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Eric Weddle on his forthcoming induction into the CFB Hall of Fame, The Utes transfer portal haul, NFL Divisional Round predictions + mor... · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Camels.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Sean O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: You were home of a best inside of George Hughes.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get back to oc from the Murdoch Chevrolet Studio
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  Speaker 3: of ESPN seven hundred and ninety two to one, A
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  Speaker 3: f am.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome back to the Sean O'Connell Show, our.
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  Speaker 4: Number three and joining us the Utah legend who will
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  Speaker 4: now be a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: At least that's coming up with an induction in the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty sixth class.
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  Speaker 2: You know him, you love him. He's Eric Weddle, he do.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. How are you.
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  Speaker 1: My brother? Man? That brought back memories that song Dead
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  Speaker 1: Are Alive? You know all you Deadly's catch fans out there.
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  Speaker 1: I was a die hard, die hard. I love that
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  Speaker 1: show and who would have thought they'd still be having
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  Speaker 1: I think it's on their like sixteenth nineteenth season. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy. But anyways, you know, just a little
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  Speaker 1: back to memory lane with that song, Life is good.
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame pretty insane. Lost for words, man, pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 4: If you can put into some words for us what
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  Speaker 4: it means to you to have your incredible college football career, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Now recognize this way and to be only the fourth
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  Speaker 4: you to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's pretty It's like a vigorous process. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of amazing college football players and names that are
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  Speaker 1: up for each year, and just there's a lot that
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  Speaker 1: goes behind the scenes to make this happen. So I
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  Speaker 1: do want to give a shout out to the admin,
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  Speaker 1: to Rudy, to Mark, everyone that pushed for this to happen,
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  Speaker 1: because without them, it's it probably doesn't happen, if I'm
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  Speaker 1: being honest, because there's a lot that goes into us.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to give a shout out to them.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, really unexpected because I just you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't really live for those types of things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a huge honor. So it was really
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  Speaker 1: unexpected when Mark called me and uh tapped Taptain Morgan
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  Speaker 1: on the line, so he was on the call as
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  Speaker 1: well to give me the news. And I was just
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  Speaker 1: really floored, taken back and taking him back to all
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  Speaker 1: the memories I had playing with the relationships and the
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  Speaker 1: friends and the coaches and moments and really just grant it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, grateful and really humbled by it all.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's cool to see it go to you know,
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  Speaker 4: the right guy, a good guy. I don't know if people,
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  Speaker 4: if everyone who listens to the show follows you on
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  Speaker 4: social media, you should be following the weddels Beard account.
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  Speaker 4: The what you told your family when you told your kids,
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  Speaker 4: uh that you were one of the I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you planned this. One of the funniest one liners
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  Speaker 4: I've heard was just like, I could have done it
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  Speaker 4: without you, guys, Actually I could have. You weren't there
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  Speaker 4: because none of them were alive. That was the funniest
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  Speaker 4: thing in that whole announcement.
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  Speaker 1: Oh guys, like you know Samelle Sameel randomly videos me
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  Speaker 1: without without me knowing, so you can gotta you kind
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  Speaker 1: of see me catch me off guard. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: my kids, I love him to death. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I said it, I kind of I kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: what I was implying when I said it, because the
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  Speaker 1: joke was coming. But it's comical and even like I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling people throughout the congratulary Orry Texas and I'm like, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: like I appreciate you and the support and they're like, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I really came along your rookie year, so I really
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  Speaker 1: didn't have much impact. So it's uh, you know, everyone
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  Speaker 1: had a hand in it. I really, I really believe that,
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  Speaker 1: and I I think that way. Uh, And it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's a you know, it's a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: family honor. Everyone that knows me knows that, uh, we
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  Speaker 1: did it all together.
