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Bank the Tank (w/ Field Yates) · Stugotz and Company

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The
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Speaker 1: on Betty Rubble.
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Speaker 2: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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Speaker 2: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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Speaker 1: He caught them the game last night, although they won
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Speaker 2: It is to Gods and Company, presented by Vandul on
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Speaker 2: the Vandal sportsbook. Field Yates is with us right now.
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Speaker 2: I am very excited. The draft is getting closer and closer.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait.
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Speaker 2: It's the Jets Super Bowl every single year, and that they.
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Speaker 1: Always lose it somehow.
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Speaker 2: So let's start right there. Whose career are the Jets
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Speaker 2: going to ruin this time?
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Speaker 1: Field God?
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Speaker 3: When you put it that way, I'm just gonna make
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Speaker 3: up a mythical prospect and say him at number two
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Speaker 3: and see if people believe it. All right, let's see
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Speaker 3: if we can spin this positively. Okay, well, good luck
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Speaker 3: the Jets. I know I'm doing my best here. Over
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Speaker 3: this draft and next, the Jets currently own nine picks
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Speaker 3: in the first two rounds. Yes, I think you go
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Speaker 3: into a draft and you say to yourself, no matter
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Speaker 3: what the year is, but some years more than others,
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Speaker 3: there should be about sixty players per draft that are
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Speaker 3: viewed as starters from the moment they enter the NFL.
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Speaker 3: So there's a chance that over the next two years
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Speaker 3: the Jets acquire close to forty percent of their starting
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Speaker 3: roster through the draft, right nine picks in the first
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Speaker 3: two rounds. On top of that, the Jets have three
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Speaker 3: first round picks next year. And I know that people
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Speaker 3: get sick of hearing this draft analysts talk about how
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Speaker 3: next year's draft looks amazing. Next year's draft does look unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: It's not a mystery. Like it's not a mystery why
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Speaker 3: the Jets asked for the Cowboys pick the second round
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Speaker 3: pick this year and the first round pick next year
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Speaker 3: from Dallas for in the Quentinn Williams deal next year's draft.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not just talking about quarterbacks, but quarterbacks definitely,
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Speaker 3: But there are just some ridiculous non quarterbacks in next
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Speaker 3: year's draft class. Jeremiah Smith in Ohio State is probably
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Speaker 3: the player that a year out is considered the front
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Speaker 3: runner as like the best non quarterback in the class.
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Speaker 3: But Colin Simmons a pass rusher from Texas amongst many
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Speaker 3: many other awesome players. So if there's ever a time
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Speaker 3: to have three first round picks, it is twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 3: And what I think it allows the Jets to do,
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Speaker 3: I'm trying hard to be very serious here is I
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Speaker 3: do think it allows the Jets this year to say, hey,
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Speaker 3: if we truly whether this is a good plan or not,
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Speaker 3: but if we truly want Gino Smith to be our
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Speaker 3: starting quarterback for this season, we can bypass a quarterback
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Speaker 3: in this year's class in the first round or two rounds. Really,
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Speaker 3: you take a guy, you know, if you take a
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Speaker 3: quarterback in the third round, fourth round, no one is
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Speaker 3: saying that guy is the answer for you long term.
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Speaker 3: He has a chance to become that. But we see
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Speaker 3: third and fourth round quarterbacks flame out all the time,
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Speaker 3: or just the quarter backups at worst.
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Speaker 1: So the Jets do see.
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Speaker 2: Your point field. We do see third and fourth round
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Speaker 2: picks succeed in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there's minimal risk to drafting a quarterback in the
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Speaker 3: third or fourth front because if they hit, everybody applauds you.
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Speaker 3: If they just become career backups, it's like that's the
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Speaker 3: reason why they went in the third or fourth round
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Speaker 3: in the first place. Yes, so the Jets do have
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Speaker 3: a chance to reshape their roster and their franchise over
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Speaker 3: these next two years. And yeah, history would suggest, especially
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Speaker 3: recent history, that it's you know, the Jets are going
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Speaker 3: to have some errors along the way. It's hard to
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Speaker 3: go nine for nine on any draft picks. I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to I'm trying to make you feel good, though. Here's
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Speaker 3: too I feel on the show. Yea, And yeah, this
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Speaker 3: is I think that not like the Jets have told
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Speaker 3: me this, but I think the the the methodology right
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Speaker 3: now within the Jets front office is our master plan
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Speaker 3: is nine picks. That's our master plan.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: We are now without Quinn Williams and Sauce Gardner, and
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Speaker 3: obviously those are two of the best players on the
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Speaker 3: roster at the time, but you maybe got you extracted
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Speaker 3: better value for those players if you nail those draft picks,
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Speaker 3: then keeping those players and eventually getting towards the back
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Speaker 3: end of their prime before your team is sort of
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Speaker 3: fully clicking. So there is I think some calculus behind
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Speaker 3: what the Jets have been doing and what they will
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Speaker 3: execute over the next two years.
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Speaker 1: And you agree with.
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Speaker 2: It if indeed that is the strategy, it's a strategy
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Speaker 2: that you agree with for I agree that.
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Speaker 3: Not only do I agree with it and aggregate, but
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Speaker 3: like looking at each of those trades, my first thought
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Speaker 3: when I saw the reports come out on especially the
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Speaker 3: sauce Gardener trade, was like, that's incredible value for the Jets.
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Speaker 3: It's truly exceptional. At the time, the sauce Gardener trade
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Speaker 3: was made when Indy was humming, but I still thought
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Speaker 3: it was a good trade. They went on to lose
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Speaker 3: I think it was like six of their last seven
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Speaker 3: or seven trade games to end the season, and the
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Speaker 3: Jets now own a mid first round pick for Indianapolis
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Speaker 3: and the pick they have next year from Dallas.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: This is not quite full like NBA lottery style, but
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Speaker 3: it's the what it's the better of the two I
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Speaker 3: believe goes to the Jets, the better of the Packers
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Speaker 3: and the Cowboys goes to the Jets. So the Jets
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Speaker 3: have some optionality as well with next year's pick. If
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Speaker 3: the Packers get Micah Parsons back early and they're awesome.
