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Speaker 1: Hopefully everyone is having a great day. I'm John. This

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Speaker 1: is three and our podcast and today we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking a little football. The National Football League owners meetings,

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff coming out. Jimmy Haslin, he just

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Speaker 1: acknowledged the Shawn Watson's career over John Lynch, Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Locke. Lot going on in the football world, a

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Speaker 1: lot of comments, a lot of headlines. Woody Johnson trying

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Speaker 1: guaranteed you know, owners don't talk very often and rightfully.

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Speaker 1: So if I owned a team, I would not take

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Speaker 1: Even though every human alive, whether you're in Cleveland, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of bad guys qaestionable characters who

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Speaker 1: And to Shaun's clearly proven the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: That's why the Cleveland Browns gave him two hundred and

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Speaker 1: But the reason this contract has been a disaster. He's

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this today. By all reports and

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Speaker 1: And you'd be like, well, why do you just choose

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Speaker 1: A couple things in regards to the Colts. Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: like Frank's never going to be a coach again, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, if he can resurrect Stamford in

428
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: a year, I don't think it's inconceivable that he just

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Speaker 1: keeps the job. I listened to Chris Ballard, Oh Floria.

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00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: He sat down with Florio, and I listened to that interview,

431
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: and then I read some quotes from Shane Steichn. It's

432
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 1: pretty clear that the Colts like Daniel Jones, and one

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00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: thing Ballard said is the last couple of years, we've

434
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Speaker 1: just tried to sign the best backup quarterback we could

435
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew two years ago, Flacco last year. But those quarterbacks,

436
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: their skill set didn't have anything in common with Anthony Richson.

437
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: So when Anthony Richison would leave the game injury suspended whatever.

438
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: I guess he wasn't technically suspended. He was his bench.

439
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: We'd have to change the offense, and this year we

440
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: went into it thinking like we need to get a

441
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: more athletic quarterback where the offenses can be pretty similar.

442
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: I think they like Daniel Jones, and I think Anthony

443
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: Richardson's job. And again I'm not pro Daniel Jones, but

444
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: he better play well because if Daniel Jones, if all

445
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: things are equal, I think they'll go with Daniel Jones.

446
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: I think they are very very unsure right now. In

447
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: anthy Richardson, I don't blame him, and Ssichin mentioned today

448
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: like he's got to be more accurate. He used the

449
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: Gruden quote you can never go broke taking a profit,

450
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, the spider two white banana. The whole point

451
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: of that was like you can dump into the fullback.

452
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: It's an easy play. And the one thing with Anthony Richardson,

453
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 1: you don't really get easy plays because he's pretty inaccurate.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Daniel Jones any good. Listen, I

455
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: don't even think I would have signed him if I

456
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: was them, but clearly they are not comfortable with Anthony Richardson,

457
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: and right now I would say it's a coin flip

458
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: week one, who the starting quarterback is Josie. How fast

459
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: things change. And I think they have a front row

460
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: seat of watching these other situations, like you kind of know,

461
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, And they saw it with the Niners and

462
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, they saw it with the Jets and Zach Wilson.

463
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: They saw it with the Justin Field situation. Like you

464
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: just kinda once you kind of start questioning a guy.

465
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: It's pretty rare that you pivot back with a super

466
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: young player and maybe over the course of the decade

467
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: maybe he can figure it out. But as I'm sitting

468
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: here right now, March thirty first, twenty twenty five, if

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Speaker 1: you tell me Anthony Rigson becomes like just a solid

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00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: starting quarterback in the NFL, my guess would be it

471
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: happens with someone other than the Indianapolis Colts. This was

472
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: an interesting story the New York Jets. It was reported

473
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: by I think the Sports Business Journal that of like

474
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty employees, they offered like one hundred

475
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: and seventy or one hundred and eighty of them the

476
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to quit and basically get paid to go away,

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Speaker 1: which I've always said. Some of these coaches, like Josh

478
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 1: McDaniels got like fifty million dollars to leave. You know,

479
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: no human can relate to that. You read some of

480
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: these articles about like CEOs getting the Golden parachute. I

481
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: remember when I got firing Radio and they owed me

482
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: like ten grand over the course of two months. I thought,

483
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm getting ten grand for two months

484
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 1: and not do shit. This is awesome. Most human beings,

485
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: when they are laid off or fired, not only don't

486
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: get much. A lot of them are at will employees.

487
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: They get nothing and have to take unemployment and it sucks.

488
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: I've been there where you just like, have no money

489
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: coming in, you have you don't even know what to do.

490
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: I feel little sympathy the way this is gonna work.

491
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: With the Jets, where a lot of these people are

492
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: ten plus years, some of them are twenty plus years.

493
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: You get three week severance for every year you work there.

494
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: So if you work there for ten years, you would

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00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: get thirty week severance. I mean that's more than more

496
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: than six months. Some of these people up to eighty

497
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: week severance. Do the math. I mean, you're talking a

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00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: year and a half, so like it's a pretty if.

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00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: It's pretty clear. If they don't want you to work

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00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: there and they're offering you a year worth of severance,

501
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not feeling bad for you. I'm not

502
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: looking at you like the dude at some job that

503
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: just gets laid off and now has no income coming

504
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: in that sucks. That's not the case here. Woody Johnson's

505
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: throwing this out. He's copying Elon and Donald Who did that.

506
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: I actually know a guy who got offered this I

507
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: think was in early February, late January, and he took it.

