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George Pickens & Christian Gonzalez Hold-Ins, Browns QB Battle, Tom Brady's "Good Nut" + NFL Offseason Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume. What is happening everybody? How are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm John this three and Out podcast. Hopefully you're doing
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  Speaker 1: well out there in the real world. Today. We got
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on. We got player holdouts, hold ins,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback controversies, McAfee getting sixty million year, Tom Brady with
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  Speaker 1: page and go check that out. So let's just just
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  Speaker 1: dive right into some football. And I think sports is
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  Speaker 1: no different than any of our industries. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be very careful who you get in business with, and
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  Speaker 1: the only way to really figure it out is as
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  Speaker 1: you get older, you know you have different experiences to
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  Speaker 1: base things on and you know, you know when you're
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  Speaker 1: working with good people, people you can trust, people you
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  Speaker 1: want to do deals with, and people you're not comfortable
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  Speaker 1: doing that, and people you're working for, working with clients
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  Speaker 1: you know you're doing business with. I don't think sports
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  Speaker 1: is that different, except the asset is the player, and
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  Speaker 1: they're extremely valuable, right. I mean in the NBA, you
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  Speaker 1: got guys, top guys making fifty sixty seventy million dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year. In football, obviously the quarterbacks have always made
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  Speaker 1: a money. You have guards making twenty eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: center Linderbaum. Look at that contract. So the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money you're investing into these players, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable with the guy. And you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: make a trade and acquire someone like Dallas did with
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens. The reason he was available because there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of question marks. No one ever disputed his talent, right,
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  Speaker 1: his talent when he was coming into the draft. I
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  Speaker 1: bet if you polled most GMS, he's probably a top
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  Speaker 1: fifteen talent in the draft. But there's a reason he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go in that range because a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: had red flags on the guy. And you watch him
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  Speaker 1: this year with the Cowboys, You're like, got this guy
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  Speaker 1: is This guy's a freak. And the problem with Jerry
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  Speaker 1: is he's kind of this wheeler and dealer and he
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  Speaker 1: makes his trade and then it hits. George had over
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  Speaker 1: ninety catches fourteen hundred plus yards and obviously had some
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  Speaker 1: weird moments. I mean, that's part of the package, but
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, was just a shining light for
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys throughout the season. But when you trade for
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  Speaker 1: a guy that is going into a contract, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: time to get paid. You know Christian Gonzales right now
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  Speaker 1: with the Patriots, by all account, really good guy, obviously
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  Speaker 1: a really good player. And you know, Belichick used to
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  Speaker 1: have this thing in their heyday was he was hesitant
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  Speaker 1: on bringing guys in at premium prices that would come
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  Speaker 1: into a locker room and make more money than his
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  Speaker 1: top guys, including Tom because he was always taking pay
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  Speaker 1: cuts who had the sweat equity in the building. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's won multiple Super Bowls, this guy's been to
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  Speaker 1: fight Pro Bowls for me, and now I'm gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: in this random guy from a shittier team pay him
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  Speaker 1: way more than you. We're all human beings. Money's all relative, right,
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  Speaker 1: If you make one hundred grand and you know the
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  Speaker 1: guy next to you is making one hundred and eighty grand,
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  Speaker 1: and you think you're doing a way better job and
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  Speaker 1: based on all the numbers, And if you're in sales,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm crushing this guy and his his bonus structure
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  Speaker 1: is better than you're, like, I'm getting screwed. What would
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  Speaker 1: you do? You're like, one you'd be pissed off, and
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  Speaker 1: two you'd want to change. So, whether it's one hundred grand,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a million dollars, or whether you're talking Christiganzales
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  Speaker 1: and George Pickens making thirty thirty five million dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year is the going rate in their industry. The problem
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  Speaker 1: with the Cowboys is they do this deal. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do and just play it out
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  Speaker 1: year by year and have this guy like last year
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  Speaker 1: he had time to play for and in his mind
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  Speaker 1: now it's like I've played for it, pay me and
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna play it out in the franchise tag
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  Speaker 1: and have this be weird? You know? For Christigan Zales.
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  Speaker 1: Last year the Patriots resurrected the franchise right, not only
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  Speaker 1: did they win the division. They're in the fucking super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, remove the quarterback who's on a rookie contract.
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  Speaker 1: You could make the argument that Christian Zales was their
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  Speaker 1: best player. You can put them right there with Milton Williams. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Milton Williams make twenty five million dollars a year, you're Christiganzales.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I'm scheduled to make a little over two
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  Speaker 1: this year. And then we bringing a J. Brown, who,
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  Speaker 1: while his resume speaks for itself, I didn't see him
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  Speaker 1: in the trenches with us last year when we're beating
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  Speaker 1: the Bills, when we're beating the Texans in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: when we're making this run to the super Bowl. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, who I like a lot and admire from
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  Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint, you know, is morals, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: don't really line up with the way I operate personally.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure many of you right morally probably a
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  Speaker 1: little different. But and who knows love is love. I
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  Speaker 1: don't pretend to know the inner workings of his, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, marriage. We all have different rules. Most of
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  Speaker 1: us abide by the standard rules, which I abide by
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you abide by or that would
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  Speaker 1: not be tolerated, but who knows. Maybe in his home it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a different rule book. I never want to assume, right.
