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Speaker 1: What is going on everybody? John Middlecop three and Out

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Speaker 1: podcast coming at you live from the Home office Thursday

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Speaker 1: afternoon on just just a wild week, uh, in lightning week,

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Speaker 1: crazy week. Uh, just two thousand and twenty. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what how else to put it. I guess we'll uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll have to touch on the elephant in the room

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Speaker 1: and probably the biggest story it felt like in America,

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Speaker 1: but definitely in sports the last and Drew Brees give

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Speaker 1: you some thoughts there. Uh. The NFL officially says training

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Speaker 1: camps have to take place from their home facilities. That's

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Speaker 1: going to affect a handful of teams and just clearly

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Speaker 1: training camps are going to be a lot different this year.

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Speaker 1: No fans, a lot of teams even that practicing your

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Speaker 1: own facility, bringing bleed yours add people that will no

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Speaker 1: longer take place. I'll give some thoughts there. Wrote down

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Speaker 1: a bunch of different topics that I saw, just little

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Speaker 1: things that have happened this week. We'll hit on him

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Speaker 1: just kind of around the league, and then of course

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Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff Instagram, d MS wide open Fire in

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Speaker 1: there answer a question, I will answer it on this show.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing it forever those of you listening, No,

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Speaker 1: that's how it goes. Also, if you could leave a

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Speaker 1: review on the Apple uh page where the show is

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Speaker 1: three and out podcast with me. I appreciate everyone that

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Speaker 1: has leave a review on the Apple homepage of the show.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into Drew Brees and his comments about the

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Speaker 1: anthem and how it was disrespectful for the military. My

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Speaker 1: first overall take after because when it happened, if you

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Speaker 1: weren't kind of watching live of the tweet, I probably

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Speaker 1: came in an hour late and it was I was

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Speaker 1: getting text. Really have to retire? Is his career over?

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Speaker 1: My number one overall takeaway with his statement was, come on, bro,

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Speaker 1: read the room, have a feel for the room. And

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Speaker 1: we all know those people and they can be really

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Speaker 1: intelligent people that for whatever reason are consistently bad at

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Speaker 1: reading the room. And I don't feel Drew Brees is

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Speaker 1: that way We all can have that moment in a

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Speaker 1: certain situation, but terrible job of reading the room, understanding

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Speaker 1: the severity of this, whether it's I don't know, there's

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Speaker 1: no excuse for him to not realize the way it

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Speaker 1: would be interpreted, though he said this before. So Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick say on Thursday, he told me this exact This

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Speaker 1: was the thought process four years ago. Now nothing has changed.

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Speaker 1: I think a big part of the pushback was how

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Speaker 1: has nothing changed over the four years when it was

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Speaker 1: clear and had nothing new with the flag. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about the flag and the anthem at nauseum for years.

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Speaker 1: To me, for him, given everything that was going on

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Speaker 1: racially in this country the last four or five days,

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Speaker 1: him being the leader of a team that's predominantly black,

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Speaker 1: he shouldn't have said. He should have worded it a

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Speaker 1: different way. Now you can say he shouldn't think that way.

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Speaker 1: I'm I don't know the way. I don't know the

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Speaker 1: guy he thinks. The way he thinks, and the way

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Speaker 1: he said it seems like he views it as a

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Speaker 1: disrespect of the flag. He came back, I couldn't even

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Speaker 1: get through it all. Gives the apology. His teammates believe

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Speaker 1: that he's sincere. Here's what I do know. Twitter for

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Speaker 1: about six hours labeled Drew Brees a full blown racist.

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Speaker 1: I do I don't know Drew Brees personally. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine nine point nine nine of people listening don't know

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Speaker 1: him either. I would say most of us. It's a

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Speaker 1: nonpartisan take. Would if if you and I would have

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Speaker 1: talked six months ago and we just would have done

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Speaker 1: word association when Drew Brees name came up, we would

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Speaker 1: have very positive things to say about Drew Brees. I've

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Speaker 1: never met him, You've never met him. We don't even

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Speaker 1: was aty clear like his life resume had been pretty consistent,

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Speaker 1: high level, great guy that gets along with literally everyone,

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Speaker 1: that helped resurrect and does a lot for the community.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer, and I say it over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again. I judge people of actions, not words.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in that because I think it's

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Speaker 1: never been easier to tweet something out, to to get

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Speaker 1: a headline, to tweet whatever, Instagram a picture. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: actually mean anything. I thought Jamie Fox. I saw him

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Speaker 1: to you know, to say whatever. Now, it's never been easier,

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Speaker 1: given all the platforms. It's very easy. All sort of

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Speaker 1: judge people off a headline. I do it all the time.

