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Speaker 1: me and Colin went for about an hour, talked about

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Speaker 1: it's the best thing that ever happened to me professionally.

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Speaker 1: Because it was a small school. I could get in

429
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Speaker 1: the athletic department, get with the football program really easy

430
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: first day on the job, to hand you your whistle

431
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: right would not have happened at USC, Texas, Oklahoma or wherever.

432
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Speaker 1: But the one thing, and I'm sure many people listening

433
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Speaker 1: to this, if you went to a bigger school, having

434
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Speaker 1: a college football team to watch every Saturday, having a

435
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: college basketball team in the you know, that makes the

436
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: tournament a lot. That's something I will never have and

437
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: it sucks. It's why I tell Marie all the time,

438
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: our children, fucking send them to the SEC or the

439
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: Big ten. They're gonna I'm gonna live vicariously through them.

440
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: One just for the experience. You meet new people. But

441
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: that's a powerful thing, and I love I love watching

442
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: Thursday through Sunday. But this year, one thing I think

443
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: that hurts even the tournament. Now, I'm a gambler. I

444
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: didn't gamble on this weekend at all. I didn't know anything.

445
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: And the one game I almost gambled on, I'm like,

446
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: I kind of like Saint Mary's. I've watched them a lot.

447
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: I think they're pretty good. I text Doug Gottlieb, I'm like,

448
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: what do you think? He's like, I think GCU is

449
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: pretty good. And I'm like, I've backed off that one.

450
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: Thank god I did. They beat the shit out of

451
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Speaker 1: Saint Mary's. One thing the tournament's always had is they've

452
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Speaker 1: had the pageantry of the schools, right, all the big

453
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: boys against the little guys like David versus Goliath, and

454
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: you get some upsets. I'm on the golf course, when

455
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: was that Friday Thursday and I'm watching Oakland, Kentucky. We're

456
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 1: glued to the phone. I got three guys, We're all

457
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: around it, back to back holes, like god, they're gonna lose.

458
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: That's cool. And then anytime you get a great game

459
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: like Oregon Creighton, that's sweet. The other draw was always

460
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: like superstar players. You would get three or four guys,

461
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: you know, like this guy's gonna be a top ten NBA,

462
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: this guy's a star. I want to watch Steph Curry.

463
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: I want to watch Anthony Davis. I want to watch

464
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Speaker 1: Zion Williamson. And I think with this one and done

465
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Speaker 1: culture and really just the the maybe it's just a

466
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 1: bad crop. But the lack of star players really impacted

467
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: me because there were times like I used to just

468
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 1: watch them bad games if they had some star power.

469
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: I like turned it off if the game wasn't good,

470
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: and like watch something else. It's like, you know what,

471
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: I'll watch Netflix Full Swing the Golf, you know, reality show.

472
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: And I just wonder, now it's used to be a

473
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: much better draft, maybe a new crop of guys. I

474
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: do think this tournament is also dependent on the stars,

475
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: because one conversation has been the popularity of women's college basketball.

476
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: One thing women's college basketball, Like I'd be lying to

477
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Speaker 1: you if i've I've never watched one dribble of the WNBA,

478
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 1: and I definitely haven't watched much women's college basketball in

479
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Speaker 1: my life. I'm paying attention to Caitlin Clark, right, I

480
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 1: just am even Kim Moulki with LSU and Angela Reese like,

481
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of paying attention and in college basketball now,

482
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: I might throw a little, you know, nine to one

483
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Speaker 1: Arizona to win the whole thing. Though they would have

484
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: to go through Yukon in the final four. I'd rather

485
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: they had to go through them in the final game.

486
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 1: It hurt it this year. It really does. In some

487
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: of my greatest tournament moments, beside the upsets, in kind

488
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: of last second Shots has been the star player of performances.

489
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: And I felt it this weekend. And I'm a fucking junkie.

490
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: I love of big events, big big sporting events, and

491
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: I was like, Eh, it's just kind of okay, and

492
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a one off situation. Maybe it's just

493
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: a bad crop of players, or maybe this is just

494
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: kind of the new college of basketball. And if that's

495
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: the case, kind of sucks. Okay, Let's do a little

496
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: middle Coff mail bag. Very easy to get involved, very

497
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: simple Instagram at John Middlecoff. Fire in those dms at

498
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff, my name two f's fire in those dms.

