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Indiana WINS The National Championship, Saleh named Titans HC, Dad Diaries · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume What is going on everybody? John Middlecoff three
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  Speaker 1: and out podcast? How are we doing? My friends? Hopefully
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: everyone's doing well because I got a big show today.
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  Speaker 1: I recorded most of the podcast. It's where you have
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  Speaker 1: a kid and it's five days old and your life
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  Speaker 1: is just torn upside down in terms of timing and
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  Speaker 1: when you're awake, when you're asleep. So it's just I
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  Speaker 1: had to record part of the podcast right before the
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  Speaker 1: National Championship game. I was like, then I'll do a
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  Speaker 1: reaction after the game to Miami, Indiana obviously won the Natty,
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  Speaker 1: And then as I'm recording, Robert sala Is hired with
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  Speaker 1: the UH for the Tennessee Titans head coach, which it's
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  Speaker 1: not something I saw coming. So I'll give a give
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  Speaker 1: my just instant reaction to that, and also talk about
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. The Dad Diaries. I called them the Daddy
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  Speaker 1: Diaries last night. This is not called her Daddy. The
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  Speaker 1: Dad Diaries is what I'd named it. We'll do them
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  Speaker 1: again today of just my experience of watching my stud
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  Speaker 1: wife go through what you went through having a child
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  Speaker 1: and being in the hospital for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: so as well as a mailbag. People have been asking,
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  Speaker 1: I recorded about four interviews last week to try to
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  Speaker 1: keep the content chain flowing. But they're like, does Netflix
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  Speaker 1: whatever I want. It was just I didn't have time.
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  Speaker 1: So the mail bags still here, going nowhere at John
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  Speaker 1: a bunch this week and probably a lot for the
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  Speaker 1: next nine months, so twelve months, I mean throughout the year.
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  Speaker 1: I do them year round, So firing those dms and
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  Speaker 1: we will keep the content coming. Other than that, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: type in my name. Appreciate all you that can Netflix USA.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to them. Can we get it worldwide? Because
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys that are all over the
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  Speaker 1: world are mad you can't see we're working. I've been
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  Speaker 1: taking some notes of some ideas I have and obviously,
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  Speaker 1: let's dive into the podcast. A couple things really jump out.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady's at the game, John spy Tech's at the game.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis is at the game. The other rich guys
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  Speaker 1: that bought the team with Tom Brady or at the game.
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  Speaker 1: They're there to see Fernando Mendoza. And early in that
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  Speaker 1: game he got hit like it was an NFL game.
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  Speaker 1: Bain's going to be a top five pick, messidor the
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  Speaker 1: other pass rusher. I start like, is he gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a first round pick? So I start texting around. He
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  Speaker 1: might end up in the second round. He's twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years old, he's not perfect measurables, but he's a baller.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna get drafted in the top forty forty five.
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  Speaker 1: So they have two pass rushers who are going to
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  Speaker 1: start on Sunday. One guy's gonna be a top ten pick.
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  Speaker 1: They're bringing blitzes. They are hitting the shit out of
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  Speaker 1: the guy, and like in Ohio State, that first play
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  Speaker 1: of the game, he's hopping right back up, and I went,
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  Speaker 1: they already know they're gonna draft him. When you saw that,
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  Speaker 1: you went, hell yeah, Because the NFL is not the
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  Speaker 1: Big twelve where you just run around and never get touched.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Twelve's changed a little bit now with Utah
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  Speaker 1: and Texas Tech buying defensive players, but historically it was
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  Speaker 1: the conference where no one never got tackled. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: not the way the NFL is. Even the bad teams
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  Speaker 1: have Pro bowlers on defense, and obviously the good teams
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  Speaker 1: have guys that will knock your block off. And you
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  Speaker 1: saw CJ. Stroud, you saw Drake May, You saw these
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks just getting peppered. Brock Purdy peppered. And part of
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  Speaker 1: playing quarterback isn't just about running around and making big throws.
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  Speaker 1: It's about getting up after you get hit and the
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  Speaker 1: willingness to stand in there and get hit. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: one thing about Fernando Mendoza is I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know DJ called him Matt Ryan, which I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I was in college. Maybe Matt Ryan was a better
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  Speaker 1: athlete when he was younger. Remember at Boston College he
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  Speaker 1: had that crazy play on like Thursday Night football where
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  Speaker 1: he scrambled around I remember watching it in my at
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  Speaker 1: halfaway when I was at Cal Pauli. That was a
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  Speaker 1: street I lived on, threw it across his body game winner.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe he was Jared Goff's never been a great athlete.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Dak Prescott was a good athlete. Like to me,
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  Speaker 1: he's that type skill set, but mobility's probably closer to
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  Speaker 1: a younger Dak pre the injuries. Arms good, not great,
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  Speaker 1: but elite toughness, very smart. You saw a couple times
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  Speaker 1: a night his first options taken away. He's moving with
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. He's got guys coming ninety five miles an
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  Speaker 1: hour off the edge, so he's got to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the football. It's like, this guy's an NFL starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: and is he Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen or Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Jackson's skill wise, No, But I've seen Jared Goff be
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  Speaker 1: in the NFC championship game. I saw Dak Prescott be
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  Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for a team that went to three
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  Speaker 1: straight playoffs and won the Division two. Had of three
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  Speaker 1: times with Mike McCarthy, Right, So you could Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 1: when a playoff game on the road against the New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. If you build around a quarterback that is
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between like seven and twelve, you can win. Bick
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  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers how many times they got to
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs with Rock Purty. So the Raiders were getting
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  Speaker 1: a really good player and a guy that you could
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  Speaker 1: win with at the NFL level, because I saw him
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  Speaker 1: play two NFL teams they're called Ohio State in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Their entire defense is going to be drafted, several guys
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  Speaker 1: really freaking high and are going to play for a
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  Speaker 1: long time on Sunday and hit like NFL players because
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  Speaker 1: they are NFL players. And he was unfazed, and he
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  Speaker 1: kept getting up, and he kept making throws and he
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  Speaker 1: kept making big plays. Was he perfect? No, but nope,
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  Speaker 1: You're not perfect in the NFL. So to me, that game, like,
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  Speaker 1: I get more out of that game than I do
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  Speaker 1: a game where he throws for four hundred yards and
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  Speaker 1: five touchdowns. I really do. If I'm a GM, and
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine Spy Tech and that crew with Brady
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  Speaker 1: and Mark leave pretty fired up because to play, especially
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  Speaker 1: in that conference. Denver physical lass team, right, the Chargers,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's teams for twenty years have been some of
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  Speaker 1: the hardest hitting teams in their conference, in their division,
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  Speaker 1: in whatever level he was at, right, So, and obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs have kind of built the defensive team over
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years and now they got top
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  Speaker 1: ten picks, so who knows, maybe they could lean defense
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  Speaker 1: and just double down. So the physicality is just in
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  Speaker 1: his own division. Then you factor in how good you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens have been good on defense forever. The Patriots
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  Speaker 1: aren't going away. It's kind of a defensive conference with
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  Speaker 1: some big time quarterbacks. So I do think if you're
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  Speaker 1: a Raider fan, you got to be pretty excited. He's
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  Speaker 1: pretty damn good player. Is he like John Elway or
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck? No? But do you feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 1: pulling the trigger? Yes? And I think we can say
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  Speaker 1: confidently and we've been able to say this for a while.