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  Speaker 1: Assuming makes an ass out of you and me, so
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  Speaker 1: we got to be very careful doing that. But in
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  Speaker 1: terms of running a franchise, in terms of leading men,
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  Speaker 1: he's really good at it. And one thing he clearly
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  Speaker 1: got when he got hired last year was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of power. Right we know with Dallas, if George Picktt's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get trade trade paid, if you know, they end
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  Speaker 1: up trading him eventually like they did Micah Parsons, whatever happens,
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  Speaker 1: you know who the final decision maker is there, it's
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. With the Patriots, we saw for twenty plus
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  Speaker 1: years Bill Belichick called all the shots and then Mike
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  Speaker 1: Vrabel was good at negotiating. Last year he like dabbled
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  Speaker 1: with the Jets and he got everything he wanted, and
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots not only made him the head coach, but
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  Speaker 1: it's clear he's the boss. And when they trade for
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  Speaker 1: aj Brown, I think it's pretty obvious. Then Mike Vrabel
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  Speaker 1: was in charge, and then to day he's asked about
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  Speaker 1: Chris Gonzales. He's like, I'm not in charge of contract
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  Speaker 1: or I'm not involved in contract negotiations. And I'll say this, like,
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  Speaker 1: do I think I think he is parsing through every
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  Speaker 1: single paragraph in a player's contract with chat GPT. I
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  Speaker 1: do not. Do I think that every major contract with
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots goes through Mike Vrabel to get your classic
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  Speaker 1: emoji thumbs up or thumbs down one million percent. So
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  Speaker 1: he's lying. And part of being a coach, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be good guy, bad guy front office. Andy Reid's great
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  Speaker 1: at this, right. If you notice Andie's trade a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players, cut a lot of players. They don't like him,
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  Speaker 1: and for the most part he's been the boss. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's a fine line to walk. But the
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  Speaker 1: moment you bring in aj Brown, who is now scheduled
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  Speaker 1: I think to make over twenty eight million dollars if
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  Speaker 1: I'm Christian Goanzalez, even if my resume doesn't quite look
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  Speaker 1: like him. It's one thing when you bring a guy
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  Speaker 1: to a shitty team, right, it's like, what am I
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  Speaker 1: gonna say? What am I gonna do? We all suck
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  Speaker 1: right in this situation, It's like we just won here,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm clearly a pillar on this defense. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even twenty five yet, I am. I play a premium position,
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  Speaker 1: and we have also seen other guys at that position
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years get ninety one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten million dollars in guaranteed contracts. I've
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  Speaker 1: always supported players by being like, I would not do
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  Speaker 1: one drill. It's one thing if it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred grand whatever I've even said. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: lamar just passing up over a two year period, one
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  Speaker 1: point five million dollars, Like that's not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money to just give away when you're working out anyway,
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  Speaker 1: when you have when you have workout bonuses. But I
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  Speaker 1: guess when if you're gonna accumulate four or five hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, what is a tiny, tiny percentage of your
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  Speaker 1: overall income. But still, I just wouldn't be one to
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  Speaker 1: give away seven figures unless I'm like Bezos or Elon.
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  Speaker 1: But when I'm a player and I'm scheduled to get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money, I'm not doing a thing. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be a good guy, and I'll be a good Samaritan,
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  Speaker 1: and I will show up. But we all know what's
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  Speaker 1: on the line here and the moment you bring in
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  Speaker 1: outside help at enormous amounts of money, who, let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: have some question marks, Like I like aj Brown, I
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  Speaker 1: would have made that trade as well. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I probably would argued over the compensation a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I understand it. But last year is really weird.
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  Speaker 1: And you bring in this problem because he's your guy
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  Speaker 1: and you're willing to pay him. He's an older player,
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  Speaker 1: I'm younger. In theory, I'm ascending. Some people think he
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  Speaker 1: might be going the other way. So I think you've
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  Speaker 1: got to be very careful in these situations how you
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  Speaker 1: build the team. You know, Jerry's proved he doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: a shit. He just he'll figure it out. And he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of unphased by these contract negotiations in a weird way.
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  Speaker 1: He likes it. But as someone around the league told
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  Speaker 1: me a couple of years ago, he's like, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: NBA or the NFL is not the NBA in terms
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  Speaker 1: of like players have all this juice, but they've never
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  Speaker 1: had more juice than they have now, Like they have
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  Speaker 1: a ton of power in negotiations in uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to trades. When it comes to new contracts,
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  Speaker 1: it's like they can force themselves in certain directions. So
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  Speaker 1: once you get to numbers, you know of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and one hundred and fifty twenty five thirty thirty five
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year, like that guy's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of juice, you know, And if that amount of money
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  Speaker 1: is on the line for me, there's no way I
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  Speaker 1: could do anything. So I think you see the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they really have a choice. You extend
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  Speaker 1: Christiananzales at a massive number. And again, by everything I've
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  Speaker 1: always been told and heard from the outside, he's who
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  Speaker 1: you want to be in business with. Right Like when
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans gave Will Anderson. And there's this funny
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  Speaker 1: kind of meme going around because in college football you
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  Speaker 1: have some of these older guys playing now like twenty
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  Speaker 1: four to twenty five years old, and there's this there's
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  Speaker 1: this picture of Will Anderson when he was a true
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  Speaker 1: freshman at Bama. I mean, he looks good, but he
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  Speaker 1: just looks like a younger Division I football player. Then
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  Speaker 1: they showed him walking out to practice like a week ago.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like fucking Reggie White. You're like eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old versus twenty five year old. It's like advantage twenty
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  Speaker 1: five year old. It's just natural, right, It's google it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fantastic picture. But I just think the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: you want to be in business like with people like this,
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  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are kind of a prime example where
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  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, best case scenario in some of
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  Speaker 1: these worlds are still pretty risky. It's like, clearly they're
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  Speaker 1: not that comfortable in giving him a massive contract or
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  Speaker 1: they already would have. And what is even that number?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at I'm sure some of you have
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  Speaker 1: seen on social media the Brandon Ayuk. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: have the energy to comment on it because I think
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  Speaker 1: it's so stupid. It's like the forty nine ers regretted
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  Speaker 1: it immediately, and I always thoughts, like he's catching seventy
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  Speaker 1: five balls a year. You're not extending Marvin Harrison here.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, well, he's a great route runner, he knows
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  Speaker 1: Kyle's system. It's like, yeah, his peak is seventy five
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  Speaker 1: catches a year, so it's like, yeah, you can give
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  Speaker 1: me all these yards after the catch and his yardage.