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Speaker 3: Then the Jets bringing to the Cowboys pick. If the
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Speaker 3: Cowboys have a great offseason and they hum next year,
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Speaker 3: the Packers are more middle of the pack, the Jets
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Speaker 3: get that pick. So to me, it's it's a reasonable
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Speaker 3: it's a good strategy, not just in sort of the
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Speaker 3: aggregate in the sum, but I thought each of the
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Speaker 3: moves individually was logical. By the Jets.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for seeing me here on the zoom field,
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Speaker 4: and then throwing in the NBA lottery reference just to
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Speaker 4: get the appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Do you have any lottery reform fix? I I listened
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Speaker 3: to many NBA podcasts, and there was a stretch, I
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Speaker 3: don't know, two straight weeks were each and every one
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Speaker 3: of them dissected lottery reform thoughts. And I don't know
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Speaker 3: that we get any closer to the target because when
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Speaker 3: the NBA floated their three proposals a week or so ago,
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Speaker 3: I thought to myself, all of these are ridiculous and
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Speaker 3: they're way too complicated.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the easiest one that they offered that
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Speaker 4: I liked was the one with the making throwing all
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Speaker 4: the playing teams uh into the lottery and then sort
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Speaker 4: of evening out the the odds, So it doesn't it
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Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily favor that.
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Speaker 1: See, Stud's mad.
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Speaker 2: Stud's mad that you none me, Taylor smiling because how
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Speaker 2: the fuck did he suck you into an MBA conversation.
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Speaker 1: I could feel your eyes burning through me as I'm
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Speaker 1: answering the question. I'm like Israel questions.
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Speaker 3: I mean it's also I'm a sneaky NBA fan. I
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Speaker 3: actually I am looking for a forum to share my
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Speaker 3: NBA thoughts. So thank you to Izzy for actually allow me.
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Speaker 4: He said for him, all right, so what are your
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Speaker 4: quick thoughts in the Oklahoma City Thunder as a favorite
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Speaker 4: as a I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Here's what I say, Like they are, I would just here's
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Speaker 3: where I do land on them, because they are the favorites.
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Speaker 3: They are.
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Speaker 1: They are question answered.
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Speaker 2: Field if you want to ask him basketball questions, have.
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Speaker 3: That and I don't get here, we go U the
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Speaker 3: Thunder or they are the dessert favorites. I would just
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Speaker 3: say as an impartial viewer, they I don't particularly enjoy
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Speaker 3: their like the style of play relative to other teams
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Speaker 3: that are good in the NBA. Maybe it's the shiny
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Speaker 3: objects syndrome. But like when I watch the Spurs and
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Speaker 3: maybe it's the victor wembognam of it all. That's a
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Speaker 3: way more entertaining brand of basketball for me to watch
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Speaker 3: right now than the Thunder, which feels more like a
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Speaker 3: rock fight. And and to their credit, they have maximized it.
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Speaker 3: And Shay is probably gonna win his second straight m
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Speaker 3: v p H. But if the if the NBA Finals
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Speaker 3: are the Thunder versus the Pistons or the Celtics or
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Speaker 3: the next whatever it might be, Yeah, there's gonna be
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Speaker 3: a part of me that's like the the the alternative
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Speaker 3: door of the Spurs versus one of those Eastern Conference
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Speaker 3: scenes that I mentioned would have been more compelling to
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Speaker 3: I think the impartial viewer.
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Speaker 4: It's crazy how the tables have turned, because the Spurs
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Speaker 4: used to be the boring ass team that nobody to
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Speaker 4: see in the fight.
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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to see him, all right, so you've learned,
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Speaker 1: all right? I mean Jesus go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Or as Taylor would say, they lead the league. The
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Speaker 4: Thunder lead the league in what was it ezz plus?
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Speaker 1: Yes there it is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm stealing that, Taylor.
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Speaker 2: You could have it it's all yours, bud, so feel
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Speaker 2: it full disclosure.
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Speaker 4: Like I every time I see Jeff Hafley on a
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Speaker 4: TV doing an interview, I make sure I don't listen
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Speaker 4: because I don't. I just don't want to hear anything
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Speaker 4: that he has to say about right now?
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Speaker 1: Right are they?
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Speaker 4: How well are they positioning themselves for this draft of
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Speaker 4: next year that you talk about, because the march for arch,
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Speaker 4: like I wanted to start right now, let's just go
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Speaker 4: oh and whatever, and you know, next year, let's wake
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Speaker 4: me up and I'll start watching the Dolphins again.
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Speaker 3: So a couple of things. I'm a big, big believer,
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Speaker 3: and it requires the right owner, because owners, I think,
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Speaker 3: especially in the NFL, are impatient and they have rabbit ears.
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Speaker 3: They hear everything that people like us are saying about
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Speaker 3: their franchises, and they make impulsive decisions, and they pull
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Speaker 3: the plug on team building plans sometimes or oftentimes too soon.
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Speaker 3: So far under new leadership, the Dolphins have done have
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Speaker 3: accomplished two really important things. One, they've done a good
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Speaker 3: self scouting. The rostar was going nowhere, nowhere, like the
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Speaker 3: players that were on that roster that were the best,
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Speaker 3: most meaningful contributors would not influence winning enough for it
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Speaker 3: to matter during the length of their current contract. Jalen
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Speaker 3: Waddle is probably the most notable. He's a great player, obviously,
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Speaker 3: but by the time that the Dolphins were back to
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Speaker 3: where they want to be, Jalen is either A going
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Speaker 3: to be either having a contract expired or expireing, or
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Speaker 3: B say, hey, I'm happy to extend, but I now
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Speaker 3: no longer want to make twenty seven million dollars a year.