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  Speaker 1: But now the season's over. Fernando Mendoza is the number
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  Speaker 1: one overall pick and will be the next starting quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Vegas Raiders, and now it's incumbent on them
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  Speaker 1: to figure out their coach and figure out the program
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  Speaker 1: around him and do whatever is possible to put him
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  Speaker 1: in a position to be successful. Because they have a
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  Speaker 1: stud tight end in Brock Bowers, who went healthy as
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  Speaker 1: one of the most unique players already in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They drafted a running back six overall who did show
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  Speaker 1: some signs of life at the end of the season
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  Speaker 1: and with all the reports come out. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Pete Carroll and his family kind of were out
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  Speaker 1: to lunch. Obviously their offensive line blew and Jenti had
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  Speaker 1: to go to Spytech's office to watch film, so little
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  Speaker 1: dysfunctional in there. So they got to become Tom's been
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  Speaker 1: used to this. He was around structure for twenty years
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  Speaker 1: with Bill and then even what he got in Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Arians and Todd Bowles and the Tampa operation. Whatever happened
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  Speaker 1: there like that that cannot be tolerated and you get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a past year one. It was
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  Speaker 1: a complete fuck up. It was Pete Carroll, who's a
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer but seventy five years old. It was
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. It's very very important for them to get
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  Speaker 1: the right guy and just get an operation like one
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  Speaker 1: thing that the Ravens have, Like this year was a
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  Speaker 1: disaster for them. They's still a well operated machine and
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  Speaker 1: they were three feet away from being in the playoffs. Right,
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  Speaker 1: there is a structure within the organization, the packers for them,
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  Speaker 1: kind of disastrous season. Structure within the organization, right, that
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  Speaker 1: never changed. That's what the Raiders. That's what Jim Harbob
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  Speaker 1: brings to the Chargers, That's what Andy brought to the Chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: That's what Sean Payton brought to the Broncos. It just
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  Speaker 1: becomes like Apple, you know, Amazon, it just becomes Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: It just becomes just some structured, streamlined, well run fucking
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  Speaker 1: machine that you might have some bad years, but like
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles disastrous season, still won the division, still hosted
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game. If that's your floor, you're in pretty
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  Speaker 1: good shape. The Raiders, their floor had been literally the
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  Speaker 1: floor like it didn't get any lower. It's like unless
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  Speaker 1: you dig, you know, deeper into the earth. Like that
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  Speaker 1: was there. It just was too low. So they got
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  Speaker 1: to find a way to raise that. And it starts
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  Speaker 1: with like, listen, I'm a personnel, that's my background, but
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  Speaker 1: the coaches changes your whole operation. There has never been
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  Speaker 1: an elite personnel guy with a bad coach. It's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: It does not exist. John Schneider, who might win his
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  Speaker 1: whatever second Super Bowl with his second coach, would be
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  Speaker 1: the first to tell you, I've had Pete Carroll and
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  Speaker 1: I had Mike McDonald. Right, you have to have a
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  Speaker 1: good coach and a good coaching staff and a good
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  Speaker 1: vision from that staff or what they're looking for schematically.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited. I'm a big fan of Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: and I also think Signetti is a good example of
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  Speaker 1: you know, society is so microwave now everyone wants it immediately,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe this is social media, and you see all
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  Speaker 1: these young people that are disenfranchised, like most people early
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  Speaker 1: on in their career. Whatever they're doing, it sucks. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't make any money in my twenties, hell, even throughout
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  Speaker 1: most of my thirties. Like, life's hard, and you kind
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  Speaker 1: of got to grind and dig your way out of
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  Speaker 1: the mud and figure it out if you do have
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  Speaker 1: some talent and a vision and ambition and things you
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish, Like you got to be willing to
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  Speaker 1: go through shit. And you're gonna see people in your
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  Speaker 1: given profession that do do it overnight, and when you
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  Speaker 1: become envious or jealous of them and you don't use
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  Speaker 1: that as inspiration for yourself, that's a you problem. Because
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  Speaker 1: Signetti's a great example of There's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Dan Lannings, Kenny Dillingham's guys that became rich in their
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  Speaker 1: thirties in the sport of football. Kurt Signetti. No one
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  Speaker 1: knew who he was outside of James Madison until two
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and now he's won a national championship in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana in his mid sixties and just signed a contract
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred million dollars. And he did it the
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  Speaker 1: hard way, which I respect the shit out of. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't just go from Alabama to then become a coach
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Tan or the SEC. He had to
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  Speaker 1: go to schools no one's ever heard of beside their
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  Speaker 1: own alumni. And even before he got to Indiana, the
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  Speaker 1: worst job in the country, most people viewed it as
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  Speaker 1: he and he was winning national championships in a smaller
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  Speaker 1: school with JAMU, So that success is just a great
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  Speaker 1: example of a guy who clearly was ambitious, who clearly
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  Speaker 1: had a vision, and just grinded. And you know, before
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  Speaker 1: anyone knew who he was and could even point it
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  Speaker 1: out on the lineup, I bet he'd be the first
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, I don't work any harder now than
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  Speaker 1: I did fifteen twenty years ago, and it just took
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  Speaker 1: me a little longer than I once hoped, but I
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  Speaker 1: got to where I wanted to go. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: crazy part about life is you don't know the twists
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  Speaker 1: and the turns. But I do think if you're willing
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  Speaker 1: to just stick with something, I mean, so many people
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  Speaker 1: just bounce from thing to thing, and you know, it's
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: hard when you've like what what have you know? You
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: meet someone, especially my age, like forty years old, and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, what have you been doing? They've had like
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  Speaker 1: seven different jobs, like three different industries. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to gain any momentum. And obviously football is
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  Speaker 1: a little unique, like you just most football coaches just
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  Speaker 1: stay football coaches. But I do think he serves as
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  Speaker 1: a good example of like, not everything happens overnight, Like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you just it's gonna take a while. And I
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  Speaker 1: can't even imagine how fucking sweet it is for that
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  Speaker 1: dude tonight to have won a national championship with Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna go down as truly one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest stories in the history of college sports. And
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  Speaker 1: to just dominate, not lose a game. Someone posted a
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  Speaker 1: picture on Twitter. I think it's now formally known as
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  Speaker 1: X but he must be a season ticket older. He
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  Speaker 1: was at Signetti's first Indiana game, and he took a
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  Speaker 1: picture from the stands now, I don't think the game
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  Speaker 1: had kicked off. In fairness to the university, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like pregame warmups, but there might have been fifty people there.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like cal Paul uc Davis game from twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. And this is the Big ten brother.
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  Speaker 1: So for him to turn that thing two years later
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  Speaker 1: into not just a powerhouse, but a program that feels
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  Speaker 1: like it ain't going away is a testament to him.
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  Speaker 1: And I can only speak for myself. I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: smartest guy. I'm rarely, if ever, the smartest guy in
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  Speaker 1: the room. Tend to be probably the dumbest, and there
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  Speaker 1: is just my greatest strength is like my ambition and
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  Speaker 1: my willingness to always see big picture and never get
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  Speaker 1: too caught up or down when short term things don't
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  Speaker 1: work out. I don't know, it's just a quality, like
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  Speaker 1: not saying that I don't get jealous or envious sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you see things on your phone over the course
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  Speaker 1: of my life, but like it's never really phased me
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  Speaker 1: that much. And when I see a guy like Signetti,
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  Speaker 1: I have so much respect because so many people now
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: you know, football has become such a like reality television
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  Speaker 1: show with so much money behind it. I saw these
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  Speaker 1: young people making a ton of money as coaches, as gms,
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  Speaker 1: as assistant coaches, and more power to them. But you
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  Speaker 1: see this guy who once famously told Nick Saban he
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  Speaker 1: would take like a Division two job. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: he was making three hundred grand working at Alabama's recruiting
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  Speaker 1: coordinator wide receiver coach. He took a pay cut. It's
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and forty grand to go coach at
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  Speaker 1: IUPI or something. I mean again, a program I'd never
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  Speaker 1: heard of. I'm not from that region of the country.
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  Speaker 1: We all have. There are more small schools in the
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  Speaker 1: Northeast and the South than there are out west. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of Division two football programs out west.
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  Speaker 1: They tend to be Texas on over and then the Northeast.
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  Speaker 1: But he was willing to do that because he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take a shot. And he took a shot, and
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: it took him a little longer, but he got a shot,
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  Speaker 1: and he took advantage of it. So in a sport
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of famous younger coaches, college and pros.
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  Speaker 1: What a badass, What a cool, genuine story. And I
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  Speaker 1: was wrong I was guilty. I My first reaction to
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  Speaker 1: him is I thought he was a clown a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how could you not you come from never
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  Speaker 1: heard of the guy start saying google me. Then they
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs and then they get curb stomped by
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame. My take was this year, you start looking
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  Speaker 1: at their schedule and like they're gonna go like seven
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  Speaker 1: to five, they're gonna come back to earth. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did they not come back to earth, they were dramatically better.
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  Speaker 1: And I told Coward this. We recorded a podcast tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were the best team in the country
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  Speaker 1: college or pro because you know, we'll see Seattle as
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  Speaker 1: a chance. But there is not another NFL team who
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  Speaker 1: as complete as them. Their offense, they can run the ball,
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  Speaker 1: their passing game is awesome, their offensive line is fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: their defense is top notch, and their special teams are elite.
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  Speaker 1: Like they're the perfect team. And in college or the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: if you have at the highest level a complete team,
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  Speaker 1: you got a great shot to win it all. That's
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  Speaker 1: the thing right now in the NFL, like every team
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  Speaker 1: kind of has a flaw here or there, and even
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  Speaker 1: in college football, like they you know, Ohio State's quarterback
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  Speaker 1: couldn't really you know, Miami kind of their secondary was weak.
