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Seth Rollins Talks Wrestlemania, Iowa and Chicago Bears · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast presented by BET three
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  Speaker 1: am Shad Milman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.
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  Speaker 1: As always, I am joined by my co host, my companion,
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  Speaker 1: This weekend, we have one of the greatest spectacles in
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  Speaker 1: sports entertainment, WrestleMania Fortia. I mentioned on the show earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week. I'm going to WrestleMania in Philly this weekend. Today,
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  Speaker 1: very special guest. One of the most recognizable and popular
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  Speaker 1: figures in the history of professional wrestling wrestling, one of
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  Speaker 1: wrestling's true work horse. This is the visionary, the revolutionary,
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  Speaker 1: Seth Freakin' Rollins. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, Hey, Hey, hey, Hey, what's up man? Thank you
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  Speaker 2: guys for having me. I'm excited to be here. Great introduction.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I appreciate that. I appreciate that man
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  Speaker 1: Must be twenty one or older in present in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia, or eighteen and older in Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler or one eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred bets off in Iowa terms conditioned restrictions apply. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to get into a lot of stuff. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to get into WrestleMania. We're going to get into your career.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into your Bears fandom. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to unpack in this show. First of all, Last
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  Speaker 1: night in Brooklyn Monday Night Raw that was a brutal
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  Speaker 1: ending with the rock whipping your back repeatedly. How are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling right now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean as frank as I can be. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like crap. I feel like I got I got hit
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  Speaker 2: by a car.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Look, I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: The plan didn't come together as I thought it maya
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  Speaker 2: didn't account for Roman Reigns. Truly believed that he was
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  Speaker 2: not going to be around there at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the night, as.
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  Speaker 3: Is his customary overture.
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  Speaker 2: He does his business and leaves, and I figured that
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  Speaker 2: would be what we were getting on Monday. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought we'd be able to wrap the rock kind of
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  Speaker 2: in the old the ring there and take care of him,
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  Speaker 2: get a little piece. So we got a little piece
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  Speaker 2: of them. You know, Roman was a step ahead. I'll
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  Speaker 2: give credit where it's due. But WRESTLEMANI is a few
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  Speaker 2: days away, so we got to be better. We got
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  Speaker 2: five days or four days now. We got to come
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  Speaker 2: up with something better, and we will come up with
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  Speaker 2: something better. But yeah, I'm feeling it, man, I feeling
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can see, you can see it on
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  Speaker 2: my face. I got kicked right in the mouth right
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  Speaker 2: and the cheap I got welts all over my body
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  Speaker 2: underneath this little vest here, I got it all. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not exactly the way I wanted to end the
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  Speaker 2: night on Monday, but you know, more motivation, a bigger
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  Speaker 2: chip on my shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: So onto Philly, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: What happens over the next few days. You say you
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  Speaker 1: got to start planning for something bigger and better when
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  Speaker 1: you get into WrestleMania. So what happens over the next
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  Speaker 1: few days is you both recover and then try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what the game plan is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta know, physically recover obviously from being you took
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, and then mentally you got to you got
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  Speaker 2: to come up with a plan, A plan B, A
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  Speaker 2: plan see, a plan D. Because these guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: make no mistake about it, and they're not dumb. They
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  Speaker 2: are where they're at in our industry for a reason,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna come with backup plans on backup plans,
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  Speaker 2: and so you got to have contingencies yourself. So it's
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  Speaker 2: just about putting something together, a game plan together you
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  Speaker 2: know it's better than the other teams, and then executing
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  Speaker 2: when the time comes and that's truly where we're at.
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  Speaker 2: And I pride myself. You know, I'm an architect, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a visionary. I see a lot of things before they happen,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm excited to see what Saturday brings, and then
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  Speaker 2: hopefully on the Sunday it's a fair fight for Cody
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  Speaker 2: and he can take that title off of Roman. I
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  Speaker 2: can defend my title against Drew and we all live
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  Speaker 2: happily ever after.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you mentioned it's an action packed weekend. You're
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  Speaker 1: on both nights, you and Cody against the Rock and
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  Speaker 1: Roll Reigns on Saturday, You're defending your championship on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Simon professional better. Let's ask Seth what he thinks about
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  Speaker 1: the current situation with the odds.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, something going to ask you about how does it
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  Speaker 4: feel to be a big underdog in this and it
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  Speaker 4: really is looking like a David versus Goliath?
