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BLOCKBUSTER NFL Trade Day: Myles Garrett to LA Rams, AJ Brown to New England + NFL Offseason Mailbag · 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, What a day in the National Football League.
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Speaker 1: We had trades galore, one of the biggest trades, feels like,
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Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL. Miles Garrett to the Rams,
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and the Eagles trade at A. J. Brown
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Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots, which I guess we all
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Speaker 1: knew was coming. So just an insane day. We will
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Speaker 1: dive into both. We'll do some dad diaryes, some mail
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Speaker 1: everyone listening. Let's just let's dive right into the craziness. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's just start with the Rams, who, as Vito Corleone
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Speaker 1: once famously said in The Godfather, I'm gonna make him
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Speaker 1: an offer he can't refuse, and essentially that is what
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Speaker 1: the Rams did. DeLand Miles Garrett. I do believe the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. When their owner comes out, they release a
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Speaker 1: statement that they did not intend on trading Miles Garrett.
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Speaker 1: I know they reworked his contract to give themselves options,
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Speaker 1: but they were gonna trade him, or if they did,
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Speaker 1: it was gonna take a ton and that's what they got.
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Speaker 1: And it's been well reported by this point in time
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Speaker 1: that the Rams kept saying no when it came to
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Speaker 1: including Jared Verse. I think it's fair to assume they
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Speaker 1: were willing to throw a bunch of picks from Miles Garrett,
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Speaker 1: multiple ones, multiple twos, and keep their existing players, meaning
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Speaker 1: one of the better younger pass rushers in the league,
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Speaker 1: a guy that was six in the NFL in terms
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Speaker 1: of pressure last year, not relative to Miles Garrett. He
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Speaker 1: ain't Miles Garrett. More than likely he will never sniff
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Speaker 1: becoming Miles Garrett, mainly because Garrett is one of the
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Speaker 1: best players in the history of the NFL. I'll never
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Speaker 1: forget last year when the Eagles were joint practicing with
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Speaker 1: the Browns. Obviously, the Eagles coming off Super Bowl predicted
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Speaker 1: to go right back. They had one of the best
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Speaker 1: rosters in the league, and they definitely have two of
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Speaker 1: the best tackles in the league, and Jordan Milatta was
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Speaker 1: doing the press conference on the field after the game,
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Speaker 1: or I mean after the second practice, saying yesterday we
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Speaker 1: were in meetings just laughing like this guy is an alien.
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Speaker 1: What are we even supposed to do with that? And
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Speaker 1: the answer is not much, because no one really does
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Speaker 1: much to Miles Gay when he wants to go. He
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Speaker 1: is an unstoppable force. He's a multiple time Defensive Player
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Speaker 1: of the Year. He is a surefire first ballot Hall
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Speaker 1: of Famer. But he is thirty years old. And it
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Speaker 1: took a twenty five year old, a sending player, a
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Speaker 1: first round pick in by all accounts, one of the
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Speaker 1: better drafts in many many years, a second round pick,
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Speaker 1: and a third round pick the following two years. That
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Speaker 1: is not nothing. So Jared Verse what the Rams had
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Speaker 1: to give up to get Miles Garrett, which, let me
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Speaker 1: start by this, I have no problem overpaying or paying
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Speaker 1: a premium for a great player. Jerry Jones once famously said,
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Speaker 1: I've never paid a premium for another premium and been disappointed.
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Speaker 1: Where you get in trouble in football, in business, in
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Speaker 1: any aspect of life when you overpay for something that
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Speaker 1: is not worth overpaying for now. It's football. There's no
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Speaker 1: guarantee with injuries, but if Miles Garrett stays healthy, it's very,
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Speaker 1: very difficult to overpay. They could have included another first
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Speaker 1: rounder if he gives them twenty fucking sacks and they're
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Speaker 1: making Super Bowl runs these next couple of years. Because
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Speaker 1: he's under contract and the way the NFL works, this
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Speaker 1: is not basketball or baseball where it's like, well, you
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Speaker 1: just pick up the next four years. It's forty million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year like signing bonuses and upfront money has
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Speaker 1: already been paid, so they just take in thirty three
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Speaker 1: I think basically million dollars a year for the next
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Speaker 1: three years. So they're gonna pay essentially one hundred million
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Speaker 1: dollars to get a guy that I think it would
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Speaker 1: be disappointing that over the course of the next three
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Speaker 1: years doesn't give them fifty plus sacks and eighty to
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Speaker 1: ninety pressures a year and to go with their other
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Speaker 1: young players make life a lot easier. It has been
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Speaker 1: rumored and out there. I mean it's kind of internet like,
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Speaker 1: could Aaron Donald return at thirty five years old and
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Speaker 1: been like, fuck it, I'll come mess around with you guys.
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Speaker 1: I think that's clearly on the table or something to monitor.
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Speaker 1: But whether that happens or not, it's kind of irrelevant.
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Speaker 1: They are now viewed as probably the best roster in
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Speaker 1: the NFL, the divisional favorites, and what would be the
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Speaker 1: most competitive division in the NFL with the top I
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Speaker 1: mean there might be better divisions one through four. There's
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Speaker 1: definitely not a better division with the top three, especially
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Speaker 1: when you factor in the coaching, the star power, the quarterbacks,
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Speaker 1: the resume of Kyle McVeigh and Mike McDonald. The division
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Speaker 1: is no joke and the Rams the thing I appreciate
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Speaker 1: and George Steinbrenner did this when I was a kid.
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Speaker 1: You know. They started rattling off championships with the New
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Speaker 1: York Yankees, and they came into the two thousands, and
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Speaker 1: they would do anything and be willing to pay whatever
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Speaker 1: it took to get any player, and everyone hated him.
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Speaker 1: They were called the Evil Empire, and that's what it
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Speaker 1: feels like. The Rams are always willing to do put
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Speaker 1: their chips in the middle of the table. Now, in fairness,
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Speaker 1: there have been other organizations, including the Browns, who've spent
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Speaker 1: a lot more money over the last several years. In
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, no team spent more actual cash on
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Speaker 1: their roster than the Cleveland than the Los Angeles Rams.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, they were thirty second in the league.
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Speaker 1: The last two years they were thirty one and thirty one.
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Speaker 1: So they transitioned off that really expensive team with like
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Speaker 1: the Jalen Ramsey's obviously Aaron Donald retired, you know, Todd
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Speaker 1: Gurley types, like the really expensive players, and they got
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Speaker 1: a lot younger and it worked. They crushed the draft.
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Speaker 1: Beside Matt Stafford. If you think about it, most of
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Speaker 1: their impact players have not been expensive. Why because they
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Speaker 1: were draft picks, and a lot of them like second third,
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Speaker 1: fifth round pick like Poka Nakua. Even Jared Verse, he
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Speaker 1: wasn't the second overall pick, pretty sure, he's like seventeenth
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Speaker 1: or eighteenth. So their core of their group that have
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Speaker 1: been one of the most competitive teams in the league
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, and easily could I
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Speaker 1: think it's safe to say either of the years they
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Speaker 1: were a player two away from winning Super Bowls. I
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Speaker 1: mean that they were right there and as good as
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Speaker 1: any team in the league. They went toe to toe
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Speaker 1: two years ago with Philly and last year obviously played
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Speaker 1: in one of the games of the year in the
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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game against Seattle. In one of their downfalls
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Speaker 1: was defense. Well, what do they did or what do
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Speaker 1: they do? They traded for Trey McDuffie, plug and play
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Speaker 1: high end defensive back, added Miles Garrett, or upgraded Miles
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Speaker 1: Garrett off Jared Verse Jared versus good. Let me just
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Speaker 1: state that like that, that is not nothing. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if they would have done this deal. Maybe they
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Speaker 1: wanted more of an interior defensive tackle, but they traded
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Speaker 1: for what a twenty eight twenty nine year old defensive
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Speaker 1: tackle and Dexter Lawrence and gave up the tenth overall pick.
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Speaker 1: I think Jared vers easily in last draft would have
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Speaker 1: gone for a pick somewhere between ten to twenty if
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Speaker 1: they just would put him on the block, which he
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Speaker 1: was not on the block. I do believe all the
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Speaker 1: reports they did not want to trade him. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: reiterate this. I think they wanted to trade whatever it
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Speaker 1: took in terms of draft capital four Miles Garrett and
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Speaker 1: ultimately Cleveland Browns wouldn't budge. And this is where the
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Speaker 1: Rams were like, fuck it, we will pay more than
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Speaker 1: we're comfortable paying. And this is what it will take
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Speaker 1: to get one of the greatest players of all time.
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Speaker 1: Now he's thirty years old, but we're gonna get this
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Speaker 1: guy thirty thirty one, thirty two to thirty three range.
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Speaker 1: And if we can maximize these next couple of years,
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Speaker 1: we're in when now win the Super Bowl and at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day being the preseason favorites in
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Speaker 1: the odds, I mean, no one had better odds in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to start the season in the Baltimore Ravens,
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Speaker 1: they were like basically three to one to win the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They went eight to nine. Football is not basketball.