508
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: He's being paid by the US government till I think

509
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: September to just he got paid to leave, and he

510
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: was in a situation where he was between jobs. He

511
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: took this job. He didn't like it, and they offered

512
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: him that. He's like, see, I'm out this situation, which

513
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: is I would say, is a little unheard of. The

514
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: difference in the government. Thing that's going on is there's

515
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: been a strait of change. There is a new boss,

516
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: and there are people if you don't align with the

517
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: values and you are not gonna want to do what

518
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to do, or you think that they're

519
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: going to bring in people that don't align with the

520
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: way you view thinks you ultimately will get fired or

521
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: forced out. You're like, okay, I'll take my quote unquote

522
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: golden parachute right now. In this situation, Woody Johnson is

523
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: not leaving, so the ownership, there is no change of leadership.

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00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: The reason the Jets haven't made the playoffs in I

525
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: think it's the longest standing professional team in all of

526
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: all of sports, all the four major sports in America,

527
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: is not because of any of these individuals. Sure, some

528
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: of them you could trim some fat. Probably you could upgrade.

529
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: But Woody Johnson looks at it like we need a

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00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: full scale change. Let's fire everyone in the building and

531
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: start from scratch. What you're not a startup. The reason

532
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: your team hasn't won many games, You've pick the wrong players,

533
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: You've hired the wrong coaches, you haven't figured out the

534
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: quarterback position. The third dude in the marketing department who's

535
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: worked there for six years has no impact on winning

536
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: and losing. I promise you that I've been in these buildings.

537
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: They do not impact it. It's not their fault, so like,

538
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: I understand what he's trying to copy, but I think

539
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: most people would tell you he's the problem, and as

540
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: long as he owns the team, nothing's gonna change. So

541
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: they could get all these people, two hundred plus people

542
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: could could basically agree to pay me to go away,

543
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: which for some of these people is a long time

544
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: I'd argue as an American dream, But I don't think it's

545
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 1: gonna have any impact. If Justin Fields can't complete an

546
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: out route, if the defense can't get a third night stop,

547
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: if Sasgardner plays like he did last year, not first

548
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: two seasons, if their pass rush isn't very good, if

549
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn's not a good coach, if this dude they

550
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: hired from Denver is not a good GM. They could

551
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,239
Speaker 1: replace all those fucking people and it will have no

552
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: impact on whether they can beat Mike Vrabel or Sean McDermott.

553
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: So sexy headline, and I would imagine that a lot

554
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: of these people end up taking these once they realize

555
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: that they are not wanted anymore, Because the one thing

556
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: I look back at when you know I've left places,

557
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: was like, why would you want to be somewhere that

558
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: doesn't want you now. At the time, it's very difficult.

559
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: When you're hearing that news, it's not fun. But when

560
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: time passes and you look back, you're like, why would

561
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: I want to work with these people? And the answer

562
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: is you wouldn't if they don't want you there, especially

563
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: the guy that owns the team, if he wants you gone.

564
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean, this is I promise you this, this is

565
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: his idea. He's clearly good buddies with Donald. Their wives

566
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: were models and the eighties or whatever, and he's copying

567
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: dojan Elon. I just think to think that the dude

568
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: selling sweets is the reason the Jets get made fun

569
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: of a lot and have had issues over the last

570
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: fifteen years. I just think is fundamentally like barking up

571
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: the wrong tree. You're just you're trying to fix something

572
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: that is not going to change the thing that matters

573
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: the most to everybody, which is the on the field product.

574
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: A couple other things, the international games. They're looking at

575
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:41,479
Speaker 1: Greece and the United Arab Emirates. My take on this

576
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: has been pretty consistent. I do believe that this is

577
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: not about international expansion of putting a team in England

578
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: or Spain, or in any of these places. It's just

579
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: about building an international fan base for Netflix and Amazon

580
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: and Apple TV and Hulu or whoever they end up

581
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: going into business with. That's what I think they're doing.

582
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: And they're gonna play a game in Greece, they will

583
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: play a game in Dubai. Like this is all inevitable.

584
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: It's pretty clear where this is all going. But to me,

585
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: it is all based on the ability to stream these

586
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: games and have more and more people watching outside the

587
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: United States. That is important to them. And when they

588
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: inevitably sign a big deal with Netflix, they will have

589
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: hoped to have built that base over the course of

590
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: the twenty twenties and they are actively doing that. Thursday

591
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: Night Football, they've added the ability to flex games over

592
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. They just had to give

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00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: you a twenty eight day heads up. So if they

594
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: were gonna flex your Thursday night game, and you know

595
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: they if they're going to put you You're on a

596
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: Sunday game, and now they're going to flex your game

597
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: because it's better to Thursday night football, they had to

598
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: basically give you a mone Well, they've cut off a

599
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: week and now they only have to give you twenty

600
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: one days. I think they are dead set on selling

601
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: this package for way more money than they just did

602
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: do Amazon, and they understand that when you're getting ten

603
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: to fifteen million people to watch these games, how valuable

604
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: is that. We just saw the NBA almost triple their

605
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: deal and they've lost half their audience. They won't have

606
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: one game this season, including the NBA Finals, unless the

607
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: Lakers or Warriors make it that will get over ten

608
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: million people get the NFL on Amazon Prime is disappointed

609
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: when only ten million people watch. So I think the

610
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: league is licking their lips on upping the value of

611
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: all these packages, and they don't want a game that