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  Speaker 1: They only had one true weapon at wide receiver. Like
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  Speaker 1: they'll probably better than the Indiana's pretty well rounded of
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of dudes from random schools who were just ballers.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, they were the most well coached team
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  Speaker 1: in the country. And obviously that starts with Sinnetty. And
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell me that he's not better equipped in
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  Speaker 1: his mid sixties with all the experience, all the reps
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  Speaker 1: that he has gotten over the course of coaching when
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  Speaker 1: no one was watching. When you coach at small schools,
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  Speaker 1: and I grew up around a small school in UC
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  Speaker 1: Davis that Chris Peterson went to, Mike Bellotti went to,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is a school that produced some people that
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  Speaker 1: played football there that went on to coach Division one,
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  Speaker 1: and then I went to Fresno State. Now Fresno State
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  Speaker 1: was on a much higher level. We were playing at ESPN,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: but growing up around UC Davis and then going to
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: cal Paly, if you coach there, you were coaching there
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: for the love football because beside the town, no one's
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: paying attention, no one really cares, and it is a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: great place for young people or veteran people to just
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: really master their craft. And I think Jim Harbaugh is
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a good example. Like he went to San Diego, no
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: one was paying attention until he starts kicking the shit
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: out of everybody, and twenty years later he's one of
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the best coaches in America at the sport of football.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: So that was cool. I love a good story. And
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: props to Fernando Mendoz, the highest mean prohaps of Miami.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Mario did an excellent job. They were a fun team
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: to watch, and obviously their front was really really good.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Miami's not going away to me if I'm Mario, we
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: maybe give it a couple days, but sit down with
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: our staff. Our goal next year is to not only
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: win the SEC or the ACC, but we need to
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: be one of the top seats. We don't need to
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: play this extra game. Our our conference sucks, Our conference blows.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: We have no bit. We got all the money, we
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: have the recruiting capabilities. We should dominate this conference. We
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: should run this conference like Saban ran the SEC for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: a long time, or then like Kirby ran at the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: last couple years, or Dabbo used to run the ACC.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: We should dominate this conference, and when you dominate the conference,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you get a one, two or three seed in the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: pass a little bit easier. So, I mean they had
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to go through a gauntlet going on the road at
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a and m playing Ohio State like it was hard,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: so playing obviously Indiana, trying to think who I don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: even remember who Miami played, oh and Ole Miss's. That's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: think about three four games they had to play. You
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: remove one of those games, you do make it a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: little easier. I know Ohio State won it two years ago,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but I do think that buy is a massive, massive advantage.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So to me, the goal of Miami next year is
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like it's an embarrassed if we're not in the ACC
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: championship game. It's one thing. If we play Notre Dame
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: or you know, a Texas an Oregon a non conference
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: game and lose it, it's hard, but we can't be
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: losing to these A SEC teams that cannot be tolerated.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: We need to play like we did in that playoff
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: run and we will beat all the ACC teams. They
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: will not be able to hang with us. They don't
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: have the resources, they will not have the talent as
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: we have and we have a lot of a sec
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: games that we should win, like Indiana started winning big
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: ten games fifty to ten. Ruin them take their souls.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: So I would be a stockholder in Miami moving forward,
• 19:37
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: He's always been a great recruiter, but I do think
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: there's some confidence gained. Like Signetty last year they made
• 19:45
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• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I recorded earlier, I do want to hit on the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: news that just broke of Robert Sala, which my first
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: reaction is sadness. He is the tandem of him and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Kyle brings a lot of joy to forty nine er fans.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been pretty good with those two, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: he's a pretty special number two. He's an elite number two.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Like having Robert Solis your defensive coordinator is like Verbel
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: having Josh McDaniels as your offensive coordinator. It's hard to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: get much better than that because he's an overqualified number two. Now,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I don't blame any ambitious person for wanting what they want,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Like we're all wired a specific way our brains. Some
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: people are cool with just be an assistant coach forever.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: There are a ton of them in the NFL that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: don't even have the ambition. You guys work with probably
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a ton of these people, and whatever job you work in,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: people that are cool with their management position or sales
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: job or whatever. Some people are just cool with it,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and some people are just climbers and they just want
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: what they want. And clearly Sala wants to be a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: head coach very badly. Because my first reaction, I don't
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: know morganzi person. I've never met the guy, but my
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: close friends with the Chiefs really really like him, have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: spoke highly of him. My issue is, and I knew
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a guy on the Tagan staff the last couple of years.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: That is a dysfunctional place. That is a real I've
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: heard their owner is and the ownership operation is an embarrassment.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Now it is a beautiful place. I love Nashville. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: got married there ten months ago. I if life goes well,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I would love to own a place there one day.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: So I am a pro. I totally understand living there.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I love living in Scottsdale. I would never, if I
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: was a football coach, want to be the head coach
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals. I think the Arizona Cardinals job
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: is one I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: if I were these guys. I think the Titans job
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: is pretty risky. I really do that. They have proven
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to be extremely dysfunctional. Now Sala a little like Rabel,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: but Rabel's like an alpha's alpha. Sala's like an alpha's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: good guy, you know. And Vrabel went in there just
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: swing as you know what, around and it worked until
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: it didn't because the owner got offended or something like
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you're too mean to everybody fired him. Well how'd that go?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And I just don't know if they are situated to
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: operate with the ownership they have and talent wise, clearly
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: they don't know that much. The quarterback who I want
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to like, I mean, I liked him at Miami, I
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: followed him at Washington State. He was pretty bad last year.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: He's got some physical traits, but is he a good
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: football player? Now? I think if you wanted to counter that,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: like if I was his agent or his friend or
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a supporter, I'd be like, did you see what was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: going on? And I'd be fair. It's hard to even
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: judge you in that situation. But that is a job
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: that I don't when you were going to be a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: guy like Robert Sala and just have options over the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: course of the next couple of years and be clearly
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: one of the top candidates year in year out. If
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I'd go all in for the Tennessee Titans, especially in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a division like CJ was really bad in that game.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The Texans are really really well run. They are going nowhere.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: The Jacks really good coach, going nowhere. Hell, the Colts
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: have good players if they could just get some quarterback play.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I find that pretty risky. I really do. And and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. I don't think he has a relationship
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: with Borganzi. So you're getting into business with someone you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: don't know that well, it's not like you have unlimited leverage.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You know, clearly the Titans were desperate. They probably paid
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: him a decent amount of money. But Sala has already
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: made a ton. So when you're already super rich, when
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you make decisions on money, okay, like I would have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: probably if I was his friend, be like, listen, I'm
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not saying that this Niner thing year and year out.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: You're gonna dominate every year and everyone's gonna stay healthy
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: because no one ever stays healthy. But you want to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: leave for the Titans, you want to leave for the Titans.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I just think that's that's pretty risky. And from a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: forty Niner standpoint, it's a massive blow. There's no way,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it's a massive blow because when they've had Robert Sala,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and when they've had Demko, everything was was impressive in
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a high level operation on that side of the ball.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: From a player standpoint, from a coaching standpoint, just from
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a vibe standpoint. They tried to replace those two guys
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: for a couple of year run and it was bad.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I know, one year they made the playoffs, but it
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was players were complaining, and then last year was a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: joke or two years ago not easy to replace. Now, luckily,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: because of the firings, there are a ton of options,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and Kyle's no dummy like Saula has been in the mix.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got a short list of the available candidates.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: But Saula was easy. It was almost like getting back
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: with an X that you really loved and she loved you,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: but you knew, like, yeah, we're probably not gonna get married,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: so this is gonna be somewhat short lived, so you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: better enjoy it. And luckily they got to enjoy it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: They got to go on that little run with their injuries.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But man, I it's gonna be interesting to see who
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Kyle hires as defensive coordinator because if you would have said, hey,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I lost Robert sol I would have been like, oh,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the Ravens hired him, the Steelers hired him, Buffalo hired him.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I would not have had on my short list that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he would have accepted the Tennessee Titans job. Maybe I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: being naive, And again I'm not some hater of like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: love Nashville. Would if you told me I had to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: move somewhere tomorrow, I would move there. So I just
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: think the football team kind of matters, kind of matters
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: love living in Scott Steel. I'm a podcaster. Would not
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: want to be here if I had to work for
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the Ears on a Cardinals. Why because the owners of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: clown and when you get these bad owners and these
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: poor operations and these just it's hard to overcome. And
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the other thing is is cam Ward any good? Because
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: if he's not, it's not like you can get rid
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of him next year. He's the number one overall pick
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: in the draft, so at minimum you're gonna play a
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: couple of years with the guy. I think it's a
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: pretty risky hire, or I mean a pretty risky acceptance
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: from him, Like it's a no brainer if you're you
