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Speaker 1: What is going on by people? How y'all doing? John

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Speaker 1: middle Cop three and Out podcast, Back at it again

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Speaker 1: from the Middle Cop Studios on this beautiful Labor day.

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Speaker 1: That's what we do. We labor on Labor Day. I

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Speaker 1: gotta pay the bill somehow. But I hope everyone's doing well.

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Speaker 1: We are officially, it's kind of crazy. It's been the

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Speaker 1: longest six months in the history of my thirty five

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Speaker 1: most people too. It's been Uh, hopefully we never have

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Speaker 1: But we're here the NFL season. Thank you Jesus. I'm

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Speaker 1: not even a religious guy, but thank you Jesus. Football

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Speaker 1: is here and it's time to roll. Baby. Let's get

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Speaker 1: it on. We got football Thursday, we got a full

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Speaker 1: Some thoughts on Deshaun Watson got a huge I mean

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Speaker 1: a massive contract. Biggest question marks going into the two

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Speaker 1: information coming out of that little relationship. And it feels

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Speaker 1: a little different than far And and Rogers back, you know,

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Speaker 1: think I'll get in do maybe some predictions, definitely some

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Speaker 1: obviously we'll react to Thursday night's game on Friday's pot

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Speaker 1: everything that happened over the last couple of weeks, and

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Speaker 1: and just an unprecedented time for the NFL. It's an

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Speaker 1: your star player can't take you to the playoffs, he's

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Speaker 1: not a star player. It's really that simple. In the NBA,

429
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Speaker 1: if you want to consider the guy a star All

430
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Speaker 1: Star player, he might go to the All Star Game,

431
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Speaker 1: But if your team's not making the playoffs, not winning,

432
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Speaker 1: he ain't a star. Because one thing is clear in

433
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Speaker 1: the history of the league. Star players take you to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, just like star quarterbacks in the NFL, definitely

435
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Speaker 1: the last couple of decades pretty consistently. Now, you could

436
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: have an off year, you could have a year where

437
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Speaker 1: guys get hurt. There are out there are situations for

438
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Speaker 1: every team over a longer period of time. But if

439
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Speaker 1: you have a Pro Bowl level quarterback and your GM

440
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: slash coach aren't bumbling idiots, you're gonna be in the

441
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: playoffs most year. And ask Bill O'Brien for everyone that

442
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 1: hates him, and listen, I think he's a questionable GM

443
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: at best, and I think he's kind of a woofs

444
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: when it comes to late game situations for being this

445
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: badass kind of guy, tough guy. I've seen him do

446
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 1: some things about punning the ball and not going for

447
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 1: It's like, Bill, what are we doing here? But one

448
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: thing you can't take away from him, and you can

449
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Speaker 1: tell me about the division, Say whatever you want. He's

450
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs every year and a huge reason why.

451
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Speaker 1: I mean the main reason why is DeShawn Watson and

452
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 1: that's why the Texans it will be the easiest contract

453
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 1: they've ever signed. Okay, before we get into five biggest

454
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 1: question marks. The more I thought about it, I'll just

455
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: go through every division just picking winner, because I guess

456
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,239
Speaker 1: when you're in the media, that's what you have to do.

457
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: Even though, let's be real, it's it's got to be

458
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: one of the dumbest exercises ever. This year. The I

459
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: talked to two teams, They've had a total like a

460
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen practice, right, so the most physical we

461
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: got was in like one practice. We never went once

462
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: on ones, so most teams did not tackle to the ground.

463
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna look really weird early on.

464
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 1: You just have no clue, especially as the year goes on.

465
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Speaker 1: If like a guy gets corona is like a court.

466
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Speaker 1: If Patrick Mahomes gets it, miss has to miss a

467
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I mean Fred Warner got got put

468
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: on the COVID list like ten days ago. He's still

469
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 1: not often he's one of the best players middle linebacker. Like,

470
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Speaker 1: what what's the deal there? In the the NFL, they

471
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Speaker 1: they love using like a hip hop We can't tell Yeah,

472
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: well you tell me about when they break their leg

473
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: or shatter their shoulder. This is not an STD. If

474
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: the guy gets coronic, you it's okay to say it,

475
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: like it's not that big a deal. We can just

476
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: be honest with everyone, especially as a gambling property. I

477
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: gotta know as a gambler it's dude in or out.

478
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Speaker 1: But I'll do it just for uh, for ships and giggles.

479
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Speaker 1: Here the a f C. I'm taking the bills the

480
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Speaker 1: f c's it's just their time. Like Jim Kelly said,

481
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Speaker 1: with Tom Brady gone, there's no excuse and there is

482
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Speaker 1: zero excuse not buying any of the Dolphins. The Jets

483
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: just roster is not good enough. The Patriots defense on

484
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: paper stinks. The Bills just they were a playoff team

485
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Speaker 1: last year. They should be better this year. They added Digs.

486
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: They they should be really good. The South, I'm going

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Speaker 1: with the Titans. I think of the three teams, which

488
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Speaker 1: all three could make the playoffs, the Titans, the Colts,

489
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Speaker 1: and the Houston Texans. It wouldn't shock me if they

490
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Speaker 1: all three do. I just think the Titans are the

491
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Speaker 1: most well rounded. I'm a big Mike Variable guy. I'm

492
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Speaker 1: a big John Robinson guy. They add Clowney, they got

493
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Speaker 1: Simmons who's coming off. You know he's fully healthy now.

494
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Speaker 1: Their offense is well rounded, a j round, a star,

495
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: they have an identity. Arthur Smith proved to be a

496
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Speaker 1: good offensive coordinator. I just think the Titans win the division.