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Speaker 3: I want to make forty one million dollars a year,
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Speaker 3: and it's going to become more defensive. So A, they've
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Speaker 3: done a really good job of identifying, like, we're just
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Speaker 3: not good. Let's take our medicine this year and think
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Speaker 3: about twenty twenty seven and beyond. And B they've been
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Speaker 3: honest about it. I heard John Eric Salivan the New
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Speaker 3: GM describe it. I think it was to I'm almost
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Speaker 3: positive it was to Mike Floria and Chris Sims on
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Speaker 3: Pro Football talk about how like he sort of went
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Speaker 3: through the Jalen wild trade and it was just he
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Speaker 3: kind of hit on some of the notes that I
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Speaker 3: mentioned that, like, you know, this is a guy who's
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Speaker 3: a great player but making a certain amount of money
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Speaker 3: at a certain age by the time his deal comes up, like,
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Speaker 3: we may not be ready to carry a forty two
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Speaker 3: million dollar wide receiver ultimately, and yeah, I get at
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks just won Super Bowl with a dominant defense. First. Ultimately,
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Speaker 3: the best chance to sustain winning in the NFL is
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Speaker 3: to find a good quarterback. That's just there's no two
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Speaker 3: ways about it. We're talking about you know, we've talked
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Speaker 3: about the Chiefs as the best team of the NFL
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Speaker 3: for the past decade because of Patrick Mahomes and Josh
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Speaker 3: Allen gives the Bills a chance, and Lamar Jackson gives
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Speaker 3: a Ravens a chance, and Joe Burrow gives the the
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Speaker 3: Bengals a chance. Now Drake may gives Patriots a chance.
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Speaker 3: Because this guy's are great quarterbacks. So Miami is saying
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Speaker 3: we can take all of them met in the medicine.
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Speaker 3: This year probably be bad. We got to nail they
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Speaker 3: have seven picks on the top one hundred of this
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Speaker 3: year's draft. Gott to nail the draft, and then next
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Speaker 3: year we can start to piece together more talents. Make
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Speaker 3: a decision more thoughtful decision on Malik Willis, who's going
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Speaker 3: to be the starting quarterback for at least this year
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Speaker 3: and then build this back up. And if you're Miami,
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Speaker 3: why bother playing the short game. You've got Josh Allen
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Speaker 3: who probably has at least a half decade left a
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Speaker 3: really good play, and then Drake May, who might have
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Speaker 3: ten years left of great play. Look what's the rush
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Speaker 3: right now? If you're in Miami, I get it. It
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Speaker 3: sucks and owners, you know, Steve Ross probably hates the
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Speaker 3: fact that the stadium will be you know whatever. It
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Speaker 3: might be half empty in December, but okay, great, or
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Speaker 3: you could you could do what you've been doing recently,
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Speaker 3: which is be an extremely expensive cash wise and not winning.
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Speaker 3: So you choose what you will prefer. I'd rather give
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Speaker 3: myself a chance to win in the long run than to,
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Speaker 3: you know, just spend a lot of money to go
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Speaker 3: at nine to eight and then lose to the Chiefs
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Speaker 3: in the first round of the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It's not the company you want, is he?
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Speaker 2: But it seems like the Jets and the Dolphins have
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Speaker 2: to do the same thing, just the same vision, same
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Speaker 2: problems dealing with Drake May and Josh Allen, and it's
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Speaker 2: you know, take a long term approach.
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Speaker 4: Which is not one and in a race to see
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Speaker 4: who can suck the hardest.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is a good time to do it, right.
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Speaker 3: Look around the NFL. How many other teams are in
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Speaker 3: that boat? Yes, And I know that a year from
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Speaker 3: now we might be saying, oh, well, this class didn't
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Speaker 3: work out like we thought it would, Right. I'm just
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Speaker 3: telling you, like and talking to people who work for
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Speaker 3: NFL teams whose job is to measure, Hey, the draft
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Speaker 3: this year versus next year versus potentially two years from now,
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Speaker 3: we hear this much more. And end the NBA where
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Speaker 3: everybody is saying part of the reason why they're tanking
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Speaker 3: this year is because next year and the year after
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Speaker 3: his draft look pretty unfavorable at this point. But people
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Speaker 3: who are paid to forecast what the draft will look like,
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Speaker 3: not for ESPN or for your favorite whatever your favorite
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Speaker 3: draft website is or network is, but for NFL teams
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Speaker 3: right are saying next year's class looks like an absolute doozy.
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Speaker 3: And if you're the Jets and the Dolphins and you're
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Speaker 3: giving yourself a chance to be in pole position to
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Speaker 3: have a top five or ten pick, yeah, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: suck during the year this year, But you think the
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Speaker 3: Raiders regret not winning a couple of games down the stretch,
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Speaker 3: of course not. There's thrilled that they have the chance
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Speaker 3: to take Fernanda Mendoza number one. Overall.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, you're right. There are a bunch of teams
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Speaker 2: or are in the same boat. The problem is, occasionally
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Speaker 2: those teams jump out of the boat and they go see,
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Speaker 2: you know, in nice Island somewhere. Perhaps they find themselves
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Speaker 2: in the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the playoffs. I don't know. The Jets are the
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Speaker 1: fucking boat and that's the problem, you know.
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Speaker 3: Well, but there's examples, like I'll give you a recent
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Speaker 3: example of a team and they're fine now because they
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Speaker 3: got a quarterback a year later. But like the Giants
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Speaker 3: a couple of seasons ago, the year they ended up
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Speaker 3: with the sixth pick, which was Malik Naples, who was
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Speaker 3: a great player. Remember like that was the class that
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Speaker 3: had Kaili Williams, Jaden Daniels and Drake may and the
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Speaker 3: Giants were trying, like crazy move up. Well I don't
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Speaker 3: know about like crazy, but they were trying to move
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Speaker 3: up to get Drake Maye. We saw it on hard knocks.
