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Speaker 1: strong A hot Thursday. It's uh coming from uh Thursday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: But we got some football to talk about as well. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone, if you're listening to this, you're probably

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Speaker 1: a sports fan. I'm sure you've loosely followed some of

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Speaker 1: the things that are going on with baseball, some of

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Speaker 1: it just kind of puts everything in perspective again. With

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Speaker 1: some clowney news, Jay Gruden, Flacco uh, and then of course,

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Speaker 1: in quarantine, you got some time to think and uh

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Speaker 1: Let's start with this. I'm a huge sports fan. You know.

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Speaker 1: I love football I talked about earlier this week. I

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Speaker 1: it's gone down a bad kind of It's just taken

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Speaker 1: they think works on Twitter, it doesn't work in reality,

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Speaker 1: and I'm their base. I grew up on Michael Jordan's

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Speaker 1: the sport. And you see both the leagues right now

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Speaker 1: are having major issues. In the NFL for a long

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Speaker 1: period of time, got destroyed every turn, and some of

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Speaker 1: it was, you know, self induced, right Roger brought some

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Speaker 1: Ray Rice video and suspended them for two games, like,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is so greedy, Yes, so is every business

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Speaker 1: of been. I always hate that term greed because it

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Speaker 1: It is their job. No different than if you sell

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Speaker 1: But the team that Trent played on to where he's

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Speaker 1: going to now huge upgrade. But the the the easiest

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Speaker 1: I mean there to me, there wasn't even a discussion

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Speaker 1: for the number one move this offseason. The Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: had an overpaid injured running back, a guy scheduled to

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Speaker 1: make ten million dollars as toxic of a contract as

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Speaker 1: you could find in the NFL. There is not a

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Speaker 1: team in the league I thought that would take on

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Speaker 1: a contract for David Johnson at that amount of money.

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Speaker 1: Not a team, let alone, to use that guy to

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Speaker 1: get a wide receiver who's had plus catches in four

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Speaker 1: out of the last five years, who is consistently one

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Speaker 1: of the best non quarterbacks in the league, who we've

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Speaker 1: seen playing playoff games in that Bill's game you took

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Speaker 1: over last year. So you're telling me that I can

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Speaker 1: trade my crappy asset and just a second round pick

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Speaker 1: for one of the best wide receivers in the league,

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Speaker 1: and I have a young star quarterback in DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: Like when I wrote down that deal getting ready for

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Speaker 1: this segment, I was like, I don't even think this

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Speaker 1: makes sense. So you're telling me that I get to

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Speaker 1: unload my running back that not another team in the

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Speaker 1: league would take. The team wouldn't take it, Like you

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Speaker 1: couldn't be like, hey, I'll just send David Johnson your

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Speaker 1: way and a box of balls and some bottles of wine.

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Speaker 1: You'd be like, now we're good. Now wait, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to send anything back. Now, yeah, just you keep it.

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Speaker 1: We're good. Send the wine if you want, but keep

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Speaker 1: the running back and you've got DeAndre Hopkins. I it

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Speaker 1: really is crazy and this notion, and it always bothers me.

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Speaker 1: He didn't practice hard, Bill. I don't give a crap.

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Speaker 1: I I just don't. He's had over two hundred catches

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Speaker 1: the last two years. You depend on this guy to

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Speaker 1: win the division every year, So you're getting a running

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Speaker 1: back who's always injured for ten million dollars. It just

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Speaker 1: doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense. So that's

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Speaker 1: by far my favorite move because it's it's one of

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Speaker 1: the easiest moves you will ever see in NFL history. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it might be the easiest trade in NFL history. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the one year I guess that I forget who traded him.

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Speaker 1: When the Saints traded their entire draft for Ricky Williams,

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Speaker 1: that might be the easiest trade for the I forget

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Speaker 1: even the team, but Hopkins for a second round pick

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Speaker 1: who's under contract, and uh, David Johnson's bloated contract. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense when you say it out loud.