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Speaker 1: I'm just as guilty as anybody. We all are. So

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Speaker 1: the way the media is set up now, headlines push

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Speaker 1: But I think Drew brees resume over a long period

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Speaker 1: part about sports and a locker room is like, you

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Speaker 1: know the players on the team, Alvin Kamara, Michael Thomas,

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Speaker 1: has been with him last year, the previous years, for years.

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of guys on that core group has

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Speaker 1: have been with him for three or four years every day.

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Speaker 1: The offensive guys with him all the time. And you

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Speaker 1: can judge, and we can react on Twitter. I believe

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Speaker 1: it's stupid. He shouldn't have said my personal opinion on

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Speaker 1: the anthem kneeling. I don't care. It doesn't bother me

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Speaker 1: what over the last three or four years Kaepernick was

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Speaker 1: was kneeling for. He said it over and over, kneeling

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Speaker 1: to to protest and bring awareness to police brutality. The

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Speaker 1: guy that gave him the the idea for kneeling was

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Speaker 1: a former Green Beret, Nate Bowyer, who played got a

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Speaker 1: long snapper from Texas Now. I'm also not ignorant enough

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Speaker 1: when I meet new people usually what comes up? What

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Speaker 1: lot of people off me. I don't care. Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with the troops. But you can't force

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Speaker 1: you think you'll have to retire? Well, NBC have to

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Speaker 1: cut his contract? Guys, have we not seen? And right

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Speaker 1: now the combination I said it all week or you know,

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Speaker 1: not through some recorded video. Again, I'm not calling people

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Speaker 1: social media. There's a major difference between doing something on

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees in front of a team that over his

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Speaker 1: Brees was a good guy. Was not a partisan statement

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have said it? Feel the room, Drew, I don't

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Speaker 1: how I believe neither party cares about anything. I've lived

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Speaker 1: And then, like anything, your job becomes a job, or

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Speaker 1: school homeworks is due, or football like seventh practice in

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Speaker 1: a row. Right, it's just and I wonder if it's

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Speaker 1: gonna hurt the initial product in the initial training camp

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Speaker 1: on top of they're just gonna have to be because

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Speaker 1: all these guys are gonna be trained at different levels, right,

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Speaker 1: and I think pro sports canna be a lot different

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Speaker 1: College a lot of these guys have access to stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they have the financial wherewithal to buy the proper food.

437
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Speaker 1: It's not like they have to beat toacle bell every

438
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Speaker 1: day like they're able to get the elite nutrition. They're

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Speaker 1: on top of it. But it is a lot different

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Speaker 1: training by yourself, you know, even if you have a

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Speaker 1: trainer or a couple of teammates, then your entire defense,

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Speaker 1: right because normally during O t A s you train

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Speaker 1: in groups, whether it's the dbs and linebackers together, and

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Speaker 1: then you run together, and then practice starts and you

445
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Speaker 1: lift together. It's like you're you're able to push each

446
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Speaker 1: other based your teammates right there, all of your teammates

447
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Speaker 1: actually more because you have these nine man roster. Did

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Speaker 1: add some juice and then you factory when the practice

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Speaker 1: comes fans are out there. I don't know this is

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Speaker 1: going to be if fans are not allowed in the

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Speaker 1: games on top of training camp, it's uh, I I

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Speaker 1: just wonder that now the games, once you get hits

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Speaker 1: like you're gonna be alive. Right. It's like if you're

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Speaker 1: getting in a fight, even if you don't really want

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Speaker 1: to fight the guy, even if you're rough housing with

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Speaker 1: your brother and you're like, I'm not taking it that seriously.

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Speaker 1: The moment you get like an elbow to the nose

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Speaker 1: and you look down and you start bleeding, you get

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Speaker 1: piste off. Let alone a normal fight. When you get hit, well,

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Speaker 1: football isn't no different. You get blocked, thrown to the ground,

461
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Speaker 1: you you'll wake up fast. I don't care if there

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Speaker 1: are seventy thousand people there are zero, but camp when

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Speaker 1: you're going up against each other, there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the coaches man to get these

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Speaker 1: guys going. Okay, let's dive into a couple of stories

466
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Speaker 1: around the league before we get into the uh into

467
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Speaker 1: the middlecoff mail bag. Also, just you just want to

468
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Speaker 1: have this out there. I'm doing this show. My a

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Speaker 1: C broke last week big heat wave coming in northern California,

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Speaker 1: but then it died for the weekend. But when a

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Speaker 1: big heat wave hits I'm sure many of you know

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Speaker 1: this the for the first time of the year, the

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Speaker 1: a C companies and everyone's like, at least we can

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Speaker 1: get out. There's June early, we can get out. There's

