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Speaker 1: Who would have thought? Uh, things are changing fast. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I I feel like I lost my voice, and I

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Speaker 1: first get a job. But Zack Wilson, which one I

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Speaker 1: thought it was a little crazy e that they just

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Speaker 1: honed in they were gonna take Zack Wilson and didn't

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Speaker 1: even entertain fields and Lance. To me seemed a little crazy,

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Speaker 1: but that was their decision. But I think when you

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Speaker 1: look at Sam Donald, who he made one really really

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Speaker 1: bad decision with the Panthers, I mean against the Saints.

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Speaker 1: Watching that game back, but for the most part, I

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Speaker 1: thought he looked pretty good. And then when you take

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Speaker 1: a look at this guy from basically his entire football career,

437
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Speaker 1: going to college and then going to the Jets, has

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Speaker 1: been in the pressure cooker of the bright lights and

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Speaker 1: basically just been told to save the franchise. That is

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. That is pressure that would have

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Speaker 1: folded me. I was honestly. I mean his maturity level

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Speaker 1: at twenty three years old, I probably didn't even sniff

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Speaker 1: that till my thirties. I can't even relate. I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what that would feel. I'd probably crumble. I

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Speaker 1: think most people listening would crumble. That is a insane

446
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Speaker 1: amount of expectations and people just staring at you to

447
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Speaker 1: give them joy and save what they care about, which

448
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Speaker 1: the USC football group program in the New York Jets

449
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Speaker 1: last night checked. Those are enormous brands. And when he

450
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Speaker 1: got there the Trojans were kind of in shambles. He

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Speaker 1: made Clay Helton. He got Clay Helton an extension because

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Speaker 1: not like that guy's in a good coach. You gotta

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Speaker 1: say this when it comes to Clay Helton, nice guy,

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Speaker 1: bad coach, nice guy, Like, we get it. Can we

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Speaker 1: just say, like, assume you're a nice guy. Can we

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Speaker 1: just get to that point? Most people are pretty good guys,

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Speaker 1: you know we Why do we have to say with

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Speaker 1: Clay Helton and Andy Dalton nice guy? Nice guy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we get it, Like most of my neighbors are nice.

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Speaker 1: Most people I see you're nice. Honestly, let's just call

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Speaker 1: out the ship heads and be like asshole. But I

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Speaker 1: wish we did that more instead of having the preface

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Speaker 1: with a guy who's not any good that we don't

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Speaker 1: want to criticize. Good guy though, But the Jets made

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Speaker 1: a decision that Sam Darnald was not good enough and

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Speaker 1: the Zack Donald or Zach Wilson ultimately was better. And

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Speaker 1: from what I see a Sam Donald, you know, he

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Speaker 1: had a little bit of a Jamis Winston, you know quality.

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Speaker 1: I would say his first couple of years in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: it just felt unhinged. Sometimes, you know, like he was

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Speaker 1: not a great decision maker. He would turn the ball

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Speaker 1: over at rapid rates. He couldn't be trusted. But the

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Speaker 1: guy I see with Matt Rule, he gets to go

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Speaker 1: to just the Charlotte market, which is much more low key.

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Speaker 1: Joe Brady, we saw him make l s U two

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Speaker 1: years ago. Maybe they got something. They have good skill players.

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey's stud d J. Morris is stud. Uh, they just

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Speaker 1: got players. Is it? Is it crazy to think a

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Speaker 1: guy that we know is mentally tough because he handled

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Speaker 1: s C when they were shitty and took him to

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Speaker 1: a Rose Bowl. He handled the Jets as best as

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Speaker 1: any human being at twenty one or twenty two when

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Speaker 1: the team sucked, the coach was a loser could have

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Speaker 1: And he's come out on the other end, still alive,

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Speaker 1: still keeping his head up, and I'm watching him right

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Speaker 1: now playing pretty good. Now. Is he gonna be some

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Speaker 1: top five quarterback? Probably not? But is he a guy

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Speaker 1: that could be a top twelve is quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They didn't give up that much to get him either.

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Speaker 1: I get a mentally tough guy who's a really good athlete,

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Speaker 1: who's got a solid arm, that I just have to

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Speaker 1: coach out of the poor decision making. We saw a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago Joe Burrow when he got to

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Speaker 1: l s U. He wasn't any good, and then Joe

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Speaker 1: Brady got him and they coached him up and obviously

496
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Speaker 1: had a lot of talent around him. Sam Donald does too.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Sam Donald is gonna be what

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was at L s U. But I definitely

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Speaker 1: think he could be a player that is good enough

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Speaker 1: to get you to the playoffs. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: even think that's that crazy at all, and we'll see that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is not something that even if the

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Speaker 1: Panthers were will go ten and seven and make the

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Speaker 1: last wild card and the Jets win two games. Like

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Speaker 1: this is not something you just judge on one year,

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Speaker 1: but it is something in three years. We'll have a

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Speaker 1: pretty good idea. Because if the Panthers turned out to

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Speaker 1: be good and Sam turns out to be their quarterback

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Speaker 1: for the next seven or eight years, and they extend

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Speaker 1: him here in a year or two and the Jets

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Speaker 1: are just floundering away in mediocrity and ugly football, I

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Speaker 1: think we'll look back and go you know that they

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Speaker 1: might want to have that one back, they might want

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Speaker 1: to review on that one. I just saw flashes this weekend,

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Speaker 1: very early. Not making any bold statements. Don't write this

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Speaker 1: in pen write it in pencil. Which is something to

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on though, because I I do think

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald is resurrecta bull and I think we've already

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Speaker 1: seen flashes that he might be able to just ride

