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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? John Middlecoff Three and Out Podcast. Back

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Speaker 1: at it again another week, got a big week coming

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Speaker 1: up podcast. All you guys have been listening. We're going

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Speaker 1: every Tuesday, We're going every Friday. Just got done watching

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Speaker 1: the Monday night football game. Sneaky. I'm a little biased

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Speaker 1: living here in the Bay Area, but pretty good Monday

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Speaker 1: night game for two teams that have zero future this season.

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Speaker 1: We're going to dive into that in my big takeaway.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna touch on the Cowboys and they are definitely

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Speaker 1: not dead. Gronkowski's career is over. Uh, it's pretty clear

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Speaker 1: in Belichick made an emotional decision over this offseason and

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Speaker 1: and I think it's kind of biting him now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll dive into the two alpha dogs in

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Speaker 1: the NFC, which I think right now are the clear

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Speaker 1: favorites to win the whole thing. But but starting with tonight,

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Speaker 1: you know there's a reason despite these last couple of

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Speaker 1: years have not won many games. Uh, they've won two

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Speaker 1: games this year. They won six last year, but really

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Speaker 1: five came when Jimmy Garoppolo showed up. But as you

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Speaker 1: saw tonight, the reason, Kyle Shanahan is so highly thought

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Speaker 1: of in the NFL. Is he does really does the

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Speaker 1: two most important things now that you need out of

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Speaker 1: your head coach. One is calling offensive place and two,

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Speaker 1: which is the most important coach up quarterbacks. He just

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Speaker 1: turned Nick Mullins that before the Raider game two weeks

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Speaker 1: ago on Thursday night football, no one had any clue

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Speaker 1: who Nick Mullins was. He was an undrafted free agent,

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Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent that no team in the league

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Speaker 1: would have touched like. He was a what what you

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Speaker 1: call in the business, a camp on, and he went

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Speaker 1: in somehow stuck around and Kyle Shanahan on a Monday

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Speaker 1: night football game somehow got him to go thirty nine,

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Speaker 1: like Kyle Shanahan does the most important thing that you

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Speaker 1: need a coach to do in the NFL in modern day,

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Speaker 1: with the rules, with the officiating, can you coach the quarterback?

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Speaker 1: Can you be the quote unquote quarterback whisper? Like what

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Speaker 1: if you have an accountant, what do you pay him

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Speaker 1: to do? Do your taxes? Count the numbers, figure out

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Speaker 1: ways to manipulate the system. If you have a lawyer,

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Speaker 1: what do you pay him to do? Know the law

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Speaker 1: like the back of his hand. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: go to a restaurant, what do you pay them to do,

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Speaker 1: especially a nice one. You're paying a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: You're taking your wife out, You're taking your girlfriend out,

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Speaker 1: taking your buddy out for his birthday. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Have a nice meal, be good, Have the chef be

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Speaker 1: talented at what he does, cook good food. What do

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Speaker 1: I need out of my coach now? Motivational speeches, No

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Speaker 1: samurai swords in the middle of the locker room like

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Speaker 1: possible in this day and age with the rules. I

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Speaker 1: need you to be able to coach the quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan really can't that he's able to even just function.

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Speaker 1: Just think about this, just function with a third string

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Speaker 1: the NFL can do this, you know. It's what separates guys.

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Speaker 1: It's why even though that the forty Niners have basically

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Speaker 1: constantly lost beside a five game stretch with Jimmy Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: no one in all the other games with c J. Bethard,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of Nick Mullins, No one is questioned,

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Speaker 1: be like, God's Kyle Shanahan kind of a fraud? What

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Speaker 1: the hell does this guy know? He's an idiot? No,

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Speaker 1: everyone's going God, this guy is good. Like Think how

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Speaker 1: fast everyone in Green Bay would trade him for McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Think how fast every new look look at Pat Shermer

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Speaker 1: offensive guy. Uh, the kind of you know has already

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Speaker 1: to go pick him up to make sure he's there

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Speaker 1: on game day. I want to play Pat rumor. Now.

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Speaker 1: Is he a good offensive coordinator? Yes? Is he a

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Speaker 1: good head coach? No, he's just not Eli Manning shot. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to watch the Giants. The Giants are a

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Speaker 1: borderline embarrassment given that they passed on a quarterback for

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning. That Eli Manning that is so washed it's

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Speaker 1: shot great career Hall of Famer. That's up for debate.

