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Carson Beck’s Debut, 2026 Hall Of Fame Class, Bridgewater Retires, Cowboys Super Bowl Talk · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 2: What is going on everybody? John Middlecoff three and Out podcast.
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Speaker 2: How are you doing? Hopefully everyone's doing well, enjoying your
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Speaker 2: weekend or I guess had a good weekend. Now we
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Speaker 2: got football really back this week. Joint practices, we got
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Speaker 2: we got games Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, so we'll have
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Speaker 2: action on TV. It's hey, listen, it's a preseason, but
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Speaker 2: it's always nicees't in the background your TV. Just have
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Speaker 2: football on, real teams playing. I'm I did a little
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Speaker 2: staycation this weekend down in Newport Beach. Headed back up.
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Speaker 2: We'll be with Colin again this week on the herd
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Speaker 2: Uh And we'll just have podcasts firing from my from
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Speaker 2: my hotel room all week as well. So we'll just
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Speaker 2: keep the pedal to the metal and football season isn't.
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Speaker 2: We got a lot going on. The Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 2: Guys got Carson beck I recorded before that Hall of
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Speaker 2: Fame game, which obviously wasn't terrible. We got some news
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Speaker 2: coming out of Detroit which I think is kind of
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a reflection of something they've done poorly,
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Speaker 2: despite I would say, resurrecting the franchise. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: of other stuff going on around the NFL. We got
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Speaker 2: some major injury news and that'll probably be it for today.
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Speaker 2: and let's just dive right in. Well, let's start a
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Speaker 2: big picture with the Carson Beck situation in Arizona, and
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Speaker 2: I think the major difference. You know, if you're draft
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Speaker 2: in the first round as a quarterback, like you're gonna
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Speaker 2: get an opportunity either your first year or second year
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Speaker 2: to be the starting quarterback. Now, teams have never moved
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Speaker 2: off quarterbacks faster, but you're basically like a five star
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Speaker 2: recruit on scholarship. You're just gonna get a chance to play, right.
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Speaker 2: I saw with Trey Lance when the forty nine ers
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Speaker 2: did it his second year obviously he got injured and
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Speaker 2: you know that derailed his career in San Francisco, and
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Speaker 2: you know, turns out he probably wasn't that good. Anthony Richinson,
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Speaker 2: by a second year, was just kind of put on scholarship,
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Speaker 2: was named the starter. No, some of these guys are
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Speaker 2: good enough. They never relinquished that JJ McCarthy his second
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Speaker 2: year with just giving the starter job. But once you're drafted,
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Speaker 2: like after pick forty, because even in the top of
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Speaker 2: the second round, you know, typically those are where bad
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Speaker 2: teams are drafting. That quarterback gets a chance to play
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Speaker 2: his rookie year and fans kind of clamor to see
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Speaker 2: more of that guy Will Levis. But you know, Derek Carr,
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Speaker 2: you know Jimmy Garoppolo is in the middle of the
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Speaker 2: second round pick they get inserted and viewed as starters.
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Speaker 2: Once to me, you get to the third round, especially
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Speaker 2: in a draft like this year, you're kind of just
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Speaker 2: viewed as a backup. And a lot of times the
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Speaker 2: only depending on the team you go to, because once
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Speaker 2: you get to the third or fourth round, teams are
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Speaker 2: trading all over the place. The actual pick at that
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Speaker 2: point in the round, like you could be the second
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Speaker 2: pick in the third round, that could be the Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl champions who have traded back, who have traded up.
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Speaker 2: It's not as fluid as the first round, which is
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Speaker 2: kind of set, give or take depending on trades. You know,
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Speaker 2: for players the previous year on who's good and who's bad.
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Speaker 2: Right as you go through the round. Once you get
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Speaker 2: to the twenties, get the Jets aren't typically drafting in
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Speaker 2: the twenties unless they've made a trade in which they
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Speaker 2: got a first round pick back or the Browns like
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Speaker 2: last year, and as a quarterback typically you know, they
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Speaker 2: say it all the time. These football coaches, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: hard Knocks over the course of the next couple weeks
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Speaker 2: will have these assistant coaches talking about your resume. Is
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Speaker 2: the tape the eye in the sky doesn't lie right?
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Speaker 2: You look at most of us. I bet the majority
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Speaker 2: of people listening to this have a LinkedIn page right
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Speaker 2: and on your LinkedIn page. I remember a couple of
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Speaker 2: years ago, it's like people you may know, it is
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Speaker 2: like Howie Roseman. You know, it's like most people have
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Speaker 2: a LinkedIn page. Now a lot of you don't necessarily
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Speaker 2: use it, but at one point in time over the
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Speaker 2: past decade, you've created one, right, and if you go
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Speaker 2: on there, you can see kind of what you've done,
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Speaker 2: where you went to school, different jobs you had. Some
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Speaker 2: people might you know if they utilize that to try
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Speaker 2: to get jobs. It's pretty interactive. It kind of describes
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Speaker 2: what you've done. I mean, at one point in time
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Speaker 2: in my life, probably a decade ago, I was definitely
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Speaker 2: filling that thing out. I don't know if i've updated
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Speaker 2: it since, but that's your resume. It's like, oh, this
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Speaker 2: is what this guy brings to the table. And I've
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Speaker 2: had friends that get you know, searched by headhunters or
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Speaker 2: people recruiting them. For many of you or no people
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Speaker 2: that have been in those situations a lot of times
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Speaker 2: on LinkedIn. So in football, like your version of LinkedIn
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Speaker 2: is what you do on the field, right, that is,
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Speaker 2: And obviously the buzz of how you act, how you interact,
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Speaker 2: what type guy you are that spreads very fast. But
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Speaker 2: the majority of quarterbacks are pretty high level guys, right,
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Speaker 2: pretty good character. Some of them maybe rub some people
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Speaker 2: the wrong way, but for the most party, the large
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Speaker 2: majority of them fall in a category of just like
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Speaker 2: people like them, right. Not always the case, there are exceptions,
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Speaker 2: but even guys that aren't good players, right. I just
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Speaker 2: use the examples of like Trey Lance. Trey Lance was
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Speaker 2: really really well liked. He just couldn't play right Anthony Richardson,
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Speaker 2: You know, I think had some issues with It's almost
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Speaker 2: like he was so immature football wise, he didn't understand,
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Speaker 2: like you can't tep out of the game of quarterback,
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Speaker 2: like that's that's not allowed at this level. But you've
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Speaker 2: never heard like people don't like him, like he's a
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Speaker 2: bad guy. It's almost like he just didn't quite understand.
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Speaker 2: And Carson Beck. When you transfer sometimes in college football,
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Speaker 2: I think, what's talking to my scouting buddies, What can
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Speaker 2: it make? What can be difficult for guys is typically
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Speaker 2: when they leave a place, regardless of the school, a
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Speaker 2: powerhouse an average school, it's not always positive, right, Sometimes
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Speaker 2: like man, screw that guy, and you don't really know,
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Speaker 2: are they like a scorned lover? Right that there were
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Speaker 2: a couple of players this year in the high in
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Speaker 2: the draft that were transfer guys that I know people
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Speaker 2: at their first school that were not high on them,
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Speaker 2: and then at their second school you'd go in there
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Speaker 2: and they're kicking ass, taking names. They're clearly going to
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Speaker 2: go in the top twenty twenty five picks of the
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Speaker 2: first round. That school fucking loves them. They're like, hey,
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Speaker 2: total baggage. So it's like what do you do with it?
