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Speaker 1: I know everyone you know Robert Kraft I saw a

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Speaker 1: I thought I'd do this a little Uh, what the

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Speaker 1: fuck is going on here? Rankings because there are a

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Speaker 1: couple teams that I just I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: gonna start at three. Three has to be the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns by all accounts and by every report. Schefter said

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Speaker 1: this Albert Breer today doubled down on this. They're going

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Speaker 1: to keep three quarterback or four quarterbacks. Flacco's been named

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Speaker 1: their starter for whatever reason. They love Kenny Pickett. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what Kenny Pickett reminds me of? Speaking of hiring,

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Speaker 1: It's like you hire this guy to run your finances

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Speaker 1: for a company. It's like, hey, he used to work

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Speaker 1: at Goldman Sacks, went to Princeton, this guy sharp. Then

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Speaker 1: you find out his dad was the biggest booster at

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Speaker 1: Princeton and was the president of the branch that he

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Speaker 1: worked at at Goldman Sacks. Not quite as impressive. It's like,

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Speaker 1: just because Kenny Pickett went in the first round does

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Speaker 1: not mean he's a good player. He had one good

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Speaker 1: year in college. It was like a historically bad quarterback

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Speaker 1: draft the year he came out, and I'd say he

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Speaker 1: got overdrafted by seventy five spots. Yet somehow coaches still

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Speaker 1: love him. You have two rookie quarterbacks, which makes absolutely now,

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Speaker 1: and one has like this cultural following, which clearly the

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Speaker 1: head coach in GM didn't want. The other one made

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Speaker 1: this comment which clearly wasn't taking a shot at the player,

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Speaker 1: but everyone it's just it's become a circus, and I

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Speaker 1: don't understand they were given it out to truly blow

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Speaker 1: this thing up. Miles Garrett asked for a trade, so

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Speaker 1: if they would have traded him, it wouldn't have been like,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just traded him out of the blue.

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Speaker 1: He literally wanted to leave. And you could have got

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Speaker 1: a absolute, you could have got multiple ones, multiple twos,

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Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be any good. But instead the owner,

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Speaker 1: he's kind of like, I don't know, he's fly by

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Speaker 1: the seat of his pants. Sometimes it's very emotional. Gives

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Speaker 1: him money. And I'm not against investing into players like

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, but given their circumstances, it made no sense.

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Speaker 1: I just I think this theme's going to be a disaster.

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Speaker 1: And listen, I always say this, he said, she said shit,

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Speaker 1: I never even pretend to have a clue, and clearly

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Speaker 1: some of these guys what she said has been a

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Speaker 1: complete lie. And I am always on the side of

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Speaker 1: why don't we ever go after when she just completely

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Speaker 1: makes it up about a domestic violence situation where you

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Speaker 1: criminally go after her and then civilly go after her,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, Josh, she doesn't have any money, Well,

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Speaker 1: every dollar she does get moving forward, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: a piece of because that's what she wanted to do

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Speaker 1: to me. So I'm not acting like all these guys

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Speaker 1: that the Browns have signed are a bunch of turds.

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Speaker 1: But it got printed out and it's all over social media,

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Speaker 1: the list of guys with domestic violence attached to their background.

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Speaker 1: Like it's pretty crazy. I mean, and I say this

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Speaker 1: all the time. They got an IVY League head coach

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Speaker 1: and Ivy League GM and they signed some character dudes,

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Speaker 1: so they don't even pretend to give a shit. Jason

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Speaker 1: Light said, like, no assholes and d bags. I mean,

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Speaker 1: last year, the second round pick got arrested for pointing

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Speaker 1: a gun at his fiance, Like that's that's not an

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Speaker 1: alleged like that that happened, you know, you know, some

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Speaker 1: of the stuff this offseason is hard to know exactly what.

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Speaker 1: And listen, I am all for if she made it up,

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Speaker 1: going after her ass and ruining her life, because that's

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Speaker 1: what she attempted to do to you. But not everyone

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Speaker 1: is just I mean, they got a quarterback making a

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Speaker 1: ton of money that has a pretty sketchy past. Number

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Speaker 1: two's got to be the Dallas Cowboys of just I've

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Speaker 1: tried to mentally support because it's so easy to shit

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Speaker 1: on Dallas. Everyone's gonna suck. It's like, well are they?

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Speaker 1: And then I was like, I don't know. There eventually

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Speaker 1: gets to a point of like a line where it's

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Speaker 1: like I think they've kind of passed it of how

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Speaker 1: do you take this operation seriously? And I think Mike McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: who was a real NFL coach, the guy won a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl in twenty ten, coached the Packers with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: which was a marquee brand and had them kicking ass,

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00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: playing at a really high level for years. So had

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Speaker 1: had everyone watching him. Had to add a magnifying glass

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00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: on their operation, like just knows what he's doing. Now

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Speaker 1: we can nitpick him. Obviously, the playoff performances were pretty ugly,

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Speaker 1: but to go from him to Brian Schottenheimer, and you know,

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Speaker 1: with every year, Jerry feels like he's getting a little

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Speaker 1: more I don't know, out there losing a little bit loot.