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Speaker 1: In my personal opinion, No, Hall a really good, had

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Speaker 1: some incredible playoff moments. But you saw to night the

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Speaker 1: and then you saw Pat Schrumer, this guy with all

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Speaker 1: kind of feels lost there on the sideline. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Pat Shermer is a very good coach. I've never

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Speaker 1: I wasn't a fan of the higher It didn't make

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Speaker 1: the easy choice. Uh. If I was a Giants fan,

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Speaker 1: top five draft pick because Jimmy Garoppolo's knee tour that

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Speaker 1: their head coach does by far the most important thing

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Speaker 1: you need. He elevates quarterbacks and he's just a great

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Speaker 1: Matt Brada. Undrafted free agent George Kittle that most of

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Speaker 1: Playing with a third string quarterback, Like what Kyle Shanahan's

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Speaker 1: doing is really, really impress and in this modern I

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Speaker 1: He couldn't be an offensive coordinator if you paid him

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Speaker 1: would be my question with McCarthy is he equipped to

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Speaker 1: a skill. He can coach quarterbacks and he can call

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Speaker 1: McCarthy than Pat Shermer, of course, But would I rather

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Speaker 1: the ball. And don't get it twisted. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: so you know every team is looking for that guy

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Speaker 1: you know when you see it, and Kyle Shanahan, even

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Speaker 1: with Nick Mullins, the guy is a big time football coach. Okay,

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Speaker 1: very hard to play defense, most defensive coaches look awful.

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Speaker 1: than Bill Belichick. The only guy that's really close would

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Speaker 1: be Bill Walsh. They always get rid of a player

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Speaker 1: one year too early instead of one year too late.

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Speaker 1: Because when you're a championship caliber team, when your standard

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Speaker 1: is going to the super Bowl, anything less than going

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl is a massive disappointment. When you

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Speaker 1: have a couple of guys on your team that you've

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Speaker 1: hesitated to sell too late, it can bite you in

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Speaker 1: the ass. It really can. And I think clearly with Braid,

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Speaker 1: he's still playing at a high level even though he

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Speaker 1: wasn't very good against Tennessee. It's if I was Belichick,

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Speaker 1: and I'll never probably know this because I don't know Belichick,

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Speaker 1: and even if I did, I doubt he'd tell me

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Speaker 1: the truth. But I I'll always believe that he had

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Speaker 1: planned on getting rid last year of Tom Brady at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season and keeping Jimmy Garoppolo and

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Speaker 1: then building the thing around Jimmy Garoppolo. Why, because that

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Speaker 1: was the Walshian thing to do. Brady was one even

446
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Speaker 1: though he was the MTBA League and he was freaking phenomenal.

447
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Speaker 1: I mean, through for five hundred plus yards in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. If you were just betting on it like

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Speaker 1: a stock, you would shored it. You would bet against it. Now,

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Speaker 1: he still might go a couple more years. Eventually it's

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Speaker 1: gonna end and it's gonna be really ugly, and he

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Speaker 1: had his replacement in Jimmy Garoppolo. A little different with Gronk,

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Speaker 1: but I do think he had planned on trading him

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Speaker 1: the lines for a first round pick and using that

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Speaker 1: first round pick, probably on a tight end, and just

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Speaker 1: replacing him for just someone again like Isaiah Win this year,

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Speaker 1: torres Achille is and just out for the season. That's football.

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Speaker 1: It's random. Guys get hurt. But Belichick, you could tell

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Speaker 1: he knew this offseason he had wanted to trade him

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Speaker 1: and then Gronk. Again, this is a little conspiracy. Theorist

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Speaker 1: kind of went through Brady slash Robert and played the

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Speaker 1: emotion on top of Belichick. And I do think that,

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Speaker 1: and people always tweeted me Middle Kyle for your conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theories about Belichick. Kraft gives him ultimate authority, and I

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Speaker 1: agree he always has. But one player Belichick is not

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Speaker 1: going to decide his fate, and that's Tom Brady. The

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Speaker 1: other one. There was some emotion involved with Gronkowski with

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Speaker 1: Robert Kraft, and that's also Brady's true guy. And and

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Speaker 1: I think Belichick really likes Gronkowski. So did Belichick get

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Speaker 1: a little emotional on this? Was it forced? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Now Gronkowski somewhat had the level bridge and screwed them

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Speaker 1: a little bit by claiming maybe maybe Belichick would tell

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Speaker 1: you over beers listen, I had him traded. Rob just

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Speaker 1: found it out about it went public that he'd retire

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. Renigged on the trade. That could easily be

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Speaker 1: possible too. But Belichick has never been one to kind

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Speaker 1: of get you know, shoved around in this whole deal.

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Speaker 1: And however this got out. It kind of bit him

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Speaker 1: in the ask because now he's got Gronkowski, who I

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Speaker 1: have zero faith is able going to be dressed on

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Speaker 1: any game day moving forward. He just cannot stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: He looked like a shell of himself to start this year.

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Speaker 1: The move was as Belichick knew to trade him last offseason.

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Speaker 1: He it was self. You know, he was somehow put

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Speaker 1: together sixty nine catches over a thousand yards and eight

486
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Speaker 1: touchdowns in two thousand seventeen helped you get back to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. But it was clear, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: Bill knew this that he was just he looked slow

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Speaker 1: when he was planned this year that there's a reason

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Speaker 1: why Belichick had him on the block. He knew. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't know what was going on behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: but clearly Belichick does his best work when he's no

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Speaker 1: emotion and he knows you're done and he gets rid

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Speaker 1: of you, and he doesn't care what your resume says.