497
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Speaker 1: I'm going a little bit outside the box on this one,

498
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Speaker 1: and I don't feel great. I just know everyone's gonna

499
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Speaker 1: pick the Ravens, and I think the Ravens are gonna

500
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: be fantastic. But if the Steelers can just get Roethlisberger

501
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: to be like a fringe top fifteen quarterback. Their defense

502
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: is phenomenal, like it is elite, and they have a

503
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Speaker 1: bunch of skill guys on offense. Their quarterback play last

504
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: year was atrocious. Now I don't feel great about Roethlisberger,

505
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Speaker 1: but if he plays like they could win eleven or

506
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Speaker 1: twelve games. I know Coward thinks the Ravens are gonna

507
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: run the table. Like to me, I don't think anyone's

508
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: running the table this year. Especially this year, people have

509
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: had an entire off season to study their run game.

510
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Speaker 1: So with this triple option which they run, which is fantastic,

511
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Speaker 1: and Lamar is a special special player, like, I don't

512
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna just work as easily as it did

513
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Speaker 1: the previous year. I saw it years ago with the

514
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Speaker 1: Niners and Kaepernick and the zone read pistol offense. It's

515
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: slowed down in the regular season and he was forced

516
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: to pass. Now, Lamar is a much better pastor than

517
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Speaker 1: Colin ever was. But if they can at least neutralize

518
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Speaker 1: some of the run game, can't he be a dynamic pastor.

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Speaker 1: It's a question mark. I think if the Steelers get

520
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: solid quarterback play, it's a coin flip, and I'm just

521
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Speaker 1: taking the Steelers the FC West easiest pick of the league.

522
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's Chiefs the NFC East. The thing that

523
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Speaker 1: I want to go with the Eagles. But Carson Wentz

524
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Speaker 1: had an injury last week. Like I know, he played

525
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Speaker 1: sixty games last year, and if he's fully healthy, I

526
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Speaker 1: like him better than Deck Now al Sean what his

527
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: deal is, we're still unknown. I just the Eagles, just

528
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: the injuries that they've already lost their starting left tackle.

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Speaker 1: Jason Peters is now their left tackle, which is a

530
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Speaker 1: good thing, but I mean Jason. I love Jason Peters,

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer, but he's pretty old. I'm gonna

532
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: lean the Cowboys. I don't feel great I picked the

533
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Speaker 1: Cowboys last year. They should be better with Mike McCarthy.

534
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Speaker 1: To me, it's just the Eagles or Cowboys coin flip division.

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Speaker 1: I'll go with the Cowboys, but it's just because the

536
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Speaker 1: Carson thing makes me a little nervous. The NFC South,

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Speaker 1: I'm going with the Saints. I talked to a couple

538
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: of scouts in the league. They thought by they thought

539
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: they had the best roster in the league. They thought

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00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: they've improved since last year. They added Emmanuel Sanders as

541
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, should help balance out their offense. Their

542
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: defense was really good last year. I mean, they easily

543
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: could have been the one seed last year. If you know,

544
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: they tackled George Kittle. So I I just I expect

545
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: the Saints to be fantastic. The NFC North tough. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm my heart. I'm rooting for the Bears. I'm a

547
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: Bears fan. But we'll get into Trabisky here in a

548
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, I I would be hard press

549
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: see them win the division. The Vikings have a lot

550
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: of good players, but they're also dealing with some unknowns.

551
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: You know, Justin Jefferson has huge shoes to fill in

552
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: Stefan Dicks. They lost Kevin Stefanski, their offensive coordinator, who

553
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: was fantastic last year. They have an entirely new corner situation.

554
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: I think their corners combined have like a total of

555
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: nine starts. They lost all their starting corners from last year.

556
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 1: Now Yannick should help out. Zimmer is an excellent defensive coach.

557
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: So I I'm just going with the Packers, just thinking that,

558
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: you know, Rogers will be on a mission, everyone acting

559
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: like Love's gonna take his job, and we'll get into

560
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: that a little bit later. So I'll just go with

561
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Speaker 1: the Packers. I don't feel great about that division at all.

562
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Speaker 1: I'm under no circumstances that I'm like picking the lines

563
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: and the West, I'm gonna go with the Niners. I

564
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: think it's a two team race. I think it's the

565
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: Niners of Seattle. I think Arizona is the most overrated

566
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Speaker 1: team in the league. Their coach has never won more

567
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: in seven games and it's coaching career vance. Joseph is

568
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: a terrible defensive coordinator. I like their quarterback, but they

569
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: have way too many holes the Rams. Offensively, they have

570
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 1: a bunch of skill guys, their offensive line is not

571
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,679
Speaker 1: very good and their quarterback can't move. Their defense has

572
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: two elite players in Jaalen and Aaron Donald. Look at

573
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: the other nine guys. As a buddy in the league

574
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: told me that defense got some major freaking holes, major holes.

575
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: You should be able to run it down their throat. Well,

576
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: who likes to run it Seattle, San Francisco. So I

577
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: think the Rams. If one of those two guys on

578
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: defense gets injured, they are in trouble. So I'm on

579
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: with the Niners. But I've been to several Niner Seattle games.