499
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: Love the pod. We all know DK Metcalf has some

500
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: serious anger issues, and I think he only the only

501
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: reason he has been in the NFL this long is

502
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: because he was drafted by Pete Carroll. I'd also say

503
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: he's pretty good at football. Probably bigger reason than Pete Carroll.

504
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: If DK was to go to another team, what would

505
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: it be and for how long? Well, he's under a

506
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: big contract, right him? AJ Brown and Deebo Samuel? Was

507
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: it not? Last two seasons ago got large contract extensions.

508
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: It actually kind of hit me this morning. I was

509
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: at the gym. I flipped on Lombardi's podcast and he mentioned,

510
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: you know, he was talking about the Chiefs trade and

511
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: one thing the Chiefs with their trade didn't allow themselves

512
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: to do. And you know, I think they were playing

513
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: through the different scenarios. Is that cap space for sneed

514
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: when they franchised them. I don't have the exact number

515
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: off top, you know, on me, I think it was

516
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two, twenty three million dollars. Was just

517
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: sitting there, right, I mean, he was taking up space.

518
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,719
Speaker 1: Once they remove him, they get the cap space. Honestly,

519
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: it might be more now thinking about whatever the number was,

520
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: it was large and that could have enabled them to

521
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: sign guys. And I'm kind of sitting there doing what

522
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, a chubby guy chasing skinninness does walking on

523
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 1: an incline, holding but walking on the incline. And what

524
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Speaker 1: if the Chiefs do I think they would trade pick

525
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: thirty two for DK. I wonder if they think about

526
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: it now. I don't know, you know, big picture part

527
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: of the space, you know, signing their own guys. Right,

528
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: they have some young core pieces on the offensive line,

529
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: a guard, a center, a good linebacker that are not

530
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Speaker 1: going to be cheap. But listen, I know the way

531
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Speaker 1: Andy thinks. Andy likes sweet players, right, I mean, think

532
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: about some of the guys the last fifteen years that

533
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: he's used a lot, from Deshaun to Macklin to Shady

534
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: to what he did with Jamal Charles, to draft in

535
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Speaker 1: Tyreek and obviously Kelsey. I would imagine he likes DK Metcalf.

536
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Speaker 1: And think about DK Metcalf with Patrick Mahomes. Now it

537
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: takes two to tango. Wouldn't John Schneider just want DK

538
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Speaker 1: Metcalf on his team? To me part of the draw

539
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: of Seattle, the nucleus they have. Maybe they go, hey,

540
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: it's a good receiver draft. Now there are financial ramifications

541
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 1: on doing this, but you never know it. Honestly, it's crazy.

542
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: It crossed my mind today. Would the Chiefs sniff around

543
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: on DK. They have a new coach, they don't have

544
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: a new GM, and I would guess John likes him.

545
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: I don't know why John Schneider wouldn't like DK, but

546
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: to me, that anger issues, like he struggles controlling his emotions,

547
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: which they got penalized a lot oh last year and

548
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. Right, but that's he

549
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: doesn't get any trouble. I can live with that. I mean,

550
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: he's a very very talented player, he really is. I

551
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: think he's closer to the modern day Terrell Owens. Terrell

552
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: was probably a little more fluid, but this guy's high

553
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: end speed, his physicality, like t O doesn't have the

554
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: greatest natural hands, right, I wouldn't call him like Davante

555
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: or you know, Tyreek has great hands, like just a

556
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: natural catcher of the ball. But he's definitely good enough,

557
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: and he's just there's nothing quite like him in the NFL,

558
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: So I would it wouldn't shock me if he ever

559
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: were to become like Hey, we'd be open to it

560
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: that they would sniff around the swivel hip drop tackle

561
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: ruling and social media sentiment around. It reminds me a

562
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: lot of the Crown of the Helmet rule change from

563
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: a few years back. Now that the NFL has classified

564
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Speaker 1: what they're looking to penalize, I actually don't foresee this

565
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: being a huge deal, and I think within a year

566
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: this will be pretty easily eradicated without changing the game

567
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: in a significant way. Of course, social media disagrees and

568
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: is freaking out per usual. Yeah, I mean, you can't

569
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: worry about the freak out. I do think anytime a

570
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Speaker 1: rule happens, it's got a wait to see the way

571
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: that it's legislated. Come to games like how are they

572
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: calling these? I heard some people say that they feel

573
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: it's going to be more of a fine base than