612
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: looks good at the beginning of the season and then

613
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden there's a disaster sitting there on

614
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: Thursday night and all of a sudden, it's not as

615
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: important to watch. I'm gonna watch. I don't miss any

616
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 1: Thursday night games, but it's much more enjoyable when it's

617
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: Bengals Ravens or Chiefs Broncos than when it's you know,

618
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: Jags Titans. And I think they've made that decision and

619
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: they will keep getting aggressive and this is probably as

620
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: close as you can get The detractors will say, what

621
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 1: about the fans, What about the people who have made

622
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 1: the decision to travel in to buy a hotel room

623
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: and buy tickets. They don't care about you. They care

624
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: about the dude on the couch. They care about the

625
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: person that accounts for one of those eleven, twelve, thirteen

626
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: million people. That's where they derive their cash. It's where

627
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: they make their money. The value of you sitting in

628
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: the game used to be really valuable. It's really valuable

629
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: in baseball because I got eighty home games. It's really

630
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: valuable in basketab because I got forty one home games.

631
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: I value my season tickets. I value the people that

632
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: buy game day tickets. They are just not nearly valued

633
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: by the league office that views things from a macro perspective.

634
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are gonna write articles and

635
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: complain about this, which I get and listen. It sucks

636
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 1: if you make a decision to go to that game,

637
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: especially you know, a decision if it's like Raiders Broncos,

638
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm not trying to shit

639
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: in the Raiders, but they just have no chance to

640
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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and all of a sudden they move

641
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: that game for let's say, Rams Packers, and it's like, well,

642
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Speaker 1: I've already bought my tickets to Vegas. I already preserve

643
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Speaker 1: my room at the area. I already was gonna go

644
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: fly in Thursday morning and stay through Saturday. They're just

645
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: gonna tell you shit out of luck because they're not

646
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: really worried about you, and for the money that you

647
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: used to generate them twenty thirty, forty years ago, you're

648
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: such a small piece of the pie now and the

649
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: only thing they care about is Amazon Prime and whoever's

650
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: gonna buy that deal in a couple of years sees

651
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: the big numbers, and the bigger the game is, the

652
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: more people that they're gonna watch. Last, but not least,

653
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell said that two things can be true. We

654
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: really like JJ McCarthy, and we're all in on JJ McCarthy,

655
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: but we would not be doing our job if we

656
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: didn't thoroughly discuss and go over the scenarios about Aaron Rodgers.

657
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: I think he's right. You could argued, like, listen, Aaron,

658
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: we are going to offer you a contract. One year's

659
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: five million dollars. One year five million dollars what's it

660
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: gonna say. No, it's like, okay, go to Pittsburgh for

661
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: twenty five or whatever. We're offering you, by far the

662
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: best opportunity with the guy. As Kevin O'Connell said, I've

663
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Speaker 1: known since I was playing one year, five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: You've made four hundred and fifty. You've probably made six

665
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on and off the field. Whether you

666
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: get paid twenty million dollars or five million dollars isn't

667
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: going to change anything in your life, your future children,

668
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Speaker 1: if you choose to have them, anything about the rest

669
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Speaker 1: of your existence on this earth. But we are going

670
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: to give you five million dollars, and that would give

671
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: them the wiggle room, like, if it's not going well,

672
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: we just cut you. That's what I would have done

673
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: if I was Minnesota. Yeah, I'm not giving you twenty five,

674
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: thirty forty million dollars. Here's our offer if you want

675
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: to be a part of what we're doing and somehow

676
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: end up on the same path that farv ended up

677
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: on the guy that you like detested because he was

678
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: mean to you, and then he played for the same teams.

679
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: And clearly Rogers was hoping the Vikings offered him a contract.

680
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: You could argue, like, hey, league minimum and Dodger's league

681
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: minimum because's been the league twenty years, might be two

682
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: or three million dollars. But this is what we'll offer you.

683
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: What's it gonna say? No? Like, okay, cool, this is

684
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Speaker 1: what we wanted to We wanted the wiggle room of

685
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Speaker 1: like if this doesn't work out, we can bounce because

686
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: we don't want to be tied to you, but we

687
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: do value Like maybe you're better than JJ McCarthy right now,

688
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: maybe you're not. I don't know the answer. Obviously, you know,

689
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: three or four years ago, you wouldn't Aaron Rodgers had

690
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,240
Speaker 1: already been on the Vikings would have been a no brainer.

691
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: But at this point in time, he's forty one, he's declining.

692
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: What if JJ actually is good? But what if he's bad?

693
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: Like I understand why they had these conversations, But if

694
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Speaker 1: it ever got down to making him an offer, I

695
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: think the offer would be for a very very small

696
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: amount of money and basically put it in his court,

697
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: like how bad do you want this? Because we got

698
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: the leverage. You want to be here more than we

699
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,439
Speaker 1: want you. So I'm a little surprised that they ended

700
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: up not the trigger on just a basically a low

701
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: ball offer. I don't even want to use the term

702
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: low ball, just a just a listen, we want you

703
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: on this team. We think you still have something left,

704
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: but financially, this is the wiggle room that we have

705
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: and basically don't even pay more than JJ McCarthy. So

706
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: if JJ McCarthy actually hits, you know, there's not resentment

707
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: big picture, but they chose not to do that, and

708
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: they're all in on JJ McCarthy. And now the hopes

709
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Speaker 1: of Minnesota Vikings fans and the future of a franchise