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Speaker 1: It definitely is not baseball, where if I just add
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Speaker 1: seven sweet players, I'm guaranteed to be good. The Rams
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Speaker 1: are already good. There is to me Like Jared Verse,
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Speaker 1: by all accounts, was a beloved player in that locker room.
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Speaker 1: His college teammate Brydon Fisk obviously on the team. He
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Speaker 1: had been one of their core players on one of
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Speaker 1: the better defenses over the last couple of years, or
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Speaker 1: better fronts over the last couple of years. Like this
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Speaker 1: isn't nothing. The thing that Miles Garrett, even if it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm just being me. I'm not gonna like beg for
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Speaker 1: everyone's approval here. He doesn't need to because he's that good.
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Speaker 1: And of all the players in the NFL at a
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Speaker 1: non quarterback position, you could argue he's the most plug
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Speaker 1: and play of any player in the entire league. That
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Speaker 1: there is not a coach. I don't care the best
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Speaker 1: coach or the worst coach. If you're looking like the
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Speaker 1: flores Is in the Spagnolas and the Fangios to the
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Speaker 1: shittiest of defensive coaches that could threw him up. I
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Speaker 1: mean he is. He's played for one of the worst
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Speaker 1: organizations in football over the last several years. And I
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Speaker 1: think it also shows you. And this is where I
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Speaker 1: think give the Browns credit is you could have twenty
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Speaker 1: five sacks and still go five to twelve. So I
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Speaker 1: think that once they redid the contract, clearly that put
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Speaker 1: teams like the Rams. I'm sure Howie Roseman were heavily
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Speaker 1: involved in terms of conversations what will it take, what
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Speaker 1: will it take? And this is where Cleveland is like,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna take more than just draft capital. We want
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Speaker 1: to replace this guy with another impact defensive lineman, and
10:39
Speaker 1: they were able to do that. Now Jared versus not
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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, because there is a big difference that their
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Speaker 1: pressure their pressure rate. Miles Garrett had a better pressure rate,
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Speaker 1: but their pressures from what I read, Miles Garrett had
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Speaker 1: like eighty five, Jared versus like eighty. Obviously, Jared Versus
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Speaker 1: like top six or seven in the league over the
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Speaker 1: last several year years. But he doesn't necessarily land the quarterback.
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Speaker 1: His rookie year he had four and a half. I
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Speaker 1: think he was defensive Rookie of the Year. Last year he
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Speaker 1: had seven and a half. But Miles Garrett lands the
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Speaker 1: guy at twenty five. And if you just look at
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Speaker 1: his sacks over the years, sacks are not everything, but
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Speaker 1: when you're consistently getting fifteen plus, they kind of mean
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Speaker 1: a lot because there's a big difference than hitting the
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Speaker 1: quarterback and who knows, maybe gets the ball off and
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Speaker 1: the ball is still completed and they get a first down,
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Speaker 1: and I take the guy to the ground and now
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Speaker 1: was second and eight, it's now third and fifteen. And
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Speaker 1: to me, Miles takes them to a whole other level.
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Speaker 1: And I have no problem saying that if you were
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Speaker 1: betting on a team right now, you'd feel pretty comfortable
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Speaker 1: saying they are the Super Bowl favorites. But again, I
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Speaker 1: don't think that means as much. They're still very dependent.
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Speaker 1: I know he's coming off an MVP season and he
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Speaker 1: was remarkable last year, been banged up over the course
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Speaker 1: of his career. People that I've heard people say, including
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Speaker 1: Colin of like, now, this brings into light the ty
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Speaker 1: Simpson thing. I think ty Simpson is somewhat separate of
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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett because this has been a long time since
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Speaker 1: the draft. I think they'd be the first to tell
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Speaker 1: you there was no guarantee that this was gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: I think they took ty Simpson because they just said, well,
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Speaker 1: we're not ever gonna draft this high again, and we
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Speaker 1: really like this player. And I disagree with that valuation
12:26
Speaker 1: in people that I know in the league that said
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Speaker 1: they had third and fourth round grades on the guy
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Speaker 1: in their draft room. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: if they hit on the ty Simpson pick, it allows
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Speaker 1: them to transition and as they've reset their roster, they
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Speaker 1: could McDuffie a hundred million dollar contract. Miles Garrett thirty
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Speaker 1: three million dollars a year, Matt Stafford, here's a big race.
12:48
Speaker 1: They haven't even paid Pukin Nikola yet. And they obviously
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Speaker 1: have other young players yet, other core young players that
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Speaker 1: are going to demand a lot of money. And Jared
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Speaker 1: Verse specifically would have been one of those players. He
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Speaker 1: would have been one hundred million dollar plus guaranteed type guy.
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Speaker 1: And I think they just made a business decision, which
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Speaker 1: couldn't have been easy. But it's not like they got
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Speaker 1: nothing from him. They drafted him in the late teens,
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Speaker 1: they used him for a couple of years. He was excellent,
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Speaker 1: a key player on a team that went to the
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Speaker 1: playoffs back to back years, that was in the second
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Speaker 1: round in the NFC Championship. One of the heart and
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Speaker 1: souls of their unit, the physicality, the pressures, like it's
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Speaker 1: not like they got nothing out of them. They didn't
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Speaker 1: just get they just upgrade it. It's like taking your
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Speaker 1: car in on a lease and getting another car that's nicer,
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Speaker 1: even if the payments are more expensive. It's like I'm
13:43
Speaker 1: getting a much better car. That's essentially what they did. Now.
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Speaker 1: This is a player that they have a really good
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in Chris Shula, but this is a guy
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Speaker 1: that's hard to screw up. You put him over the
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Speaker 1: tackle and you say go get them, and you say dominate.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing he does is he makes it
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Speaker 1: even easier than verse would have for the other guys
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Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage, because you have to spend
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Speaker 1: so much time on Miles Garrett, Chippingham, double teaming him,
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Speaker 1: triple teaming him. I mean, even Todd Munkin said, which
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Speaker 1: was pretty clear when he got the job, and he's
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Speaker 1: been asked about how he never met him, which was
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Speaker 1: always kind of funny. But maybe they knew they were
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Speaker 1: going to trade him over the last couple of months
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Speaker 1: once they redid the contract, and the Rams took advantage
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Speaker 1: of it because I think a lot of teams would
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Speaker 1: have been willing to give two first rounds for Miles Garrett.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think that's what they wanted. That they
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Speaker 1: wanted something that they could also put on their team,
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Speaker 1: something that was tangible, because the draft pick isn't tangible.
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Speaker 1: One is a guessing game. You don't know where it's
14:49
Speaker 1: going to land. And when you trade with good teams
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Speaker 1: like the Rams, I think it's fair to say that
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Speaker 1: the twenty seven first rounder. I would say the earliest
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Speaker 1: would be like twenty four. That would feel like a
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Speaker 1: very disappointing year for the Rams and anywhere up until
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Speaker 1: the you know, early thirties, right they if they're in
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Speaker 1: the Zuper Bowl, if they win the Zuper Bowl, like
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Speaker 1: this is, it's gonna be a pick that you know
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Speaker 1: is not going to be that valuable. You're almost huge
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Speaker 1: it using it as ammunition to move up ideally for
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Speaker 1: a quarterback. And now with that extra second, the extra
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Speaker 1: third they have, you know their pick is going to
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Speaker 1: be I would imagine relatively high. They can be heavily
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Speaker 1: involved in the quarterback conversation in the twenty seven draft wall.
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Speaker 1: And this is where I think Andrew Barry deserves a
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Speaker 1: lot of credit because I've been very critical of him.
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Speaker 1: Like the end of the day, your job as a GM,
15:46
Speaker 1: what you were judged on are wins and losses. And
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Speaker 1: his team has sucked for a couple of years, and
15:52
Speaker 1: he just hired Todd Munkin, who I think it's I
15:55
Speaker 1: don't think it's a reach to say no one else
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Speaker 1: was hiring him as their as their head coach. And
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Speaker 1: if I wanted to defend Barry and the Browns. I say,
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Speaker 1: I don't think many people were taking that job, so
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Speaker 1: they did the best they could for the time being.
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Speaker 1: And maybe this guy is there, David Kelly. Now he's better.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's proven to be a really good offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator and who knows, maybe he's better than even I'm
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Speaker 1: giving him credit for. But it just puts them in
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Speaker 1: a position. He has made brilliant moves over the last
16:24
Speaker 1: couple of years. I mean, I've said this before. They
16:27
Speaker 1: fleeced They fleeced the Jacksonville Jaguars last year. The Jags.
16:34
Speaker 1: If they said, hey, we'll give you Travis Hunter back
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Speaker 1: for what we gave you Mason Graham, Quinchhn Jenkins, that
16:40
Speaker 1: the Browns would laugh at him. They got not only
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Speaker 1: an all defensive rookie player, but what should be one
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Speaker 1: of the better defensive tackles for the next five six
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Speaker 1: years in the NFL. And then you put him with
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Speaker 1: another twenty five year old who's already proven to be
16:55
Speaker 1: one of the best pass rushers by all accounts. They
16:58
Speaker 1: had a really good draft this year, so last year
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Speaker 1: they got a stud defensive tackle. They're starting running back.