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  Speaker 4: So if you want me to shut up about this,
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  Speaker 4: just tell me. But does does this change your your
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  Speaker 4: feelings or make you even more eager or anticipate, or
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  Speaker 4: does it have any effect at all on your ideas
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  Speaker 4: about the NFL Hall of Fame Because obviously that Gold
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  Speaker 4: Jacket is an even more rigorous process, and we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about it plenty on my SHO show. And I believe
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  Speaker 4: you're you deserve to be in the NFL Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that you can make a strong case
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  Speaker 4: for that consideration.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know as much about that process.
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  Speaker 4: If you have to have the kind of advocacy that
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  Speaker 4: it sounds like you had from the University of Utah
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  Speaker 4: and the people like Jeff Rudy and Mark Carlin and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: But does it do you let your mind go there
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  Speaker 4: at all.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, myself, no, just because I don't. I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's warranted. I don't feel, you know, like it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to put it like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you look at a guy like Harrison Smith
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  Speaker 1: is probably gonna retire, and I do think he's a
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame type guy. Now you put him in
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  Speaker 1: myself compared, it's comparable, and you know, it's just like
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  Speaker 1: it just goes you know, what what is what is
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  Speaker 1: the impact? Right? Like if you if you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about impact and how you impact their teammates and
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  Speaker 1: scheme and coaching and how many times that the ball
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  Speaker 1: was thrown in my direction like that, there are stats
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  Speaker 1: that you just can't compute when you're when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about Hall of Fame and you're talking about comparing and
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  Speaker 1: you're the guys you're going against. So I just like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable with my own skin. I'm I'm very
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  Speaker 1: comfortable on how I impacted the game. And when I
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  Speaker 1: look at myself compared to other guys, like I can
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  Speaker 1: honestly say in the most humble way, there are not
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  Speaker 1: many guys that could do what I did over the
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  Speaker 1: course of my career across the board. But that also
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I should be in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: So two things can't be true.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, so you do you believe that Harrison Smith belongs
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  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: I think he has a better case than I do.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that John Lynch deserves to be in
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  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Do I think he deserves? Is he not in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 2: Correct?
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  Speaker 4: He's in the Hall of Fame. Do you think that
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  Speaker 4: he he has a gold jacket? Do you think that
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  Speaker 4: is warranted and well earned?
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  Speaker 1: Now? In my opinion, okay, I think is he in
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  Speaker 1: the same category as a Charles Woodson, as a Rod Woodson,
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  Speaker 1: as a as A Chat Bailey, as a as a
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  Speaker 1: Brian Dawkins, as a Troy Paloma, as Ed Reed, as
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  Speaker 1: a as a Ronnie Lot No, And if the if
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  Speaker 1: the criteria is you need to be on that level,
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  Speaker 1: then no.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but that's not the criteria for being in the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. And we both know Joe Namath is
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  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: He threw more interceptions than he did touchdowns as a
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  Speaker 4: quarterback in the league.
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  Speaker 1: I know the game has changed, the stats has changed.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna look at Troy Aikman ten twenty years from
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  Speaker 1: now that people have never saw him play, never saw
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  Speaker 1: him throw the ball, and how amazing quarterback he was,
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  Speaker 1: and they're gonna say, how the heck does this guy
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame? And people still say that
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  Speaker 1: now who are oblivious to the to the talent and
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback you saw. I get all that, and we
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  Speaker 1: can we can go back and forth, but at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, it's not up to me. It's
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  Speaker 1: up to the voters, the fifty or some odd voters.
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  Speaker 1: And if the majority of them think it's a no
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  Speaker 1: that I'm never getting in, there's nothing we can know
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 4: The reason I use those two guys is because you
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  Speaker 4: have more postseason honors than Harrison Smith does. You have,
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  Speaker 4: you have the pretty much the exact same postseason honors
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  Speaker 4: as John Lynch, and you have better stats than John Lynch.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, if we're using those two guys as
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  Speaker 4: the as the comparables, and you're right, you probably don't
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  Speaker 4: want to use Ronnie Lott as the comparable or Charles
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  Speaker 4: Woodson as the comparable, because nobody can can hold up
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  Speaker 4: to that comparison, But I don't know. My guy deserves
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  Speaker 4: to be in and I'm going to campaign for it,
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  Speaker 4: whether you're willing to or not.