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Speaker 1: So one, I'm going David or DeAndre Hopkins for David

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Speaker 1: Johnson too, I'm going Trent Williams. The Niners bucks Eyde

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Speaker 1: and Brady. Three, Eagles get Darius Slay for peanuts four

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Speaker 1: and digs of the Bills. Five. My five favorite moves

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Okay, let's bang out a couple of topics

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Speaker 1: that arose during the week. First, Schefter said that Clowney

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Speaker 1: has turned down an offer from the Cleveland Browns, given

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Speaker 1: the most money to date that he's been offered. I

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Speaker 1: don't really understand Clowney's endgame. I don't quite get the

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Speaker 1: tactic here from him and his agents. They're waiting for

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Speaker 1: some like Khalil Mack, Aaron Donald offer. It's just not coming.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Browns Seattles, these teams are offering your money.

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Speaker 1: What do you want? You want to win, you want

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Speaker 1: your money, I will. I don't get it. You just

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Speaker 1: not want to sign. It's not like there's practice going

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Speaker 1: on right now. It just I don't. I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: I really don't. Uh. He's a solid player. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you were getting get like great hum one to ten.

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Speaker 1: I you know, if if like Khalil Mack, Nick Bosa,

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Speaker 1: you know, the top top edge rushers are like, you know, tens,

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Speaker 1: nine and a half tens. Clowney can have games where

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Speaker 1: he's a nine, but I'd say overall, if you're getting

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Speaker 1: a guy for sixteen games, he's probably like a seven

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Speaker 1: and a half now with a couple of nines thrown

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Speaker 1: in there and a couple of fives where he just

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Speaker 1: mails it in and he has some injury history. But

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Speaker 1: he's he's a solid player. The problem is he thinks

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Speaker 1: he's some great players, so you gotta pay him all

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Speaker 1: this money and teams this isn't Night seven. Teams get it.

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Speaker 1: They have unlimited film, they have unlimited data, they have

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Speaker 1: unlimited analytics like I'm sorry, clowney. We uh, we know

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Speaker 1: who you are, So either sign a contract or just

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Speaker 1: don't sign a contract. I mean, I don't necessarily care.

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Speaker 1: I just don't get what he's doing. Jay Gruden, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he was just talking how much he likes Gardner Minshew.

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Speaker 1: Everyone acts like the Jacks are really gonna suck, and

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Speaker 1: they might. But what if Minshew is actually not bad?

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Speaker 1: Now once he kind of after the first couple of

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Speaker 1: games last year, it kind of settled down. I like him. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's just a fun kind of story. Uh. If it

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Speaker 1: wasn't from Mike Leach. I mean, he would have been

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Speaker 1: a coach at Alabama. Now he's just starting quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the NFL two years later. But we'll see. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I I think Jay Gruden, if the offense looks good

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Speaker 1: and the team sucks, fired, Doug Moron hired j Gruden,

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Speaker 1: I think that would be on the table. Levian Bell

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Speaker 1: said that, Uh, he's excited to run behind the new

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Speaker 1: offensive line. I don't blame him. Last year was a joke. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Levian Bell did one of the dumbest things I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen when he held out the entire season. He gave

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Speaker 1: up fourteen million dollars, but uh, he was not. He's

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Speaker 1: an excellent player, and what we saw last year is

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Speaker 1: no indication of him as a player that their team

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Speaker 1: on offense, especially when the quarterback got Mono, the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: the weapons, it was a joke. And I think if

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Speaker 1: they can get just some more explosiveness from their passing games,

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Speaker 1: Sam could just take a big step. He needs to.

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Speaker 1: He should eat a little bit. And you know, the

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Speaker 1: Jets are one of those teams that wouldn't shock me

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Speaker 1: if they're a little more competitive this year. Now I

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Speaker 1: don't see playoffs. I don't think that roster is good enough,

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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't just write them off. The fourth and

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Speaker 1: fifteen rule, I wrote it down before it got I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it got leaked. He just got reported

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Speaker 1: that the rule failed. So that fourth and fifteen rule

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Speaker 1: at the end of a game, if you're down like

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Speaker 1: ten points, that you can go for fourth and fifteen

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Speaker 1: on the it didn't pass. The thing I wrote down

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Speaker 1: is they weren't gonna allow it in overtime, and I

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Speaker 1: got thinking, like, how would you even overtime? What are

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Speaker 1: you guys talking about if you're if you're down three points,

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Speaker 1: like you're gonna go for it no matter what, right

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Speaker 1: unless you're gonna kick the field goal, and if you're

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Speaker 1: down a touchdown, the game's over. It wouldn't even be