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Speaker 2: And Carson Beck had a little bit of that felt
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Speaker 2: like the Georgia thing ended weird, goes to Miami and
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Speaker 2: by the end that final stretch at miam clearly he
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Speaker 2: had a weird moment in Louisville where he threw a
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Speaker 2: bunch of picks and he kind of threw the coordinator
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Speaker 2: under the bus. And at that moment, I went, that
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Speaker 2: ain't good. But then on the field right down the
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Speaker 2: stretch of that season, in the playoff games, you just
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Speaker 2: watched him, you went, that's an NFL quarterback. Now I
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Speaker 2: don't know an NFL starter, but that's an NFL quarterback
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Speaker 2: because in the NFL you got sixty four guys and
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Speaker 2: honestly plus an extra fifteen to twenty that kind of
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Speaker 2: rotate back and forth between third and second quarterbacks. So
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Speaker 2: when you can run an offense the other thing Carson
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Speaker 2: Beck brings to the table. And I'm not saying like
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Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett's probably a better player to day, but I'm
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Speaker 2: also of the school if like you're one in five,
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Speaker 2: put him out there. See what you got. This guy
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Speaker 2: Mike Lafleur, who seems, you know, the four brothers clearly
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Speaker 2: understand offense well liked in the Shanahan community. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they've gone back between from Kyle to Sla Mike specifically
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Speaker 2: to Sean McVeigh, like they all kind of stay together.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think you just stay in that crew
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Speaker 2: just because it's like you're a family member, right. You know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes with family members you're like, eh, you know, if
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Speaker 2: this guy wasn't my family member, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: I'd hang out with them. It feels like all these
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Speaker 2: guys like each other, right, and they're pretty close, and
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Speaker 2: they kind of think talk and philosophically look at football
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Speaker 2: the same. And you know, Mike, Mike Lafleur, just look
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Speaker 2: at the guy. No chance what Carson Beck has experienced
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Speaker 2: from Kirby Smart and Mario Cristobal two. I would say
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Speaker 2: now that Saban and Urban Meyer out of football probably
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Speaker 2: two of the top three or four most intense guys
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Speaker 2: in all football. You would say Kirby Smart would be
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Speaker 2: number one just in intensity and how hard he can
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Speaker 2: ride guys. Every story I've ever heard about Mario, he
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Speaker 2: kind of falls under the same category. What's Mario's background?
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Speaker 2: Offensive line? What are offensive line guys do the yell?
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Speaker 2: You know? So I just think if you're Carson Beck,
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Speaker 2: like that is a great start to your career because obviously,
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Speaker 2: best case scenario for the Cardinals, they're actually kind of feisty,
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Speaker 2: Jacoby's playing, well, they're paying a fifteen million, Maybe Carson
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Speaker 2: back doesn't even play. Then they also sign Gardner Minshew.
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Speaker 2: So that film for you as a quarterback can carry
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Speaker 2: Like there are guys that play in the league that
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Speaker 2: have long careers at quarterback that never get regular season snaps.
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Speaker 2: Their entire resume is based on the preseason and that
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Speaker 2: can carry them for a long period of time. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Chase Daniels famously had like a fourteen year career he
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Speaker 2: barely ever played in NFL regular season snaps. It's a
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Speaker 2: unique position that way, because all these other positions. If
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Speaker 2: you're a guy that's like a third fourth round pick
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Speaker 2: and you're a backup right your special teams guy, eventually
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Speaker 2: with injuries, you're gonna get a chance to like get
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Speaker 2: some snaps at linebacker. Rotate in with like the dying
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Speaker 2: packages on defense, if you're a deep defensive lineman, most
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Speaker 2: teams rotate seven eight nine guys right running backs. Think
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Speaker 2: how many running backs go down throughout the course of
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Speaker 2: a season, how many guys. Even teams like Kyle Shinahan
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Speaker 2: who plays Christian McCaffrey, the majority of snaps they have
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Speaker 2: run through guys behind him. So you get opportunity quarterback
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Speaker 2: kind of out if you have a durable guy that
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Speaker 2: just plays a lot like you might never play, which
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Speaker 2: if you do well in the preseason, that can carry
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Speaker 2: you a long way. So incredible start one. He just
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Speaker 2: had a lot of momentum coming in through the playoff games.
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Speaker 2: Some of his just big runs, timely throws, just playing
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Speaker 2: against high level defenses and being tough. But that is
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Speaker 2: an excellent start. And I don't care if you go
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Speaker 2: will he's playing against guys that don't necessarily feel like
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Speaker 2: they're going to be playing in November and December. Games
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Speaker 2: for good teams of course like that. That's part of
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Speaker 2: the preseason, But as a quarterback it's less about who
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Speaker 2: you're going up against. Especially in twenty twenty six, Ray
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Speaker 2: Lewis and ed Reied are not gonna be on the
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Speaker 2: other side of preseason games. But when you show that
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Speaker 2: you can run an offense, be accurate, stay in the pocket,
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Speaker 2: coaches and front office people go. That translates because I
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Speaker 2: saw you do that in college. So very cool start
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Speaker 2: to the year. It just the game felt pretty interesting
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Speaker 2: and really quick. Before we get to some other stuff.
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Speaker 2: This Hall of Fame class, I've texted a couple of people,
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Speaker 2: this has to be one of the most high character
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame classes in the history of the sport.
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Speaker 2: And listen, I have said forever. Most people understand this
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Speaker 2: at this point and juncture, in this time in our
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Speaker 2: life and what we've seen in the information we have.
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Speaker 2: There are a lot of guys in Cando, Ohio that
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Speaker 2: got some questionable resumes off the field. You know, people
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Speaker 2: you would not trust in a lot of different situations.
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Speaker 2: You could argue people that have shown over the course
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Speaker 2: of their life hard to employ, you know, outside of
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Speaker 2: on the football field. But cand O'hio's based on how
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Speaker 2: good of a player you are, right, and you watch
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Speaker 2: this crew, which were great players, right, I mean, Drew
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Speaker 2: Brees shattered NFL records. Obviously, he resurrected a dog shit
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Speaker 2: franchise with Sean Payton and you know, went on to
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Speaker 2: become the most accurate quarterback in the history the league
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Speaker 2: past Steve Young five thousand yards, felt like every year
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Speaker 2: he was you know, people like, you're a little too
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Speaker 2: hard on him. Again, he's one of the best quarterbacks
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Speaker 2: I've ever seen, right, he just happened to be in
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Speaker 2: the era of you know, Brady Manning and Rogers who
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Speaker 2: were just better. You know, it doesn't mean that he's
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Speaker 2: not all time, Because I go, is he a top
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Speaker 2: ten quarterback all time? People like, you're crazy, Well, I
12:38
Speaker 2: just listened three guys in his own era that were
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Speaker 2: better than them. No one would have Drew Brees of
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Speaker 2: Joe Montana. They wouldn't have him above John Elway. What
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Speaker 2: are we at now, six? You know, I think Patrick
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Speaker 2: Mahomes clearly better. I know he hasn't won a Super
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Speaker 2: Bowl yet, But if you told me I could take
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Speaker 2: one guy, you know, at twenty three years old, like
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Speaker 2: I would take Josh Allen over Drew Brees. Now we
13:01
Speaker 2: got a ways to go, right, And I just think that,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not even counting some of the guys from
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Speaker 2: the seventies. Obviously, Dan Marino would go in there. I
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Speaker 2: think it feels like I'm talking shit. He's clearly a
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Speaker 2: no doubt about it, first ballot, Hall of Famer, great player,
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Speaker 2: incredible leader, franchise quarterback, like it's all you can have.
