1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody? It's late, It's 2 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: almost ten o'clock at night. The Thursday night game has 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: been over for a while, but I had to watch 4 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: Giants Dodgers. Not happy right now? It was actually it was. 5 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: It was laughable how that game ended. The umpires and 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: referees in the NFL, in basketball, in baseball are so incompetent. 7 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: It really is such a joke, how bad they are. Now. Listen, 8 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: I understand there's a human element, but if you get 9 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 1: a chance, watch the last pitch. How the Giants came 10 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: in and they might have lost anyway, but they called 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: a strike three and the guy didn't even come close 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: to swinging. It's just in any walk of life, in 13 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: any walk of life. Sorry, there's a football podcast, But 14 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: if I struggled, if you struggled, if in sports, if players, 15 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: coaches struggle, we all get fired, we all lose our business, 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: we all go under. Yet these refs and umpires consistently 17 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: couldn't be any more incompetent, Yet they just keep their jobs. 18 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's incredible. It's like their government workers. 19 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like it. I've giants lose to 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: the Dodgers in Game five. I'm at a loss here, 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: but it's also football season. And have some takes on 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: the Thursday night game. Sorry, I had to get that 23 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: off my chest. I even had a glass of wine 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: here in like the seventh and eighth inning that chilled 25 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: me out. But the way that game ended, I I'm 26 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: hot right now. I'm hot, and honestly, as a die 27 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: hard Giants fan, I hate their manager. I do not 28 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: like Gabe Kapler, but I do like their squad. I 29 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: love Buster Posey tough. That was a tough elm man. 30 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: That's tough. I'm not really a fan anymore, but that 31 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: is the last team that I'm truly like. Pretty die hard, 32 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: but the Thursday night game. Have some thoughts on Brady 33 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts. Uh, We'll dive into a bunch of 34 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: other stuff. Derek Carr, of course, he answered for Mark 35 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: Davis because Mark Davis never talks when controversy hits the Raiders, 36 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: and it always hits the Raiders. Uh. Lincoln Riley is 37 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: uh playing a little cloak and dagger with his uh 38 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: his quarterback situation. I'll kind of hit on some of 39 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 1: the big games this weekend. Middlecoff mail bag of course 40 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: at John middlecoff is the Instagram slide up into those 41 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: direct messages and um and yeah, I get your question 42 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: answered here on the show. Also subscribed to the three 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: and Out Podcasts. Subscribe to three and Out Podcasts. Also, 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: if you're a YouTuber, and I know many of you are, 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: YouTube has more people watching than like cable tv. Check 46 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: out the Volumes YouTube page and uh and yeah, you 47 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: can check out content left and rights all over the place. 48 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: Let's start with the game the night and Tampa one 49 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: and once the gameteen. I wasn't as locked in because 50 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: I was watching baseball, and then I looked up and 51 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: of course I saw someone tweeted out of staff. They're like, 52 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the Eagles have scored a bunch of touchdowns when they've 53 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: been down double digits. Like I'm sorry, I don't take that, Like, 54 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: that's not a close game to me. But even though 55 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: the final scorers twenty two. I had a buddy text 56 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: me right when the game ended. He's like, I've been 57 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: watching baseball. I looked at the football game. I didn't 58 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: realize this was a close game. Like I don't really 59 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: consider it a close game. But let's start with the 60 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: Bucks and do you know the thing that really stood 61 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: out to me? And he gets talked about this a lot, 62 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: and obviously I've talked about this a lot forever, and 63 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: I think everyone has how great of a teammate Toms. 64 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: We talked about this a lot with gms and head coaches, 65 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: guys that take chances on players. Uh. And I worked 66 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: for a coach, Andy Reid, who's taking a lot of 67 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: chances on players and giving them, you know, second opportunities 68 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: and let them resurrect their careers. And it's very uh 69 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: is very liberal in that sense and open minded with guys, 70 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: and some coaches are more than others. But I think 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: the greatest strength Brady has brought the Tampa beside obviously 72 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: his playing, which is very important, is think of what 73 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: he's done for that offense. Right the running game was 74 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: in major question. Well, they got Leonard Fournette and a 75 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: big reason they got Remember the first day they signed 76 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, on social media, there was a picture of 77 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: Leonard and Tom and it looked like they were at 78 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: Tom's house. And now Leonard you watch him night like 79 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: he's a really good player. Like Leonard Fournette was once 80 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: upon a time a top five pick in the draft. 81 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: Now treaty have gone that high? Probably not, you know, 82 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: but he's a legitimate talent. And Tom Brady and obviously 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: arians is an open minded guy, saying with Jason light 84 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: But when Tom Brady put your arm around you, and 85 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: Tom Brady is set in the tone in your organization, 86 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: you know, think how easy it is to take chances 87 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: like that? And then who led them in receiving to night. 88 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. This guy named Antonio Brown that had 89 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,559 Speaker 1: one of the greatest six year stretches of the history 90 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: of the league, that Tom Brown, tom Brady pounded the 91 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: table for to sign in New England, and then when 92 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: they cut him, reports have been that, like Tom was 93 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: not happy when they made that move to get rid 94 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown. Remember you have that touchdown again Miami 95 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: a couple of years back, And look look at how 96 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: Antonio looks this year. I looked it up during the 97 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: game after he scored a touchdown. He has eight t 98 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: d s since he joined the Bucks. I bet by 99 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: the end of the season he'll have like, you know, 100 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: let's say eight or nine touchdowns this year plus the 101 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: four last year. I mean we're talking fifteen sixteen touchdowns 102 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: in you know, a year and a half or whatever 103 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: it's been with the Bucks, and they would not have 104 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: signed those guys if Tom Brady is not signing off. 105 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: Tom Brady is not only signing off. You know, a 106 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: lot of coaches get crushed like he gives all these 107 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: guys second opportunities. Tom Brady is the most you know, 108 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: open minded and second chance oriented general manager in the league. 109 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: He he looks at Bruce and he looks at Jason 110 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: Latt and he says, go get him. I'll take care 111 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: of him. I will mentor this guy. Think how many 112 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 1: older players think, how many the older people in general? 113 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: Most older people don't want to mess with all the bs, right, 114 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: you run out of energy in forty four and football 115 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: years is the equivalent of like seventy five. I think, 116 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,559 Speaker 1: how many guys in their sixties and seventies are still 117 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: open minded with stuff. They just want the easy stuff. 118 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: They just want to make money. They don't even want 119 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: to think about it. They do you try in your twenties, 120 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: your thirties and your forties. Tom football years at forty four, 121 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: you would think he would just I maan, I don't 122 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: want to mess with these head cases. He embraces it. 123 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: He puts his arm around him and then they bowl. 124 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: I mean, hat tipped to a guy that might throw 125 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: fifty touchdowns at four and then on the flip side, 126 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 1: I think the Eagles problems are pretty simple. I mean, 127 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: they have some defensive deficiencies. Their quarterback just isn't good enough. 128 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: He's a good story. He's a hard working guy. Uh, 129 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: everything that I've heard about him, he's very impressive young man. 130 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: How hard he works. His competitive nature, Uh, listen, I 131 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: respect it, and I know Nick Saban, Lincoln Riley, they 132 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: respect him. I respect the guy's mindset. But in the NFL, 133 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: you have to have a baseline in terms of your 134 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: ability to throw, and he simply does not throw the 135 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: ball well enough. I thought he did that first game 136 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: against Atlanta. I'm like, oh they got something here. Turns 137 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: out of Atlanta sucks. The more and more of these 138 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: games go on, every ball is late, every deep ball 139 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: is two seconds late. It's not even close. So when 140 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: I look on social media and everyone shipping on Nick 141 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: Sirianni like, I'm sorry, Bill Walsh with Jalen Hurts ain't 142 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: winning games on Sundays. I know this game was on Thursday, 143 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: but you get my drift, like he is just not 144 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: a good enough passer of the football. Like the Eagles 145 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: have some good core pieces, they have all these draft picks, 146 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: but they just don't have a quarterback like this guy, 147 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, is probably a really 148 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: good number two. And if you got into a position 149 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: where you're starting quarterback rolled an ankle and had to 150 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: miss two or three games, he could start for you. 151 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: But if he's got to start like he is on 152 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: this team, I don't even know if he's gonna start 153 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: all season long. But if he's your full time starter 154 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: week one and you plan on making him the starter 155 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: all season, uh, And let's face it, they signed Flacle 156 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: and they traded for Gardner Minshew, so we'll see, like 157 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: would the team be better with Gardner Minshew? That's what 158 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: I think you have to ask, Like would we were 159 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: two and four, if I'm Howie, if I'm Nick Sirian, 160 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: if I'm Jeffrey Lourie, if we get to two and 161 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: five or two and six, Let's just see what we 162 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: got with Minshew and then we'll pick like who's the 163 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: better backup quarterback between the two of them, and how 164 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: we can keep them both and go get another guy 165 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: this offseason. That's a good thing about having uh, you know, 166 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: three number one picks. Hell, maybe Derek Carr this offseason 167 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: becomes available. So but Jalen Hurts simply is not good 168 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: enough now. If you compare him to Tom Brady, it's 169 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: they're not even the same world, of course, but just 170 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: to be like the middle of the road NFL quarterback. 171 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,719 Speaker 1: He's tough and he can run around, but as a 172 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: pure passer, his deep ball one. He doesn't have a 173 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: great arm. So if his deep ball is not time perfectly, 174 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: you know it's it's always late. And I'm not talking 175 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: like a step late. The wide receivers have to stop 176 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: and come back to the football. It's not even close. 