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Speaker 1: applicable to overtime. But regardless, that got thrown away. I

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Speaker 1: didn't hate the rule, um, but I really don't think

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Speaker 1: the NFL needs that much more excitement. Most of their

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Speaker 1: games are pretty tight anyway. Joe Flacco signs with the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I saw a headline that said he will not be

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Speaker 1: ready week one, But what I read Joe Flacco said

549
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Speaker 1: is he won't be ready day one. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if day one means training camp that that's the

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Speaker 1: way I take it week one. Who knows? Uh. Joe

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Speaker 1: Flacco feels like he's holding it on right now, like

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Speaker 1: the end of his career, right around the corner. He

554
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Speaker 1: went that one year where he didn't sign the contract

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Speaker 1: and won the super Bowl and got that historic money

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Speaker 1: to kind of just being average average Joe. You know

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Speaker 1: what what is? You know? I just that might that'd

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Speaker 1: be his nickname, average Joe. And right now he's below average.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was terrible last year. Now he was

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Speaker 1: injured neck whatever, but he just he hasn't been good

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Speaker 1: in a long time. No mini camps. It was reported

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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago Charles Robinson said that some

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Speaker 1: of the NFL there was rumors in the NFL league

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Speaker 1: office there might be a mini camp in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the June. The problem with that. Football is not

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Speaker 1: like basketball, where if I just got my team together,

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Speaker 1: I could run a practice or run a scrimmage in

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Speaker 1: the open gym. Even if if if I ran the

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Speaker 1: New York Yankees, well, if I got my thirty guys

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Speaker 1: to the diamond, it'd be pretty easy, right. We'd send

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Speaker 1: all the pictures to go throw a bullpen. You'd send

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Speaker 1: all your hitters to go BP. You could do some infield,

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Speaker 1: you could do some outfield. It's not that complicated to

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Speaker 1: run a football team. It's pretty complicated. You have to

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Speaker 1: install plays, the offense, the defense. And in football you've

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Speaker 1: got these ninety man rosters. You've got all these rookies.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on. There's a reason you

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Speaker 1: have a rookie mini camp. You got new coaches, you

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Speaker 1: all these moving parts O. T A. S. You kind

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Speaker 1: of got a plan way ahead. You couldn't all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, go there's a mini camp this weekend. Coaches

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Speaker 1: are not coaches or creatures that have it. Coaches are

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Speaker 1: big preparers. You couldn't just all of a sudden say well,

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Speaker 1: in a week, we're doing a mini camp. They'd be like,

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Speaker 1: what we've We've been doing two hours zoom meetings. What

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Speaker 1: the hell are we gonna do now? They would probably

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Speaker 1: do more mental stuff. But it's pretty clear that the

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Speaker 1: coaches and general managers pushed back on that and be like,

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Speaker 1: you can't give us a week heads up that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a mini camp. Not that that was even

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Speaker 1: feasible anyway, with all the different rules in the different cities,

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Speaker 1: but that's clearly not going down. The other thing I

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Speaker 1: saw today is that the injured reserve. It was either

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Speaker 1: last year or two years ago. I think it was.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Actually it might have been last year

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Speaker 1: that they finally allowed you you to be able to

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Speaker 1: pull one guy off of injured reserve, which is always

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Speaker 1: kind of stupid. Like in baseball, I can put a

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Speaker 1: guy in the d L now, depending if it's a

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Speaker 1: ten day, fifteen day, sixty day, whatever. I mean, there

601
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Speaker 1: are different lengths. I can always bring up back in football.

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Speaker 1: It's like I r him and then he can't come back.

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Speaker 1: Like not everyone tears a c L, some guys just

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Speaker 1: a high ankle spraining. I want to get rid of

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Speaker 1: him for a month, have him rehab, use a guy

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Speaker 1: on his roster spot, and then bring him back. I

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Speaker 1: think three guys on the I R. Why can't it

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Speaker 1: be unlimited? Like I'd have to ask someone in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I don't what's the logic behind that. Who's hurting? You're

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Speaker 1: paying these guys anyway? Wouldn't you rather have the guys

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Speaker 1: you're the starters to be able to come back then?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Joe Blow, the practice squad guy, when

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Speaker 1: you're starting running back, you're starting corners on injured reserve,

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Speaker 1: and he's ready to roll and it's November one, that

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Speaker 1: rule is always I'd be fascinated to talk to some

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Speaker 1: old school guy to find out the the like the

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Speaker 1: origin of that rule, where it was even conceived, because

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't it doesn't add up. And you know

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Speaker 1: they've now did the one guy, now did the three guy.