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Speaker 1: That linebacker from UCLA who's a stud. Then this year
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Speaker 1: they have multiple first round picks. You know, you get
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Speaker 1: your tackle in the first round, you get a receiver
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Speaker 1: who's probably gonna be one of the faster players in
17:19
Speaker 1: the NFL. Conception own Denzel Boston, which you know, I
17:23
Speaker 1: think depending on who you talk to in the NFL
17:26
Speaker 1: mixed reviews. But they got him in the second round.
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Speaker 1: It's not like they use the twenty fourth pick on
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Speaker 1: the guy. And I just think he's done a really
17:35
Speaker 1: good job of building a roster without a quarterback. Now,
17:40
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you're never able
17:43
Speaker 1: to find the quarterback, none of that matters. And right now,
17:46
Speaker 1: it's you know, Shador's making seventeen eighteen million dollars in
17:50
Speaker 1: royalties that they feel obligated to pay to Shann Watson
17:53
Speaker 1: because he's making forty eight fifty million dollars a year,
17:57
Speaker 1: which I don't blame him. Welcome to life, you know.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, I'm paying this guy, Let's see what
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Speaker 1: he can do, and maybe Monken system is more equipped
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Speaker 1: to make him look better than Stefanski's was. And there's
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Speaker 1: some truth to that, you know, even the good version
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Speaker 1: de Shan Watson, you would never say he would be
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Speaker 1: a Shanahan type quarterback. He would be much more in
18:18
Speaker 1: the vein of other schemes throughout the NFL, and Monkin
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Speaker 1: has proven to be a little more versatile when it
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Speaker 1: comes to quarterback play with his offense. So, Andrew Barry
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Speaker 1: did a really good job here, and that is the
18:31
Speaker 1: most powerful thing you can ever do in a negotiation,
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Speaker 1: to say no, no, no. And I think it's pretty
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Speaker 1: clear that Cleveland kept saying that over and over, like
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Speaker 1: we're not doing this deal unless we get Jared Verse,
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Speaker 1: and the Rams came to a point where you got
18:46
Speaker 1: to draw a line in the sand. Are we doing
18:48
Speaker 1: this or not. I never understand. I see this with
18:51
Speaker 1: my wife, you know, when she was doing real estate deals.
18:56
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of you deal with this with different clients,
19:00
Speaker 1: some people that just like want to dance around. I
19:03
Speaker 1: hate that I don't take that long to make a
19:06
Speaker 1: decision when it comes to doing a deal. Well, regardless
19:09
Speaker 1: what it is, like saw a house, I like, boom,
19:12
Speaker 1: the deal was done within a month. I want to
19:15
Speaker 1: get a car. I bought my first car. Actually it's
19:18
Speaker 1: really for her. It was like saw it online, boom,
19:21
Speaker 1: we went there, purchased on a Saturday. It's like, I
19:25
Speaker 1: don't spend that much time just going back and forth,
19:28
Speaker 1: and we all know people that do and listen, I'm
19:31
Speaker 1: sure some of you do that. To me, that's just
19:34
Speaker 1: it's such a waste of my time and my energy.
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Speaker 1: Like when I'm ready to pull the trigger, I pull
19:38
Speaker 1: the trigger and then you live with the decision however
19:41
Speaker 1: it goes. And I think the Rams have always proven
19:45
Speaker 1: to be willing to like, yeah, we'll do this. Is
19:48
Speaker 1: it risky? Of course it is. Are we giving up
19:51
Speaker 1: a lot? Yes we are. I've seen some people say
19:54
Speaker 1: that they're not giving up a lot or what they're
19:58
Speaker 1: giving up a sure thing. Jared Verse that if the
20:01
Speaker 1: Jared Verse think about this, If Jared Verse was in
20:07
Speaker 1: this draft at twenty five years old, and we've already
20:11
Speaker 1: seen him in the NFL, like you know exactly what
20:14
Speaker 1: you're getting, but he's going in the draft, he would
20:16
Speaker 1: have gone second. The Jets pray that David Bailey turns
20:24
Speaker 1: into Jared Verse. If Rvel Reese is able to get
20:29
Speaker 1: the pressure and be the impact guy in the line
20:32
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, that Jared versus the Giants hit a home
20:35
Speaker 1: freaking run it's the whole point of a draft is
20:41
Speaker 1: to land guys like that. And I just think Miles Garrett.
20:46
Speaker 1: I thought they should have traded him last year, but
20:49
Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslam didn't want to do that. He was their
20:52
Speaker 1: marquee guy. He was the player on a franchise that's
20:56
Speaker 1: kind of embarrassing, the one person that you could hang
20:59
Speaker 1: your hat on, and they paid him a ton of money.
21:02
Speaker 1: They gave him so much money his trade demand just
21:05
Speaker 1: diminished in the thin air. It just blew away in
21:07
Speaker 1: the wind. It was like, I want to be traded.
21:11
Speaker 1: I'll sign the contract. Then he had twenty five sacks
21:15
Speaker 1: because it was that much money. But it's like, what's
21:17
Speaker 1: the point that we're winning five games, you're this good?
21:20
Speaker 1: It really is pointless when we need to just remake
21:23
Speaker 1: this thing and we are remaking it on the fly,
21:26
Speaker 1: and he's our one valuable asset. And it shows you
21:29
Speaker 1: how good he still was last year, that his value
21:34
Speaker 1: was still this And I truly believe, like totally understand
21:39
Speaker 1: what the Rams are doing. I do think there's a
21:42
Speaker 1: little risk there of just this is locker rooms can
21:48
Speaker 1: be fickle. Now you're that good, I understand it, but
21:52
Speaker 1: I you know, replacing only the players truly know. And
21:57
Speaker 1: I think this is why the Rams were hesitant, like
21:58
Speaker 1: we're not giving up nothing in internally, in terms of
22:01
Speaker 1: personality and in terms of locker room dynamics. This is
22:06
Speaker 1: not you know, European soccer, where you just buy the
22:10
Speaker 1: best players and more than likely are going to be good.
22:13
Speaker 1: But I totally understand where they're coming from. Would have
22:16
Speaker 1: made the deal as well. And I think for the
22:19
Speaker 1: Browns they should be applauded because they needed to trade
22:23
Speaker 1: this player and what they traded him for was ahule
22:28
Speaker 1: and was an excellent, excellent get, which puts them in
22:32
Speaker 1: position now that they should be drafting in the top ten.
22:37
Speaker 1: They have so much ammunition they can move up several
22:39
Speaker 1: spots and get a quarterback if they need to. Best
22:42
Speaker 1: case scenario, all these guys look really good, they lose
22:45
Speaker 1: a bunch of games, and they're drafting in the top
22:47
Speaker 1: five and they don't even need to move up. They
22:50
Speaker 1: can just stick and pick and find a quarterback. The
22:53
Speaker 1: scary part is is there's no guarantee you can ever
22:55
Speaker 1: find a quarterback. Because I haven't been some direc Brown
23:00
Speaker 1: fan but followed the NFL and from the farm. Since
23:03
Speaker 1: they came back to Cleveland, they have not found a
23:05
Speaker 1: quarterback and it's been a major problem. That famous visual
23:09
Speaker 1: of all the different quarterbacks that Joe Thomas played with,
23:14
Speaker 1: I know he's listed them, and there's been countless since.
23:18
Speaker 1: So it's a very difficult job. But they have put
23:22
Speaker 1: themselves in a position for a quarterback less team to
23:26
Speaker 1: become a real team. The Jets have done that as well,
23:30
Speaker 1: and I think the worst place you can be in
23:32
Speaker 1: the NFL is have no quarterback and then just also
23:36
Speaker 1: have a shitty team. It's like, what is the point
23:38
Speaker 1: of any of this? They do have the infrastructure, like
23:42
Speaker 1: they did when they made the Deshaun Watson trade. They
23:44
Speaker 1: had an infrastructure of a really good team. They just
23:47
Speaker 1: traded for a guy and it flopped, but they had
23:49
Speaker 1: built up a good team. And now there's that second
23:51
Speaker 1: iteration of they've done it again. And Andrew Berry, his
23:55
Speaker 1: teams don't win a lot of games, but I'll give
23:59
Speaker 1: him his flowers. He makes good trades, and I think
24:03
Speaker 1: one of his powerful attributes as a general manager as
24:08
Speaker 1: a leader is he's pretty patient, and I think it
24:12
Speaker 1: speaks to this trade coming to fruition on June first,
24:17
Speaker 1: because they probably could have got him a month ago
24:21
Speaker 1: without Jared Verse and got multiple ones from the Rams.