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Speaker 1: The pistons upstairs aren't quite firing at the same speed,

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Speaker 1: and you have to wonder if eventually it's just gonna

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Speaker 1: blow up and be really ugly. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what it feels like. I mean, every day there's a

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Speaker 1: report like, yeah, Jerry and Micah just aren't talking, like

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Speaker 1: what's going on, how's this happening? I don't like I

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Speaker 1: get the Browns being like, yeah, Trey listening to a

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Speaker 1: thirty year old guy, we signed you an extension a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like this is a tough negotiation. Like, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: you drafted this guy in the first round. He became

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Speaker 1: a high end, all pro, Pro Bowl level player for you.

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Speaker 1: Like all these guys Jerry's extending are literally guys he's drafted,

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Speaker 1: but he's the Al Davis quality comes more and more

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Speaker 1: to light by the day. And then number one, I

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Speaker 1: don't even think there is a close second. Dallas and

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Speaker 1: Cleveland are shit you what the fuck's going on with

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. I mean, seriously, there was a Lions player.

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Speaker 1: I didn't write it down, but when they joint practice,

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Speaker 1: essentially he's like, yeah, I'm not really sure what's going

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Speaker 1: on over there, which is kind of unheard of. You

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00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: usually don't see other players taking shots or even questioning

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Speaker 1: what's happening. But I said this last year and I listen.

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00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: Shane Steichen is not getting off Scott free on this either.

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Speaker 1: When Mike McDaniel said, like, yeah, I don't really know

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Speaker 1: what to do when guys show up late that finding

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Speaker 1: them doesn't phase them. It's like when guys are showing

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Speaker 1: up late to you, they basically are telling everyone they

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Speaker 1: have no respect for you, not as a coach, but

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Speaker 1: as a human being. Because if you respect another human being,

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, meetings at eight fifteen in the morning,

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Speaker 1: eight thirty in the morning, Right, it's pretty but you're

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Speaker 1: you're probably not at home. And then the Tyreek Hill situated.

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Speaker 1: And it's not all Mike McDaniel's fault, right, The GM

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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: bears responsibility, the roster stink. This team's got a chance.

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Speaker 1: This thing can unravel really really fast. And I will

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Speaker 1: say this about the Miami Dolphins. I do wonder if

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can win there. I know

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Speaker 1: it's a glamorous place, no state income tax, great weather

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Speaker 1: most of the year. Yeah, it's starting to get a

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Speaker 1: feel where it might just not be like, oh, they're

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Speaker 1: that might be an area where it's just never gonna work.

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Speaker 1: And Mike McDaniel clearly's over his head. You know, Flores,

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Speaker 1: who's was better than Mike, was awful with the offense

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback, which can't happen in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know what they do, but

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Speaker 1: I would imagine everyone's going to get fired, and I

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Speaker 1: think the question is, well, who do they hire and

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Speaker 1: who would even be interested in the job? Okay, last,

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Speaker 1: but not least, Josh Pate has been talking about this,

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Speaker 1: and I completely agree, is the expectations for all of

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Speaker 1: thinks they're winning the Natty. There's not You wouldn't meet

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Speaker 1: to like, at minimum the Elite eight Final four. Florida

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Speaker 1: Alabama was like our nine wins last year was a

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Speaker 1: LSU fans are like, well, we got Garrett Nesmyer this

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Speaker 1: So the expectations going into a season kind of dictate

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Speaker 1: you look at a team like SC is a good example.

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Speaker 1: Their expectations sometimes are out of whack, and when they

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Speaker 1: win seven games and they viewed themselves as a playoff

641
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: team even though they were never going to the playoff teams,

642
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,479
Speaker 1: they're probably closer to an eight win team even if

643
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: they won one less game than they should have. It

644
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: feels like a disaster where it's like, actually, guys weren't

645
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Speaker 1: that great. And I think when you look at the SEC,

646
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Speaker 1: some of these guys are going to get fired. Auburn, Florida,

647
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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly, something durstic is gonna happen, mainly because there's

648
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Speaker 1: a name floating out there. He's putting it out there.