13:21
Speaker 2: And Taylor made for a dome and an offense that
13:24
Speaker 2: is gonna, you know, ride a guy that can sling
13:26
Speaker 2: the pill, because the fucking guy could sling the pill,
13:29
Speaker 2: run an offense and run a franchise. And Louke Keighley
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Speaker 2: like guys like all When I look at Luke Keigley,
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Speaker 2: I just think like all American. It's like, well he's
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Speaker 2: in the pros. I just all American, like the all
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Speaker 2: American guy. Now he coaches like little league football with
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Speaker 2: Greg Olsen, the entire team shows up. I'm thinking about.
13:48
Speaker 2: I was watching those guys, some of the clips of
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Speaker 2: them coaching, like eighth ninth grade, and I was telling
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Speaker 2: my wife, who were going for a walk today by
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Speaker 2: the water, and I was like, we were just talking
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Speaker 2: about football a little bit. I had some takes I
14:02
Speaker 2: had to get off my chest. I was like, can
14:04
Speaker 2: you imagine being like some random eighth grader that happens
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Speaker 2: to living there and they're like, who are your coaches?
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Speaker 2: They got greg Olsen, Luke Keigley. My coaches in like
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Speaker 2: ninth grade were dudes that had played high school football
14:16
Speaker 2: in like the late eighties early nineties. Now this is
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Speaker 2: like two thousand. When I'm playing. They were like steroid monsters.
14:23
Speaker 2: They were, you know, I don't even know if they
14:25
Speaker 2: were employed. We had some other guys that were like
14:28
Speaker 2: work in construction that just love football. I think that
14:31
Speaker 2: are claim to fame with an athlete was like a
14:34
Speaker 2: former UC Davis swing tackle who was teaching history at
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Speaker 2: high at the high school. We had a dude that
14:41
Speaker 2: ran like a tire shop, good old line coach. I
14:44
Speaker 2: love the guy, but I mean that that was they
14:46
Speaker 2: got Luke Keikley and greg Olsen breaking down. I mean,
14:50
Speaker 2: what is what are we talking about here? Obviously Adam
14:56
Speaker 2: Vinteri taking shots of Belichick all time great kicker Larry Fitzgerald,
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Speaker 2: Like I mean between Larry Fitzgerald, Drew Brees, and Luke Keigley,
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Speaker 2: Like every single year when those guys were playing, you
15:08
Speaker 2: could just name them the man of the Year. Like
15:10
Speaker 2: you could have just rotated through those three guys for
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Speaker 2: like a decade straight, and no one would have complained, like,
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Speaker 2: that's the level of group we're talking about. Obviously, next year,
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Speaker 2: I think Tom Brady's in the class. Maybe that's in
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Speaker 2: two years. But it was cool to watch. I saw
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Speaker 2: some of the clips of the speeches and the emotion
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Speaker 2: of Drew you know, you know, Keith Ley's I don't
15:33
Speaker 2: want to say more stoic, but just feels very like him.
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Speaker 2: And obviously Larry is just you know, it's one of
15:41
Speaker 2: those things would Larry be thought of? And I saw
15:44
Speaker 2: him giving a shout out to Randy Moss if you
15:46
Speaker 2: had put him even if he wasn't get Peyton or
15:50
Speaker 2: Manning or those same guy Peyton Manning, Peyton or Brady
15:54
Speaker 2: or Drew Brees or Rogers, if you just gave him,
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Speaker 2: like I don't know, Philip Rivers or Joe Flacker, Like
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Speaker 2: what would his would we be talking about him just
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Speaker 2: even at a higher level than we already are and me,
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Speaker 2: he's a first ballot Hall of Famer and he did
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Speaker 2: it with I mean, let's face it, kind of a
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Speaker 2: dogshit organization and a team that, for a lot of
16:12
Speaker 2: periods of time during his career was just a joke.
16:15
Speaker 2: They hit that, you know, the one year with Kurt Warner,
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Speaker 2: and then the couple of years with Bruce Arians But
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Speaker 2: a lot of these years it was like, what is Larry?
16:22
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17:52
Speaker 2: thing is that the news today that Teddy Bridgewater is
17:55
Speaker 2: going to retire. I think the Lions had brought him
17:59
Speaker 2: back last year. You remember he had coached high school
18:01
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Speaker 2: all American human being. I do think the Lions deserve
18:20
Speaker 2: a little criticism for this, and I will be consistent
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18:29
Speaker 2: have resurrected I mean right there with the Cardinals. You
18:34
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18:38
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18:42
Speaker 2: and they have turned them into If you tell me,
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18:51
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Speaker 2: incredible job, but their most important position when they got
18:58
Speaker 2: the job and they traded for staff effort. They have
19:01
Speaker 2: gone all in on Jared Goff. And listen, when you
19:04
Speaker 2: get a franchise quarterback that's in the top, you know,
19:07
Speaker 2: even if it's not a Josh Allen or Lamar and
19:09
Speaker 2: Mahomes Burrow, that level guy, that next tier, you still
19:12
Speaker 2: go all in on them. Right, look at the next
19:14
Speaker 2: ten guys from Jalen Hurts to Dak Prescott, Jared Goff,
19:21
Speaker 2: Purty like all those teams, just give them a ton
19:25
Speaker 2: of money. Goal in on the guy. I get it right,
19:28
Speaker 2: It's proven you can go to the playoffs, compete in
19:30
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I understand it, but like, is it smart?
19:34
Speaker 2: If you would have invested all your money over the
19:36
Speaker 2: last decade in Tesla, Google, Apple, Amazon, you would have
19:41
Speaker 2: made a lot of money. But most people would tell you,
19:44
Speaker 2: including like Warren Buffett, probably not the right approach because
19:49
Speaker 2: on given years, things can get funky, things can get wacky,
19:53
Speaker 2: and weird things can happen. You never know when you're
19:55
Speaker 2: gonna be in position you might need some of that
19:57
Speaker 2: money and it's way down. So divert for diversifying your
20:01
Speaker 2: portfolio is a big deal. And Ron Wolf who learned
20:07
Speaker 2: from the forty nine er Bill Walsh kind of Al
20:09
Speaker 2: Davis way, you always invest in quarterbacks, and the Packers
20:14
Speaker 2: have made an organization around that philosophy, going back to
20:19
Speaker 2: Mike Holmgren and Brett Farv. Even once they got Brett Fharv,
20:22
Speaker 2: they were constantly drafting guys, not in the first couple
20:25
Speaker 2: of rounds, but in the middle rounds. It's like, every year,
20:28
Speaker 2: take couple percent of your portfolio, invest in some stocks
20:31
Speaker 2: that maybe have I don't want to say a lottery ticket,
20:35
Speaker 2: but just you know, different industries, some upside potential. You
20:39
Speaker 2: don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.