574
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, ejections and penalties. Time will tell. Obviously there

575
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: are gonna be some obvious times it happens. My entire

576
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: take the crowd of the helmet. There was a vicious

577
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: violence that existed in the old NFL that Listen I

578
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: came up on. It made me fall in love with

579
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Speaker 1: the NFL. It intimidated me about trying to play high

580
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,959
Speaker 1: school football. I remember, just being football is intimidating. It's

581
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: an intimidating sport. I always had a lot of respect

582
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Speaker 1: when I worked in college football, you know that that

583
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: level of guys that were hard hitters. And then obviously

584
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: the NFL is the highest level, but they didn't They

585
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: wanted the violence that led to the injuries out obviously

586
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Speaker 1: because of the lawsuits. I this one to me. I

587
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: don't like when you launch yourself. I'd be fine going

588
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: back to the old rules. They never are, but the launching,

589
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: you don't have to launch yourself like you know, you

590
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: don't have to leave your feet. If you're gonna tall,

591
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't mean you're always gonna tackle the guy. This

592
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: one by any You're taught this in pee wee football

593
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: up through the NFL. At the end of the day,

594
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: if I'm in a one on one position, or I

595
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: am the guy in a gap and the guy is

596
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: running at me, my only job is to get him

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Speaker 1: on the ground. Like form tackles and how you're taught

598
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: tackling at the lowest level of football kind of goes

599
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: out the window because if you're trying to tackle Saquan

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel whoever ceedee Lamb. I mean part

601
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: of this a little like the quarterbacks. Who are they

602
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: trying to protect the star players? Right? Mark Andrews was

603
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: lost basically for the season last year because of the

604
00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: injury that easily could be Take the best ten plus

605
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: teams that are all gonna be in the playoffs. They

606
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: have impact level stars and most of their stars non

607
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: quarterback on offense are playmaking guys with the ball in

608
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: their hand. And I just think sometimes you're not trying

609
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: to quote unquote hip swivel drop hurt them. You're trying

610
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: to get them to the ground. Why that's literally your

611
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: job description make an open field tackle. And for every

612
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: like ray Lewis, Patrick Willis and Luke Keikley, that's like shit,

613
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: I can tackle anybody in space. Most guys, it's like

614
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get the guy to the ground

615
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: by any means necessary. So I my issue more is

616
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: part of the old school football was you know, to

617
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: injure guys. You weren't trying to necessarily like knock them

618
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: out for the season or even the game, but you

619
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: were trying to inflict legitimate pain. You're never coming over

620
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: across the middle. Your quarterback is never gonna throw that route,

621
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Speaker 1: you know between the underneath court corner in the safety

622
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: because we will clean your clock. Right, this is no

623
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: one's thinking that real time. All of a sudden, a

624
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: sweep and Alvin kamaras in space, You're like, shit, can

625
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: I just get the guy to the ground so we

626
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: get off the field. With the Cowboys not extending Dak

627
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: Prescott well yet, I mean they keep claiming they're going

628
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: to and the quiet off season they're having, could they

629
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: be quietly doing a rebuild that would see them part

630
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: ways with Dak signed CD and Parsons next offseason and

631
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: surround another quarterback, rookieerr veteran with stud pieces around them,

632
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: much like the forty nine ers. I would imagine that

633
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: McCarthy would be replaced by Ben Johnson or a Belichick

634
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: type coach that can win with that type setup. I

635
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: don't think Jerry at this point in time is trying

636
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: to rebuild. I think they had to make some tough

637
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: financial decisions. They pay their own guys a ton, even

638
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: if you remove Dak, whose cap hit is huge, right,

639
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: Lawrence's cap hits big, Ceedee Lamb's cap hit is big,

640
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: Zach Martin's cap hit is big. I mean they have

641
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: high Pro Bowl level guys or guys that have been

642
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: to Pro Bowls that make a lot of money. So

643
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: I think it's more in kind of that world than

644
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: it is kind of a rebuild. Now, is it a

645
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a reset and you can reset? This

646
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: is why I said the Bills super Bowl window, it

647
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: doesn't close as long as you have Josh Allen because

648
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: he's good enough to compete at the highest level. Right,

649
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: But you look at Dak Prescott, I just don't think

650
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 1: he is like, if your team is not good enough,

651
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you can I don't think you can't compete.

652
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you can make runs in the playoffs.