649
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: John Gruden wants to coach. And I can't quite decipher

650
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Speaker 1: everything going on with these NFL lawsuits. I know there

651
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Speaker 1: were reports that he won like an junction in Nevada,

652
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: and it moves up the court system. I don't know

653
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Speaker 1: if anyone's hiring him in the NFL. I can't see

654
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: that to be their head coach. But luckily for him,

655
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: the SEC pays big money, and essentially now major college

656
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,479
Speaker 1: football is like the NFL light And he keeps saying

657
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Speaker 1: over and over and over again that I want to

658
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Speaker 1: coach football, and there is no place that looks like

659
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. If you got some questionable character stuff and

660
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: have some you know, legal stuff in your background, if

661
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: you can play, they don't give a shit, never have,

662
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: never will. They are not the moral police. They're trying

663
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: to win games. They're running a business, and their business

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Speaker 1: is scoring more points than their opponent. The SEC has

665
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: a similar vibe, especially when it comes to coaches. I mean,

666
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Speaker 1: look at Hugh Freeze, look at some of the coaches

667
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Speaker 1: they've hired in the past that they look past and

668
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: they are completely unfaced. Now, ideally they would just like

669
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Speaker 1: to get a guy that checks all the boxes, like

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Speaker 1: an Saving or Kirby Smart, but as we know, those

671
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: don't always exist. I think there is above a fifty

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Speaker 1: percent chance John Gruden is coaching in the SEC. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how this is gonna play out. Is

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Speaker 1: what makes a college football season such the anticipation leading

675
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: to this exciting year because you could come up with

676
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: like seven different scenarios in college football. Who wins the

677
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: national championship, who's in the Final four, who's good, who's bad?

678
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: No one has any clue, which we haven't been able

679
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: to say pre transfer portal in NIL. I differ with

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00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: Colin from there should be some traditional nature to the sport,

681
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Speaker 1: and we're losing a lot of that. The pageantry of

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00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: college football, the alumni base, the fan base, the game

683
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: day atmosphere is a big part of why we love

684
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: the sport, which is different than the NFL, which is

685
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: not as predicated on that type stuff, but it's become

686
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Speaker 1: a big time business and the little guy is getting destroyed,

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Speaker 1: and they simply don't matter. We're never going backward, We're

688
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: only moving forward. So the little will get more and

689
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: more literally pillage for their players, but shittier television deals

690
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: and will become more and more irrelevant, and the emphasis

691
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: on the big boys winning will only get amplified as

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00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: the money grows and grows. So it's like, listen, these

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Speaker 1: buyouts are insane. So I don't pretend to know how

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Speaker 1: it all works, but we've seen crazy things happen in

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Speaker 1: the past. And I think John Gruden's name LSU Florida Auburn.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be a major player and I expect

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Speaker 1: him to be coaching the SEC in twenty twenty six. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's dive into a little thing we call the middle

699
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,239
Speaker 1: Cooff mail bag at John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff is

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Speaker 1: the Instagram fire and those dms and get your questions

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Speaker 1: answered here on the show. We will start with with

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00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: Dylan question for the pod. Love the show, but I've

703
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: been hearing quite a bit of rams slander and a

704
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: lot towards Jimmy g saying the Rams have no chance

705
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: of the playoffs if Jimmy G is playing. I know

706
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Jimmy's last outing with the Raiders wasn't pretty, but they

707
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: did not have a serious head coach or team surrounding

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Speaker 1: him in any sense. Last time Jimmy was on a

709
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: good team, he led them to Super Bowl and then

710
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: again to the NFC Championship. I believe this is his

711
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Speaker 1: best roster Sean McVay has had, and with lots of depth.

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Speaker 1: With that being said, do you think Jimmy G just

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Speaker 1: has regressed as a quarterback and doesn't have the capability

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Speaker 1: of leading a good team to the playoffs or do

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Speaker 1: you think shanahan just was a much better coach than

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Speaker 1: MCVEAYH Yeah, No, I mean I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people would say McVay is better Shanahan. He's got a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Kyle doesn't. And these last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: You know, last year is a good example of like

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Speaker 1: Kyle went six and eleven and Sean, you know, went

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Speaker 1: on a pretty good run. But I think when Kyle's on,

722
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Speaker 1: he's damn good too. But my point about Jimmy is

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Speaker 1: independent of Bill Walsh or Andy Reid coaching him. I

724
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Speaker 1: think he has so many injuries that he regressed as

725
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Speaker 1: a player within the pocket, and there's a level of

726
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: his frenetic nature. He's never been the most accurate player.

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Speaker 1: He just has physical limitations and then over the course

728
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Speaker 1: he's torn acl He's fucked up a thumb, he shattered

729
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Speaker 1: a foot. He just has a lot of wear and

730
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Speaker 1: tear for a guy that started early on in his

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Speaker 1: career as a backup. So yeah, I think he's regressed

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Speaker 1: as a player. Now. You know, if Matt Stafford, if

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Speaker 1: you tell me he can play twelve games this season,

734
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Speaker 1: could the Rams make the playoffs? Could they win some

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Speaker 1: games with Jimmy Garoppolo. Yes, if you tell me Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo is the full time starter seventeen games and Matt

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Speaker 1: Stafford's just gone, then I think they would have some

738
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Speaker 1: problems and I would not pick them. I mean, they

739
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: won ten games last year with Stafford playing. Big Listener,

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Speaker 1: Daily Listener, Big fan. Do you truly hate the Raiders? Oh?