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  Speaker 1: No one's disputing that he's not a good player, but
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  Speaker 1: at the numbers in which you have to invest, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense if George Pickens is gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you ninety to one hundred catches and fourteen hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: a year and go along with ceedee lamb when you're
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  Speaker 1: already paying back, Like I in a passing offense, totally
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  Speaker 1: understand it. Kyle Shannon's like Kyle, in a perfect world,
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  Speaker 1: you would run it forty times a game. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even want to pass it that much, and then he's
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  Speaker 1: causing you troubles. What I never understood that one I
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  Speaker 1: never did. This is not Monday morning quarterback me sitting here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at a desk talking into a camera, saying
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  Speaker 1: that was more I ought at the time, like just
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  Speaker 1: trade the guy. And they should have traded him at
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  Speaker 1: the draft, but they refused because they they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to take less than a one, even though they could
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  Speaker 1: have got got into two and a three and just
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  Speaker 1: moved on. And now they got this just kind of
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing debacle that they're just kind of stuck with that
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  Speaker 1: they kind of paid for, even though they got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a rebate. Speaking of rebates, the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Browns when you pay a guy guaranteed money, there's no
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  Speaker 1: getting around that unless you're Brandon at Yuk and he
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  Speaker 1: like agrees to give some back in a weird way,
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  Speaker 1: but most players do not, and their union won't allow
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  Speaker 1: it rightfully. So remember famously, I would have been a
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  Speaker 1: freshman in college the New York Yankees had traded for
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Alex Rodriguez. This might have been in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and three. I think it was a freshman
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  Speaker 1: at cal Pouli. It might have been in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that would have been the off season. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I was still in high school. And part of the
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  Speaker 1: trade to get Alex Rodriguez from the Texas Rangers, which
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  Speaker 1: would have been a blockbuster for Manny Ramirez and obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. It worked out well for them, but
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  Speaker 1: not do the deal was he was going to take
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  Speaker 1: a pay reduction reduction. I mean at the time it
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  Speaker 1: was like nineteen ninety nine or two thousands, like two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars, which now would feel like
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  Speaker 1: seven billion. It was insane, and he goes to this
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  Speaker 1: bad team and it's it's it's a waste. But the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox facilitate this trade and he was gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of the pay bump, and the players
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  Speaker 1: union in baseball, who has the most juice of all
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  Speaker 1: the players unions, didn't allow it, Like this is not
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. Then he ends up going to the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and the rest is history. But when you pay a
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  Speaker 1: guy two hundred and thirty million dollars and you own
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  Speaker 1: forty six million this year, that guy is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback Week one. Like that, there isn't
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback competition. When it comes to Cleveland Browns, Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson is going to start. Now. I like many of you,
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  Speaker 1: would be like, just your team's not gonna be good anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Just have Shador play the entire season. See what he's got.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he got something, Maybe he does enough that maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's trade bait if you end up drafting a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: next year. But just play the young guy we've already
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  Speaker 1: seen Deshaun Watson. But that's not the way business works.
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  Speaker 1: When you are this invested into an individual financially, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to go, well, it's just spilled milk, it's water
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  Speaker 1: under the bridge. When I was in high school, the
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings had the best record in the NBA. Chris
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  Speaker 1: Weber had missed the entire season with a knee injury.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what happened. When he was medically cleared, they immediately
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  Speaker 1: put him back into the starting lineup. It was never
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  Speaker 1: the same, and that was kind of the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the end for the Rick Adelman, Chris Webber, Mike Bibbi
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  Speaker 1: era because physically he was never the same and it
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  Speaker 1: just threw off their rhythm. But he was one of
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  Speaker 1: the highest paid players in the league. What are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna do? Just yeah, we'll just give you a ten
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  Speaker 1: plus minutes coming off the bench. No industry works like that,
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  Speaker 1: especially specifically sports, when you're talking about individuals just making
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  Speaker 1: so much money. So Deshaun Wat's gonna be the starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But on the bright side, if you're Brown's fan or
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  Speaker 1: just like kind of just be more interested if Shador's played,
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  Speaker 1: I would put the over under of games Shador Sanders
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  Speaker 1: starts at probably over ten, assuming he can stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Browns aren't gonna be good. I would doubt
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson now just looks really sweet. So if you start,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one in three, zero to four, two and five,
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  Speaker 1: guess what usually happens that guy gets benched, So that
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  Speaker 1: feels inevitable. I would bet on that happening. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly the week it happens, but I'll promise you this,
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  Speaker 1: Shador Sanders will be named the starting quarterback when Watson
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  Speaker 1: is benched sometime late September early October. Today's show is
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• 16:52
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• 16:54
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  Speaker 1: Now they're here. They are currently on hard Rock Bet
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  Speaker 1: also an underdog in Game one in San Antonio on
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  Speaker 1: You know, Victor Webman Yama's favored to win the MVP.
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio's favored to win this series. I believe it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the next time, and obviously, if you're gonna bet him
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  Speaker 1: to win the series, it's hard to bet against Jalen
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Brunson being the MVP. We have had some recent examples,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: though a couple of years ago. Jalen Brown. I remember
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: when Andrea Gudala won it. I think if you go well,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: who could win the MVP if it wasn't Jalen Brown.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: If you are Jalen Brunson, if you wanted to get
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: some odds, you know Karl Anthony Towns twenty to one.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: OG's forty to one. Bridges is one hundred and fifty
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to one, so I think the safe bet is Brunson,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: but they got a lot of firepower defensively to throw
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: at him. I can't wait for the series again. I'm
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: on the I think the Knicks win it. I think
• 18:02
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• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about this because Adam Peters I asked
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: him that question of a couple of years ago when
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he took all the quarterbacks to top Golf, which he
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: has said he's done every year since, and they did
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: forever with the forty nine ers. It is amazing how
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: many people that and listen to a lot of people
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: in the quote unquote media do know what they're talking
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: about because they talk to people in the league. But
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: even if you talk to people in the league, they
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: give you their biased opinions. Right when I reach out
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to the people I know, I'm pretty confident they're you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: successful work for successful teams have won Super Bowls, but
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they are still biased the way they look at certain teams,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: certain coaches, certain players, certain executives. So sometimes you got
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to take some stuff with a green of salt, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I try to balance that. And the better you get
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to know people, the more you understand kind of where