653
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, their team has been relatively stacked these

654
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: last what three years. I mean they've had a lot

655
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: of talent up and down their roster offensively, defensively, players

656
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: at every level been bounced to the first round two

657
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: of the last three years at home. Now their team

658
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: is going to be less talented. They're going to be

659
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: very dependent on young players, very dependent on hitting guys

660
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: in the draft, very dependent on guys they've drafted the

661
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: last couple of years taking big steps. You know, a

662
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: guy that we don't quite seeming becoming like a high

663
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: end starter, a guy that's a fringe high end starter,

664
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: like the what's the guy that they drafted to Basically,

665
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: I mean he's going to replace Tyron Smith at left tackle, Like,

666
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: can he become a pro bowler? If he can, then

667
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: they're in pretty good shape. If he can't, they're probably

668
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: in trouble. For the mailback. Why do you think the

669
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: Chargers are not included global market programs? So it's basically

670
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: just teams that have signed guys from the internet world.

671
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: So it's I just don't think they It's hard to

672
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: describe a on a podcast, but there's just a picture

673
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: of all the teams that have international players. The Rams

674
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: have a bunch, The forty nine ers have this guy

675
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: from Mexico that's been on their practice squad forever. I

676
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: don't know every team. For whatever reason, the Charge you

677
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: basically get a free roster spot if you bring in

678
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: an international player. I would imagine if we went through it,

679
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: most of them are practice squad guys. Now with the

680
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: extended practice squad plus, this guy does not count like

681
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: you get an extra practice squad spot. But most of

682
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: these guys are not going to be Jordan Malatta. You're

683
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: basically just trying out a guy, you probably like them,

684
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: but when it comes to the Chargers, I don't. Necessarily,

685
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: I don't know listen to the Titans trade reaction. I

686
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: wanted to give my idea on why they may be

687
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: doing it. If you think it works, put the pieces

688
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: around him to create a successful offense and a winning

689
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: team and a strong culture. If it does does not

690
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: work out, you have the building blocks of a destination

691
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: for free agency, new stadium, energetic fan base, weapons where

692
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: you need them, under contract, no state taxes, and a

693
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: new culture that seems to be aligned. Do you think

694
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: that will be enough to persuade a quarterback to sign

695
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: or are they doomed if Levis flames out. Well, I

696
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: think you're one hundred percent right. They're just signing good,

697
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: high level players from winning organizations. Tony Pollard has been

698
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: used to winning in Dallas. Calvin Ridley a little bit

699
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: of a different story. But Snead is back to back

700
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion. Probably he's been a three year starter

701
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: or one of the best teams in the league. So

702
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: I think it's about signing high level guys, even if

703
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 1: you have to pay a little bit. The Titans would

704
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: one hundred percent be a destination for free agents, right,

705
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: not even just the no state. Nashville's a fucking incredible place.

706
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: Think how many players in the NFL are from the South.

707
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Speaker 1: If the teams in the South have cap space, they

708
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: can land players starting in Texas over so, if the

709
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys ever had money, they never do because they always

710
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: sign their own guys. If they ever had money, they

711
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: would land dutes. Right the Texans money, land dutes. Titans money,

712
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: they will land dudes. Both Florida teams money land dudes.

713
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 1: Atlanta they have money, land dudes, New Orleans. If they

714
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: ever had money, they never do because their CAP's always

715
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: fucked up, they would land dudes. Well, I think how

716
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: many players in the NFL are from either the ACC

717
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: or the SEC. I don't have the numbers in front

718
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: of me, but it's pretty large. Another hip drop question,

719
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: Hip drop band, Where are we gonna stop all this shit?

720
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: At first, it started with the head injuries, and we

721
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: have seen season career ending lower body injuries skyrocket. Now

722
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: we have digressed all the way to this. At what

723
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: point does it become flag football? This is ridiculous. Well,

724
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: I think we have to separate everything, right, the leading

725
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: with the crown in your helmet in the open field.

726
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: Safeties and linebackers, they clearly didn't want that, and that's out.