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Speaker 1: the ship and become the Panthers quarterback for the foreseeable future. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's look at the tail of the tape, an old

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Speaker 1: school nineteen seventies classic matchup Raiders Steelers, and two things

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Speaker 1: jumped out to me, and they both involved quarterbacks. One

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Speaker 1: team has an ascending, improving player and the other one

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Speaker 1: has a descending aging getting worse. I mean, there's no

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Speaker 1: way around it. With Big Ben, his arrow is pointing down.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with him. I have hammered this home on

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Speaker 1: this podcast and wherever I speak forever most of my

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Speaker 1: life growing up a sports fan, coming into my own

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Speaker 1: early nineties, for the next fifteen years as I'm growing

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Speaker 1: into one, right from like ten to It's like the

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Speaker 1: prime of my sports fandom when it was pure, you know,

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Speaker 1: now I'm very jaded by all the by all the

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Speaker 1: money and knowing people and what really goes on. But

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Speaker 1: back in the day, it was just pure love of sports,

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Speaker 1: and you would have a favorite player in any of

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Speaker 1: the three major sports. And once he would hit an

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Speaker 1: age I don't know about thirty five, it was over

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Speaker 1: and he would hold on for dear life, maybe another

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Speaker 1: year or two. But we often said and we still

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Speaker 1: kind of do, but not as much, probably because it's

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Speaker 1: like Tom Brady age, it's a young man's game, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a young man's game. It still is. But I

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Speaker 1: actually think like thirty four is the old seven. So

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Speaker 1: with diets and the just the progression of health, fitness, wellness,

546
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, it's clearly changed. But so if thirty nine,

547
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Speaker 1: like what Roethlisberger is now is what guys at thirty

548
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Speaker 1: four and thirty five used to look like an old

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Speaker 1: you know, once great player who no longer is. He

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Speaker 1: can't move and one of his greatest attributes in his

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Speaker 1: peak was his ability to move. Shed would be tacklers,

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Speaker 1: keep plays alive. Now it feels like when he moves

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Speaker 1: within the pocket or tries to slide like outside the pocket,

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Speaker 1: he's moving in quicksand of course he is. He's dramatically

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Speaker 1: slower now and he's never been in a weird way.

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Speaker 1: Ben was the best version of what Cam Newton. You know,

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Speaker 1: he kind of got that way for a year. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying Ben ran quite like Cam, but it always

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Speaker 1: felt a little backyard football ee and he could make

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Speaker 1: these backyard football plays that were just incredible. He no

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Speaker 1: longer can do that. He has to play like Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers or Peyton Manning now, even though in his mind

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Speaker 1: he still kind of thinks he's got some big bend

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Speaker 1: type moves and he doesn't. But he's never been the

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Speaker 1: guy that just played like Peyton Manning and just picked

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Speaker 1: you apart. That was not his game. The Steelers know it.

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Speaker 1: Any fan of the Steelers, you guys now know it

568
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Speaker 1: like it's over. This is gonna be his last season

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Speaker 1: on the Steelers because it's gonna be very, very difficult,

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Speaker 1: especially as it gets cold. We've talked about to win

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Speaker 1: with this guy, especially when your offensive line kind of stinks.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's gonna be tough. Now they'll be competitive, hopefully.

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Speaker 1: T J. Watts Okay, t J Watt would have like

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Speaker 1: six sacks in that game against Brandon Parker, but he hurt,

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Speaker 1: he got injured, and you know they missed him and

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Speaker 1: he It changed the game because on the other side

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Speaker 1: you have a guy is thirty years old who has

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Speaker 1: spent the last three or four years improving. What did

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Speaker 1: I talk about, Carson Wentz. You build that foundation, you know,

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Speaker 1: in your mid to late twenties, to then use in

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Speaker 1: your thirties to go with your mind to be an

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Speaker 1: excellent football player. And that's what Derek Carr is becoming

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Speaker 1: right now, an excellent football player. Is he a top

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Speaker 1: five quarterback in the league. Probably not, But is he

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Speaker 1: better than twenty plus quarterbacks in the league? Hell yeah?

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Speaker 1: He is bawling now. They have fantastic weapons around. Waller

587
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: is an elite player, Pro Bowl level game changer. Henry

588
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Speaker 1: Ruggs is the fastest guy on the field every time

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Speaker 1: he's on the field, and clearly him and Derek are

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Speaker 1: on the same page. Back to back weeks. This week

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Speaker 1: they hit a touchdown. Last week they hit a big

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Speaker 1: bomb against the Ravens. He looks awesome. He led the

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Speaker 1: team in targets against the Steelers. He's fantastic. Brian Edwards,

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Speaker 1: who last year they drafted the third round looks fantastic

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Speaker 1: as well. So they have rugs. They got Edwards to

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Speaker 1: go with Waller Jacobs, who gets banged up a lot

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Speaker 1: when he's on the field. Their offensive skill guys are dynamite.

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Speaker 1: And when Derek's had dynamite skill guys in college, he

599
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: had Davante. They kicked everyone's ass his first couple of years.

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Speaker 1: When they got good, he had Crabtree, he had Jared Cook,

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Speaker 1: and he had a Marie Cooper. Their offense was awesome.

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Speaker 1: They've kind of gone through this transition now it feels

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Speaker 1: like they're pretty stacked. He is very comfortable in this offense.

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Speaker 1: Him and Gruden are very comfortable on the same page.