741
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: This has got to be an old school email. It

742
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: seems like anytime they get brought up when something good happens,

743
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: you throw a wrinkle into it. I'm very pro Raiders.

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00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: John spy Tech love that guy, huge p Carroll guy.

745
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: I am pro the operation. I think Spy Tech is

746
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: going to be an excellent GM in the NFL for

747
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: a long time. My true question would be do you

748
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Speaker 1: feel Denver and the Chargers are much better football team

749
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Speaker 1: than the Raiders. I do feel like that or I

750
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: don't feel like that. Obviously a Raider fan, but would

751
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: like to hear your thinking on the matter. I think

752
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos are much better than you guys. I

753
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: think offensively, you know Gino solid, He's definitely an upgrade.

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00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: You know Ashton genty Me saw him in a preseason game.

755
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: He went to the Blue ten after a stinger. So

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Speaker 1: that's not We'll get to a gent question here a

757
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: little later. Brock Bowers is a superstar. Crosby is a superstar,

758
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: but your wide receiver course pretty questionable. You have a

759
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: good defensive coordinator and a good defensive head coach in Pete,

760
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: but do you have enough weapons in personnel on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. I mean, this is not

762
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Speaker 1: their fault. They drafted that kid a couple of years

763
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Speaker 1: ago from Texas Tech Wilson, who does not look very good.

764
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Speaker 1: So they've just had some misses in the draft. I

765
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: think they are a year away to me from being

766
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: a playoff team. I'd be stunned if like you can

767
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: be last place in that division have a really good season. God,

768
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: he's got so many sirens in La Middlecoff, big fan

769
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Speaker 1: of the show, fan your stuff a year ago, have

770
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: been hooked. My question is this, do players coaches for

771
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Speaker 1: an office personnel that work for an NFL team secretly

772
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: still cheer for their childhood squad? How did you handle

773
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,760
Speaker 1: your forty nine or fandom while employed by the Eagles?

774
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: Lifelong Giants fan here, and I think rather resigned from

775
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Speaker 1: the NFL than work in Dallas. It's a good question.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I think it's hard to relate like this situation to

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Speaker 1: most jobs because for most people there's not like a

779
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: personal connection of like, hey man, I just got this

780
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: incredible gig with h with I don't know, Bank of America.

781
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: You should see the contract that Oracle just put in

782
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: front of me, Like you would be loyal to these

783
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: companies if they're Amazon, just you should see what Bezos

784
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: is gonna have me do. Where you grow up as

785
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: a little kid, probably not idolizing the company you work for.

786
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: Where if you're a big football fan. You probably like

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00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: football since you were really young. I do think like

788
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: relating that to the industry stuff, when you start working

789
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: in quote unquote the business, you do naturally become a

790
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: little numb to it. Now. For me, like a lot

791
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Speaker 1: of people in my life are Niner fans, and like

792
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: I root for the if I have money on them

793
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: or I'm just casually watching them, But I don't like

794
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: live and die like I did when I was a

795
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: little kid. And I think a huge piece of that

796
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: truly died when I went to the NFL, just because

797
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: you're spending you know, eighteen hours a day in this office,

798
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Speaker 1: Like I want the Eagles to win because if they win,

799
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: that's good for me financially for my career. So you

800
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: just and I and then I got into the business

801
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: i'm in now. Someone asked me actually the last couple

802
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: days of Fox about that situation, like with my fandom,

803
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: what I root for? I'm like, honestly, I'm I just

804
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: kind of root for stories. If you tell me that

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00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: this will double my listenership, I'm rooting for that. This

806
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: is my business. This is what I want. So I

807
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: think you just kind of become numb to it, like

808
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: most of you, whatever industry you're in. I was telling

809
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: Maria this the other night. We were watching some show

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Speaker 1: there was a doctor involved. I'm like, you know, the

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00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: crazy thing about doctors is how numb they are. Or

812
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: if you're a doctor in the r to tragedy, right,

813
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 1: or just if you're a you know, we're having a baby.

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00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: Think about all the doctors that literally deliver babies, how

815
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Speaker 1: numb they get to just delivering your life. Move on

816
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: next one. It's kind of like that in this business. Though.

817
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: I still love football. I love talking about football, but

818
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: my true fandom, like, it's just way, way different. And

819
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: I think if you love football and you were working

820
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: in football, and you grew up a diehard Giants fan

821
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Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones is like, I want you to run

822
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: the fucking Cowboys, Like you would show up, he'd show

823
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: you the office. You'd start being like I get to

824
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: run the draft. Your tune would change pretty quick. I

825
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: promise you. Are you ready for the Seahawks to win

826
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? John? I think they could be pretty good.