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Speaker 1: I think they should keep it at three players. That

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Speaker 1: just makes logical sense to me. Okay, let's uh, let's

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Speaker 1: dive into the Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff Instagram handle.

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Speaker 1: Also my Twitter handle, also my name, the easiest way

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Speaker 1: to find me my my air conditioning. No big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's like a hunter and two outside. It's gone down

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Speaker 1: during the podcast. Luckily, you know, I can get up

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Speaker 1: during segments, and it's a podcast. I can do whatever

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Speaker 1: I want. I tried to. I'm not Mr Handyman. I

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Speaker 1: got no clue what to do. But it's out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting air, it's hot air. I'm sweating, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, luckily that this is like remember Emman Smith

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Speaker 1: played the NFC Championship game with a with a broken

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Speaker 1: collar bone. You know, we've seen guys toughing out with

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Speaker 1: high ankles brains. That would be the equivalent of a

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Speaker 1: podcaster air conditioner going down, I think in triple digits sweating. Uh,

636
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Speaker 1: don't worry though, I'm I'm a mentally tough s ob

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Speaker 1: Sam How North Carolina quarterback number one pick in two years?

638
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Speaker 1: No clue. I haven't seen him take a snap. Actually,

639
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: I watched a little North Carolina last year with Mac Brown,

640
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: trying to remember they have a big upset win. I

641
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: think they played Clemson tight. Yeah, he didn't look bad.

642
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: Was he a true freshman this year? I actually remember

643
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: watching the game and they were talking about him. It

644
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: feels like Max recruiting really well. I think a lot

645
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: of people kind of laughed at the higher but it's

646
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: it's it's going pretty well. And uh, yeah, I don't know,

647
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: but I saw Daniel Jeremiah tweeting about North Dakota State

648
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: has a guy that's like the next Carson Wentz. Michigan

649
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 1: can't find a quarterback. North Dakota State has another dude

650
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: that I saw DJ tweet out he thought he's the best,

651
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: better prospect than Trevor Lawrence. It's like, where are they

652
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: finding these guys? Uh, just started listening to have been

653
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: enjoying your content. Appreciate it. Hard to say Giants future

654
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: isn't bright. Average AGA players is like twenty five. Let

655
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: me know how you see them doing this year in

656
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: the future. What do you expect from Joe Judge, Danny Dimes. Well,

657
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: I don't think we can call Danny Dimes Danny Dime

658
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: when he had like a million fumbles and really was

659
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: pretty average. Now old Lion was terrible. Coach sucked. Uh,

660
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: they had a lot of moving parts, right, so it's

661
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: it's hard blank slate this year. Let's just see what

662
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: he's got. He clearly is pretty talented. He's athletic, his

663
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: arm is strong enough. I'm interested to watch him play.

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Speaker 1: I someone asked me last week on the Middlecoff mail bag,

665
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: do you think he's a franchise quarterback? I used to

666
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: get this a lot in my report card. Incomplete. I

667
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: would just put it incomplete. I don't. I don't know.

668
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: I don't think he's trending one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: He's a second year guy, tough circumstances, filling in for Eli.

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't really have an opinion on him.

671
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Speaker 1: Um My, my buddies that did the SEC liked him

672
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: coming out of Duke. I don't know if they liked

673
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Speaker 1: him at six overall, but they thought he was a

674
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Speaker 1: good player. Joe Judge felt really impressive when I met

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Speaker 1: him at the combine. My issue though, young, tough guy. Uh,

676
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: It's tough sometimes, man, it really is. Look look at

677
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: the young coaches that have success. Kyle McVeigh. Uh. Trying

678
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: to think other coaches in the league in this modern

679
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: day in sports. I don't know if you can come

680
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: in like Bill Parcels when you're in your thirties and

681
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: you go, well, where'd you come from? Oh, you're the

682
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: special team's coach. For Belichick, I think that's tough. I

683
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: get it's his personality. But if he lightens up a

684
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Speaker 1: little bit, I think I think he has a chance.

