and you're watching the San

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Speaker 1: Fransco forty Niners, well, you know if you read Peter

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Speaker 1: King's MMQB a year ago that Kyle Shanahan loved Joe Williams. Well,

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Speaker 1: a year later, Joe Williams is fighting for his roster life.

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Speaker 1: He probably is not going to make the team. Well,

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Speaker 1: what if your team like Joe will is What if

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Speaker 1: you like Joe Williams coming out, is there a way

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Speaker 1: that you can keep on the practice squad? Because if

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Speaker 1: you do want a player and you just because you

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Speaker 1: make the fifty three man roster on September one, if

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Speaker 1: I claim a guy that day, the next day, I

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Speaker 1: have to cut someone to put that guy that I

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Speaker 1: just claimed on my roster. So it's a very very

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Speaker 1: fluid situation for the next I'm recording this on August eight.

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Speaker 1: For basically the next twenty five days, everyone you know,

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Speaker 1: beside your twenty to thirty core guys on your team

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Speaker 1: is fighting for their NFL lives. And there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of veteran guys even in that core that financial

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Speaker 1: reasons might screw them and might get them cut. Now,

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Speaker 1: usually if the guy is good enough player, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: find a job immediately, So it's not that big a deal.

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Speaker 1: But the he's next four weeks. And I was talking

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Speaker 1: to a buddy yesterday and he brought up a great

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Speaker 1: point that I had kind of forgotten about that when

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Speaker 1: you're building your team in the NFL, like listen to

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Speaker 1: everyone wants some sweet CEO CFO you know in in CMO,

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Speaker 1: in a company, just like everyone wants to start quarterback

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Speaker 1: star pass rushaurant, some sweet wide receivers. Well, most companies

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Speaker 1: are built on like the dude on the second floor,

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Speaker 1: you know, not in the top corner office on the

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Speaker 1: eighth floor. Right, No different than football teams, like your

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Speaker 1: football team. Yeah, Tom Brady is the most important guy

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Speaker 1: on the team. But the four core special teams guys

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Speaker 1: that play on punt, punt return, kick, and kickoff for

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots are really important too, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they just are. So when you look at these guys

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Speaker 1: that are fighting for their roster lives. If you're a

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Speaker 1: fifth wide receiver, a fifth corner, uh, you know, a

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Speaker 1: backup linebacker, you have to play special teams or you

515
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Speaker 1: will not make the team, or you definitely will not

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Speaker 1: dress on some days. So that that is that that's something, Listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm closer to a fan on this than I

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Speaker 1: am some NFL scout when it comes to us. I

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Speaker 1: hate watching the special teams, but it does really matter

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Speaker 1: this time of year. It makes or breaks guy's career.

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Speaker 1: And so when you're you're kicking back over these next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and you're watching a preseason game and

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Speaker 1: you see some dude just Molly Wapp, a guy on

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Speaker 1: special teams and that you're watching your team, just go

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that guy. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: or you see a you know, guy's kick returner or

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Speaker 1: punt returner and he's fumbling punt's, you know he's a

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Speaker 1: six round pick. He's in trouble. That that's how you

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Speaker 1: make or break your career. And the best teams around

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Speaker 1: the league consistently know exactly what they're looking for. Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick has gone on record, and I do believe him.

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Speaker 1: He watches every preseason game. Why would you not. That's

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Speaker 1: the entire league, that's your entire employee base. Of course

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Speaker 1: he watches it. Now it's easier for him because I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess he just lost Patricia, but he's had Josh

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Speaker 1: McDaniels forever. He t us as coordinators, and he can

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Speaker 1: allocate time to do different stuff. He's just so ahead

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Speaker 1: of the game. Most people don't have that much time,

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Speaker 1: So most coaches rely on their general managers to do

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Speaker 1: all that legwork. And again, it's gonna make or break

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Speaker 1: your season in terms of the depth of your team.