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Speaker 3: The offer they made was certainly not a serious enough
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Speaker 3: one for the Patriots to make the deal. But that
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Speaker 3: was like a couple of games, one or two games
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Speaker 3: at the end of that season. That was the difference
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Speaker 3: between the Giants right now having a quarterback from that
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four class versus not now Jackson Dart's gonna
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Speaker 3: be really good player. So I think all things have
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Speaker 3: ended up really well for the Giants. But that is
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Speaker 3: the I think with teams that are kind of planning ahead,
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Speaker 3: are thinking about is that like, is is it fun?
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Speaker 3: Like it might help a job, might help the coach
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Speaker 3: in a press conference in December to not have to
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Speaker 3: answer questions about seeking Is there really that much of
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Speaker 3: a difference in the grand scheme winning two extra games
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Speaker 3: to go five and twelve? That's not good?
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Speaker 1: No, it's not.
14:52
Speaker 2: His latest mock draft is out right now on ESPN
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Speaker 2: dot com First Draft. The podcast is also new episodes
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Speaker 2: out right now. Greenberg, how was mel by the way?
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Speaker 1: How's he doing? You know?
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Speaker 3: Nell actually called me yesterday and I said, Hey, what
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Speaker 3: what do you have tomorrow? I said, oh, you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm going on with Stu Gotts and he goes, oh Lovets.
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Speaker 1: Come after that first sound? Nothing makes me happier.
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Speaker 3: I think about Mel's mail has got very specific taste
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Speaker 3: to you guys know that like Mel loves what he
15:21
Speaker 3: loves right pie famously and uh, you know his orange
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Speaker 3: crushes as well, his favorite his favorite summer cocktail and
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Speaker 3: he loves I think I think what he meant was
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Speaker 3: the entire family, you know on Stu Gotts uh here.
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Speaker 3: So I think that he he really was referring to
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Speaker 3: all four people on.
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Speaker 2: This zoom right now, not just me and Mikey he
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Speaker 2: loves the most that he does.
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Speaker 1: He does love Mikey.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, what what change from your last mock.
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Speaker 1: Draft to this mock draft?
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Speaker 3: Tell what I haven't had? Last year? I felt like
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Speaker 3: there were some bigger swings in in uh pred mock drafts.
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Speaker 3: I think part of that, let's just be entirely candid,
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Speaker 3: is is shod Or Sanders. Last year, right, there was
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Speaker 3: a time where it felt like he could go as
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Speaker 3: highs too, and then he ends up going one forty four,
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Speaker 3: so off by only one hundred and forty slots there.
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Speaker 3: But even like, and I'm sure there were some people
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Speaker 3: that were like, I don't know that he'll go top
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Speaker 3: thirty two, but it wasn't like I saw many people
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Speaker 3: that were like or maybe any people that were saying, yeah,
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Speaker 3: day three for shud or Sanders. Ty Simpson is the
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Speaker 3: player that has seems like the most interest of where
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Speaker 3: he goes. I did not do a mock draft in
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Speaker 3: which I had Tie in like the top twenty. I
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Speaker 3: don't think that's also because I don't have to do
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Speaker 3: a mock draft until like r right after the season
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Speaker 3: is over, when Tie struggles started to pick up. But
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Speaker 3: you know, Tie probably was. He wasn't a crazy thought
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Speaker 3: as like the fifth pick in the draft at some
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Speaker 3: point during the college football season. Now it's all right,
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Speaker 3: like does Tie even go in the first round? He's
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Speaker 3: the player that's going to define the night. I believe
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Speaker 3: for obvious reasons. He's a quarterback, and there are teams that,
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Speaker 3: of course are in that quarterback market. It's it's hard
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Speaker 3: to get an answer because you know, one of the
17:14
Speaker 3: realities of the draft and talking to people around the
17:16
Speaker 3: NFL is that you know, people that don't need a
17:19
Speaker 3: quarterback are going to be pretty honest about the quarterback
17:23
Speaker 3: of valuations. Teams that do need a quarterback are going
17:27
Speaker 3: to be honest about the quarterback of valuations. But they're
17:30
Speaker 3: also going to acknowledge that even if, like we're not
17:32
Speaker 3: totally sold on this player at this position, you can't
17:36
Speaker 3: risk it. So yeah, it may sound good to say like, well,
17:39
Speaker 3: we've got tie ranked as a late first and we
17:41
Speaker 3: think most people around the NFL do as well, so
17:43
Speaker 3: maybe we we'll wait until the beginning of the second round.
17:46
Speaker 3: Just takes one team, one team would jump ahead of you,
17:48
Speaker 3: and one team to make you regret trying to be patient.
17:52
Speaker 3: The Giants kind of beautifully navigated this last year with
17:55
Speaker 3: Jackson Dart. They had their cake and ate it too
17:57
Speaker 3: with Abdul Carter at three and then Jackson Dart at
17:59
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four twenty five. That's hard to bank on
18:04
Speaker 3: every single year. I give the Giants credit for the
18:06
Speaker 3: way they went about it or why they executed it
18:08
Speaker 3: last year, but there might be a team that's saying
18:11
Speaker 3: to themselves like, can we pull the Giants of twenty
18:13
Speaker 3: twenty five and twenty twenty six, And there might be
18:16
Speaker 3: somebody else that's says, we like Tigh enough that we're
18:19
Speaker 3: just going to take them field.
18:21
Speaker 5: How do you feel about people who do mock drafts
18:23
Speaker 5: and then in their mock drafts. They have projected trades
18:26
Speaker 5: in them.
18:26
Speaker 1: Wait you know Field has that.
18:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, every once in a while, throw a trade in there.
18:31
Speaker 1: How do you feel about yourself?
18:32
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, yeah, well guys, I can do it
18:36
Speaker 3: out the trade Taylor feels like.