710
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 1: that's absolutely loaded on paper falls on a guy that's

711
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: never taken a regular season snap. Okay, mailbag time at

712
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in

713
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: those dms. I have a lot, So it just if

714
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Speaker 1: I haven't got tears, I'm gonna try to just keep

715
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: banging them out for the weeks the off season. We'll

716
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: we'll just keep up. Hopefully I and can get most

717
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: of them before the draft, because obviously once that happens,

718
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: then we have a whole new influx and there's just

719
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, if I don't get you by then you

720
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: probably get lost in the shuffle. So I got to

721
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: start grinding over these next couple of weeks from landing

722
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: love the content. Been a listener for years, huge fan

723
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: of NIL. I think it's great because college athletes can

724
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: make money off their popularity in branding. My question is

725
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: how much money do you think football icons like Johnny

726
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: Football and Reggie Bush would have made in their college careers.

727
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: You know, the irony of you saying off their branding

728
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 1: and likeness, their image, you know, that's name, image and likeness.

729
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: That's not what these guys are being paid to do.

730
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: I think Deon Sanders said it. He's like beside, like shador,

731
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: who do you see in commercials? These guys are just

732
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: being paid to play, which again I I don't care,

733
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: but it's basically, I'm just paying you to play football.

734
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm not using your name, image and likeness anywhere in

735
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: terms of like commercials, like businesses. It's just like I

736
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: have five hundred thousand dollars for you here. So it's

737
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: kind of out of whack. But in this system, I

738
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: think both I think they would have been them Cam Newton,

739
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: I mean talk about and more Johnny Football and Reggie

740
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: because they had to build up. Cam just had the

741
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 1: one year with Auburn. I mean he would have been

742
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: asking for a raise by like week four. But Johnny

743
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: Football would have made a lot, I mean after that

744
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: huge was his red shirt freshman year, after Reggie's sophomore y. Yeah,

745
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: it would have been millions of dollars. As a former scout,

746
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: how much of your time was spent traveling to watch

747
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: players live versus evaluating them on film? And did you

748
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: enjoy the travel side of the job or do you

749
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: for breaking down the tape. That's a good question. I

750
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: would say I liked I liked driving. You know, I

751
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: can drive for hours. Now. The problem in that business is,

752
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, when I drove from Arizona State to Vegas

753
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: or LA to col Paly to cal and Stanford, you

754
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: just spend a lot of time in your car or

755
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: you can't get any work done. So it's like, at

756
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: least when you're flying around and in the airport you

757
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: can work. Like when you're driving, it's just kind of

758
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: dead time, and it's just time when you are from

759
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: three to eight at night, if you're on a five

760
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: hour drive, when it's you're just getting nothing done. Listen,

761
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: we all have to commute at times and you waste

762
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: an hour or two. But when you have consistent four

763
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: or five hour drives, it's just a lot of extra

764
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: time that you're gonna have to spend when you get

765
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: to your hotel. I'm very comfortable hotel. I can work

766
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: in a hotel, turn the ac to about sixty five degrees.

767
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: I can, you know, eat snack and beef jerky and

768
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: subway sandwiches. Like I can live that life, no problem.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think i'd want to do it

770
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: as much now, but I didn't have a problem with

771
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 1: that at all. I don't travel nearly as much now

772
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: obviously for this, but every once in a while, like

773
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:27,839
Speaker 1: go to the Combine or go to the super Bowl

774
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: and just stay in hotel. It's like, I'm very comfortable

775
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: in that environment. I'm very comfortable in a hotel room. Uh.

776
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: And maybe it goes back to that. I don't know.

777
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: And this is someone as a kid, like we didn't

778
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: It's not like this term gets thrown out a lot. Vacations. Vacations.

779
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, Maria's like I need a vacation.

780
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: Like when I was a kid, we didn't go on

781
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: many vacations like most. I don't think most people in

782
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: society are just getting a couple vacations a year, like

783
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: kids get spring break or or whatever. When I got

784
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: spring break, I just was with my friends at home,

785
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 1: or I'd go with my dad to work, So I

786
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: didn't get to travel as much. I definitely didn't fly

787
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: a lot, like throughout junior high and high school. Like

788
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: with my family, we didn't really go anywhere. If anything,

789
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: I went like with my friends. When I got to

790
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: go on quote like to Lake Tahoe or whatever, it

791
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: was like to my friend's house. It wasn't ours. So

792
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 1: maybe I value that ability to do that. Now, I'm

793
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: sure there's something psychological to it, but I love a

794
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 1: good Marriotte As an aspiring NFL NBA content creator on YouTube,

795
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: what tips do you suggest for getting started? How do

796
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: you grow to have a following that you have? Now? Well,

797
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: I've been in this business now you know the podcast

798
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: space for going on nine years. I've been doing YouTube

799
00:45:55,840 --> 00:46:00,439
Speaker 1: stuff for five plus. I've made my lip being off

800
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: the internet for a long time. So I would say

801
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: my number one piece of advice to any human just

802
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: do like you got to stop talking. You just got

803
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: to do it. Some stuff is not gonna work. The

804
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: best part about the Internet business there aren't really that

805
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: many rules. They just do whatever you want to do

806
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: and if it works, double down. If it doesn't stop,

807
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's the best. I mean, it's it's

808
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: for all the industries we have in the world. I

809
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: would say content creation is a little bit podcasting, YouTube, TikTok,

810
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: you fucking name it. Uh kind of that world is

811
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: still like the Wow Wow West. It won't be forever,

812
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: but right now, Like you look at some of these

813
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: worlds like banking or real estate and some of these

814
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: things that are very very corporate, and you got to

815
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: follow a bunch of rules. Ain't many rules. The number

816
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: one rule you should follow is just try to do

817
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: content as much as possible. You know, I don't have to.