580
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Speaker 1: You can like the Cowboys and Eagles. It's a coin

581
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: flip to me. Uh. Obviously, Russell's better, and Jimmy, I

582
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: think the Niners roster top to bottom is better. Seattle

583
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: has to get better against average opponents. They play up

584
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Speaker 1: to the good teams, like when they play the Niners,

585
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: when they play the Cowboys, when they play Minnesota, it's like, Okay,

586
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: Seattle showed up. And then you'll be watching them like

587
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: they'll be playing the Jags, there will be playing the Redskins,

588
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: or they will be playing you know, some random team

589
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: or the Cardinals, and you just be like they're going

590
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: through the motions and they laid way too many eggs

591
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: now Russell bailed them out a lot last year. But

592
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: eventually they have to be better. And I think that's more.

593
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: It's not even a reflection necessarily of their effort. I

594
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: think it's more than roster, Like the roster is just

595
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: not that great, so they can't just go on cruise

596
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: control and kick your ass. If they're not given their

597
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: A plus effort and a plus game plan, they could

598
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: lose to anybody. Now, their quarterbacks so great that they're

599
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: just there are a lot. I mean, that's why they

600
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: make the playoffs every year. So I went Bills, Titans, Steelers, Chiefs, Cowboys, Saints, Packers, Niners.

601
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: I would say the Colts. If Rivers is solid is

602
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: a playoff team, I would say we get another team.

603
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: Obviously the Ravens are a playoff team, and probably another

604
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: team from the a f C West, either Denver or

605
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: or the Chargers or the Raiders, whichever one finished a second.

606
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: I would go the Cowboys and Eagles both make the playoffs.

607
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: I would expect Campa to make the playoffs, and I

608
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: would expect the Niners in Seattle will make the playoffs. Now,

609
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: luckily this year we got seven playoff teams. Can't wait.

610
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: Let's get it on. Okay, now to the five biggest

611
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: question marks in two and I'm gonna start at five

612
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: and work my way down to one, starting with five,

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Speaker 1: Cam and Belichick. Not only will it work, what is

614
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Speaker 1: it gonna look like? I am fascinated. Bill Belichick has

615
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: had the same quarterback for twenty years, quarterback that couldn't run.

616
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Speaker 1: So their offense has looked pretty similar, definitely for the

617
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: last decade. They obviously had those couple of years with

618
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: Randy Moss when they were just bombs away and you know,

619
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Speaker 1: seven one of the greatest offenses we've ever seen. They

620
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: ran the table in the regular season. I'm just fascinated

621
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: to watch now. I don't know how great their skill

622
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: guys are. Damien Harrison started running back. Edelman is not

623
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: really Cam's type guy nikkil Harry kind of is. Jacoby Myers.

624
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: We'll see, but just Bill, Josh and Cam. I can't

625
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: wait because it could be one of the great few

626
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: years from Bill Belichick. Imagine them when nine ten games,

627
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: camp big few year from Cam Newton, all of a

628
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: sudden boom, there are six seven seed in the playoffs.

629
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Speaker 1: You better believe. The magnifying glass then goes to my

630
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: number four, which is Tom Brady, Bruce Arians and dam

631
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. I think they're directly correlated, these two stories.

632
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: How does Bill and Cam look? How does Tom look? Now?

633
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: Arians is part of that, but Arian has already proven himself,

634
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: like he's a great coach. Tom's already proven himself he's

635
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. Sam with Belichick, but this year it's

636
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: just a huge talking point. Tom basically said I've had

637
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: enough of you, Bill, I'm out. I don't want to

638
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: come back. And I think it's pretty clear Bill was like,

639
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: see you later. We don't want you back. We want

640
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: to start over. I don't think you're worth two years

641
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: fifty million. He would never admit this, and he never will.

642
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: But if Bill Belichick was like my dad or my

643
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: close friend, and I was sitting down with him having

644
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: a beer, I said, Bill, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers gave

645
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: him two years fifty million, what did you think he

646
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: was worth? I don't think it would be shocking, be

647
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: like Bill would be, like, you know, John, he's he's

648
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: forty three years I don't know. I can't even do

649
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: a Bill. He's forty three years old. I thought he

650
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: would decline last year. I don't know, one year eighteen million.

651
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't going down the two year fifty million

652
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: dollar deal. I wasn't into that. So Tom Brady, he

653
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: couldn't have gotten to do a better situation. They have

654
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: two star wide receivers. Everyone listening to place fantasy, you're

655
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: picking those two dudes, Godwin and Evans. I mean, Evans

656
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: is a monster. I didn't know that much about god

657
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: W until last year he started kicking. Everyone asked, grunt

658
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: comes back. They already have O. J. Howard, they got

659
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: Cameron Bread, they have an offensive head coach. It's a

660
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: pretty damn good situation. I like Ronald Johnson, I would

661
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: not write him off. They just signed Leonard four nett

662
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: I didn't love the signing, but it's more talent for him. Now,

663
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: can the offensive line protect him? Dante Scarnecki is not

664
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: walking through that door in Tampa Bay like he's had

665
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: the best offensive line coach arguably in NFL history, beside

666
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: Howard Mudd protecting him. That ain't the case anymore. He's

667
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: playing with average offensive lineman now and a coach that

668
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: likes seven step drops throwing bombs, and they got wide

669
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: receivers to do that, so we'll see. But the five

670
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: and four are Bill and Cam and just Tom number three.

671
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: I think two guys that, unlike Cam and Breeze or

672
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: excuse me, Tom and Breese have aged a little more difficult,

673
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: like Philip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger have aged like normal

674
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks aged. Rivers look shot last year, Roethlisberger throughout his elbow.

675
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: That's pretty normal for thirty eight year old quarterbacks that

676
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: have got the ship beat out of him for fifteen years,

677
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 1: typically when most of us have. You're my age year older,

678
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: was growing up once you got to like thirty six,

679
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: thirty seven in pro sports career over you had an

680
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: incredible career from like twenty two to thirty six, thirty

681
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: seven years old. That was normal fourteen fifteen years Brady Breeds.