18:39
Speaker 1: It's a bit much. I mean, there's no way to
18:41
Speaker 1: predicted trade. But if he predicts it exactly right, Wow,
18:44
Speaker 1: god yeah, double, that's right. Yeah.
18:47
Speaker 3: I will tell everybody and their mom about it. So
18:50
Speaker 3: I do think that, like it's important for me. I've
18:52
Speaker 3: seen some some and this is what happens when you
18:54
Speaker 3: go on on Twitter. It's you know, off oftentimes burning
18:57
Speaker 3: brain cells, but people getting frustrated. Too many mock drafts,
19:01
Speaker 3: unrealistic mock drafts. They're entertainment, aren't they? Like the mock
19:06
Speaker 3: drafts are not going to influence like the the the
19:08
Speaker 3: Jets at too, are not going to make a pick
19:10
Speaker 3: because the way that mel kiper Junior or whoever it
19:13
Speaker 3: is that you love most in the draft industry forecasting
19:16
Speaker 3: it right, They're going to make the pick they think
19:17
Speaker 3: is the best pick. That's what I mean.
19:18
Speaker 1: Mel had number one overall last year.
19:21
Speaker 3: I go, right, So like these things, like you know,
19:23
Speaker 3: they're going to do what they want to do. It's
19:26
Speaker 3: for entertainment purposes. And in other sports, like I will
19:29
Speaker 3: read a mock draft, uh, I mean even for the NFL.
19:32
Speaker 3: In a lot of cases, I would read mock drafts.
19:34
Speaker 3: The other thing I would say is, and this is
19:36
Speaker 3: my opinion, And there might be people who have the
19:39
Speaker 3: same rule that I do at ESPN or otherwise that
19:41
Speaker 3: feel very differently on this. I do take you know,
19:45
Speaker 3: you take some level of pride in trying to be
19:48
Speaker 3: as predictive as possible with mocks. It just takes one
19:53
Speaker 3: thing to happen early in the mock for everything that
19:55
Speaker 3: you think is reasonable to go. I think we have
19:59
Speaker 3: made started to Yeah, I think you sort of maybe
20:02
Speaker 3: to gravitate a little bit too much towards trying to
20:04
Speaker 3: get every pick right. Yes, and more like I think
20:08
Speaker 3: to me, I've always felt like where I would let's
20:10
Speaker 3: take the most pride is that I don't know who
20:12
Speaker 3: the Jets are gonna take it too. I think it
20:14
Speaker 3: will be RVL Reese or David Bailey.
20:16
Speaker 1: I think.
20:16
Speaker 3: But if I predict David Bailey and then I have
20:19
Speaker 3: Rvel Reese going to the Cardinals and then the Jets
20:23
Speaker 3: d up taking Rvel Reees. But the Cardinals don't like
20:25
Speaker 3: David Bailey, then the mock draft's gonna like fall apart
20:27
Speaker 3: right there, right, yes, right where I find my job
20:31
Speaker 3: to at least more fulfilling. Is Hey, the Jets submit
20:34
Speaker 3: the card they take Rvel rees Field. What are your
20:36
Speaker 3: thoughts on Rvel Reves fitting with the Jets? Bam, we
20:39
Speaker 3: fire away. Hey, the Cardinals at number three, they decided
20:42
Speaker 3: to take Jeremiah love Field. What do you think about
20:44
Speaker 3: this pick? Bam, we go from there. But instead it's
20:47
Speaker 3: we get so excited about like, well, you know, se
20:49
Speaker 3: Gott's nailed fifteen of his thirty two first round picks.
20:52
Speaker 3: Like I would tell you candidly, is that like there
20:55
Speaker 3: were picks that I got right in the first round
20:58
Speaker 3: last year that we're just guesses, right, you're just forecasting, right,
21:01
Speaker 3: Like I can't tell you that, Like my twenty fifth
21:03
Speaker 3: overall selection in last year's draft, whoever that was, was
21:06
Speaker 3: because I had deeply sourced information that the Houston Texans
21:10
Speaker 3: were plenty to this.
21:11
Speaker 1: No, it's just players, man.
21:14
Speaker 3: The Texans probably need a pass rusher. I'm just making
21:17
Speaker 3: this up. A pass rusher, and I gave them a
21:19
Speaker 3: pass rusher who I thought would go around that range
21:21
Speaker 3: and hopefully you get fortunate more often than not. But
21:24
Speaker 3: so Taylor, I'm okay with the trades, and I'm also
21:27
Speaker 3: okay with like mock trash being wrong, Like, you know,
21:30
Speaker 3: am I trying to provide you insight or am I
21:33
Speaker 3: trying to, you know, predict the unpredictable, because I think.
21:39
Speaker 1: Like I want to see where my team's going exactly
21:41
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. He's players.
21:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not trying to predict what team is going
21:46
Speaker 2: to take what player.
21:47
Speaker 1: He's just ranking the players, right, No, I get it, yes, no,
21:51
Speaker 1: But I don't think the audience does.
21:52
Speaker 2: I think they actually know field are trying to predict
21:54
Speaker 2: the entire draft.
21:55
Speaker 1: I don't way.
21:55
Speaker 3: I think there are people that, like, I mean, listen,
21:58
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not blaming anybody for doing this, but like,
22:01
Speaker 3: there are you know a lot of sites that are
22:02
Speaker 3: like tracking mock drafts and by all means track my
22:05
Speaker 3: mock drafts like this year, like and if I have
22:07
Speaker 3: the most accurate mock draft, if you think I'm above
22:11
Speaker 3: telling the world that I was the most accurate monck
22:13
Speaker 3: draft that you're at if you're goddamn mind. But my
22:16
Speaker 3: hope is that where we really shine is Hey, Jeremiah
22:20
Speaker 3: Love goes seven to the Commanders. I just had them
22:23
Speaker 3: going third of the Cardinals. This is already inaccurate, but
22:25
Speaker 3: here's what I think about it and why I like it.