818
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: I didn't have to do a podcast Sunday. This could

819
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: have been my first podcast of the week, record on

820
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: Monday for Tuesday, and just essentially take Friday, Saturday Sunday

821
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: off because I don't record anything Friday for Saturday. But

822
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: I you know, I start questioning myself, like am I

823
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: being lazy? And the answer I gave myself was yeah,

824
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 1: let's do something. So I recorded something like the best

825
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: part about this world is like you don't have to

826
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: do anything, Like you get to choose what you now

827
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: once you've got ads and people in business, Like there

828
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: are certain requirements based on certain deals, but like you

829
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: kind of get to pick and choose when you want

830
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: to do stuff. So pick and choose to do stuff

831
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: more often, and then through that you can figure out

832
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 1: what works and what doesn't. Since we're in the off season,

833
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: can you walk us through the process COMMA activities and

834
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: schedule from the draft until the regular season game one players,

835
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: coaches and rookies. I've always wanted to know what's going

836
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. Well, that's a long period of time.

837
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: I'll just walk you through the next couple months. March

838
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: thirty first, so once the owners meetings end and all

839
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: the gms and the coaches go back to their facilities.

840
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: I don't know whether they fly out Tuesday night or Wednesday.

841
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: Either by Thursday or Friday or maybe next Monday, you

842
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: will start intense draft meetings of taking everything that you

843
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: have gathered since the combine at the Pro days, all

844
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: the information and really hammer home the end of your

845
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: draft board. Now your coaches will be involved. They will

846
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: have work guys out, they will have evaluated players on film,

847
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: so their opinions will come into it. The coordinators, the

848
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: position coaches, and you will all work to get your

849
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: draft board situated over the course of two or three weeks.

850
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,800
Speaker 1: And like I know, Veach and the guys in Kansas City,

851
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time in that room anytime

852
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: there's a question or an argument on a guy, watching

853
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: games together as a group and they just kind of

854
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: work their way through it. Some teams do less of that,

855
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: so every team is a little different. And then you

856
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: just set your draft board and then the draft comes. Obviously

857
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: you pick the players, and then within I don't know

858
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: the exact time. Usually this after not the first weekend,

859
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: but the second weekend, you have a rookie mini camp

860
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: where those guys, you know, your Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all

861
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: the guys you just drafted, all undrafted free agents, and

862
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: then a bunch of like random tryout guys, and you

863
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: just run pretty discombobulated practice and over the course of

864
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: that time, you know your OTA's phase one, but it's

865
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: really just working out. Guys are in town working out,

866
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: they're in there during over the course of April, and

867
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: you're just kind of all integrating together. That leads to

868
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: OTAs and OTAs. You know, for a place like Kansas

869
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: City or Baltimore or Buffalo, or the Rams or the Niners.

870
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: Niners have a lot of new players, but some of

871
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: these teams with like pretty established rosters. You know, it's

872
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: it's I wouldn't say the Eagles. It's a three day

873
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: work week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and a lot of times

874
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: you're getting three day weekends Friday, Saturday, Sunday off Mondays

875
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: relatively chill. You work out some guys who are on

876
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: the street, maybe older free agents during that time. But

877
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: when I was when I worked for the Eagles, like

878
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: we were playing a bunch of golf. You know, they

879
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: weren't crazy long days like eight to three or four.

880
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: Now it's it's intense for the rookies and some of

881
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: these teams, like you know, if you're the Titans or

882
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: a new coach, you know Pete Carroll, obviously some days

883
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: are longer, like the Chiefs and the you know, the Eagles,

884
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: like certain teams, it's it just depends where you're at,

885
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: uh and then you basically do OTAs, which are just

886
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: I mean, kind of stupid at this point with all

887
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: the rules till summer break, which is about give or

888
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: take thirty five to forty days where you just do

889
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: what the hell you want. A lot of these guys,

890
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of coaches are rich. They go

891
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: to cool places and then you reconvene for training camp.

892
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do a training camp breakdown right now,

893
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: but the offseason, once the draft ends, becomes pretty chill,

894
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: becomes i would say, very relaxed. It's a good time,

895
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: you know, for like me, I'm gonna try to get

896
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: out and interview some of these guys during the months

897
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: of May and June because it's it's very relaxed time.

898
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: The spirits are very high for all these teams. Who

899
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: do you think is the best contender to go from

900
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: worse to first in their division this year? I mean,

901
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: it probably have to be the forty nine ers, just

902
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 1: because when you look around, like, is it gonna be

903
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, Is it going to be the New

904
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: York Giants? You know, even the New England Patriots, who

905
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: could have a massive bounce back, like they're not gonna

906
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: have a better record than the Bills, So I think

907
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: the most realistic team would have to be the Niners. Yeah,

908
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: the Patriots, I just even if they were to get

909
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: a wild card, they're not taking the Bills out. Browns

910
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: no chance, Titans feels hard pressed, Raiders, no chance, Giants,

911
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: definitely no chance. I do think the Bears could be

912
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: a lot better, but I mean their division fifteen wins,

913
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: fourteen wins and eleven wins, so they combined for thirty