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Speaker 1: June eighteenth. I start checking weather dot com, like, guys,

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Speaker 1: just gonna get hot again next week. I e right now,

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Speaker 1: and I just I called about ten people. I finally

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Speaker 1: though a C motor broke. Anyone that's had to deal

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Speaker 1: with a C stuff knows that. Bill me neetately comes, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you need a new motor. Well, the motor was older

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Speaker 1: and you're a C unit, so I gotta get dollars

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Speaker 1: and they got to order it and they can't come

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Speaker 1: back till next Monday. It's like, oh my god, So

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Speaker 1: just just know you got a mentally tough podcaster. It's

487
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Speaker 1: let me check my nest. Eighty five degrees inside. I

488
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Speaker 1: got all the blinds shut, windows closed. Is dark in here,

489
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Speaker 1: and it's still not really working because when it's a

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Speaker 1: hundred and two outside, nothing you can do. But one

491
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Speaker 1: thing that Carolina Panthers can do is higher there. You

492
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Speaker 1: know their face of their franchise with Cam Newton for

493
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Speaker 1: the last decade one of the best players in the

494
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Speaker 1: league over that period of time. High character, just a

495
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Speaker 1: great human being. I remember when I my might have

496
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Speaker 1: been the year we took Fletcher Cox and Luke Kickley

497
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Speaker 1: was coming out. What it was an incredible draft is

498
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Speaker 1: that I remember coach read by the time the draft

499
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Speaker 1: is getting close, you know, he thought he was gonna

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Speaker 1: be a Hall of Famer. This was when he was

501
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Speaker 1: coming out, and after he went to the combine and

502
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Speaker 1: ran a four four uh, he immediately became a dominant

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Speaker 1: player from day one, and when he was healthy, he

504
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Speaker 1: was dominant. But I had a buddy tell me last year,

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Speaker 1: a pro scout like god, you know, and I didn't

506
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Speaker 1: know one person who didn't love Keiklely. It's like he

507
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Speaker 1: doesn't really look the same. Clearly his body was breaking

508
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Speaker 1: down and retires. It looks like they're gonna hire him

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Speaker 1: as a scout. I think anytime you can get really

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Speaker 1: really high level people and keep him as a part

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Speaker 1: of your organization, especially a franchise like that that actually

512
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Speaker 1: hasn't been around that long, you utilize humans like that

513
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Speaker 1: because he'll be a he'll benefit your organization. You want guys. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw the uh, the

515
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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime special on the Panthers, it was really good. Quickly,

516
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Speaker 1: just how high level of a guy he mean, he

517
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Speaker 1: studied film like a quarterback. Dude was just a savant.

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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna be that big of a study guy,

519
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Speaker 1: be hard. I mean, if Keikley really to do, I

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Speaker 1: don't see how he wouldn't become a general manager. If

521
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Speaker 1: you study film that much and can break down players

522
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Speaker 1: and tendencies, he probably could make an elite scout. One

523
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Speaker 1: thing that's been floating out there, the NFL and the players,

524
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Speaker 1: when it comes to money, are partners. They split revenue

525
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Speaker 1: and that's the way the salary cap is determined. Well,

526
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Speaker 1: depending on if fans are allowed this year or not,

527
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Speaker 1: the revenue could change. So the first time the salary

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Speaker 1: cap could diminish. Now all these teams have made huge cash.

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Speaker 1: I do think next year, in light of this just

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Speaker 1: outlier pandemic hopefully knock on wood and that we don't

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Speaker 1: get another one for the foreseeable future, is that you

532
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Speaker 1: could just keep At worst case, we're talking about diminishing

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Speaker 1: the salary cap fifty seventy million dollars. Come on, guys,

534
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Speaker 1: that this business has been generating just stupid cash. If

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Speaker 1: you can't just keep the salary cap, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to move it up, but you don't necessary I have

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Speaker 1: to move it back. Just keep it as is for

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Speaker 1: a year, because you'll easily make that money back when

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Speaker 1: you're allowed to have the fans back in, especially with

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Speaker 1: gambling and everything changing. So I I think there's a

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Speaker 1: little overreaction on having to take the salary cap down

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. I got a hot take right here

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Speaker 1: that will not happen even if the fans aren't allowed in.

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Speaker 1: I think they will figure out a way to just

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Speaker 1: keep it neutral. Float some loans do something. The the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They ain't gonna have a hundred thirty million dollar salary

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Speaker 1: cap in two thousand twenty one. I don't care who's

548
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Speaker 1: allowed in the stadium. Bruce Arians said that their base

549
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Speaker 1: personnel will be twelve, meaning they will have one running

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Speaker 1: back and two tight ends. Obviously they have three. I

551
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Speaker 1: mean they got two legit tight ends in Grenkowski and

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Speaker 1: I guess Cameron Bray was really good, had a down year. O. J.