827
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Speaker 1: Why is it somehow recognized by the media that Drake

828
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: May is a hit and Caleb is not, including Colin

829
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: who constantly states that Jaden Bow and Drake are hits

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Speaker 1: and we're waiting on Caleb. Caleb had a better by

831
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: all accounts and showed much more flashes and was being

832
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: held back in terms of throwing down the field and

833
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: avoiding turnovers, and showed just as much flashes and held

834
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Speaker 1: back decided to take some dumb sacks instead, which could

835
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Speaker 1: have been twenty five touchdowns to twelve picks like Bow

836
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: knicks with a worse situation. I think they're both in

837
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: the same situation. I don't judge easier of their rookie seasons,

838
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Speaker 1: like I think Drake May is an intriguing player just

839
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: like Caleb Williams, but I can't judge any of his

840
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 1: production last year in most of the games he was down.

841
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: His coaching was a joke. I think both guys are

842
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: big question marks. I think there has been less noise

843
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: around Drake May than Caleb this offseason. I think you

844
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: would say that Josh and Vrabel are just an easier

845
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: landing spot because they're going to be very run heavy,

846
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: they have a defensive head coach. It's just going to

847
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: be a quieter place where the Bears and Caleb are

848
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: more of just a marquee story, So I think that's

849
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Speaker 1: part of it too. They're just he was the number

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Speaker 1: one overall pick, he was the most hype draft pick

851
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: in a long time. He's just a highly polarizing individual

852
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: the way we talk about him. So I think there

853
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: are a lot of factors like that as well. But

854
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: I don't think you can consider Caleb or excuse me,

855
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: Drake maya hit yet I would not give him a hit.

856
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: I would say the one for sure hit, jayde Daniels

857
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: a hit, Like, who's fucking anyone want to argue against that? Like,

858
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: I just I don't have the energy at the time.

859
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: I would say it's gonna be pretty hard to bet

860
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: against bo Nicks. I don't know how good he's gonna be,

861
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: but like his coach of Sean Payton, their team's good,

862
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be solid. I think we just got

863
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: have a lot of unknown with all the other quarterbacks.

864
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: Chief season ticket holder, what's your take on the Chiefs

865
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: chances of returning to and winning the Super Bowl? These guys,

866
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: you guys are living well, man, you guys are living

867
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: really really well. You just talking about, like, can we

868
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: get back to the Super Bowl? For the six time

869
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: in seven years. Our division tougher, the Broncos in charges

870
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: possibly the fourth and fifth best AFC teams. Still, I

871
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: believe Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes can win the division

872
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: and complete and compete for the number one seed. Is

873
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: the media sleeping on Josh Simmons a potential draft steal?

874
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: If he's a top ten left tackle our offense could fix.

875
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: We could fix our offense with our lack of explosive

876
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: plays with Travis and Chris Jones Agent Kenner. Defense draft

877
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,320
Speaker 1: picks keep the defense strong while Pat and Andy carry

878
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: the offense. I think if he's a top ten left

879
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: tackle immediately, that's one of the better draft picks we've

880
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: seen in recent memory. You get a top ten left

881
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: tackle at pick thirty one if that happens, which by

882
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: all accounts I mean Texas with one thing. When you

883
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: my buddies with the Chiefs, their expectations are so high,

884
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: they're very they don't create the media hype. Like obviously

885
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: he's very talented. He was going to be a top

886
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: eight to ten pick if he hadn't blown out his knee.

887
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: But I think people are very hesitant, like the Chiefs

888
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: have played the most important games in the playoffs and

889
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: obviously the Super Bowl for the last six seven years.

890
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: So like just doing it in practice, you don't get

891
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: a gold star for that. Like, Okay, what are you

892
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: gonna look like in November against Denver when you're tired

893
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: and we're on CBA or you know, we're on Romo

894
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: and Nancer calling the game, we're on NBC or on

895
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: primetime against the Bills, Like how you playing then? Like

896
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: the standard is really really high, you know. So I

897
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,800
Speaker 1: think they're very quick to kind of pump the brakes

898
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: a little bit, not that they're not excited, but one

899
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: of these years someone's gonna knock them off in the playoffs.

900
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: It's just gonna happen. So I've bet on it the

901
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: last couple of years and it's blown up in my face.

902
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: So I'm just done betting against them. Though. It's like

903
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really, really difficult. But coward today had

904
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:53,919
Speaker 1: the Broncos and it's heard hierarchy above the Chiefs to Colin.

905
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: The Broncos haven't won a playoff game in almost ten years.

906
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: The Chiefs just won the AFC for like the third

907
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: straight year. I mean, there's no way that they couldn't

908
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: even be the highest rated team in their own division,

909
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: let alone having the Ravens and Bills above them. They

910
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: beat those two teams in the playoffs every single year.