914
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: they combined for forty wins. The three teams they got

915
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: to take out Saints, I'd say probably no chance. It

916
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: feels like the Niners would be the only guess you

917
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: could have that could be real. Good question if you

918
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: were going to build an NFL team, when't you build

919
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: through the trenches? This seems like an obvious concept, but

920
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: the bottom twelve teams in the NFL seemed to constantly

921
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: be rebuilding over and over. Are these coaches in GM

922
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: scared of getting fired and that's why they bring in new, flashy,

923
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: skill position players. Would you approach it as a GM Well,

924
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: I think if your fundamental football belief is to draft

925
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: big guys, I think most people say that right when

926
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 1: they get introduced as a head coach when they get

927
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: introduced as a GM, when they do interviews, like we

928
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: believe in the line of scrimmage. But then you're on

929
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 1: the clock. Let's say you're the Cowboys, right, you're at

930
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,720
Speaker 1: pick twelve, It's like, you should probably take an offensive

931
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: or defensive alignment. Zach Martin just retired. You've just lost

932
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: some defensive players over the course the last couple of years. Like,

933
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 1: you could definitely add a young talented guy to go

934
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 1: with Micah, especially a dtackle. All these gms often also say,

935
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: is like, take the best player on the board. So

936
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: if we get to pick twelve and the best player

937
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: on our board by far is Ashton genty. And let's

938
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: say McMillan from Arizona, who I saw kind of went

939
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: viral because someone got him for saying he doesn't watch film.

940
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: It's like, guys, a lot of college players don't watch

941
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: a lot of film outside of the coaching staff. Like,

942
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: he's not it's not abnormal. Now will he develop into that?

943
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: Time will tell, But like I don't think he's alone.

944
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: But if those are the best two players on the draft,

945
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,399
Speaker 1: and you don't have a defensive or offensive lineman on

946
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: the same level as those guys. That's when often you

947
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: get in trouble is when you reach for a need.

948
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: So I do think it's easy for us to criticize them,

949
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: and then when they take a need and it works,

950
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: they look like a genius. And when they take a

951
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: skilled guy in at backfires, they look like an idiot.

952
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: It's really really difficult to draft, it is. It's so

953
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,240
Speaker 1: much easier for us, all including them, to play Monday

954
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: morning quarterback, to look back a couple years going like

955
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: great pick, awful pick. You don't have any of that

956
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: information in a month, you can only go off what

957
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: you are projecting. Then in two years you got a

958
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: bunch of film and you know, certain guy's been arrested

959
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: and broke his leg, and like, god, I wouldn't have

960
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: fuck with that guy. It's so easy to say after

961
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: the fact, and I'm as guilty as anybody, But I

962
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: think if you just draft good players, no one's really

963
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: gonna complain. Look at the Eagles last year, they just

964
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: they desperately needed dbs and they drafted the two dbs. Well,

965
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: you know it turned out both the dbs were sweet.

966
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 1: What if those dbs sucked, It's like, ah, those guys

967
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: can't play. De Jean's a stiff white guy. Mitchell overrated

968
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: small school guy. He'd been getting crushed. The key is

969
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 1: to hit on the picks, keys to hit on the picks.

970
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: The Bengals took Jamar Chase over Pina School. Which if

971
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: I just pulled every GM hey star tackle, star wide receiver,

972
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: which one are you gonna take? Take the star tackle?

973
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: But if that guy's Jamar Chase, you don't feel really

974
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: bad about it, especially in your offensive line still sucks.

975
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: I was wondering your thoughts on the Ravens chances to

976
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: finally make it over the hump. I feel like our

977
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: roster A is stacked and con beat any team. I

978
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: know Lamar has been disappointing in the playoffs, but I

979
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: think the improvements we've seen the last two seasons have

980
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: been big. Do you think we will win the Super

981
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: Bowl this year or Lamar will continue to struggle in

982
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'll say this, if I'm the Bills or

983
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: the Ravens, you keep giving yourself enough swings, Eventually you're

984
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna hit a home run. Eventually it's gonna break your way.

985
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: I've seen it play out with other teams. You know,

986
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: Lamar and Josh are clearly the next two best quarterbacks

987
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: in the league. Peyton Manning forever could get over the

988
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: hump against the Patriots, and then he finally did, and

989
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: then he went to three more Super Bowls. It's like

990
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,360
Speaker 1: one of those two teams is I would say in

991
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: the next two years? Hell, I would say this year,

992
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,959
Speaker 1: it's a coin flip for the Chiefs. Are the Chiefs

993
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: gonna go to six Super Bowls in seven years? Yeah,

994
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: they have one of the best coaches of all time,

995
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: they have a great quarterback. But just history would tell

996
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: us Belichick didn't go to the Super Bowl and Brady

997
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: every fucking year he got beat occasionally by Flacco, by Manning,

998
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: like it's just gone by by Mark Sanchez. So eventually

999
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be like, oh, Bill's Ravens in the

1000
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game, bound to happen. This gonna be your year.

1001
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought two years ago was your year.

1002
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: If Lamar keeps playing an elite level and you guys

1003
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: just keep building good teams like you've done for feels

1004
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: like most of my adult life. Yeah, you're gonna have

1005
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: a shot. In your opinion, what do you think was

1006
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: the best decade of football. I'm twenty four lifelong Pats fan,

1007
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: so I grew up watching The Dynasty in New England.