24:24
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, great, get picked thirty and pick twenty
24:27
Speaker 1: eight for Miles Garrett. This is like, no matter what,
24:31
Speaker 1: we have something to show for with Jared Verse, and
24:34
Speaker 1: then we can use all these other picks as ammunition
24:37
Speaker 1: to get what we need to get. So the Rams,
24:41
Speaker 1: they're just always willing to play ball. Man, They're always
24:44
Speaker 1: sniffing around. They're always willing to take big swings. And
24:48
Speaker 1: I know stan Kronk gets shipped on for being cheap
24:52
Speaker 1: in the NBA. I had to google it. I was like,
24:55
Speaker 1: what is the who do you when you pay luxury
24:58
Speaker 1: tax in the NBA? Because all I've never heard like
25:00
Speaker 1: the wind horses and the people saying, like stan Kronck
25:03
Speaker 1: it never spends any money in the NBA. It's like, well, yeah,
25:05
Speaker 1: he's let some role players go like if you pay
25:07
Speaker 1: the luxury tax, where does it go in the NBA? Well,
25:11
Speaker 1: half of it guts like equitably distributed to the other
25:15
Speaker 1: teams and then the other half like gets split up
25:17
Speaker 1: through the league. Like I would not want to pay
25:21
Speaker 1: luxury tax in the NBA. If it's for role players, like,
25:24
Speaker 1: give me a break. What a scam? Like, I think
25:28
Speaker 1: one thing Stan has proven, this is my cash co
25:32
Speaker 1: and when I need to green light something in the NFL,
25:35
Speaker 1: I know it pays me back. In the NBA, he's
25:37
Speaker 1: won a championship before, He's had one of the best
25:40
Speaker 1: teams in the NBA for years now, and I think
25:43
Speaker 1: he now was like, I'm not really worth it, and
25:45
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to shoot on the NBA here in
25:46
Speaker 1: terms of like the power of what are their franchises,
25:49
Speaker 1: but he owns both, so he sees the revenue of one,
25:52
Speaker 1: he sees the revenue of the other. And I think
25:54
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear, like I'm not paying a luxury tax
25:56
Speaker 1: to give these shitty organizations free money. So like have
26:00
Speaker 1: like some good seventh man. Well you're not deep enough
26:03
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Fine, we need to change these rules
26:05
Speaker 1: because this thing's a scam. Talk about a fugazi. I
26:11
Speaker 1: couldn't believe really diving into where the luxury tax goes.
26:15
Speaker 1: What a fugazi. That is why, because you don't want
26:17
Speaker 1: your best teams and your most aggressive owners to spend
26:20
Speaker 1: more money. Give me a break. So props to Kronkey
26:25
Speaker 1: for green light in this and unless for taking big swings.
26:28
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Speaker 1: we had another trade as well. If the Browns, I
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Speaker 1: a seller's market, right. It was like this in real
28:56
Speaker 1: estate in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one and early on
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Speaker 1: price kept coming down fifty another one hundred thousand, and
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Speaker 1: stuff that never would have been possible a couple of
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29:40
Speaker 1: a condo in a seller's market. It sucks because you
29:43
Speaker 1: get bent over and you just have to take it,
29:46
Speaker 1: and then you take it and take it, and then
29:47
Speaker 1: they give it to you a little more and there's
29:48
Speaker 1: nothing you can really do. And when you're on the
29:51
Speaker 1: other side, it kind of feels good. And it's the
29:55
Speaker 1: Browns had the leverage. They got to tell the Rams
29:58
Speaker 1: how high they wanted them to jump in the the
30:00
Speaker 1: Rams just kept jumping higher. Where in this Eagles Patriots situation,
30:05
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. They're going to get a first
30:10
Speaker 1: round pick, which is not nothing when my son will
30:14
Speaker 1: be two and a half years old. He's currently not
30:17
Speaker 1: even five months. So this first round pick for the Eagles,
30:21
Speaker 1: which is always good to have future first round picks
30:24
Speaker 1: in the back of your pocket, is not for several
30:28
Speaker 1: football seasons. Think how long one individual football season is.
30:33
Speaker 1: Imagine being a fan thinking like, you gotta wait two
30:36
Speaker 1: football seasons for this player now. Because the situation was
30:41
Speaker 1: so unique, there has never been a player who when
30:45
Speaker 1: the season ended was one traded, yet didn't get traded
30:50
Speaker 1: till June one. Everything the Eagles did, starting you know,
30:54
Speaker 1: free agency, the draft was revolving around AJ Brown not
30:59
Speaker 1: being on the team. They had multiple wide receivers in
31:02
Speaker 1: free agency, obviously trade for Wicks, they signed Hollywood Brown,
31:06
Speaker 1: and then they draft in the first round Makai Lemon.
31:09
Speaker 1: So it is not easy to replace what AJ Brown
31:12
Speaker 1: brought to the table over the last four years. You're like, oh,
31:15
Speaker 1: he had a down year. He had seven touchdowns last year.
31:17
Speaker 1: He had seven touchdowns a year before. He had seven
31:19
Speaker 1: touchdowns a year before, and he had eleven touchdowns a
31:22
Speaker 1: year before. They've made two playoff runs where they went
31:25
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl and lost and went to a
31:26
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and won. He had twenty five catches in
31:30
Speaker 1: both those playoff runs and three touchdowns. He's accounted for
31:35
Speaker 1: in his four years on the Eagles for over five
31:37
Speaker 1: thousand yards of receptions. He has been an extremely productive player.
31:44
Speaker 1: Now he's missed some games. There are some clearly some
31:46
Speaker 1: major question marks with his health. But I don't have
31:50
Speaker 1: all the details because everything I was told, people liked
31:52
Speaker 1: AJ Brown in the building, but the thing was fractured
31:57
Speaker 1: with the quarterback, with the offense, maybe with the head coach.
31:59
Speaker 1: Don't up. But they had to trade him and his
32:03
Speaker 1: market wasn't great. Because if his market was good for
32:07
Speaker 1: a guy that's been in three time All Pro who
32:10
Speaker 1: when he's right, is one of the best players in
32:12
Speaker 1: the league, they wouldn't have had to settle for a
32:15
Speaker 1: first round pick after two more football seasons. So the Patriots,
32:21
Speaker 1: who historically never did stuff like this under Belichick, Belichick
32:26
Speaker 1: hung his hat on buying distressed assets, on getting guys
32:31
Speaker 1: like Randy Moss for a fourth round pick, on getting
32:35
Speaker 1: Wes Welker as a restricted free agent because Miami undervalued him,
32:39
Speaker 1: on being able to get a key to leave, or
32:42
Speaker 1: Darrell Reevis because their value was a little bit lower.
32:46
Speaker 1: Even going back to Corey Dillon in when I was
32:49
Speaker 1: like in high school. He didn't pay premiums for guys
32:54
Speaker 1: that are making a premiums and there are question marks
32:57
Speaker 1: on his health. So all this time talk about Vrabel
33:01
Speaker 1: and Rasini and would like Robert Kraft turn on him
33:05
Speaker 1: and would he lose some juice? This shows you everything
33:09
Speaker 1: you need to know. Mike Rabel is in full control
33:13
Speaker 1: because this deal is one hundred percent. Mike Rabel loves
33:16
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, Mike Rabel wants AJ Brown, and it's got
33:20
Speaker 1: a little bit of an NBA type feel honestly, both
33:23
Speaker 1: these trades do. If the Milwaukee Bucks could get the
33:27
Speaker 1: equivalent of what the Cleveland Browns just got for Miles Garrett,
33:31
Speaker 1: for Jiannis, I think they would be universally applauded. Whoever
33:35
Speaker 1: the equivalent of Jared versus a young player in the NBA,
33:39
Speaker 1: and then all those picks, it would be like what
33:41
Speaker 1: a haul. Doubt they do. And I think the same
33:46
Speaker 1: thing for aj Brown, a guy that, like a lot
33:49
Speaker 1: of teams are not comfortable with his knee. I think
33:52
Speaker 1: that's been well reported and just based on what they
33:56
Speaker 1: just received. Like you're telling me, would Howie done a
34:00
Speaker 1: second round pick in twenty twenty seven over a first
34:06
Speaker 1: round pick in twenty twenty eight? What did the Patriots
34:09
Speaker 1: have a bad year and that pick is like forty four?
34:12
Speaker 1: Are you better off waiting for forty four or waiting
34:15
Speaker 1: another year for a first round pick? Because again, money now,
34:20
Speaker 1: it's just time value money. It's no different with draft picks.