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Speaker 1: And this isn't Sometimes it's wrong, you know, as Dion

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Speaker 1: Lewis kind of crushed him after the game. He probably

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Speaker 1: should have kept Dean Lewis. But it's not like he

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Speaker 1: didn't try to replace him with a premium ascid. He

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Speaker 1: spent a first round pick on a running back. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's just Sony Michelle can't stay on the field, you know.

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Speaker 1: So Belichick knows what he's doing. And I think for

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Speaker 1: the first time, whether Kraft and Brady were twisting his arm,

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Speaker 1: whether Gronk kind of twisted his arm by claiming he

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Speaker 1: would retire, which I mean that happened, uh, But usually

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Speaker 1: Belichick just makes a trade go through. Now, maybe the

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Speaker 1: Lions were like, we gotta hear from Rob if he

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Speaker 1: won't play for us, we're not trading you a first

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Speaker 1: round pick, which is very possible, you know, and Gronk

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Speaker 1: kind of went NBA player on him. But ultimately now

510
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Speaker 1: it's screwed the Patriots because they're in a position where

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Speaker 1: they're already a little undermanned. This isn't that talented. Is

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Speaker 1: a team that they're very dependent on Robb being good,

513
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Speaker 1: and he's not good right now because he's not around.

514
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Speaker 1: He's injured all the time. Like it's over. Gron's career

515
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Speaker 1: is over. I'm betting on it ending, whether it's this

516
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Speaker 1: offseason and two off seasons, like his body has given

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Speaker 1: out on him. He was incredible, an absolute war daddy,

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Speaker 1: as talented ball skills for a big player as in

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Speaker 1: the history of the league. He's as unique of a

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Speaker 1: player as we'll ever see. He was unreal, fantastic career.

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Speaker 1: But it's over. Bill knew it and biting him in

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Speaker 1: the ass now he wasn't able to get rid of him. Okay,

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Speaker 1: before we get into uh my last topic before the

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag, you can always slide into my d

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Speaker 1: m s at John Middlecoff and I'll answer your Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: mail bag questions at the end of the podcast, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit on this same Eights and the Rams

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Speaker 1: really why they are the perfect teams you could throw

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Speaker 1: in the chiefs, but I'm sticking with the NFC here

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Speaker 1: uh for two thousand eighteen and really moving forward that

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Speaker 1: they were everything that you want. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: really quick about my friends that LinkedIn. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of you guys owned companies, run companies, are in

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Speaker 1: charge of at the companies to hire people. And the

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Speaker 1: hardest thing to do, UH, in any business is to

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Speaker 1: hire the right person. That's what we all. I've been

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Speaker 1: in positions where I've hired people, interviewed people. It's really

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Speaker 1: hard and finding someone it's never been easier if you

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Speaker 1: use this platform also known as LinkedIn. Most LinkedIn members

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Speaker 1: haven't recently visited the job boards where I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people post their jobs, but nine out of

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Speaker 1: ten members are open to new opportunities and with seventy

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Speaker 1: percent of the U S workforce right now on LinkedIn,

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Speaker 1: Posting on LinkedIn is the best way to get your

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Speaker 1: job opportunity in front of the right people. It's the

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Speaker 1: best way to find the person who you are looking

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Speaker 1: for and why a new hire is made every ten seconds.

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Speaker 1: Every ten seconds on LinkedIn. Hurry up go to LinkedIn

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Speaker 1: dot com slash j O h N that's LinkedIn dot

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Speaker 1: com slash John and get fifty dollars off your first

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Speaker 1: job post that's LinkedIn dot com slash j o h

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Speaker 1: N to get fifty dollars off your first job post

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Speaker 1: LinkedIn dot com slash o h n in two thousand eighteen.

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Speaker 1: You better score points, like if your defense is elite

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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, you can hang around. But the differentiating

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Speaker 1: factor in this day and age with these rules is

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Speaker 1: not being Bears, is not being the two thousand one

558
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Speaker 1: Ravens held the Chicago Bears, whose defense is unreal is

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Speaker 1: still like they're to go as far as Mr Bisky

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Speaker 1: takes them. The two teams in the NFC, and to me,

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Speaker 1: I throw the Chiefs there, but I think these two

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Speaker 1: teams are better, are more talented. Now these two teams

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Speaker 1: play on Monday night in Mexico City. That will be

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Speaker 1: a really fun game. But to me, the two favorites

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Speaker 1: right now are the Rams and the Saints, and they

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Speaker 1: do what's most important. You have to be able to

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Speaker 1: score points right now, and no team scores more points

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Speaker 1: points than the Saints. They average over thirty six points.