20:42
Speaker 2: And that's how a lot of the good teams, especially
20:44
Speaker 2: in the NFC, have operated. They've constantly invested in that position.
20:48
Speaker 2: The Eagles have gone all in on Jalen Hurts for
20:51
Speaker 2: like the last five years. You know, if you go
20:54
Speaker 2: to Chad GPT and you type in how many quarterbacks
20:56
Speaker 2: have the Eagles drafted in the last four years? Would
21:00
Speaker 2: come up In twenty twenty three, they drafted Tanner McKee
21:04
Speaker 2: in the sixth round. In twenty twenty five, they drafted
21:07
Speaker 2: Kyle mccorda in the sixth round. This year, which I
21:10
Speaker 2: had forgotten all about, they drafted Cole Peyton from North
21:13
Speaker 2: Dakota State in the fifth round. So basically every year
21:16
Speaker 2: on the third day of the draft they're taking a quarterback.
21:19
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're constantly churning out the Gardner Minshew's, the
21:22
Speaker 2: Kenny Picketts, the Andy Daltons, because you never know when
21:27
Speaker 2: catastrophe could hit all of a sudden, Jalen Hurts could
21:30
Speaker 2: just break his leg and you go, well, we have
21:33
Speaker 2: a playoff level roster. We're not just gonna wave the
21:36
Speaker 2: white flag. That's what Bill Pollian did for a long time.
21:40
Speaker 2: And Tom Moore told Gruden it's my favorite quote of
21:42
Speaker 2: all time. When John Gruden goes, why does Peyton Manning
21:46
Speaker 2: get one hundred percent of the reps in every practice?
21:51
Speaker 2: He said, well, if Peyton Manning goes out, we're fucked,
21:55
Speaker 2: and we don't like to practice fucked. And we saw
21:58
Speaker 2: that come to fruition. When Peyton was out, they were
22:01
Speaker 2: the worst team in the league. They were the worst,
22:04
Speaker 2: but they weren't because when they had a capable quarterback
22:07
Speaker 2: the next year with Andrew Luck, they won like eleven games,
22:09
Speaker 2: went to the playoffs. So if they just would have
22:11
Speaker 2: had a serviceable backup, right, if they would just invest
22:15
Speaker 2: it in that position, Again, you don't need to put
22:18
Speaker 2: fifty percent of your portfolio. I'm not asking the Lions
22:20
Speaker 2: to draft a second round quarterback here, but you have
22:23
Speaker 2: had players over the last couple of years. Take a
22:26
Speaker 2: Riley Leonard, which all signs point to him being the
22:29
Speaker 2: backup in Indianapolis beating out Anthony Richardson, the forty nine
22:33
Speaker 2: ers drafted Brock Purty in the seventh round. It saved
22:35
Speaker 2: their franchise. A couple of years later, they draft Rourke
22:38
Speaker 2: from Indiana in the seventh round after they've already signed
22:43
Speaker 2: guys like Sam Darnold mac Jones, Like it just why not, like,
22:47
Speaker 2: why not use one of these picks on a guy,
22:49
Speaker 2: because you never know if you do hit on that player. Hell,
22:52
Speaker 2: if that guy in the sixth or seventh round just
22:54
Speaker 2: becomes your backup, that'd be like tenxting a stock in
22:58
Speaker 2: my opinion. If that guy becomes the starter, that's like
23:02
Speaker 2: five hundred xing the stock. And I think the Lions
23:05
Speaker 2: they've done one guy over the last five years, and
23:07
Speaker 2: it was Hendon Hooker. They drafted him the third round
23:10
Speaker 2: and it didn't last long, and I wonder if it's
23:11
Speaker 2: spooked him. But I even this year. The Chiefs last
23:15
Speaker 2: year got funky Andy Reid's from the school of acquiring quarterbacks.
23:19
Speaker 2: What do they do? They go out and they get
23:21
Speaker 2: justin Fields and they draft Garrett nus Meyer in the
23:24
Speaker 2: late I think the seventh round, who at one point
23:27
Speaker 2: in time was viewed as like a top fifty pick
23:28
Speaker 2: before the twenty twenty five LSU season fell off the rails.
23:33
Speaker 2: And I think you have to have that mindset, even
23:35
Speaker 2: when you have a franchise quarterback, to always be churning
23:38
Speaker 2: behind him. Now, you don't know who's gonna come out,
23:40
Speaker 2: like how he doesn't know when camp starts, Like could
23:43
Speaker 2: Kyle McCord all of a sudden take a huge jump?
23:45
Speaker 2: Could Cole Payton lap McKee and McCord? Could is Andy
23:49
Speaker 2: Dalton gonna be better than them all? But if I
23:51
Speaker 2: got enough guys behind him, just let him figure it
23:54
Speaker 2: out and let the competition rise, because you don't have
23:57
Speaker 2: to worry like, none of those guys are beating out
23:59
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, just like if the Lions had done that,
24:02
Speaker 2: none of those guys are beating out Jared Goff. But
24:05
Speaker 2: if you get into a situation and Jared Goff breaks
24:08
Speaker 2: a leg, Josh Dobbs, you know, even Teddy Bridgewater, like
24:12
Speaker 2: I don't love that situation behind him. Like your team,
24:16
Speaker 2: if if you're without a quarterback for a month, you
24:19
Speaker 2: should not even worry about going to and two because
24:21
Speaker 2: you're like, our roster's so good, our backup's fine, and
24:24
Speaker 2: we're gonna and we're gonna roll. And look at Seattle
24:28
Speaker 2: they got last year, they draft mil Row. They also
24:31
Speaker 2: signed Sam Darnold to a big contract, and they bring
24:33
Speaker 2: back Drew Locke to be a backup. You know, And
24:36
Speaker 2: I think that mindset the Rams a couple of years ago.
24:40
Speaker 2: They take Stetson Bennett in the middle rounds. This year,
24:43
Speaker 2: we can debate the quarterback situation, but they draft Ty
24:48
Speaker 2: Simpson in the first round. They already have Stafford. They
24:50
Speaker 2: were trying to get Kirk Cousins. They were also wanted
24:53
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo back, Like you're just constantly giving yourself a
24:57
Speaker 2: position that our team is too good. It's one thing
25:00
Speaker 2: you're bad. Right, then you're just like whatever. I mean,
25:02
Speaker 2: let's just we'll just let this ship sink and hopefully
25:05
Speaker 2: find our guy in the draft. But when you have
25:08
Speaker 2: a playoff roster, subtract the quarterback, you want to give
25:11
Speaker 2: yourself a buffer zone that where you got a life
25:15
Speaker 2: raft if the uh you know, if the boat sinks,
25:19
Speaker 2: like you don't want to be in a position. If
25:20
Speaker 2: the boat sinks, everyone dies, right, you don't want it
25:23
Speaker 2: to be the Titanic. And it does feel like the
25:26
Speaker 2: Lions are a little Peyton manning Jared Goff, Like if
25:31
Speaker 2: you told me Jared Goff was out for two months.