22:28
Speaker 3: Or hey, Caleb down has just made it at the
22:30
Speaker 3: Cowboys at twelve. That to me is the best pick
22:32
Speaker 3: in the first twelve so far.
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Speaker 5: I didn't realize you were this big of an NBA fan,
24:22
Speaker 5: and now that is he's here too. We had Mark
24:25
Speaker 5: hakman On and I had an idea to save the
24:28
Speaker 5: NBA and fixed tanking.
24:30
Speaker 1: Oh Jay, it's called bank the tank.
24:34
Speaker 5: So in this scenario, let's go back to twenty twenty four,
24:38
Speaker 5: the Hawks get the number one pick. It's Zachary Richoche. Yes,
24:44
Speaker 5: they say, we don't want this. We forfeit our pick
24:46
Speaker 5: for the year. We're banking the tank. They get a
24:49
Speaker 5: briefcase that says bank the tank on it. Next year,
24:52
Speaker 5: the MAVs are picking one. The pick is in the
24:55
Speaker 5: commissioner's going up to the stage, but the Hawks come
24:59
Speaker 5: running down with their briefcase. They're cashing in their bank
25:02
Speaker 5: the tank.
25:03
Speaker 1: They have a tank in the bank. Yes, was this was.
25:05
Speaker 3: This Paul of s triple h currently year. That sounds
25:11
Speaker 3: very money in the bank. He takes swings man like
25:15
Speaker 3: eight days away or whatever it is. We're fifteen days
25:17
Speaker 3: awa from WrestleMania.
25:18
Speaker 1: This could be.
25:20
Speaker 3: I can't I've lost track. April is a great month
25:22
Speaker 3: for just like sports entertainment in general. Playoffs obviously, the
25:25
Speaker 3: draft masters I like it. I would just say no.
25:29
Speaker 4: This is you have so many follow up questions you
25:32
Speaker 4: just don't want to ask.
25:35
Speaker 1: Listen, you ten duys of a guy you don't like
25:36
Speaker 1: the it's a bad idea. Let's just be honest with me,
25:39
Speaker 1: all right.
25:39
Speaker 3: So I do believe this. I do believe that there
25:43
Speaker 3: is somewhat of the perfect storm taking place right now.
25:47
Speaker 3: It's we've had some We've had the introduction of this
25:51
Speaker 3: dramatic sorry here we go down the NBA rabbit hole
25:54
Speaker 3: once again. We had the introduction of this dramatic sweeping
25:57
Speaker 3: changes within the CBA right the aprils and all the
26:01
Speaker 3: rules that come on, the restrictions that come along with
26:03
Speaker 3: the aprons. Teams are still figuring out how to operate
26:07
Speaker 3: within the aprons. We also have what feels like this
26:10
Speaker 3: potentially you know, league altering draft with somewhere between six
26:15
Speaker 3: and eight great players, like guys that would not be
26:18
Speaker 3: consolation prizes that might go top three in other drafts.
26:21
Speaker 1: Over and yeah you think.
26:23
Speaker 3: So, yeah, I continue, Yeah, we have some guys at
26:28
Speaker 3: the top though, like you know, Aj and Darren definitely
26:30
Speaker 3: you know, have the chance to really, you know, change
26:32
Speaker 3: your franchise quickly. We also have the backdrop of like
26:35
Speaker 3: back to back crappy drafts coming around the corner again
26:38
Speaker 3: listening to people that do this for a living. This
26:41
Speaker 3: is what they say, is that, like the next couple
26:43
Speaker 3: of years are going to be pretty lean. So you
26:45
Speaker 3: might see over the next couple of seasons NBA teams
26:48
Speaker 3: saying all right, you know, like the Wizards have made
26:50
Speaker 3: it clear, this is our last crack at this, the
26:52
Speaker 3: Jazz have made it clear, this is our last crack
26:54
Speaker 3: at this. Like there are other teams that I think
26:57
Speaker 3: will view themselves, you know, obviously the Pacers or take
27:00
Speaker 3: a gap year with with Tyree's Caliburton, Like, there are
27:02
Speaker 3: teams that are just doing this very much. By twenty
27:05
Speaker 3: twenty five to twenty twenty six, design and next year,
27:08
Speaker 3: the number of teams that are just completely uninterested in
27:11
Speaker 3: playing basketball is going to be way way lower. Like
27:15
Speaker 3: I just the Kings, probably the Kings and the Bulls, right,
27:19
Speaker 3: like the games the Bulls. Yeah, it's it's it's a
27:22
Speaker 3: slim it's a slim list, man. Those Kings really need
27:25
Speaker 3: it though, So I do think that, like, yes, it's
27:28
Speaker 3: been it's it's like ridiculous. I was looking at the
27:31
Speaker 3: lines for some of the games tonight. It's like there's
27:34
Speaker 3: like lines nearing twenty points. I think the favored by
27:38
Speaker 3: eighteen over the Bucks eighteen and a half or something like.
27:41
Speaker 3: That's again at the you know, Yannis, but like, what
27:44
Speaker 3: a ridiculous thing. And but I also think that a
27:48
Speaker 3: year from now we're gonna get the it's the perfect storm.
27:52
Speaker 3: And some of the measures that I've heard and some
27:54
Speaker 3: of the proposals, even from the NBA, sound to me
27:57
Speaker 3: as a fan, a little bit outlandish. I would By
28:00
Speaker 3: the way, I just want to say this, I would
28:01
Speaker 3: love nothing more than feedback on this podcast to be
28:05
Speaker 3: exclusively about my basketball takes and mostly being like those
28:10
Speaker 3: were awful, stick to footballball whatever, like decent, you know,
28:14
Speaker 3: not the worst, not the best. But if people respond
28:17
Speaker 3: and they're like that was dog crap basketball thoughts, I
28:19
Speaker 3: will consider that a success.