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: know them. I would hire Robert Solid too. I think
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: actually Robert Saal is his tenure with the Jets aged better,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and he's probably better equipped for a little the New
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: York markets, not for everybody, he'll be He'll fit in
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: fine in kind of a smaller operation and a little
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: less you know, the daily hyperbolic, crazy nature of just
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the Northeast in the sports scene, the Tennessee's, I mean,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: college football is bigger down there than the NFL. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the NFL is big. They're building this new stadium. It's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: gonna be badass. It's right downtown that their practicility is cool.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know I would I would not have done
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that if I was Robert sla Well. Obviously, the big
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: story of Monday was the news that Sean McDermott had
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: been fired, and we had talked about it after the game.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I think you can kind of see the writing on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the wall, and I recorded it that night, not even
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: quite understanding the level of reaction from the players, who
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I think spoke to what was on the line. Mahomes
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found. Lamar Jackson didn't make the playoffs.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Herbert came limping in and has never done anything in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. You're going through a second year Drake May
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: who know the Patriots are a team they're comfortable playing.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: They see him every year. From a personnel standpoint, bo Knicks,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: who had one game of playoff experience, obviously didn't go
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: well against the Bills last year. Once you got by Jacksonville,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: who's arguably the hottest team in the league beside maybe Seattle,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: that all signs pointed to you, we can win the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: super Bowl. I would imagine after they won that game. Clearly,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: if they had lost that game, Sean would have been
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: fired as well. I think that's pretty obvious. But once
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: they go into Denver and then they have a four
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: point lead late in that game, even despite what had happened,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the expectations couldn't have been higher. It was truly for
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a team that had never made the super Bowl in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: terms of this era of the josh Alan run, it
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was super Bowl or bust. That's how it felt on
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the outside. That's how it felt clearly inside to them,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and that's what led to the coach getting fired because
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: over football is a very black and white business. Right
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: The reason we talk about Nick Saban's process is because
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: he won like fifteen national championships. No one cares about
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: your process. If you're the New York Jets, the media
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: kind of they're doing the right things, they're taking the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: right steps. Well it's not working right. The process matters.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: People are intrigued by it. When you're Jeff Bezos, right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: when you're Bill Belichick, when you're Greg Popovich in the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: prime of their dynasties. Right, you gotta win, and Sean
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: McDermott ultimately didn't win enough. And if you watch the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Lway doc, same thing happen with Dan Reeves. The difference
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: was is he was at odds with the quarterback. Doesn't
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: quite feel like that here, But it's the nature of
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: pro sports. There have been a lot of guys who've
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: talked about this before that have got OsO close for
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: several years and ultimately get replaced because the team thinks
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they need to take the next step. Totally understandable. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: don't even think that logic is wrong. I just do
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: not understand how the general manager doesn't get fired. I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: mean I do. He has a pr background, he's clearly
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a pretty good politician, because how can you tell me
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott deserves more blame than a general manager
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and then he gets promoted. But I do understand because
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: if you looked around the league, it's been one giant
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Joe Peshi meme with the gms walking their coaches into
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a meeting when the guy thinks he's getting made and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: then they kill him. And that's happening. How do all
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: these gms from Joe Shane to the dude in Arizona
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to Andrew Berry, They're surviving all over the league, and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: it happens a lot. These are teams that are losing
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: at a really, really high clip and when you factor
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: in the bills, like is it a and Mike Florio
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: wrote this, like we found out that the owner thinks
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: that it's not a talent problem, that it's a coaching problem.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: They've had two Pro Bowlers besides Josh I think since
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, of all the guys that he has drafted,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Brandon Bean. So I don't quite grasp how you could
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is worse at
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: his job than Brandon Bean. There have been a lot
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of things going viral of Brandon arguing with different media
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: members locally in the market about draft picks and things
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: over the years like that. That doesn't bother me. It's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: people get pissed off. They take a lot of prime.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I'm fine. But if you're just judged on wins and losses,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because that's how the coaches judge, what's the GM judged on? Well?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I like him. He's easy to deal with. He can
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: speak money with me. He can talk country clubs, which
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I understand. Like there's you probably have more in common
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: with the GM than you do the coach who speaks Chinese,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: because you don't understand as no one does help. Most
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: scouts don't true true football. They don't know the playbook,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: they can't speak that type language. Sometimes these announcers, you know,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo or whoever, will say things like, guys, no
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: one knows what robber means. No one watching this. There's
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: forty five million people, and the percentage of people that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: can relate to that is really small because football is
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a complicated game. And I think that's why GM survived
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: very often, because when the coach is on an island
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: during the game, on the sideline, with his players losing
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in devastating fashion, where's the GM typically in the owner
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: suite eating popcorn, having to Die Coke talking who knows
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: what the Masters of money contracts, things that rich people
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: talk about. They speak that language and that's why they survive.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: But the Buffalo Bills, like the Ravens, these are two
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of the greatest job openings I can ever remember MVP
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in their proNT The difference is when I sign
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: up for the Ravens, I get Eric Tacosta, Nazzi Newshm.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: It's crazy Ozzi retired. He's still around a lot, works
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: out there every day in the draft room. I mean
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: last draft Ozzie Newsom at the head of the table,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: not even on the side. But I get an infrastructure
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: there that has been proven over and over with the bills,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you don't now. Signing up for Josh Allen is something
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: any coach would be crazy not to do. And they're
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be a line. You know. Sometimes, like on Instagram,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you see a line. We have this new coffee shop
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: in Arizona. My wife was showing me and there was
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: this line like a mile long. It's like, I don't
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: care unless the coffee is a fountain of youth. There
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: is no way I would wait more than I don't
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: know fifteen people for a cup of coffee. I don't
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: care how desperate I am. I would just go to
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: another coffee shop and I think that's gonna be the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: thing here. But there's gonna be a line and people
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: will wait their turn just to try to get an
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: interview for this gig. Is the owner making the call?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Is the GM making the call? That's gonna be fascinating.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: It's pretty clear Erda Costa Bushati, you feel pretty comfortable
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: signing up for that. In theory, the Steelers would be
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: like that instead. But the difference is that roster sucks.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know if their front office is any good.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: You get Josh Allen and you get some good players
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: under contract, right, But I just I'm at a loss
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott loses his job and the GM gets promoted.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It makes no fucking sense to me. I mean, it
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: really doesn't. And I'm not just sticking up because I
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: worked with him. I have a lot of respect for him.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I think he's not only a solid football coach clearly,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I mean resurrected the franchise with Josh, but like a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: really high character guy. And the one thing you've learned,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: like I've become pretty numb as I haven't been in
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a W two job in a decade, so you do deals,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: and in my situation over the past decade, you just
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: kind of become numb. And part of it I had
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: worked in I don't even know, corporate American radio in football,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: which is a corporate structure. Once you get out of
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the real world and you know you're negotiating for yourself,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: you just realize how cutthroat the world is and it
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: helps numb you to the business world. And I think
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of people in football, the more and more
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: they get fired, they become numb to at all. And
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I think the faster you do that, the easier it
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: is to kind of get involved. But the difference is
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: in football, like you have people backstabbing you, because that's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: what it kind of feels like here that how does
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: this happen? I don't quite understand, and it's been happening
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: all around the league this year, so it'll be fascinating
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: to watch how this plays out. That they're going to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: have people lined up for the gig, just like I
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: would imagine the Ravens do as well. I mean, there
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: these are great jobs when you factor in the quarterback
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: because that's a make or break thing for your success
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: as a coach. Why did all these guys get fired?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: White stefansk Can get fired? Had no quarterback? Why Jonathan
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Gannon get right out of town? Had no quarterback? Likes
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it's not that complicated, Robert Solo, why'd they get their quarterback?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Situation was a disaster, But man, I just I don't
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: understand it. You know, some things make sense. The Packers
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: assist in GM, I think might have been a title
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: VP something. You know, these titles. I don't even know
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: what titles mean anymore. But he gets hired in Miami, right,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: So who's he probably gonna hire? Well, Jeff Haffley, who
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: everyone's been ringing his praise is if you just watch
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Jeff Hafley press conferences, he's really impressive. He hired him.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: He's an impressive guy. Makes a lot of sense. You
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: can see how that worked. But I don't see how
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: some I understand how Eric Tacosta keeps his job. I
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: don't understand how Brandon Being keeps his job. I don't
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: understand how Joe Shane kept his job. I really don't.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: If you're basing it on, you're getting fired because we're
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: not doing well enough. On the field, well, they're a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: part of that too. They're a huge part of that,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: your partner in crime as a coach, until it comes