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: they're coming from. But I think a lot of people
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in the media, a lot of radio hosts, a lot
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of people that write, have no clue what they're talking about.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And looking back on the Adam Peters taking all the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks to top Golf, they got destroyed. And I understand
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: when people looked at the w Washington football team Commanders Redskins,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: for a long period of time, they were a joke.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: So I think you just assume, and I'm sure people
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: around that area just assume it's gonna continue to be
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a joke. But it's like, you know, this guy learned
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: under Belichick and Scott Pioli and Tom Brady, went to
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: John Elway and Peyton Manning and resurrected the forty nine ers.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I think he might deserve a little bit of the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, And looking back, it shows you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes these media narratives and headlines, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: what do the fans do? They're scrolling they're seeing headlines,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: they're like, what the hell is this guy doing? This
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: guy's they don't even know what to think because they're
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: just manipulated by what said online that this is a joke.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: How are you taking all these guys a top golf.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: He's like, well, we just take our guys to top
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: golf because, you know what, it's not that serious, because
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: during the day is very serious. You're getting up bright
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and early, you're having breakfast, you're going to the trainer,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you're going to the doctor, you're going to the position coach,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: you're going to the coordinator, going to the head coach,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you're going to the GM. It's a long fucking day.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It kind of sucks. And guess what most of these
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: guys have done. They've done this at countless teams throughout
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the league, and maybe the first time it's cool, but
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: after a while you're like, I'm exhausted. And as Adam said,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: we take them atop golf, not because they're good at golf,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: not because we really are trying to do evaluations there.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It's actually just kind of throwing the guys a bone.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Go have a good time. We'll order a bunch of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: food and just enjoy ourselves. And I just think looking back,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes these stories that come out, you know, in speaking
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: specifically in sports, but I'm sure it happens in finance
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and politics. I mean clearly it does. Is they get
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: reported and then a narrative grows that is just completely wrong,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and then everyone just kind of gravitates to it and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: believes it. It's like, well, he's even he's admitted. You know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: we didn't know one hundred percent we were taking Jaden,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: but it was pretty close by then, and we bring
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: all the guys in at the same time because it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the easiest to handle in the rotation of coordinator, quarterback, coach, trainer,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and you can put everyone on a rotation. It's what
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: most teams do. And as he said, we just did
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: it with our latest group and we took who I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: believe is one of the best players in the draft
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: in Sonny Stops. So I just think, sometimes, man, these
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: stories take on a life of their own. I mean,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: speaking of the Browns, everyone in the media, and I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: guess I was guilty of this too. I didn't think
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Schador was like some elite prospect, but you just watch
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: him play, you think, you know, second rounder Jimmy Garoppolo,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Derek Carr, guys like that have gone in the second round.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yet guys like bel Kiper, who have a lot of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: respect for and most people to cover the draft, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: even all the mock drafts had them going in the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: top ten when the league the market value on the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: player was obviously not very good. And the reason that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: no one talked about that is like, did no one
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: do any investigating on this? Did no one ever ask like,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: what do you guys think of shador and get well,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you know, we kind of like him, but he refuses
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to talk to us. We can't get him on a visit.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: He refuses to talk to our quarterback coach at the combine. Well,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: why because he's been instructed and they believe that if
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: we have a starting quarterback, they want no part of us.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: No one did any of that because everyone just assumed
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he's gonna go to the third of the Browns or
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: where second of the Browns. All of a sudden, we,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you know, wake up on Saturday morning in the fourth
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: round and he's still on the board. It happened this
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: year with the corner that the Raiders took in the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: fourth round. All I heard was Tennessee Corner. Tennessee Corner,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Tennessee Corner. It's like, did no one investigate that his
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: knee was shot? He went in the fourth round because
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: literally every team clearly failed him, and it got to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the point where the Raiders like, we'll take a flyer,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: but he's he was so high on all these people's
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: draft boards. And this gets back to the draft and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the grankings and the grades. It's like, what the fuck
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: are we doing? Uh, this is kind of funny. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: saw Tom Brady. He came out with a new coconut
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: water to day. He partnered with a Go Puff who.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I've seen the label and the brand.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him, but he If you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: would have said, like, hey, Tom Brady came out with
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a new drink, you would have been like, what's it called.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I would have been like LFG TD TV twelve juice
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: or something. He called this coconut water good nut. Let
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: me repeat that, good nut is what it's called. It's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: slogan for good nut is a delicious mouthful. I've been
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: saying this for a long time. I give Tom Brady
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: credit on this one. I want the raw and real
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady, because you don't think of these ideas without
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: kind of being a dude. And this is locker room talk.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: This is guy talk right here. This is the Tom
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Brady that everyone I know in a locker room. It's like, Oh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: he's the coolest guy. He's the most easy, easiest guy
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to talk to. He's just awesome. He can just talk, dude.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: And I think part of this is I remember reading
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and watching this like a YouTube video on what's it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: called Liquid Death, and forever I would see Liquid Death,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I would see Liquid Death. I assumed it was an
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: energy drink, but I was just always seeing it everywhere.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: They spent no money on marketing, they didn't have any money.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I remember seeing the founders basically say we thought of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: an insane name that would just make people talk. Kind
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of worked because I didn't really, for a long time
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: know what it was. I assumed it was something different
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: than it actually was. But I knew I knew about it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I heard people talking about it. I knew when I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: saw that label like liquid Death, it really jumped off
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the skew in the cold box and good nut, which
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: is fucking hilarious. I mean, I think it's kind of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the same, you know, in the same family of just like,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's get people talking Tom Brady with
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a drink called good nut. That slogan is a delicious mouthful.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: It's kind of free marketing in itself and honestly a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: little different than Tom's. Like, I know this is a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: corporate endeavor, but this is a little risky for Tom.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And this is the Tom that played for the Patriots