727
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: Then the treatment of the quarterbacks jump the shark, but

728
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: at least they had a reason for it. No one

729
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: wants to watch a game if Mahomes and Alan, if

730
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: the Bills and Chiefs are playing and one of the

731
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: two guys is hurt. People get hurt in football, but

732
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: if it can be avoided, you have to keep that

733
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: position safe. You do. Ideally, are some of these roughing

734
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: the passers ridiculous? No one would argue that doesn't have

735
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: the right intention for us the consumer. It does. The

736
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: hip drop tackle. I just think we have to watch

737
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: how this plays out. I really do. If it's aggressive,

738
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: then we're going to have a problem. If it's just

739
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: finding guys like I don't care, and that's what I

740
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: would imagine it ends up being just kind of finding guys.

741
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: I hope maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not going to

742
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: overreact until I see it. Do I like it? No?

743
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 1: Would I have not done it. But it was clear

744
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago when Troy Vincent and the league

745
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: was talking their mindset on it all like they were

746
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: getting rid of it. It was going to be gone,

747
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: and now obviously it's gone. But we'll see one thing

748
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: to say something, another thing to put it into action.

749
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: They're very aggressive on the head stuff, right, They're very

750
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: aggressive with the quarterbacks. Are they going to be this

751
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: aggressive with the hip drop tackle? It doesn't happen as much,

752
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: but we're gonna find out. Does it make much sense

753
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: for college football to restructure itself like an English football pyramid?

754
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: This would make much more drama all around and hope

755
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: for the little schools while keeping the big boys making

756
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: their money, all while giving multiple cinderella stories. In streamlining

757
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: the recruiting, the top sixteen to twenty teams could receive

758
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: the biggest cut of the revenue shares, while each tier

759
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,439
Speaker 1: below receives a smaller and smaller cut. The bottom three

760
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: teams each year would face relegation to the tier below,

761
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: while the top three teams determined through the playoffs would

762
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: get to move up receive a bigger share while becoming

763
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: more attractive for recruits. It would create layers to coaching

764
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL draft. Would love to hear your thoughts.

765
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: In theory, that makes a lot of sense, but the

766
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: problem is the two main leagues. Why are they incentivized

767
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: to open their arms to the Big twelve or the ACC.

768
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: Now you can say in the Big ten Michigan, Ohio State,

769
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: Penn State, you know, in Theory, Iowa obviously, now Oregon, USC,

770
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 1: they're all kind of in it together. And then the

771
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: SEC Bama, right, Ole, miss LSU, Georgia, Tennessee. It's all

772
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: too separated. One thing the NFL has going for it.

773
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't know the structure well enough in soccer, but

774
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: the they're all partners. So when the season ended, Clark

775
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: Hunt and Jed York, the two teams in the Super Bowl,

776
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: got the same amount of money from the television right

777
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: steal that the Carolina Panthers, Washington Commanders and the Patriots.

778
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: The team's drafting one, two and three, they got the

779
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: same check. Now I think it comes over, you know,

780
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: three or four months, but you know what I mean,

781
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: they all got I don't know the exact number, but

782
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: it's like four hundred million. It might have been four

783
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: hundred and five. Their partners. This podcast with the volume

784
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: when I make money, Colin makes money. We're all making

785
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: money to get We're all incentivized here to do well.

786
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: The Big Ten, Like, what is their incentive to help

787
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: out the Big twelve. Now, if they have teams that

788
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: can help them, then they would try to steal them,

789
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: but to try to merge, they don't need them. That's

790
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,240
Speaker 1: the whole problem with the structure of college football. It's

791
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: all and that's why it feels inevitable that it goes

792
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: SEC Big Ten and teams keep joining the two of them,

793
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: like Notre Dame eventually drones the Big Ten, Florida State, Clemson,

794
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: the SEC, maybe Kansas as a sleeper because of their

795
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: basketball program, but football is so much bigger. It's just

796
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: a very complicated situation. It's not normal business because of

797
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: the segregation that already exists. And there's not I mean,

798
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: there's not equality in the NFL either. Obviously, the Carolina

799
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: Panthers mean a lot less to the NFL than the

800
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. But in terms of the money they all

801
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: generate together for the thing that pays most of their bills,

802
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: the television contract, they're all in it together. They're all

803
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: hand in hand. They're equal partners. In college football, there's

804
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: not equal partners. And the other thing is why would

805
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: the SEC or the Big Ten ever sign up for relegation.

806
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: I always love and listen. I get why it's fun

807
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: conversation when the media brings up real delegation. No one

808
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: in no owner is ever going to sign up for relegation.

809
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: David Tepper might be the worst owner we've ever seen.