685
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: Clearly he's learned from Sabing, He's learned from Belichick. So

686
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: if he's taking good notes and he has a good memory,

687
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: he's had a front row seat for two of the Goats,

688
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: so he comes from great great. You know the last

689
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: two coaching stops. You can't ask for anything more. Love

690
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: the three and out and appreciate your big picture nobs analysis.

691
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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. What is your opinion on the difficulty of

692
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: back to back Super Bowl wins in the NFL? It

693
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: hasn't happened since the mid two thousand Patriots, and it

694
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Speaker 1: seems more difficult to do in football than other sports,

695
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Speaker 1: i e. The NBA. Do you think it's mostly competitive,

696
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: the competitiveness of the league, injuries, salary caps or what?

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Speaker 1: Would love to hear your general thoughts on the Chiefs

698
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: chances to go back to back. Well, I'm trying to

699
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: think as it happened, hasn't happen in baseball in a

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Speaker 1: while either. I think in basketball there are two or

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00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: three teams that are just dramatically better than everyone else,

702
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: and you play series. Right, It's like you never see

703
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: back to back champs really in college basketball, because think

704
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: how hard it is to win six straight games. You're

705
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: one and done. When basketball, I get seven games series,

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00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: it's if I if I got Kevin Durant, Steph Curry,

707
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: Clay Thompson and Draymond Green, I'm gonna win. Right. It

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00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: took seven injuries for them to lose. They would have

709
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: they would have won three straight because they had the

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Speaker 1: best team by a mile, even though the reality is

711
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: by the end they kind of hated each other, not

712
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 1: hate each other, but we're ready to go their separate ways.

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00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: In football, even if you got Brady Belichick, Gronk and

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Speaker 1: all those great players, all it takes. It doesn't even

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Speaker 1: just take one bad game. What if you just have

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Speaker 1: one bad quarter, What if you just have one bad

717
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: turnover in the second half, What if you just have

718
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: a pass rusher go off sides? Like there's a chance

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00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are back to back champs right now, because

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Speaker 1: I know for a fact. I mean it's I don't

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Speaker 1: think anyone listening would argue this. The winner of that

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Speaker 1: Chief's Patriot Game was gonna beat Sean McVeigh. He no chance.

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Speaker 1: He scored three points in Super Bowl. Now, what do

724
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Speaker 1: you have scored more against the Chiefs? Sure, but the

725
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Speaker 1: Chiefs were a better team. That was the Super Bowl.

726
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Speaker 1: Now with the Chiefs of one of this year, who

727
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: knows football? I think it's less based on salary cap

728
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: because good teams. Steelers made the playoffs every year. The

729
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: Chiefs have been making the playoffs every year. Seattle has

730
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: been making the playoffs every year. Now. Injuries are a

731
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: big factor, but just one and done. It's just you

732
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: only get one shot. You get sixty minutes. Right in basketball,

733
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Speaker 1: you can mail in game four, who cares if you're

734
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Speaker 1: up three nothing or if you're up three one like

735
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: so what you lose? Game five? Yeah, Game six and

736
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Speaker 1: maybe if you're the team with that doesn't have home court,

737
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Speaker 1: you get a home game. Game six, you win it,

738
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Speaker 1: you're done. I think that's just a huge factor. It's

739
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Speaker 1: just the is the setup of the sport. It's just

740
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Speaker 1: you get you get one shot. The real question is

741
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Speaker 1: Why is everyone so low on Ryan Tannehill. He played

742
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: for a bummy Dolphins franchise. He was elite of Texas

743
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: and m elite would be strong. Everyone seems to forget that.

744
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: When did he not deliver it when he was asked

745
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: to do this season at Colin picked Dac over Ryan Tannehill.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Dac is a bottom five seven quarterback,

747
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: five to seven quarterback in the league. I think they're

748
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: probably pretty similar. Like if you put Ryan Tannehill on Dallas,

749
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: I think you'd get a similar result. If you put

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00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: Dak on the Tennessee Titans, you get a similar result.

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00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: I would probably take Dak. Uh he's been more reliable.

752
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: I mean Tannehill gets hurt. Tannie has been injured multiple

753
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: times like that. That to me factors in. But yeah,

754
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean I think Ryan Tannehill solid. Let's see him

755
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: do it back to back years. Like any guy can

756
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: have a good moment right here, you gotta have good seasons.