553
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Speaker 1: Howard is somewhat underachieved, but they got three tight ends.

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Speaker 1: I mean Grons and all time great. Is he's still good?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh. Then they got a plethora of

556
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Speaker 1: wide receivers to start are ones. Mike Evans is a

557
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, Godwin is just a budding star. And

558
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Speaker 1: I actually think that they're running back who maybe I'm

559
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Speaker 1: holding on too much hope to when he was in college,

560
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Speaker 1: but I think Rojoe is meant to be in a

561
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Speaker 1: one back situation and I think will be really really good.

562
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Speaker 1: So their offense, which Tom Brady is really really comfortable

563
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Speaker 1: with and had some of his most success when he

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Speaker 1: had two tight end situations. Now for the last decade

565
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Speaker 1: they have been much more dependent on tight ends and

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Speaker 1: slot receivers, and they have on the star outside guys. Now,

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Speaker 1: great players play with anybody. So if he's gonna play

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Speaker 1: with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin at a more higher

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Speaker 1: level than a slot guy. Now, both those guys, especially Godwin,

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Speaker 1: can line up inside, They'll be fine. But they are

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Speaker 1: not your traditional Welker Edelman type player, right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I would much rather have Godwin and Mike Evans stretching

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Speaker 1: the field. And when I say I don't even mean

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Speaker 1: like go routes. I just mean ten to twenty yards,

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Speaker 1: like you know the Edelman and Welker felt like did

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Speaker 1: most of their damn imagined like the five just seven

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Speaker 1: yard you know range, and then if they break a tackle,

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Speaker 1: they'll get fifteen yards. That's why they'd have like the

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Speaker 1: ten catches for nine yard type games. Look at Mike

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Speaker 1: Evans who have like a six catch two thirty yard game.

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Speaker 1: Right now, that's a little extreme, say six catch one

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Arthur Smith and now I get it. We're we're

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Speaker 1: low for content that, uh said the offensive coordinator, actually

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Speaker 1: son of the CEO of fed X, said that Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry's usage will depend on how the game goes. Now,

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Speaker 1: I met Arthur Smith at the combine. I am not

587
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Speaker 1: trying to rip him, but no ship And I don't

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Speaker 1: blame him for saying this, but some of these questions

589
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Speaker 1: to get asked in these media availabilities, like how we'll

590
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Speaker 1: use Derrick Henry next year, I don't know. It'll be

591
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Speaker 1: a huge part of the game plan. He's good. If

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Speaker 1: we're down fourteen points, we'll have to throw. If we're up,

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Speaker 1: we'll bleed the clock with him. If he's humming, we'll

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Speaker 1: keep handing on the ball and we have him rushed

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Speaker 1: for two hundred yards like we did last year. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's June one in a pandemic. How are

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Speaker 1: we gonna use him? He's a great player. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: use them like we've always used them, give him the rock.

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Speaker 1: But in situations where we're down, we can't use them. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's pretty basically, how do you use how

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Speaker 1: do you use a great running back? Well, the game

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Speaker 1: plan usually he's a big part of it. Then if

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Speaker 1: you get the lead, you keep giving him the ball,

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Speaker 1: or if he's getting loose and your offensive line is dominating,

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Speaker 1: you keep feeding him the rock. If for whatever reason

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Speaker 1: you're down, he can't be used as much? Is this?

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Speaker 1: How is anyone ever used a great running back like

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Speaker 1: the the The actual you know way to use running

609
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Speaker 1: backs will never change. Obviously some guys catch the ball more.

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00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: His his job is much more between the tackles. But

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Speaker 1: it's pretty clear we will run him, gain the lead,

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Speaker 1: milk the clock, play defense, that's how we're built. But

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Speaker 1: if we're down, we'll have to throw the throw the football.

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Speaker 1: It's not that complicated. Again, not ripping Arthur Smith like

615
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Speaker 1: the guy probably a dumb question. Okay, let's uh, let's

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Speaker 1: get into the Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff is

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Speaker 1: the Instagram and d MS wide open. Just fire in

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Speaker 1: there also, just to reiterate. If you like the show,

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Speaker 1: and if you're listening at this point still, I think

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Speaker 1: you do, go to the go to the Apple podcast

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Speaker 1: and leave a review. Got a question, what's the deal

622
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Speaker 1: with Josh Rosen? Is he just playing bad question? Or

623
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Speaker 1: does he keep getting bad luck with coaches preferred quarterbacks

624
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Speaker 1: getting drafted over him? Do you see him as a

625
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Speaker 1: perennial backup or get a chance with another team. That's

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Speaker 1: a great question. And at this point I really don't

627
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Speaker 1: have the information, or I mean I have the information,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. I liked him a lot

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Speaker 1: coming out now, given the knowledge I have over the

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Speaker 1: last two years and how dramatically the game has changed

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Speaker 1: in terms of it's really hard nowadays for younger quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: to be like Tom Brady or Philip Rivers. You have

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Speaker 1: to be able to move. He can't move, He's not mobile.