177 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: And then if he's not into a rhythm, some basic 178 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: throws are like flying over guys heads or skipping in 179 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: their feet. He just I think if we roll it 180 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: back to what he was in Oklahoma, the number one 181 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: question was, it's just not a good enough pastor of 182 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: the football now. He brings other things to the table, 183 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: like I said, which are positives, and they keep you 184 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: competitive in games, but to win games, especially against the 185 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: defending champs, or just good teams you gotta make. I'm 186 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: not even talking about basic passes. I'm talking about like 187 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: above average passes, a deep out, a deep end, a 188 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 1: go route that they clearly had schemed all week long. 189 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,680 Speaker 1: Because you go, well, Tampa's dbs and their corners are 190 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: all injured, so they're playing with Richard Sherman was on 191 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: his couch two weeks ago and now he was starting 192 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: and by like two series and he blew his hamstrain 193 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: or something. So you can take advantage of these corners, 194 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: especially with the Eagles. They have really fast wide receivers, 195 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: so let's go deep. Well, the Eagles are built to 196 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: throw bombs, but their quarterback isn't. And I just think 197 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: you're seeing, you know, the more you play when you're 198 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: a true backup, and I think, let's just be real, 199 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: that's probably what he is. The more you play, the 200 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: more you get exposed. And uh, it's why a guy 201 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: like Jase Daniels, some of these backups you never play. 202 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: You're good, right, You're just like, yeah, you know, I'm 203 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: just just collecting these couple of million dollars. I'm a 204 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 1: good teammate, I'm a good study guy with my my 205 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: assistant coaches loved me. But if Chase Daniel ever had 206 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: to start like ten games, he'd be out of the 207 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: league the next year. Blaine Gather, you see him on 208 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: the sideline. He's living his best life. He never has 209 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: to play the moment, and I'm in Jalen is probably 210 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: better in those guys, But the moment you have to 211 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: play when you are in the backup category, and some 212 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: guys are in the fringe, like Mariota's the backup for 213 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: the Raiders. You know, He's probably could start for sixteen 214 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: games for a really good team. But I just don't 215 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: think Jalen's Jalen is good enough. What a week it's been. Uh, 216 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, Monday Night was really one of the crazier 217 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: nights in the NFL. Let's face it, Jon Gruden lost 218 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: his job before halftime of what turned out to be 219 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: a historic performance by Lamar Jackson, and on the podcast 220 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: on for Tuesday Morning, I I was honest, like, I 221 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: didn't really watch Monday Night Football just because the Gruden 222 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: thing was insane. I was texting with so many people 223 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: it was just consumed me. I went back and watched 224 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 1: that game yesterday. Holy, I mean, Lamar, what a performance. 225 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: But I do want to start with Derek Carr and 226 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: the Raiders. And uh, as many of you known that 227 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: it listened to the show. I you know, I live 228 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: in the Bay Area. I used to be worked for 229 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: a radio station. I was the Raiders post game guy 230 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: here in the Bay Area. I went to countless you know, 231 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: Raider games for years at the Colisseum and covered the 232 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: team and talked about the team. And uh, you know, 233 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: the Bay Area is a unique place because we have 234 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: two football teams. Are did before the Raiders left and 235 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: it was divided, you know, like Jets and the Giants. 236 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: But it's a little different. Uh you know, the Niners 237 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: probably have like an eight fifteen share in northern California 238 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: that it's you know, it's like Lakers Clippers, it's not 239 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: even close. But it's the NFL. So the Raiders still 240 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: have a ton of fans and they have a ton 241 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: of history. But let's face it, over the last twenty years, um, 242 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 1: you could argue there hasn't been a more chaotic brand 243 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: in all of sports, and honestly, it might not be close. 244 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 1: And since the Raiders also, let's be real, lucked into 245 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: Derek Carr, I think a huge reason that he fell 246 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: to pick whatever he was thirty seven in two thousand 247 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: fourteen was because of his last name. You know, in 248 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: modern times, a guy of his talent coming in when 249 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: I say modern times, like two one coming out of 250 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: Fresno State with his tape, he's going in the top fifteam. 251 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: But the David car and just kind of the hangover 252 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: of people going, you know, I, I know this guy 253 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: can't be any good and he's been you know whatever 254 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: in eight nine your starter. But there are requirements in 255 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: any in any industry, in any job, right and especially 256 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: jobs that pay twenty million dollars when you're the head 257 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: or I guess when you're the head coach or the quarterback. 258 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: There's more than just goes into your job description as 259 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: passing the football, calling audibles. You're expected to study like that. 260 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: That's the price of admission. But you're also as a 261 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, you are it's mandated that you 262 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: talk every single Wednesday. The starting quarterback talks every single Wednesday. 263 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: No other player on the team. It's mandated that he talk. 264 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: It's also a mandatory that he talks after the game. 265 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: So you speak for the organization. And we've talked about 266 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: this over the last several weeks with urban Meyer, like, 267 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: there are three positions in my organization. If I'm the 268 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: owner or even if I'm a fan, that I don't 269 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: really want to worry about controversy with. That's my head coach, 270 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: that's my general manager, and that's my quarterback. I can 271 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: deal with poor play. I can deal with poor play calls. 272 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: I can deal with mr Draft picks. I don't want 273 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: to have you getting d u I s. I don't 274 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: want to have you getting arrested. I don't want to 275 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: get an email scandals. I don't want you to go 276 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,599 Speaker 1: through what Deshaun Watson's that. That's part of why you 277 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 1: get paid all this money. But the difference is every 278 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: organization is not the same. Clearly, it's much easier for 279 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to be the spokesman for the Seattle Seahawks, 280 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and John Schneider and Paul Allen's family over 281 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: the last decade than it is to be the quarterback 282 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: for the Raiders. He has had countless head coaches, guys 283 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: fired left and right. He's had a move, but their 284 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: move was not easy because if you remember, the Rams 285 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: and Chargers were allowed to move first. The Raiders were told, 286 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: over our dead body, speaking of the the owners when 287 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: everyone was trying to get to l A, You're not 288 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: going to be allowed down here. That's not going to 289 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: be the case. And Derek had to constantly answer for 290 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: the owner why Because Mark Davis never speaks. He hides 291 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: and listen, most owners hide. But when you fire or 292 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: the head coach resigns in the manner in which that 293 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: happened on Monday night, the owner for basically every organization 294 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: would more than likely speak. You can't avoid talking if 295 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna be taken. Seriously, Mark Davis, that's the whole 296 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: other elephant in the room. The league wants him out. 297 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: The league desperately wants Mark Davis to be gone. Jason 298 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: Cole tweeted last night NFL Reporter that people around Mark 299 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: Davis are telling Mark Davis they're coming after you. Of 300 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: course they are. Vegas is a cash cow for the 301 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: league and under no circumstances do they want Mark Davis 302 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: in control of that franchise. They are going to do 303 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: everything humanly possible to rip that thing away from now. 304 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: It's not easy, and Mark Davis does not have to sell. 305 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: But the controversy and the chaos with this franchise is 306 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: not gonna stop. And Derek Carr at every single turn, 307 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: even though he has never ever been the issue of 308 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: any of these controversies. Your owners broke, you can't move 309 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: to uh Los Angeles? Where are you gonna go? Are 310 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: you stuck at the Colosseum? You finally go to Vegas? 311 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: But you gotta stay at the coliseum. What are you 312 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: gonna do? Then your coach gets fired? It's always Derek 313 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: Carr that answers for the organization. It's it's the only 314 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: thing consistent about the Raiders. That ship is gonna hit 315 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: the fan, and Mike is gonna be put in front 316 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: of Derek Carr. And Derek Carr listen. He's a polarizing quarterback. 317 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: I've been watching him since he was in high school. 318 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: He's pretty damn good. Is he elite? No? Is he 319 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: as bad as some people think? Of course not. Is 320 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: he a good enough quarterback to get to the playoffs? Yes? 321 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: He is? Is his organization a clown show? And does 322 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: he consistently act like a normal human being and show 323 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: this organization that feels like it's a dumpster fire? The 324 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: whole thing's burning down, give some some lins abnormalcy. He 325 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: consistently does that. And yesterday, well if it depends when 326 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: you're listening to this, he spoke on Wednesday and you 327 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: could tell he was emotionally moved because if you think 328 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: about it, when John Gruden came and listen, I'm as 329 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: guilty as anyone because I heard these things from people 330 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: around the league. John Gruden wanted to get his own 331 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: quarterback in. John Gruden did everything possible for a couple 332 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: of years to find ways to get certain guys, and 333 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: he never could. And slowly but surely, Derek Carr just 334 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: kept swinging his pick. Derek Carr, like John Gruden, works 335 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 1: these crazy hours. Work ethic with Derek has never been 336 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: a question. If anything, some of this you know, toughness 337 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: in the pocket. Joey Bosa hit on that a couple 338 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: of weeks ago is his one big knock. But in 339 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: terms of work ethic football, I Q understanding you know 340 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: the sport, like in terms of manipulating defenses, all that stuff. 341 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: He's really high level. And it took him three years 342 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: and and this year to earn his coaches trust. Who 343 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: happened to also be the play caller and now that's over. 344 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: Now it's done with and he has to start over 345 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: again in a chaotic situation. And he has gone on 346 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,719 Speaker 1: record is saying I never want to play for another team. 347 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of that was tied 348 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: to Gruden, who was supposed to be there for the 349 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: next decade. Well that's over. If anything, Derek, if I 350 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: could give him advice, and again, I've known him for 351 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: over a decade, even though he blocked me on Twitter 352 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: because I can be negative about the Raiders um and listen, 353 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: I understand he's blocked a bunch of people on social 354 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: media because he tries to just you know, black out 355 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: the negativity, which I would do to in his circumstances. 356 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: What I say, what you say is meaningless on social media. 357 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: If you're a quarterback. Russell Wilson does the same crap too. 358 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily block anybody. But you know what I'm saying, 359 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: I would beg I would hit my knees and I 360 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: would pray that I get moved this offseason. Honestly, I 361 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: would demand a trade, get the hell out of there, 362 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: move on, try to get yourself to an organization that 363 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. Because this organization keeps asking you. 364 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,160 Speaker 1: They don't ask you just win football games, to play well, 365 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: to do like what every other team asked their quarterback 366 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: to do. They consistently ask for you to basically take 367 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: ownership in the stupid ship that happens on the Raiders 368 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: watch that you never ever have anything to do with 369 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: it really is, unlike any of these other quarterbacks. It's crazy, 370 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: mahomes Lamore. They never have to. It wasn't football things 371 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: for sure, positive, negatively. It changes by the week, but 372 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: you never you know, what about when the Ravens two 373 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: years ago they tried to move to uh to uh, 374 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: you know, South Carolina. Remember that, No, that's because it 375 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Oh what happens when Clarke Hunt doesn't have 376 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: the money to pay? I mean that is one of 377 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: the themes around the Raiders. Their owner was broke. That 378 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: was a consistent theme and is still kind of this 379 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: And it's just something that Derek has to deal with 380 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: and then lose the guy that he's were years upon 381 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: years to earn his trust, and clearly they were on 382 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: the same page. And when I saw a guy emotional, 383 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: I saw a guy just overwhelmed. I have to carry 384 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: the organization. I just lost the guy who finally believed 385 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: in me, and I'm playing really good football even though 386 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: this chaotic situation, I understand why it gets fired. Like 387 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: bro leave, get the hell out of their run. You know, 388 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: sometimes when you have like a friend in a relationship 389 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: or at a job that's really toxic and you try 390 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: to kind of sugarcoat things and eventually get to the 391 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: point like, hey, man, if you keep asking me for advice, 392 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna shoot you straight. I'm not gonna bullshoot you. 393 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: Get out of there, do everything humanly possible. Break up 394 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: with her, quit the job. That is my advice. If 395 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: you don't like it, I don't know what to tell you, 396 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: but that is the best thing I can tell you 397 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: right now. I can't sugarcoat this anymore. And that's what 398 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: I would tell Derek to get out of there. And 399 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 1: then on the flip side, this whole thing with Gruden 400 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: clearly came from this Washington Football Team investigation in a 401 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: Dan Snyder who clear really they want out of the 402 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: organization as well. The difference between Snyder and Davis Snyder 403 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: self made all this money a little smarter, even though 404 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: he runs the organization. Like a clown. He clearly, you know, 405 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: is a fighter and has the means to fight, and 406 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: somehow just avoids Well. Today, on Thursday, they announced that 407 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: Sean Taylor, remember passed away, got killed at his house, 408 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: you know, in the mid two thousand's, was on a 409 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: trajectory to be, you know, an all time great player. 