25:33
Speaker 2: I mean, look a look at the Bengals last year,
25:36
Speaker 2: right now, their team had some holes. But I just
25:39
Speaker 2: think the mindset of why wouldn't you just take a
25:43
Speaker 2: guy if not every year, every other year in the
25:45
Speaker 2: fifth to seventh round, right, and then over the course,
25:48
Speaker 2: some of those guys are going to become long term backups.
25:52
Speaker 2: You can even argue the fourth it's like, well, I
25:53
Speaker 2: don't want to waste to pick well half the time
25:55
Speaker 2: you take a wide receiver a linebacker in the fourth round.
25:58
Speaker 2: Two years later, heaven on your tea anyway, So you
26:01
Speaker 2: might as well invest in the most important position in sports,
26:04
Speaker 2: especially to be like insurance to your starting quarterback that
26:08
Speaker 2: you're paying a bunch of money. That's why, you know,
26:11
Speaker 2: Like the Colts, I will give them credit. Once they
26:14
Speaker 2: got in the Anthey Richard situation, they learned that that
26:18
Speaker 2: was a nightmare, and they bring in Flacco, Daniel Jones. Obviously,
26:23
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones, I don't ever remember a guy tearing his a.
26:29
Speaker 2: I mean he broke his leg as well. Remember he
26:31
Speaker 2: broke his leg first, Venny tore his achilles, which I
26:34
Speaker 2: think is again I'm no doctor, just act business of
26:37
Speaker 2: Greek cal PAULI. No big deal. Once you hurt one leg,
26:42
Speaker 2: the other leg, the over compensation, I think it's fair
26:45
Speaker 2: to assume that elements of that came into play. I
26:48
Speaker 2: also think sometimes with the torn achilles, it's almost like
26:51
Speaker 2: a you know, like when a tire gets worn down.
26:54
Speaker 2: Eventually it pops, it rips, something bad happens. I think
26:58
Speaker 2: sometimes that happens with achilles. Again, that's just from watching
27:01
Speaker 2: injury reports for a long period of time, but they
27:05
Speaker 2: are hyping. I saw I was watching an NFL network
27:08
Speaker 2: on the TV this morning and they were they were
27:10
Speaker 2: at like Colts Camp and Sauce Gardner, And I always
27:13
Speaker 2: take it with a grain of salt. Your teammates hyping
27:15
Speaker 2: up a player. He's like, what I'm I'm seeing out
27:18
Speaker 2: of this guy? He claimed he could be a top
27:20
Speaker 2: five quarterback in faris Daniel Jones. The first ten games
27:23
Speaker 2: last year, he was until he got injured. I just
27:26
Speaker 2: don't comprehend or quite understand how you can return from
27:29
Speaker 2: that injury so quickly. And like, I don't think they're
27:32
Speaker 2: just making this up. He clearly probably looks pretty healthy
27:35
Speaker 2: and it's slaying the thing around. It's pretty crazy. But
27:38
Speaker 2: to me, this is the Riley Leonard thing. They draft
27:42
Speaker 2: him a couple of years ago. I was reading today
27:45
Speaker 2: a story that all signs point to him beating Anthony
27:47
Speaker 2: Richardson out, and I do wonder. One thing rap Sheet
27:53
Speaker 2: said this morning on Training Camp Live or whatever it's called,
27:56
Speaker 2: is that after he snapped the band into his eye,
28:00
Speaker 2: I don't think it's seeing has ever come back one
28:03
Speaker 2: hundred percent. I mean, that's got to be one of
28:06
Speaker 2: the worst, most painful, random pregame injuries in the history
28:10
Speaker 2: of pregame injuries. To use a band to stretch your arm,
28:13
Speaker 2: and the thing snaps and hits you in the eye.
28:16
Speaker 2: Now listen, there are already a lot of question marks
28:18
Speaker 2: about him as a player, but he definitely couldn't afford
28:21
Speaker 2: to lose any eyesight. I guess part of it has
28:22
Speaker 2: been he's like dropping shotgun snaps. But that's just sometimes
28:29
Speaker 2: you have a disastrous, really high pick. It's they are
28:33
Speaker 2: not alone. It's happened to other people. It happened in
28:34
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers with Lance, It looks like it
28:36
Speaker 2: happened to Minnesota with JJ McCarthy, it happened with the
28:38
Speaker 2: Colts and Anthey Richardson. It's happened countless times throughout my
28:43
Speaker 2: adult life. Players in the top ten, top fifteen at
28:46
Speaker 2: quarterback that just never could figure it out, that never
28:49
Speaker 2: were good enough, that just got exposed as they play.
28:52
Speaker 2: The key is you gotta pivot fast, because the longer
28:55
Speaker 2: you give that guy the keys of your car, the
28:56
Speaker 2: more likely that car is going to go into a
28:58
Speaker 2: telephone pole. And I think they've done everything humanly possible
29:02
Speaker 2: to pivot. And now the way they're hyping up Daniel
29:05
Speaker 2: Jones is like, is this thing gonna work? Because if
29:07
Speaker 2: he If he is a really good player, they're probably
29:09
Speaker 2: gonna be pretty good on offense. Sauce also claimed they're
29:12
Speaker 2: gonna be a top five defense. We gotta see that.
29:16
Speaker 2: The hard part about training camp is when you get
29:19
Speaker 2: these like prominent players, like a guy like Sauce or
29:24
Speaker 2: you know whoever. You just go around the league to
29:26
Speaker 2: any teams, like more famous players, they always start to
29:29
Speaker 2: convince you. It's like, God, this team is hard. Knock
29:32
Speaker 2: says that to me every year. I was telling someone
29:34
Speaker 2: the other day, it's like, I think, see Adams is
29:36
Speaker 2: gonna repeat, like, look how good their team is. The
29:39
Speaker 2: vibes of training camp cool. The coaching staff is a
29:42
Speaker 2: good John is So you just this time of year
29:45
Speaker 2: when everything's going right and listen, that's a huge part
29:47
Speaker 2: of life, right some people. I say this for all
29:50
Speaker 2: the time about Bryson D. Chambeau. His best quality is
29:54
Speaker 2: when things are going well, he can put the thing
29:56
Speaker 2: into overdrive. He can be like Lewis Hamilton, start laughing people.
30:01
Speaker 2: But when the engine ain't working, he is fucked. He's
30:05
Speaker 2: gonna finish, He's gonna unravel. Incredible front runner. And when
30:10
Speaker 2: you build a football team, just like if you build
30:12
Speaker 2: a good company. He just like if you you know,
30:14
Speaker 2: you try to raise your good kids, there are gonna
30:18
Speaker 2: be bumps in the road, right. Everyone can have a
30:21
Speaker 2: smile on their face when they're making money, when they're
30:25
Speaker 2: in the honeymoons phase of a relationship, when they're winning
30:28
Speaker 2: football games. I don't care who you are, everyone's in
30:31
Speaker 2: a good mood. That's why Saban's viewed as like one of,
30:34
Speaker 2: if not the greatest coaches of all time any sport ever.