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Speaker 1: Who you keep on your practice squad? Are you keeping

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Speaker 1: the right guys? Do you cut a guy that you

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Speaker 1: think you can stash that ultimately gets claimed and you

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Speaker 1: lose them. This is a fascinating time from a team

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Speaker 1: building standpoint and just the the business of the NFL

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Speaker 1: where the big boys, the good gms, and the good

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Speaker 1: head coaches and the good organizations separate themselves. Let's do

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Speaker 1: a new segment today on football inspired by my main man.

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Speaker 1: This is it. I'm going over the time by by

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Speaker 1: by by by by by by right here, right now.

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Speaker 1: Jim Cramer, Mad Money. You see him on CNBC, die

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Speaker 1: hard Eagles fan. Uh. I was had the TV on

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Speaker 1: in the background the other day and on Mad Money,

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Speaker 1: and he was just screaming bye bye, bye, bye bye.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna do a little sell sell selles cell too.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna start on two things that I am

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Speaker 1: very bullish on in football, that that I would if

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Speaker 1: they were stocks, things that I would buy. Now. I

560
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: had a firsthand experience I had. I made a bachelor

561
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Speaker 1: party weekend into a work trip. That's what you do

562
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Speaker 1: when you're a sole proprietor and you can expense things.

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Speaker 1: So I traveled out to Tennessee this spring, and my

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Speaker 1: takeaway after one Tennessee Titans practice was this team's good.

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Speaker 1: They were a playoff team last year. They beat Andy

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Speaker 1: read in the Kansas City Chiefs in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Uh they I think they upgraded a head coach. Their

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Speaker 1: coordinator is a Shanahan McVeigh type guy Mariot just coming

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Speaker 1: off his worst season. They added Malcolm Butler. They added

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Speaker 1: Dion Lewis. They drafted Rashaan Evans, a middle linebacker, in

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Speaker 1: the first round. They their defense should just be a

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Speaker 1: lot better and offensively, I also think they're gonna be allowed.

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Speaker 1: I would buy the Tennessee Titans. I think there is

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Speaker 1: a decent chance. Did they end up winning the a

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Speaker 1: f C South. I think they're a borderline lock playoff

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Speaker 1: team depending on where you look. I love their over under.

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Speaker 1: You know what you get it about eight and a

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Speaker 1: half nine. I think they're a double digit win team

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Speaker 1: this season. Tennessee Titans. I am buying Zeke Elliott. Last year,

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Speaker 1: his rookie year, he was dominant. The Cowboys made the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and he kicked everyone's ass. Last year feels like

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Speaker 1: a disappointing year. I mean clearly was from a personal standpoint.

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Speaker 1: He was suspending six games for something that happened with

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Speaker 1: a woman. I mean, we don't know the details. I

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Speaker 1: didn't feel comfortable suspending him based on a heat said

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Speaker 1: she said, But I didn't have enough information. Bottom line,

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Speaker 1: the NFL did and he got suspended. Well, in the

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Speaker 1: ten games that he played, he basically ran four a

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Speaker 1: thousand yards and had seven touchdowns and also add another

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Speaker 1: twenty six catches. I would expect Elliott to compete for

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Speaker 1: the NFL m v P this year. I'd be shocked

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't have fifteen yards twelve the fifteen touchdowns

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Speaker 1: on the ground, you know, another forty catching the football.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I watch Inside training Camp on NFL Network, there

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Speaker 1: Zeke looks like he's playing in Alaska with uh with

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Speaker 1: sweatpants on a longsleeve shirt, sweating it out at which

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Speaker 1: I feel, being a chubby guy myself, you gotta sweat

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Speaker 1: it out. But he's a freak chubby guy because he

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Speaker 1: dominates on the ground. I really feel pretty confident that

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Speaker 1: Zeke Elly and I'm buying a lot of Zeke Elliott stock.