682
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: You guys have defied logic. It was you know, it

683
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: was hard to watch, and I watched it twice live

684
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: his last year, Peyton Manning his last season. But that's

685
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: that's how usually thirty eight thirty nine year old quarterbacks

686
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: finished their career looking pretty crappy. He happened to be

687
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: on a great team and they won the super Bowl,

688
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: but he was not very good. He was awful. Yeah, Benched,

689
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: how do you Rivers and Ben look? Because both of them,

690
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: you'd say, if I put Watson or Russell Wilson or

691
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott or just Jimmy Garoppolo on one of those

692
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: two teams, you'd be like, the Colts are the Steelers

693
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: are gonna be good? Well, I think there's a decent

694
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: chance one of those two guys a shot, and maybe

695
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: both of them. And now maybe I'm wrong. I'm like

696
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: I said, I've picked the Steelers. I'm rooting for them

697
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: both to be good. I like both those players. I

698
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: love Roethlisberger. I'm a huge fan of Philip Rivers. But

699
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: are they shot? Like to me, that's just the question.

700
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: Are Philip and Ben shot? Uh? Number two is a

701
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: Kansas Cities league Because to me, if this was a

702
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: normal season and we had O T A S, if

703
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: we had preseason games, I'd be predicting that the Chiefs

704
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: would go sixteen and O. I I would pick them

705
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: to be like that Packer team in two thousand and

706
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: eleven after they won the Super Bowl and they came

707
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: back and just dominated. They have twenty two returning starters.

708
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: They draft this running back in the first round who

709
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: was just ideal for their scheme. They their coach just

710
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: has this. Remember Steve Young when he won the Super

711
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: Bowl in ninety four and Gary Plumber he said, take

712
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: that monkey off my back. That was Andy Reid. The

713
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: monkey is off his back. Let it rip. He got

714
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: nothing to prove to anybody. He has his ring and

715
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: it's time to kick everyone's ass. He has Patrick Mahomes,

716
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: he has all of his best players coming back. They're

717
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: all in their contract. Like is Kansas City in this

718
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: weird year? I would say, like fourteen and two is

719
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: like a normal sixteen and oh, but I expect them

720
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: to dominate. I mean, I would be shocked if they're not,

721
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: if they don't have several blowout wins. Um maybe not Thursday,

722
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: but just as the season goes, I'm expecting it to

723
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: be Kansas Cities League and then number one. And this

724
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: is part of it, is just the brand. Uh probably

725
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,320
Speaker 1: beside the Yankees and the Lakers. It's just the hierarchy

726
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: of American sports in some order. Are the Cowboys, the Yankees,

727
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: and the Lakers? Now I would probably go Yankees, Cowboys,

728
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 1: Lakers now. Obviously the Yankees and the and the Lakers

729
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: have much more success over the last couple of decades

730
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: than the Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys have not been

731
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: to a championship football game since the mid nineties. Think

732
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: about that. It's a long time. It's a very very

733
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: long time. But whether believe they're America's team or not,

734
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,479
Speaker 1: when you put the Dallas Cowboys on TV, twenty plus

735
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: million people watch. They are a cash cow for a

736
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: league that prints money. And I think the last couple

737
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: of years, as someone last year they thought the Cowboys

738
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: were gonna compete to win the Super Bowl. Everyone blamed

739
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, and rightfully so listen. I'm a Jason Garrett fan.

740
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: As a human being. I think he is a really,

741
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: really impressive guy. Met him one time in an elevator.

742
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally. I know people that have

743
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: been around him. They like him. I've always been impressed

744
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: with Jason Garrett. Clearly is not a great head coach.

745
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: That's I understand where Cowboy fans are coming from, or

746
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: anyone that watched the NFL. Not a great head coach.

747
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: Their roster is good, though, their offense is absolutely loaded,

748
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: and McCarthy consistently won with flawed rosters. Right, remember all

749
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: those years that when they were winning thirteen twelve games,

750
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: even when they lost in the playoffs. Like, their defense

751
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: wasn't that great. They had loaded offenses, they could really

752
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: throw the ball. They never had a great running back.

753
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: Zeke's way better running back than they ever had in

754
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: Green Bay. When I was in Philly and they beat

755
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,919
Speaker 1: us in two thousand ten, I think they're starting running

756
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: back was James Starks. You know, they have not been

757
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: a team that has had great running Zeke's by far

758
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: the best running back McCarthy has had. You know the

759
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: last decade in Green Bay. He has a quarterback. He

760
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: just has a good definitely in front. Seven. We'll see

761
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: about the secondary. But like, was it all Jason Garrett

762
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: or are the Cowboys personnel just the most overrated personnel

763
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: in recent memory? I think that's the number one story, Like,

764
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: is all they've been missing a coach? Because if all

765
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: you're missing a coach and you're winning eight games, you

766
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: should now win twelve or thirteen. I don't It was

767
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 1: just that simple. I don't think there's any excuse for

768
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to not be thirteen and three. But we'll see. Okay,

769
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: I want to dive into a couple of quarterback situations

770
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: before we get in the middlecoff mail back and I

771
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: want to start with this. I saw that Aaron Rodgers

772
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: will do the Bear do the Packers and the Bears.