410 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: They were going to retire his jersey, put his name 411 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: whatever on the Ring of honor three days before the game. 412 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: Three days before the game. They can't even like, hey, 413 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: we know somehow that this entire investigation was about us. 414 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: We were making cheerleaders get naked for photo shoots. People 415 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: are suing us left and right. Yet Gruden goes down. 416 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, Thursday, Let's retire Sean Taylor's jersey. 417 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: I know this, ELI had his number, you know, name 418 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: put in the Ring of honor whatever a couple of 419 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: weeks ago. We had been hearing about that for months. 420 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: That had been setting stone for a year. That was 421 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: a really big deal. I listened to like financial podcast 422 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: where guys that are Giants fans were like, listen, I 423 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: don't know how many NFL games I'm going to, but 424 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm a big Giants fan and I'm going to Eli's 425 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: ceremony this year, and that was the one that John 426 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: Marr got booted at or whatever. But like, you don't 427 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: just randomly throw this out there, Washington, Like the Raiders 428 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: can't even hide their chaotic nature. Even Ron Rivera, who 429 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: is you know? I think Ron Rivera a high level guy, 430 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: smart guy, cow guy. Everyone loves him. Even somehow he 431 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: got kind of his trainer who's been with him forever, 432 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: got arrested by the Feds. There's just something in the 433 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 1: water with the Raiders, with a football team that you 434 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 1: just can't shake. Avoid those places at all costs. That's 435 00:22:54,920 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: where careers go to die. College football seasons in full swing. 436 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: You can make every moment more with Fan Duels sports book. 437 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 1: Right now, all customers, all of them, get a ten 438 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: dollar parley bet bonus. 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They all think alike somehow, even 474 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: though this profession of people from all over the place, 475 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: all different walks of life, all different states, they all 476 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: think the same. I don't know what they teach you 477 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: in journalism school, clearly not what I learned where I 478 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: went to school. So I guess we learned something different 479 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 1: at business school. But Adam Schefter, who you know, part 480 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: of the Washington football leagues got Jon Gruden, got Schefter. 481 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: Nothing about Dan Snyder. Pretty incredible how that worked out. 482 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: He had sent an email to Bruce Allen, the former 483 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 1: president and and asked him to basically edit it and said, hey, 484 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: I'm writing this story on the lockout. Could you look 485 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: at this and edit it? And he dropped the line 486 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: clearly being sarcastic, Mr Editor, and everyone freaked out. You 487 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: cannot do this. Listen, I've known Adam for over a decade. 488 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: He is the top dog in the industry for a reason. 489 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:54,159 Speaker 1: He's outworked everyone in his competition, outworked every single person. 490 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: He is the best in the business by a mile. 491 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: This is also they're not covering economic policy. This is 492 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: not about COVID vaccine mandates. This is about the NFL. 493 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: This is all fun. It's all fun in games now. 494 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: It's a big billion dollar industry and a lot of 495 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: people working in several different fashions. But it does not 496 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: have ramifications worldwide. Hell even you know countrywide. This is 497 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: not ultimately that big a deal. He didn't send the 498 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,239 Speaker 1: Biden administration uh an article and go hey, could you 499 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: edit this? This is football and all the big j 500 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: journals are trying to crush Shifter. Well, listen, as someone 501 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: who sits on the other side, and it's just a 502 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 1: consumer of all this stuff. Who's not a news breaker, 503 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: who really is professional is just to give his opinions 504 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: on the news. I don't give a ship how you 505 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: get the news. Just get me the news and then 506 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: let me react, or if I'm a fan, let me 507 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: think about it. I do not care. And let's face it, 508 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: these journalistic integrity, uh, the old school ways to go 509 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: about getting your information. Those died a long time ago. 510 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: We all have televisions and we all turn on TV 511 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: and go on the internet. It's over. Nobody cares and 512 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: so simply like, just get me the information. It does 513 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: not matter. So it was a classic internet controversy with 514 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: only you know, blue check marks and people in the 515 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: media freaking out. I don't think any fan cares, Schefter, 516 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: and part of the way business works, anyone listen to 517 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: this doing a deal like you do whatever it takes 518 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: to get the deal legally right. You know, when you 519 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: want to get someone's business, you send them bottle of line, 520 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: you take them to a game. That's how the real 521 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 1: world works. Part of the reason Schefter and I would 522 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 1: put Woes under this category as well, have are so 523 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: good at their jobs in the breaking news industry is 524 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: because their relationships are elite. As someone now whose life 525 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: is predicated on advertising and in one of my other podcasts, 526 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 1: I'm in charge of ending that advertising and we have 527 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: spent years cultivating relationships. That's what it takes. And sometimes 528 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: there's a little You gotta give a little something to 529 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: get a little something back. Welcome to the real world. 530 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: So every single journalist I saw getting mad at it, 531 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: maybe you should start doing some of this. Maybe you 532 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 1: should follow his lead. Because where I come from, when 533 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,479 Speaker 1: I see someone more successful than me doing something, I go, 534 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try that. That's what I should try. And 535 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: then the other story with Schefter came out that the 536 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace is gonna try to sign him. As contracts 537 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: up next year at ESPN, they're gonna go after him. 538 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: And as someone knew who has now been in the 539 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: digital space for probably like a half decade. Out of 540 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: terrestrial radio, I don't do any television anymore. I'm all 541 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: it's all podcasts and YouTube. It's where I make all 542 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: my money. And listen, I'm fortunate enough. I've never made 543 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: more money. Business is going really well, and I plan 544 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: on it to to keep going well, I promise you this 545 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: the change that we saw over the last decade, starting 546 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: in like ten to two thousand twenty right cord cutting 547 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: streaming podcast. It's still a relatively small share, but I 548 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: would imagine if you just ask most people, especially young people, 549 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: you'd be like, the game has changed. We're never going back. 550 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: I don't. I think we're in the emphasy of the 551 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: start of everything. We haven't even gotten close to where 552 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: we're going. And I would like ESPN it used to 553 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: be a really big deal, Like damn, I remember meeting 554 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: someone either when I was in the NFL or even 555 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: before that, when I was in college, like this guy 556 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: works at ESPN. That was a really big deal ten 557 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: years ago. It no longer is. It does not matter. 558 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: You don't need these huge conglomerates everyone to find you. 559 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: It's like Adam, if you own your Twitter account, in 560 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: your Instagram account, I know the Twitter account has like 561 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: seven point five million people, the Instagram account surely has millions. 562 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: Go wherever you want, create a YouTube page, you'd have 563 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: a million subscribers like that. Everyone would come to you 564 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: for the news. You don't need ESPN needs you. You 565 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: don't need them. And as someone who's kind of in 566 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 1: the space somewhat. I hope that happens. I love chaos 567 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: in the business. I like seeing disruption. So I don't 568 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: think this story was just leaked randomly. I think it'll 569 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: be possible. And here's the other thing. Caesar's to them, 570 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: why wouldn't you pay him fifteen million dollars a year 571 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: to break NFL news? To make whatever you have, whatever 572 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: property you have pushing this gambling. It's a place, it's 573 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: a NonStop shop. Come to shafter for the information and 574 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: then place your bet. Another story I saw, which I've 575 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: been talking about this for a while, is the we 576 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,440 Speaker 1: Want Caleb that happened at Oklahoma. Um I guess it 577 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: would have been two or three weeks ago, and they 578 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: chanted it. And then last week the Texas Oklahoma game, 579 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: they bench Spencer Rattler and they put in, uh Caleb, 580 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: the backup quarterback who's now it looks like the starting 581 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: quarterback who's a five star. Guy texting with Oklahoma said, 582 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: this guy's elite. I heard Dilford talk about it on 583 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: Rasilo's podcast, like this dude's the real deal, Like he's 584 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,959 Speaker 1: got a chance. Sometimes we get ahead of ourselves when 585 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: we say this to be like the number one overall pick, 586 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: because I would have said it once upon a time 587 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: that Hackenburg would have been the number one pick. I 588 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: would have said that Rosen after especially year to be 589 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: the number one pick. I would have said last year 590 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: against Notre Dame, dj Unglola would have been the number 591 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: one pick. And now he stinks. So you know clearly 592 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: this guy has a lot of talent and if it 593 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: all goes well Lincoln Riley, under his watch, things usually do. 594 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: He could go really high. Well. The thing I always 595 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: say that I I miss most going to a smaller 596 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: school as at Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, George, Ohio State. They 597 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: treat it like the NFL, and Lincoln Riley would not 598 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: tell anyone who is starting quarterbacks gonna be And everyone's 599 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: freaking out because he also cut off all the media 600 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 1: with his players and media people like I talked about Shefford, 601 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: get very sensitive to this stuff. But when you really 602 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: look at it, like I would agree, if this is 603 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: pro football and something like that happened, even though it 604 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: can't because the league mandates it for a reason it's 605 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,400 Speaker 1: good for business, it would