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Speaker 1: I think he's competing for the NFL MVP this season. Now,

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Speaker 1: two things on the flip side, I'm gonna sell sales sell.

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Speaker 1: Start with Ohio State. The Urban Meyer situation. I say

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Speaker 1: this all the time. I have a nickname for Urban

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Speaker 1: It's called fraud Meyer. Turns out Shelley his wife also

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Speaker 1: fraud miss Meyer. He's a fraudulent individual, elite football coach,

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Speaker 1: a dominant football coach, a fraud human being. And the

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Speaker 1: Ohio State situation is a complete and utter embarra. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna end. I actually don't think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get fired, but they are gonna have this

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Speaker 1: elephant in the room of negativity and just something that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be hard for them to shake whenever he does

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Speaker 1: come back off these administrative leave Ohio State. I'm selling

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Speaker 1: the program. I think this is I've been saying for

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Speaker 1: a while, well before this story ever broke. I think

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Speaker 1: Michigan is gonna win the conference. But also when you

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Speaker 1: look at Penn State and Wisconsin, those programs just feel

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Speaker 1: a little more stable right now that just Ohio State

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Speaker 1: is just in shambles. The Jacksonville Jaguars, most people believe

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Speaker 1: they have the best roster in the NFL. I think

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Speaker 1: it's up for debate, but it'd be an easy top

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Speaker 1: three or four roster in the NFL. I hate their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I Blake Bortles is terrible, and I think everyone's just

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Speaker 1: locking them in for another playoffs. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: I think are they gonna win double digit games again?

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Speaker 1: Just a lock to do that? I can't see it.

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Speaker 1: I think the division has gotten a lot better. Andrew

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Speaker 1: lux back now the like I said, the Tennessee Titans

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Speaker 1: are better. Uh, the Houston Texas of Deshaun Watson comes

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Speaker 1: back and a bunch of their defensive players come back,

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Speaker 1: they should be much more competitive. The Jacksonville Jaguars is

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Speaker 1: not just gonna walk through that division. I think they

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Speaker 1: come back to earth a little bit now. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there are a four or five win team like

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Speaker 1: typical Jacksonville Jaguars seasons, but I do think eight nine

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Speaker 1: wins and probably missed the playoffs. Every year we see

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Speaker 1: a team that had made the playoffs that misses it

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Speaker 1: the following year. To me, I'm selling and I'm picking

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Speaker 1: circling the Jacksonville Jaguars as that team. It's been decades

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Speaker 1: since anyone made meaningful advancements in the hair health industry.

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Speaker 1: some questions. But I got a bunch, and I know

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Speaker 1: some people got mad at me, said I was skipping.

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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to skip anyone. I'm just this isn't

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Speaker 1: a a perfect formula here. Uh So let's fire through

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Speaker 1: great work on the podcast, Love the work. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the Miami coming to the athletic Miami Hurricanes and

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Speaker 1: I think the Miami Dolphins question. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about the Miami Hurricanes this season? Repeat success from last year?

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Speaker 1: Better worst? Thanks, I'll hang up and listen. I think

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Speaker 1: the Hurricanes probably take somewhat of a step back when

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Speaker 1: they start last year. Was it nine and oh, before

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Speaker 1: they play Clemson and just got Molly wapped. I think listen,

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Speaker 1: Mark ricks resume speaks for itself. They are gonna be

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Speaker 1: really good. Willie Tagger will see. I mean a lot

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Speaker 1: of hype on him at Florida State. I think that's

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Speaker 1: probably a step down from Jimbo Fisher Florida Dan Mullen.

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Speaker 1: I like Dan Mullen, but he's not Steve Spurri or

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban. Let's just pump the brakes a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I really think that Mark Rick can dominate the state

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Speaker 1: of Florida, and when I say dominate, get them back

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Speaker 1: to what they once were. Are they ever gonna be

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Speaker 1: the cream of the crop in America anymore? No? I

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Speaker 1: do think he can win a national championship. Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna do it this year? No? Uh, It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a little hard as long as Dabo Sweeney is there.