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  Speaker 1: I love you for that. That's why my brother.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, let's talk.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about, you know, the the closing of the
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  Speaker 4: transfer portal window, which happens tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: And where where you talking?
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  Speaker 1: I need I need some I need some college coaches
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  Speaker 1: to get out here and start checking out my boys.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine they're all pretty busy right now trying to figure.
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  Speaker 1: Out what it ultimately affects the high school kids.
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  Speaker 4: So dang it, there's there's three thousand guys, uh in
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  Speaker 4: the like three thousand what we call Division I football
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  Speaker 4: guys in the transfer portal. There's like ten thousand if
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  Speaker 4: you go all the way down to the nai A level,
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  Speaker 4: which is just absurd.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: Across FCS Division two, Division three and nai A. There's
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  Speaker 4: over ten thousand people in the college transfer portal, which
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know how you navigate that as a coach.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we we've talked for years about how the
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  Speaker 4: transfer portal giveth and take it away and how Utah
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  Speaker 4: has been able to net out positively pretty much every
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  Speaker 4: year in the transfer portal, and.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly like it doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: It seems like this year is going to be neutral
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  Speaker 4: at best, which I'm totally okay with in Morgan Scalley's
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  Speaker 4: first year. But knowing what we know about how you
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  Speaker 4: construct your roster in college football and some of the
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  Speaker 4: challenges that he might face as a first year head coach,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if it is a neutral transfer portal outcome,
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  Speaker 4: is that going to be okay in his first year?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I think we've upgraded because you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's just, you know, the timetable the portal,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much things that they could do to make
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  Speaker 1: it beneficial on both sides for the player to get
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  Speaker 1: their money and also the school to keep continent culture
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  Speaker 1: and team building. Uh, and then it doesn't trickle down
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  Speaker 1: to the high school league. Literally two weeks of high
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  Speaker 1: school recruiting has been affected because the portal got pushed
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  Speaker 1: back because January is a month that this universities are
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  Speaker 1: allowed to come on campus and see your boys. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just a it's a big, big negative in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. But I think you know, there's no
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  Speaker 1: repercussions for tampering. Everyone's doing it, you know, like you're
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  Speaker 1: not even in the portal, but then you all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you're in the portal, and then you're gone
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  Speaker 1: because someone told you you're gonna get this amount of
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  Speaker 1: more money. And then on the flip side, like I would,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, when is what is enough enough? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like for some of the guys that left now now,
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  Speaker 1: some of them wanted to go to the portal, so
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  Speaker 1: some of them, you know, we offered this and they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't think it was good enough, so hey, good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Others were offered a premium and then a week later
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  Speaker 1: somehow in the portal with more. When is winner? Are
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  Speaker 1: you just not happy with where you are? And why
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  Speaker 1: is money the driving force? And when it comes down
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  Speaker 1: to money as a coach or as a as a
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  Speaker 1: leader of a program, that if that's the number one
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  Speaker 1: deciding factor in a lot of these instances, then you
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  Speaker 1: need to not be a part of our program. And
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  Speaker 1: as being evident in some cases some not. And I
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  Speaker 1: love the way Morgan is handling it and really trying
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  Speaker 1: to build around guys that want to be here. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think we're gonna be better than
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  Speaker 1: last year across the board, uh from from many factors,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see, we'll see if I'm right at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Whittles, our guest here on the Sean O'Connell show,
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  Speaker 4: talk at All Things call Football, and we'll shift it
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  Speaker 4: to the pros.
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  Speaker 2: We actually before we shifted to the pros.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna have another conversation with you on air
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  Speaker 4: before the National Championship game plays out, And I think
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  Speaker 4: I know how you're going to answer this.