911
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: So if I'm a Chiefs fan, I'm pretty cocky until

912
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: someone beats us. I'm feeling good about our chances and

913
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: really really excited about the left tackle. But if he

914
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: becomes a high end left tackle, that obviously it's a

915
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: great pick. But I think there'd be a lot of

916
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: teams around the league like, why did you pass on

917
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: this guy? When you were recently talking about the Rams

918
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: and their potential debacle at quarterback? Why not mention Stetson Bennett.

919
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: I'm a Dog fan, so I'm a bit biased, But

920
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: do you not think he has a chance to step

921
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: in for Jimmy Garoppolo? Love the show? Maybe I just listen.

922
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: Maybe it's biased. I didn't take him that seriously in college.

923
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: They draft him, which I think a lot of people

924
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: thought that, like he was you're gonna draft this guy,

925
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: and then he disappear. Obviously had some you know, substance

926
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: whatever issues which people go through stuff. I know people

927
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: have been bullish on him, but I'm just not my

928
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: cup of tea. I don't know what else tell you,

929
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:14,799
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea. If he proves me wrong.

930
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: He proves me wrong, But I'd rather play against him

931
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: than play with him in the NFL. Incredible college career,

932
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: great story, right, shows up, walks on leaves, comes back,

933
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: leads them to Natties, leads them to Natties. Is strong?

934
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: Is part of National Championships? Question for the bag. I'm

935
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,919
Speaker 1: a lifelong Cowboys fan. Jerry has basically admitted he's more

936
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 1: interested in the drama than winning. With both hands figuratively

937
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: tied behind his back, what is Brian Schottenheimer's path for

938
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: coaching a successful football team. It's a great question, man.

939
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: I do think now it's not even debatable seeing some

940
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: of Jerry's quotes about his love of all this stuff.

941
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: I mean the documentary that coming out. There was an

942
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: all time quote today by Michael Irvin that I think

943
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: he gave to People magazine that in the documentary that's

944
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: coming out on Netflix about the White House, which is

945
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 1: not the White House in DC. It's the White House

946
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: that was in Dallas that they put their hookers and

947
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: drugs in. This is Michael Irvin. I just wanted to

948
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: read this quote. We had five rooms and in that

949
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: room you may be smoking weed. This room you may

950
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: be doing X or some blow whatever. There was a

951
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: group of girls in each room, and you just kind

952
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: of bounced from room to room. Think about what Michael

953
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: Irvin just said. I mean, this was as good of

954
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: like a five year stretch of football that has ever

955
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: been played in the NFL. And they were just banging

956
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: hookers and doing drugs. And Okay, see this year when

957
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: they won the NBA Finals, half their team had never

958
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: tried a beer. Meanwhile, this team is taking out Brett

959
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: Favre and Steve Young in the forty nine ers on

960
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: X after just banging two hookers. I mean, it's just

961
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: just an all time squad. But I think ever since

962
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: that moment, I don't know if Jerry got cocky emboldened,

963
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: he just won't really listen to anybody. And now he's

964
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: at the point because I was thinking about this today,

965
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: think of the disadvantage Jerry is up against where Jeffrey

966
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: Lury is. Obviously, the Eagles and the Cowboys have a

967
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: big rivalry. Jeffery Larry really rich guy like Jerry own

968
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: the team for a long period of time. But he goes,

969
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to let Howie Roseman do

970
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: all my football stuff, like keep me in the loop.

971
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: I'll give you my opinions time to time, but you

972
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,280
Speaker 1: run it. Meanwhile, Jerry goes, I'm gonna run it. Jerry,

973
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: you're in your eighties. What are you doing. When the

974
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: New York Giants were winning Super Bowls with Tom Coughlin

975
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: and Jerry Reese, that ownership group was like, you guys

976
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: do it all man and we'll reap the benefits. Now

977
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: with the commanders that they're probably gonna be good, what

978
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: did they do. They're like, hey, we're gonna hire Adam

979
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: Peters and you hire Dan Quinn and you guys do it.

980
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: So when you guys have a football issue, you run

981
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: point on it. There was a story the other day

982
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: about Brian Robinson, junior dude who got shot a couple

983
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: of years ago. They might trade him, and you know

984
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: who sat down and talked to him, not the owner,

985
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: the GM and the head coach, Dan Quinn and Adam

986
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: Peters talked in those situations. Jerry's always running point and

987
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: I understand it to a point, Like the football stuff

988
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: is the fun stuff, but it's not working, and honestly,

989
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: it feels like it's getting worse. Earlier this year, I

990
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: was kind of like I was bullish on the Cowboys

991
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: because I sometimes if everyone's hanging a right, I just like,

992
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: I'll hang a left on this one so I can

993
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: see a path for it. And I was just like,

994
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, how is Brian Schottenheimer, a guy that

995
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: no one was gonna hire to be a head coach,

996
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: that most people on his team don't even realize that

997
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,479
Speaker 1: his dad was once a famous head coach, is gonna

998
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: be able to handle this situation. I don't think it's possible.