34:24
Speaker 1: So a draft pick in several years is especially with
34:29
Speaker 1: the unknown of the pick is discounted, so it's not
34:34
Speaker 1: the same as getting like when the Cincinnati Bengals traded
34:39
Speaker 1: pick ten for Dexter Lawrence that was tangible the moment
34:42
Speaker 1: that trade was the transaction happened because you knew exactly
34:47
Speaker 1: where the pick was. How he has no clue and
34:50
Speaker 1: he has to wait several years. So I think this deal,
34:55
Speaker 1: it's just bizarre. Maybe after this trade we will get
35:00
Speaker 1: get more information exactly what happened. Obviously, I'm not defending
35:05
Speaker 1: aj Brown. He's had some weird stuff happen. I mean,
35:08
Speaker 1: reading the book on the sideline, and no player wants
35:11
Speaker 1: to be injured. But he, you know, wasn't quite the
35:15
Speaker 1: same this year. I think the Patriots are you could say,
35:19
Speaker 1: taking a leap of faith, and it's somewhat risky. But
35:22
Speaker 1: even for them, like this pick is not till twenty
35:25
Speaker 1: twenty eight. We're in June of twenty twenty six. The
35:31
Speaker 1: we just had ten coaches get fired last year. Who
35:35
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel's life was turned upside down a month ago.
35:40
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen in two years. You would
35:42
Speaker 1: glad A lot of teams in a player they're comfortable with,
35:47
Speaker 1: would trade a first round pick in several years. So
35:53
Speaker 1: the Eagles I took the best they could get, and
35:58
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots were the team that for what.
36:03
Speaker 1: I just think it gets back to the connection a
36:06
Speaker 1: vraible of AJ Brown. Now, if AJ Brown's right, big
36:09
Speaker 1: upgrade for New England, whose wide receiver room and offensive
36:13
Speaker 1: unit is obviously you got an explosive young running back
36:16
Speaker 1: from Ohio State. You got Kyle Williams, who I'm buying
36:20
Speaker 1: some stock in from Washington State rookie last year. You
36:24
Speaker 1: put AJ Brown. Their defense is good, their schedule is
36:28
Speaker 1: much more difficult. If he helps them win ten plus
36:32
Speaker 1: games and they're back in the playoffs, you've gone to
36:34
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, you've gone to the playoffs, and you've
36:36
Speaker 1: just reinvigorated the franchise. But when you trade a first
36:40
Speaker 1: round pick, like you're gonna want multiple years of this
36:43
Speaker 1: guy producing at a high level. And sometimes you get
36:46
Speaker 1: a guy like Miles Garrett thirty years old, it doesn't
36:49
Speaker 1: feel old, feels young. And then you get a guy
36:52
Speaker 1: like AJ Brown feels like he's thirty four. I saw
36:55
Speaker 1: to day he's like twenty eight, twenty nine years old.
36:56
Speaker 1: I'm like, Ady Brown's like thirty six. There's a lot
37:00
Speaker 1: of wear and tear. There's a lot of tread on
37:01
Speaker 1: those tires. Same thing with Max Crosby. It does feel
37:05
Speaker 1: like he's an older version of a guy that's twenty
37:09
Speaker 1: nine to thirty years old. So it's all based on
37:12
Speaker 1: we watch you, you go God, you feel young, you know,
37:15
Speaker 1: and sometimes the player, this guy feels old. It could
37:19
Speaker 1: be just he's a polarizing player. He's had a lot
37:23
Speaker 1: of big moments. He's had a lot of moments that
37:26
Speaker 1: got headlines about doing you know, wide receiver diva ish things.
37:31
Speaker 1: But again, by all accounts that I've been told, is
37:33
Speaker 1: people really like. He's not a dislike player in the
37:35
Speaker 1: locker room by any means, and he's not someone that
37:39
Speaker 1: internally the players did not like. But this is the
37:42
Speaker 1: deal that we've been talking about forever. It finally comes true.
37:45
Speaker 1: And unlike the Browns who get immediate help and get
37:50
Speaker 1: picked this year, the Eagles the fifth round pick this year,
37:54
Speaker 1: I don't even count. I mean, he might as well
37:55
Speaker 1: just send a box of balls. But that first round
37:58
Speaker 1: pick in twenty twenty eight, like you're waiting cup years
38:00
Speaker 1: for that, which they don't care because I think for
38:04
Speaker 1: them they'd already replaced him. This is not one of
38:07
Speaker 1: those things that came out of came out of left field.
38:10
Speaker 1: They knew this guy was as good as going. So
38:14
Speaker 1: what a day and what a crazy day in the NFL.
38:18
Speaker 1: While one trade we saw coming from a mile away
38:21
Speaker 1: for six months, the other trade came out of nowhere
38:25
Speaker 1: and it was shocking. It was jaw dropping. We all,
38:28
Speaker 1: i'm sure, shared the chefter tweet, the compensation tweet and
38:33
Speaker 1: just went wow, what what a moment. And the NFL
38:40
Speaker 1: has really really benefited from all these aggressive gms and
38:45
Speaker 1: these franchises now with the amount of money that's come
38:49
Speaker 1: in the league, the willingness to do deals. For a
38:54
Speaker 1: long time, it was a couple of teams here and there,
38:56
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I feel like the major
39:00
Speaker 1: manority of the NFL is always sniffing around and willing
39:03
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger on big time stuff at any moment,
39:06
Speaker 1: which makes this sport and this product that much more entertaining.
39:11
Speaker 1: And there's clearly a halves and the have nots, and
39:15
Speaker 1: you know, the rams would be near the top. I
39:18
Speaker 1: think Seattle's gonna have something to say about it. I
39:20
Speaker 1: think the forty nine ers aren't gonna go quietly. But man,
39:24
Speaker 1: that that game in Australia Land down Under got a
39:28
Speaker 1: lot more interesting today, that's for damn sure. Uh, yeah,
39:33
Speaker 1: the Giants. I saw people like Milik Neighbors at a
39:36
Speaker 1: softball game kind of run around sign a bunch of
39:40
Speaker 1: wide receivers. My take is they clearly are not comfortable
39:45
Speaker 1: with which is sad because Molik Neighbors from a talent standpoint,
39:49
Speaker 1: is through the roof like he has the physical capability
39:54
Speaker 1: before the knee injury to be one of the most explosive,
39:58
Speaker 1: impactful players on offense in the NFL, non quarterback, And
40:03
Speaker 1: clearly they're a little spooked that there's no guarantee that
40:06
Speaker 1: this is gonna work yet a second surgery. They signed
40:09
Speaker 1: all these wide receivers, They basically just signed multiple guys
40:13
Speaker 1: to maybe like let them all battle it out and see.
40:16
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think any of these guys signed
40:18
Speaker 1: the day Beckham Juju are guaranteed to make the team,
40:22
Speaker 1: but you just kind of let them compete and if
40:24
Speaker 1: Malie can't go, we got some reinforcements under contract. We
40:27
Speaker 1: get some guys that can learn the offense. You know,
40:30
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie's been around Juju for years, so he knows
40:34
Speaker 1: the offense. Hardball has been around Beckham in Baltimore. So
40:39
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Giants fan, it's cool day
40:43
Speaker 1: to bring Beckham home and kind of go down memory lane,
40:47
Speaker 1: but also a little bit like a little nerve racking.
40:50
Speaker 1: Are we sure are star young wide receiver who he
40:54
Speaker 1: drafted what six overall is going to be okay? Because
41:00
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41:03
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41:09
Speaker 1: I do got to do a daddy diary. I Uh.
41:14
Speaker 1: The way the schedule has been breaking for the last
41:16
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41:20
Speaker 1: a nightmare. So she her sleep midnight, two in the morning,
41:26
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41:30
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41:36
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41:38
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41:45
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41:47
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41:49
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41:52
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41:54
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41:58
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42:01
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42:05
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42:08
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42:12
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42:16
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42:18
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42:21
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42:24
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42:27
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42:31
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42:33
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42:38
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42:42
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42:49
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43:05
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43:08
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43:12
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43:16
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43:18
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43:25
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43:32
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43:38
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43:40
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43:43
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43:46
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43:49
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43:52
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43:57
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44:03
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46:20
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46:23
Speaker 1: they were having these discussions before the draft, so they
46:27
Speaker 1: were heavily interested in Miles Garrett and they were going
46:29
Speaker 1: to keep revisiting that until they had a very good
46:32
Speaker 1: chance to land him. I do think the Ty Simpson
46:35
Speaker 1: thing was somewhat separate because there was no guarantee that
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46:43
Speaker 1: viewed the Ty Simpson thing as especially their general manager,
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46:50
Speaker 1: fifteen who they viewed as a franchise quarterback on a
46:54
Speaker 1: rookie deal on their team right now while they have
46:56
Speaker 1: Stafford to kind of him to watch and take advantage of,
47:01
Speaker 1: like kind of like a two timeline thing. I personally
47:04
Speaker 1: don't think Ty Simpson, based on what he did, is
47:07
Speaker 1: good enough. But who am I to tell? Less sneed
47:10
Speaker 1: and Sean McVay won't watch to see. But I think
47:15
Speaker 1: it's less about ty Simpson because I think they would
47:18
Speaker 1: have done Ty Simpson. I believe this could be wrong.