773
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: I saw Rogers say that, you know, a big part

774
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: of your legacy, especially as you get older, is how

775
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: you treat other players and younger players, and he had

776
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: one of the most polarizing player relationships. I'd say Shack

777
00:38:57,680 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: and Kobe and far Van Rodgers in the last two

778
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: decades are the ones that come to my mind of

779
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: just like whoa that didn't end like it should now

780
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: The difference is Shaq and Kobe could play together, right,

781
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: they should have won more together with two quarterbacks, like

782
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: one has to go, like Young and Montana, you can't

783
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: play two quarterbacks. So it's it's it's just naturally going

784
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: to be a more contentious relationship. It's it's not like

785
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: two basketball players that can be on the same court

786
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: at the same time. You can only have one quarterback

787
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: on the field. Clearly though, when Rogers was drafted, and listen,

788
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: you Packer fans will have a better recollection than me.

789
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: I I vaguely remember. You know, Farv was always threatening

790
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: to retire. Remember Peter King always chasing the story. But

791
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: he was acting weird year after year. And Rodgers was

792
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: supposed to be the number one pick in the draft

793
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: and Alex Smith goes one and he tumbles the twenty

794
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: four and clearly FARV did not like that, and he

795
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: didn't treat him well. He just didn't treat him well. Now,

796
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: was it f zero percent Rodgers? Probably not. When you say,

797
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: most relationships, even when they get to contend, just are

798
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: not all one sided. Now, was it probably fifteen? You know,

799
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: probably like far of us, probably a dicked on him,

800
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: right because he threatened him. Why did he threaten him?

801
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: Because that guy was supposed to be the number one

802
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. And then I'm sure by about

803
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 1: year two it was clear this guy is pretty freaking good.

804
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: Because when they made the move going into his what

805
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: fourth year, to just get rid of Far, trade Far

806
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: and go with Rogers, they had three years of watching

807
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: Rogers practice. You have to be an idiot to watch

808
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: a guy that's that good to not go. This guy's

809
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: just better slash big picture, we're gonna move on from you, Brett.

810
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: I remember right after the draft Steve mary Uchi asked

811
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: Steve Young or Yeah. They were on NFL network and

812
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: Steve Young did a call in. It was like mary Uchi,

813
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: eisen maybe Warner And mary Uchi is like, did you

814
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: feel threatened when we want when we drafted Jim Drunken

815
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: Miller in like and Steve Young laughed. He said no.

816
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: I watched him practice for two days and realized this

817
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: guy couldn't play. I would imagine by about after year one,

818
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: Far've realized this guy is gonna be good, and I

819
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: am screwed. Well, well, Rogers has said all the right

820
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: things this training camp, and we've already talked about it

821
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: why love is not very good right now. Love is

822
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: the ultimate project. No one in a million years would

823
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: have taken Love number one. Rogers was literally supposed to

824
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: go number one. He was still a project, but he

825
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: was way better coming out of college at cal Than.

826
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: Jordan's Love was coming out of Utah State. And from

827
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: all reports and people that have been a packed or practice,

828
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: Jordan Love hasn't been very good. So it's easy to

829
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: be nice to the guy. And I'm not saying Rogers

830
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be nice to the guy if he was really good,

831
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: but it might change their relationship. Imagine sitting next to

832
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: a guy if you work at an office and right

833
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 1: now most of us don't, and they hired a guy

834
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: to do your same job and you couldn't close certain accounts,

835
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: and that guy got a shot to close accounts you

836
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: couldn't close, and he closed the account. Would you be nervous?

837
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: Like imagine making a throw at our practice or watching

838
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: guy make a throw. And I know Rodgers can make

839
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: throws in the history the league no one else can make,

840
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: but let's just say Jordan's Love could make a throw

841
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: similar to Rodgers. Then Rogers starts thinking, well, they've already

842
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: used a draft pick on this guy. I would feel

843
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: threatened too, but right now he doesn't feel threatened at all.

844
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: Jordan's love can't hold his jock. You could blindfold Aaron

845
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,479
Speaker 1: Rodgers tie one hand behind his leg, and he's gonna

846
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: be a better player than him right now. To me,

847
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: we gotta check in this relationship in a year or

848
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Speaker 1: two as this guy develops, because right now he's zero

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Speaker 1: threat Daron Rodgers. So Aaron Rodgers seems like he's getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of credit on social media for being a

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00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: nice guy. Of course he's being nice. He's just another

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00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: player to him. He's not gonna get wally pipped or

853
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Speaker 1: or just replaced by this guy right now. And maybe

854
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Speaker 1: in a year or two we'll see. Let's check in

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Speaker 1: next offseason as he progresses, and maybe he doesn't, because

856
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Speaker 1: there's no guarantee that he's ever even close to as

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Speaker 1: good as Rodgers. But right now, I would imagine the

858
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Speaker 1: gaps wider than the Grand Canyon and then the bears

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Speaker 1: and foals. Listen, I'm not a huge Mr Whisky guy. Uh.

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Speaker 1: He was atrocious last year and I like fools as

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Speaker 1: a human being, and he had some great runs in

862
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I was in Philly, I watched him practice,

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Speaker 1: and I know people that have been around him at

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Speaker 1: several stops. He's not a great practice player. He's he's

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Speaker 1: kind of slow footed. He's not gonna just wow you,

866
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Speaker 1: just throwing some BB's. He's not gonna be like a

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Speaker 1: rookie Patrick Mahomes just throwing darts. That's not Nick Foles. Now,

868
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Speaker 1: he's proven before to be a gamer, but he was

869
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Speaker 1: never gonna come into the Bears and just light up,

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Speaker 1: especially that defense like a Christmas tree, and the way

871
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: the Bears practice are twos on ones, so when he

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Speaker 1: takes reps with the two's, he's going against their defense,

873
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Speaker 1: which personnel wise, one of the better ones in the league.