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Speaker 1: He has a good arm, though, but I think it's

635
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Speaker 1: really difficult to be that stagnant within the pocket. You know,

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Speaker 1: if this was the mid nine. Of these are mid

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Speaker 1: two thousands. I'd say, yeah, he's gonna resurrect at this

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Speaker 1: point in time. I don't know now he played the

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Speaker 1: little bit he played as anyone my buddies in the

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Speaker 1: league would be like, it's impossible to judge him. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think that many people are watching the Cardinals

642
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: two years ago. I mean, they had the number one pick,

643
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: so they were god awful. But his offensive line that

644
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: year was, I mean, was the worst in the league.

645
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: So you can't even judge him off that. Now, last year,

646
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: Miami trades the second round pick for him, he couldn't

647
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: beat out Ryan Fitzpatrick. Now, Ryan Fitzpatrick is just gonna

648
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: be a better player more than likely right now, but

649
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: there's a potential that maybe that what to see what

650
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are they gonna keep him? Do they cut him?

651
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: Because I'd say if they cut him, there's a chance

652
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: he's not good. If they're trade him, maybe they think

653
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: he's not good, but they're still value. If they keep them,

654
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: maybe they kind of like him and maybe he'll be

655
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: the backup after Ryan Fitzpatrick. Why do you think everyone

656
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: is so high on the Eagles outside of a good

657
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,959
Speaker 1: but injury prone quarterback, defensive line. None of their position

658
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: groups would really scare me as an opposing team. I

659
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: get that the front office is great, but if the

660
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: team doesn't pull its weight, it won't matter. They have

661
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: a lot of older, injury prone players not make it

662
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: through the season. Again, what do you think? It's a

663
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: good question. Well, they got a good offensive line now,

664
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Speaker 1: replacing Jason Peters with their first round pick last year

665
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: Dillard is a huge question mark. Like, I mean, the

666
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: guy was the first round pick, but you gotta play

667
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: other tight end group is good. I mean Urts and

668
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: got Er, that's those two guys are good. So you

669
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: got a good quarterback, You've got good tight ends. I

670
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,959
Speaker 1: think Miles Sanders gonna be a good running back. Uh

671
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: in theory, you're right, al Sean and de Sean get

672
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: hurt a lot. You draft a first round you know receiver,

673
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: they need j j R. Take a Whiteside to do something. Defensively,

674
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: their defensive line is good and should they signed the

675
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: guy from Pittsburgh Barnett Fletcher like their group's good linebackers

676
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: major question mark DBS. Adding Sleigh will obviously help, But

677
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: you're right, I mean they got one thing they got

678
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: going for him, They got good coaches. I mean, Doug

679
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: is an elite play caller. He's really good. I mean

680
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: what he did last year with nothing. I mean he

681
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: went into a gunfight with a dull knife and somehow survived.

682
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: So and Jim Schwartz has proven to be a good

683
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, a little aggressive up John, big fan of

684
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: the pod. What are your thoughts on the Cowboys revoking

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00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: the franchise tag from Dak From my understanding, Dallas could

686
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: do that, allowing Dac to become a free agent. Then

687
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could pick up Cam on a one year

688
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: proven deal and save Dallas some money to build up

689
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: the defense. But who are you building up the like,

690
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: who are you signing right now? No one's out there. Also,

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00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: if Cam is a train wreck, they have Dalton as

692
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a backup. They can get Dac go try to get

693
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: million dollars elsewhere, which will never happen. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I listen. I wouldn't be totally opposed to that. I

695
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: don't know who they would end up bidding against. I

696
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: don't think that's an option. I think they will just

697
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: either have him play on the franchise tag or that

698
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: they will, you know, sign him to a deal. I'm

699
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not paying him forty million dollars a year,

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00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: especially now with the unknown of the cap. Listen, don't

701
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: think the cap is gonna go down, but I'm not

702
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: a math major here and enough smart people saying it might. Though,

703
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: I do think the league would get involved and do something.

704
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: How would you shave fifty million dollars off everyone's cap?