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Speaker 1: The only team that averaged more points in the Rams

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Speaker 1: are the Chiefs, and like I said, they play Monday

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Speaker 1: night in Mexico City. But these two teams, they have

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, they have Sean Payton move the ball better

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Speaker 1: than any team in the league not named. The Chiefs

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Speaker 1: rams first in first downs made with over two D

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Speaker 1: fifty and the Saints are third, again behind the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: with two. Like these teams, as Daniel Jeremiah would tell, you,

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Speaker 1: move the sticks. And in this day and age of

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Speaker 1: being physical, being tough, being able to hide coverages, I

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Speaker 1: don't think any of that crap matters. Can you get

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Speaker 1: guys open? Do you have a quarterback that can make

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Speaker 1: big time throws? Do you have a running back that

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Speaker 1: can also catch the ball, take screen passes, run inside,

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Speaker 1: run outside? Do you have tight ends? Do you have

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Speaker 1: game breaking wide receivers. That's the differentiating factor. Nowadays the

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Speaker 1: rules are on your side. Dvs can't touch you, uh

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Speaker 1: D lineman When they fall on your quarterback, as we

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Speaker 1: saw on Monday Night football, they throw the flag. If

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Speaker 1: you can move the ball in the air and have

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Speaker 1: running backs that teams can't cover because if you're running

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Speaker 1: back can catch the football. Most teams don't have linebackers

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Speaker 1: that can mirror that guy, you are going to win consistently.

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Speaker 1: And there's a reason that the three top scoring to

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Speaker 1: teams have three genius offensive coordinators Sean Payton, Andy Reid,

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, and they're running circles around the NFL. The

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Speaker 1: Saints just put Terrell Austin on the street unemployed Sean

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Speaker 1: McVeigh for some reason. Pete Carroll blays, I'm really tight,

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Speaker 1: but they're kicking the crap out of the rest of

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Speaker 1: the league. Andy Reid and the and the Chiefs slept

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Speaker 1: walk through the game against the Cardinals. This league is

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Speaker 1: about scoring points now more than ever. It used to

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Speaker 1: be my first reaction always when I worked in the league,

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Speaker 1: when I just was a family like whose defense is

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Speaker 1: really good? Who's got the best scoring defense? This wasn't

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Speaker 1: even that long ago. Remember Seattle had a stretch. I

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Speaker 1: think it was four straight years they had the number

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Speaker 1: one scoring defense that really mattered. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: it matters that much anymore, you know. I I think

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Speaker 1: it's actually never mattered less. Offense matters, and I think

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Speaker 1: what's moving forward, it's only gonna matter more and more

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Speaker 1: and more. You know, you got to score points. You

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Speaker 1: gotta move the football. You gotta be at any moment

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Speaker 1: in time be able to go down the field and

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Speaker 1: score a touchdown. You know, And that's cliche Middlecoff. Of course.

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Speaker 1: Well back in the day you can just run the ball, punt,

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Speaker 1: play fueld position. That crap doesn't work anymore, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's just and especially these two teams, the Ramps, if

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Speaker 1: they're the number one seat, they are going to have

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Speaker 1: multiple playoff games, assuming they I mean, they're definitely gonna

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Speaker 1: have one. The weather is gonna be like seventy degrees.

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Speaker 1: The Saints, if they're the two seats, their games indoors.

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Speaker 1: Now the Chiefs a little bit different story. But the

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Speaker 1: two teams in the NFCA, whether ain't a factor, one team,

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Speaker 1: whether literally ain't a factor. They have a roof, and

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Speaker 1: the other it's seventy five degrees three in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: so they're gonna score points. This isn't Pittsburgh, this is

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Speaker 1: New England. Does in Kansas City. This is New York

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Speaker 1: where I live. I mean where I live. It's a

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Speaker 1: little cold. It's actually colder in the Bay Area. If

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Speaker 1: you remember, I think two thousand eleven, when the Niners

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Speaker 1: the year that ELI won a second Super Bowl, it

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Speaker 1: was raining and cold. Like, the weather is distinctly different,

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Speaker 1: even though it's pretty great in the Bay Area to

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Speaker 1: then just southern California where it's literally warm and the

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Speaker 1: sun comes out basically at minimum three forty days a year.

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Speaker 1: So the weather is not gonna affect either of these teams,

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Speaker 1: and the rules are on their side. Like to me,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be really hard for one of these two

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Speaker 1: teams unless they play the Chiefs, who you know, I

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Speaker 1: think can make the Super Bowl. I mean, obviously they

641
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Speaker 1: can because they're gonna be in the mix, but you

642
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Speaker 1: never know. I mean, Mahomes never played a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Their defense isn't great. Like, the one thing you say

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Speaker 1: about these two teams is they both have players on

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Speaker 1: defense they can make a difference. They both have a

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Speaker 1: couple of elite defensive lineman. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, and and more so the Saints than the Rams,

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Speaker 1: I have so much trust and Drew Brees and I

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Speaker 1: gotta tip my hat. Jared Goff has comes so far

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Speaker 1: in his short career. He has improved so much, but

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Speaker 1: there is not a quarterback. I'm already ready to gamble