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to making a decision about employment, and then they're like, ah,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I got nothing to do with it. That was him,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that was him coaching shitty. I'm just up here, you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: eating a Snickers bar, watching the game with you, sir,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Just order another coke zero, get me a thing of popcorn,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: let me put in a zen. So shake my head. Man.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: It kind of pisses me off because I just don't
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: get it. I really don't. And I think I'm not
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a huge believer in fairness. Like this is the real world.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as fair. You don't like I
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: didn't even argue there's no such thing as deserve. I
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: remember writing down this quote a long time ago, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the older you get, you realize how true it is.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Like you don't deserve anything. You get what you negotiate.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: This is not like your family. This is business, so
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: get ready for shady situations. But I still think I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: was floored when I saw that he got promoted, because
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: when I get the text that he's been fired, I expect, Oh,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: they blew out everybody. When I see Jeff Hafley's hired him, like,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, no doubt, totally makes sense. Right When Matt
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Naggi is probably gonna be the head coach of the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Titans and Andy Rees rehires Eric b Enemy, You're like, oh,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: no brainer, Get Eric, who's kind of a you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: hard ass, get him back in there and ruffle some
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: feathers and totally understand. And he feels very comfortable with him.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Todd Munkin going with horriball. A lot of things make
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: sense in the NFL. This one doesn't. I'm sorry, and
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I'm usually not shocked. I've been kind of shocked all
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: day that this is the way it played out. I
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: would say, I don't even have a clue who they're
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: going to hire next. I saw people day ball. I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: don't know who knows what Bean thinks about him. I
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: don't know. I am just kind of at a loss.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. Before we dive into the mailbag,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday we're going to do this today and
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I called it the Daddy Diaries. I'm not Alex Cooper.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: It's the Dad Diaries. I just hadn't slept much and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I did want to hit on a couple of things
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: before we dive into the mailbag. From my experience of
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: having the baby, which is obviously for most people, the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: biggest day of your life when you have your children.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I think everyone says it's the most important and most
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: magical and powerful day that you will ever experience. And
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I would say, in my forty years of life, it
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: was the most powerful thing I've ever experienced. And I
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: think I haven't spent that much time in hospitals. My
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: dad's been sick a couple times throughout my life, and
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: my mom got sick once. But when you're kind of
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: coming and going as a guest and you're not sitting
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: in there the entire time, especially, I mean if they're
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: only there three or four days, you know your experience,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: isn't it true, Like you're sitting in the bed or
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: your significant other is sitting in the bed, obviously your
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: parents are sitting there. But the doctors tell you everything's
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be fine, even if you know there's a breast
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: cancer situation or whatever that I've gone through in my life.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: When the doctor are like everything's gonna be okay, you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: just kind of believe them and stuff happened to me
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: when I was young, and maybe you're a little more
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: naive to the way health and the world works and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: people passing away, so you never know, you probably should
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: have a little more fear going in that room. But
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: when it happens to you and your teens, your twenties,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: there's almost a naivete or you just can't even wrap
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: your head around it. When you go into this, you just,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, you do have worst case scenario thoughts in
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: your head. You're worried, my wife's getting a C section,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: how it's all gonna go. And then you go in
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and you realize it's the biggest day of my life,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: it's the biggest day of her life. Yet everyone working
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: in there, our doctor that's gonna conduct the surgery, all
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the nurses around her, that's a Tuesday, that's another day
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: at the office. And it's just I was floored how
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: confident and easy, which is totally understandable. I've done who
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: knows how many podcasts in my life, thousands of podcasts,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: hit records are talking. Obviously there's more to it and
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: more prep or whatever, but I don't even think about
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: doing it. And I do think anytime something becomes a job.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: There's a routine, there's a It's like anyone that plays golf.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: If you got ten people watching it, you start getting
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: a little nervous. Ever been to a PGA Tour event,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: especially a big one and they don't even notice it
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: why they've been doing it so long. Tiger didn't notice
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the ten thousand people following him hold a hole after
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: a couple of years, because it just becomes routine. And
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: watching these people just go about their routine job and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: do it at such a high level is something I
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: will never forget. And we had the baby showing her
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the baby it's you know, obviously blood around it. They're
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: cleaning it off and she's got a tarp over because
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: they're and the doctor is being asked by the nurse
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: she's originally from Texas, like if she grew up liking
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: country music? And if you know, she said she like
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Garth Brooks, but her parents like classic rock. And Maria's
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: face is like, are they really just having a normal
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: person conversation while by my insides are ripped open, And
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, they are, because that's what they do.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And I left the hospital after a couple of days
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: thinking I need to be a better person, because the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: hospility is probably the wrong word, but the kindness and
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: just the genuine nature you feel from these nurses. Again,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: like I said, I haven't spend that much time in hospitals,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: and especially just forty eight hours of just never leaving
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the room or the building and just dealing with these
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: people whose only job is to make sure everything possibly
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: is going well for you is something I will never forget.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And a couple of days ago, I was going to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Starbucks and I was just in a bad mood because
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I had slept like three hours in like four days.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: And the lady sometimes the Starbucks, they're very happy, and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to be. I was like grumpy
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: at first. I'm like, fucking put on a smile. These
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: people are working over night shifts at the hospital, and
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I never saw even close to a frown. It was
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the most optimistic, happy place I can ever remember. And
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the way I would describe the baby experience, and you
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: leave realizing one thing Maria's always said, and she's kind
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: of right, is we always talk about his guys, like
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: when you do something it's the older you get. It's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: usually something business related, taking a risk, in life, or
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it can be trying to date someone right, asking someone
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: out and getting aggressive. Maybe just fly somewhere to show up,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: take him out on a date. Your boy did that
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: once upon a time and now I'm married. But you
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: get credit. And we say this, you see it in
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: football he went forward on fourth down. That guy has balls. Yet,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: when someone is unwilling to take risks, what do we
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: all say? Big pussy? What a wuss? What a what
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a puss? Right, that's what we call him? And she says,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: you know, the funny part is if I kick you
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in the balls, you go to the ground. Yet babies
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: come out of this. It's like, yes, she makes a
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: pretty good point, and you watch or go through this.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: They are so tough and the motherly instincts to not
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: need sleep, to immediately flip the switch of someone that
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: never has had a kid to then get the kid
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: handed to them while especially in her situation having the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: C section, or if you go through a regular berth
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and just be able to bounce back and basically not
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: sleep for two straight days and just try to keep
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the kid alive. You know, obviously you have nurse help
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: when you're in the in in the hospital, but is
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: It's unlike anything I've ever seen. And I would imagine,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: like anyone listening to this, the respect you have not
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: you obviously, if you're married to someone, you should have
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: respect for them, but from a mental toughness and physical
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: toughness standpoint, blew my mind. She's a fucking rock star,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Like I could never have done that, and if I
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: had been cut open, I wouldn't be leaving the hospital
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: for a while, let alone not sleeping. Then the breastfeeding
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: and everything that comes with it, and not being able
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to sleep for more than a couple hours at a
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: time is an eye opening experience, which is I don't
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: even know how to describe it, but it's awesome, it
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: really is. And the one way I would describe the hospital,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: at least in the baby unit, when people have babies
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and stay there for a couple of days and no
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: one's sleeping. It's like the NFL meets a Navy seal mission,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: because in the NFL, you work crazy hours and you
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: go to the coffee machine at like nine to thirty,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and there aren't many industries where you show up at
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: six or seven in the morning and you're still going
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: four or five days a week for five or six
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: straight months to the coffee machine well after nine pm,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: and there's a line to get coffee. Like, that's not
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: normal in most of these businesses, right, I'd even say
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Wall Street, you have individual deals. But in football, seventeen
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: straight weeks at games and starting in training camp, your
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: routine is crazy. So a lot it kind of was
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: a throwback of I was going to the coffee machine
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: at nine thirty at night, my first night there with her,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: and there were multiple people standing and these weren't nurses,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: these were other dads, another visitor. Just felt pretty normal.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: And then there's the aspect of like saving Private Ryan,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: where all you're trying to do. This happens a lot,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: especially in like military movies, but it's true in real life.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: You're just trying to get the person home out of danger.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: It happened to my dad. His brother died in Vietnam
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and they immediately need to get him home because the
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: way our military works, you can't have two people in
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the family end if they're both killed in war. I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: was saving Private Ryant thing, right, you got to get
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: him back so the family name can continue. And you
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: just look at this little guy, you have no experience
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: besides your friends or your family, But now it's all
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: on you, and it's just about keeping them alive. And
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: all you're worried about is is he breathing? Is he breathing?