705
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: That's it would be a problem with the union. It

706
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: would be a disaster. I think these teams have enough

707
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: money just in the teams, like these owners don't need

708
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: to go into their personal wealth that they'd be able

709
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: to function. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I

710
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: need a text around on that because I I gotta

711
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: dig a little deeper. I honestly haven't really asked about

712
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: that because I just maybe I've underestimated. I don't know. Okay,

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: a question for the middlecoff mail bank. I just wanted

714
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: to ask what you think the NFL will do in

715
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: relation to Colin Kaepernick after the protest protests, which are

716
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: exactly what he tried to peacefully protest years ago. Do

717
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: you think he will get a job or he will

718
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: stay on the outside looking in. Uh, well, I do

719
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 1: think that they came to a financial agreement. I mean

720
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 1: I know they did. We all do it. Public record

721
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: was it two years ago and they paid him five

722
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: million dollars. Uh. I think his like he got black

723
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: balled after that happened because the kneeling had adverse effects

724
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: on the ratings. Whether we like it or not, it did. Again,

725
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: I'm not offended by the protesting. I don't care people did.

726
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: Ratings went down, that cost them money and pissed him off.

727
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: They blackballed him. Then Kaepernick, you know, fought the league

728
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: in trial once in cash. I thought he would have

729
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: won a lot more because he legitimately got blackballed, but

730
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: somehow only got five I think it was less than

731
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: ten million dollars, even after the craziness of everything that's

732
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: happened in two really not to that, I mean, it's

733
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: happened in the last you know, two weeks since George Floyd. Though.

734
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: I think we'd all agreed that racial injustices and things

735
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: he were fighting for us been going on well before

736
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: Kaepernick and well after Kaepernick. We just pick and choose

737
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: when we talk about it, which is sad. I don't

738
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: think he's coming back to the league. You know, at

739
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: this point, I think the ship is ailed. And I

740
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: just I think literally he got like signed a deal

741
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: that he can't come back. Not that any team would

742
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: sign him, Like what team would sign Kaepernick right now?

743
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: Even just like hey to try to quell everything. Uh,

744
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: it's quell even a word, you know what I mean,

745
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: just to kind of, you know, quiet everything. I just

746
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. I don't know anything. Uh,

747
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: that would just be my gut. I found it about

748
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: a love the show found it about a year ago

749
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: and it has become the podcast. I look forward to

750
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I live in Canada, but I'm a huge

751
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: NFL fan. My question is to you, with you being

752
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: a former scout, how do NFL teams management view the CFL.

753
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: It seems to me that a lot of fans don't

754
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 1: give their respected deserves. There's been a lot of quality

755
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 1: NFL players that either started or received their career in Canada,

756
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: revived their career in Canada. Every year, the Gray Cup

757
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: champions get their rosters decimated from NFL teams signing their

758
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: best players. Example, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers lost their two

759
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: best corners to NFL teams when some rows of the

760
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: Bengals and markets sales to the Vikings. And that's just

761
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: two examples. Sure, they're most likely going to be depth

762
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: players that don't get that much playing time, but the

763
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 1: CFL consistently pumps out quality NFL players year after year. Agree.

764
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: I just feel if more people in the States gave

765
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: it a chance, they would love it. Also, from a

766
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: personal level, what do you think of it? When I

767
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: worked for the Eagles, I was a pro scout and

768
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: my second year, I got sent to Whistler, Canada to

769
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: scout a defensive lineman and he was actually a really

770
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: good player and we brought him in for a visit

771
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: and we wanted to sign him. He ended up elected

772
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: to stay in Canada. Would fit our scheme perfectly. I

773
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: know a lot of teams, like you said, take the

774
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: candidate Canadian League very the CFL very seriously. You break

775
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: down all the top prospects. If you're an in house guy,

776
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: you fly your scouts to go watch. I literally flew

777
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: across the country from Philly to Whistler. Got Vancouver is

778
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: badass to the It was the Vancouver the BC. This

779
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: is what they're called and uh yeah. I mean I

780
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 1: think the NFL and the pro scouts in the league

781
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: and the front offices take the Canadian Football League very

782
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: very seriously. You know, they have players, whether you're a

783
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: starter or not. If I can get a fifty three

784
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: man roster guy on my team that has upside to

785
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: become a starter, I we're taking those guys seriously. If

786
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: you work in a scouting department, now me personally doesn't

787
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: do that much for me. I didn't mind scouting the

788
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: league in terms of scouting the best players in the league. Right,

789
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: You're not scouting just the randoms. You only scout the

790
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: guys that really have NFL potential. So yeah, I mean

791
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Speaker 1: I had no problem. I got a cool trip out

792
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: of it. Um, we were always on the right guys.