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Speaker 1: So it was gonna be difficult for him to beat

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Speaker 1: Mr Whisky just to begin with. Now, part of it

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Speaker 1: with me, and I said, I would have just gone

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Speaker 1: with the better guy. And clearly from what I've heard

878
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Speaker 1: from my recon is there wasn't a gap, and if anything,

879
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: Mitch was a little better than Mitch or was a

880
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: little better than Nick. So the decision was just let's

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Speaker 1: go with Mitch, and he's got a short leash. Theirs

882
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: their schedule starts off pretty freaking easy. I think it's Lions, Giants, Uh, Falcons,

883
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Speaker 1: you know defenses, they're not going to be very good.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe it's Jets, one of the New York teams

885
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Speaker 1: their first three games. Like, if if Mitch is not

886
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Speaker 1: good in the first three weeks, Folds will be in

887
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: there by probably the end of September early October. It's

888
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Speaker 1: set up for for Mitch to succeed, and if you

889
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: can't succeed, he'll be gone. It's really that simple part

890
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Speaker 1: of it was you needed to get some competition in there.

891
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Speaker 1: If Foals would have beat him out, they would have started.

892
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: It was from what I've heard, it wasn't some rig job.

893
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: They definitely were open minded. Matt Naggie did not draft

894
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: Mitch Ramisky. He spent more time around Nick Foles. So

895
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Speaker 1: if Nick would have beat him out, he'd be the quarterback.

896
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: But like I said, Nick is not a great practice player.

897
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Speaker 1: And here's the reality with the NFL. Unlike baseball and

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Speaker 1: unlike basketball, you practice way more than you play. So

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Speaker 1: if you're not a great practice player, and you're not

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Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald or J. J. Watt or DeAndre Hopkins,

901
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get the benefit of the doubt. Always.

902
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: Practice is a huge part of influencing coaches. That's why

903
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Speaker 1: us guys from the personnel side are always like, just

904
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: give the guy a shot in the game because just

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00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: that's where it matters. But for coaches, practice doesn't matter

906
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: a lot, which it's the reason they're coaches. You know,

907
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: they get a lot done in practice. But but Folds

908
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: was never gonna come in and look like Joe Montana.

909
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: That's not who he is now. Is he a better

910
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: game player? History would say hell yes. But I actually

911
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: think the Bears are gonna be better, even though I'm

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00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: not a big believer in Mitch, I just think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to run the ball. Okay, let's dive into

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Speaker 1: the middle Cooff mail bag, and like I mentioned earlier

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Speaker 1: Three and Out podcast Apple iTunes, leave a review greatly appreciated.

916
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: Helps on the show, Middlecoff bail back at John Middlecoff

917
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Speaker 1: is the Instagram handle, and we answer your questions here.

918
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: You've probably already recorded for tomorrow, but if not, I'd

919
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: like to hear your thoughts on Lynn Bowden being traded

920
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins this week. From what I know, the

921
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: relationship with the coaches was not good. But how often

922
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: has a rookie traded before there they play a snap? Thanks.

923
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Speaker 1: We talked about on my other podcast from Middlecoff a

924
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Speaker 1: little bit, and rookies often are tricked, you know, I

925
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Speaker 1: guess traded sometimes if they don't make the team before

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Speaker 1: a snap. Maybe if it was a later round rookie,

927
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: but you draft a guy in the third round, especially

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Speaker 1: this year. You know, Mayock claimed that Lynn Bowden, who

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Speaker 1: has played quarterback, who played running back, they were trying

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Speaker 1: to I guess he played wide receiver, they were moving

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Speaker 1: to running back. You had a lot of character flags

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Speaker 1: coming out of college at Kentucky, despite being arguably the

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Speaker 1: best player on what many say is the best Kentucky

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Speaker 1: team of all time a couple years ago. I guess

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Speaker 1: it might have been Josh Allen, but Bowden and Josh

936
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Speaker 1: Allen and he had character red flags. And as coaches

937
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: always told me, it's easier to be like, well, just

938
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Speaker 1: who cares he can play? That's great. It's easy for

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Speaker 1: us personnel guys to say that because eventually the position

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00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 1: coach and the coordinators have to be around these guys

941
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: every day, like if you're a bad guy, it's the

942
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: scouts don't have to be around the coaches too, even

943
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Speaker 1: if they can ball. And I thought Linn Bowden coming

944
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Speaker 1: out of Kentucky was a baller. But clearly there's some

945
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: character stuff there. I did some recon I didn't get

946
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Speaker 1: a real answer. May accident had nothing new with character? Well,

947
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: and what in no world would you trade a guy

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Speaker 1: who you thought was that you had evaluated. You had

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Speaker 1: years of Kentucky film to evaluate this player and multiple positions.

950
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Speaker 1: So if you love the player in the in the character,

951
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Speaker 1: you would at worst just make him inactive every game.

952
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't trade him. And ultimately they traded him to

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins because they had already traded the Dolphins a

954
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Speaker 1: fourth round pick for a player. So the Dolphins just

955
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Speaker 1: traded the Raiders back their own pick because they had

956
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Speaker 1: traded for this linebacker a week ago. It's just it's

957
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: a bad move. I mean the Raiders have made They

958
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: gave Mariotta seven and a half million dollars. I've heard

959
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 1: he's terrible one uh and listen, he's a great guy.

960
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: He's a high care he's can't play and he's hurt.

961
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: They put him on like short term. I r so

962
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Speaker 1: you mean you trade your third round pick, you trade Mariotta.