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: forever that felt like at times didn't really give a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: shit in a good way and it was just raw
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and real to everyone behind closed doors, but then became
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: so corporate on the outside, and that first year on TV.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, Tom, let it lose, man. I'm not comparing
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you to Troy Aikman, who is much more comfortable in
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the seat and been doing it a lot longer. But like,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it's okay to talk a little shit, I know you
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: do when the MIC's off. That's what the consumer wants.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Like it's okay to call a drink good nut with
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a delicious mouthful. That's that's funny, and I actually think
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the marketing is gonna work pretty well. The other story
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I saw today was Pat McAfee. It's funny because whenever
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: these numbers come out, Pat McAfee is gonna get sixty
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: million dollars from ESPN, people like they're about to lay
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: off a bunch of Big j's. This is so unfair
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: paying sixty million dollars for Pat McFee. No, they're paying
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: sixty million dollars for Pat McAfee's business. You know, when
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: ESPN pays Steven a twenty million dollars a year or whatever,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: he doesn't pay for the producers, for the guests, for
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the co host, for the person that the chick, whoever
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it is at the time running point on the show.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Disney pays all their salaries and covers the cost of
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the operation. Pat McAfee has licensed his show out, so
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he has a business in which he runs. And he
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: even said last time they paid him like seventeen million
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: dollars a year for the licensing agreement. He pays his staff,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So from Ajhawk to every other guy you see on set,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: behind set, the building in which he records somewhere in Indianapolis,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: he's paying all those bills, or his company is. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I think that everyone's and it's going to become a big,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: bigger deal, especially when here in a month, everyone or
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure some headline names in the media space gets
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: shit canned at ESPN. They're paying for Pat's business, which
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: he has a lot of expenses. If you just pay
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: an individual to host Sports Center or to host a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: show at NFL Live, I'm just paying for that individual,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: that guy, there's no expenses. We cover all those, the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: production costs, the studio, you name it, the producers on
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: your show. That is not the way this works. So
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: while this number does look pretty big, they're buying the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: business of Pat McAfee. And then I was reading the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: story in there there's individual you know, talent fees for
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: him doing Game Day that are separate. But in terms
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of and maybe that's wrapped into the sixty million, it's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: not a normal individual personality deal, right. I'm pretty sure
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Howard Stern doesn't pay for the office space historically the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: last thirty years when Sirius has paid him an ungodly
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: amount that his money gets go in his pocket. Maybe
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: he pays Robin I'm not exactly sure on that deal,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't think he's paying for anything. You know,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: when they pay David Letterman or whoever the you know.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I remember being a kid and David Letterman was making
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: twenty five thirty million dollars a year the last couple
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: of years. Like David Letterman ain't renting out the New
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: York City studio, you know, he ain't paying the bald
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: guy on a show. CBS covers all those costs. It's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: part of the deal. When you know recently, who's the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: guy that got fired or a show canceled was Stephen Colbert.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: His show is losing forty dollars a year because they're
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: paying for all those people. And if your show doesn't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: turn a profit, you're not just paying the one individual,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: whatever his rate is, You're paying for the entire endeavor,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: which I think Colbert was like two hundred people working
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: on the show, which to me is laughable. I mean
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Collins show feels massive to me, and there are like
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: seven people in the room. It's like, what, you should
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: not need two hundred people to run an hour television show.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: That seems a little aggressive to me, especially when your
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: show's not turn to profit. And again, maybe I look
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: at things differently. I would have thought dramatically different when
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I worked in radio than I work in the space
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I do now. But this is going to become a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: major story in people in the media space are gonna
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: be pissed off. And it's not apples to apples by
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: any means. And clearly his business is worth every penny
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to them to be willing to pay this, and it's
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: also a market rate. Who else was willing to pay,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you know, a high price to get his services, which
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: kind of matters. So why free agency? You know, guys
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: get paid. Before we dive into the mail bag. I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: have a pretty good uh, I have a pretty good
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: dad diaries. So this morning, you know, we're going through
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: this thing he had. He had kind of had some
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: hives and we got allergy checks and you know, he'd
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: been a little fussy. Everything looks fine right now, but
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he you know, yesterday was a long day at a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: doctor and you know, he's worn out, and so he
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: just didn't sleep that well and he was up, you know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: like one o'clock, three o'clock, five o'clock. So by about
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: five thirty six o'clock, I just take the guy and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we go to the other room and he asks for
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit on me on the couch, and then
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: by about seven fifteen he gets up to have his
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: morning breakfast, which is a five ounce bottle of breast milk.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So he slams that down and he's happy. And I
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: put him in this little bouncer as I'm sitting right
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in front of him, and one thing the bouncer does
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: is it's like it must be a perfect flow for just,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you know, a good diarrhea, and he lets it rip.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: And a lot of times if the diaper's not on perfect,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: then I set up this diaper. Because I changed him
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: about five thirty. We can get blow out of status.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Happens a lot. You just take the thing off the bouncy,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: throw it in the washer. Usually able to turn that
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: thing around about thirty minutes. So I didn't hear anything,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he's kind of getting fussy,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: so I kind of pick him up. And as I'm
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: picking him up, I feel it on my hands. I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: go ooh, this is a big one. So it's all
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: up his back. It didn't go down, it like shot up.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: So I take him into his room, the changing table,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and he has a onesie on. These babies have the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: most comfortable onesie. I mean, I'm kind of jealous. He
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: just feels so cozy in these onesies. I kind of
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: want to get a couple for myself, even though I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: can't sleep in pants or shirts, so it probably wouldn't
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: work for me, but definitely, just lounging around the house
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: in the winter, I could definitely do some onesies. So
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden we got one of the bigger
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: shits I've ever seen. And for whatever reason, maybe the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: coffee hadn't kicked in yet. I unzip him and usually
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: if is closer intact, I can just push up the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: onesie to kind of close to his neck because it