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Speaker 1: But I do think, and again I do think Florida

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Speaker 1: State is gonna come back to earth a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So are they gonna be better in Clemson this year?

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Speaker 1: Of course not. Can they, you know somewhat in a

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Speaker 1: in like two or three years, get to that level

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Speaker 1: where they can be competitive? Yes? I bet on mark Rick,

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Speaker 1: they could not have done any better. Remember what an

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Speaker 1: embarrassment al Golden was several years back. I think the

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Speaker 1: Miami Hurricanes listen. I'd say if they had a nine

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Speaker 1: and three season that that would be pretty exciting. Uh,

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Speaker 1: They'd be back to back pretty solid seasons for his

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Speaker 1: first two years, and then I think come year three,

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Speaker 1: year four, you can have massive expectations. Danny John Every

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Speaker 1: year after the draft, I pick all the game and

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Speaker 1: I think I did this question last week against You know,

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Speaker 1: this isn't a this isn't a perfect formula here, this

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Speaker 1: is a good one. If Alex Horneybrook, I love that name,

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Speaker 1: Alex Horneybrook, the quarterback for Wisconsin, takes his game up

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Speaker 1: to a Heisman playing level this fall. Do you think

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Speaker 1: they have a chance to go to the playoffs and

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Speaker 1: possibly win the Natty? Thanks Justin. I think the Big

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Speaker 1: Ten is just stupid good, And like I said a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago, Ohio States and Shambles, I don't

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Speaker 1: think necessarily they would have won the the National Championship

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Speaker 1: them out. I mean, they got Joey Boasts, little brother

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Speaker 1: Nick and with urban Meyer. If he's coaching, they're they're

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Speaker 1: always gonna be a factor. But I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen with Urban I think Michigan is really good.

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Speaker 1: Penn State is gonna be really good too. Now they

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Speaker 1: did loose a k one bar. I think that either

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Speaker 1: Michigan or Wisconsin represents the Big Ten in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And I don't love Horny Brook. I mean, whenever you

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Speaker 1: but he does get it done. Chris is a good

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Speaker 1: coach there. They've always hung their hat on running the football,

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Speaker 1: their defense under Jim Leonard, and that guy is a

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Speaker 1: lot to be a head coach in the very very

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Speaker 1: near future. Was fantastic last year. Now they don't have

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Speaker 1: the athletes, and it was somewhat exposed against Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: You just they just can't run with the elite teams,

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Speaker 1: when you try to get up, they'll hit you again.

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Speaker 1: And that's really what They're gonna hang your hat on,

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Speaker 1: hang their hat on. Now, if they get matched up

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Speaker 1: just a really, really hard matchup for him, and I

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Speaker 1: even think Michigan potentially, uh, you know, it's just that

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a lot of speed to It's just

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Speaker 1: hard for Wisconsin to hang with the elite skill guys,

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Speaker 1: and it always will be and it always kind of

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Speaker 1: has in their downfall. But I do think this team

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Speaker 1: has a legitimate chance to make the playoffs. And if

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin were to make the final four. Uh, nowadays, like

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Speaker 1: if you don't win the national championship, but you make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, unless you're Alabama, that is a massive success.

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Speaker 1: So if they were to make the make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: this year, it would be big time. I kind of

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Speaker 1: like this. Please take a poll with your listeners about

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Speaker 1: who they think Goodell voted for in the two sixteen election. Listen,

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Speaker 1: I say it all the time, and I say this

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Speaker 1: about the NBA to rich people vote Republican. You know,

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Speaker 1: most rich people, when you're making seven eight figures a year,

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Speaker 1: ain't voting for people to take money out of their pocket.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I know everyone they say the NBA

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Speaker 1: is just so liberal. Yeah, I would imagine if you