be I would freak out. 606 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: I'll be like this is low level. But this is college, 607 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: and I understand the n I L now is taking 608 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: place and the guy like Spencer Rattler makes money, but uh, 609 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: Spencer Rattler just turned twenty one years old, and it's 610 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: not envious position to be in. When you're annointed a star, 611 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: they start channing for your backup and then essentially you 612 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: get benched. Like that sucks, that's not that fun. So 613 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: I understand Lincoln Riley out of respect for his other 614 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: younger players, like I'm not gonna come in here and 615 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 1: just throw everyone under the bus, even if I don't 616 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: even like this player anymore. We are in college. This 617 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: is not the pros. In the pros, I draft you, 618 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:41,479 Speaker 1: I sign you, I cut you. In college, you commit 619 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: to me, you choose me. Like if you don't want 620 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: to go to Oklahoma, you go to Texas, Ohio State 621 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: right or Georgia, Florida. I need you to want to 622 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: come here. I need to be viewed as a player 623 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,239 Speaker 1: friendly place. Say what you want about Nick Saban, his 624 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: player for the last decade, consistently sing his praises when 625 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: they leave consistently, and a lot of those guys because 626 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: of the talent on the roster. It's not like most 627 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: of them. Some of them do, but a large percentage 628 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: of them have to wait their turn, and then when 629 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: they wait their turn and play, they do well. But 630 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: it is not an easy place to play, and it 631 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: is not a place because of the amount of talent 632 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: they have on the field that guarantees you any playing time. 633 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: But a lot of guys Alabama, at least, I mean, 634 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: I guess some die hard college football players or I 635 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: mean fans would know. It doesn't feel like that many 636 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: guys transfer. Obviously a quarterback, and Jalen did a couple 637 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: of years ago, but even he takes a lot of 638 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: pride and still defending Alabama Nick Saban like they left 639 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: on really good terms. Spencer Rattler will transfer when the 640 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: seasons and whether he goes to Arizona State, whether he 641 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: goes pro, who knows because he's from Arizona or Arizona 642 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 1: University of Arizona. If I was Jet Fish, I'd be 643 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: all over. But it's over. But Lincoln Riley is not 644 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: gonna handle this like he's Bill Parcels because that's not 645 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: the industry he's in. He's in an industry that needs 646 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: to be pro player. So Caleb will start. He is 647 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: going to be the starting quarterback, not just for the 648 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: end of this season, if he stays healthy for the 649 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: foreseeable future. Because he's a true freshman. It's over for 650 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: Spencer Rattler. But I do understand where Lincoln is coming 651 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: from because he can't just be like, oh, Calebs there started. 652 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: Now screw Spencer Rattler. What do you think, like the 653 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: seventeen year old kid that's committed Oklahoma right now with 654 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 1: things like what if that happens to me, He's just 655 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: gonna throw me under the bus. So I think people 656 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: can overreact to college and we could say all we want, Well, 657 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,240 Speaker 1: these guys are getting paid now as part of the deal. Yeah, 658 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: that's that's the businesses, you know, choice to give. You know, 659 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: if you own some restaurant or a car dealership and 660 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 1: you want to give Spencer Rattler two d grand, that's 661 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: on you. I say it all the time. If I 662 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: was a company in one of these big college towns 663 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,880 Speaker 1: and I was buddies with a Lincoln Riley, with a 664 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 1: Nick Saban, with a Kirby Smart, and I wanted to 665 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,879 Speaker 1: be involved in m I l I'd say, listen, let's 666 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: say add a million dollars to give every year. I 667 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: have no problem coach giving you this money. I'm gonna 668 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: invested in the program no matter what. But I will 669 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: not give it to recruits because I have no clue 670 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: if these guys coming in are gonna be any good 671 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: or not. Now, if you want to, if you want 672 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: me to pay, you know to be And and they 673 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,400 Speaker 1: advertise for us your star defensive end, your star wide receiver, 674 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: your star quarterback that I know is a legitimate pro 675 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: prospect who's already earned his keep on the field. So 676 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: you got my money. But under no circumstances am I 677 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 1: paying a penny for a guy that I've never seen 678 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: play at the college level not doing it? You know? 679 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: So that I think that is gonna be an element 680 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: in the n i L that's really going to advance 681 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: for anyone that has a clue what to do with 682 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,600 Speaker 1: their money. Let's just fly around really quick on some 683 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: NFL games. Uh. It's kind of a weird slate. The 684 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 1: bye weeks are starting now, so some teams are off, 685 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,479 Speaker 1: so there's not as many games. Uh, but let's start 686 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: Packers at Bears. Chicago's won a couple of games and 687 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: they kind of took it to the Raiders last week. Now, 688 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: is that a hangover over Gruden's comments of Damorris Smith? Maybe, 689 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: but also their offensive line is a pretty big question 690 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: mark and Khalil Mack and I said this probably at 691 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: the start of the season. I wanted to see the 692 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: Khalil Mack that the Bears traded two first round picks 693 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: and gave ninety million dollars to Well. The last couple 694 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,320 Speaker 1: of weeks, I've seen that guy kicking ass and taking names. 695 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: And if you get that level of player against a 696 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: Packer offense who is still missing offensive lineman, I would 697 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: love for this just to be a game. Now, I'm 698 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: not confident that the Bears can hang with them, even 699 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: though the games and Soldier Field, Aaron DeVante, those running backs. 700 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 1: It just feels like it's gonna be too much. Last 701 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: week they won a game where they threw for a 702 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 1: hundred nineteen yards justin fields through from a hundred eleven 703 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: Andy Dalton through for eight hundred nineteen yards under no circumstances. 704 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: Are you beating the Packers throwing for a hundred nineteen yards? 705 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,959 Speaker 1: But can they get to two hundred and play really 706 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: good defense? Maybe turn airran over and give themselves a chance. 707 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,839 Speaker 1: That would be like, listen, Naggie has quieted the skeptics, right, 708 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: just winning a couple of games fields kind of getting 709 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 1: some mojo. You beat the Packers, we'd go for not 710 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,879 Speaker 1: not we, but people acting like he was gonna get 711 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: fired on the hot seat to like, is he gonna 712 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: get an extension? Chiefs at the football team Sean Taylor 713 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 1: Jersey retirement, Uh, Chiefs or you know, listen, two and 714 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,480 Speaker 1: three for them is like Alabama losing a game. It 715 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,360 Speaker 1: is an eye opening thing to look at. Like I 716 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 1: had to do a double take. I knew they were 717 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: been struggling, but when you see the record two and three, 718 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: do you can you close your eyes and envisioned through 719 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: six games the chief with Patrick Mahomes, I don't care 720 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: if me, you, and eight and you know nine other 721 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,800 Speaker 1: people did we pick out of random Park are playing 722 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: defense for the Chiefs. I cannot see the Kansasy Chiefs losing, 723 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: you know, back to back games, given the circumstances they're in. 724 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: I like the Chiefs in this spot. I like Mahomes 725 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,640 Speaker 1: to bounce back. I like Coach Reid to figure it 726 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: out the football team's defense. You know, del Rio Rivera 727 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,600 Speaker 1: has not been very good, and I just don't trust 728 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,399 Speaker 1: Hinaki in a big spot. I just don't Minnesota at 729 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,600 Speaker 1: Caroline to listen. I'm a bullish Sam Donald guy. I 730 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: would have drafted him in the top five when he 731 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: came out. I thought the Jets hit a home run 732 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 1: when they drafted him. I thought he was gonna be 733 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: a star. It has not gone well. Gone well. Now, 734 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 1: there's first couple of weeks it looked good. Here's the problem. 735 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: When they traded for Sam Donald, I think they were 736 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,479 Speaker 1: hoping that he would turn into like a top twelve guy. 737 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 1: They would extend and they'd have their quarterback, you know, 738 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 1: for at minimum four or five years, just to figure 739 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: it out. Well, the last couple of weeks. If you're 740 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,920 Speaker 1: a quarterback and I go, well, he's really good when 741 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey places. But I take Christian McCaffrey away and 742 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: you just become an average guy. That would concern me. Now, obviously, 743 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: any player, whether it was Tom Brady, Dan Marino, or 744 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,920 Speaker 1: Sam Donald, they would be better with Christian McCaffrey then 745 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,319 Speaker 1: without Christian McCaffrey, because of how good he is in 746 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: the passing game and just how great of a player 747 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: is anytime you have a great player. You know, Trey 748 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 1: Akman was a better NFL quarterback because he had Emma Smith. 749 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,359 Speaker 1: Steve Young was a better NFL quarterback early in his career, 750 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,839 Speaker 1: you know when he started starting because he had Ricky 751 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: Waters like and William Floyd like. It helps to have 752 00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: good running backs, but you shouldn't just become a dud 753 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: once that guy disappears. And that's what he kind of 754 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,760 Speaker 1: looked like against the Eagles. He shouldn't look like Jalen 755 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 1: Hurts his equal. You know, Jalen was a controversial second 756 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: round pick. Sam was the third pick in the draft. 757 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 1: Now he's got Joe Brady. Now he has a ton 758 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: of talent on offense, and it did not go well. 759 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,959 Speaker 1: Now Minnesota has to be the weirdest team in the league. 760 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: Even last week they struggled to beat the Lions. It 761 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,840 Speaker 1: took thirty seven seconds. They need both time outs to 762 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,359 Speaker 1: get game winning field goal. They have way too much 763 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 1: talent on offense. Jefferson is a superstar, Feeling is a stud. 764 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: Even if Dalvin Cook is banged up, Madison is a 765 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:47,560 Speaker 1: fantastic you know, backup Cousins you know, you know, obviously 766 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,399 Speaker 1: he didn't play as well against the Lions, but he's 767 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: a better quarterback than Sam Donald. You would think Minnesota 768 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: would take care of business here. This this probably the 769 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,279 Speaker 1: best matchup of the weekend. Chargers at the Ravens um too. 770 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start calling them the Core four Mahomes Alan, 771 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: Herbert Lamar. There are four the best young players in 772 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,359 Speaker 1: the league, for the best quarterbacks in the league, four 773 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: of the most likable players in the league, four of 774 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: the higher character guys in the league, four of the 775 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: more beloved guys by their teammates in the league. I 776 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: can't like all four of these guys enough. And Lamar 777 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,719 Speaker 1: and Allen were guys that I never would to touch 778 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,759 Speaker 1: coming out in the draft. I was wrong, and I've 779 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: easily come around on both. Massive fan Lamar watching that 780 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,919 Speaker 1: game the other day after the fact, it was remarkable. 