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Speaker 1: on the Saints come come January, whether they're playing in

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Speaker 1: the Dome, whether they have to go to Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: and the Sun because I know that the weather is

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Speaker 1: not affecting either one of these teams. But I I mean,

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Speaker 1: if we get a rematch of the game that we

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Speaker 1: had in New Orleans in the NFC Championship game, I

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00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: pay for that right now because these two teams to

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Speaker 1: me are the are the clear top dogs in the league. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the Middlecoff mail bag. The way you

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00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: get on the Middlecoff mail bag is you go to

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Speaker 1: Instagram at John Middlecoff. You slide up in those d

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Speaker 1: M s, message me and I'll answer you a question

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Speaker 1: like here. When you were a scout, was there a

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Speaker 1: time when you stood on the table classic scout terms,

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Speaker 1: stand on the table, fight for your guy. Uh and

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Speaker 1: they didn't draft him? And then the guy turned out

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Speaker 1: to be a stud, one guy that I liked more

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Speaker 1: than the rest of the bill holding. This would have been,

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Speaker 1: I guess my last year in Philly, so it would

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Speaker 1: have been the two thousand thirteen draft. Was ziggy ansa

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Speaker 1: I love Ziggy Ansa now at four, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: get fired after that draft. Chip Kelly and I had

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Speaker 1: had kind of a knockdown drag out earlier about Matt Barkley,

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Speaker 1: who I hated, Chip liked, argued in a draft room.

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Speaker 1: Turns out I would say, neither of us were wrong,

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Speaker 1: or I mean, excuse me right, because I'll give Matt

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Speaker 1: Barkley credit. I would have imagined Matt Barkley would have

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Speaker 1: been at the Pack twelve network probably three years ago,

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00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: and he just won in an NFL game. Now he's nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Was ever worth a fourth rounder? And Chip liked him

682
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: because he was beating Chip's ass when he was at

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Speaker 1: USC when when Lane was the coach. But that one

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Speaker 1: was a moot point. Neither musse were right. But Ziggy

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Speaker 1: now again we didn't take him, uh because they took

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Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, who Lane Johnson was awesome. But Ziggy now

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Speaker 1: the injuries have slowed him down. But I love me

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00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: some Ziggy and the dude can play. Also really like

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Speaker 1: Robert woods was. I compared him to Reggie Wayne, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out I really excited me to see him

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Speaker 1: turn around his career in Los Angeles because he's a

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Speaker 1: really good player. Okay, longtime Eagles fan. My question is

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Speaker 1: about the off season. What is their biggest need with

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Speaker 1: available first round talents in next year's draft. Also, is

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Speaker 1: Jordan Malia a viable replacement for left tackle? I would

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Speaker 1: say for the Eagles watching them, they they definitely need

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Speaker 1: a running back. You know, they're gonna need a running

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Speaker 1: back this offseason, whether that's there in the Levion Bell business,

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Speaker 1: whether they're in the business of drafting a guy. I

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Speaker 1: think they give up their second round pick this year

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Speaker 1: right for Carson Wentz because they staggered it. Then they

702
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Speaker 1: also gave up their third round pick for Golden Tape.

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Speaker 1: Howie Roseman has got big honus. He'll always put his

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Speaker 1: chips in the middle of the table. But they're to

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Speaker 1: need a running back, and I think their philosophy is

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Speaker 1: pretty clear, best playler, best player available. Uh, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: need a replacement for Jason Peters. Like you said, when

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Speaker 1: I think about him, Ronald Darby just towards a c L.

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Speaker 1: They probably weren't going to resign him anyway. Uh, So

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Speaker 1: you can all you can never have enough defensive backs.

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Speaker 1: They did draft Derek Barnett, a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: in the first round pass rusher, he was actually turned

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Speaker 1: into a good player. He got hurt this year is

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Speaker 1: on age of reserve. You can never draft enough defensive lineman. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know their wide receivers, agilar Al Sean Zach to

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Speaker 1: me in Golden Tate while he'll walk, I would say

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Speaker 1: in the first round they probably go offensive or defensive line. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe corner Uh, but that they're a team that when

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is your quarterback, if you stay somewhat healthy

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Speaker 1: and led on that Sunday night game against Dallas, they

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Speaker 1: were down to like practice squad defensive backs. If Carson

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Speaker 1: wents your quarterback, you were going to have a chance

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Speaker 1: to start every season. And I've worked with how I

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Speaker 1: know the way that organization thinks. They're always gonna be

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Speaker 1: super aggressive. They're always gonna, you know, attack the available

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Speaker 1: talent pool, whether that's in the draft, whether that's in

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Speaker 1: free agents, that they're gonna be in the mix. I

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Speaker 1: love Carson Wentz. I mean, I know he's I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say struggling, but he's not playing at his MVP level.

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Speaker 1: I mean, stat's still a pretty good but man, the dudes,

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Speaker 1: the dudes are stud Hey John love the podcast Quick Questions.