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Speaker 1: Basketball Association, you'd find out a lot of people either

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Speaker 1: ain't voting or they ain't voting for who you think

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Speaker 1: they're voting for. And definitely in the NFL, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of the rich guys. Rich people don't vote to have

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Speaker 1: money taken out of their check. It's just, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's just that's just a fact. Uh. John loved the

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Speaker 1: podcast and insight into the NFL. I read an article

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Speaker 1: about the Raiders potentially trading clil Mack. This sounds absurd

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Speaker 1: but potentially true. Is this a sign that Gruden higher

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Speaker 1: was a bad idea? And which teams would trade for him?

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Speaker 1: Really quick? On the what teams would trade for him?

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Speaker 1: If I was the Green Bay Packers, I would be

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Speaker 1: all over him, Like I would give my two first

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Speaker 1: round picks for this upcoming draft for him. Uh And

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Speaker 1: the sanfa skill forty Niners, I would do the same.

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Speaker 1: They don't have two first round picks, but I would

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Speaker 1: the following year. I think I think he's that big

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Speaker 1: of a game changer. Do you think when you look

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Speaker 1: at Gruden's history? As I said earlier on the show,

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Speaker 1: Donald penn Is now asked to take a pay cut.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a tenuous situation. Cleil Max not showed up.

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Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant, who they traded a third round pick, does

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Speaker 1: not know the playbook. He had been suspended for a year,

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Speaker 1: was hanging on to his NFL career by a thread,

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Speaker 1: and they gave up a third round pick for him.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, listen, I think Rud's a good coach. I

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Speaker 1: think from an X is no standpoint in calling the game.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be dynamic. But the NFL is more than that.

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Speaker 1: And when you pay a guy a hundred million dollars,

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Speaker 1: he's running your franchise. You gotta be dynamic with money

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Speaker 1: and handling a players. And I think there are some

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Speaker 1: red flags one through the first you know, six months

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Speaker 1: in terms of free agency, the draft, and now early

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Speaker 1: on a training camp, like can John handle all this?

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Speaker 1: And that's where it's gonna be big for John to

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Speaker 1: get a general manager one day that he trusts, because

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Speaker 1: it's just, you know, Bill Belichick is an all time outlier.

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Speaker 1: He can handle everything. You know, I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I see that with John. Uh So, I

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Speaker 1: about winning games, but it's harder to win games when

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Speaker 1: you don't have as good as a left tackle when

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Speaker 1: your star defensive end. Assuming you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they trade him. I don't think they end up

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Speaker 1: trading him, but he's not here now, so if they

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Speaker 1: if Khalil mcwar to be gone, uh, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a problem. So yeah, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: could the Falcons get them? I mean, that's they drafted

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Speaker 1: Vic Beasley in the first round, not saying Vick Beasley's

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Speaker 1: clil mac, but would they you know, would they offer

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones? And at first, you know, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: think that would be semi fair. I do that if

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Speaker 1: I was the Falcons. The problem is they got a

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Speaker 1: lot of young players they're gonna have to pay big

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Speaker 1: million dollars. I don't know if it's realistic for the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Okay, last one here on iTunes, then I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna bang out. A couple on Instagram started listening religiously

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Speaker 1: for your mail bag. Though small sample size, Atlanta for instance,

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Speaker 1: what stops a no huddle team from lining up skinny

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Speaker 1: with whiteouts yet deploying a fullback with a blocking tight

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Speaker 1: end Mercedes Lewis then running it down defensive throats when

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Speaker 1: in Florida. I think that's what Peyton Manning kind of

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, one thing

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Speaker 1: is just how complicated football is. How hard it is

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Speaker 1: to change things on the fly. How hard it is

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Speaker 1: like if you came out and you spread everything out

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Speaker 1: and then you roll back with a blocking tight end

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Speaker 1: in a fullback and you start running it down the

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Speaker 1: people's throats because you're spread out, that a team would adjust,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I think that's the coaching chess game.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of coaches are just stubborn.