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: So you're just constantly kind of poking. I'm getting a moved,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: putting your finger above his nose to see if air's
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: coming out. And it's unlike anything I've ever seen or
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: experienced in my life. The no sleep factored in the
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: survival of someone else who is seven or eight pounds
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: and can't do anything on his own. But it's definitely
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: the coolest, most powerful thing that you will probably ever
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: go through in your life. And I'm very lucky that
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: my wife, even a couple hours after surgery, they looked
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: at it every They're like, are you an athlete? Think
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you know did gymnastics when I was in high school.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: She's in good shape, worked out the majority of her pregnancy.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: It's like, we don't see you are handling this really well.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: You get this big C section, and her heart rate
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: was never high. It was like fifty to sixty the
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: whole time, and we got let go discharged within under
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours. Even the pediatrician when we were getting
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: talked about discharging, came in and had to come back
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and was like you were a C section. It's like yeah,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And so we got very lucky that way, and my
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: son right on que made sure we were home for
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: well before kickoff of Josh Allen. But that experience, the optimism,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: how happy everyone is. I say this all the time,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: like society everyone just shitting on it. If you get online,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: like get offline and just go into the real world,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: like most people I run across are really happy or
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: just pretty normal or not screaming at each other, but
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: just out in the real world, you see things, and
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: when you have a baby, you're just not even on
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: your phone. You kind of get detached. And I have
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: never been to more of like an optimistic place and
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: a more encouraging, helpful, helpful situation than the nurses that
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: are involved Honor Health in Scottsdale. I would give it
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: a twenty out of ten. It could not have gone
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: better and feel very, very fortunate to have had a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: baby there because it was as smooth as possible. And
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: he's doing well. He's just he's sucking on some milk
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: on a daily basis, and we'll just keep the Dad Diaries.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Going have some other takes that I will roll into
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: next week. But we'll now talk some football because we'll
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: do a little Middlecough mail bag for those of you
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: watching on Netflix, the Middlecoff mail Bag at John Middlecoff
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff, Fire in those dms, get your questions
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: answered here on the show, and we'll do this, I
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: mean multiple times a week. So depending on the week,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: especially with the baby, we might have to fire off
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: some more of these, So make sure you fire in
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: those dms. Need a bunch of your questions as we
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: roll to this big game or the big games on Sunday.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: This is John and he's supposed to like Gruden Jailwen.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Concerning overtime rules, since any kind of sudden death overtime
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: isn't really representative of the better team, how about a
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: field goal kickoff five kicks guaranteed from different distances and
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: hashes a la soccer, and if not sudden death, maybe
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: in a determined field position to skill limit extra reps
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: for player safety. The reason that that would never happen
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: is because the coaches hate field goal kickers. The entire
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: sport is predicated on the line of scrimmage blocking and tackling.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: They would never let kickers determine the situation in overtime
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: where you're just having a kickoff. It's just it's just
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I don't know if there's a right
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: or wrong way to do what they're doing now. I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: do think it's fair that both teams get to touch
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: the ball. You could even argue maybe you just get
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: one time out instead of three timeouts. I don't know.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I think it's difficult, I really do. It's not you know,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: in baseball they put the runner on second in the
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: regular seasoncause there's one hundred and sixty two games. No
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: one fucking wants to stay up till midnight watching these games.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Not a soul. I used to cover baseball and huge
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: baseball fan for decades, Like once most people get some
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: sort of life that they're not gonna stay up at
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: eleven forty five watching a thirteen in in game, and
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the baseball purists like, you can't. You're not watching either
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: year sleep, So you can't really do that in football.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: In baseball, obviously they don't do that in the playoffs.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: For the mailback, congratulations on becoming a father. It's best feeling.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Do you think, given how good he
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: has been, we are underrating Drake May. I get that
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: he has some fumbles against Houston, but it clearly was
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: a game where ball control was going to be difficult.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Some of the throws he made against what pundits were
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: calling the best defense since LB we're just elite, top tier.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: We've seen the best quarterback in the league get absolutely
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: dismantled by Houston. I feel like Drake, for the most part,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: was impressive. Anyways, I feel like he's not gonna get
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: talked about being I just feel like he's not being
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: talked about seriously enough. I think it's when you're young.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Look at Caleb. There was a marketing campaign and a
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: hype machine behind him, which you rarely see. To me,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: he's probably the most hype quarterback since Andrew Luck. So
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: when it started going well, he gets talked about more
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: than Drake May. He just does. I think Drake May
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: is getting a lot of respect. I mean, he's right there.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: There's a chance that he wins the MVP more than
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: life likely Stafford will, but it's not inconceivable that he
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: wins it. He has his team in the AFC Championship
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: in their favorite because of the injury. So I think
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Drake May's gotten a lot of love. I think most
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: people will agree he's one of, if not the best
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: young players in the entire league any position. So I
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: don't think he's getting discounted. I don't also good discussion
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: these teams that are left. It's like amateur hour. I
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: was not a Mahomes fan, but now I'm actually looking
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: forward to him coming back, so there can be teams
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: that look like it's good in the playoffs and winning.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Never thought I would feel that way. I do think
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: you have to really respect I looked it up yesterday
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: as we saw the turnovers happening in the morning game.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: In twenty two and twenty three, in the course of
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: seven playoff games when the Chiefs won back to back
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls, Mahomes clearly didn't have great teams in terms
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: of offense. Right Tyreek was gone, Travis was aging, still
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: pretty good in twenty two twenty three, getting a little older.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Their offensive firepower was Juju Smith. Isaiah Pachaco right that
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: they were not some Tyreek Hill operation. But he had
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: two total turnovers in seven games, an interception in a
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: fumble and this way, I said a CJ. Stroud, and
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen much higher level but would fall
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: under this. You can't turn the ball over unless your
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: team is the Alabama Crimson Tide in the peak of
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: their dynasty. You have to play smart football in the playoffs.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: The NFL playoffs isn't about the splashy plays always. It's
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: about not doing dumb stuff. And I think Mahomes in
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty three proved I don't need to
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: throw four touchdowns a game. I can play smart. I
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: can manage the game because he kind of did, and
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: I can make big plays when I have to. But
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be an elite game manager because my team
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: needs me to not screw up. And these other guys,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was an embarrassment. It really was. And
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I don't blame like Drake may or CJ. Stroud. If
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: you if they're going back to pass and you strip
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the balls, they're throwing it like that's nothing they can
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: really do. But the plays where you're throwing balls into
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: harm's way, like that's just it just cannot happen in
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: these playoff moments. And Mahomes avoided that for two years
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and they won two Super Bowls because he played like that.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Do you think the Bills this was a question before
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: we found out that he was fired. Do you think
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: the bill should move on from McDermott And if so,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: would Tomlin be a great fit? I think he can
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: help the defense and build a better culture. Also, I'm
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: moving from the Bay Area from Denver soon to work.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Any tips of advice for fun things to do? This
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: is what I said about Sean McDermott. Most people say,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: you gotta hire Tomlin, you gotta hire John Harbaugh over him.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Hasn't he been beating those two teams? He's beaten the
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Ravens last two times. He's played him with a team
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: that wasn't as good. And he's got Lamar, he's got Josh.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: So it's like the quarterbacks are a coin flip. And
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Tomlin two years ago he beat him by fourteen plus
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: points in a playoff game. So I have a hard
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: time just thinking because Mike Tomlin's like cooler, he's he's
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: just a bigger personality than McDermott. But based on what
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: would you just go, that's a no brainer upgrade. Now
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: if I'm Mike Tomlin, I would want the job, assuming
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I want to keep coaching, just like if I was
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh would have wanted that job before I took
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: the Giants job. But this notion that those guys are
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: some upgrade. I can't say that Tomlin defense. The defense
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: for the Steelers has been bad, so I would disagree
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: there now. I think Tomal would be a splashy higher,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: but they could just as easily get bounced in the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: second round of the playoffs with Mike Tomlin as they
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: could with Sean McDermott. Mike Tomlin was doing his playoff
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: winning back in like the two thousands. I don't think
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: he's been winning many games the last fifteen years in
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Some of those he had peaked Big Ben.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: So I want Mike Tomlin involved in the NFL in
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the sideline. I think we're better off with Mike Tomlin
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: coaching than we are in him on TV. And if
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: I was the Bills, like, you're not gonna do better
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: than Mike Tomlin. This is the problem with firing Sean
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: McDermott is if you don't get Tomal, Let's say he
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: goes to playoffs or I mean the the TV, and
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: I think we could debate like upgrade not upgrade? Who
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: You're just gonna take Robert Sala Like who click Kubiak,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: you're gonna elevate Joe Brady, You're gonna bring Date day ball?