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Speaker 1: Should I play the Chargers defense against the Raiders? There's

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Speaker 1: a fantasy question. Uh, he should. The Raiders and John

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Speaker 1: Gruden have scored nine points the last eight quarters. For

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Speaker 1: those of you that are not math majors, that's not

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Speaker 1: very many points. The Raiders right now are thirty in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and scoring. They gave John Gruden a hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars. They are thirty in the NFL and chart

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Speaker 1: in scoring, scoring offense. It's not out of the realm

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Speaker 1: of possibility. Now, it'll be a little difficult. But if

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Speaker 1: the Bills have a couple more games like they just have,

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Speaker 1: that the Raiders could finish the season at thirty second

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Speaker 1: overall and scoring offense. They're paying their head coach ten million.

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Speaker 1: I don't care who you have playing for your team.

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Speaker 1: That is an embarrassment. John Gruden should give back his

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Speaker 1: yearly salary if they finished thirty second in offense. That

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Speaker 1: is a joke. I was looking for the link, blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah. Where can I find that some difference? I

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Speaker 1: gotta work my way through Middlecoff mail bag. I'm a writer,

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Speaker 1: died Dolphins fan, and I wanted to know what are

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Speaker 1: the chances Miami moves on from tanny Hill and what

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Speaker 1: are the chances of us moving up in the draft

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Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback to sit behind tanny Hill as

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs deal with Mahomes. I think tanny Hill's career

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Speaker 1: in Miami died this year. They stuck by him two

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Speaker 1: years ago, remember when they made the playoffs and Matt

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Speaker 1: Moore came in and he didn't get surgery. Then last

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Speaker 1: year the knee blows need surgery. Then this year he

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Speaker 1: just gets injured and disappears for a month and a half,

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Speaker 1: like he is now no longer dependable. I like tanny

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Speaker 1: Hill early in this season, before he got hurt, he

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Speaker 1: was playing well. I thought the team just the a

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Speaker 1: f C was a little down. They easily if Tannehill

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Speaker 1: play sixty games this season, to me, that team can

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Speaker 1: compete for nine ish wins and the six wild card spot.

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Speaker 1: But with him being gone and Brock having started all

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Speaker 1: these games, they aren't very good. It's over and I

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Speaker 1: think if you're the Miami Dolphins, you just have to

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Speaker 1: move on now. Depending on you could just keep them,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you could draft a young quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta be in the Teddy Bridgewater business.

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta call Jon Gruden. Would he trade

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr. You have to be in the quarterback business

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Speaker 1: because you can no longer depend on Ryan Tannehill consistently

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Speaker 1: showing up on Sundays. You know why, because most of

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Speaker 1: the time he's gonna be in sweats on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Like those were just facts we have now. And I

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Speaker 1: was someone that did not like Ryan Tannehill like four

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Speaker 1: years ago, he really grew on me. He was becoming

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Speaker 1: a really a really solid player, someone that if you

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Speaker 1: have a good coach, which I think Adam Gays is

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Speaker 1: a good coach, and just have solid players around him.

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Speaker 1: You give him Jarvis Landry, you give him Kenny Stills,

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Speaker 1: j GI like you could win games and win like

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Speaker 1: he could score points with him as your quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: he's just not dependable. It's just like we have. His

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00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: resume now is kind of established. He gets hurt consistently,

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Speaker 1: and it's not just like misses a game or two.

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Speaker 1: The dudes out a month and I don't care who

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Speaker 1: you are, you consistently lose your quarterback a month two months,

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Speaker 1: you ain't making the playoffs. I mean, Ryan Tannehill may

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Speaker 1: end up getting I doubt Gays we'll get fired this year,

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Speaker 1: but it's definitely gonna be uh come into play. I

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Speaker 1: mean next year he'll be on the hot seat, Hey John.

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Speaker 1: During Zeke and Dack's rookie season, the Cowboys were dynamic

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Speaker 1: on offense. How much of that do you think, Uh,

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Speaker 1: how much do you think was reliant on team's fear

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Speaker 1: of Dez and his ability to catch fifty fifty balls

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Speaker 1: down the field. Do you think their offense can regain

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Speaker 1: some of that with the addition of a Maori. A

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00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 1: mari I checked is on pace right now. Now it's

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Speaker 1: two games, but if his sixteen game pace ad eight catches,

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Speaker 1: a thousand yards a touchdowns. If he does that, he's

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Speaker 1: worth the first round pick. If he gives them five

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00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: years around those numbers, Dallas would take that all day long.

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Speaker 1: A mari is much different than this. To me, the

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Speaker 1: key with Dak and Zeke's rookie year was the offensive

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Speaker 1: line they rode graded. He had all day to throw

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Speaker 1: and the most important thing, they could hand it twenty

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Speaker 1: one all day every day and run it down people's throats,

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Speaker 1: and he had a security blanket in Jason Witten ran

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Speaker 1: those little curl routes and you just dump it to

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Speaker 1: him five yards, he'd end up with nine catches for

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Speaker 1: sixty yards as the classic Jason Wenten line and a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: You can depend on it. So he's no longer there.