757
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: And I'm not the biggest that guy, but can you

758
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: do it back to back? Here? What Russell Wilson, what

759
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: mahomes Lamar now has put together back to back good seasons? Uh?

760
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: You know I'm trying to think of other quarterbacks in

761
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: this league that are I mean, obviously Brady Rivers in

762
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Speaker 1: it for a long time. I don't know if he does,

763
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: Like can Jimmy Garoppolo have another good season? We're gonna

764
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: find out. Time's gonna tell. How did you end up

765
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: getting the podcast on all platforms? Like? What is your

766
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: journalism story? Love the pod? By the way, Well, I'm

767
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: not a journalist. I'm just a guy that talks. I

768
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: I don't view myself as a journalist at all. If anything,

769
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: I'm a businessman. I sell my opinions. Uh. I got

770
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 1: my podcast on all platforms because we loaded on all platforms.

771
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: All right. You know I got this podcast because I

772
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: met coming through Twitter and he gave me an opportunity

773
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: to a podcast. I have another podcast that was just

774
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: a radio show that we left radio and we went

775
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: digital and we just load them up. There's never been

776
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: an easier time if you want to get into this stuff.

777
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: Just talk, have opinions, the opinion business selves, you know,

778
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: I mean it always has, but it's never sold more

779
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: than it does now now. Also, you know, you can't

780
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Speaker 1: just be like every you know person. You gotta have

781
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: just be yourself right. I I'm just a big believer

782
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: and be like, don't say things that you think you're

783
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Speaker 1: going to get a reaction if you don't believe. I

784
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Speaker 1: I know I can't do that. What I say I believe.

785
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I'm always right. It just might be

786
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Speaker 1: based on my own agenda, my own opinion, whatever, But

787
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Speaker 1: it's what I believe, and I've been able to make

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Speaker 1: a living out of it. Like I I can't be

789
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: And I think I see a lot of people in

790
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: this space that just I don't know, I don't think

791
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Speaker 1: they're real. Now, I also think that people that are

792
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: really real have a lot of success. Like I've always

793
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: whenever I've talked to Colin in person, it's not that

794
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: much different than listen to his radio show. He just

795
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: he is what he is like he he ain't faking it.

796
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: He's not. And I've met other people that just kind

797
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: of fake it on the radio or on the podcast

798
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: or whatever. Like I'm a big Ryan Rasillo guy. He

799
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 1: just says it like it is, just gives his opinion.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think bar Stools made a really good

801
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: They've created a monster by just being raw and real,

802
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: like people ask like what do you do. Like, I'm

803
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: just a raw and real talker. I don't know people

804
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: like you, don't I love your nobs style. I I

805
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: really just I don't even look at it that way.

806
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: I just look at it like this is the way

807
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: I talk. I don't really give a ship. And I

808
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: mean I haven't always been that way. I mean probably

809
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: in my twenties when I was with the Eagles, I

810
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: definitely was. I thought like this, you just have to

811
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Speaker 1: be you can't just kick down the door and give

812
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: your opinions everywhere. I've always had a lot of opinions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've had a lot of opinions since I

814
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: was like five. Used to get told to shut up

815
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: all the time. So part of it it just comes naturally.

816
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: But I didn't go to journalism school. I have an

817
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: ag business degree from cal Poly. You know, I just

818
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: my my dad was a farmer, my mom worked at

819
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: the state capitol. Like, I didn't plan on being like

820
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Speaker 1: a reporter, and I don't view myself as a reporter now.

821
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not. I I mean, I'm technically in

822
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: the media, but I to me, the media has kind

823
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: of gained a negative connotation, regardless what side. Do you

824
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: think politically or even sports wise, it always feels like

825
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: everyone has an agenda. I just try to speak for

826
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: normal people. You know, my friends that watch sports. I

827
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: just try to speak for them the way I I'm

828
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Speaker 1: no different when I was a fan. I mean, I

829
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Speaker 1: still am a fan of sports. I don't I don't

830
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: have like teams per se. I just root for people.