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Speaker 1: Their offense is awesome. If their defense can just be

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Speaker 1: solid like it has been the first two games, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, make open field tackles, something the Raiders

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00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: have always struggled to do. They got a chance to

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Speaker 1: be a playoff team because they haven't playoff level quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's what a playoff level quarterback looks like. Any Steeler

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Speaker 1: fan who attended that game, who watched that game on

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Speaker 1: TV can agree. Like the difference in that game. We

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Speaker 1: talked about it all the time. It's a quarterback league.

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Speaker 1: One team had a much better quarterback than the other guy. Now,

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Speaker 1: historically peek big Bend like that, your team would have

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Speaker 1: been awesome. If you give me Peek Big Ben. On

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Speaker 1: this Steeler team, you guys are competing right there with

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, right there with the Bills, right there with

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Speaker 1: the Rabil. I mean, you're you're a powerhouse team. I

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Speaker 1: don't think this is sustainable, and I do think the

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Speaker 1: Raiders is sustainable because Derek now has played well for

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Speaker 1: several years and he keeps improving. You have to keep

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Speaker 1: getting better when you're a youngerish player. Once you get

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00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: to like Rogers in his mid thirties, like if I

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Speaker 1: just sustained this, I'm kicking everyone's but right Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: now he just has to sustain his level of play.

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Speaker 1: But for those first when you're building the base of

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Speaker 1: your future career, you have to improve. And that is

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Speaker 1: all Derek is doing weekend, week out, and he really

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Speaker 1: has for the last definitely last year he played really well.

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Speaker 1: He's still gonna have his moments, but you have to

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Speaker 1: I was texting with the coach today in the league

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Speaker 1: who knows him and he's like he just he needed

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Speaker 1: a coach who was willing to live with some of

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Speaker 1: his mistakes and not be hard on him and just

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Speaker 1: let him be and he'll be fine because he is

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Speaker 1: like an achiever. He is wants to prove everyone on

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Speaker 1: his own team that he's worthy. He's not. I don't

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Speaker 1: think ever worried as much about the outside noise. It's

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Speaker 1: like he's and I've been around him since he was

641
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Speaker 1: I've watched him since he was seventeen years old. Being

642
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: a good teammate, being a good you know, having a

643
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: good coach player relationship is very very important to him,

644
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: is very important to him. I think sometimes to a fault.

645
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: And I think he just found the perfect balance right

646
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: now of being able to play at a high level,

647
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: being very comfortable and confident in his relationships within the

648
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: building with his coach, with his teammates, and you're seeing

649
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: a guy who is, you know, through two games, but

650
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: even last year pro Bowl level quarterback play, and he

651
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: only makes two million dollars, so you know, the way

652
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: he's playing like that, that costs now million dollars. So

653
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: they kind of have a discount this year and next

654
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: to kind of utilize this Pro Bowl level player and

655
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: use some of that money and try to make a

656
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: run this year where the Steelers, you know, you're just

657
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: kind of stuck with Ben's dead weight. Okay, one a time.

658
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: About three teams, and two of them are basically directly

659
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: correlated because they're in the same division. And I said

660
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: it after the Thursday Night game, the Giants are any good.

661
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes is Danny in completion, Danny Fumble, even though

662
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: he did play a good Thursday Night game, He's not

663
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: a very good player. You know, he's just not. He

664
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: was overdrafted. Uh, it's pretty clear that now it's not

665
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,320
Speaker 1: all of his fall. Offensive line sucks. Take Kwan got hurt, hurt,

666
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: But you know, I think he's gonna he'll be a

667
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: guy in two years on another team, back up for

668
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: like Mahomes or Russell Wilson, trying to resurrect his career

669
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: to be the right move. But I also think when

670
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: you look at the two teams that played yesterday, it's

671
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: clear they are better than those other two teams, especially

672
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: now that Washington's quarterback situation in the hands of Taylor Heineke,

673
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: who I kind of like. But I don't know if

674
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: I like for fifteen straight games, it's gonna be very,

675
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: very difficult for them to maintain winning with Taylor Heineke.

676
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: It's clear when I watched the Eagles against the Niners,

677
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: who actually showed up ready for a street fight. Hit

678
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: the Niners directly in the teeth. Their young coach made

679
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: a mistake on the goal line, but overall, I was

680
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: impressed with Sirianni. His team was ready. They were shoving

681
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: around the Niners, shoving them around, but they just couldn't

682
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: execute in the red zone, didn't get points and ultimately

683
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: costum the Cowboys, who if their defense just can make

684
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: some plays. They have so much talent on offense. Hell,

685
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Speaker 1: they have a fifteen million dollar running back and their

686
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: backup is a better player, definitely more explosive. Their talented

687
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver Ceedee Lamb Gallop didn't play but a Mari

688
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: they were tight end and dac like their offense is awesome.

689
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: The Eagles are so good at the line of scrimmage,

690
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive line, even though they just love Brandon Graham,

691
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: who's a fantastic player to a torn Achilles, but their

692
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: their offensive line is dominant. Their defensive line they got

693
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: about seven guys that would start for most teams in

694
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: the league, and they have a ton of skill guys.

695
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: And I don't really trust McCarthy, Sirianni, it's just gonna

696
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 1: be a work in progress this year, but he definitely

697
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: I've been impressed. So I don't know which coach I

698
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: trust more, which is crazy to say, one guy's super Bowl,

699
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: one guy's coached two games, like, I do not trust McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: though I do like Kellen Moore. Maybe that's a soft

701
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Speaker 1: spot being a former whack Mountain West guy lover of

702
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: Boise State football, but I have never been one of

703
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: those haters on Kellen Moore. I think the division, the

704
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: NFC is gonna come down to those two teams. And

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00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: you know what's fun. That's the Monday night game Cowboys Eagles.