793
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: I think mostly good scouting departments are always on the

794
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: right Canadian guys because you can find starters and you

795
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: can find guys that dress on game day. That's it's

796
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 1: hard to do. I'm a football fan who doesn't play,

797
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: who didn't play football, so I understand it at a

798
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: pretty basic level. I'm wondering if you could talk about

799
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: offensive linemen and what major allenges they face changing positions

800
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,280
Speaker 1: along the line. When guys get drafted, you hear analysts

801
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: say he's a right tackle, but maybe with work, he

802
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: could play left tackle or vice versa. What makes each

803
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: position at old line so unique? Well, the tackles, for

804
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: the most part, are on an island. Right at tackle,

805
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: you are blocking an end who's usually lined up on

806
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: the outside of you, kind of getting a running start.

807
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: And as we've seen over the last really forever, but

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00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: definitely of late, the best pass rushers are Von Miller,

809
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack, you know j J. T J Watt that

810
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: can obviously j J can line up both places, t

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00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: J uh All, these elite pass rushers, Clowney forever, Nick

812
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: Boson now other Bosa, Ingram, they're all around the league.

813
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: Right the sweet Shaquille Barrett, now DeMarcus Lawrence. You're getting

814
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: a guy who is faster than you, so you are

815
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: on an island. You have to be both strong and

816
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: an lead athlete. It's why every team is looking for

817
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: quote unquote dancing bears, guys with you know, tight end

818
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: wide receiver level feat but the strength of a center

819
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 1: or guard. That's why they're such a highly paid guy.

820
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: I think that term is kind of. I don't know

821
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: what the right white word would be to describe it

822
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: at this point. Ignorant, uh, maybe just wrong right tackle only.

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Speaker 1: I think Howard Mud, who was the famous offensive line

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Speaker 1: coach who coach with Peyton Manning, who was with us

825
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: in Philly, I remember telling me in another buddy like,

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Speaker 1: what the what the hell is the difference between the

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Speaker 1: right and the left tackle. He's like, in Indianapolis we

828
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: got Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis. So you're right tackles

829
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: not as good as it's basically saying, the right tackle

830
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be as good as an athlete as

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Speaker 1: the left tackle because your left tackle protects, you know,

832
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: if your quarterbacks right handed his blind side, so he

833
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: can't see the guy. Well, if I'm Peyton Manning and

834
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: I dropped back or by Manning or Philip Rivers or

835
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: Mames or any right Russell Wilson, I can see the

836
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Speaker 1: right tackle, the guy who's blocking. In theory, my eyes

837
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: are supposed to be down the field, but I can

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00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: if I just move my eyes, I can see the

839
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Speaker 1: guy coming. But as Howard Mud said, well, if you've

840
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: got Dwight Freeney over there or Khalil Mack or Von Miller.

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00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: If you're right tackle is a bad athlete, you're in trouble. Dwight,

842
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: who's the best right tackle in the league? Lane Johnson?

843
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: Michel Schwartz like you you need good right tackles because

844
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: they're blocking really good players. McGlinchey for the night. The

845
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: Miners drafted the right tackle number nine overall. So and

846
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: he's just been okay, like he's been solid. He hasn't

847
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: been some star has been Lane Johnson. That's why Lane

848
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: Johnson will never move. He'll just say it, right tackle.

849
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Speaker 1: He's blocking all the best players over there, like Chase

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Speaker 1: Young is gonna line up both left and the right side.

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Speaker 1: I think that terms kind of overused. And I also

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Speaker 1: think why just hearing offensive linemen and coaches talk over

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Speaker 1: the years, and I know my buddy Jeff Schwartz tweets

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Speaker 1: about this a lot. It's very hard to change your

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Speaker 1: foot right. If you're a left tackle, you're left foots back,

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Speaker 1: and if you're a tackle, your right foots back. Same

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Speaker 1: thing as both guard spots. Some guys are just not

858
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Speaker 1: comfortable doing the opposite, just like some guys. If you're

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Speaker 1: not a starter and you're gonna be one of those

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Speaker 1: swing guys because you dress on game day probably seven

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen. Really you're banking on, you know, no more

862
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Speaker 1: than two guys getting injured, and your backup offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: Your backup tackle has to be able to play left

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Speaker 1: and right tackle, just like your backup guard has to

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Speaker 1: be able to play both guard spots and center. Or

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Speaker 1: if you put the backup at a certain spot, one

867
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: of your starting centers or guards can move around. So

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Speaker 1: you do need players, and the majority of players I

869
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: think are comfortable moving a little bit if push comes

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00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: to shove, But ideally you like to get guys that

871
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: are just comfortable doing one thing. I'm just a right tackle,

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00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: I'm a right guard, I'm a center. Ideally, if you're

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Speaker 1: a center, I'd like you to be able to play

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Speaker 1: guard and center. Like like anything in life, the more

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00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: you can do. But a lot has to do with

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00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:03,959
Speaker 1: footwork as a guard or a center. I don't need

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00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: you as athletic as I do a tackle because you're

878
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: in a much more confined space. Now you're going up

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00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: against better athletes than you ever have. Like every team now,

880
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: like there are multiple mean Joe Green's in the league,

881
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: right I think how many sweet interior pass rushers there are. J. J. Watt,

882
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: DeForest Buckner, Eric Harmstead, Aaron freaking Donald. I mean they're

883
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: they're coming everywhere, fast and furious, and I mean a

884
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: chem Hicks is just a dominant interior player. Like you've

885
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: gotta be really good now to play center and guard.