30:37
Speaker 2: Because someone told me once who was around the program,
30:42
Speaker 2: inside the program, and other coaches this is a well
30:45
Speaker 2: documented kind of philosophy had they're like Nick Saban was
30:49
Speaker 2: actually good to be around after a loss. That's actually
30:52
Speaker 2: when he was positive. He would not to the players,
30:56
Speaker 2: to the coaches. I think he was hard, but in
30:58
Speaker 2: turn of the players, that's when he was his most
31:00
Speaker 2: upbeat is after a loss. He was the worst after wins.
31:05
Speaker 2: Because in Belichick, same thing because the complacency. They just
31:10
Speaker 2: they never wanted you to get too high on your
31:12
Speaker 2: own supply, and I think you got to be very
31:16
Speaker 2: careful about that when you're kind of finding out different
31:21
Speaker 2: type players, because evaluating guys, it's why so many guys
31:26
Speaker 2: from some of these good schools. You're like, this guy
31:28
Speaker 2: was so good in college. It's like, well, yeah, he
31:30
Speaker 2: never lost a game. He played with a bunch of
31:32
Speaker 2: NFL players, he never really had to go through much
31:36
Speaker 2: like Josh Allen Lamar Jackson at Louisville. I mean they
31:41
Speaker 2: were okay, Mahomes at Texas Tech, Drake May at North Carolina.
31:47
Speaker 2: They didn't exactly show up every week and go, God,
31:49
Speaker 2: we're gonna beat the fuck out of you. That's not
31:52
Speaker 2: how it went when Matt Lioner Reggie Bush. Every single
31:55
Speaker 2: game they showed up to for three straight years, it
31:57
Speaker 2: was like we're wrecking shop. Doesn't mean they won every
32:01
Speaker 2: single game, but if you played for Alabama for a
32:04
Speaker 2: decade plus in their heyday under Saban, they never showed
32:07
Speaker 2: up to a game thing and they were gonna lose.
32:09
Speaker 2: I can't imagine they were underdogs more than five times
32:13
Speaker 2: in a ten year span, right, And obviously a lot
32:16
Speaker 2: of those guys have gone on to be really good players.
32:18
Speaker 2: But it's like I'm high on the Cowboys. I think
32:22
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are gonna be good. I've said that over
32:24
Speaker 2: and over. I stand by it. I think they got
32:26
Speaker 2: a chance to be dramatically different than last year. I
32:32
Speaker 2: don't love everything Jerry says. I take it with a
32:36
Speaker 2: grain of salt. He's allowed to say whatever he wants.
32:38
Speaker 2: He obviously says whatever he wants. So it's like I
32:40
Speaker 2: don't get too caught up in some of the Jerry stuff.
32:42
Speaker 2: But like when Brian Schottenheimer's talking super bowls, I don't
32:47
Speaker 2: need Brian, Like I want to hear Sabin's process. I
32:51
Speaker 2: want to hear Bezos's process. Like what's Elon's process to
32:55
Speaker 2: build a company. I don't need to know Brian Schottenheimer's process.
33:00
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley. A lot of these coaches they love using that,
33:03
Speaker 2: Like I don't care, just show me the results. And
33:06
Speaker 2: then once like after a decade, like, yeah, what's mcveigh's process.
33:09
Speaker 2: But if McVeigh came out year one, it's like, bro,
33:12
Speaker 2: pump the breaks is win some games first, to just
33:15
Speaker 2: say this, we're not We're not you know, running from
33:19
Speaker 2: this super Bowl talk. That's where we want to be.
33:21
Speaker 2: I just I don't love that because to me, that's
33:24
Speaker 2: like you're like bypassing other goals. How about let's just
33:30
Speaker 2: be a double digit win team. How about let's just
33:32
Speaker 2: win the division. How about let's get to the championship
33:36
Speaker 2: game like that. They're sprinting a marathon before they've even
33:40
Speaker 2: learned a jock. That's the one thing, and I get it.
33:43
Speaker 2: I think he feels pressure from Jerry. I saw this.
33:47
Speaker 2: Brandon Parker, the new DC hates. For example, if you
33:51
Speaker 2: go to forty nine or practice, I think Eagles practice
33:54
Speaker 2: is like this too. I can't speak. I haven't been
33:56
Speaker 2: to all these practices, but there's a reason some of
33:58
Speaker 2: these videos from these team periods go viral and some
34:03
Speaker 2: do not, because at forty nine or practice, you cannot
34:07
Speaker 2: film anything past like the third or fourth period of practice.
34:10
Speaker 2: So really, I can't film anything good at some practice.
34:13
Speaker 2: I think, like the Cowboys, I don't think there are
34:15
Speaker 2: any rules for the media, right and the fans. You
34:19
Speaker 2: can film whatever you want and post it, right. And
34:23
Speaker 2: I saw Brandon Parker's like, I don't really love this.
34:27
Speaker 2: You know, it's one thing. By week four our tapes out,
34:31
Speaker 2: everyone knows. But he even said at places he used
34:35
Speaker 2: to be you could see we would utilize that if
34:38
Speaker 2: we were playing the Cowboys early, especially if they had
34:40
Speaker 2: a new coordinator and Brian Schottenheimer kind of shot back.
34:46
Speaker 2: Not again, I don't want to say shot back. He
34:48
Speaker 2: wasn't even mad, he was just they asked him about it,
34:50
Speaker 2: he said, yeah, I love it. It's people want to see
34:53
Speaker 2: it where the Cowboys kind of what Jerry would have said.
34:55
Speaker 2: And I give him credit. You know, he's got a
34:57
Speaker 2: manage up. He knows where he's breast buttered. And I
34:59
Speaker 2: personally more with Brian, because even Brian was like Marty
35:02
Speaker 2: shot and ever would have jumped off a bridge before
35:04
Speaker 2: he ever allowed this. It's football. Everyone's running the same plays,
35:07
Speaker 2: everyone knows the same playbooks. Your game plan is not
35:11
Speaker 2: just your base plays, right, you manipulate it, you just
35:16
Speaker 2: I think coaches get a little caught up on that stuff.
35:20
Speaker 2: And plus during the season, no cameras are around league wide.
35:24
Speaker 2: In anything, everything in the league is universally the same.
35:29
Speaker 2: It's basically after individual drills, cameras are off and they're
35:33
Speaker 2: not even I think they get kicked out. They're not
35:34
Speaker 2: even allowed to watch, so it's not like you can
35:36
Speaker 2: even watch the period in which they're installing plays they're
35:39
Speaker 2: gonna run in the games. But I just which it's
35:43
Speaker 2: the one thing that gives me pause. I mean, my
35:46
Speaker 2: two big predictions. I always say three right now. Love
35:49
Speaker 2: the Saints. I saw a throw the other day. It
35:52
Speaker 2: was on my Twitter timeline of Tyler shuck this like
35:54
Speaker 2: deep out route. It was like, oh, that's that's a
35:58
Speaker 2: fucking thing of beauty. They did just lose a starting
36:01
Speaker 2: guard to an ACL. They've lost a dtackle on a
36:03
Speaker 2: guard to an ACL. So no, not devastating the Cowboys
36:07
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36:18
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Speaker 2: couple things before we get out of here. Kyle Shanahan,
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Speaker 2: he uh, I don't know if he's officially passed the
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Speaker 2: protoc and even he was saying, my protocol is different
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Speaker 2: than a player would because I don't have to actually
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Speaker 2: play a game. It's all kind of a feel thing.