781 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 1: I mean, thirty seven or forty three for four and 782 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,000 Speaker 1: fifty yards game when he touchdown Drive in overtime when 783 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 1: they were kind of getting their ass kicked. He is 784 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 1: an absolute stud. So I just she I'll be glued 785 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: to my TV. Herbert Lamar. This is now the question 786 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,719 Speaker 1: is going to be for the Ravens coming off a 787 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: big emotional win. Monday night football, shorter week. Now they 788 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: don't have to travel. They were at home. This game's 789 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,680 Speaker 1: at home Chargers long flight, three hour time difference. But 790 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 1: to meet there's a coin flip game. I think Herbert 791 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,720 Speaker 1: right now, those two wide receivers, it is stupid, you know, listen, 792 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,759 Speaker 1: it's awesome having like a DeShawn Jackson type. You know, 793 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 1: a Hollywood Brown type. I love speed guys. Rugs what 794 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: he's doing with Derek. I'm a sucker for speed. I have, 795 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,839 Speaker 1: I have. I am a big sucker for the big 796 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: guys did have enormous catching radius is even if they're 797 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: not that fast, like Mike Williams and Keenan Allen right 798 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 1: now are unstoppable players. Keenan Allen is probably the second 799 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: best wide receiver behind Davante Adams, who to me clear 800 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 1: releas the top dog. But even Davante, like DeVante, is 801 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,600 Speaker 1: a good example of that. He's not like some four 802 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: three guy. But it's I'm gonna get open every single play, 803 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: and I don't care if you put one guy over me. 804 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: I don't care if you put two guys over me. 805 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,760 Speaker 1: I don't care if the whole stadium knows I'm getting 806 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,719 Speaker 1: the ball, I'm catching it. And that's kind of the 807 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 1: vibe that Keenan and Mike Williams have. And I also 808 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: got to give Hollywood Brown credit. He has resurrected his career. 809 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,240 Speaker 1: He looks fantastic. Uh. Cards at the Browns. This game 810 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 1: is just you know, the cards are five and other 811 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,200 Speaker 1: kind of playing with house money. It would be insane 812 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,720 Speaker 1: if they went six and oh back to back wins. 813 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,440 Speaker 1: Really three straight wins, right, Rams Niners, Browns, that's a 814 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: pretty damn good stretch. Kyler's banged up, Bosa fell on 815 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 1: him last week. Uh, you know Baker's I wouldn't say 816 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: it's backs against the wall, but I just think people 817 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: are going, you know, is he quite as good as 818 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: we thought he wasn't? The answers no, But they're a 819 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 1: run game oriented squad. They have the best one two 820 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: combination in the league. Nick Chubb looked incredible against the Church. 821 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: I mean, Nick, he is, He's awesome. And Kareem Hunt 822 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,920 Speaker 1: is easily the best backup running back in the league. Um, 823 00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,680 Speaker 1: I I would think that Myles Garrett would have a 824 00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,239 Speaker 1: field day against this Uh Cardinals team kind of like 825 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,799 Speaker 1: the Browns in this spot, I guess, uh just as 826 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: a winner, not necessarily with the spread, but that's that's 827 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 1: a fantastic game. Then Cowboys Pats, I mean, as Dallas 828 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,040 Speaker 1: really just gonna just keep rattling off wins. Are we 829 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:54,760 Speaker 1: gonna look up in Dallas? Is gonna be like thirteen 830 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: and four, and that's gonna be a legitimate m VP candidate. 831 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,840 Speaker 1: And then we're gonna be talking extension with Mike McCarthy 832 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: because it does kind of feel like that's the you know, 833 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,880 Speaker 1: the path we're on. And this guy is pretty polarizing, 834 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 1: right Like Mac Jones. Completion percentage looks good, his his 835 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 1: stats look okay, but when you watch him, you go, 836 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,360 Speaker 1: I don't know. And then the defense is they're missing 837 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,960 Speaker 1: a bunch of offensive lineman. He has no time. This 838 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,600 Speaker 1: is this you know, if the Cowboys are the real deal, 839 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: and I mean I think they might be, they go 840 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,880 Speaker 1: into New England, they win this game by ten. Now, Belichick, 841 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,960 Speaker 1: he's always got a curve ball. Um, This to me 842 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,880 Speaker 1: is a is a must keep an eye on. Comes Sunday. Okay, 843 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: back again with a man who was scolding hot and 844 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,759 Speaker 1: got derailed a little bit by some bad luck in 845 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,920 Speaker 1: a Cincinnati Green Bay game. But he's nine five and 846 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,120 Speaker 1: one on the season, a little three for the money. 847 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,560 Speaker 1: He's known as Stucky. He's uh, he's a sharp in 848 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,120 Speaker 1: my eyes, and he's also you can find them on 849 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: Thursday the Action Network podcast Talking Gambling every morning on 850 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: Thursday mornings, UH podcast comes out Stucky. What's up? What's happened? 851 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,919 Speaker 1: You're Kentucky Wildcats a big win? I mean they're right nigh. Yeah, 852 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 1: we might be uh coming back down to her this Saturday. 853 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 1: But it's a nice while at last, and you never know. 854 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,120 Speaker 1: You have you have a you have at least hope. 855 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,400 Speaker 1: It's still a football game played with an oblong ball, 856 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,319 Speaker 1: So Kentucky is gonna need a lot of bounces on 857 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,040 Speaker 1: Saturday in Athens. But all you can ask for is 858 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,360 Speaker 1: a shot. So yeah, it's exciting here. You beat you 859 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,720 Speaker 1: beat Florida and l s U back to back weeks. 860 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,839 Speaker 1: You're you're cooking with house money, right, yeah, yeah, it's 861 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,680 Speaker 1: all it's all house money. Now. Okay, let's uh, let's 862 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,879 Speaker 1: dive into the National Football League and let's start with 863 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,720 Speaker 1: pretty sure. They're the only undefeated team in the league 864 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 1: in the Arizona Cardinals going to Cleveland, who just had 865 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:55,080 Speaker 1: a devastating loss at I almost had the Charger at 866 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,319 Speaker 1: the San Diego, but in l a Arizona, I like 867 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,759 Speaker 1: the card You're getting three points on the road at Cleveland, 868 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,359 Speaker 1: how about you? Now I'm going with the Browns here. 869 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,960 Speaker 1: I got some two and a half in the week. 870 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,800 Speaker 1: I still like it at three up to three, there's 871 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 1: look this week, I'm we're gonna talk about two more 872 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,600 Speaker 1: fading three teams on the road that I think you're 873 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,160 Speaker 1: just getting too much love in the market. I mean, 874 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,160 Speaker 1: if you look at this Cardinals team. You know, week 875 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,920 Speaker 1: one I talked about the Titans. I thought that they 876 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,080 Speaker 1: were going through some things offensively, a lot of changes. 877 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,600 Speaker 1: I loved Arizona that game. I didn't really take too 878 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,279 Speaker 1: much away from it. Then as they go to Jacksonville, 879 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,120 Speaker 1: now they're down nine late in the third quarter. They 880 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,160 Speaker 1: beat Minnesota because Minnesota miss is a chip shot field goal. 881 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 1: Super impressive win against the Rams. All the credits imes 882 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,719 Speaker 1: out there, that's just one game. Last week, they get 883 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 1: out played at home by a under man Stan Fran 884 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,960 Speaker 1: team playing a rookie quarterback making his first start, and 885 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,440 Speaker 1: they were the better team statistically in almost every measure. 886 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,279 Speaker 1: So I don't think this Arizona team is kind of 887 00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,799 Speaker 1: they're good, but it's fool's gold at five. And oh 888 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,439 Speaker 1: the team that really could have I think as would 889 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,000 Speaker 1: have a better shot at better argument of five than 890 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,839 Speaker 1: O is the Browns. I mean, there are only two 891 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,880 Speaker 1: losses are on the road of the Chiefs and Chargers. 892 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,160 Speaker 1: The Chiefs, they were up double digits in the second half, 893 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,880 Speaker 1: they boxed that punt. Charters are up double digits in 894 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 1: the second half, and the charters go like six of 895 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,919 Speaker 1: six on fourth down they have that bad p I call. 896 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,560 Speaker 1: So the Browns have been super impressive here. And I 897 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,680 Speaker 1: just think this is a really good matchup for Cleveland 898 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: against a really suspect Arizona run defense that has just 899 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,719 Speaker 1: been struggling to defend the run once again this year. 900 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,440 Speaker 1: And when you look at some of the other factors, 901 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 1: take a look at the Cleveland weather report, looks like 902 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,640 Speaker 1: twenty to thirty mile hour winds could be a win. 903 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 1: You know, that is just extremely beneficial to the Browns, 904 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,160 Speaker 1: who you know lead the league and yards per carry 905 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: and have two of the most dynamic backs in the NFL. 906 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,640 Speaker 1: Against a bad run defense Kyler Murray. Also, it's dealing 907 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,480 Speaker 1: with a little bit of a shoulder issue last week, 908 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,959 Speaker 1: so I'm not sure how much it's going to linger 909 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,640 Speaker 1: or affect him this week, but it could. And you know, 910 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: you have some wind as well. Brown's defense playing really well, 911 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,120 Speaker 1: but I think that their front is going to control 912 00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,360 Speaker 1: this game. No Chandler Jones for Arizona as well, so 913 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,799 Speaker 1: when Baker Mayfield does have to throw, doesn't have to 914 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,239 Speaker 1: worry about his pass rushing ability. So I I think 915 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:23,160 Speaker 1: Cleveland gets this done on the ground and Arizona finally 916 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,040 Speaker 1: doesn't you know, steal one of these wins. Okay, I 917 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,879 Speaker 1: think you convinced me because you're right, you can run 918 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 1: on Arizona and holy moly, Chubb last week. I mean 919 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,440 Speaker 1: he looks right now the best running back in the 920 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,480 Speaker 1: line room and Kareem Hunt is I mean, they easily 921 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,440 Speaker 1: have the best one to punch. So I think you 922 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,280 Speaker 1: convinced me there. Okay, Dallas, I'll also take that staff. 923 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,319 Speaker 1: Also take the Cleveland staff any day of the week 924 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:48,800 Speaker 1: over Arizonas and the one thing that throws off just historically, 925 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,600 Speaker 1: and this is what the Niners did, even though they 926 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,440 Speaker 1: lost that game, is when you're physical with the air 927 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,319 Speaker 1: raid up front. Mile scarrets the type guy that you 928 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,439 Speaker 1: can just throw off. I mean, Nick Bosa was all 929 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,840 Speaker 1: over Kyler last week. Uh. And the thing is that 930 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: makes Kyler so special is he doesn't you know, he 931 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: doesn't take a lot of hits when he runs like Lamar, 932 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,160 Speaker 1: like you saw last week with Trey Lancey slides. But 933 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,319 Speaker 1: if you can catch him behind in the point, he's 934 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,400 Speaker 1: throwing in the pocket last year, that's where Seattle got him. 935 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,320 Speaker 1: He's so small and these you know, Myles Garrett is 936 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,720 Speaker 1: you know, a complete freak zoid, just a sack of Kyler. 937 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,439 Speaker 1: He gets up sometimes and you can tell last week, 938 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,360 Speaker 1: all of a sudden he gets thrown to the ground 939 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:28,919 Speaker 1: and he wasn't the same the rest of the game. 940 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,120 Speaker 1: So that's that's to me, He's something to keep an 941 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,440 Speaker 1: eye on. Two. Just big picture with Arizona because if 942 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,040 Speaker 1: he gets thrown off, if he goes to you know 943 00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,799 Speaker 1: from a let's say, that is in trouble for them, 944 00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:45,560 Speaker 1: right yeah. Yeah. And Joe Wood's the ense coordinator the Browns. 945 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,560 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan off hemiliar with Tyler. You know 946 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,399 Speaker 1: he was at he was with the Niners, and two 947 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,680 Speaker 1: nineteen defensive backs, coach passing him coordinators, so that familiarity there, 948 00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,800 Speaker 1: I think I can pay off here. So yeah, I 949 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 1: think the Browns get done at home. Okay, Dallas in 950 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:02,080 Speaker 1: New England. I'd take England here basically just because it 951 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,000 Speaker 1: feels like everyone will bet Dallas. New England squeaks out 952 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,120 Speaker 1: a win on the road against Houston. I think people, 953 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,000 Speaker 1: you know, the masses are gonna just think New England's average, 954 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,000 Speaker 1: which hell they might be, but um tough environment. Patriots 955 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,120 Speaker 1: you know aren't dead yet right at two and three. 956 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,960 Speaker 1: So who do you like in this game? Yeah? I 957 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,000 Speaker 1: like the Patriots down to three and a half. Anything 958 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,560 Speaker 1: plus three and a half plus four. I think the 959 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,080 Speaker 1: Cowboys are getting a little bit too much love here 960 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,520 Speaker 1: in the market. I think this line should be under 961 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,160 Speaker 1: a field goal. Look, their offense is excellent with no 962 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,720 Speaker 1: matter how you slice it, but the defense is really 963 00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,480 Speaker 1: benefiting from turnovers and I don't think that they can 964 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,879 Speaker 1: sustain that level of the I think they're they lead 965 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,640 Speaker 1: the NFL and takeaways and just their second knee p 966 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,640 Speaker 1: a per turnover, second kneepa p per net turnover. It's 967 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,440 Speaker 1: a defense that you can go think back to that 968 00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,080 Speaker 1: Tampa game. It's not like they were forcing these turnovers. 