47:20
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. No, Miles Garrett, do you think the trade
47:24
Speaker 1: pushes the Niners to do something like adding Bosa or
47:28
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan? The NFC West is starting to feel like
47:31
Speaker 1: an arms race. I saw Nick talk about Joey Landed
47:40
Speaker 1: Joey boss is exactly Miles Garrett. H. I don't know, man,
47:45
Speaker 1: I don't really know what they can do. You know,
47:48
Speaker 1: I think they're very hesitant. The Rams have had a
47:53
Speaker 1: lot of success trading picks four players, the Niners have not.
47:59
Speaker 1: They have done it moremultiple times. They traded to Forrest
48:02
Speaker 1: Buckner for the thirteenth overall pick. They did a trade
48:06
Speaker 1: with Tampa from thirteen to fourteen. Tampa took I want
48:12
Speaker 1: to say, Darrisaw, it's not it's I'm blanking their starting
48:17
Speaker 1: left tackle. Who's a stud. I got baby brain right
48:20
Speaker 1: now and it's June my bad. And they took Javon Kinlaw.
48:24
Speaker 1: That was a nightmare. Then then the following year they
48:30
Speaker 1: traded for Trey Lance. So I think it's like anything
48:35
Speaker 1: in life, when you've done something a couple times and
48:38
Speaker 1: you've been burned, you're less likely to do aggressive things again.
48:43
Speaker 1: Now they once traded for Christian McCaffrey. There's a big
48:45
Speaker 1: difference trading the second and third and the fourth for
48:47
Speaker 1: a player and first round picks. And the Rams are
48:51
Speaker 1: very comfortable trading first round picks. Hell, they've they've done
48:54
Speaker 1: it twice this year. The forty nine ers, I just
48:58
Speaker 1: think are kind of out. I think John Schneider and
49:01
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are a pretty good example. They've done it
49:04
Speaker 1: a couple of times and probably regretted it. Obviously. The
49:07
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams thing blew up in their face. Jimmy Graham,
49:13
Speaker 1: Percy Harvin like this, when you do it and you
49:16
Speaker 1: get Jalen Ramsey. Fuck, yeah, this is awesome. When you
49:21
Speaker 1: do it and you get Trey Lance or Javon Kim laugh,
49:24
Speaker 1: You're like, this sucks. So I don't know. Yeah, I mean,
49:28
Speaker 1: I Joey Bosa, Cam Jordan. I mean, I don't know.
49:37
Speaker 1: I am not expecting them to do something in reaction
49:41
Speaker 1: to this. That being said, I mean, I'm not opposed
49:45
Speaker 1: to it, but I don't think that's really how they're thinking.
49:50
Speaker 1: You just bought an NFL team. You get to select
49:52
Speaker 1: the GM head coach, both coordinators, and the quarterback. This
49:56
Speaker 1: is from your lifetime watching football. Who are you picking? Well,
50:00
Speaker 1: I think it's a no brainer. I mean based on
50:03
Speaker 1: my lifetime, and I don't count Bill Walsh in the eighties,
50:07
Speaker 1: but of my from the mid nineties to now, I
50:12
Speaker 1: think you would have to pick. It's just a it's
50:16
Speaker 1: an automatic. You pick Brady, you pick Belichick, you pick
50:20
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, and you pick Brian Flores. I guess is
50:24
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Essentially, Bill, how do you beat that?
50:28
Speaker 1: We watched it happen for twenty years now many he
50:31
Speaker 1: will beat it. They won six Super Bowls, They went
50:34
Speaker 1: to three others. They were in the AFC Championship game.
50:36
Speaker 1: Basically every year they won the division NonStop. I think
50:40
Speaker 1: you would have to pick that, and number two you'd
50:43
Speaker 1: probably have to go. You'd probably have to go Andy
50:47
Speaker 1: Spags and Mahomes mailbag Browns fan gutted by the trade.
50:53
Speaker 1: I understand you're a bad team and an all time great.
50:56
Speaker 1: You can't keep him forever, but this trade is horrible.
51:00
Speaker 1: Versus is at best a good player half of Miles Garrett,
51:06
Speaker 1: and to get only one first round pick. It's the Rams,
51:10
Speaker 1: so that's going to be at best like the twenty six,
51:12
Speaker 1: probably more like the thirtieth or later, and then second
51:16
Speaker 1: and thirds don't matter to me. Makes no sense to
51:18
Speaker 1: me why we couldn't get the green Bay deal they
51:21
Speaker 1: traded for Micah two first round players. Real get it?
51:25
Speaker 1: Thinking about being a Bengals fan, how can you make
51:27
Speaker 1: sense of this mess? I disagree with you on Jared verse.
51:34
Speaker 1: If Miles one hundred out of one hundred, Jared is
51:37
Speaker 1: not a fifty out of one hundred, he's probably like
51:39
Speaker 1: seventy five eighty, And I think you hope he can
51:42
Speaker 1: just get a little bit better. Here's a buddy of mine,
51:45
Speaker 1: that's a pro scout. I asked him what he thought
51:48
Speaker 1: about this deal, and he said on Verse, he said,
51:53
Speaker 1: versus legit, Dude, you consistently feel him in both phases,
51:57
Speaker 1: meaning the run. In the past, he's a pressure machine,
52:02
Speaker 1: and then he finally started converting them into sacks toward
52:05
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Plus he's going into his prime.
52:11
Speaker 1: So I think you're under selling Verse. I think if
52:17
Speaker 1: Verse had been in this draft, who knows would the
52:21
Speaker 1: Bengals would they have taken Verse over Dexter Lawrence. I
52:24
Speaker 1: know Dexter Lawrence has been a more dominant player, but
52:27
Speaker 1: he's older, he'd been banged up. I mean, you're talking
52:31
Speaker 1: about versus. I get he's twenty five, but he has
52:34
Speaker 1: been a badass. I think it's a good deal, and
52:39
Speaker 1: I think it's a deal that you guys had to make,
52:42
Speaker 1: and I think it's a deal that was just too
52:43
Speaker 1: good to pass up. It's very clear that the Rams
52:48
Speaker 1: are Super Bowl or bust this year. I'd give him
52:50
Speaker 1: a two year run. You know, Miles Garretts under contract
52:54
Speaker 1: for several years, so is Stafford. So I think it's
52:58
Speaker 1: more these next two years. Obviously, the pressure in twenty
53:02
Speaker 1: six is enormous, But I think this is kind of
53:05
Speaker 1: like a two year bubble. But that just makes the
53:09
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson ty Simpson pick even more weird. Why not
53:13
Speaker 1: draft an impact player this year if you're clearly all
53:16
Speaker 1: in versus Simpson, who may never even be a good quarterback,
53:20
Speaker 1: I'll never get it. I don't now if Stafford gets
53:24
Speaker 1: hurt and he comes in and he's good, and he's
53:26
Speaker 1: like Rock Purty, they'll look like geniuses. They will look
53:31
Speaker 1: like geniuses. But couldn't you argue that you could find
53:36
Speaker 1: like this is a bad quarterback draft, like you would
53:41
Speaker 1: not trust Carson Beck or you know, Drew Aller, you
53:46
Speaker 1: know nuss Meyer. It just wasn't a good draft because
53:48
Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, couldn't you draft a guy in
53:50
Speaker 1: like the second or third round? But that that didn't
53:52
Speaker 1: really exist in this draft. There wasn't like a Jimmy
53:56
Speaker 1: Garoppolo type, you know, coming out. There was going to
54:00
Speaker 1: be like somewhere between pick fifty and seventy five that
54:04
Speaker 1: would have made more sense than I personally, I think
54:08
Speaker 1: I would have taken Ty Simpson. There was someone really
54:12
Speaker 1: taking Ty Simpson in the first round. Beside, let's need
54:16
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh. One of the best one of
54:22
Speaker 1: the best parts of your podcast is you give life
54:24
Speaker 1: and business advice. I think it really it's a lot
54:27
Speaker 1: of just giving me a handy Here. My mailbag question
54:30
Speaker 1: relates to interacting with very influential people. My sister and
54:35
Speaker 1: her business partner are doing some stuff with a branch
54:38
Speaker 1: of a massive company, and because of that, I've gotten
54:42
Speaker 1: to be at a few events that are mostly social
54:45
Speaker 1: with people from that company. Among them is someone I
54:49
Speaker 1: know people would literally kill for a chance to connect with.
54:54
Speaker 1: I've been introduced briefly, and there's gonna be a couple
54:57
Speaker 1: more of these events in the next couple months. There's
55:00
Speaker 1: so many questions I would love to ask him, but
55:02
Speaker 1: I'm more worried about doing anything that would cause my
55:06
Speaker 1: sister problems. Is there a good way to do that,
55:10
Speaker 1: or am I better off just leaving it alone? Uh?
55:17
Speaker 1: I think it's a fine balance. If it's your sister's deal.