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Speaker 2: He said. He's coaching the preseason game this week against
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Speaker 2: the Titans, which one thing, why are the Titans and
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Speaker 2: the forty nine ers playing a preseason game? The Titans
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Speaker 2: are coming out to Santa Clara. That is an insane
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Speaker 2: travel for a preseason game. It really is. You should
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Speaker 2: have to play people in your geographic timeline, like, let's
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Speaker 2: make it. I understand it's not about the costs or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and they're joint practicing. To me, it's like the Eagles
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Speaker 2: play the Steelers, play the Ravens, play the Pats. If
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Speaker 2: you're the Diners, you know you play the Chargers, you
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Speaker 2: play the Raiders, you play maybe Denver because you're not
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Speaker 2: gonna play the Rams. I guess for Seattle, but I
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Speaker 2: just traveling multiple time zones to me in the preseason
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Speaker 2: feels a little outrageous. But Kyle Shanahan says he's going
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Speaker 2: to gonna coach the game and he's rocking a mustache.
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Speaker 2: The one concerning thing coming out of forty nine or
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Speaker 2: practices Nick Bosa, who tours ACL last year, who early
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Speaker 2: in camp Trent Williams say, as good as ever seen him,
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Speaker 2: and now he hasn't been able to practice because a
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Speaker 2: niece horness. Kind of a pretty big red flag for
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Speaker 2: a guy with multiple knee surgeries. By far, the most
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Speaker 2: devastating injury I would say so far in training camp
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Speaker 2: would be Laramie Tunzel. You'd have to I don't know
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Speaker 2: exactly where he would rank in the best left tackles.
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Speaker 2: He's a little older now, he is still a high
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Speaker 2: end tackle. They're paying him a bunch of money. They
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Speaker 2: don't have that many high end tackles. That is a
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Speaker 2: devastating blow. He tore his triceps just like out indefinitely.
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Speaker 2: That is, if you lose a big time pass rusher,
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Speaker 2: if you lose a big time corner, if you lose
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Speaker 2: a big time offensive weapon, you can manipulate all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Like there is no replacing a Jamar Chase or Justin
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Speaker 2: Jefferson or a Miles Garrett or Nick Bosa. But you
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Speaker 2: can still, like you can blitz some more, or you can,
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Speaker 2: you know, change up some schemes. You can overload one.
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Speaker 2: You could just manipulate it. Right wide receivers, you can
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Speaker 2: kind of change your offense if you're down certain personnel
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Speaker 2: and you have strength difference. Look at last year the Steelers,
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Speaker 2: it's like they only had the one wide receiver. They
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Speaker 2: ran everything through the tight ends. And when you lose
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Speaker 2: a left tackle, what are you gonna do? Like that,
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Speaker 2: you just you're done, I mean you really are. It is.
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Speaker 2: Their quarterbacks already had some injury issues. Some of those
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Speaker 2: are self inflicted. Run around but my point is like
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Speaker 2: they traded for that guy because it's hard to acquire
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Speaker 2: high end left tackles. He was available, they paid a
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Speaker 2: lot for him. I mean, they just gave up a
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Speaker 2: high second round pick in this year's draft as part
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Speaker 2: of that trade. So I just it sucks. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine when he gets hurt in practice,
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Speaker 2: he goes off and then later you get the news
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Speaker 2: from the trainer. They're like, yeah, he's out for the season.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you're like, what, it's August eight, He's he's just out.
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Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, he's out, and there's just no one
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Speaker 2: on the When I was with the Eagles in the
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Speaker 2: off season, Jason Peters towards Achilles, and I think he
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Speaker 2: actually did it again as he was rehabbing, kind of
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Speaker 2: like Deshaun last year. We signed some there. It just
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Speaker 2: it was a nightmare. And it's one thing to lose
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Speaker 2: a player for a game or two. It happens, right,
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Speaker 2: Blane Johnson's miss games, Trent Williams miss games. But when
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Speaker 2: you lose Slater in training camp last year, you either
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Speaker 2: move your right tackle to left tackle or you take
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Speaker 2: your swing tackle and you put him at left tackle.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's just not good. The There is no
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Speaker 2: like the quarterback thing, you can turn that out. There
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Speaker 2: are only so many six four six five guys with
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Speaker 2: you know, feet like a grizzly bear in arm length,
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Speaker 2: you know like a center in the NBA, who have
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Speaker 2: the athleticism, the size, the power. There's just nothing you
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Speaker 2: can do. I feel bad for Commanders fans because there
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Speaker 2: already were some question marks that that is a massive,
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Speaker 2: massive blow. The other one I saw is Luther Burden.
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Speaker 2: Hurd is growing. I always said growing, and I think
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Speaker 2: it's groin. I've never really been able to sit groin
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Speaker 2: say that word that. That clearly was Ben Johnson. We've
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Speaker 2: talked about in the Pods favorite player on the team.
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Speaker 2: Ben Johnson has been talking up Luther Burden like he's
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Speaker 2: a mix between Jerry Rice, Aman Ross, Saint Brown and
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Speaker 2: Tyree Hill like he he has been hyping this guy
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Speaker 2: up since Ota, saying buy the stock, buy more stock,
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Speaker 2: buy more stock. In training camp, Luther Burton, Luther Burton.
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Speaker 2: We got to keep getting Luther burdon that moment when
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Speaker 2: he got hurt in camp and then later in the
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Speaker 2: meeting when the trainer comes in. Now, by all accounts
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Speaker 2: we don't have I would say verified length of this.
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Speaker 2: I think sometimes it can be tricky. I would not
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Speaker 2: have wanna been around Ben Johnson at dinner. I would
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Speaker 2: if I was an assistant coach, if I was a scout,
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Speaker 2: if I was a player trying to make the team,
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Speaker 2: I would give that give that cat some space, because
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Speaker 2: that you don't talk up a guy that much who
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Speaker 2: you drafted. I think it was a little surprising when
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Speaker 2: they originally drafted him last year and he clearly, like listen,
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Speaker 2: DJ Moore can play, right. I think Dj Moore is
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Speaker 2: gonna have a good season if he's healthy. But not
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Speaker 2: every player meshes with every coach, right, just like we
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Speaker 2: don't all mesh with people we work with. We don't
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Speaker 2: mess with people we work for. We don't mesh with
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Speaker 2: you know, everyone we date over the course of our lives.
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Speaker 2: It's life. You move on. Some people just aren't compatible,
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Speaker 2: and clearly Luther Burden and Ben Johnson were becoming very compatible.
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Speaker 2: But it's he's injured in early August, so hopefully it's
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Speaker 2: something that he can get back. But that's scary that
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Speaker 2: that kind of area when you talk about you know, explosion,
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Speaker 2: change in direction, always something that you know, gets you
43:55
Speaker 2: to pause a little bit, be like, whoa Cousins Crosby
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Speaker 2: that this might be the funniest story of the weekend
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Speaker 2: that they got into a brawl at practice and the
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Speaker 2: next day. I think Kubiak probably played this pretty well
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Speaker 2: because he got to set the tone to the team like,
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Speaker 2: if you fight, you will not be allowed to practice
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Speaker 2: the next day. And if your cousins in Crosby, who cares?