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: zips both ways, and just change the diaper, do a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: couple of wipe boom diaper change back on. It's like
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a pitstop. For whatever reason, I did that move and realize, like,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: this is a lot going on. He's scirming like an alligator.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So I zip it down to take the whole onesie off,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: but I take the onesie up instead of down through
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: his legs, I go over his head. All of a sudden,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I realize his entire back of his head is covered.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: If you've ever seen the movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: when he's fighting the Predator, he covers himself in mud
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: so the alien thing can't see him. It's kind of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: what Jack looked like. His entire from basically the top
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: of his butt all the way through his head is
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: just disgusting. And I'm like, I I don't know what
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to do. And it was one of those she sound
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: asleep because she'd been up all night, but I can't
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: go the bath's not really my I haven't been running
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: point on the bass. She does, I'm not going to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: be able to hold him up and score. I kind
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: of need her help, so I kind of we work
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: our way in there. I'm holding him up like Simba,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and I'm like Maria and she kind of comes to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and she looks, She's like, just wipe off his back.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, Maria, look and she kind of opens
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: her eyes and sees all over his head, and yeah,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: we just had to go right to the bathtub because
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I made a devastating mistake. You always go down, you
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: never go up. And he was just covered and while funny,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: not really that funny, shit was everywhere one thing. We're
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: not quite at that point yet, but I've heard right
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: about six or seven months, as you're changing diapers, they
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: get a little squirmy. He is, he gets a little
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: squirmy but not too crazy. But this time he did
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: enough squirms. It was scorting everywhere. Uh and yeah, so
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: good start to the day for me. Let's go mail
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: back at John Middlecoff at John Midlecoff is the Instagram
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: fire in those DMS questions answered here on this little
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: old podcast. I'm excited about the Eagles. I truly think
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: they got a better addition by subtraction with AJ. Obviously
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: there's no replacing his talent, but Smittye is number one.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I know people in the locker room like AG, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you have to admit there was a lot of clown
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: behavior over the last couple of years, not taking accountability
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: after games, countless poor efforts, his motivational leaking to the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: media about teammates constantly crashing out on the sideline. Yeah,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I agree. I think Jalen is a better quarterback when
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he was spreading the ball around than trying to force
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: it to AG. Ultimately, it was time and I truly
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: believe we will look back at Howie Trading, a twenty
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: nine year old guy with health issues, big humongous ego.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I think he signed his goodbye to the Eagles is
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: like I forgot to write it down. It was like
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: best to ever play here, uh team and getting a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: first round pick in return being ultime ice I said
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it from the jump. I think most people would agree
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: that not all breakups are bad. We obviously have divorces
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: in life that get really ugly. Sometimes people get divorced
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't like each other anymore because they've grown apart,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and you know what, they co parent and they're still
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: friends and everything's fine. You know, we've seen divorces with
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: receivers and quarterbacks or teams that are really ugly. This
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: one feels relatively seamless. It wasn't seamless while they were
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: going through their issues, But I'm with you. I think
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots are very very dependent on this
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: guy being good. And the one thing the Eagles did
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a good job of because no player has ever been
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: traded yet been on a team longer than aj Brown
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: is they were able to restock the cupboard. This is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: not one of those you just traded the guy in June.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: You're like, well, you took three guards, a D lineman
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and a safety in the draft. Like the Eagles knew
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna be on the team. They trade for
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Wis they signed Hollywood Brown, they drafted McKay lemon, so
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: they restocked the cupboard while he was still on their
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: team because they knew he wasn't gonna be on their team.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: So it was kind of a unique situation that way. Yeah,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's got a chance to be
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a win win, And I think if you're an Eagles fan,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you're like, you're just rooting for that twenty twenty seven
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Patriots season. To get weird. Someone just sent me this graphic. It'
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: said most offensive touchdowns to take the lead. Trevor Lawrence
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: threw nineteen touchdowns to take the lead. Nick's fifteen, which
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: makes sense they're down a lot because he played bad
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: in Stafford fourteen. I you know, you talk about a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: guy on a heater, you know, golf, we used this
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: a lot, like guy on a heater, right, Scotti Scheffler
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: was on like a three year heater. Cam Young was
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: on a heater. It happens a lot in baseball, Like
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a hitter, you know, he has like fifteen home runs
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: in a month. He's like, this guy's fucking hot. Liam
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Collens had a good couple of years, I mean two
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: years ago for the Baker Mayfield forty one touchdowns and becoming,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: like I at the time, one of the better quarterbacks
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And then last year what he did
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence and just as a head coach. I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: think if you're a Jacks fan, he just wanted to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: stay hot. Love the show. Long suffering Miami Dolphins fan,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: what should I be looking for this season to be
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: more confident the team is headiting in the right direction?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Previously said you can tell that a team is well
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: coached but still suck due to lack of talent. What
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: do you determine that well? I would say effort. Remember
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago the Browns were bat on offense,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: but if you watch their defense in Jim Schwartz, you're like,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: this defense is fantastic. And how do you motivate a
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: group when your team is six seven games under five hundred.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: That's hard to do. And that part of coaching is
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the human connection. Do you believe in me? Can I
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: motivate you? Can I push the right buttons? So I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: think a huge part of it is like does your
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: team play really hard? Because that was one knock I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: would say on McDaniel is like, this is an awful
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: team to watch. This is not a fun Last year
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, It's like, do you want to listen to
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Pee Carroll? Is Pete Carroll lost his fastball? It kind
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: of happened to Belichick and so to me effort right,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and then ideally maybe you get an upset win or
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: two throughout the year of like, god, these guys are
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: just playing fucking balls out for Jeff Hafley. And then
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I think best case scenario is you root for Denver
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to have a weird season. You have their first round pick,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: and you want to lose the games. But I think
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: it's hard on like a weekly basis as you get
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: into the season, I think you just kind of tell,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you know, offensively, is Bobby Sloa's your offensive coordinator? Is