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00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: Des is no longer there now. Again, Amory's different a Mari.

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00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: He's more of a route runner. He's gonna be exactly

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Speaker 1: where you tell him to be. He's spectacular. Plays a

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Speaker 1: little few and far between, but he can be really

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Speaker 1: consistent and his talent, like he can consistently get open

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Speaker 1: like Dek couldn't get open especially last year, couldn't run

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Speaker 1: now he really can't because Achilles storm. But if you

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Speaker 1: can run the ball like they did Sunday night Fia

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Speaker 1: Mari six seven times a game and just have Dak

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Speaker 1: plan under control of that defense, I do not think

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Speaker 1: this team is dead for the playoffs. Again, I talked

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Speaker 1: about it earlier. They got a good defense. Zeke is

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Speaker 1: a star, a Maori is a very very solid wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Clearly makes the other two guys look better, Herns and Beasley.

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Speaker 1: So I I like this Cowboys team, and my big

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Speaker 1: red flag is more with Dak than it is with

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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett. Like I, I think DA's tad been overrated.

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Speaker 1: Hey John, quick question. The forty Niners during the last

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Speaker 1: couple of drafts were bad. When the Niners jumped in

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Speaker 1: the late second actually first to get Josh Garnett instead

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Speaker 1: of sitting there and getting Michael Thomas in the second

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Speaker 1: bad pick. Or when they were on the clock and

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Speaker 1: traded out of their third round picks so the Saints

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Speaker 1: could get all of Alvin Kamara. God, you've got some

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Speaker 1: good draft nuggets here. I think Shanny would be nasty

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Speaker 1: with both Kamara and Thomas, So I was pissed. What

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Speaker 1: are your thoughts? Yeah, I think Alvin Kamara would be

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Speaker 1: excellent on the Niners. But one thing I think you

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Speaker 1: see the Niners tonight, and this is the the importance

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Speaker 1: of having a great offensive coach in this day and

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Speaker 1: age that you can find it's the easiest position to

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Speaker 1: find our running backs because I can find undrafted guys

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Speaker 1: that could start for my team the San Francisco For

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Speaker 1: the Niners, Matt Breda can give you a hundred yards

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Speaker 1: every game if he's on the field. His problem is

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Speaker 1: just he's bad, a bad ankle injury, couldn't stay on

852
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: the field like you can consistently like to listen. Sa

853
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley is fantastic? Is unreal? Let me pull up

854
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: the box score for tonight that the the forty nine

855
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: ers pulled out an undrafted free agent the New York

856
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: Giants throughout the number two overall pick, a blue chipper.

857
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: Sa Kwan Barkley twenty carry sixty seven yards three point

858
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: three yards to carry. He also had four catches thirty

859
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: three yards and a big big catch. Breta seventeen catches

860
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: a hundred and one yards, six catches in his longest

861
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,959
Speaker 1: twenty three yards and a touchdown. He also added three

862
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 1: catches for thirty one yards and a touchdown. He had

863
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, one on the ground, one in the air. Like, So,

864
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara would have been awesome as a third round pick,

865
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: and that third round pick they ended up drafting, Uh,

866
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: they actually got C. J. Beth And I kill a weatherspoon,

867
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: But I can find running backs. I can find undrafted

868
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: free agents to kick ass. It happens every year in

869
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: the NFL. So, yeah, they have Alvin Kamar than Matt Brada,

870
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: But like Matt Brad is not bad. You know he

871
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 1: had a hundred yards rushing, a touchdown on the ground,

872
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: three more yards in the air, and a touchdown catching

873
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: Like that's that's good enough. Like that's that's the knock on.

874
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 1: Why do you guys draft sake Kwan Barkley? Why didn't

875
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: you draft Sam Donald? And then if you wanted Nick Chubb,

876
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: trade up into the end of the first round and

877
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: get them, you wanted Rashad Penny, who actually showed some

878
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: signs of life against the Ramps, trade up in the

879
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: first round and get them, Like you can do that. Uh.

880
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: I've been a Ravens fan for ten years. Again, Middlecoff

881
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: mail bag. Last question slide up in my d M

882
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: s and it seems that this will be the final

883
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: John Harbos season. Agreed, Who should the Ravens target as

884
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: their next coach? Sorry I clicked off? And who would

885
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: you and who would take the job? Second question? Do

886
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: you think the sixth and final seed for the a

887
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: f C will go to the Chiefs and Chargers obviously

888
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: will take the Yeah. Uh, let's start with the Ravens.

889
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be somewhat of a fascinating job.