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  Speaker 2: But Indiana or Miami.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm pulling for Miami because Miami is recruiting
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  Speaker 1: gage So that's kind of cool. You know, you get
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  Speaker 1: to meet the coaches and you become a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more intimate with a lot of these programs. I think
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  Speaker 1: Indiana is a well oiled machine that's playing at a
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  Speaker 1: super high clip. Miami presents some problems defensively that I
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  Speaker 1: think that they can present a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: a challenge than Oregon did. But man, I thought the
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  Speaker 1: same thing with Oregon and they just Indiana just steamrolled them.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know I'm I'm hoping for a competitive game.
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  Speaker 1: I worry a little bit about Miami's offense. They're just
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  Speaker 1: not they run the football. And then really Tony is
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  Speaker 1: their only like real dynamic threat on the perimeter. So
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  Speaker 1: can they shorten the game? Can they get a couple
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  Speaker 1: of turnovers? Can they run the football? Which I think
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  Speaker 1: they can offensively with crystal ball? You know that says mindset.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to run the ball. And if bet if
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  Speaker 1: Beck makes great decisions and all that being said, I
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  Speaker 1: think Indiana, I mean, they're favored for a reason. So
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  Speaker 1: if I'm a betting man, I'm I would put my
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  Speaker 1: money on Indiana.
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  Speaker 4: I'm now anti Indiana because they're not recruiting gauge Weddles.
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  Speaker 4: That's a that's a that's a piece of breaking information
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  Speaker 4: here on the Kurtz Signetty knows nothing, all right, He's
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  Speaker 4: not the coach he thought he was.
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  Speaker 2: If he can't recognize if.
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  Speaker 4: He can't recognize that sophomore in high school talent, what
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  Speaker 4: is he even good at?
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  Speaker 1: What is he thinking? He knows nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's talk about the pros.
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  Speaker 4: Fred Warner, who plays for my favoravorite team and your
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  Speaker 4: favorite team the San Francisco forty nine ers. He's ninety
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  Speaker 4: five days removed from a break and dislocation of his ankle,
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  Speaker 4: and he's already practicing and he has not yet ruled
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  Speaker 4: out the possibility of playing this weekend. Now, we have
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  Speaker 4: a vague understanding of how intense the rehab process is
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  Speaker 4: when you're an NFL guy and you got to get
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  Speaker 4: your body right again. But give me some sense of
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  Speaker 4: what Fred Warner has been doing between the injury, the
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  Speaker 4: surgery and now in order to get back this quickly
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  Speaker 4: to where he could even consider playing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I don't think people understand what is available
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  Speaker 1: to NFL players working their way back from injury, especially
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  Speaker 1: in season. And like if you ever had a serious
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  Speaker 1: injury and you go to like rehab twice a week
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  Speaker 1: and it's for an hour, and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: do everything else on your own. Like literally, Fred's been
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  Speaker 1: in there from six a m. Till probably six at
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  Speaker 1: night and doing rehab on rehab on rehab, so with
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  Speaker 1: the best of the best available to him. And when
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  Speaker 1: you get when you see guys come back and they're
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  Speaker 1: like two months ahead of schedule, and it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: not the average human and it's not the normal circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: like he's a freak athlete. Just the craziness of their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: They I think they you know, I think they heal
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  Speaker 1: like at a higher clip. I mean, I'm sure it
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  Speaker 1: could be proven if you just study on it, and
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  Speaker 1: then the availability of the doctors and medical and everything
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  Speaker 1: that's available. So my gut says, and I'm pulling for
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  Speaker 1: the Niners because I want a Rams Niners NFC championship
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  Speaker 1: game to relive the glory days and us beat them
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  Speaker 1: again on the way to the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have to say that. You didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't have to. You don't have to do that.
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  Speaker 4: We're on the same page, right, Let's just stay there.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just stay on the same page for this week.