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  Speaker 3: Does it feel that way?
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  Speaker 4: Are you just one of those where you say to yourself,
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  Speaker 4: this is my life, I'm dealing with you. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care what the odds are. I'm playing for it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, if you asked me, at any point in my career,
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  Speaker 2: have I ever been the odds on favorite, I would
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  Speaker 2: tell you absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: I've been the underdog from day one.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I grew up in Buffalo, Iowa, in a small
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  Speaker 2: town less than a thousand people. The odds that we're
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  Speaker 2: even sitting here having this conversation about me main eventing
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  Speaker 2: the biggest WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 3: Of all time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the Rock, I'm not Roman, I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: Cody Rhoads. I don't have a last name to fall
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  Speaker 2: back on. I don't have any of these ends. I
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  Speaker 2: had to work my way from absolutely nothing to getting
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  Speaker 2: to this point, and so I have never cared that
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  Speaker 2: the odds were against me. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: knowing the odds were against me, having that extra chip
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  Speaker 2: on my shoulder is always what's made me who I am,
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  Speaker 2: and so in some ways I operate best when I'm
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  Speaker 2: back against the wall, when it's one thousand to one.
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  Speaker 2: You know this, WrestleMania is no different. We're here. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth thought I'd be in the ring with
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  Speaker 2: a Rock at WrestleMania forty, but here we are. And
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  Speaker 2: now I got a chance to do something that nobody's
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  Speaker 2: ever done and pin these guys at Night one and
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  Speaker 2: win the title.
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  Speaker 3: Keep my title on night two and make history.
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  Speaker 4: Plenty of golfers bet on themselves. I was wondering, are
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  Speaker 4: you going to bet on yourself? I know you're already
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  Speaker 4: bet on yourself in life. You have a paycheck, it
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  Speaker 4: all worked out. Is it always a thing people talk
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  Speaker 4: about it or not?
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  Speaker 3: Really? And that's interesting. You know. Obviously our game is
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  Speaker 3: a little bit different than the PGA.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's like, I'm not even a luck person,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's like some bad juju, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's like, I think it's a weird thing
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  Speaker 3: to be putting money down on yourself. You know. I
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  Speaker 3: dig that confidence.
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  Speaker 2: I dig that confidence, and maybe for some people that
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  Speaker 2: helps them take their play to the next level, knowing
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  Speaker 2: that there's some extra cash involved or an extra part
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  Speaker 2: of the bottom line if they were able to push through.
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  Speaker 2: But for me, I never needed that motivation. Man, All
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  Speaker 2: I needed was a doubt.
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  Speaker 3: I need people doubt. Mean, that's what makes me better.
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  Speaker 1: So your entrances are fantastic and your clothes. Your clothes
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  Speaker 1: are fantastic. What is your annual clothing budget just for
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for your entrances?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: What's my annual budgets. We're probably talking upwards a six
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  Speaker 2: figure on the budget for that. I don't know exact
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  Speaker 2: numbers because I don't really put a cap on fashion.
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  Speaker 2: It's very important part of what I do, and so
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  Speaker 2: I don't have like a lid. I go, look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll manage it, We'll figure it out. I'm a smart
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  Speaker 2: enough guy to know what's worth it or not. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm always about pushing the envelope. So let's see how
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  Speaker 2: far we can take it. But annual probably probably pushing
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  Speaker 2: six figures.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And when you're walking in you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: said you're from a tiny town in Iowa, a thousand people.
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  Speaker 1: You're walking in to WrestleMania. You're walking into these huge events.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are going to be
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  Speaker 1: at the Link on Saturday Sunday night, Probably seventy thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: What does it feel like when you're walking in? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you seeing in your mind's eye as you're
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  Speaker 1: walking out of the tunnel and getting ready to perform?