810
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: He just paid billions of dollars for his team. How

811
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: would he ever sign a piece of paper that he

812
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: could be kicked out of the league. As a Clemses

813
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,240
Speaker 1: fan and now a Jags fan, do you see Trevor

814
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: improving from what was a lackluster second half or do

815
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: you think Peterson given up play calling was part of

816
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: the second half collapse of the put I clicked on

817
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: a video today, who was it with Garifolo or one

818
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: of the guys at the owner's meeting was talking with

819
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: Doud and Trevor came up, and he says, the number

820
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 1: one thing next year with Trevor before even the quote

821
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: unquote play is the health. He said, he has to

822
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 1: do a better job avoiding unneeded hits. Us as a

823
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: staff need to do a better job of avoiding those situations,

824
00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: and we need to work together to avoid injury. Now

825
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: that's easier said than done. But he also kind of

826
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: alluded to like we're bringing in a backup quarterback that

827
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: if he does get hurt, the guy can play. So

828
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: their goal is going to be clearly, they're not going

829
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: to pay Trevor Lawrence's offseason, but if he's injured, like

830
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: they traded for Mac Jones for a reason. He has

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00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: a lot of experience, and even Doug mentioned like he

832
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: turned on his rookie season, like I felt pretty good

833
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: about that player. So I think they're gonna wait and see.

834
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be on Trevor to be available and prove

835
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: that he's a high end guy. If he's not, I

836
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: don't believe he's on scholarship. I really don't. That's not

837
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: the way the NFL works. Hell, we've seen every guy

838
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: in his draft Justin Fields another team, Trey Lance another team,

839
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: Mac Jones on the Jags, Zach Wilson. He makes too much.

840
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: They can't even trade him. They're gonna have to cut him.

841
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: So now you could argue Trevor Lawrence was viewed in

842
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: a different tier, and that's true, but if he does

843
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: not play well, he will not be on the team.

844
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,280
Speaker 1: It's just that simple. Now, maybe Doug and every everyone

845
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: gets fired as well, But Trevor better pick it up,

846
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: because that's just simply not good enough. I was just

847
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: reading a fascinating article on the Athletic. It cited numerous

848
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: sources from the NFL in college football who actually pointed

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Speaker 1: to a player's well butt size as an indicator of

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Speaker 1: lower body strength. The story seems to make it clear

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Speaker 1: he has a physical attribute evaluated on prospects for a while.

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Speaker 1: As humorous as it comes across, do you have any

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00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: recollections to the attention to a rear end in your

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00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,720
Speaker 1: time scouting reaction to the concept, we called it the bubble.

855
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Speaker 1: He has a big bubble now. Obviously at certain positions

856
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: it's more important guard, tackle, center, defensive tackle. You don't

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Speaker 1: want a defensive back to have a big butt. But

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Speaker 1: in running back, you know some running backs they were

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Speaker 1: lower body Deebo Samuel if I've been stood next to

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Speaker 1: a million times of practice, like, his lower body is

861
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Speaker 1: built much more like a running back than most wide receivers.

862
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's like measuring their butt, but

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Speaker 1: their their butt into their lower part of their legs

864
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Speaker 1: like this is a very very physical sport. And as

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Speaker 1: a running back and as someone on the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: That fucking the power in your ass through your thighs,

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Speaker 1: I mean separates the men from the boys. I mean

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Speaker 1: this is the job of an offensive lineman is to

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Speaker 1: move a body in front of them, and the job

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Speaker 1: of a defensive lineman is to move that body moving

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Speaker 1: forward backwards. And obviously as a running back, it's about

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Speaker 1: breaking a lot of contact. So for every stiff like

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00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: you don't stiff arm as many guys you think, this

874
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Speaker 1: isn't Madden Football. It's it's breaking tackles through your lower

875
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Speaker 1: body strength. It's why squatting. You remember when Saquon was

876
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Speaker 1: so famous about squatting whatever six hundred pounds. Same with

877
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. Jalen's a good example. He's got a thick

878
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Speaker 1: lower body and that's important to the way he plays.

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Speaker 1: The tush push doesn't exist without his lower body strength.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's discussed a lot. When I was scouting,

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Speaker 1: you would you do ninety nine percent of your work right,

882
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: evaluate the tape, talk to all the contacts at the school,

883
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Speaker 1: do your write up character, football intelligence, ability, and then

884
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: you would go to practice and you would try to

885
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: stand next to the player and you go, God, this

886
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: guy looks the part, and you would kind of describe

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00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: his body, and if it doesn't look the part, that's

888
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Speaker 1: also can be a problem. Now, just because you don't

889
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: look the part doesn't mean you can't play in the NFL.