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Speaker 1: That's bad. I can't wait. That is a fantastic Monday

707
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: night game. That's a Monday night game that three, four

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00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: or five weeks ago. You know, before the season started,

709
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Speaker 1: you've been like, I don't know. Now I'm excited to

710
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: watch that game. I am very, very excited because I

711
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: think the division now, I don't think either one of

712
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: those teams, best case scenario, would win ten games, you

713
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: might be able to win the division at nine and eight.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's those two teams, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: a litmus test who's the better team early in the season,

716
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Speaker 1: and we'll see how it translates. Because I still question

717
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, and I just question a little bit

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00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles just unknown coach, head coach. They have some

719
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: question marks I think on the back end of the defense,

720
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: but so does every team. I love this, like, what

721
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Speaker 1: about our dbs. Most teams don't have great dbs. Let's

722
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: look at like the best teams in the NFC. Niners

723
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:22,280
Speaker 1: don't have great cornerbacks. Seattle nope, Rams have one, Arizona nope. Uh,

724
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: the Packers have one. Uh. The NFC East, the Tampa

725
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Buntings hurt, you know, most teams do not.

726
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: Like you know, I just roll out peak Durrell Reeves

727
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: and Dion Sanders. That's not the case. If you can

728
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: win up front, I think your defensive backs can be

729
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: a little bit overrated. Now your safety play because they

730
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: help in the run game and now they cover you know,

731
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: running backs and tight ends. Ultimately, receivers are just gonna

732
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: win most games, right if you can play situational football

733
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: and hold teams the field goals and touchdowns like I

734
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: can live with average dB play. You gotta be good

735
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: up front, and like I talked about on Monday's podcast,

736
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: Mike Parsons went from stand up linebacker to defensive end

737
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: about as seamlessly as I've ever seen a player do it.

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Speaker 1: He looked good. I mean the Eagles, Okay, they lost

739
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham. That really sucks, but they just broke off sweat.

740
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Speaker 1: They gave him forty plus a million dollars and they

741
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: already have you know, other good defensive lineman, Hardgraves of

742
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: Stud Fletcher's a freaking legend. Like they got, you know,

743
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: some pop up front. They drafted Bardnet a couple of

744
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: years ago in the first round. They got dudes. So

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00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to watch that game. And the other team

746
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: who has started fantastic. I mean, they're two and oh

747
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: they are the most entertaining team in the league. But

748
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: they play a little backyard football. And this guy is

749
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: the best backyard football player right now in the NFL

750
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: is not close. His talent early in the season, when

751
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: he's fresh and healthy is elite. Kyler Murray right now

752
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: is dominating now. He made some poor throws, poor decisions

753
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, but his wow plays, his flat If I

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00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: were just making a highlight tape through two games on

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00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,479
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, you'd go, this is one of the best

756
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: players I've ever seen. He has made three or four

757
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: scrambled to throw plays that anyone listening that has watched

758
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: it jaw dropping, especially for such a little guy with

759
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: such a big arm, so fast, stupid how talented he is.

760
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: But I listened. People are gonna think I'm a hater,

761
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: but I'm really not. I promise you I have no

762
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: agenda here. I'm not gonna buy the Arizona Cardinals because

763
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't think their style of offense is sustainable. Later

764
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: in the season. Their quarterback he has to prove that

765
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: he can stay healthy. If he's this healthy all season,

766
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,959
Speaker 1: they'd have a very good chance. But I don't trust

767
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: their defense, and philosophically, I don't trust the head coach

768
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: and what he stands for defensively, because look at his

769
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: all his years in Texas Tech, they were arguably one

770
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: of the worst defenses in the country, and now is

771
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: time in Arizona. Their defense can't be trusted. That game

772
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: for being a fine I think the final score was

773
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: thirty five to thirty three. The only reason the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: won is because their guy hit the sixty two year

775
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: a field goal that would have been good from like

776
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: ninety Minnesota missed an extra point and missed the game

777
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: winner from thirty seven yards. Their kicker can't make chip shots.

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00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: They're kind of similar teams, except Minnesota's quarterback isn't a sexy.

779
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 1: They're very very potent on offense, and their defenses aren't

780
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: any good anymore. So you just kind of hold on

781
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: for your ass. You hope a field goal it's gonna

782
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: be the difference in the game, thirty eight to thirty

783
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: five or thirty six to thirty four, and that's ultimately

784
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: what the game was. But listen there to and oh,

785
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: you never apologize for being to and oh, I'm just

786
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: saying if I was looking at the Arizona Cardinals like

787
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: a stock, I would not go all in on them

788
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: if I had to pick through the NFC West, who

789
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: has been fantastic right Seattle fell apart, weird deal, Derrick

790
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: Henry took over. But they're gonna be fine. Russell in

791
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: that offense is too good. The Rams are two and oh,

792
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: but we know that sustainable because they win the division

793
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: or in the playoffs, like basically three of the four

794
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: McVeigh years. What Cliff Kingsbury has never won a big game.

795
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna preface this, like I said with Andy

796
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: Dalton or Clay Helton. Good guy, he's I've heard, and

797
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this because it feels like I'm picking

798
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: on him. He is a I think I'd be friends

799
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: with a guy I would actually love to be friends with.

800
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: Probably knows a lot of babes. But I don't trust

801
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: him as a football coach because I think that offense

802
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: doesn't translate when the games really matter, because when the

803
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: games really matter, usually play better defenses that are more physical. Now,

804
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: they do have a lot of offensive talent. I will

805
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: not take that away from the produce kid Rondale Moore.