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Speaker 1: A lot of quarterbacks can't handle, you know, there's probably

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Speaker 1: only five or six quarterbacks that are in full control

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning style at the line of scrimmage, to change

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Speaker 1: out if they don't like a look, to be able

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Speaker 1: to check and change things on the fly. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things are easy in theory. In football,

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Speaker 1: it's just much harder to execute. And I've seen it

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Speaker 1: firsthand with these coaches. I don't know. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure someone's thought about it. It's just it's easy to

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Speaker 1: talk about. It's kind of like a classroom. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to say things. You know, the supply and demand, Well,

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Speaker 1: what happens when they don't pay you? Right? What happens

852
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Speaker 1: when you sell something but then they don't pay that.

853
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: That happens all the time in normal business. It's easy.

854
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 1: All the supply and demand curve. Well, what happens if

855
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Speaker 1: a storm wipes out the house and you don't have

856
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: insurance on it? You know, what's the supply and demand

857
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: of my market value of my home? I think things

858
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: change so quickly and are so complicated. There's so many

859
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Speaker 1: variables that I'm with you. I'm surprised someone doesn't try

860
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Speaker 1: that stuff, but clearly no one does. This is a

861
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: pretty good one from Matt Rulan on on Instagram for

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00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: the middlecoff mail back. Do you think the Chargers will

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Speaker 1: ever be the prom in a team in l A

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Speaker 1: or will they always play second fiddle to the Rams? Listen,

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Speaker 1: I think the prominent football team in the city of

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles is USC football. Now, the Rams can clearly,

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Speaker 1: you know, throw a wrench in that if they were

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Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl in these next couple of years.

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00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: They're building this massive stadium. It's Cronky's palace. But I

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00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: think there's a staple of USC football that I don't

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00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 1: know if the Ramps are ever gonna sniff. I think

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Speaker 1: it's borderline impossible for the Chargers they will. There is

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Speaker 1: zero chance, I repeat, zero chance for them ever to

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Speaker 1: overtake USC football. I I think it's basically borderline also

875
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 1: impossible for them to ever be bigger than the Rams.

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00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: They don't own the stadium. Cronky has got so much

877
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: more money than Spanos. Spanos is viewed now as a tenant.

878
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: Uh to me, the Dodgers and the Lakers, obviously, with

879
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: USC football, are just on a completely different level in California.

880
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: I do think if you win, you know, if the

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Speaker 1: Chargers were to win, let's say the Super Bowl this year.

882
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: That means they would have playoff games at the Home

883
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: Depot Center. There would be a huge buzz, but Lebron

884
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: would easily overshadow them. If McVeigh were to be in shambles,

885
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: he's such a big story. I think it's very difficult,

886
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: and again, I I don't think it's possible. I think

887
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: there's just too much going on in Los Angeles. There's

888
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: too many brands that are just so established and cemented

889
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: as part of the culture that you know, Helly, you

890
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: sail a basketball that I think that. I think the

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00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers, which I will continue to call them

892
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: until you bury me like, I will never view them

893
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: as the Los Angeles Chargers. They are the San Diego Chargers.

894
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: Will never sniff and I repeat sniff the relevance of

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00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: these other teams in UH in Los Angeles. It's just

896
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: it's part of its Dean Spanos and I just think

897
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: part of it is just the brand of the Chargers

898
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: just they've always been viewed kind of a second fiddle. Okay.