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00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: But at certain positions, it's hard to be one hundred

891
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: and fifty pound running back. It's hard to be a

892
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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five pound offensive lineman. Right there.

893
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Speaker 1: There are certain things that translate when it comes to football.

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Speaker 1: Huge fan of the pod, been listening for a few

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Speaker 1: years now. I always refuse refer to your takes when

896
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: debating with my family. Hopefully I've helped you win some arguments. Anyways,

897
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: my forty nine er fan friends are claiming to me

898
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: that Party is better than Herbert. I called him insane,

899
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Speaker 1: and then somehow my other friends joined in and agreed

900
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: with him. Their argument is that each quarterback accomplished and

901
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: how much playoff success he's had. Rock Perty has been

902
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,919
Speaker 1: a revelation. He's been one of the most impressive things

903
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Speaker 1: we've ever seen. I mean, he's on a very very

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Speaker 1: short list going back to Brady Pick one ninety nine

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Speaker 1: and two thousand. Tony Romo, undrafted free agent It's very

906
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Speaker 1: very rare that a guy in the sixth seventh undrafted

907
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Speaker 1: free agent ever has success at quarterback. It's not usually

908
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Speaker 1: how it works. Right, Most NFL starting quarterbacks are top

909
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: our first rounders, let alone top one hundred pick. Think

910
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: about the best players right now at quarterback Mahomes first rounder,

911
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: Lamar Herbert first rounder, Josh Allen first rounder, Jalen Hurts

912
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Speaker 1: second rounder. Then there are some outliers Dak Cousins, mid

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Speaker 1: round guys, fourth rounders, Kyler Murray first rounder, Matt Stafford

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Speaker 1: first rounder. Like just just kind of go around, and

915
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Speaker 1: I know I'm leaving guys Joe Burrow first rounder. I

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Speaker 1: mean high pick. So a lot of guys that have

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Speaker 1: success at the highest level are really really high picks.

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson before he fell off a cliff first rounder.

919
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: So when you're gonna be a late round pick, you're

920
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Speaker 1: very dependent and luckily you can go to good teams.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady went to a really really talented team Tony Romo.

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Speaker 1: You know, I escapes me how good they were. Early on.

923
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Speaker 1: They had Bill Parcells, like who your coach is, who

924
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: your play caller is? Like that helps that matters, So

925
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: would Purdy be as good if I threw him on

926
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, of course, but Purdy with the forty

927
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Speaker 1: nine Ers has been damn good. It's not debatable. Herbert

928
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Speaker 1: has had Brandon Staley and Anthony Lynn has his two coaches.

929
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Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn will never be a head coach in the

930
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: NFL again. I'll never say never on Brandon Saley because

931
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: he's still pretty young, but if he's if anyone ever

932
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: hires him again, they're on crack cocaine. So he has

933
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Speaker 1: two guys that will never be a head coach again.

934
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: Their organization, let's face it, has been kind of a

935
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: weird place. That should change now with Jim and Joe

936
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Speaker 1: Horowitz from the Ravens, hopefully they can stabilize it. But

937
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers, even under Philip Rivers just a bizarre lot

938
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Speaker 1: of talent around him. But now now it's time to

939
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: see I think Herbert has a chance to be a

940
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: star under Jim Harbaugh. Physically he's in a different universe

941
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Speaker 1: than her than Perdy. And for a while I was like, well,

942
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Speaker 1: Perty doesn't throw any picks, party throw some packs. Now

943
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: now he can throw a lot of touchdowns too, But

944
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Speaker 1: Herbert should be better player moving forward than brock Purty.

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Speaker 1: If the forty nine Ers called the Chargers and said,

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Speaker 1: straight up Purty for Herbert, the Chargers say no, The

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, while they love brock Purty, would have

948
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Speaker 1: to make that trade. I mean, they just would. And

949
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Speaker 1: I love brock Purty, but and honestly, as an ages,

950
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Speaker 1: maybe it goes the other way. Maybe Herbert's never quite

951
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Speaker 1: as good as we all think. The NFL thinks he's good.