963
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: It's just cocked. And I'm a Mayok guy, but that's

964
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: and it's not even a Mayok. He's part of its Gruden.

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00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: I think Gruden is just so impatient and like we

966
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Speaker 1: talked about earlier, with all these draft picks getting cut.

967
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: It's one thing to cut a fifth or sixth round player,

968
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Speaker 1: it's another thing to cut or trade a third round player.

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00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: The Dolphins got him for a pick that they didn't

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Speaker 1: even have. They were gonna cut the linebacker just I

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Speaker 1: don't even know. Gronk looks thirty or forty pounds lighter.

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Speaker 1: What effect do you think his stats will have on

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Speaker 1: the field this year? Is it being more of a

974
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: support system for Brady? Yeah, I don't think he's thirty

975
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Speaker 1: pounds lighter. I think in New England he played like

976
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Speaker 1: two sixty and now he's probably in the high two forties.

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00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: I think he just looks a little leaner. If you

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00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: look at Kittle, Kittle doesn't look too fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 1: You know, some guys just wear their weight. Me you

980
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: put on I put ten pounds on this five ten frame.

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Speaker 1: You see it fast. Some guys when you're six five

982
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: and ten pounds of muscle, you don't necessarily see it

983
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: that quick. I think his number one job there is

984
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Speaker 1: to be a football player is to contribute on the field,

985
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Speaker 1: and then I think one A is to help all

986
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Speaker 1: the guys around Tom know what makes him click, understand

987
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: what makes Tom go understand the offense, and they're kind

988
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: of melding it together, and be kind of conduit between

989
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: the skill guys and Brady and the coaches, and be

990
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: just like and be a good player. I mean, he's

991
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Speaker 1: arguably one of the greatest quarterback or tight ends of

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00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: all time. So I don't think he went there to uh,

993
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: to just hang out. Question for the pod. Ben, a

994
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook fan, says he got into the NBA. He's

995
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: one of the most athletic dudes I've ever seen and

996
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: has had and have had the privilege of to see

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00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: him in person. I as well, and I agree he's

998
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Speaker 1: a freak. I do feel like though he's more of

999
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: an athlete than a basketball player. However, he's obviously made

1000
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Speaker 1: a shipload of money playing basketball. But my question is,

1001
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Speaker 1: do you think he may have been a better football player.

1002
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 1: He seems to have had the attitude more of a

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Speaker 1: football player. And again he's just a freak athlete. What

1004
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Speaker 1: position would you see him being the best at? Had

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Speaker 1: he been a football player, with his size and speed,

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Speaker 1: I could see him being a badass safety, fast enough

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Speaker 1: to play in space and big enough to cover tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Thoughts love the pod keep up the good work piece, well,

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Speaker 1: Jordan's I agree. Now, he never would have made the

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Speaker 1: money he is currently on a two thirty three million

1011
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: dollar contract. I would imagine when this contract ends, Russell

1012
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: Westbrook will have made four hundred million dollars in the NBA.

1013
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: So safeties, even wide receivers, don't make that type money.

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Speaker 1: So there is no humanly way possible unless he played quarterback,

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Speaker 1: which is safe to say he would not have played quarterback,

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Speaker 1: that he could have accumulated the wealth that he had

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. And also the fame. I mean, he

1018
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: is a more famous basketball player than he is good

1019
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: because he it's weird. I I have never been a fan,

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Speaker 1: but I do appreciate his effort. He is not scared,

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00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: he plays hard, and he when his career, when this

1022
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Speaker 1: contract ends, he'll have made three eight million dollars. I

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Speaker 1: would say, safety, your wide receiver, because you're right, he

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Speaker 1: has an NFL mindset. He is not scared. He doesn't.

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Speaker 1: He looks at Lebron James just like another basketball player.

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Speaker 1: He looks at all these guys that he plays, like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Steph Curry. They are his equals, even though

1028
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Speaker 1: they're not like. Those guys are vastly superior skill wise.

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00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 1: Russell can't shoot. He cannot. He's a terrible shooter. Think

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Speaker 1: about that. A terrible shooter. He's a point guard. It's

1031
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: not ideal, but he does play hard. I would say safety,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think he'd be a great safety, but

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Speaker 1: I think he's more of an instinct player. I think

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Speaker 1: at wide receiver at six three six four, with those

1035
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Speaker 1: hops and that speed, can you he'd be like a

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Speaker 1: like a Terrell Owens. Now, I don't know how much

1037
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Speaker 1: he weighs. You have to put on a little weight,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's probably two pounds maybe, but I don't

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Speaker 1: how much Randy Watt moss Way. It's not like Randy

1040
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Speaker 1: moss Way two thirty pounds. I think he would be

1041
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Speaker 1: a freak show wide receiver. He's wired like a badass.

1042
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: He'd be great with contested catches. He would. He'd be awesome.

1043
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: You press him, he'd have no problem going at it

1044
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: with corners at the line, if you played off of

1045
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Speaker 1: him and got him the ball in space. He's such

1046
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Speaker 1: a great athlete he can make him miss. I think

1047
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: he would have been a great playmaker, a great wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: That that's probably because part of safety is like there's

1049
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Speaker 1: a huge unknown. You know that there are just football

1050
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: instincts that you know. Unless he started playing really young.

1051
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Speaker 1: I think wide receiver would be a little bit easier

1052
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: to learn if he started playing like college. But he's

1053
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Speaker 1: that great of an athlete. If he just started playing

1054
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Speaker 1: in college, he probably would have been a top PIC.