999
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: So I'm just I think this thing could get really,

1000
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: really weird. They are an injury or two away. What

1001
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: if when they ever they finally sign Micah Parsons, what

1002
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: if he's not right? And what if it just looks

1003
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: kind of weird. I don't know, what are you gonna

1004
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: say now that Ashton genty is he's still too small

1005
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: after running through Diamidoor Leonor's teeth. Well, I hope he

1006
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: can run over a corner he did hit a linebacker

1007
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: and go to the ground and then go to the

1008
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: blue tent. I'm not anti Ashton Genty. The guy's a stud.

1009
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: I just won get a little nervous with smaller guys

1010
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: from small programs. Obviously, he's built like a little tank.

1011
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: But you can't just run over guys in the NFL.

1012
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: It's not gonna last. First collision he had, he went

1013
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: to the blue tent. I think Ashton Genty could have

1014
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: a long, illustrious career and be a very, very productive player.

1015
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: But you can't just lower your shoulder on every guy

1016
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: in front of you. That's not a way to sustain

1017
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. What Adrian Peterson did is not normal.

1018
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: Question for the bag. We're all watching Hard Knocks, and

1019
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: I know you are too. Was wondering if you could

1020
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,879
Speaker 1: talk about the bills specifically in the job Brandon Bean

1021
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: is doing and Sean McDermott, as Colin says a hoist

1022
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,800
Speaker 1: the trophy guy Josh Allen is so elite, but do

1023
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: you see the offensive weapons it takes around him? Defense?

1024
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: Thanks John, Defense, question mark. I think the Bill's gonna

1025
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: be pretty good. Maybe I'm just buying the Hard Knocks hype.

1026
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the way they spliced together the highlights. Josh

1027
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: looks like it just I mean, a guy in the

1028
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: peak of his powers that has kind of mastered the sport. Obviously,

1029
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, defensively, I don't know how they beat the

1030
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: Ravens last year. Obviously they got helped out by a

1031
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: couple of drops. I think offensively they're gonna be pretty awesome.

1032
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 1: I mean, Cook's a stud. I think Keon Coleman's gonna

1033
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: come into his own. You know, they have high hopes

1034
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: for their tight end group. They drafted Kincaid high a

1035
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Dalton Knox Shakir. I think he's

1036
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: injured now, but he's a stud. I think they're gonna

1037
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: be fine. I think there's a fifty to fifty chance

1038
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: there the number one see, I expect them to win

1039
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: fourteen plus games. Huge fan of the Pod and appreciate

1040
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: your knowledge. Slash Platform. Do you think Mahomes is oddly underrated?

1041
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: While Mahomes is looking up at a small group of

1042
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: players above him, Brady Manning all time, everybody is ranking

1043
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: Lamar and Alan above him. I get his regular season

1044
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: numbers are low these last two seasons, but this has

1045
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 1: been a heavily injured team, and yet they have always

1046
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 1: made the AFC Championship game. Helly he's basically always made.

1047
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for his first year starting against Tom

1048
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: Brady and the year Joe Burrow, which I don't know

1049
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:38,439
Speaker 1: what the hell happened to the Chiefs in the second

1050
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: half of that game, but he would have been in

1051
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: basically a super Bowl every single year he's played. I

1052
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: think he's underrated because we're in a stats based culture.

1053
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: Most people the easiest way for them to argue about

1054
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: someone is to quantify in sports, Right, he scores this

1055
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: many points, he threw this many touchdowns for this many yards.

1056
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: So the last couple of years his stats haven't been

1057
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: as good as the guys that you know are his peers, right,

1058
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow obviously, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Yet and

1059
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 1: back to back years in the AFC Championship Game, he's

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Speaker 1: made enormous plays against both those guys two and their

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Speaker 1: seasons especially. I mean he outplayed Lamar a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, and Josh, like, you just have more faith

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Speaker 1: in you have more faith in Patrick Mahomes when it

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Speaker 1: matters and it's all on the line than any guy

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And you said he's looking up at

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Speaker 1: Brady and Manning. I you know, Peyton's one of the

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Speaker 1: best players I've ever seen any sport. But he's got

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Speaker 1: two total Super Bowls and he went to four. So

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Speaker 1: Patrick's already been to more Super Bowls and won more

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls than Peyton Manning. Now, will he ever eclipse

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Speaker 1: him from an individual accolade standpoint? The MVPs Probably not,

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Speaker 1: But I think when it's all said and done, Patrick

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Speaker 1: will ahead of Peyton fair not And I mean we

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Speaker 1: could make arguments definitely sitting here today, but we got Patrick.

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Speaker 1: How old is Patrick Mahomes thirty years old? Twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old? He's got a lot of years to play football.