831
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: I know. I throw ship at the wall when a

832
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: guy misses a tackle or strikes out or miss a

833
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 1: three pointer, especially if I'm gambling on it. I get

834
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: just excited as the next guy. And I know the

835
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: way you guys all feel because I am that, and

836
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: I think sometimes the media really loses touch with that

837
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: over the years. Like every game I've gone to the

838
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: last couple of years, I bought a ticket. You couldn't

839
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Speaker 1: pay me to sit sit with the media members anymore.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying I haven't done that, and I have,

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Speaker 1: uh and I like a lot of people in quote

842
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: unquote the media, but I've I feel I'm more a

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Speaker 1: touch and talking to you guys, Like I went to

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Speaker 1: I think three Niners games last year. I sat in

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Speaker 1: the stands, and I think it's really kind of helped

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Speaker 1: balance out my the way I go about this because

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Speaker 1: the fans pay the bills. I tweeted this the other

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Speaker 1: day about like I think, uh in baseball, them going

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Speaker 1: back and forth over money, Like the fans aren't rooting

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Speaker 1: for owners, they're not rooting for players. They're just rooting

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Speaker 1: for the games to come back. They and the fans,

852
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: and the media hates this. They literally pay every bill

853
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Speaker 1: from attendance to television, like the media rights, Well, why

854
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Speaker 1: do you think these media companies pay the leagues? Because

855
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Speaker 1: people watch? Without people watch watching, the products not worth anything.

856
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Speaker 1: But if you get five million people to watch a game,

857
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Speaker 1: your products worth something. If I get a million people

858
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: to listen to this podcast, it's worth a lot more

859
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Speaker 1: than if I get a thousand people, Right, So I'm

860
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Speaker 1: just as strong as the people listening. I think a

861
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Speaker 1: lot of people and the one. The other thing is

862
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 1: like journalism, I think sometimes can be like anti business,

863
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: and I'm very pro business, Like I don't hide from

864
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: I want to make as much money doing this as possible.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my profit margins as high as possible.

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Speaker 1: You know, like this is not I'm not necessarily looking

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Speaker 1: for the truth I'm more looking at fun and they entertained.

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Speaker 1: So I, you know, I don't know. Back to your

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Speaker 1: question about the platforms, I uh, I don't know. I

870
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: don't load this podcast up. Mike does, and uh Havebrman

871
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: does on the other one. Uh So I think you

872
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: just get like a platform and you can just you know,

873
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Speaker 1: you have a host, and then it connects you to

874
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Speaker 1: whether it's Apple or Spotify or whatever. You can just

875
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Speaker 1: click things and it puts you to them all. It's not,

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Speaker 1: from my knowledge, that difficult. When you were answering the

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Speaker 1: questions about the Chargers moving to Salt Lake, you looked

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Speaker 1: at the population and it was a little over two thousand.

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Speaker 1: My question is, how relevant do you think the metro

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Speaker 1: population of a city would be for an NFL franchise

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Speaker 1: moving there. Salt Lake Cities metro is about one point

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Speaker 1: three million. I live about forty five minutes from Salt Lake,

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Speaker 1: and I drive up every weekend to watch an NFL game,

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Speaker 1: and I know a lot of the same people would

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Speaker 1: do the same. It will drink of water here. Good

886
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Speaker 1: question because I said the same thing about Sack the

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Speaker 1: other day. I said, Sacramento, I, you know, had like

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Speaker 1: five thousand people. And then I was playing golf and

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Speaker 1: someone brought up, well, when you factor in the metro area,

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Speaker 1: there's over two million people, and I think that that

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Speaker 1: definitely factors in. Like I don't live in quote unquote

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, I live thirty minutes away. I live forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes away from Levi Stadium where the Niners play.

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Speaker 1: But obviously when the Niners play a game and they

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Speaker 1: say two million people in the Bay Area watched it,

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Speaker 1: I count just like the guy in San jose A counts,

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Speaker 1: just like the guy in Marin County counts. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it counts. So I might have misspoke. Maybe Salt Lake

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Speaker 1: City is more of a destination and an opportunity than

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Speaker 1: I gave it credit for, because I think sometimes when

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Speaker 1: you google, you know city X, and you just go population.