1008
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: But I love watching old highlights to see how much

1009
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: different things were. My personal favorite was the twenty tens.

1010
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: I would say the best decade of football for my

1011
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: personal enjoyment would probably be the tens, or excuse me,

1012
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: the zero, the just the two thousands. It still had

1013
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: like a nineties eighty seventies level of you could get killed,

1014
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: like it was so physical and intense that only gladiators

1015
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: could do it. But there was still such a high

1016
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: level of like Brady in his prime, Manning in his prime,

1017
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: Farv was still playing, Breeze really hit the scene, Philip Rivers,

1018
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: Big Ben Eli. So you just had pretty high level

1019
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: quarterback play, especially in the playoffs, and there was like

1020
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: this gladiator element. I think the league was deeper than

1021
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: it was definitely when I was really really young. The

1022
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: Salary cap I think changed the world of parody. But

1023
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 1: like you know, you came over the middle of John

1024
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: Lynch or Brian Dawkins or some of the Troy Paulamalu

1025
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: and Ray Lewis. There was just an element of this

1026
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: is crazy. I mean, these guys are nuts, and there's

1027
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: still an element of that, but you know, the violence

1028
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: has just been officiated out of the game because they

1029
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: don't want to get sued, which I totally understand. If

1030
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: I was in their shoes, i'd do the same thing.

1031
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: But there was a level of violence up until whatever

1032
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: the mid twenty tens that just doesn't exist anymore. That

1033
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm not ashamed to say. I miss sometimes and I

1034
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: think some of these players get away with poor play

1035
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: quarterbacks specifically, that wouldn't been tolerated back then because you

1036
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,919
Speaker 1: would have got guys killed, you wouldn't have been able

1037
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: to play. And I do agree with Brady, you know, Mahomes,

1038
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 1: Josh Lamar, these guys would have played in any era.

1039
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: But some of these random guys that are able to excel,

1040
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: like could Gardner Minshew have played in two thousand and four? No,

1041
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: I do not believe that. I don't think he would

1042
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: still be in the league. That's not I'm not trying

1043
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: to take a shot at the guy. I just think

1044
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: you watch him play any kind of little gun slinger like,

1045
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible he would have got people killed,

1046
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: So I'd go my personal favorite the two thousands. Do

1047
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: you think as more and more different head coaches and

1048
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: GM's win Super Bowls, Shanahan and Lynch will slowly become

1049
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: an overrated coach in GM combination. It always seems like

1050
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: he has a stack roster and just coaches just like

1051
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: other coaches such as Siriani. But the difference is that

1052
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: he can never take it all the way home. Hell,

1053
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor made a Super Bowl and Doug Peterson won one.

1054
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: Lynch overpaid Jimmy g He used two first rounders on

1055
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: Trey Lance three and could have whiffed on Mac Jones

1056
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: got lucky with a limited seventh rounder. Yeah, I mean

1057
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: these guys just until you win a Super Bowl, you

1058
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: always have that hanging over your head and how close

1059
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: they've been, they're gonna pay their quarterback. Yeah, they will

1060
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: get criticized. But here's the thing. Kyle Shanahan could have

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Speaker 1: two awful seasons, he would immediately get hired immediately. It's

1062
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: like Andy Reid. Andy Reid got fired in Philadelphia, there

1063
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 1: were three or four teams lined up to hire the guy.

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01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: John Lynch is the overrated, underrated, like who's like his

1065
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: resume speaks for himself. He's drafted a lot of really

1066
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: good players. He's and Jimmy Garoppolo was not necessarily overpaid,

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01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: won a lot of games with them. That was Jimmy

1068
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: Garoppolo a franchise quarterback. It turns out he wasn't because

1069
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: he got injured a lot and then he kind of

1070
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: diminished as a player. But like when they paid him,

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01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: what were they supposed to do? They just made the

1072
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. If Tua just taken the Dolphins of the

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01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl or Trevor Lawrence, I would have been like, Yeah,

1074
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: I have no problem with them signing that contract. Like

1075
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: those guys couldn't piss a drop in the playoffs, especially Tua.

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01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: It's like you can't. Jimmy Garoppolo is like making plays

1077
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and in huge games to get them

1078
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: the number one seed in twenty nineteen, So they were

1079
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: kind of like, what are they gonna do? And then

1080
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: he just kind of fell off a cliff because he

1081
01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: was injured a lot. But I don't have as big

1082
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: of an issue with them paying Jimmy Garoppolo. That was

1083
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 1: not the reason, Like that didn't derail their team at all.

1084
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: The Trey Lance thing is a way bigger issue, but

1085
01:02:55,560 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: they got out of it because of Rock Party. Now

1086
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: it's like Perty's going to be judged differently because he's

1087
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: gonna be paid a lot of money. Question for the bag,

1088
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: does the height of gent really concern you enough to

1089
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 1: hesitate on him being one of the best running backs

1090
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: in the draft? I understand he's only five eight, but

1091
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,919
Speaker 1: what about backs like Frank Gore. I'm from the Bay

1092
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: and had the privilege of meeting Frank and Willis at

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01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 1: a birthday party in the San Jose Hills. He was

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01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: listed at five to nine, but in person didn't seem

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01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: taller than five to seven tackle breaking ability like Gore.

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Speaker 1: You're making my point though, Frank Gore, who's i mean,

1097
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: one of the more consistent players of his generation, was

1098
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: pick sixty five. I've never said that Dashion genty isn't

1099
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 1: one of, if not the best running back in this draft.