806
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: Rondale Moore, I think his name is number four. He

807
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: looks awesome. A J. Green had a sweet touchdown. Hopkins

808
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: is elite, They're tight end. Looked pretty good yesterday, like

809
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: they got players in their quarterback. But I just I

810
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: saw it last year, same kind of thing started fast

811
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Speaker 1: and then kind of fizzle. Why because that offense fizzles.

812
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: It happened to Chip Kelly when he was in the NFL.

813
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: Started fast and fizzle because as the season goes on

814
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: November and December, and now I guess that first week

815
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: in January because of the seventeenth game, it becomes a

816
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: heavyweight fight. The game has become very physical. You end

817
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: up playing and some of these outdoor arenas, right or

818
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,439
Speaker 1: a stadiums not arenas. I guess arena would have a dome.

819
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: You're playing outdoor. It's cold. The games are gonna be

820
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 1: lower scoring. It's difficult, and historically cliff In those games

821
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: have failed and I just wonder. I mean, I don't wonder.

822
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: I know where I stand. I'm betting against it happening.

823
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: Though they're very very entertaining team to watch. Okay, Middlecoff

824
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: mail bag at John Middlecoff is the Instagram Just slide

825
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: right into the d m s and get your question

826
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: answered here on the show Mark because of you, I

827
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Speaker 1: figured out how to use Instagram. I'm forty six, so

828
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: I was holding out my questions about greer Uh, the

829
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Speaker 1: GM of the Dolphins. He gets all the credit in

830
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: the media about being so great the Dolphins at three

831
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: first round picks last year to Austin Jackson at tackle

832
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: and know uh something a cornerback who has been an

833
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: active for the first two games of the season. We

834
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: traded up to get Waddle instead of getting Alignment and

835
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: signed Fuller who is out for personal reasons. He drafted

836
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: Charles Harris at instead of t J. Watt. Not good?

837
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: What am I missing? We signed and cut McKinney, and

838
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: we let Van Noy go. We have no running backs.

839
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard was an epic fail and looks like Malcolm

840
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: Brown will be too. All this wheeling and dealing is

841
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: meaningless if there's no talent evaluation abilities. Is Greer bad?

842
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 1: Yes or no? This is a good question. Uh. Christian

843
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: Wilkins forgot to mention that Miami Harold just said forty

844
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: four rushes this year. Wilkins has one pressure. Christian Wilkins

845
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: is not a pass rusher. I think Greer like Brian Flores,

846
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: A lot of people like them. They're rooting for him.

847
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: I think they have a solid team. But ultimately his

848
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: biggest mistake. You went into some detail. He took two

849
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: over Herbert. I say it all the time. You can say,

850
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: well middle cooff every single mock draft, every single media member,

851
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: every human alive. He's paid to get that right. He's

852
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: paid to not listen to those idiots. He's paid to

853
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: know he took to uh over Justin Herbert. That alone

854
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: is a franchise changing decision. And like you said, last year,

855
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: they had all these picks, Austin Jackson who was a

856
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: turnstile on Sunday, and it's just a major project this year.

857
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: I like waddle Waddles is stut, but like, would they

858
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: have been better off with piney Sewell? Probably? You know,

859
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: now did they did? They try to double down right now?

860
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: The stock markets and shambles. It's an absolute chambeles. You know,

861
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: if you believe in the stock buy more. It's buying season.

862
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: But if you don't. I had one that I was

863
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: gonna cash out, you know, decent, you know, over five figures,

864
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: and I was gonna use his capital as because it

865
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: was just clear weird ships happening. It's gonna be a

866
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: weird fault, so just just buckle up because it's about

867
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: to get weird. I wanted to have a little capital

868
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: to play with it as it gets weird. But there

869
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: are some stocks that I'm already in on that. I'm

870
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: not gonna chase as things dip because I I really

871
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: don't even want to be in. I'm just down in them,

872
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: so I don't want to sell yet. But if they

873
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: get back to even I'll cash you out and I'll

874
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: just I'm cool with that. And I think sometimes when

875
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: you chase, and I think that's what they did with

876
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: two of They chased even though let's face it, deep

877
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: down they knew they wanted to Shaun Watson. They wanted

878
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: out of the two after one year. Think about that.

879
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: If Deshaun Watson had not gotten trouble or going through

880
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: what he's going through now, he'd be on the Dolphins

881
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: longtime listener, first time mail bagger. Since I know it

882
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: will happen this year, I'll ask before it does, what's

883
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: your opinion on a kickoff? To avoid a tie in

884
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: the NFL? If tied after ot, each kicker kicks in

885
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: the same direction starting with forty five yards, and moved

886
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: backs five yards each time they make a kick. I mean,

887
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: how many games come down to a kick anyway? Gotta

888
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: be better than a tie, be completely honest. I don't

889
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: hate that. I mean, can you tell me tied after overtime,

890
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: which doesn't happen very often, right, I mean, we've probably

891
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: had three or four ties the last four or five years.

892
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 1: Do you have a kickoff starting at the forty five

893
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: yard line? Can you imagine if it was a kickoff

894
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: in like a windy, rainy game, How great that would be?

895
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: Sign me up? That would be sweet. That would be fantastic.

896
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: That will never happen though, absolute absolutely zero chance, no

897
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: way on earth would that ever get, you know, given

898
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 1: the go ahead from the competition committee the league office.

899
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: But that would be cool. You know, say one thing

900
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: about college, it is very entertaining the way they do

901
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: it right. You know, first overtime you get each person

902
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: gets the ball at the twenty five yard line. I

903
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: think by the second overtime, now you gotta go for two.