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Speaker 2: And honestly at this I mean is cousins in Crosby.
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Speaker 2: Cousins is like forty years old and Crosby coming off
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Speaker 2: an injury, gonna take every rep and practice every day
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Speaker 2: every all training camp. Probably not. You're probably gonna give
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Speaker 2: them a veteran day off once or twice during August.
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Speaker 2: So it's actually kind of an easy one. But it
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Speaker 2: also sets the tone to like the fifty you got
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Speaker 2: a ninety man roster. How many open spots do the
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Speaker 2: Raiders have? I would imagine a lot. You know guys
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Speaker 2: they've drafted the last couple of years, you know, fringe guys,
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Speaker 2: some of the guys they brought in. It's like, you
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Speaker 2: can't afford to miss a practice, So this is our
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Speaker 2: new standard. You get into a fight. The next day
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Speaker 2: you will be on the sideline with street clothes, next
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Speaker 2: to all the coaches. And if you're a fringe practice
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Speaker 2: squad guy, if you're a fringe roster guy, this type
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Speaker 2: shit that could cost you. So nice little move by
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Speaker 2: there by Kubiak, who is pretty crazy. I would imagine
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Speaker 2: some people listening work in family businesses. So you've been
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Speaker 2: around it your entire life. Whatever that could be, you know,
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Speaker 2: some sort of it could be, you know, in the
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Speaker 2: restaurant business, it could be in you name it. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the construction business. It's just something you have been around
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Speaker 2: your whole life. And the advantages you have if you
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Speaker 2: like that industry is your institutional knowledge of the business
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Speaker 2: is just going to dwarf people that start doing it
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Speaker 2: in their twenties. I mean, if you think about the
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Speaker 2: Kubiaks or Kyle or Sean McVay whose dad was the
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Speaker 2: GM of the forty nine ers in the eighties and
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Speaker 2: early nineties, when you've been around his dad was a coach.
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Speaker 2: When you've been around football from the moment you could walk,
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Speaker 2: it's like and then you end up loving it like
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Speaker 2: the people that you aspired to be like even watching
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Speaker 2: some of the clips of Larry Fitzgerald who was the
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Speaker 2: ball boy for the Minnesota Vikings in the nineties, and
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Speaker 2: obviously he had the guy given talent to be a
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Speaker 2: great player, but the advantage of just different knowledge and tricks,
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Speaker 2: and from a coaching standpoint, like, can you imagine what
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Speaker 2: Clint and Klay Kubiak have just seen throughout their life.
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Speaker 2: I mean, when they were like ten eight years old,
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Speaker 2: their dad was an assistant coach for the team that
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Speaker 2: was winning Super Bowls. I mean, it's pretty crazy. It's
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Speaker 2: cool to see that these guys. You know, Clay's calls
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Speaker 2: all the plays for the Niners in preseason, whether Kyle
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Speaker 2: has a concussion or not. So I think we'll end
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Speaker 2: on that one thing. We did a little staycation. I
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Speaker 2: just I stayed down in Newport Beach for the weekend
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Speaker 2: instead of going home, and we were walking around the
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Speaker 2: the beaches kind of up high, kind of on the
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Speaker 2: cliffs where they are just monstrosity homes. I mean these homes,
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Speaker 2: were googling them, typing them into Zillo. Some of them,
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Speaker 2: you know, bought thirty years ago for like two million dollars,
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Speaker 2: so it's hard to tell, you know, you get the
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Speaker 2: Zillow estimate clearly worth. Some of the most expensive real
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Speaker 2: estate probably in this country is Newport Beach, Laguna Beach.
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Speaker 2: Kind of this little stretch. My issue is, and I
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Speaker 2: was thinking about this, if I had unit, if I
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Speaker 2: was like Jeff Bezos and just everything in the world
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Speaker 2: was free, some of these houses just look like I
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Speaker 2: can't even imagine owning this pad and having this pad
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Speaker 2: overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The problem is is all the
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Speaker 2: beaches here are public in all the streets, like everyone
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Speaker 2: just parks in front of your house. So it's like,
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Speaker 2: to purchase one of these pieces of real estate at
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Speaker 2: this point in time, it takes an ungodly amount of money,
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Speaker 2: but then you can't control like most where I live.
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Speaker 2: I live in a cold sac. It's just not gonna
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Speaker 2: have a random person parking in front of my house. Besides,
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Speaker 2: maybe like construction workers or they're doing something on neighbors
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Speaker 2: or plumber or whatever. Right now, granted we don't really
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Speaker 2: like my front of my house is not really used
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Speaker 2: as a view right it just looks at the cul
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Speaker 2: de sac. But if you buy a house on the
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Speaker 2: beach or that overlooks the water, a huge part of
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Speaker 2: that the reason you gravitate toward that property if you
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Speaker 2: have the funds, is for the view. And then if
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Speaker 2: your view is just constant cars in front of your house,
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Speaker 2: I was like, I think that would demitist to the
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Speaker 2: value for me. It's like, even if I had the
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Speaker 2: money at whatever, these numbers and some of them are
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Speaker 2: probably just I mean you're talking like I would guess
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Speaker 2: they're fifty sixty seventy million dollar homes. I think that
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Speaker 2: would not That would make it immediately not really worth it.
48:51
Speaker 2: And then you'd go down a certain street with a
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Speaker 2: house with an incredible view, and it would have a
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Speaker 2: fire hydrant and the red I would need to get
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Speaker 2: on the city council. I would need to get in
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Speaker 2: with the fire department. I'd be can we paint this red?
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Speaker 2: Because if you paint it red and you get the
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Speaker 2: no cars, but just every single day, people parking, people moving,
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Speaker 2: it would just for again, which happens at a lot
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Speaker 2: of people's homes right all over America. But if you're
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Speaker 2: gonna pay the amount of money that it would cost
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Speaker 2: a pay, I think that would deter me from doing that.
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Speaker 2: I really would first, beautiful as some of this property is,
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Speaker 2: and it is. It's pretty stunning. I mean, you just
49:27
Speaker 2: get out to the Pacific Ocean. I love the desert
49:30
Speaker 2: in Scottsdale, but sometimes just looking at the ocean just
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Speaker 2: it kind of makes It's like going to the lake
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Speaker 2: in Tahoe or any of the lakes you know all
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Speaker 2: over America. Do you guys go to There's just something
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Speaker 2: about just looking at the water that just put yourself
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Speaker 2: in a good mood. And that's that's what it did
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Speaker 2: for me the last couple of days. And now I
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Speaker 2: head back to Los Angeles, where, you know, I wouldn't
49:50
Speaker 2: exactly compare it to this, you know, I'm not. I'm
49:52
Speaker 2: not coming back in California, definitely never living in southern California.
49:57
Speaker 2: But if I did, I would I would find a
49:59
Speaker 2: way to be where I'm sitting right now over up
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Speaker 2: there in the in the Beverly Hills crew, which is
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Speaker 2: not really my scene to say the least. Audios, We
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Speaker 2: will talk soon and have a good one. The volume