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  Speaker 1: Upset City again. I didn't think. I didn't think they
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  Speaker 1: had a chance against the Eagles. It shows you how
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  Speaker 1: much I know, and it shows you how bad the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles are, because there's no way they should have lost
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  Speaker 1: that game. But there's just something to be said about
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  Speaker 1: a connected group of men who are all playing as
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  Speaker 1: one and playing for each other. So it's really cool
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  Speaker 1: to see the job. I think Shannon should be the
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  Speaker 1: coach of the year, and so we'll see. My gut
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  Speaker 1: says Fred plays in the NFC Championship game. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he'll play this week, nor do I would. I
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  Speaker 1: want to jeopardize it. Uh, they're they're playing good. Let's
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  Speaker 1: let's try to give him another week of practice so
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  Speaker 1: he can play in the championship game.
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  Speaker 2: How well did you get to know Mike Tomlin while
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  Speaker 2: you were playing?
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  Speaker 1: We just compete against each other. And then in the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, one of my Pro Bowls he coached before
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of whatever it is now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do people actually watch?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, you know it's crazy. I shouldn't do this.
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  Speaker 4: We brought we broadcast on our airwaves. We broadcast the
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  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl games whatever that. I can't imagine what the
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  Speaker 4: radio broadcast brings in from an audience standpoint, because even.
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  Speaker 2: On television, you're just like, what is this? But the
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl was fun.
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  Speaker 4: To watch for everyone out there who used to like
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  Speaker 4: spit on the Pro Bowl? The Pro Bowl is a
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: good time, all right, And I blame you all for
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  Speaker 4: criticizing it for so long for this garbage we have now.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But that's that's a different topic altogether. Back to Mike Tomlin. Uh,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: so you kind of know him, you don't really know him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: What do you think of him being done in Pittsburgh.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So he's always He's always been one I admire.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I always love his his little tidbits, his comments. Every
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: game since I've been just coaching, I listened to him.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He just has a very I love his approach to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a lot philosophically of leading men and whatnot. And honestly,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: when I came back, when I came back, first when
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I retired, he sent me a text, and then when
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I came back, he sent me a text out of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the blue, and then obviously when I won the Super Bowl,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: he said welcome to the club. And so we've He's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: always been really just incredible in that aspect. Like I've
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: texted him out of the blue a few times and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he immediately responds back. And it's just those type of
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: guys are just very They're one of one. So I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what his plans are. I think a coach
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: as a coach to his core. So is he going
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to take a year off figure out what the best
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: spot is? Uh? But he's he's an incredible coach and
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: probably even better man.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: The Giants and John Harbaugh. Do you like that marriage?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I love it. I felt at all the jobs, that's
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: probably the most appealing. And when I'd go after if
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I was in his stance in his statue of he's
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: not going to be worried about the media, he's not
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: going to be worried about expectations. Uh, he's very confident
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: in a leader of men, and I would, I would
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: if this goes through, which I think, I think it
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is trending that way, that they'll pull a whole one eight.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I think in that in that season, in this first year.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You know, you saw the impact that Rabel had on
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the Patriots. It's just there's very few coaches and he's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: one of them that can really turn around a franchise
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: by the way they handled the team, how they lead,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: how they unite, how they motivate. And so I'm excited
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: and you could tell he's he's he's ready for the challenge.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's get to these games that are coming this weekend.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I did not write your picks down last week because
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I'd just like to pretend that you got them all right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: even if you didn't so we'll do that again here.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: But uh, Bronck, I got half of them wrong last week.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's all. That's all right, It's better than most people do.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: The Broncos. The Broncos are one and a half point favorites.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: They're taking on the Bills.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: The Bronco fan base is trying to get under Josh
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Allen's skin by putting all the videos and pictures of
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: his own wife celebrating a Bronco Super Bowl from like
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: six years ago.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: But who actually wins the game?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I got the Bills. Uh, it just it just kind
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of seems that win last week kind of seems like
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it's if it's not this year, it's never gonna happen.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And so how's how is Nick's gonna handle home playoff
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: game of their defense? Like a lot a lot wants
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: me to pick Denver, big big Sean Payton in big games,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like you know, he's gonna he's gonna call a great
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: game and put their team in the best position. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I just have a feeling as Buffalo, So I'm taking Buffalo.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Buffalo advancing over Denver. According to Eric Weddle, Patriots Texans