904
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: I think the new rules. I haven't seen this institute yet,

905
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: but it definitely got past the off season college. I

906
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: think in the third overtime you just are doing two

907
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: point conversions. So I'm in. I love listen to your

908
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: show and the perspective you offers and former scout. I

909
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: think the world is starting to finally see that Matt

910
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: Stafford has been one of the most underrated talents in

911
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: the NFL for ten years. If he had Aaron Rodgers

912
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 1: and swapped organizations until two, what we think of Stafford

913
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: the way we think of Rogers and vice versa. Keep

914
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: up the good work. Congrats on the volume, Craig. I

915
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: appreciate that, Craig, I don't know. That's I I love hypotheticals.

916
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: That's a hard hypothetical to do. Obviously, Matt Stafford would

917
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: be viewed as a much better player than he is

918
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: right now if he had played for the Packers over

919
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: that decade. Probably wouldn't be close, it really wouldn't. But

920
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: would he have been as good as Aaron Rodgers? I

921
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: don't know if I'd go that far. Aaron's is a

922
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: better decision maker Aeron's just I don't know. I have

923
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: to check the numbers, but clearly more accurate. I think

924
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: Aaron's is a better player. Now, would Stafford have been

925
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: just have multiple playoff wins? Would he be a super

926
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: Bowl champion? I don't know, Probably not, Maybe you would.

927
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: It's just what would Rogers? Rogers might have failed because remember,

928
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: unlike Stafford was an elite prospect, no doubt about it,

929
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: number one player, Rogers was the pick in the draft.

930
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: He got three years to learn and develop. If the

931
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: Lions had just taken him in the first round and

932
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: throw them into the you know, into the firing squad

933
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: that is playing for their team, who knows, maybe you

934
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:37,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't have survived. That's why Rogers really respects Stafford, because

935
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: I think he realizes how difficult it is to go

936
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: through when he went through to play on that shitty team.

937
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean that team sucks. Still kind of does question

938
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: for the mailback. Recently, I've been testing the waters that

939
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: are sports gambling. Okay, I like it a newbie, and

940
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 1: I have come to my first real opportunity at guaranteed

941
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: money through hedging a bet. How often do you recommend

942
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 1: hedging bets versus taking the risk of max profit. Well,

943
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: I have a philosophy of no hedging. Now. I've never

944
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: been in a situation where I don't gamble for money.

945
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: I gamble for fun. Now, if I win as I

946
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: did this weekend and get fifty dollars, it's awesome, it's

947
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: really fun. It's cool. But I gamble for the juice.

948
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: I work for my money, I work for my wages.

949
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: I get up early, I go to bed, late in

950
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: this streaming podcast game. That's where I make my cash.

951
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: So if I want more money, I'll do another business deal.

952
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: I'll douce, I'll try to add a new sponsor, I'll

953
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: try to generate revenue. That's how by my mind thinks.

954
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: I don't look at gambling as like an extra revenue

955
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: stream because I got news for it's really difficult. But

956
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: there is a number we all money is all relative.

957
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: So if a thousand dollars a lot of money to you,

958
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: and you have the opportunity to win a thousand dollars

959
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: and you could hedge four dollars to just ensure that

960
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: you win money, I do it. But if you're just

961
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: gambling for fun, like if you're gambling to try to

962
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: add a revenue stream, I can't give you advice because

963
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think about it like that. I

964
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: look at gambling to entertain myself. When I place bets

965
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: on teams, I gamble a lot on golf because I

966
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: want to watch it, and I want to because I'm

967
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 1: gonna watch it anyway, so I why just might as

968
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: well give myself the opportunity to make a little money.

969
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: And it's fun. And even when I lose. I mean,

970
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: it sucks, but I enjoy it now for me, And

971
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: I don't even know how I would get to this

972
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: point in like a football game, because I would never

973
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: put like five thousand dollars on a game, but it

974
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: would have to be a large amount of money for

975
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: me to hedge, because like I, I don't gamble enough

976
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: to then win enough to make it worth like oh

977
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: I made up or whatever. And again, money is all relative,

978
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: but I don't look at gambling like that. So my

979
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:12,439
Speaker 1: fundamental belief is I'm gambling for enjoyment and you lose

980
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: a lot too, but the enjoyment of just the roller

981
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: coaster ride makes it fun. My money comes from working.

982
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: That's that's the way I look at it. And maybe

983
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm nuts. Maybe people listen to me like, what are

984
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: you talking about, bro? Money's money. So again, I'm not

985
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: claiming to be some genius with this take. It's just

986
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: how I feel. I hate hedging. I've had a couple

987
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: opportunities throughout my life and I haven't done it and

988
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: it backfired. And I honestly didn't spend that much time

989
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 1: thinking about it, right, I didn't really care. And sometimes

990
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: a hedge, like if you do a parlay and can

991
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: turn a hundred bucks into a couple of grand I

992
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: I get it, But I also go the way I

993
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: look at it. If I'm gonna have a big return,

994
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: I go, well, I didn't put that much money down.

995
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm hedging, Like, what's the worst I'm gonna lose fifty bucks,

996
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks, two hundred bucks. That's that's my philosophy. Now,

997
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: if you gamble to try to make real money, then

998
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: I would always hedge, like I hedge in business. You know,

999
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: I got multiple things going at one time, you know,

1000
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 1: as a stock investor, I got probably ten different industries

1001
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: I'm invested in, right, I'm hedging constantly in life. I

1002
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: don't view gambling. I view gambling what sports used to

1003
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: be to me. And don't get me wrong, I still

1004
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 1: enjoy sports, but it's not the same once you work

1005
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: in it, Like any job, it just becomes I don't

1006
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: want to use the wrong vocab word here. It's not monotonous,

1007
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 1: but it's just it's different from when I was younger.