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: he doing some innovatives? Probably even the wrong word, but
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: just I remember watching Kyle Shanahan year one with Brian
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Hoyer thinking like, listen, this team sucks, but like there's
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: some shit going on here. You just kind of know
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: it right away. Now. Defensively, you know he's defensive coach
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: or defense could stink? How are players tax for international games?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Is it just a completely tax free game? Also, our
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: coaches and other staff taxed similarly to players. Tax in
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: each state a game is played. On the players, I'd
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: have to ask on the international games. I remember Kevin Kisner,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: who PGA tour guy who works at Barstool now with
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the four play guys. He almost won the British Open
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: one year and he said, you actually don't make that
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: much money relative to your purse over there, because you
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: know London, the UK, they come after, he claimed, in golf,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: they like come after your sponsorship revenue. Like it's it's
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: very very tax heavy. My guess would be, I don't know.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: This is players don't love the tax structure going over there,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: especially if you're coming from Jacksonville or Dallas or some
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of these tax free states. Uh. The coaches, my guess
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: would be their tax, just like the players, they have
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to pay out of state tax. But I'm not sure.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: This is a great question. I might have to do
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: a little recon on this. I don't know the answer
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: to that. Executives are just taxed where they you know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the state you work in. I've heard you talk a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: lot about the Browns. That's a that's a great question.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Never thought about that Brown's rams trade. Uh, This one
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: is hard pillow swallow. Only players I would have traded
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Miles for if I was a GM Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Mahomes, Burot,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase plus picks, Justin Herbert plus picks. Miles was
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: like a franchise quarterback, and this stings our organizations seemingly
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: becoming more and more of a dumpster fire every year
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: with Barry at the helm. After getting hired by the Browns,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he inherited a team with Baker Mayfield, Denzel Ward, Miles Garrett,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, Odell Beckham, and Jarvis Landry all in their
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: prime and has nothing to show for it. The problem
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: with your quarterback analogy is if Miles Garrett was a
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: quarterback and doing the equivalent of fifteen to twenty sacks
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a year, so he would be a top two or three,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: he'd be the best. If one of the best quarterbacks,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: your team would be way better. So the value of
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Miles Garrett. Even if Miles Garrett is
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: equally as good of a football player as Josh Allen,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: let's argue better, their value on the field and for
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a team is not actually the same. Because let's say
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the Browns called the Chargers. Obviously, Burrow, Mahomes, Allen, and
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Lamar are viewed as the best quarterbacks. Herbert's more polarizing.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: And they say, we will trade you Miles Garrett for
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. Joe Ortiz would hang up the phone, he
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: would laugh at them. They would never make that trade.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So the problem with football is when you have the
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: best player in the league at a position, none quarterback,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: their value is never equal to the quarterback. Like, think
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: about this, Well, let's not even use Herbert. Let's say
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the Lions are a good example. Right, They've been desperate
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: for extra help on defense that they were sniffing around Crosby.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they were sniffing around Miles Garrett. They said,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: we will trade you Jared Goff for Miles Garrett. Straight up,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the Lions would not do that deal because who the
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: fuck's playing quarterback for them? Because Jared Goff's value to
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the Lions is worth more than them to not have
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff and to have Miles Garrett with Hutchinson because
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I've seen a guy with all these sacks and their
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: defense has been awesome, and then win five six games,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: So I what you're saying, and it sucks, But I
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: think your value with Verse. You got a guy that
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: plays that position, you're gonna you're gonna be all right.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I also think an underrated partner. I don't put this
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: on Barry is your two most prominent guys because at
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the time, Miles a little bit younger Odell Beckham was
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: so famous and Baker was the number one overall pick
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: of quarterback. Their relationship was clearly freight. So that's a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: problem that really is on your coach. I saw today,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, Dylan Gabriel got his number jacked from
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: from Verse, which I haven't seen a story that. I
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: don't think Verse paid him. I just think he took eight.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: What fuck is Dylan Gabriel gonna do pay for my number?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: It's like you're not even be on a team. Is
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Benjamin Olbridy, Denver guy has a radio show on the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Denver Bronco network, dialed into football, quoted the tweet of
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the picture and said, can we just trade it too?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Already? I love that tweet because of what he's
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: saying is like doing. Gabriel's is a Stefanski guy. It's like
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the one thing I can't get over in Stefanski. Everyone
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: has their blind spots. Everyone's gonna make some bad draft picks.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: But you're an offensive guy, quarterbacks, your you know your baby,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: and you want to take this guy in the third
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: round doing Gabriel, nice guy, not an NFL player. That's insane.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: It's hard for me ever to think of you the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: same some of these. It's one thing to get text
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: messages that are like you know, we're true, or removal
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: in your area, or were paint houses in your areas?
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Clearly someone leaked my number, and you can just spam,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: spam spam. Hi, I'm Matt, curious your view on the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: concerns around Iran's nuclear program. Open to chat, question, stop
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to end or hit stop to end text messages I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: give the spammers they realize that were not our parents.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I don't pick up any numbers that I do not
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: know will not happen unless I'm waiting on a call
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm not quite sure, and it's like a business
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: related thing the text message, there's just no way to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: avoid it. Like, no, Matt, I'm not gonna chime in
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: with takes. Do you think Russell Wilson will be the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: next Drew Brees? When it comes to being on television,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: almost too positive and afraid to ruffle any feathers. I
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: can see how it'll work, but I can also see
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: how it will not. Maybe I'll just let it loose.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I would doubt it. I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: do not expect it. My expectations are really really low. Now.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not really a huge pregame show guy, but I
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: would not expect him to. I do guess there'll be
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a Denver jab, He'll have a Sean Payton jab, But like,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: will you take any other jabs that you don't have
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: any personal connections with? And it's like, yeah, I don't
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: think this guy is a very good coach. I don't
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: know what they're doing on defense. I'm not expecting that
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: at all. What is the deal with the Packers? Usually
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: there's buzz around the team every year during the offseason,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: but I've heard very little about them. Have they lost
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: their momentum? Is that why everyone is quiet on them?