969 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,080 Speaker 1: These were balls that were popping into their hands and 970 00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,239 Speaker 1: that's what kept that game close. This is still a 971 00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,960 Speaker 1: really suspect defense. I mean, Digs is playing out of 972 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,440 Speaker 1: his mind at corner, and you have to love the 973 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,720 Speaker 1: addition of Parsons, but you can still run on this team. 974 00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,440 Speaker 1: They're still not getting a ton of pressure, which is 975 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,560 Speaker 1: important for Jones. When he does need to throw, you 976 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,120 Speaker 1: know he's gonna have time and it can this game 977 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,080 Speaker 1: will slow down for him. It's important when you're looking 978 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,120 Speaker 1: at trying to better rookie quarterback. I think New England 979 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,800 Speaker 1: can control the line of scrimmage here, establish a running 980 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,400 Speaker 1: game against Alice's run defense and this These are games 981 00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,840 Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick just covers. I mean, he's thirteen and 982 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,359 Speaker 1: two against the spread as an underdog since two thousand three, 983 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,359 Speaker 1: covering by an average of six points per game. That's 984 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:41,239 Speaker 1: just under home underdog. A lot of Tom Brady there though, 985 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,719 Speaker 1: that's true home underdog. I mean, but look home underdog 986 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,720 Speaker 1: since two thousand, fifteen and four against the spread, twelve 987 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:51,520 Speaker 1: outright wins. We saw it against Tom Brady, uh and 988 00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,960 Speaker 1: a Bucks team, you know. A couple of weeks ago, Tappa, 989 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,120 Speaker 1: I've excuse me, New England was seven underdogs and they 990 00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,839 Speaker 1: almost won that game if not for a questionable field 991 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,719 Speaker 1: goal decision late. So you know, I think that there's 992 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,799 Speaker 1: a big coaching edge here, special teams. Don't be surprised 993 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,000 Speaker 1: if New England games and edge and special teams here 994 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,120 Speaker 1: with a big player too. But mainly I think that 995 00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,920 Speaker 1: Dallas is just a little bit overvalued. After four straight wins, 996 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:18,960 Speaker 1: three of which came at home, by the way, so 997 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,279 Speaker 1: now they're you know, they had three straight at home. 998 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,919 Speaker 1: Now they're traveling to New England. I think the Patriots 999 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,400 Speaker 1: find a way here to at least make this a 1000 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,000 Speaker 1: field goal game. Wouldn't be surprised if they pull off 1001 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,040 Speaker 1: this mini upset. The only thing that would make me 1002 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,920 Speaker 1: nervous here with New England stuck, you would be clearly 1003 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,920 Speaker 1: they are not. You know, in that Tampa game is 1004 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,120 Speaker 1: a good example, right, they kept in the teams that 1005 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,120 Speaker 1: they lost nineteen to seventeen, and they were in it 1006 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,279 Speaker 1: right until the end. Four of New England or four 1007 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,319 Speaker 1: of Dallas is five games. Obviously that week one loss, 1008 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,440 Speaker 1: they scored twenty nine and then the last three weeks 1009 00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: forty one, thirty six, forty four, like Dallas camp score. 1010 00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,120 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously for Dallas to win or I mean 1011 00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,560 Speaker 1: for Dallas to lose this game in Newingland, Belichick, you know, 1012 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,120 Speaker 1: probably a nineteen to low twenties type range, Like they're 1013 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,560 Speaker 1: not gonna win if if Dallas gets in the high twenties, 1014 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,719 Speaker 1: early thirties, right, So they're just gonna have to come 1015 00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:14,680 Speaker 1: down to kind of ugly muddy it up. Yeah, I mean, Matt, 1016 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,520 Speaker 1: Matt is gonna have to make a couple of plays 1017 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,240 Speaker 1: here because Dac and that offenser are going to score. 1018 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,520 Speaker 1: And I don't think you can expect to hold this 1019 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:27,680 Speaker 1: Dallas offense under twenty points. But this Dallas defense, as 1020 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,799 Speaker 1: I said, it's just if you look at some of 1021 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,160 Speaker 1: the underlying metrics, you know they're not gonna keep getting picks. 1022 00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:35,600 Speaker 1: There's still some holes here. So I think there's gonna 1023 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,840 Speaker 1: be some opportunities for New England and mac Jones to score. 1024 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,040 Speaker 1: So I think New England bounces back from last week's 1025 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,840 Speaker 1: uh poor showing. I mean it was a awful spot. 1026 00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,839 Speaker 1: It was after that Tampa game with Dallas on deck. 1027 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,880 Speaker 1: So I think Bill will have them focused here in October. 1028 00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,279 Speaker 1: This is Belichick's month. I mean call in October, Bill, 1029 00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,719 Speaker 1: he's sixty eight let me see, sixty percent against the 1030 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,479 Speaker 1: spread and Otober and he's only I think fifties sets, 1031 00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,800 Speaker 1: so great, fifty seven percent of buying into all other months. 1032 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,359 Speaker 1: September the Patriots, even with Brady, they would always work 1033 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,399 Speaker 1: on some things, trying to figure out some things over 1034 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,640 Speaker 1: the first four or five games, and then they kind 1035 00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,640 Speaker 1: of find themselves and get rolling. Um. So you know, 1036 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,759 Speaker 1: backing Bill Belichick is a home dog in October, you 1037 00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,120 Speaker 1: could do worse things with your money, Okay. Uh, I 1038 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,200 Speaker 1: have a gambling philosophy. At anytime a team off a 1039 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,960 Speaker 1: Monday Night, either a big win or a big loss, 1040 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,400 Speaker 1: it's that's a huge emotional toll. And then it's a 1041 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,080 Speaker 1: short week, even if you're playing at home and then 1042 00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,520 Speaker 1: the next week's at home, I just you know, if 1043 00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,520 Speaker 1: the team that you were playing the following week is 1044 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,319 Speaker 1: also good, I'm just gonna gamble on that team. Now. 1045 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if that if the numbers bear that out, 1046 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,400 Speaker 1: but Chargers this week at the Ravens obviously incredible win 1047 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,480 Speaker 1: for them right Monday night. Uh, the emotional high and 1048 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,759 Speaker 1: they've had several of those this year so far. Kind 1049 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:54,640 Speaker 1: of feel like they just, you know, eventually just gonna 1050 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: run out of juice in the game. Even though I 1051 00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,080 Speaker 1: like the Ravens Chargers. I whether it's two and a 1052 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,759 Speaker 1: half or three, whatever your book you're looking at. I 1053 00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,080 Speaker 1: like the Chargers, you know, getting some points this week 1054 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,120 Speaker 1: on the road. How are you? Yeah, I'm going did 1055 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:11,000 Speaker 1: disagree with you here? Um? Look, I'm a I'm a 1056 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,040 Speaker 1: Ravens fan. That my most successful team I've bet on. 1057 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:14,480 Speaker 1: I really bet him, and I've only been on them 1058 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,240 Speaker 1: once this year against the Chiefs, And I was watching 1059 00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:18,799 Speaker 1: that game. They're gonna make the playoffs, and I'm a 1060 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,080 Speaker 1: better First I was saying, I hope they lose this game. Um, 1061 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,400 Speaker 1: and and then it'll you know John Harball that you know, 1062 00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,120 Speaker 1: after a loss at home and it's a form one 1063 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,960 Speaker 1: Chargers team, they wouldn't have spent all that energy. So 1064 00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,759 Speaker 1: I get your point, um that I think it would 1065 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,319 Speaker 1: have been better if they actually lost that game. So 1066 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,719 Speaker 1: maybe you know, they spent a lot of energy. Their 1067 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:43,040 Speaker 1: defense is a short week, but Hardball is generally you know, 1068 00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,560 Speaker 1: he's one of the better coaches in the league, and 1069 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,920 Speaker 1: he's good at getting his team back up for this game. 1070 00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,840 Speaker 1: They will be at home at least with what I 1071 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,520 Speaker 1: expect to be a pretty raucous crowd. I just think 1072 00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,839 Speaker 1: the Chargers are getting a little bit too much love 1073 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:59,440 Speaker 1: here after what they've done. Look, Justin Herbert is incredible. 1074 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: He's going into one of the most elite quarterbacks in 1075 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,920 Speaker 1: the NFL. But this Chargers offense, I don't think that 1076 00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,680 Speaker 1: they can sustain what they are doing on third downs. 1077 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,680 Speaker 1: I mean it is you look at some of their 1078 00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:15,279 Speaker 1: underlying metrics on third downs. Just watched that game last week. 1079 00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,719 Speaker 1: It was third and ten, third and nine, third. I 1080 00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,480 Speaker 1: didn't even get to fourth downs yet. Fourth downs there 1081 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,520 Speaker 1: eight for eight if you remove a fake punt on 1082 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,520 Speaker 1: the season, within average yards to go of six and 1083 00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,040 Speaker 1: a half, the their opponents are only three of eight 1084 00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,239 Speaker 1: with an average yard to go of three. I mean, 1085 00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,480 Speaker 1: these are game changing drives. Get a fourth down here, 1086 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,640 Speaker 1: they're I mean that the difference in those are is 1087 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,040 Speaker 1: just massive, and they they're flipping games around, as we 1088 00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:42,279 Speaker 1: saw against the Browns last week. And if you look 1089 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,680 Speaker 1: at some of the underlying metrics, early downs are a 1090 00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,680 Speaker 1: little more predictive than third downs early downs, Ravens offense 1091 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,840 Speaker 1: number one in the league and EPA per play Chargers 1092 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,319 Speaker 1: bottom ten. Ravens on third down a little more luck 1093 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,560 Speaker 1: involved in a lot more variants. Ravens are dead last 1094 00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,440 Speaker 1: in the league on third down success rate E payor 1095 00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,640 Speaker 1: play Chargers are obviously right at the top, and fourth 1096 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,760 Speaker 1: down the same thing. So I think this Ravens offense 1097 00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,640 Speaker 1: actually has some positive regression coming its way on third down, 1098 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:14,000 Speaker 1: and the opposite is true for the Chargers. And I 1099 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,320 Speaker 1: think this is like the Ravens of a chilling teams 1100 00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,600 Speaker 1: on early downs by throwing the ball, everyone's selling out 1101 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,320 Speaker 1: to run it. The Chargers kind of let you run. 1102 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,799 Speaker 1: They kind they're playing back. They're not giving up anything deep. 1103 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,840 Speaker 1: And I think that you're gonna see the vintage Ravens 1104 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,560 Speaker 1: rushing attack come back here. Because the Chargers run defense. 1105 00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,840 Speaker 1: They do invite you to run, but it's also awful 1106 00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,880 Speaker 1: their linebackers, their defensive lineman very underwhelming group. So I 1107 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,399 Speaker 1: think the Ravens can really get going on the ground here. 1108 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,840 Speaker 1: I think you're getting them cheap. I mean, before the season, 1109 00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,960 Speaker 1: this the projected line for this game. The look at 1110 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 1: line was Raven's mind is six, and I think everyone 1111 00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,719 Speaker 1: is really innavigant, and rightfully so in some aspect with 1112 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,480 Speaker 1: what Herbert has done. I'm just not sure this Chargers 1113 00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:02,000 Speaker 1: team could sustain all of this third down and fourth 1114 00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:07,239 Speaker 1: down success throughout the season. That regression monster looms. So 1115 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,000 Speaker 1: if you can get the Ravens under two and under three, 1116 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,120 Speaker 1: I do like them in the one last point. Enormous 1117 00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,560 Speaker 1: enormous special teams advantage here. I mean I have the 1118 00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,680 Speaker 1: Ravens ranked number one in the league and special teams 1119 00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:22,600 Speaker 1: as they usually are every year, by decent margin. I 1120 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,840 Speaker 1: have the Chargers ranked thirty second, dead last by a 1121 00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,400 Speaker 1: wide margin. They don't have a kicker, and now you're 1122 00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:32,560 Speaker 1: going to kid Herbert. Herbert kick, Yeah, they're kicker. Couldn't 1123 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:34,440 Speaker 1: kick in college or he's on the team for kickoffs. 1124 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't know why they don't have a It couldn't 1125 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,000 Speaker 1: find six pc college, couldn't make extra points in college, 1126 00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,000 Speaker 1: and now you're gonna get aig. And then the Ravens, 1127 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,600 Speaker 1: obviously the greatest kicker in NFL history, do everything well 1128 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,480 Speaker 1: on special teams. So that is a not a lot 1129 00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:48,280 Speaker 1: of people are gonna look at that aspect of this game. 1130 00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,560 Speaker 1: But there's an enormous special team's edge in this game 1131 00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,720 Speaker 1: for the Ravens, and that could make all the difference 1132 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,600 Speaker 1: in the world on the spread of two and a half. Okay, Stucky, 1133 00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,960 Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, and uh have a great weekend. 