1008
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: So it's just this is work, you know, and I

1009
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: need some entertainment values. Why I throw a little cash

1010
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: down just to add the entertainment value. I'm literally paying

1011
00:53:56,560 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: for some fun when or lose, you know when are

1012
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: Some people shop for fun? Some people go on vacations

1013
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: for fun. Like you know, I gamble thousand dollars of

1014
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: a year on just different events to keep myself entertained

1015
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: on my couch because I'm gonna be watching these events

1016
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: no matter what. That would be my philosophy. Sure, a

1017
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: lot of people think I'm insane, but hey, maybe I

1018
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: am question for the pot I'm wondering being Aaron Rodgers

1019
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: isn't happy with the Packers. Do you see him getting

1020
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: traded next season? And where would he go? I do not.

1021
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: I see Rogers back on the Packers. I just think

1022
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: they figure it out. Recording this part before the Monday

1023
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: night game, but I would imagine the Packers won. I

1024
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: what's there? What are they gonna do? Trade him to Denver? Why?

1025
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: Why are they gonna trade him? They drafted Jordan's love

1026
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: like they made a mistake. They're not trading him. He's

1027
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: going to be on the Packers. I feel pretty confident

1028
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: about that. Why don't NFL owners hire coaches and gmss

1029
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: package deals where they would hire or fire them together,

1030
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: they would choose each other and have the same vision

1031
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: of what the team should become. Why don't teams you, uh,

1032
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: number two, Why don't teams use two quarterbacks, one with

1033
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 1: a big arm who operates outside the red zone, another

1034
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: who is accurate and mobile, who specializes in short yardage

1035
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: in red zone. It would make opponents have more to

1036
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: prepare for. I think on number two is just easier

1037
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: to focus on one guy. Let the team rally behind

1038
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: one guy. Let the team focus on one guy and

1039
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: number one. I mean, ideally you want to hire a

1040
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 1: GM and a coach together, but sometimes it doesn't work out.

1041
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes you think the coach sucks and you want to

1042
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: keep the GM, and sometimes vice versa. You like your coach,

1043
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: but you want to get rid of the GM. You know,

1044
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: it's it's easy to say that, but what if you're like,

1045
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think my GM is any good,

1046
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: but I love my coach. I don't want to fire

1047
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: the coach or vice versa. What if you think the

1048
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: GM is like one of the most dynamic guys in

1049
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: the league, but you go, this coach is not good enough.

1050
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: So it's it's one of those things in theory on

1051
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: the white board, you hire the coach, you hire the

1052
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: GM same time. In practice, it clearly doesn't happen that

1053
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: way that often. It just doesn't because we're dealing with humans.

1054
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,240
Speaker 1: And even as an owner who's worth billions of dollars,

1055
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: you have a personal connection to one of those guys,

1056
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: you're just gonna tend to like them more. So I

1057
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: think that's a big reason why it doesn't happen very often.

1058
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: Can you provide some insight into how subbing works in

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Speaker 1: the NFL? I constantly see players coming in and out

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Speaker 1: on offense. I imagine the play caller is deciding the

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Speaker 1: player packages, but how does that get relay to the

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Speaker 1: players on the sideline quickly and effectively? Do teams ever

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Speaker 1: have certain player packages for certain down and distances? Well,

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Speaker 1: there are names so on offense. Uh, Like when I

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Speaker 1: was in Philadelphia, they ran the West Coast offense terminology,

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Speaker 1: so regular personnel. You know, it was too too two

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Speaker 1: running backs men, a fullback and running back, a tight end,

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Speaker 1: and two wide receivers. Tiger was three wide receivers, one

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Speaker 1: running back, one tight end. So when I screamed that out, Tiger, Tiger, Tiger,

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Speaker 1: And again these herbs change team to team. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you're part of that package. The three wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: you're in. Same thing on defense. If I call whatever

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Speaker 1: your name for it is nickel dime. You know, if

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Speaker 1: you're the third corner, you're coming in. You know, if

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Speaker 1: you're the past cover linebacker for a run stuffing linebacker,

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Speaker 1: you guys switch. The defensive line is constantly coming in

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Speaker 1: and out, and these guys just get used to the

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Speaker 1: substitution patterns. Right if you're there are only forty six

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Speaker 1: guys dressed on game day in the NFL, So you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're a part of the defensive package or not,

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Speaker 1: then if an injury happens, you just get bumped up.

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Speaker 1: You know, you practice, a lot of these guys are

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Speaker 1: used to it in college, right, guys coming in and

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Speaker 1: out different packages, and then specific players if they're like

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Speaker 1: a niche player, they get three or you know, get

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Speaker 1: a couple of packages, not a ton of plays. And

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Speaker 1: then some players right a Keenan Allen, George Kittle, some

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Speaker 1: of those type guys. I mean a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: have them DK Metcalf only come out and they want

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Speaker 1: to come out like they're involved in every package. They

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Speaker 1: call for a sub But I think it's just pretty basic.

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Speaker 1: You scream out the package, and these guys are used

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Speaker 1: to it in practice, and you go through it in

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Speaker 1: no t A s and then training camp, and you

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Speaker 1: practice in the preseason, and like I said, these guys

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Speaker 1: are used to it in college, hell even even high

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Speaker 1: school football. And you just know when I scream out

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Speaker 1: whatever the word is, you know, Nickel, Well, if you're

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Speaker 1: the third corner or you are a certain defensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: you just shift immediately and you run in and the

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Speaker 1: other guy runs out, and you scream adhim when you're

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Speaker 1: coming in and out, and there are coaches helping you.