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Speaker 1: If you don't do the metro area, you're not given

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Speaker 1: a proper a proper number. So that's that's fair. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Salt Lake City, if it has

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Speaker 1: that many people will probably be fine. Now are they

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Speaker 1: going to get anything? I don't. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: doubt it. Hey, fan of the pod, heard you talk

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Speaker 1: about who gets more credit between Tom and Bill and

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Speaker 1: I have to push back. Tom was actually pretty good

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Speaker 1: at Michigan. All he did was win big games for them,

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Speaker 1: including a massive comeback against Alabama in the ballgame. Remember

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Speaker 1: that Brady six. Anyway, that aside players play the game,

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Speaker 1: teams are only as good as the players. Bill failed

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Speaker 1: without Parcels. He actually made the playoffs with the Browns,

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Speaker 1: and they were terrible before Tom. He had one winning

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Speaker 1: season when he took over New England and the roster

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Speaker 1: that roster had already gone to a Super Bowl. Well,

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Speaker 1: he took over in two thousand. The roster they went

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl is ninety six, so Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: had been there for three years, so I mean it

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Speaker 1: was I wouldn't say that roster. They went five and

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Speaker 1: eleven and then they were owing two losing the Jets. Now,

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, they're both great and on their own,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have success they had to they they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have had the success they had together. But Tom would

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Speaker 1: have had been successful anywhere he went. You don't find

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Speaker 1: people with that much drive and work ethic. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's even close who is responsible for the dynasty.

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Speaker 1: Even the year people were like argue that the year

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Speaker 1: he got hurt, they went eleven and five. He's the goat.

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Speaker 1: They missed the playoffs after going sixteen and O. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not disputing that Tom Brady is not

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Speaker 1: an absolute superstar and he's the greatest quarterback ever in

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Speaker 1: his work, ethic has dry of his desire, His intangibles

935
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Speaker 1: are off the freaking charts, and you're right, some weird

936
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Speaker 1: circumstances in Michigan. But I've also watched Belichick do incredible

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Speaker 1: things now for twenty years, and we've all watched football,

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Speaker 1: and I think we all agree he's the best tactician

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Speaker 1: we've ever seen. So if you tell me you've got

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Speaker 1: the best tactician you've ever seen, I go that guy

941
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Speaker 1: would be successful on his own. Back to my Brady

942
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Speaker 1: argument is that Brady went in the sixth round, so

943
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Speaker 1: he could have easily gone to a shitty team, the

944
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Speaker 1: Jaguars back in two thousand. I don't know whatever the

945
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Speaker 1: bad teams were back then. The Jack's actually might have

946
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Speaker 1: been all right, I'm sorry, I didn't mean. So, you're

947
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Speaker 1: more like Belichick was gonna find a quarterback and he's

948
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Speaker 1: found multiple sense, right, I mean, he found Jimmy Garoppolo,

949
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Speaker 1: he drafted him. Hell, Jacoby started for a team and

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Speaker 1: was functional, Like you'd have found a guy now, Like

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Speaker 1: I said, would he have won six super Bowls? Out Tom? No?

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Speaker 1: But what do you want a super Bowl? Yes, he's

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Speaker 1: too elite. Would Tom have won a super Bowl? I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's a guarantee because as a quarterback, you

955
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Speaker 1: are dependent on who's calling your plays, who's drafting your

956
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Speaker 1: skill guys, who's playing defense on your team? Is your

957
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Speaker 1: organizational functional? Is your organization functional? I put functional on

958
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Speaker 1: organization didn't quite work? You know what I meant. It's

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Speaker 1: been a long day. I'm hot, so yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: I I'm not disagreeing that Tom more than likely wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been great, But he might not have. He could

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Speaker 1: have gone to the Alliance, he could have gone to

963
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. Belichick would have found a way to win.

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Speaker 1: He's just too good of a coach. It's just like,

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Speaker 1: to me, too good of a quarterback. There have been

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Speaker 1: a lot of talented quarterbacks that just failed. Now, maybe

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Speaker 1: it might have been a weird might have been like

968
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Speaker 1: a rich Gannon type career for Tom, But who knows.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you're six round pick, you don't get

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Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt that long. Think about that,

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Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with you. He could have

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Speaker 1: gone anywhere if he was a high pick. He was

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Speaker 1: a six round pick, so his margin for error would

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Speaker 1: have been really small, really small. Appreciate everyone listening. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say the long weekend, but I guess

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Speaker 1: my mortal day weekend was last weekend. Enjoy the weekend. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Go to Apple's iTunes, leave a review, and appreciate everyone listening.

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Speaker 1: Keep sending me your questions. Appreciate it all, and godspeed.