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: What is? Dave? You watched a ball this year? So
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Man, I think it's pretty risky. Now.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Part of life is you gotta risk it. But this one,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: when you got Josh in the prime of his career,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if you fired everybody, It's like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: totally understand it. But to let Bean like, in what
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: world they were a packaged deal? Sean, I'm pretty sure
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was hired before. Bean could be wrong on that,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: but Sean McDermott was the DC of the team that
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl in Carolina. That's how he
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: got the job to Buffalo in twenty seventeen. I have
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: to push back on your takes on the catch first
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: interception and the pass interference on the bills. On the interception,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: Cooks never had control of the ball through the catch,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: and the rule is if you complete the catch. If
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: McMillan had yanked the ball and it popped up in
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: the air and landing on the turf. In the same play,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: the play would have been incomplete. If Cooks caught the
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: ball in the end zone and the ball fell onto
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: the turf just like it did there, it would have
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: been incomplete. I'm not saying that I know the answer
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: and that should be a catch. I'm just saying, like
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: he catch the ball, he hits the ground as he's
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: not dead complete the catch? Does that take a roll.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not also arguing that the Bills lost the game
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: because of that moment. They lost the game when Josh
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: miss Knox fumbled in the first half at the end
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: to give them a free three points, so the game
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: was not determined by the passing interferences. My issue with
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: pass interference in general. I don't like take attack passing interferences.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: I don't I'm okay with a physical nature of the game.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: The offensive players just can never get touched. They're fucking
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: called defenseless. Bro, You're running over the middle in the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: NFL defenseless. I think how dumb. That is the only
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: reason they say that because they don't want to get suited.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: This is a cover your ass verbiage to avoid CTE
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: lawsuits and percussion lawsuits. You're not defenseless running over the middle,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: So they're like a crossing route. You know who sits
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: in there? It's like linebackers. It's like, I never feel bad.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it sucks when someone gets bit by shark
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and dies. You're swimming in the Pacific Ocean. Who do
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: you think is down there? It's like I got eaten
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: buy an Alligator's like, yeah, you went on a safari
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: to Africa. Who do you think lives in the rivers? Right?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Not a trout? So I think there's a nature of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: football that is so anti defense that I just I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: wish I give them a little more latitude. I'm also
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: not saying that the Bills got screwed and should have
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: won that game. They blew it. There's no way around it.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Things could have gone either way. I wasn't up in
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: arms over the catch. No catch it, it doesn't. I
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: have much stronger takes on the regulation than anything in overtime.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: I do just genuinely lean when it comes to defensive
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: holding and pass interference, especially in big games. If it's
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: like the Giants playing the Cardinals in December, I don't care.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: But in a game that's determining who goes the AFC
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Championship game, Like, I kind of need you to be mulled.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: I kind of do. I was watching both divisional games
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: and had a thought, is there a reason why you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't put all four games on Sunday. CBS takes the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: afternoon window in the AFC and then the three point
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: thirty window for the second, and then Fox takes the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: late window for the first NFC and NBC takes the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: night game for the second NFC game. That way, two
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: teams from each conference that win have equal amount of time.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: It's about TV windows. They don't want to split viewership.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: They want everyone watching one game. This is about maximizing
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: the audience. So yeah, technically they could. They could have
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: a game in the morning, two games in the afternoon,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: and one game at night. But they would never want
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: to steal audience away from another game. That's the whole
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: point of the playoffs. The most popular games in the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: sport are Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Thursday night
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: crushes now, and typically a big Sunday afternoon game. Because
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: the game of the week on CBS or Fox. If
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: it's like Bears, Packers or Niners, Rams or Chiefs Bills.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: They do a pretty good job of putting other crappy
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: games next to it, so everyone watches the main game.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: And if you have two playoff games, if it's like
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Bills versus the Broncos in Niners versus Seattle, what are
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Seattle and Niner fans supposed to do? Like they want
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to watch Josh Allen play too, So it's they don't
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: want that and that's never gonna happen. They could, but
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: that's not the way their business model is, and that's
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: not the way. The television networks pay massive amounts of money.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: They make a lot of it back in the playoffs.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting thirty forty million people watching these games,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: so they would not want to lose whatever the percentage
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: would be. Most people are not me or potentially you
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: that have like three TVs. I still got to build
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: this office. I just haven't had time with the baby.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, I I got cardboard boxes everywhere of shelves
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: and pictures all over the place. I do have two
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: TVs though, and I also have a big monitor next
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: to me. So it's like, but I'm not normal. I
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: consume for a living and then talk about it, right,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: most humans have one TV in their living room, so
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to. I don't know about you.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: My wife hates picture and picture and honestly, on a
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: big TV seventy five eighty five ninety five inches on
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: YouTube TV, the two game option, there's too much dead space.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting enough. You know. Part of the reason
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: you have a big TV is to see everything, and
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: then when you do the two games, it just kind
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: of diminishes the experience. In my opinion, I don't think
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: it's a coincidence that hours after the Bills lost, the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Falcons announced Stefanski as our coach. It's early Sunday morning
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: as I'm writing this, and if Stefanski was still in
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: the market, I think it's plausible that McDermott is out
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: in Stefanski would be interviewing with the Bills. If we
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: lose this weekend, we'd like to bring in coach ab
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: or c for an interview, even though we haven't fired
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: our guy yet. I miss the actual first part. This
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: brings me to the question, in a situation like the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Bills in the playoffs, but with a coach where the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: seat is warm, do owners make a call to the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: coach's agent and say, if we lose this weekend, we'd
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: like to bring I hear what you're saying. How could
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: you fire Sean McDermott for Kevin Stefanski? In what world
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: could you justify firing Sean McDermott for Kevin Stefanski. I
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: don't know one that exists. So I think Kevin Stefanski
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: took the Atlanta job because Matt Ryan really liked him.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: It's a good opportunity. I don't think the Bills could
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: hire Kevin Savannah. I would say that would be nuts.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: I really would. Maybe I'm too hard on Stefanski. Clearly
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of people like him, but I would disagree
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: with that move. I really would. I'd rather have McDermott
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: and Joe Brady than Kevin Stefanski. Question for the mail Bank,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Now the Niner season is over, what do they have
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: to do to make a run for the Super Bowl.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: I've been saying, they gotta get healthy, they gotta figure
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: out the substation, they gotta figure out these injuries. That
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: to me, is their only goal. We can't have hundreds
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars on injury reserve. Can't happen, So
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: like we got to add this guy. They gotta stay healthy.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Fred Warner. Name me a team
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: that could lose that level of play. It's impossible. They
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: lost their starting quarterback for eight games. I just think
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: they got to find a way to stay healthy. That
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: just has to happen. That to me is besides like, oh,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: nail this pick at a guard. If you can't keep
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: your high end guys healthy, none of that shit matters.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: And it's been a conversation that's been ongoing now for
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: a while. They gotta find a way to stay healthy.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't have an answer to that.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the substation things real or not.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: But they got to figure something out because they have
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: a problem that is worse than everyone's else, everyone else
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: in the league. They lead the league in injuries always,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: like every single year, and obviously McCaffrey. I mean, from
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: one football standpoint, it's like, do they need to bring
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: in find like a McCaffrey right hand man because you
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: can't keep continue at the rate with Christian who was
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: just getting pumbled, Like can you find It's hard? I mean,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Christian was the eighth pick in the draft and like
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame level talent, but they need to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: get another running back who is good so they can
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: just balance and give Christian, like, hey, you're just gonna
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: play slot receiver today because Christian can do other things.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Was like when he's just getting pounded between the tackles
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty times a game, like it's not gonna last.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: He was holding on for dear life. At the end
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: there with Bownicks breaking a bone in his ankle, with
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the Broncos call up rivers for one last ride. That
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: would be sick, that would be awesome. There's not gonna happen.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: It's much easier to do in a regular season situation.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: He knows the offense and he knows the coach. Sean Payton,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's bullshitting. Really believes Jared Stidham. I
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: think Jared Sidams one of the highest paid backups in
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: the league. He's spoken really highly of him for a
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: long time. I personally think it's impossible for a guy
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: to never play. It's one thing to come in at
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: the start of the regular seasons, like games haven't even started.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Guy got hurt. I gotta jump in, Like Kurt Warner situation,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: you kind of get a fresh slate. You're coming in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: in the middle of late January against a team that
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: what's the Patriots record waity fourteen wins. They got all
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: momento against Mike Rabel. And that's a very very difficult situation.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: You've been taking number one reps. No, I've been on
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the practice or I've been on the scout team for
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: the last four and a half months. Even John Payton's like,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: I get on advance Joseph because he rips up our
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: defense for the scout team. So I impossible situation, but
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: really their only option. I don't think you could bring
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: in another person at this point. Stidham knows, the team, knows,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: the players, knows the playbook. Part of Philip Rivers. They
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: didn't just randomly bring Philip Rivers. He knew the place,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: he knew the coach, He ran the offense in his
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: high school team. If you told me Philip Rivers played
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: for Sean Payton for a couple of years, I'd be like, yeah,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be you could bring him in practice,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: get some reps in this scenario, Breeze, I mean his
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: shoulder recently came to play catch with his kids. So
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Breeze's shoulder doesn't work. Philip Rivers doesn't hadn't worked with
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. He just got a roll with Jared Stidham
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: and hope to get a miracle. Because I will say this,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this later this week. If Sean
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: Payton can win this game with a backup quarterback, even
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: if he lost in the Super Bowl, it would be
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  Speaker 1: one of his greatest victories in the history of his career.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a guy that obviously has had a lot
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: of success super Bowl champion, this would be a legendary win,
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  Speaker 1: I think right now. I haven't checked the line today,
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  Speaker 1: but five five and a half point underdog should be.