899
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: Last Colin talked a day or two ago about the

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00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: rule changes, about the catch rule and how they are good,

901
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: but wouldn't it be better to make the changes the

902
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: following off season, as opposed to seventeen games of the

903
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: same rules and then experimenting in the Super Bowl. So

904
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: last year they kind of changed the rules of the

905
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: game for the playoffs with the catch rule, and then

906
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 1: they've obviously carried that over this year. Listen. I don't

907
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: think there's a perfect way to implement these rules, any

908
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: of them. Clearly, the catch rule had to change, and

909
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad they changed it. But every year, and this

910
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: is one of the NFL's biggest ranks, is they're They're

911
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: always willing to attempt to adapt, They're always willing to

912
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: attempt to improve, but sometimes they over complicate things and

913
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: they overregulate things. Listen. I'm a believer. I left the

914
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: market determine what's right and what's wrong. I believe that

915
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: in business like the cream is gonna rise at the top.

916
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: I don't want government involved in my life. That this

917
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: isn't a political show. I'm just I just believe this financially,

918
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Speaker 1: as do most people I know that are successful in business.

919
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: Let the cream rise in the market, determined prices everything.

920
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't like regulation at all when it comes to business.

921
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: I don't like it I'm kind of like that with

922
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Speaker 1: my football. You know, it's pretty black and white, you know.

923
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Speaker 1: And I think they are now overregulating this tackle rule,

924
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: Like we know what a good tackle is and what

925
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: head hunting is. We we know what it catches and

926
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: what it catchesn't like, there are clearly there are some

927
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: subjective things with holding with pass interference. Those are that's

928
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: like a foul in basketball. It's hard. It's hard to

929
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: call that. I get that, But to me, the tackle rule,

930
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: especially in two thousand eighteen, I know exactly what a

931
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: tackle looks like, what a good tackle looks like, and

932
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: what a head hunting tackle looks like. Just like a catch,

933
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Speaker 1: I know what it catches and I know what it catches.

934
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: So I think the the NFL has overcomplicated this, that

935
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Speaker 1: they're like government. They've gotten too big, big and they

936
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: like their hands in too many different cookie jars, and

937
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 1: it kind of throws everything up. Now you could argue,

938
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Speaker 1: is that totally bad for business because it gets us

939
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Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, I I think somewhat is

940
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Speaker 1: because it takes away the game of a guy if

941
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Speaker 1: he can't make a normal tackle. And again they're going

942
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: to claim that they're overregulating this in the preseason, just

943
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 1: like we had no clue they had changed the rule

944
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: last postseason. I think they make things a little harder

945
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: than they need to be. Just just let things play out,

946
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Speaker 1: uh and stop over complicating things. And I think for

947
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: the most part, referees, if you just said, listen, call

948
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 1: it what it catches. If he catches the ball and

949
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: has two feet down, it's a catch. If he drops it,

950
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: it's not. You know, if if he leads with his head,

951
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: it's a penalty. If he doesn't lead with the head,

952
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: it's not. If his head's up and his eyes are up,

953
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: it's not a penalty. They need to get back in

954
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: that business. When I was growing up, it was pretty

955
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: black and white. You got the ball, you tackle the ball,

956
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: A laid hit on the quarterback, knew it when you

957
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: saw it, and you knew what it wasn't when he

958
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: did it correctly. And they've gotten a little over their

959
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: heads with all this stuff and made things just created

960
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: such a conversation that probably didn't need to be there. Well,

961
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Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone listen. Just another three and Out podcast.

962
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: Football seasons back. We're gonna have preseason games all weekend.

963
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Uh, you can listen. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to all your male bad questions. If

965
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: you left me questions and Instagram, I'm still working through

966
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: them all that this is not a perfect formula. I'm

967
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna miss some. If I miss you, just hit me

968
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: up again. You know, it's a great part about social media.

969
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: I'm always open for business. You know you can hit

970
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: me up constantly and I will get to your questions.

971
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: But again iTunes three and Out subscribe rate in the

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00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: review section, follow me on Instagram. I'm constantly asked at

973
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: answering questions there too. I appreciate everyone listening. You guys

974
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: are questioning it are The numbers have been enormous. The

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Speaker 1: Three and Out Podcast with me John Middle coomp on

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Speaker 1: the Colin Coward Time Casting verd be to