1100
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: My issue is are you going to take a running

1101
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: back who's five to eight in the top ten when

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01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 1: you could find a starter no problem? In this draft?

1103
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: It is considered one of, if not the deepest running

1104
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,959
Speaker 1: back drafts in years. In the second or third round,

1105
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 1: aren't you better off taking a defensive lineman in the

1106
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: first round and then taking the third or fourth running

1107
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: back in the second round. That's my whole argument. I'm

1108
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: with you, He's not going to be a bust or

1109
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: a great play. His height is not going to determine

1110
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 1: his success. He can he can excel and be a

1111
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: pro bowl or five eight one hundred percent. But am

1112
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: I taking a five eight guy in the top ten

1113
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: at running back? That's where I struggle with and I'm

1114
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: with you. Frank Gore as a stut but he's a

1115
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 1: third round pick. Now, part of that was because of

1116
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: his knee injuries, But that's my argument. Why don't you

1117
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,919
Speaker 1: just draft Frank Gore in the third round and take

1118
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: other positions in the other in the other rounds. So

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01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: when I look at at the forty nine ers who

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01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: took Frank Gore in two thousand and five, they took

1121
01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: Alex Smith with the first round pick. They took David

1122
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: Bass with their second round pick. I think played decent

1123
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: amount who's on the team for five years. So they

1124
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: got their starting quarterback and their starting center, and then

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01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: they're starting running back in the third round. That's my

1126
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 1: whole argument here, Take get your starting tight end Tyler

1127
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,959
Speaker 1: Warren and then take whoever the fourth best running back

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01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: or the seventh best running back in the third round,

1129
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: who might be the next Frank Gore. Happens all the time.

1130
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara third round, Nick Chubb second round, Leshaun McCoy

1131
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: second round. You don't need what's the guy's like Adrian Peterson.

1132
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm just Sakuon Barkley. I'm just not taking the guy

1133
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: that high. When you were talking about guards and centers

1134
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: having elite toughness like wrestlers, it got me curious. Did

1135
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: you catch any of the NCAA Wrestling Championship this past weekend?

1136
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: As a Penn State fan, It's one sporting event where

1137
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 1: I get to experience winning natties. But the event overall

1138
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:19,400
Speaker 1: had some awesome moments. Like I said, I just watched

1139
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: the highlights of the dude that upset the guy from Minnesota,

1140
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: which was awesome. I think the Bills last year, either

1141
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: drafted in the seventh or as an undrafted free agent,

1142
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 1: took the national champion wrestler from Minnesota. I don't even

1143
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 1: think it was the guy that just lost. Could be

1144
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't bring that up. I don't have the information,

1145
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure that they brought a wrestler to

1146
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 1: the team. Dming you from my fiance's Instagram account. I

1147
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 1: think I have a great addition for Fugazi Friday decorative pillows.

1148
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 1: We currently have seven decorative pillows on our bed and

1149
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: none of them are ever used. What is the point

1150
01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: of having and paying for seven pillows to take them

1151
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: off and use your actual pillows when you sleep? They

1152
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: are annoying. I hear you, brother, You know the one

1153
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: thing is when you One thing ladies bring to our

1154
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: lives is the functionuy, the the aura, as the kids

1155
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: say that, the vibes of the house, because when they

1156
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: don't exist, my house looks much worse in terms of decorations.

1157
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: And like I would, I never had any pillows on

1158
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 1: my bed beside the ones I used to sleep, And

1159
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: I think my mom before I moved to Arizona, like

1160
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: the only reason my bed had like the extra pillows

1161
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: because like my mom bottom for me. But there are

1162
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: things I'm with you, they just are there for looks.

1163
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: And how often even when you bring people over to

1164
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: your house like friends, they're not hanging out in your bedroom.

1165
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: But maybe this is an old school thing my dad

1166
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: taught me like one thing I am good at and

1167
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,720
Speaker 1: I'm disciplined with is making the bed every day. It's

1168
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: kind of kind of my job or just I just

1169
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:19,680
Speaker 1: end up doing it, and I don't mind doing it.

1170
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: It's like, get out of bed, get out of bed

1171
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 1: and make the bed. Your bed does look better with

1172
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 1: the pillows. But I'm with you when you sleep. We

1173
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: have like a chair next to the bed that you

1174
01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:35,680
Speaker 1: just put all the pillows in, and then when you

1175
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,240
Speaker 1: make the bed you just grab all the pillows and

1176
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 1: put them back on. Like you said one, they're not comfortable,

1177
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: so even if you wanted to lay on them, they're

1178
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: always like harder. They do improve the look, and that

1179
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: is something that ladies bring to our life, is that

1180
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: they add the vibes of the house would look worse

1181
01:08:56,439 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: without them. Even if these things that they bring to

1182
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:04,680
Speaker 1: the table aren't functional, because you're from a functionality standpoint,

1183
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: they bring. The pillows do nothing. You never use them.

1184
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: You only take and subtract them from the bed when

1185
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 1: you actually use the bed. Sometimes they go on the

1186
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: floor and then they get dirty kind of gross. But

1187
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: when they're all on the bed, the bed does in theory,

1188
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 1: depending on the color of the pillows and the duvet

1189
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:31,840
Speaker 1: and everything look better. But I hear you, I hear you.

1190
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 1: That's a you know, big pillows got us by the balls.

1191
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:38,799
Speaker 1: The volume