55:22
Speaker 1: Let's just assume this guy is some famous businessmen that
55:25
Speaker 1: we would all know. If you're wearing them out with
55:28
Speaker 1: questions and he's turned off, you kind of have to
55:31
Speaker 1: feel the room. I've said this before, and I do
55:34
Speaker 1: believe this. If the guy's famous enough, and you can
55:37
Speaker 1: do the recon if you can figure out about his
55:41
Speaker 1: children and ask him a question like, how's your son
55:46
Speaker 1: doing at Harvard? You know, how's your daughter doing at
55:49
Speaker 1: the University of Texas or whatever. There is not a
55:55
Speaker 1: human alive, whether it's Michael Jordan or Jeff or whoever,
56:01
Speaker 1: that doesn't like talking about their kids, So it is
56:04
Speaker 1: an easy icebreaker to not make things awkward if you
56:08
Speaker 1: can get that information. I think that is the easiest
56:12
Speaker 1: way to talk to someone who probably doesn't want to
56:15
Speaker 1: get peppered with stuff and make them open up to
56:19
Speaker 1: you and relax a little bit about you find me
56:22
Speaker 1: a human being who is influential, famous, whatever, ask them
56:28
Speaker 1: about their children. I promise you their guard will go
56:32
Speaker 1: down a little bit. I don't know the exact you know,
56:36
Speaker 1: situation for you and your sister if if you feel
56:41
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at all, I would just lean away from it,
56:44
Speaker 1: and if it goes well with your sister, maybe will
56:46
Speaker 1: have more time to be around them. But the social events,
56:49
Speaker 1: if there are a lot of people there, sometimes those
56:51
Speaker 1: are hard. If you're just kind of you just kind
56:53
Speaker 1: of there, kind of a tough one. If this is
57:01
Speaker 1: like a game changing thing for your sister. I would
57:06
Speaker 1: just lean being conservative with being less aggressive. But if
57:11
Speaker 1: you do get an opportunity and you can just do
57:14
Speaker 1: some research, even if they're again, I have no clue
57:19
Speaker 1: who you're even talking about. I do think that's always
57:22
Speaker 1: worked for me. I remember seeing it work on Joe
57:25
Speaker 1: Montana on the streets of San Francisco, and I've used
57:29
Speaker 1: a countless time since, and it just it just works,
57:32
Speaker 1: even if you don't know what their kids are doing.
57:35
Speaker 1: If you can just get to the children, it's the
57:38
Speaker 1: easiest way for people to just relax a little bit
57:41
Speaker 1: and talk that don't want to talk. Me and Maria
57:46
Speaker 1: were making like jokes. We went to a wedding probably
57:50
Speaker 1: like two months ago, and she, you know, she hasn't
57:54
Speaker 1: been working or whatever. She's been with Jack, I mean
57:56
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, and she's like, the crazy part
57:59
Speaker 1: is I just go to this event and it's like
58:01
Speaker 1: I'm Marie, I'm Jack smam. You know. It's like and
58:03
Speaker 1: I even I constantly just talk about him. It's just
58:07
Speaker 1: now it changes as they get a little older, but
58:09
Speaker 1: not really people like talking about their kids. People like
58:13
Speaker 1: talking about themselves. Let's be real, That's the other thing.
58:15
Speaker 1: It's like the easiest way to talk to people in general.
58:18
Speaker 1: That the kids thing is just is a genuine way.
58:22
Speaker 1: But you can always stroke people's ego. People like their
58:25
Speaker 1: ego stroked, especially successful people, but some don't. And then
58:32
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know you're an awkward I
58:35
Speaker 1: the kid won? Is my move? How did you see
58:39
Speaker 1: the NFC West shaken out Ramseyhawks? Or are the Niners
58:42
Speaker 1: set to re establish himself? Is this the year McVeigh
58:46
Speaker 1: leaves no question he's the most important coach in the league.
58:49
Speaker 1: Do the Niners have another season of aging players with
58:51
Speaker 1: injuries and no solid to save them? Do the Hawks
58:54
Speaker 1: start a dynasty? Uh? Sometimes? Yeah? Man, I it's gonna
59:04
Speaker 1: be a warzone. I mean, on paper, you would have
59:07
Speaker 1: to say the Rams are the best team in the NFL,
59:11
Speaker 1: but that's not how football's played. Puka a couple of
59:15
Speaker 1: weeks ago talked about him doing some soul searching and
59:19
Speaker 1: trying to become a better human. You know, obviously you
59:24
Speaker 1: put Miles into this locker room. McDuffie's a winning player,
59:29
Speaker 1: high character player. There have been some questions about Miles,
59:33
Speaker 1: like tardiness. You know, Miles just kind of got to
59:36
Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted in Cleveland rightfully. So he's their
59:38
Speaker 1: best player by a country mile. It's not really the
59:41
Speaker 1: Rams culture, and who knows, maybe he'll just ship fit
59:45
Speaker 1: right in and be on time every meeting. But like
59:48
Speaker 1: there was an article last year in the Athletic, like
59:50
Speaker 1: one thing a part of this contract was like, we
59:52
Speaker 1: need you to show up on time every day. So
59:58
Speaker 1: I would say if the game games were played on paper,
1:00:01
Speaker 1: the Rams will win the super Bowl, but Seattle's defending champs,
1:00:06
Speaker 1: the Niners beat the Rams with Mac Jones, I think
1:00:12
Speaker 1: these games will be a war zone, and that's usually
1:00:14
Speaker 1: how it happens in Division games. No matter what Cardinals
1:00:17
Speaker 1: do not matter clearly. But I would say right now
1:00:21
Speaker 1: that the Rams gotta feel pretty good about themselves. And
1:00:24
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty rare that the defending super Bowl champs.
1:00:30
Speaker 1: It's a pretty easy one for Mike McDonald to use
1:00:33
Speaker 1: his motivation. We just won this thing, and everyone's acting
1:00:37
Speaker 1: like they're the super Bowl champs. They haven't won shit.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: Last time I checked, they haven't won super Bowl in years. Hell,
1:00:43
Speaker 1: I mean last time. That was their first NFC championship
1:00:46
Speaker 1: game in like three years. So it's it's gonna be tough,
1:00:55
Speaker 1: because if he's healthy, there're gonna be a problem. I
1:01:02
Speaker 1: hear folks talking a lot about offensive minds McVeigh, Kyle
1:01:04
Speaker 1: Ben to name a few. I'm curious where you would
1:01:07
Speaker 1: rank Kellen Moore. He got a ring in Philly and
1:01:09
Speaker 1: last year with the Saints were heating up. I have
1:01:12
Speaker 1: him high. I've been a big fan since he was
1:01:14
Speaker 1: a player at Boise State. I'm gonna pick them to
1:01:19
Speaker 1: win the NFC South. I think they're gonna be really good.
1:01:23
Speaker 1: Huge believer in Tyler Shuck and if Jordan Tyson lives
1:01:29
Speaker 1: up to the hype, they could have an excellent offense.
1:01:32
Speaker 1: They added etn You know, this Kamara thing is kind
1:01:35
Speaker 1: of weird. We'll have to see how that plays out.
1:01:37
Speaker 1: Do they end up trading him? But you get a
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Speaker 1: lave who was humming their tight ends good, you get
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Speaker 1: Jordan Tyson. I think the Saints are gonna be good,
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Speaker 1: and I think Kellen Moore is a really, really dynamic coach.
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Speaker 1: Listeners since twenty two. I'm a new father, and I
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Speaker 1: believe our kids are around the same age. Mine just
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Speaker 1: turned four months in like a switch started becoming crazy
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Speaker 1: this past week, wife and I have been trying to
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Speaker 1: adjust any advice to get us through the four month
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Speaker 1: regression phase. You were asking the wrong man, dog. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I have no freaking clue. We're just trying to keep
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Speaker 1: our heads above water. No advice besides just good luck, godspeed,
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Speaker 1: keep swinging, and nothing you can do. It's just I
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Speaker 1: guess part of the deal. I just keep telling myself
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Speaker 1: the amount of human beings in the history of civilization
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Speaker 1: that have done this, the amount of and listen, just
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Speaker 1: let's call a spade of spade. There are a lot
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Speaker 1: of low love people who've had kids and raised kids.
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Speaker 1: I was like, probably done a decent job. If they
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Speaker 1: can do it, I can do it. And listen, she's
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Speaker 1: doing the majority of it. But it's hard. As a
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Speaker 1: packer fan, I despise the Bears. You have some choice
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Speaker 1: words about uh Ben. However, I think it's insane the
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Speaker 1: Bears might be leaving Chicago. Not only should they stay,
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Speaker 1: I believe they should never leave Soldier Field. It's iconic,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like the NFL is losing great stadiums
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Speaker 1: in exchange for these soulless domes. Do you think the
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Speaker 1: NFL should intervene to keep the Bears in Chicago? Is
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Speaker 1: that even possible? Are they doomed to play in Indiana?