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Speaker 1: Love the podcast. Got a thought something for the mail

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Speaker 1: bag if you do one in the near future. Today

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Speaker 1: I was watching some clips of fields that'd be justin

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Speaker 1: fields being god awful on some short to intermediate throws,

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Speaker 1: all caps in practice. I don't know why there's such

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Speaker 1: a big crowd of people who think he hasn't been

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Speaker 1: given a fair chance, or an organization just didn't put

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Speaker 1: enough pieces around him quote Chicago. And while I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's been in a perfect situation by far, when

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Speaker 1: I watch him play, I just don't see it. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's a starting NFL quarterback. He's a great

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Speaker 1: athlete and a hell of a runner, but I don't

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Speaker 1: see anything that says anything beside he's going to be

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Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. When I watch him play, I think

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Speaker 1: the Jets are crazy to rely on him for this

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Speaker 1: upcoming year. So basically a question am I missing something

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Speaker 1: or being unfair to think he is what he is

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Speaker 1: at this point? I would agree he has not been

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Speaker 1: in the perfect situations, and I liked him a lot

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Speaker 1: coming out of college. I remember thinking the Jets and

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers are crazy for taking Zach Wilson

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Speaker 1: and Trey Lance over justin Fields and that year with

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Speaker 1: Ohio State with Ryan Day, I mean, he looked good,

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Speaker 1: but I remember one of the stories coming out is

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Speaker 1: like Kyle didn't think he saw it well enough and

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Speaker 1: processed and could operate his offense. And clearly Lafleur, who's

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Speaker 1: with the Jets, agreed, And when you watch him play,

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Speaker 1: he just operates really, really slow, and he's not a

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Speaker 1: very accurate touch passer. He has good physical gifts. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of like a version of Anthony Richardson, probably a

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Speaker 1: better version of Anthony Richardson where it's like you like

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Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that he has strong arm, athletic,

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Speaker 1: explosive plays, but like most of quarterback play is like

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Speaker 1: throw a quick out, like run a quick slant like

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Speaker 1: most of Patrick Mahomes, especially like this last like three years,

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Speaker 1: has not been just throwing go routes for touchdowns. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of like, oh, it's third and six. He

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Speaker 1: got seven yards on a slant. He had a great

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Speaker 1: like ten yard comeback to continue a drive in a

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Speaker 1: tie game in the fourth quarter, Like that's kind of football,

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Speaker 1: or it's like, you know what, his first second read

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Speaker 1: wasn't open. He had an incredibly scrambled to his left

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Speaker 1: and made a play. It feels like those guys fields.

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Speaker 1: Everything's kind of in slow motion, and then when he

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Speaker 1: does release it, it's late and the ball's off. And

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Speaker 1: one thing I saw Shane Siken talked about today part

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Speaker 1: of the decision making process was like ball placement, Like

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's not even just accuracy completion or not completion,

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Speaker 1: you know, assuming that they're in practice right, Because this,

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Speaker 1: you know, JJ Watt and some of the reporters nationally

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Speaker 1: were getting into it, like should we care about practice

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Speaker 1: stats or not, because if you just say, hey, so

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Speaker 1: and so quarterback at training camp went eleven for fifteen

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Speaker 1: today and two of the incompletions were drops, and then

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Speaker 1: the coach might say, well, when we broke down the film,

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Speaker 1: three of those eleven completions in a game would have

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Speaker 1: been problematic. They were not accurate. If they were playing

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Speaker 1: a good corner might have been picked off or tipped.

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Speaker 1: So it's like you got to put context in with everything.

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Speaker 1: So when you watch fields play, it just feels off.

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Speaker 1: I do think they were a little desperate in New York.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to get off Aaron Rodgers. I don't know, listen,

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Speaker 1: I don't care how much he makes doesn't bother me.

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Speaker 1: But the NFL is a salary gap league. So when

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Speaker 1: you pay a player X amount of dollars, that is

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Speaker 1: the difference of you having if you pay him ten

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Speaker 1: million or you pay him twenty million, that's the difference

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Speaker 1: of you being able to buy other players or invest

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Speaker 1: into your own team. You know, re sign guys. And

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Speaker 1: they gave him two years forty million dollars. I think

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Speaker 1: guaranteed them thirty million dollars. Like, who were they bit

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Speaker 1: What were the Steelers interested in numbers like that. I

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Speaker 1: have herd. They benched him last year in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the year, so I don't know. Maybe Aaron Glenn

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Speaker 1: just really liked them because as a runner, but I

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Speaker 1: think they're passing it. I think the Jets could be

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Speaker 1: like one of those teams that's tough, that's physical, that

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Speaker 1: tries hard and it's just bad. Like Aaron Glenn's a

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Speaker 1: good coach, good guy. I think the effort and the energy,

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Speaker 1: like the give a shit factor is gonna be high,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think they're gonna function at all. And

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Speaker 1: I think offensively they are gonna be a tough watch.

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Speaker 1: The volume