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  Speaker 1: You got a backup quarterback he's ever played or hasn't
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  Speaker 1: played in a long time, hasn't started for years because
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Bo nicks. So if he's able to rally the troops
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  Speaker 1: and win this game, be a pretty big notch on
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the belt for Sean. Really would It'd be pretty incredible? Okay,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: last question. C J. Strout is the biggest and most
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: glaring weakness for the Houston Texans, but he is still
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: a decent quarterback. Could and should the Texans trade CJ
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  Speaker 1: to the Raiders for the first overall pick and start
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: the clock over and use the cap elsewhere. It's a
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: pretty good question I would say about CJ. He needs
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: to play in dough But like the Texans, the Raiders,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: if they were to get good, would have to play outside.
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  Speaker 1: They'd have to play the Chiefs. They have to play
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. They'd have to play the Bills, They'd have
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: to play the Patriots. It's inevitable that you need Denver,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: so CJ's skill set doesn't change for them as it
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: does the Houston Texans. So I would one d per
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  Speaker 1: not make that trade. I think both guys coming out
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  Speaker 1: of college for Nando Mendoza gets drapped ahead of CJ.
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  Speaker 1: And I like CJ. But or I mean I did
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: before that game. I do think the Raiders wouldn't say
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: no to that deal. I think the Texans would do
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: that deal. I think the Raiders hang up. The Texans
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: would be like, would the Texans trade a third round
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: pick and CJ stratted for Fernando Mendoza And there's no
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: guarantee Fernando mendozes ever as good as CJ. When you
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: factor in restarting the clock because again, if CJ doesn't
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: get his swag back in twenty twenty six of playing
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: a high level football, they're not going to extend him.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: There's too many examples for Casario to go. You can't
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: extend good because if you extend good, you got major problems.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: You can extend very good. Obviously ideally you extend great,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: but you can extend very good. Dak Prescott, Jared goff Right,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: you could extend those guys, Brock Purty. You cannot extend
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: good and right now, Cejas's good and sometimes bad, but
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: it was good. It's kind of his high end now.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: And the lack of ability to play outside, to me
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: is a major red flag, which is hypocritical because I
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: hate the cold and I could never do it, but
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: most people can't accept a small few and those look
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: to me to be like the elite guys. Okay, well,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll end on this. I had one more.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I have a question for the mail bag. I've always
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: questioned how a college football Division one athlete at the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: has the time to get a degree and focus so
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: much of time on practice, weights, and film. I can
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: only assume most of the degrees are rubber stamped I
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: can't even remember a student athlete was ineligible for grades
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: in college football. Football is a big business, even outside
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: the player role. Why do colleges not of a football
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: degree that aligns with college athletes, since that's why most
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: are in college. It would also allow for not so
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: athletically gifted athletes to be able to pursue a career
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: in football outside of playing well. I think at a
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: lot of colleges they have generic degrees that these guys
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: take At this point in time with the transfer portal,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if anyone goes to school, but
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I do think you're underestimating. Most guys playing at USC,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Oregon Texas are not gonna be NFL players. Think about that,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: most guys in the Power for are not going to
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: the NFL. How many guys are on a team eighty five,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: ninety right one hundred in college football? How many guys
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: are drafted every year? What was pretty he was the
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: last pick to sixty six, two hundred and sixty six
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: and then obviously some und drafted free agents. But how
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: many of those guys never make it to the regular season?
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: So the majority of guys are gonna come to the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: real world. I think a decent amount of guys take
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: school relatively seriously. Now, it's very challenging unless you're an
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck academic all American type genius to take a
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: hard major right, architecture, engineering, medical sciences, you know, some
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: of these biologies, some stuff like that. That's gonna be
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: a small percentage, but I think you're gonna find a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: lot of impressive football guys are getting business degrees, are
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: taking advantage of their opportunity because the network they're naturally
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: gonna have leaving college is going to be better than
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: the average guy they're sitting in class with in business. Now,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: some people don't get it till it's too late, but
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: I think there are clearly guys like they're always have
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: men that don't go to class and don't give shit,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: and some of these schools doesn't matter. But like if
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: you're going playing college football at the University of Washington
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: or the you know, University of Indiana or Michigan or
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Texas USC, like you kind of realize, like, yeah, I
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: like football, I'm good at football, but this I'm not
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: going to be a pro, which is hard for some
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: guys to understand. But this could change the trajectory of
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: my life. So yes, there are people. I mean, there
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: are losers in every aspect of society, right, And I
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: don't think you're a loser if you don't care about school.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: But if you don't care about school and you're not
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: a good player, like I think you're kind of a moron.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: If you're a guy that's clearly going to the NFL,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: I don't blame you at all for not taking school
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: seriously one bit. I mean, the whole point of going
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: to school is trying to make money, right. We're not
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: going to school for them to teach us life lessons
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: in college, right, That was my parents' jobs and my
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: coaches jobs and shit in growing up, your job's there
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: trying to get me a degree, like and if you're
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: taking these worthless degrees that I also don't feel bad
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: for you when you can't get a job. And that's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: clearly a major talking point right now in society. It's
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: like we had a lot of people getting worthless degrees
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: and like as there's a lot of college that some
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: could argue is kind of scammy. But if you get
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: specific degrees, especially at these big boy universities with feeder
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: systems to the big companies and elite alumni status that
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: they present. If you play football Notre Dame and you're
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: some rotational special teams guy, you have an incredible opportunity
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: to change your life. And if you're dumb enough to
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: not take school seriously, Like, yeah, it's hard. It's difficult, right,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: it's difficult playing at Air Force. It's difficult being a
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: normal student and an architecture engineer where I went to
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: school cal Pauly, which is great. Like it's hard, Yes,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: it's not easy. You don't just get to drink natty
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: lights five days a week and fuck around and do nothing.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: But you also get the option or the opportunity to
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: springboard your life to a really high level, really fast.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: So I think a lot of guys and a lot
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: of these programs. I don't know the transfer portals. Probably
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how grades even matter anymore, transfer portal,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: because I remember President of State getting a guy into school,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: whether a high school kid or a transfer kid, even
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: from junior college. The transcripts really matter. How could all
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: these guys transfer because all these guys' transcripts are not
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: eligible transcripts. I do not believe it, especially some elite player,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: because what if he doesn't even care about school? Why
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: would he? But a lot of musicians don't care about school.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of these guys dropped out of
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: college to develop Facebook or you name company X. Happens
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: all the time. More power to them. You know, school
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything for me in all seriousness, like it
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: bored the shit out of me. I'll never forget. And
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: I think about this a lot. I just never stopped
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: looking up at the clock. And this was pre iPhone.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: When's this thing going to end? And that goes back
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: to like junior high let alone through college. But yeah,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: I think everyone's different, everyone approaches it differently. But the
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: smart kids, and I don't even mean intellectually smart, I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: mean the guys that kind of get it or see
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: the writing on the wall, take advantage of that opportunity
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: because playing football at you name the school, North Carolina, Syracuse, Florida, whatever,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: you could be a backup. You could be a guy
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: that never played a scout team or rudy type, and
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: it changes your life much more than the kid just
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: going to school there having his parents pay or take
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: out a student loan. You are given massive advantages and
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I think all the high level programs have done a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: good job preaching that over the years. You know, obviously,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: if you're at Bama or Georgia and the prime right,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: you're coming there to try to make the NFL. But
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: if you're playing it, I don't know, UCLA, a lot
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: of guys aren't going to the NFL. But you can
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: get you can get a business degree or whatever your
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: passion is, and you don't have to work hard your times.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough, especially during the fall, but spring's
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: a not that hard. You know, that much going on
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: because that's some workouts most kids on campus workout, especially
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, So that that would be my
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: take there. That's a great question. The volume