952
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: If you polled NFL teams, he would be viewed as

953
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Speaker 1: a top five quarterback in the NFL. Like if the

954
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Speaker 1: team had a chance to draft from scratch, fair or not,

955
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Speaker 1: brock Purty would not. Kyle might view him that way,

956
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Speaker 1: but Justin Herbert universally would be. So brock Purty's had

957
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: more success than Justin Herbert, not because his team, he

958
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: just he played. If you put Justin Herbert with the

959
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, like they're having as much, if not

960
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Speaker 1: more success. Okay, last question, I gotta say, as a

961
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Speaker 1: man from the land Park area in Sacktown, it's fucking

962
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: awesome to see another guy from the valley killing it.

963
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: I love Davis, especially the women there. I don't know

964
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Speaker 1: if anyone's ever said that. But but anyways, in high school,

965
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: we had good talent. But when I when I was

966
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Speaker 1: in high school, I'm not talking now I'm forty years old.

967
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying when I was a kid. But I don't

968
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Speaker 1: think the school is exactly you know, Arizona State. But

969
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: I hear you. I love that area. I saw this cool.

970
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: The Colts put something out Shane Stike, and he's from

971
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Speaker 1: He's from Sacramento. He married his high school sweetheart and

972
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Speaker 1: he was wearing a Chris Weber jersey back in You know,

973
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 1: he's like, I think, a year older than me. Kings

974
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Speaker 1: were sweet back then. So it's it's always cool to see.

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Speaker 1: I always roote from people from the nine to one six.

976
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Speaker 1: But anyways, as a Patriot fan, it makes me want

977
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Speaker 1: to eat a bullet seeing how many fans want to

978
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: trade for fields or pay Baker Mayfield. To me, it

979
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Speaker 1: seems significantly better to swing with a future quarterback. I

980
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: don't think that's that old. Maybe he's just maybe he

981
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Speaker 1: hasn't been on the internet. I'm taking receiver late. Is

982
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Speaker 1: there a benefit to taking a smaller contract with one

983
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Speaker 1: of these dudes? Well, Baker Mayfield's on the Tampa Bay

984
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: Bucks almost said raise and Justin Field is obviously on

985
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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. But I think the Patriots are gonna

986
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Speaker 1: think long and hard about trading back. I really think so.

987
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: And if they don't love one of these quarterbacks, whoever

988
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: the guide that has not taking it too, whether that's

989
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, Drake maysitting there, Jayden Daniel sitting there, JJ McCarthy,

990
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: if they don't feel like that guy's a franchise quarterback,

991
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be in the business trading back.

992
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of Patriot fans are gonna

993
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: be pissed, and they're cool with like resetting the franchise

994
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: this year, adding some talent and just playing with like

995
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Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett. I definitely think that's on the tape out.

996
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: Do I think they if I was a betting man,

997
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: do I think they end up taking a quarterback? I do.

998
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: But these discussions and these trade calls, even Gerrod Mayo

999
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: said we're open for business. Adam Peters was asked, He's like, yeah,

1000
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: we're not open for business. We've talked, but pick is

1001
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 1: not available. The first two picks. They never even pretended

1002
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: the pick was available. Every team three and four. You know,

1003
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have Kyler, but the Patriots like, yeah, we're listen.

1004
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: What does that tell you? What does that tell you?

1005
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: And in fairness, if they don't love you, can't just

1006
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: take a quarterback, take quarterback. Chris Ballard said this forever

1007
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: everyone's like, why don't you just take quarterback? Because I

1008
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: don't like the guys that are there when I draft, like,

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Speaker 1: I know you guys don't want me to take a quarterback.

1010
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: But if there's not a quarterback there that I like,

1011
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? And he's right, don't

1012
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: do anything. Write it out and then see how it

1013
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: plays out. And then you get Anthony and Rigson. Now

1014
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: he better be the guy. It puts a lot of

1015
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: pressure on him. But I think the cults are a

1016
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: major wild card, or excuse me, the Patriots are a

1017
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: major wild card here. Everyone's picking him to take a

1018
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: quarterback and it's logical, but you never know. And when

1019
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: their coach is talking like that, I don't think he's

1020
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: randomly talking like that. I think they're just trying to

1021
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: put all their options on a whiteboard and kind of

1022
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Speaker 1: see what they think is the best option. So they're

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Speaker 1: a fascinating team to watch, you know, over the next month,

1024
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Speaker 1: see if they do something. The volume