886
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: I think that stuff gets overused a little bit. It's

887
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: kind of lazy. Well, you can play right tackle, he

888
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: can play right guard. I don't know, Canny because I

889
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: like personally to watch a guy on tape. I know

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00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 1: I was like this as a scout and I am

891
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: this now as a as a media member. If I'm

892
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: gonna feel comfortable of saying like I think that guy

893
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good NFL player. Like Quentin Nelson,

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00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: I didn't love taking to the top ten. Now I

895
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: thought he was an elite player. He's even better than

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00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: I thought. He's probably he's worth it, right, he's a

897
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame level player. Took him in the top ten.

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00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: He's a guard. But you watch quentnin Nelson played, you know,

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Speaker 1: left guard. It would have been a left guard because

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00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: McGlinchey was a left tackle or was he right or whatever?

901
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson is and he just played that same position

902
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: in the league, right. I like to watch that guy

903
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: do that and then just put him right and just

904
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: plug and play. That's where I feel the most comfortable. Now.

905
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Speaker 1: The best coaches can project. It's difficult, and to me,

906
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: that's where you're gonna have some misses when you start playing.

907
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: You know, this guy's a tackle, but I think he

908
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: can played guard in the league. It doesn't always work.

909
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Speaker 1: My two favorite teams are the Bears in the Jacks

910
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: So I was wondering what your take is on how

911
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: Fulls will be this year in Chicago. I've been haunted

912
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: by in the past few years with double doink game

913
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: and last year's debacle in Jacksonville, and was heartbroken when

914
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: I found out the Bears traded for him. I personally

915
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: don't think he's great quarterback, but do you think he

916
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: can perform consistently this year if he stays healthy. Well,

917
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Speaker 1: I don't think he's a great player. I think we'd

918
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Speaker 1: all agree there. I think he got really hot three

919
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Speaker 1: years ago when he won the Super Bowl, and it

920
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. It was It's an all time

921
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Speaker 1: cool story, right, It's just one of those all Time

922
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Speaker 1: sports stories, Miracle on ice, the New New York Giants

923
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Speaker 1: upsetting the you know, the Patriots and No. Seven, the

924
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Speaker 1: Marlins beating the or the Diamondbacks beating the Yankees, Folds

925
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Speaker 1: beating the Patriots. Like it's just when you just think

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Speaker 1: about in my thirty five years of life, ones that

927
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Speaker 1: just jump out. It's just up there as a whole

928
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Speaker 1: his careers, he's a solid player. I think he's probably

929
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Speaker 1: somewhere between fifteen to twenty as a quarterback if he's

930
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: if he's with the right coaching staff and on a

931
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Speaker 1: good team. Now, he had moments for the Eagles that

932
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: year of like a little higher than that. Obviously. I

933
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: think the Bears are going we had the worst or

934
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL last year.

935
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Speaker 1: Mitch was a bottom three quarterback and we went eight

936
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Speaker 1: and eight. If we just had like the sixteenth best quarterback,

937
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: we would have won ten or eleven games. We don't

938
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Speaker 1: need Joe Montana. We just need Nick Foles and we'll

939
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Speaker 1: win ten games. I think that's how they're looking at

940
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Speaker 1: it and then figure it out after the season, because

941
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Speaker 1: that was really their only option. So I can't judge

942
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles last year in Jacksonville, he broke his collarbone

943
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Speaker 1: in the first game of the year and didn't come back.

944
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Speaker 1: When to like week ten, I mean I for week nine.

945
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Speaker 1: I I think it's hard to like say much about

946
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Speaker 1: Nick Foles Jaguar stint. He made a lot of money,

947
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what. But he cashed in in fairness,

948
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: damn like he he earned the cash in with the

949
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl run. And uh, I think he will be

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Speaker 1: better on the Bears. I'm soaked in sweat right now,

951
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Speaker 1: but don't worry. I did it for you, guys know

952
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Speaker 1: I c eighty five degrees inside podcasting. That's how we roll.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening. Tell your friends God speed, stay safe

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Speaker 1: this weekend, and I'll talk to you next week. Adios.

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