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Speaker 1: Here's the sad part. I don't think the NFL gives
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Speaker 1: a bleep about soulless domes. They love these modern day
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Speaker 1: sweets everywhere. They do not care. I'm in complete agreement,
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Speaker 1: but clearly I've never been to Soldier Field, but by
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Speaker 1: all accounts, and this is the reality with a lot
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Speaker 1: of these older stadiums is their sweet capacity is nowhere
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Speaker 1: near what it needs to be for the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: earn the revenue that the newer stadiums can earn. You
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Speaker 1: go to Sofi, which you get inside Sofi, It's the
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Speaker 1: best stadium I've ever been in. It is just this
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Speaker 1: modern version of dollar bills. It is. It's remarkable, and
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Speaker 1: it was created to just generate rev Now he spent
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Speaker 1: five to six bill on it, hope. So, but that
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Speaker 1: thing is a cash cow because of the high end
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Speaker 1: seating and the sweet capacities. So I think the amount
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Speaker 1: of money you're leaving on the field or you know,
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Speaker 1: out there by playing in an old, quote unquote iconic stadium,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they care, which sucks because all these
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Speaker 1: franchises getting domes. It's just it sucks, it really does.
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Speaker 1: But they don't care about us, and they don't care
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Speaker 1: about our ideas, and they don't care about souless domes
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Speaker 1: because they're being built everywhere. And I would expect the Bears.
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Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine, but to play
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Speaker 1: in some soulless dome. Whend with this off season question
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Speaker 1: for the bag, what is your ditar routine at the house?
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Speaker 1: Are you or the wife cooking? Who's cleaning up the dishes?
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Speaker 1: I feel like every couple is different. There's no effing
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Speaker 1: NFL news right now. This was a couple of days ago.
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Speaker 1: I absolutely love preparing us a meal. Cooking can overwhelm
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Speaker 1: my wife and she is happy to power through any
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Speaker 1: remaining dishes on a full, satisfied stomach. That's what I
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Speaker 1: call power couple. Uh. My wife's a really good cook. Now,
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Speaker 1: her cooking capabilities. When you have this little she calls
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Speaker 1: him a honey badger, crazy little four and a half
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Speaker 1: month old, it's a little harder. But anytime she can cook,
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Speaker 1: she cooks. So I chip in. And I'm not a
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Speaker 1: great cook. I'm just I'm not I'm a barbecuer. I
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Speaker 1: can barbecue, and tonight we're going to barbecue a couple
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Speaker 1: of filets, all barbecue, Burger's barbecue chicken. I'll barbecue whatever.
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Speaker 1: For Mother's Day, she really wanted a tomahawk's steak, so
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Speaker 1: I went to the local meat market got a tomahawk.
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Speaker 1: Actually got the tomahawk. I think it's got a I
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Speaker 1: forget the term, but if you get the tomahawk with
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Speaker 1: the bone removed, you save like thirty or forty bucks
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Speaker 1: because the bone weighs whatever an extra pound and you
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Speaker 1: pay for the weight. So we got, oh, it's cowboy cut.
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Speaker 1: We got the cowboy cut. I smoked it on the trigger.
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Speaker 1: Mom and I actually got some sides from like the
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Speaker 1: local nice steakhouse because she loves their mac and cheese.
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Speaker 1: We got some sides there. I smoked tomahawk for like
1:07:10
Speaker 1: took around two hours. I think it was like four pounds.
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Speaker 1: It was legit. But I tend to cook the meat
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Speaker 1: if it's not some sort of meat dish that's in
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Speaker 1: the oven in the crock pot. But I mean, she
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Speaker 1: she enjoys. I mean, before Jack, she she would cook
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Speaker 1: four or five times a week. Now sometimes you know
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Speaker 1: we're lazy and I'll just press the button have dinner ordered.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes we do that and we regret it. The
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Speaker 1: problem is the time, you know, by the time I'm
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Speaker 1: done doing work, I'm just not like I'm not gonna cook.
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Speaker 1: I can't cook a meal beside like meat and salad
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Speaker 1: then like basic rice stuff. She can just make like
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Speaker 1: legit meals, and I'm in charge of the dishes, which
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Speaker 1: I'm counting down the days till that's his that's his role.
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Speaker 1: But I would say she does the majority of cooking
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Speaker 1: beside the barbecuing, which is on me, and I mainly
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Speaker 1: cleaned the dishes, which she always says that I lied
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Speaker 1: to her. When we first started dating, I said it
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Speaker 1: was really clean. I used to have this condo where
1:08:21
Speaker 1: I lived by myself in the Bay Area, and I
1:08:24
Speaker 1: had this girl named Elva who would come by like
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Speaker 1: once a week and clean it. And it was just
1:08:29
Speaker 1: it's not that it wasn't that big, it was hard
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Speaker 1: to get dirty. She used to think I was really clean.
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Speaker 1: My natural inclination is probably to be kind of dirty,
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Speaker 1: throw shit everywhere, and I'll pay attention. She's like kind
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Speaker 1: of a clean freak. So at first years ago. I
1:08:43
Speaker 1: think she had a higher standard. It's like Belichick, you know,
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Speaker 1: a little higher standard with what she expected in the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Granted I paid for that kitchen model, but she's right,
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Speaker 1: and so we try to keep the thin clean and
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Speaker 1: I've come a long way. She said, I'm a pretty
1:09:00
Speaker 1: dominant dish toer. But yeah, how I would say, our
1:09:04
Speaker 1: roles are pretty well defined. And that's that's key to life.
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Speaker 1: Of like, once you get married or live with somebody
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Speaker 1: like you kind of have to have some rolls about
1:09:12
Speaker 1: certain things. And certain people are dirty, certain people are cleaner,
1:09:15
Speaker 1: certain people like this, and you know, I would say
1:09:17
Speaker 1: women have some tendencies to have some specific things, like
1:09:20
Speaker 1: I'm pretty easy going. I don't even notice that much.
1:09:23
Speaker 1: But her, on the other hand, especially with with him,
1:09:26
Speaker 1: and you just get like, uh, I guess this word's invogued,
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Speaker 1: over stimulated, and tensions get high. You just you just
1:09:34
Speaker 1: try to keep everything you know, at peace in bay
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Speaker 1: and things clean and have a good meal at the
1:09:40
Speaker 1: end of the day. But it's a great part about
1:09:43
Speaker 1: modern technology. If you don't have time to cook, you're
1:09:46
Speaker 1: too exhausted, you just press a button and get literally
1:09:49
Speaker 1: anything ordered to your front door. It's it's pretty remarkable.
1:09:53
Speaker 1: Now the key is with a good door, dash Uber
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Speaker 1: eats whatever order no free ads. Here is to find
1:09:59
Speaker 1: the type that travels well. Like when I was growing up,
1:10:03
Speaker 1: one thing delivered and that was pizza, and you could
1:10:07
Speaker 1: call and the pizza would be delivered to your house.
1:10:10
Speaker 1: Now maybe a Chinese restaurant maybe, but I feel like
1:10:17
Speaker 1: we picked up Chinese. But other than that, Like we
1:10:22
Speaker 1: were actually talking about this the other day, we went
1:10:26
Speaker 1: out to breakfast this place called over Easy. It's pretty
1:10:29
Speaker 1: good breakfast joint. Guy Fieri went, there's dinner, drive is
1:10:32
Speaker 1: and dives. Got some dirty eats. But you can also
1:10:35
Speaker 1: just say, like I just got like an egg white
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Speaker 1: omelet with some cottage cheese. It was good. She got
1:10:40
Speaker 1: a breakfast free. No, it's bomb. They got a bunch
1:10:41
Speaker 1: of around Scottsdale. It might be a national chann Not
1:10:44
Speaker 1: quite sure. Pretty sure this is a Phoenix thing. But
1:10:48
Speaker 1: people even go out to eat that often when I
1:10:50
Speaker 1: was a kid, like I guess we went out to
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Speaker 1: eat sometimes as I got older, in like high school,
1:10:56
Speaker 1: but like going out to eat in the nineties, they were,
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Speaker 1: like I would imagine maybe rich people went out a
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Speaker 1: lot but like most people did not like go out
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Speaker 1: to eat, you go out to eat now, kids everywhere people,
1:11:08
Speaker 1: everyone goes out to eat. It's pretty normal to go
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Speaker 1: out to eat. I just think that is something that
1:11:14
Speaker 1: has dramatically changed for whatever reason. Maybe people just like
1:11:19
Speaker 1: the average person has more money, the average person is
1:11:22
Speaker 1: just more and more likely to just go eat than
1:11:25
Speaker 1: maybe my parents' generation, who's probably a little cheaper because
1:11:29
Speaker 1: they definitely grew up way poorer on the aggregate, you know,
1:11:33
Speaker 1: in the fifties or sixties or whatever. But people just
1:11:36
Speaker 1: go out to eat a lot now. I mean, you
1:11:39
Speaker 1: just go to these restaurants and they are just packed.
1:11:43
Speaker 1: I mean, and taking a child to restaurant at any moment,
1:11:46
Speaker 1: you've got to taking time bomb, especially at his age.
1:11:49
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, uh, I don't know where I was
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Speaker 1: going there other than that I gotta go put the
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Speaker 1: filets on the barbecue. Have a great night, or have
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Speaker 1: a great day or morning, or wherever it may be.
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Speaker 1: And congrats to the NFL for having an incredible day.
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Speaker 1: The volume