28:21
Speaker 1: Now feel the NBA Draft lane is wide open.
28:23
Speaker 2: No offense to those who are doing it now both
28:26
Speaker 2: it's my podcast.
28:27
Speaker 1: I own all of it, and I'm giving it zero stars.
28:30
Speaker 1: This is awful. Go ahead, Taylor.
28:32
Speaker 5: So I forgot a key note in bank the Tank.
28:37
Speaker 1: No, we're back, We're back.
28:40
Speaker 5: Every win you get is a chance out of Bank
28:43
Speaker 5: the Tank blocker.
28:46
Speaker 1: So if they hadn't even heard.
28:48
Speaker 5: Yes, if the MAVs do a good a good enough
28:51
Speaker 5: job winning during the season and they still get the
28:53
Speaker 5: number one pick, they might have cured enough lottery chances
28:58
Speaker 5: to block the tank almost.
29:00
Speaker 3: Like a like a like a a card that you draw. Okay,
29:05
Speaker 3: so yeah, bank the tank might be a one. I
29:09
Speaker 3: do like to make the tank a little bit, but
29:11
Speaker 3: you know, the like the more tentacles to it to me,
29:14
Speaker 3: generally makes the idea less plausible. Like I want a
29:17
Speaker 3: straightforward tanker, a tank reform. I want like, hey, whatever,
29:23
Speaker 3: flat and lottery odds. That's it. You don't make the
29:26
Speaker 3: playoffs flat lottery odds.
29:27
Speaker 4: Everybody gets Where does the briefcase come in in your scenario?
29:29
Speaker 1: Though? You too? Mean Jesus Christ? So how for Field?
29:34
Speaker 5: A win for him is if people say his NBA
29:38
Speaker 5: opinions are bad. A win for me is if Field
29:40
Speaker 5: could go back on ESPN and just pitch to somebody
29:44
Speaker 5: bank the tank.
29:45
Speaker 2: It's a bad idea.
29:49
Speaker 1: I would have done that for you.
29:51
Speaker 4: I would have done that at the end of around
29:52
Speaker 4: the horn for you.
29:54
Speaker 1: Times timelines are different. Absolutely, you did do it.
29:58
Speaker 2: I mean, bring about the thought of dread just like
30:00
Speaker 2: I did.
30:01
Speaker 3: I said this I think already. I can't remember if
30:04
Speaker 3: we were recording or not. But Kuiper Yeah, dropped a
30:07
Speaker 3: selling voc reference on the middle of NFL Draft Daily
30:11
Speaker 3: on Thursday.
30:12
Speaker 1: Oh show forget.
30:13
Speaker 3: I want to talk about tank, you know, Bank the tank, right, yeah,
30:16
Speaker 3: I'll talk about Bank the tank.
30:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, but bring up a good idea.
30:20
Speaker 4: Well, he did say something earlier that I haven't stopped
30:23
Speaker 4: stopped thinking about. Field used the word doozy, and I couldn't.
30:27
Speaker 4: I was just where does that word come from? And
30:29
Speaker 4: apparently it's just it's a very disappointing answer. The most
30:31
Speaker 4: accepted theory is that daisy used to be to described,
30:34
Speaker 4: used to be used to describe something excellent, and it
30:37
Speaker 4: was just altered over time.
30:38
Speaker 1: I guess by lazy mouths or whatnot.
30:40
Speaker 3: Oh really, I I actually don't even know, like when
30:44
Speaker 3: I first heard the word doozy or why I've incorporated
30:47
Speaker 3: into my vocabulary.
30:48
Speaker 1: I probably is.
30:49
Speaker 4: One theory which should interest our Italian friend here, Taylor.
30:52
Speaker 4: Another theory suggested comes from the name of famed Italian
30:55
Speaker 4: actress Eleanora Duce, whose performances were deemed exceptional.
31:02
Speaker 3: Taylor ring a Bell never heard of him, of Coursepond
31:07
Speaker 3: it no longer no longer pies on.
31:10
Speaker 2: If I may just three quick questions before I get
31:12
Speaker 2: you out of here, Max Crosby, will he still be
31:14
Speaker 2: a Raider by the time we get to the draft
31:16
Speaker 2: or by the time we get to.
31:17
Speaker 1: The regular season?
31:18
Speaker 3: It's your podcast now, I think I think Max is
31:20
Speaker 3: a grazier Raider for twenty twenty six. I think the best,
31:22
Speaker 3: by the way, best possible outcome for him and the
31:25
Speaker 3: Raiders is play this season, play great, and then have
31:29
Speaker 3: the leverage to either say, we still have one of
31:31
Speaker 3: the best players in the NFL on our defense and
31:33
Speaker 3: we're getting closer to winning. Keep him for twenty twenty
31:36
Speaker 3: seven and beyond, or hey, he has shown that not
31:39
Speaker 3: only is he still a great player, but he's healthy.
31:42
Speaker 3: Anti up because desperation starts at the top of the
31:45
Speaker 3: off season and then it starts to kind of teams
31:49
Speaker 3: do things in free agency in the draft, and they
31:51
Speaker 3: talk themselves into being closer and closer to you know,
31:55
Speaker 3: sort of responsible and their goals and their off season
31:59
Speaker 3: plans and they ah, you know, but well, you know,
32:02
Speaker 3: the cap and assets and stuff like that. Get me
32:06
Speaker 3: back to like, give me to late February of twenty
32:09
Speaker 3: twenty seven, and there are gonna be some desperate teams,
32:12
Speaker 3: teams that once again came up short, and there's a
32:15
Speaker 3: lot One of the cool things we have right now
32:17
Speaker 3: in the NFL is that because there are a lot
32:19
Speaker 3: of great quarterbacks and a lot of really good teams
32:22
Speaker 3: with solid quarterbacks, a lot of teams go into this
32:25
Speaker 3: year thinking they like they should win. Like if if
32:28
Speaker 3: you're a Bills or a Ravens fan, or right Patriots
32:32
Speaker 3: fan or a Bengals fan, you go through the that's
32:36
Speaker 3: just like four teams in the AFC North and East alone,
32:40
Speaker 3: like if they don't win the championship next year, they're
32:41
Speaker 3: gonna be like, that was a disappointing season, right, that's
32:43
Speaker 3: the level they have reached with because of their quarterbacks
32:46
Speaker 3: in those cases, and the more swings and misses you have,
32:51
Speaker 3: the more likely you are to do something desperate.