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Speaker 1: There are people in the box communicating it. It's like

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Speaker 1: a streamline process. It's part of you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of moving parts in football. Why coaching matters so much,

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Speaker 1: Because remember that famous the famous um NFL films and

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler running in when they call the specific defense,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's Brian Flores screams, Malcolm, Malcolm, Malcolm,

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Speaker 1: and he fires in there and then he gets the

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Speaker 1: pick of Russell Wilson. The rest of history. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's one of those things, good question that probably

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Speaker 1: sounds more complicated than it actually is. It's like if

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Speaker 1: you're explaining to someone, you're like, oh, I kind of

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Speaker 1: get it. But then if you were a player or

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Speaker 1: a coach in practice, I think it's pretty easy, Like

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Speaker 1: you just say it and they know you know. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's like a basic element of their job requirement,

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Speaker 1: and guys are used to it, they expect it, and

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Speaker 1: for the most part, it's a pretty seamless transition. It

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Speaker 1: feels like weekend week out. It's just a compliment. I

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Speaker 1: don't need to read it. This guy's got a lot

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Speaker 1: of followers, though. Michael just wanted to let you know

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Speaker 1: that I love your podcast, Raw and unfiltered analysis to

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Speaker 1: the lens of a former Scout, super unique. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you guys get out of here on that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't need to read that compliment. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they say compliments are like poison. You can look at

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Speaker 1: them or sniff them, but if you swallow them, there

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Speaker 1: kill you. I think that might have been the saying,

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Speaker 1: but it might not have been. I don't know something

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Speaker 1: something in that kind of realm. I was in the

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Speaker 1: ballpark there, I wasn't like I was in the neighborhood. Um,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I was actually just watching this video.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer, Carson's brother, posted about that mental coach who

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Speaker 1: was Russell Wilson's guy, and he worked with all the

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Speaker 1: young quarterbacks, and Russell gave this really good kind of

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Speaker 1: uh talk, not talk, but he was given a press

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Speaker 1: conference last week and the guy just died. And this

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Speaker 1: guy was huge on just self belief and talking yourself

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Speaker 1: much more than like affirmation from other people. It is,

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Speaker 1: it is pretty true. I mean, you gotta believe before

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Speaker 1: anyone can believe in you like you need to. You know,

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Speaker 1: all the compliments from other people, they're cool and certain

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Speaker 1: jobs you just get them more than others. But like,

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Speaker 1: to me, the belief, whether you're an NFL quarterback, whether

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Speaker 1: you're the number one sales guy at your firm, whether

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Speaker 1: you're a podcast or whatever, you gotta have self belief.

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Speaker 1: You gotta spend a lot of time, you know, propping

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Speaker 1: yourself up because if you don't, you know, the other

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Speaker 1: people aren't gonna believe in you. You know, you better

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Speaker 1: believe in yourself first. I don't even know why I'm

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Speaker 1: giving this, how we can start talking about this, but

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Speaker 1: you know, Russell, say what you want can be Cheesi

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Speaker 1: or whatever. The self belief. He's had it himself for

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Speaker 1: a decade, even before he met this guy he was talking.

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Speaker 1: He had it when he was at Wisconsin. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: remarkable and it's a big separating factor for him, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's a big separating factor why he's gonna

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Speaker 1: go down as one of the great players in league history.

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Speaker 1: When third round pick smaller. It's pretty crazy, right, And

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Speaker 1: I think a big reason he's so upbeating positive. He's

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Speaker 1: just talking himself into that because it's easy, right to

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Speaker 1: be super negative. I just saw this clip on Twitter

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Speaker 1: about the Oakland p D chief begging people to stop

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Speaker 1: shooting each other. I mean, California's like a war zone.

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Speaker 1: Turn on the news, everything's negative, stock markets plummeting. So

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Speaker 1: easy to get negative fast, man, it really is. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a challenge. I know, I fight it. I'm human

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis, to not be negative, to not

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Speaker 1: go down dark rabbit holes, to stay positive, to stay

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Speaker 1: focused on what you want to accomplish, on what you

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Speaker 1: want to do. I'm getting better that day on. You know,

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Speaker 1: some of the cliche bullshit, but it is kind of

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Speaker 1: true because I'll tell you this. I I wouldn't want

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Speaker 1: to spend one minute around negative fucking nancies in life.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather swan dive off the Golden gate Bridge than

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Speaker 1: be around miserable people. I try to avoid them like

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Speaker 1: the plague. Now sometimes you run into them on social media,

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Speaker 1: but in your real life being around positive but not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking like fake positive. I'm just talking about

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Speaker 1: like upbeat, optimistic human beings. And there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of them in football. But it also can turn negative

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Speaker 1: quick too. But I you know, try to actively be

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Speaker 1: optimistic and surround yourself with those type people just so

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Speaker 1: much easier to enjoy life. Can you imagine being miserable?

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Speaker 1: And trust me, I got some miserable tendencies in my

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Speaker 1: own head. I'm not perfect here. I fight them, but

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Speaker 1: it is it is not a way to live up. Man,

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Speaker 1: be happy, Force yourself to be happy or at least

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Speaker 1: just positive. Maybe happy is the wrong word. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a huge fan of the word happy. I think positive

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Speaker 1: is a better word. Try to be positive and in

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Speaker 1: this day and age, especially younger people you just social media.

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Speaker 1: Man can be a can be a dark place. Holy moly, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have a great week. Um, and yeah, I see

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Speaker 1: you guys Friday. Peace the Volume