890
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: I had a lot of friends in the NFL position coaches,

891
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,760
Speaker 1: head coaches, general managers that struggled with meeting with Lamar

892
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: Jackson just communicating with them. They did not think he

893
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: was like dynamic in terms of when you talk to

894
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: the other quarterback, just communication. A lot of quarterback coaches

895
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: and people in the league. I knew I didn't like

896
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: him as a prospect. Why because he's not accurate. He's

897
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: not accurate. Now he's gonna play for the Ravens. Moving forward,

898
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'm not a big Lamar Jackson guy. I

899
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: think he's a glorified running back that can make couple thurrows.

900
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,439
Speaker 1: But that like when they drafted him in the first round.

901
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: So whatever coach they hire is gonna have to like

902
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: him because you're kind of gonna be stuck with him.

903
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: And I would imagine that the general manager goes to

904
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: Eric da Costa like he'll just Assie retires, John Harbuck

905
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: gets fired, Erica Costa becomes a general manager. I could

906
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: be wrong. I don't follow the Ravens on a daily basis.

907
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 1: Maybe they've come out and maybe there have been reports

908
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: that it would be just be an open job. I

909
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: always thought that Eric to Costa was just next in

910
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: line to get it. I don't think what's crazy is

911
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: five years ago John Harball was viewed as a top

912
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: five coach. The Ravens are were one of the standards

913
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and I still think they are. Just

914
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: the way they conduct business, uh, the way the franchise operates,

915
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: the the owner's mindset. But I think it will be challenging.

916
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 1: Like would John d. Filippo want to work with Lamar Jackson?

917
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: My guests would be no. Would Mike McCarthy want to

918
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: work with Lamar Jackson? I mean, would you really fire

919
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh for Mike McCarthy. Could you get a college coach?

920
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: Maybe you could. Maybe you could get a college coach

921
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: because you would make him the general manager, you know,

922
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: like he or he gets to hire the general manager.

923
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: I think it'd be difficult because if the Packers came open,

924
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: obviously that would be the number one job on the

925
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: market with Aaron Roy. If the Jets become open, I

926
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: mean they got Sam Donald. You can mold him. Most

927
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: quarterback coaches and offensive coordinators I know, like Sam Donald.

928
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: If the Browns become open, I know a lot of

929
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: people that like Baker and their roster is just really good.

930
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens would be much worse than all

931
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 1: those jobs. Now, the Ravens is a better job than

932
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers job, which is surely to come

933
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: open too. But I I just don't see people knocking

934
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: down the door, like what's great about the Ravens roster

935
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: quarterback that again most people don't like. Besides Twitter, and

936
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't put much stock into Twitter. Defense kind of aging.

937
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: They got a couple of pieces run defense. Actually their

938
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: defense is pretty solid. But again, defense, as I've been saying,

939
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: doesn't matter as much. If this was the eighties, the

940
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: Ravens would be a sexy job. It's two thousand nineteen.

941
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if their quarterback and complete basic passes

942
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: like it's kind of a red flag. Here's the other thing.

943
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: Lamar's best attribute run around. He can't slide. He's gonna

944
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: get killed. I'm fascinating to watch him run around. But

945
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: I just don't know if he's gonna make it. And

946
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: on the six and final playoffs spot, so we got

947
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Let's say they're the one seed. That would

948
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: mean the Chargers, like you said, it would be the

949
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: fifth seed. The Texans win the division. Let's say at

950
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: eleven and five, Steelers easily win that division. Let's say

951
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: eleven four and one, the Patriots are the three seed.

952
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: At eleven and five, that that's sixth seed. The Bengals

953
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: not totally dead yet. I think that's why Marvin Lewis

954
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: fired some people five and four. If they kind of

955
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 1: get the train back on the tracks, they could get

956
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: to ten wins. They would get it. The Titans at

957
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: five and four are pretty alive. I went to their

958
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 1: O t A s. I think they're pretty good. I'd

959
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: probably lean the Titans. What's crazy is we talked so

960
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: much crap about the a f C South, how terrible

961
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: the division was, and they may end up getting two

962
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: playoff teams because I don't think the Texans are bad,

963
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: and the Texans are gonna cruise to like twelve and four.

964
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna be the weirdest twelve and four team ever,

965
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: and the Titans are gonna end up ten at six.

966
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: Titans have had a good little run here. Just beat

967
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in Dallas and then beat New England. That's

968
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: a good two weeks stretch, you know. I think the

969
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: Titans are kind of feeling themselves positively as they should

970
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: be Titans there there might pick So I got the

971
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: Texans and the Titans. That's the NFC's playoffs. FCS is

972
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: actually coming around. Chiefs are good, Steelers are really good.

973
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: The Patriots are the Patriots, Titans are sneaky, Texans are

974
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: not bad their roster, and the Chargers. I mean, I

975
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to play the Chargers in the first round.

976
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: Uh God, football man, we're coming down the home stretch.

977
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: I can't I can't wait for the playoffs. Thanks again

978
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: for listening. Middlecoff mailbacks lade up in those d ms

979
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff. If I didn't get your question, I'll

980
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: answer them next time. See a Friday, Enjoy the week.