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Speaker 1: I think like Ziggy Anza never played football for in

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Speaker 1: his life un till he got to b y U

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Speaker 1: was the fifth pick in the draft and if it

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Speaker 1: wasn't for ankle injuries to do, would have had a

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Speaker 1: good career. Question for the pod, my question is how

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Speaker 1: does the practice squad player how how does it work

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Speaker 1: for the practic squad players this season and what are

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Speaker 1: their roles and responsibilities as a practice squad player. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it depends on your position. Uh, you fill

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Speaker 1: in the scout team. You I just think it also

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Speaker 1: depends on the team, right, I mean some practice squad players,

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Speaker 1: the majority of them are just you only have fifty

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Speaker 1: three guys in the roster, so you need guys to

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Speaker 1: give the other team and the other guys looks. So

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Speaker 1: your offensive lineman sometimes have to line up a defensive line,

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Speaker 1: your safeties, and some of this isn't walk through, but

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Speaker 1: you need guys to practice. Also, you need wide receivers

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Speaker 1: to give other guys reps. Also a huge part of

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Speaker 1: a practice squad player, if you're a recent lead drafted player,

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Speaker 1: is them developing you in practice. So you get to

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Speaker 1: practice with your position group and individual and a group

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Speaker 1: to try to improve. So like if I'm a practice

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Speaker 1: squad wide receiver on the Saints, I get to be

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Speaker 1: around Michael Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders every day and rep

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Speaker 1: with Drew Brees. Right, maybe not catch all his balls

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Speaker 1: Michael tomp but I mean he can't take every single rep.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's it's a balance. And then obviously you

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Speaker 1: help in meetings, you know, practice squad quarterbacks and practice

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Speaker 1: squad middle linebackers help with the game plan, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever film study needs to get done with the actual players.

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Speaker 1: If they need to do cut ups and stuff. I

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Speaker 1: think it would just very hot, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: team to team. That's a pretty good question, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you. I don't even know. You know, when

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Speaker 1: I was in the NFL, I didn't even know what

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Speaker 1: the practice one players did to be on. I mean

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Speaker 1: I was paying attention just because practice in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: even unlike college, you don't really hit, you don't really tackle,

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Speaker 1: so much of it as game plan oriented. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and this is it's not trying to diminish what they

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Speaker 1: do because they make a couple hundred grand, they're kind

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Speaker 1: of operating as like a practice. To me, who was

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Speaker 1: your favorite safety over the last twenty years? Read was sweet,

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Speaker 1: Paula Mallow. I used to love Adrian Wilson also Cardinals

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Speaker 1: fan here, how nasty was Bolden? Yeah? I like, I

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Speaker 1: mean ed Read, Troy, Brian Dawkins probably my three favorite.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Earl Thomas was pretty sweet. Cam Chancell was

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Speaker 1: a pretty badass too. Uh yeah, I'd probably go edvery Troy,

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Speaker 1: Brian Dowkins, Cam and Earl. I mean that that tandem

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Speaker 1: would have been my favorite group. I'm gonna need some

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Speaker 1: more questions, So if you've got any questions fired in

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Speaker 1: the middle golf mail back, He'll be the last question

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Speaker 1: question for the pot. I'm listening to the most recent

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Speaker 1: episode where you were speaking about Steve Nash and Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 1: What if someone like Patrick Mahomes was on the Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: Jaguars team? How many games do you think they'd win?

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Speaker 1: For sake of conversation, how many you think the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: would win with Gardner Minshew roster is the saint just

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Speaker 1: switching quarterbacks. I'm a big fan, keep up the work.

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Speaker 1: I would say if Mahomes was on the Jaguars, they

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Speaker 1: would compete to make the playoffs. There. He's that good.

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Speaker 1: So now their defense, I'd have to dive into their roster.

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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty terrible. I mean, they've traded every

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Speaker 1: good player. So maybe they'd have a really good offense

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Speaker 1: and their defense would suck and they'd win like seven

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Speaker 1: or eight games. But they would not suck. He's just

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Speaker 1: too good. If you put Minshew with Andy and that roster, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think they probably don't win like twelve

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Speaker 1: thirteen games, but I think they'd win nine ten, they'd

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Speaker 1: be they'd be good, and so I think mahomes Is

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Speaker 1: could take a team that's a four win team and

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Speaker 1: turn him into an eight or nine win team. And

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Speaker 1: I think Andy could take a guy that, you know,

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Speaker 1: a thirteen win team, which I think it's safe to

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Speaker 1: say the Chiefs going into the season, or thirteen fourteen

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Speaker 1: win team and with a you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: worst quarterbacks in the league who's actually not terrible, uh,

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Speaker 1: and compete to win eight or nine games. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: hard to tell. Gardner was playing so much garbage time

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Speaker 1: games last year. He might not be good. I'm not

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Speaker 1: quite sold on that guy. He had some moments last year,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see. Let's just pump the brakes a little

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Speaker 1: bit on on Gardner Minshew Minshew mania mania again. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Gardener fan at root Form at Washington State. I

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Speaker 1: like his story, but we'll see. I think the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: are gonna be atrocious this year. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are so loaded they could run the ball, get

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Speaker 1: into their playmakers space. You got a sweet tight end.

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Speaker 1: I think you compete, So I go mahomes The Jags

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Speaker 1: will compete to make the playoffs, and the Chiefs probably

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Speaker 1: went a wild card. Appreciate everyone listening. Thanks. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: go to three and out in the iTunes. Leave a review.

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Speaker 1: Also on middlecoff Mail back wide, open, sliding those d

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Speaker 1: M s audios. Godspeed and I will talk to you

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