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: in the other game, Patriots are the favorite here. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: thought the Texans were gonna have a stiffer test against
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: the Chargers. But excuse me, I thought the the Yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I said that right. I thought the Chargers were gonna
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: count better for themselves. But tell me how you think
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Patriots Texans go?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I got Patriots. I think I think the Texans in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a low scoring affair. Whatever the over under is, I'm
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: taking the under. I think it's gonna be like a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: seventeen to fourteen type game. If that just a grind
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it out, the Texas d is legit. So so the
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Patriots gonna struggle a little bit, I think. And then
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I just don't trust the Houston offense and the way
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Stroud is playing is is not I'm not gonna put
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: my my hat on that. So I think it's pat Patriots.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: I think the eventual Super Bowl winner comes out of
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: the NFC. So these are the games that actually matter.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Seahawks Niners? Who you got?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Who do I want? Or who do I got?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Well? I think you want the Niners. We've established that, right.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: But because you're yes, because you're drawing a distinction, that
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: means you think the Seahawks are actually gonna win.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's a lot. There's lots of like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: there's lots of like what the Niners are doing. I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: just don't see, you know, I don't see pretty have
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of success against the Seahawks, not a good matchup,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and they're just so out man like when when does
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it become too much? So I got Seattle, even though
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I want Frisco and would not be surprised if they
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: have an upset.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Cala Williams can't beat Matt Stafford Kenny.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say zero chance because you know
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of people get off but hurt when I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: say zero chance. When when I said that about some
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: team a year, a couple of years ago, And you
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: know there's a lot of really crazy fans out there
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: from fan bases. So no, I think it's going to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: be a high scoring affair. I think the over unders
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: fifty one, and I'm taking the over all day every
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: day if I happen to be a better which I don't.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: My son asked me all the time like that, why
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: don't you bet you would kill it? And I'm like, Son,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that's the slippery slope. You know, you lose, once you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: lose again, and before you know, you don't have a house.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So I'd rather keep my house and UH and and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: have UH and not have to go back to work.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So uh, I think it's gonna be a great game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Two really good offense, great coaches. I think they appeal
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of the Lafloor, Johnson and you know their best friends,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Lafour and UH and Sean and Shawn's. You know, I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: keep in touch for Shawn weekly and I'm gonna send
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: my my Friday night text just to ask him how
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the week of prep win and this and that. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: know he's gonna try to take it to Ben. So uh,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you gotta believe this is this is the year of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the Rams and they gotta go do it. Doesn't matter
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how cold it is, and this, that and the other.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: They're trying to find excuses why Chicago is going to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: be in the game and try to win it. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: reality is the Rams are better across the board, offense
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and defense, and they just gotta go do it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Did we see Aaron Rodgers play NFL football ever? Again?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I think he's done.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I think you're right, But I thought that last year too.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's done. I think you know, do
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you really want to start over with a new coach wherever,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: if it's in Pittsburgh, I mean, Pittsburgh's got They're not
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a very good football team. They're they're really not. They
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: don't have much on offense. They're getting old across the board,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and then do you want to start somewhere new? Like
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: do you want to even want to take on that challenge?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I think he's ready. I think, you know, he just
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: got married, maybe once to have some kids, maybe wants
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to be a dad, like that'd be cool, and you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: know he could he kind of sense it, but who knows.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I think he's done. So we'll see.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Do you know anyone else from your NFL days who
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: got married and then kept their wife completely secret to
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the world, especially a high profile player like that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: To know and hey, to each their own man.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's impressive.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: There's there's no pictures of her on the internet that
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: no one knows what Like, it's.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: He lives a different he lives a different life than
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: we ever could even think of it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: It's like Napoleon Dynamite's girlfriend, Like you just don't know
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: if she's even real.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Classic, I don't know.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: All right, dude, appreciate your time as always, go Niners.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: We can at least agree on that for this weekend.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: You got it, baby, I won't ever say it, but
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: go round.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: That's Eric Weddle, the Hall of Famer College Football Hall
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: of Fame Class of twenty twenty six.