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: They're definitely flying a little under the radar. I mean
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: they got they kind of revamped. The team lost, you know,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Even though I think Jonathan Ganne would
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: do a good job. But Halfley was awesome. You know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Mike is hurt. I saw today on Twitter this morning
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: when after Jack pooped all over himself and I was
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: looking for stuff to talk about that Luke van s
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: remember who they drafted from Iowa who didn't ever started
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: in college, kind of came on last year. I guess
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: it was dominating practices, which again I don't know. I'm
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: not there. I'm just reading a tweet, but you do
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: have to be a little hesitant on hyping the line
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage. I struggle. I'm more of the Dan Campbell
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: school of like the I don't make anything of these practices.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: To me, the number one story is like, is Josh
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Jacobs does something happen or something not happen. Another dude,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the Rams offensive lineman got arrested this morning. Was in
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: jail at four point thirty in the morning. I mean,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: there's a dude on the Broncos, Josh Jacobs tackle on
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: the Rams. They've had three domestic violence things in like
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: a week in the NFL, Like three guys have gone
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: to the clink for DV. Now in California, the rule
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: is if someone the police are called. You know, it
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: was like a phone issue, but the guy had been
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: suspended before. Someone has to go to jail. Obviously all
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: the guys immediately deny it, but it's like not ideal.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's who do you think got the most
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: precipitous fall off, Deshaun Watson, Carson Wentz or Russell Wilson.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's unquestionably Russell Wilson. Deshaun Watson like two
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: good years, same for Carson Wentz and his best year
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: he tours ACL. Russell Wilson was like one of the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: best players in the league for six years straight on
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: a playoff team as a star quarterback. I don't even
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: think I would put it like one and then a
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: massive drop off. I would say DeShawn was better than Carson.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Deshawn's best year, I'm pretty sure they won like four
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: or five games. That was the year Bill O'Brien was fired.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: DeShawn was really a version of Russell. Like their play style,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: big play guy, scramble and throw guy. Just great playmaker,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: very instinctive player. Question do you think McVeigh or what
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: do you think Sean McVay would do if the Rams
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: had a nightmare year? What if early on he figures
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: out that Tye is not the guy with coaches like
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Peyton and Tomlin leaving to go into broadcast. Do you
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: think McVeigh would do the same. He was flirting with
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the idea you could never really find out if a
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: quarterback can't play until you put him in games. Because
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: some guys you question in practice, you throw him in
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: the games bright lights. Other guys look good in practice
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: and then go into the games and crumble because even
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: when the pads come on, they're the one position you're
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: never allowed to touch, so pressure they know they can't
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: get sacked. You can only you can be excited or
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be down. But once the game starts. That was the
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: thing with JJ McCarthy. I think they were pretty excited
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: when the game starts and it wasn't great. So I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: don't think he would form a complete opinion until they
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: played games. You got the game plan all week, he
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: got to run the first team offense, and then he
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: played a team. So I don't think ty Simpson would
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: be the reason. I do think their floor is really high.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I do wonder let's say Stafford at a bad injury.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Knock on Wood don't want to see it Outen and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: ty Simpson was thrust into action. Right, Let's just let's
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: say it's like Kurt Warner Trent greenstyle. So it's like
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: early in the season, we're three games in, Ty Simpsons
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: gonna be our starting quarterback. Well, the expectation on the
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: team would be like, well, obviously there's a drop off.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: But we saw a couple of years ago Stack Niner
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: team Perdy came in seventh round pick and they were
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game. So yeah, you don't need
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl anymore, but like, can you
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: be competitive now? It was a little different. Perty came
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: in toward the end of the season, but even in
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: that scenario and then it went completely bad, that would
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: make him think. Now. He's also said multiple times, which
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I respect, is he got Poudy when they had the
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: awful season a couple of years ago and they didn't
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: have their first round pick because the Lions had it,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and he was gonna quit, And then he realized he
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: had a young son that I think his son's name
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: is Jordan, that like, I'd be teaching my son like
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: my first life left, Like dad's a quitter because time's
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: got a little tough. Literally everything a coach talks about
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: is the opposite of that, which I can respect, and
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: ultimately he turned down. My guess would be could have
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: made fifteen million dollars working at Amazon. That's a pretty
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: fucking easy life getting on a private jet with al Michaels.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably working one hundred hour weeks right now,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: maybe not right now, but during the season, so I
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: kind of think he's in it for the long haul.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, the roster's so good, I think they would pivot.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: If ty Simpson was a nightmare, that would be a problem.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: But at this point in time, regardless what everyone said
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: and thought that night, I think it's pretty clear he
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: was on board gay one on this. What are your
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: thoughts on how the Chargers schedule shaped out? I saw
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Colin believes we got a break going into our gauntlet
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: with two easy games before one after. Do you think
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: it's better for a team to face a big stretch
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: of high powered teams in a row or play those
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: type teams every other game? Look at the Bears and
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Packers schedule for reference. Let's bring up the old schedule.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: The I want to call them the San Diego Chargers
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: so bad so you get a pretty you get the
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Cardinals Week one, easy game, Raiders Week two gonna be
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: harder game. And really it's kind of a home game
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: for the Raiders, but i'll give you two a zero.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Then it starts getting tough at Buffalo at Seattle, Denver,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Chiefs at the Rams, Texans at the Ravens. Jesus Christ,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: that's no joke. I don't think I've looked at the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Church schedule yet. Then you get the Jets, Then you
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: get the Pats at Tampa in Vegas, Niners at Dolphins, Chiefs, Broncos, ISHU.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: And this works for the Seattle, the Rams and the
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Niners and the Chargers, the Broncos and the Chiefs. Is
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: you guys play the AFC West in the NFC West,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: so you have multiple games against the Chiefs and the Broncos,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: and I think the Raiders are gonna be better, and
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you have to play one off games against the Rams,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Seattle and the forty nine Ers, so it's just there's
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: not much you can do. And you guys that looks
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: like also play your AFC division while you get the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Dolphins and the Jets, like the Bills and the Patriots
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: are no joke, and it looks like I guess you
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: don't have to go to New England and you go
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: to Buffalo in September, so do you even have you
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: don't have any cold weather games. I'd say that's a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: pretty big advantage for a Southern California team. Starting in
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Baltimore's really your only opportunity to get you end the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: season in Denver. Let me rephrase that, but basically after Baltimore,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: in the middle of November, you get the Jets at home,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the Patriots home. You go to Tampa twelve to six.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I mean that could be eighty degrees Vegas indoors Santa Clara,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: that'll be sixty five degrees at Miami. You know, in
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: late December, be nice Kansas City at home. So you
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: kind of avoid the cold weather games where if I
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: pull up the chief schedule, I mean, the Chiefs like
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: one of their big advantages. They're comfortable in the cold.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: So in December at the Bengals, Patriots at home, forty
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: nine Ers at home, Raiders at home. The NFL is hard.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know any other way to slice it.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I thought I picked him to
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: win the division. But that's that's tough stretch kind of
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: feels is talking it out more like ten wins than
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: fourteen wins, So I might need to schedule kind of
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: matters here. That's tough schedule. But the Broncos, the Chiefs,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: and the Chargers all have tough schedules because they have
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: to play the Rams. They have to play Seattle, they
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: have to play Buffalo, they have to play New England,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: they have to play the forty nine Ers. I mean,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: those are five games that don't even count your four
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: really hard division games, and that's more than half their schedule,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: right if you factor in if you're the Chargers, the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Chiefs games are gonna be hard, and the Broncos games
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: are gonna be hard. What's four and then those other
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: five non divisional games, which are all playoff teams. Is
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: no joke. And honestly, the Super Bowl could be Seattle,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: the Rams, Buffalo. I think the Niners gonna be pretty
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Good's the NFL man not saying the Big twelve brother
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the volume