32:54
Speaker 2: The Raiders signing of Kirk Cousins is that the perfect
32:57
Speaker 2: guy to kind of showman those of the ropes here
32:59
Speaker 2: because he's in the Business Hall of Fame.
33:01
Speaker 3: That guy, I mean just first ballot, like the actually
33:04
Speaker 3: the wing, one of the wings of the Hall of
33:06
Speaker 3: Fame named it is to be serious for a second.
33:13
Speaker 3: It actually is the perfect perfect person for this.
33:16
Speaker 1: It really is.
33:17
Speaker 3: Yes, I think it's perfect. One of the quarterback room
33:20
Speaker 3: can be so sacred like that you have to have
33:22
Speaker 3: the right pieces playing the right roles. And to have
33:26
Speaker 3: a bridge quarterback, it has to be a player who
33:29
Speaker 3: is there knowing that his time is borrowed right and
33:33
Speaker 3: that that time could come to an end. Fernando Mendoza
33:36
Speaker 3: could be named the starting quarterback August twenty seventh this year,
33:39
Speaker 3: or it might be the end of September, might be Halloween,
33:43
Speaker 3: could be the last five games of the season. But
33:45
Speaker 3: it's going to be when Kirk either starts to struggle
33:49
Speaker 3: or Fernando is just that damn good. So Kirk gets
33:52
Speaker 3: what he wants, which is an opportunity to start for
33:54
Speaker 3: some period of time. He gets another eleven point three
33:58
Speaker 3: million dollars guaranteed from the Raiders or I guess, and
34:02
Speaker 3: then eight point seven from the Falcons, but an extra
34:04
Speaker 3: ten million guaranteed. And he knows Klint Kubiak. And one
34:09
Speaker 3: of the things about Fernando is at Indiana, and this
34:12
Speaker 3: he doesn't call the place, but Fernando at Indiana played
34:14
Speaker 3: an offense that was more basic than what the offense
34:18
Speaker 3: for the Raiders is going to be. Kirk has played
34:21
Speaker 3: and Kirk, as you guys all know, like Kirk is
34:23
Speaker 3: not this superior talent physically, right, Kirk was never the
34:27
Speaker 3: fastest guy or had the strongest arm. He was the
34:29
Speaker 3: guy that won. And he talked about this very candidly
34:32
Speaker 3: on Netflix show the Netflix show Quarterback, where he's like,
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Speaker 3: I put everything I have into my preparation each week
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Speaker 3: because I know that, like my superpower is if I
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Speaker 3: can have a general idea of what's going to happen
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Speaker 3: once the ball is snapped, I can put the ball
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Speaker 3: where it needs to be more often than not. And
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Speaker 3: with Fernando when he played an offense, it was simpler
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Speaker 3: than what he's going to run. Now, learning from somebody
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Speaker 3: who is the ultimate processor and Kirk Cousins, who's less
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Speaker 3: talented then Fernando, I think will be a really really
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Speaker 3: beneficial thing for him.
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Speaker 2: What'd you make of the Tim McMann Is Jeremy Fowler
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Speaker 2: deep dive into the Eagles here and could we possibly
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Speaker 2: be looking at Jalen Hurts's final season with the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: I don't dismiss those sort of things, like I don't
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Speaker 3: have there are there's some people that are like, you know, hey,
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Speaker 3: this is this is uh, this is people. This is
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Speaker 3: people with agendas trying to grind axes from inside the
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Speaker 3: Eagles organization who probably aren't there anymore. That's not how
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Speaker 3: Jeremy and Tim Roll and Jalen like. I don't think
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Speaker 3: there's any mystery that like things were not hunky dory
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Speaker 3: last year compared to a typical post super Bowl season,
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Speaker 3: right Like, there's usually some grace period where it's, hey,
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Speaker 3: we may go down, but we're going down swinging, and
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Speaker 3: we've accomplished a ton together and we've got a chance
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Speaker 3: to bounce back. It's a grueling exercise to try to
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Speaker 3: go back to back Philly. It felt like there were
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Speaker 3: like some discontent individuals by the middle of the season.
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Speaker 3: AJ Brown clearly discontent. I still lean towards him not
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Speaker 3: being with Philadelphia then being with Philadelphia this year. I
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Speaker 3: just I don't have information. I just personally think it's
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Speaker 3: a j Brown will be a Patriot. It seems like
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Speaker 3: there's way too much I mean, does it feel that
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Speaker 3: way the Eagles committing to Aj you know, have.
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Speaker 2: The Eagles taking a wide receiver in the first round.
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, and then we'll we'll probably learn by
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Speaker 3: the way, about the Eagles plans for a J Brown
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Speaker 3: the draft, because they won't trade aj until after June first,
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Speaker 3: not to get into salary cap weeds, but it makes
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Speaker 3: more sense then. So if the Eagles draft the wide
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Speaker 3: receiver at twenty three, they're going to spend a month
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Speaker 3: after that at answering questions about whether they will trade
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Speaker 3: AJ Brown or not.
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Speaker 2: How old do you feel to I mean, I am
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Speaker 2: thirty eight, Yeah, but you're an old thirty eight My man.
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Speaker 1: even a wow, he knows he is.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh wow, you know.
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Speaker 3: So I've got the capacity here to prevent some sort
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Speaker 3: of interruption.
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