1134 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:07,200 Speaker 1: Absolutely Okay, let's go Middlecoff mail back at John Middlecoff 1135 00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:11,320 Speaker 1: is the instagram at John Middlecoff Instagram. Slide up into 1136 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,920 Speaker 1: those d m s and get your answer. Get your 1137 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,800 Speaker 1: question answered here on the show What's Up My Brother? 1138 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,280 Speaker 1: Question for the pod with the safety play opposite of 1139 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:28,080 Speaker 1: Matthew being absurdly Absolutely not absurdly, but it certainly probably 1140 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:32,000 Speaker 1: works too putrid up until this point? Should the Chiefs 1141 00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,840 Speaker 1: seriously consider bringing in Earl Thomas to share up the 1142 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,800 Speaker 1: back end? I understand they's been out of the game 1143 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,800 Speaker 1: for a minute, but they didn't stop them from bringing 1144 00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,960 Speaker 1: in Flash Gordon and you could argue they have one 1145 00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,000 Speaker 1: of the best cultures to do so, am I am 1146 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:48,320 Speaker 1: my way off. Should we expect some activity towards the 1147 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:52,040 Speaker 1: trading deadline? Uh? I would say they are not going 1148 00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:53,880 Speaker 1: to bring in Earl Thomas. I mean he had like 1149 00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:58,080 Speaker 1: freaked out with the Ravens. Harbaugh is you know, worked 1150 00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,960 Speaker 1: for Andy so that they would have the intel there. 1151 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:05,280 Speaker 1: I I don't think that's an option. Now, you could argue, 1152 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,880 Speaker 1: if you're gonna get Flash Gordon, Josh Gordon, why not 1153 00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:15,240 Speaker 1: sign Earl Thomas, Because let's face it, Sorenston is an 1154 00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,040 Speaker 1: awful NFL football player right now in terms of defense. 1155 00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,760 Speaker 1: Maybe he's good on special team. Still, he cannot cover, 1156 00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,600 Speaker 1: he cannot operate in space, and he can't make open 1157 00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:29,600 Speaker 1: field tackles. So he's an enormous liability. There was some 1158 00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,840 Speaker 1: pictures going around the the interweb of these views of 1159 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:37,200 Speaker 1: the honey Badger, you know, closer to the line of scrimmage, 1160 00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,360 Speaker 1: and then these deep plays happening where Sorenson is not 1161 00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:46,080 Speaker 1: even close to the receiver catching the ball and Honey 1162 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:50,480 Speaker 1: Badger's throwing up his hands, which I can understand. You know, 1163 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,520 Speaker 1: it's just a tough spot. They're only playing that they 1164 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,160 Speaker 1: don't have anyone else, you know, It's just it's a 1165 00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,320 Speaker 1: difficult spot to be and I don't think there's an 1166 00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:02,840 Speaker 1: easy answer to it. The key most teams do not 1167 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,120 Speaker 1: have Ronnie Lott, most teams do not have ed read back. 1168 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:11,560 Speaker 1: There so the key to avoiding questionable defensive back play 1169 01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,120 Speaker 1: is having a good pass rush. Well, here's the problem. 1170 01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Like last week, Chris Jones didn't play. Frank Clark has 1171 01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,720 Speaker 1: been in and out of lineup. When they won the 1172 01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, those two dudes dominated. Frank Clark Chris Jones. 1173 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,640 Speaker 1: And when you have two elite defensive lineman like those 1174 01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,959 Speaker 1: guys were playing a couple of years ago, your other 1175 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,920 Speaker 1: rotating guys in and out look a lot better. It 1176 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,680 Speaker 1: just makes sure it makes those guys jobs so much easier. 1177 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:40,160 Speaker 1: When both those guys are getting multiple offensive lineman worth 1178 01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:45,280 Speaker 1: of like a focus from the scheme. I love the show. 1179 01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,840 Speaker 1: Want to ask you what you think of Cordurell Patterson's 1180 01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,520 Speaker 1: season this year. He's going off. Do you think it's 1181 01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:52,800 Speaker 1: a fluke or is that Arthur Smith has been one 1182 01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:54,760 Speaker 1: of the first to figure it to use him properly. 1183 01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,160 Speaker 1: I think he's been good for years. I think the 1184 01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,479 Speaker 1: knock on Patterson has been in with the teams that 1185 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,480 Speaker 1: have had of people that I know there is it's 1186 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,840 Speaker 1: hard for him to learn offenses, but if you give 1187 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,720 Speaker 1: him specific plays with the ball in his hands, his 1188 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,440 Speaker 1: playmaking ability is elite. I mean, he's a special athlete. 1189 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,000 Speaker 1: He has natural instincts to make guys miss his speed. 1190 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,640 Speaker 1: He is just a playmaker. The hard part is how 1191 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,840 Speaker 1: to use them. Now full disclosure, I have watched under 1192 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:29,240 Speaker 1: thirty Atlanta Falcon Snaps, and I don't plan on watching many. 1193 01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:32,040 Speaker 1: But Arthur Smith is really good and he's really shown 1194 01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,080 Speaker 1: these last couple of years. You get him playmakers, he 1195 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,160 Speaker 1: finds out how to use them, and that's the number 1196 01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,880 Speaker 1: one goal of a coach. So if some guys struggle 1197 01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,680 Speaker 1: learning an offense, some guys struggle at doing certain things, 1198 01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,560 Speaker 1: you avoid those at all possible. And so clearly Arthur 1199 01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:50,560 Speaker 1: Smith is fantastic at using you know, different making players 1200 01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:57,439 Speaker 1: the pot. Watching Lamar overcome adversity and lead his team 1201 01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,920 Speaker 1: to win brings me such high hopes of what the 1202 01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,720 Speaker 1: forty Niners can be with a mobile quarterback that can 1203 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,120 Speaker 1: throw and move. So my question is, do you think 1204 01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:09,880 Speaker 1: the forty Niners should try incorporating an offense similar to 1205 01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,880 Speaker 1: the Ravens so that when the time comes, Trey Lance 1206 01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:16,000 Speaker 1: can thrive and we can get the most out of him. 1207 01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:20,320 Speaker 1: Once again, love the pod, longtime listener, I would say no, 1208 01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:25,360 Speaker 1: I would implement parts of it. Lamar Jackson is a 1209 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,680 Speaker 1: far superior open field runner than than Trey Lance. He 1210 01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:34,640 Speaker 1: is much faster, he's much more explosive, He's much more elusive. 1211 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:38,960 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is like Barry Sanders of quarterbacks. You put 1212 01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,600 Speaker 1: him in a phone booth, he could make multiple tackles missed. 1213 01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,040 Speaker 1: Trey Lance tried to make guys miss that did not happen. 1214 01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,120 Speaker 1: Trey Lance is much more like a Cam Newton. I 1215 01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:50,440 Speaker 1: would implement more of the Cam Newton, uh you know 1216 01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,920 Speaker 1: some of the offenses they ran when he was in Carolina, 1217 01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,880 Speaker 1: and try to, you know, hit big plays and use 1218 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,840 Speaker 1: him as a power runner. Now here's the other thing. 1219 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,360 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Lamar Jackson has never missed a game 1220 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,120 Speaker 1: because of injury. He's missed games because the cramp when 1221 01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:07,760 Speaker 1: he got pulled out of the Monday night football game. 1222 01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,040 Speaker 1: He missed games because of the coronavirus. But he's he 1223 01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:13,760 Speaker 1: doesn't get banged up. I think the one time he 1224 01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,640 Speaker 1: did get backed up this year is because self inflicted. 1225 01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,360 Speaker 1: When he did the flip. Trey Lance played one one start, 1226 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,240 Speaker 1: sprained his knee, which is a little fishy. I don't 1227 01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,439 Speaker 1: remember watching them limp, but I do think it would 1228 01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,439 Speaker 1: be conspiracy. Theorist John It would be difficult to fake 1229 01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,880 Speaker 1: an injury and have the quarterback agree with you without 1230 01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,160 Speaker 1: getting out with the agents. So I do acknowledge that. 1231 01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,520 Speaker 1: How does an NFL organization go about telling a player 1232 01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,360 Speaker 1: to improve on specific things about their game? The example 1233 01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:43,520 Speaker 1: you talked about his Trey Lances delivery. Does the organization 1234 01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,560 Speaker 1: tell the player to go to a specific coach or 1235 01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,200 Speaker 1: a gym? Does the organization tell the player to come 1236 01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,800 Speaker 1: into the building during the offseason and work on specific 1237 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,640 Speaker 1: parts of their game. Continuing on the quarterback concept, why 1238 01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,680 Speaker 1: don't NFL teams have throwing mechanic gurus on their staff? 1239 01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:00,960 Speaker 1: With the forty nine, it would have been great investment 1240 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,960 Speaker 1: for their team to hire a throwing coach knowing that 1241 01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,400 Speaker 1: Trey Lance needs to clean up clean up his mechanics, 1242 01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,920 Speaker 1: almost like a shooting coach with basketball. Well, I think 1243 01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,080 Speaker 1: the reason you pay how Shanahan ten to twelve million 1244 01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,600 Speaker 1: dollars a year is because he can do that, Like 1245 01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:18,320 Speaker 1: he is the quarterback coach. So my quarterback guru, like 1246 01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,880 Speaker 1: if you go to Andy Reid or Sean Payton, I 1247 01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,920 Speaker 1: expect those guys to do it, and you know what 1248 01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,439 Speaker 1: happens they usually do So to me, it's on Kyle 1249 01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,960 Speaker 1: Shanahan to fix that. That's on him, like he has 1250 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,040 Speaker 1: to be able to coach up that position. And I 1251 01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:37,080 Speaker 1: would say on something like throwing mechanics, it's not something 1252 01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,640 Speaker 1: you can do overnight, so once you get in the season, 1253 01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,200 Speaker 1: there's no changing It's like once you get out on 1254 01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,800 Speaker 1: the golf course, there's no changing your swing, and during 1255 01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,080 Speaker 1: the week you're implementing the game plan, so you're not 1256 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:49,160 Speaker 1: going to change his motion until the off season. Now, 1257 01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,320 Speaker 1: I'm not a quarterback coach, but I I would imagine 1258 01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:56,320 Speaker 1: that is the number one off season focus for him. Now. 1259 01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,919 Speaker 1: The forty Niners, for example, have John Beck who play 1260 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,880 Speaker 1: for Kyle, who's a B y U guy who trains 1261 01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,520 Speaker 1: guys in this offense. I would use him in the 1262 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,000 Speaker 1: time when it's not allowed to work with your quarterback 1263 01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:13,480 Speaker 1: February March April. He's working on the mechanics and then 1264 01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:15,400 Speaker 1: when he comes back to me for O T A 1265 01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:18,760 Speaker 1: S we start doubling down on that. It is an 1266 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,760 Speaker 1: off season project. Now, if I need guys to work 1267 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:27,880 Speaker 1: on specific things, little things route running, catching the ball, footwork, 1268 01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:32,360 Speaker 1: pass processs. Were hammering that home in practice, we can 1269 01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:35,080 Speaker 1: work on that stuff. D A practice. So I think 1270 01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:38,080 Speaker 1: you show him on the video, you you coach him 1271 01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:39,960 Speaker 1: up on the board, and then you coach him up 1272 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,760 Speaker 1: on the field, and you just do that relentlessly. So 1273 01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,640 Speaker 1: if Trey Lance, you know, let's say, like his first game, 1274 01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,160 Speaker 1: he wasn't seeing it that well his progressions, like, you 1275 01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,240 Speaker 1: can work on that through the season, right, That's what 1276 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,960 Speaker 1: a coach does. There is a balance with young players. It. 1277 01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,160 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan mentioned that this week Aaron Banks, they took 1278 01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:01,120 Speaker 1: him in the second round, UH, guard from Notre Dame, 1279 01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,720 Speaker 1: who questionable pick because I don't think he's a scheme fit. 1280 01:06:04,160 --> 01:06:07,080 Speaker 1: But one thing Kyle said is he's not been active 1281 01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,760 Speaker 1: for any games. They use him as a starting guard 1282 01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,479 Speaker 1: for the scout team, and his reps in the scout team, 1283 01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,320 Speaker 1: he was saying, are very valuable. It gets him in shape, 1284 01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,560 Speaker 1: it keeps him, you know, learned the offense because a 1285 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,480 Speaker 1: lot of teams that they play run zone concepts, and 1286 01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,680 Speaker 1: he he was saying, it's a big value for him 1287 01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:28,240 Speaker 1: to improve. So you can improve, you know, little things 1288 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,640 Speaker 1: in practice. To me, a complete change would be like 1289 01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,680 Speaker 1: changing a hit or swing, you know, justin Turner and 1290 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:38,040 Speaker 1: some of those guys in baseball have the thing where 1291 01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,880 Speaker 1: they time Josh Donaldson have this too, where you time 1292 01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,440 Speaker 1: the pitch with your front step. A lot of golfers 1293 01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:45,600 Speaker 1: changed their golf swing. You don't change your golf swing 1294 01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:49,240 Speaker 1: during the season. That's an offseason project. And then you 1295 01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:52,400 Speaker 1: kind of you hone it in because you you were humans. 1296 01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,320 Speaker 1: We go back to muscle memory, and when you go 1297 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,680 Speaker 1: back to muscle memory, you go back to what you're 1298 01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,840 Speaker 1: used to. Just listening to you talk about how hot 1299 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:04,080 Speaker 1: Herbert's first twenty games are. Then classifying Alan, Mahomes and 1300 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:07,520 Speaker 1: Herbert as the faces of the league, always smiling, I 1301 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:10,280 Speaker 1: couldn't help but think about Lamar coming off last night 1302 01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,720 Speaker 1: in his first twenty games and taking the league by storm. 1303 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,560 Speaker 1: Why wasn't he included in your trifecta? He is more 1304 01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:20,040 Speaker 1: accomplished than Alan and Herbert. His character is impeccable. Like 1305 01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:25,160 Speaker 1: I said, he's My core four is Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar, Jackson, 1306 01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:28,040 Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert. Those guys are my core four. That's 1307 01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,440 Speaker 1: my core four of young guys. Deshaun Watson with his 1308 01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,520 Speaker 1: masseuse has got booted out. Until that happened, I would 1309 01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:35,560 Speaker 1: have included him in the group. I can't do that 1310 01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,920 Speaker 1: anymore until he is uh either absolved or we get 1311 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,600 Speaker 1: some more clarity on the situation. But those guys no 1312 01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,800 Speaker 1: issues elite character. When I draft a guy, I want 1313 01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:48,960 Speaker 1: two things. I want to leak talent and I want 1314 01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,640 Speaker 1: to leak character. At quarterback. I can live with questionable 1315 01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:53,640 Speaker 1: character if pass rusher as a wide receiver. As a 1316 01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,959 Speaker 1: dB quarterback, I need the whole fucking package, and those 1317 01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:02,640 Speaker 1: guys are the whole package. Now. Lamar is dramatically better 1318 01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,200 Speaker 1: today than he was four years ago, because when he 1319 01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:08,160 Speaker 1: first got in the league, he was not a great 1320 01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,680 Speaker 1: pastor of the football. It's where I have so much 1321 01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:12,720 Speaker 1: admiration for him and anyone that's been listening to the 1322 01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,840 Speaker 1: show for a while. I was not a Lamar Jackson 1323 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:18,080 Speaker 1: guy because I don't do inaccurate quarterbacks. I'm out, well 1324 01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:21,000 Speaker 1: he's become. He just went thirty seven three. You know 1325 01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:25,160 Speaker 1: his accuracy is actually a point of difference now for him, 1326 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,800 Speaker 1: So yeah, I include him in the group. Do you 1327 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,200 Speaker 1: think John gruden emails would have been released if he 1328 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,719 Speaker 1: had never taken the Raider's job and stayed on Monday 1329 01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:36,799 Speaker 1: Night football. I think that could have been very interesting. 1330 01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:39,479 Speaker 1: Had he stayed at ESPN and the email still got released. 1331 01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I honestly can't answer that question. 1332 01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,880 Speaker 1: The biggest reason I think the emails were released. Uh 1333 01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:49,479 Speaker 1: it's sad as this. His were not because of the content. 1334 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:51,840 Speaker 1: I mean, they knew the content, what the reaction was, 1335 01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,920 Speaker 1: But it was because he worked for the Raiders. I 1336 01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,599 Speaker 1: think they and because Roger Goodell he had called him 1337 01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,400 Speaker 1: the words that he had called him. I think Roger Goodell, 1338 01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,719 Speaker 1: my theory, was coming after him hate wants Mark Davis 1339 01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,920 Speaker 1: out and wanted John Gruden out. That's what I think happened. 1340 01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,840 Speaker 1: If that, If that was again, let's let's just use 1341 01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,879 Speaker 1: this example. Let's say Pete Carroll had written those emails. 1342 01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,680 Speaker 1: I don't think they get released. I think it was 1343 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,640 Speaker 1: because John Gruden and the Raiders. I think it was 1344 01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,240 Speaker 1: the individual and when you put a target on your 1345 01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:26,800 Speaker 1: back and listen, whether it's the money you make, whether 1346 01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,880 Speaker 1: it's just being an asshole. Uh. You know, I think 1347 01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:31,880 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that did not like 1348 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,880 Speaker 1: John Gruden. I've never met John Gruden, never had an 1349 01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,920 Speaker 1: interaction with him, but I know for a fact a 1350 01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,639 Speaker 1: lot of people don't like him. And when a lot 1351 01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,360 Speaker 1: of people don't like you, people are gonna come after you. 1352 01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:46,200 Speaker 1: And the more money you make. And he ain't Jeff Bezos, right, 1353 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:51,080 Speaker 1: he ain't. Uh, he doesn't own anything. He's an employee. Now, 1354 01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:55,280 Speaker 1: he's a highly paid employee, made hundreds of millions of dollars. 1355 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,840 Speaker 1: But he answers to someone. Now, technically we all answer 1356 01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,120 Speaker 1: to someone, even if you own a business. But when 1357 01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:05,040 Speaker 1: you're an employee, you ain't controlling anything, especially in the NFL. 1358 01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,960 Speaker 1: For as powerful as Belichick and Andy Reid and Tom 1359 01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,479 Speaker 1: Brady and all these guys are. They work for people. 1360 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,240 Speaker 1: There's a reason Dan Cider they can't touch him. He 1361 01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:16,719 Speaker 1: owns his team. He writes the checks, He writes the checks. 1362 01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,519 Speaker 1: His name is signed at the bottom of the check. 1363 01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:20,639 Speaker 1: Whether it's a Hunter million dollar check or whether it's 1364 01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:23,000 Speaker 1: a hundred dollar check. He writes every single check. Now, 1365 01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,559 Speaker 1: you know it's all digital, but you know what I mean. So, yeah, 1366 01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:30,080 Speaker 1: I think it was a Gruden you know. I mean again, 1367 01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,880 Speaker 1: you can't write that. But if some other people had 1368 01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:36,080 Speaker 1: wrote that, I think we can ask ourselves. Does that 1369 01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:39,080 Speaker 1: come out? I don't know. I don't think it does. 1370 01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:41,439 Speaker 1: I think it was a Gruden and a Raider thing. 1371 01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:43,880 Speaker 1: And I know a lot of Raider fans, even that 1372 01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:47,240 Speaker 1: didn't like John Gruden, feel it's unfair. Why did we 1373 01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,040 Speaker 1: get taken out? And I think goes back to your owner. 1374 01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:54,839 Speaker 1: They want him gone. Think how valuable if the Oakland Raiders, 1375 01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:58,960 Speaker 1: excuse me, the Las Vegas Raiders, we're just thrown out 1376 01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,200 Speaker 1: like the Carolina Answers a couple of years ago, David 1377 01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:05,200 Speaker 1: Tepper pay two point two billion dollars two point two 1378 01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:11,679 Speaker 1: billion dollars in Charlotte. What is the Raiders franchise worth 1379 01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,800 Speaker 1: to the league in Vegas? Do you think they want 1380 01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:18,400 Speaker 1: the least powerful owner you could argue in all of sports, 1381 01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:23,040 Speaker 1: but definitely in the NFL to run a valuable property 1382 01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:28,800 Speaker 1: in this the gambling mecca of America, an economy that's 1383 01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,280 Speaker 1: kind of booming, like that area is just gonna boom. 1384 01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:37,000 Speaker 1: They want him gone, and whether Gruden you know, I don't. 1385 01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,840 Speaker 1: I guess the pushback on that theory is. I mean, 1386 01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,760 Speaker 1: it's not a theory, it's it's a fact. They want 1387 01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:47,200 Speaker 1: Mark Davis gone. But going after Gruden would mess with Mark. 1388 01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,559 Speaker 1: I don't really know, Like Mark had nothing to do 1389 01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:53,360 Speaker 1: with this, but I'm pretty confident. They're doing everything humanly 1390 01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:56,479 Speaker 1: possible to get everyone out of there. They want to 1391 01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,840 Speaker 1: blow it all up. They want to they want to 1392 01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,840 Speaker 1: get a hold of that franch eyes in place a 1393 01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:04,760 Speaker 1: David Tepper like guy to run that franchise. They want 1394 01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:06,479 Speaker 1: to do the same thing with Dan Snyder. There are 1395 01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,880 Speaker 1: three franchises. To me, they're all worth five billion plus 1396 01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:12,880 Speaker 1: right if they hit the open market. There were five 1397 01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,639 Speaker 1: billion plus the Red Skin, the football team, the Raiders, 1398 01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,600 Speaker 1: and the Denver Broncos. Me personally, if you said you 1399 01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:23,720 Speaker 1: could pick one of those three franchises, I would one 1400 01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,040 Speaker 1: pick the Denver Broncos. I'd ski in the winner, I'd 1401 01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:28,720 Speaker 1: play a bunch of golf in the summer, and I 1402 01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,679 Speaker 1: live like a king. Great fan base, rich fan base, 1403 01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:36,160 Speaker 1: great area. Uh. You know that there is a toxicity 1404 01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:39,280 Speaker 1: with the Raiders and the football team that it would 1405 01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:42,160 Speaker 1: just be hard to scrub out. Now sometimes, you know, 1406 01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,920 Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch of mob movies. You kill someone, 1407 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,320 Speaker 1: you throw that bleach down. There's a lot of bleach 1408 01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:50,080 Speaker 1: you gotta throw all over those buildings, even the in 1409 01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:53,839 Speaker 1: the Raiders buildings brand new, but boom, they've been there 1410 01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:58,160 Speaker 1: too a year and a half this already happens. You 1411 01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:01,920 Speaker 1: just can't shake it. It just it's the ultimate Raider story. 1412 01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:05,400 Speaker 1: It's always the Raiders, it really is. And the irony 1413 01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:07,200 Speaker 1: here is like he wasn't even a Raider when he 1414 01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:11,280 Speaker 1: was doing this. Hey, John, question was looking to start 1415 01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:14,439 Speaker 1: gambling online and I live in Kentucky. From what I've googled, 1416 01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,240 Speaker 1: it appears to be legal here. I've wondered if you 1417 01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,200 Speaker 1: knew if there was entirely true if I wanted to 1418 01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:22,040 Speaker 1: gamble through FanDuel or Fox Sports PET. I heard Stucky 1419 01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:24,320 Speaker 1: on the show recently say he is in Lexington, and 1420 01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:27,479 Speaker 1: I recently just moved north of their knowing you gambles, 1421 01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:29,479 Speaker 1: I was curious how I can start as well. You 1422 01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,479 Speaker 1: go to FanDuel dot com and or download the FanDuel app, 1423 01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,960 Speaker 1: use the promo code column. Get your gamble on if 1424 01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:39,080 Speaker 1: you live in FanDuel right there, Lexic, Kentucky, get it on, baby. Okay. 1425 01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,400 Speaker 1: Last question, now that Gruden is gone, it's not like 1426 01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:45,639 Speaker 1: Olsen is some dynamic play color. We as Raider fans, 1427 01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,200 Speaker 1: learned that in two thousand fourteen. So if it were you, 1428 01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,559 Speaker 1: would you let Derek call the game from the line 1429 01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:55,439 Speaker 1: and the huddle. Uh I I don't know. I mean, 1430 01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:58,640 Speaker 1: unless you're like Rogers or Brady or Manning, I do. 1431 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,439 Speaker 1: I want my quarterback calling every play. Part of the 1432 01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:04,120 Speaker 1: reason these coaches called plays is because they watch like 1433 01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,720 Speaker 1: seventy five million hours of film. So there is an 1434 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,640 Speaker 1: advantage to having a play caller if they know what 1435 01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:11,240 Speaker 1: they're doing. Now I can't speak if they call him 1436 01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:15,200 Speaker 1: only if if Greg Olsen is named Greg Olson, thinks 1437 01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,640 Speaker 1: his name's first name Olson, Uh, whatever his first name is. 1438 01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:20,519 Speaker 1: If I just call him only if he's a good 1439 01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:22,040 Speaker 1: play caller or not. We're gonna find out now their 1440 01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,639 Speaker 1: offensive line is terrible. I would mesh it. I would 1441 01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:26,840 Speaker 1: do things that Derek's comfortable with, and I would try 1442 01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:30,040 Speaker 1: to influence the callson place philosophically. You know, he's worked 1443 01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:32,120 Speaker 1: for Dennis Allen, He's worked for Sean McVeigh, he's worked 1444 01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:35,360 Speaker 1: for John Gruden. Maybe their offense looks different. I don't know. 1445 01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:38,679 Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see tough first game playing Denver, playing 1446 01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Vic Fangio, good luck, good luck. Especially they're coming off 1447 01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,679 Speaker 1: a couple of losses too, so it's gonna be difficult. 1448 01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:49,240 Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening. I want you to have a great weekend. 1449 01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,200 Speaker 1: I want you to smile, maybe have a few cocktails. 1450 01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:54,360 Speaker 1: You know, nothing wrong with a good cocktail on the weekends. 1451 01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:56,960 Speaker 1: Get a little chilly even where I'm at. And uh, 1452 01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:01,000 Speaker 1: I'll see you guys Monday exclusively. I'm three now podcast feed. 1453 01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,240 Speaker 1: Subscribe to that. Go subscribe right now. Also, if you 1454 01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,280 Speaker 1: could leave a review, I'd appreciate it five stars if 1455 01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:07,880 Speaker 1: you like it, And I'll talk to everyone soon. Peace. 1456 01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:31,000 Speaker 1: The Volume