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  Speaker 2: Man, when you walk out the curtain and you step
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  Speaker 2: onto the stage. For me, over the years, that's as
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  Speaker 2: soon as I get through and I'm there and I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the center of it. It's almost like an eye
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  Speaker 2: of the hurricane type situation. For me, the biggest hurdle
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  Speaker 2: and the hardest part for me is getting to that moment.
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  Speaker 2: If you can get to that moment, then it's just
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  Speaker 2: what I've done for years, what I do nightly, right,
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  Speaker 2: It's just get out there, do your job, perform and
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  Speaker 2: make magic. And so I've been so accustomed to doing
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  Speaker 2: that for so long that now once I'm in that space,
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  Speaker 2: once I'm in that little circle, man, it's just like
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  Speaker 2: a piece and everything's buzzing around me, and there's chaos
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  Speaker 2: here and up there and everywhere where I'm at.
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  Speaker 3: That's like my zen garden. Man. It's an awesome place
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  Speaker 3: to be, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't always that way in the beginning. There
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  Speaker 2: were a lot of butterflies, a lot of nerves. But now, man,
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  Speaker 2: I feel safe. I feel safe there. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: nobody's more equipped to do this than me, not anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the entire world. And so, yeah, it might not
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  Speaker 2: be the answer people expect, but it's there's a certain
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  Speaker 2: level of peace that comes over me when I finally
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  Speaker 2: step out there and I'm one with that audience.
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  Speaker 1: Can you see fans like I envisioned that being so chaotic,
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  Speaker 1: Like there's so much noise. It's a wall of noise,
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  Speaker 1: right and you're going in and you're gonna have to perform,
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  Speaker 1: and all eyes are on you. Can you see individual faces,
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  Speaker 1: Can you hear individual voices?
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  Speaker 3: Or is it all a blur?
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  Speaker 2: Most of it's a blur, Like most of its all
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  Speaker 2: leads together. Occasionally there's like these special situations where you
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  Speaker 2: make this eye contact with somebody in the crowd. You know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's a kid or somebody. You can just feel
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  Speaker 2: that this moment means as much to them as it
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  Speaker 2: does to you, and there's this connection that you have
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  Speaker 2: between the two of you. And then and then it's just.
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  Speaker 3: You two, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Then the rest of the room goes away and there's
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  Speaker 2: this moment where anything that comes out of their mouth,
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  Speaker 2: I can see, whatever's on their face, I can read.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's the special thing about what we do
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  Speaker 3: in WWE.
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  Speaker 2: This connection we have with our audience is unlike anything
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  Speaker 2: in the world. It's not like the stage and it's
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  Speaker 2: not like you know, the super Bowl. It's a different dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: It's all of it rolled into one and the biggest thing,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest separators, that interconnectedness that we have with our audience,
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  Speaker 2: and it's.
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  Speaker 3: On display like through the roof.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to WrestleMania, because everybody's emotions are heightened.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everybody's there to feel something and it's a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing to be able to share that experience, you know,
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  Speaker 2: en mass, but also individually with some people.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, so you're in Philly. Simon is a huge
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  Speaker 1: Eagles fan. I am, unfortunately a huge Bears fan. You
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  Speaker 1: are a huge Bears fan. Were you pro trading for
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields? Were you anti trading for Justin Fields? I
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  Speaker 1: know the answer, but I want you to explain it.
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  Speaker 2: I would have liked to have kept Justin Fields. I
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  Speaker 2: personally was a Justin Fields guy. I love the progress
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  Speaker 2: that he made. I love the relationship that he built
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  Speaker 2: with the city and with the team, and if you
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  Speaker 2: watched his progress over the years, I would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to continue to stick with him and getsy for what
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  Speaker 2: it's worth. I think when you get a coordinator and
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  Speaker 2: to be in the same system and that comfortability over
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  Speaker 2: the years, that's when you really start to see these
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  Speaker 2: guys take the next steps and we start to change
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  Speaker 2: things up. It becomes difficult, you know. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think the team's ceiling this year is higher if you
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  Speaker 2: have Justin Fields on the squad. And that's not taking
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  Speaker 2: anything away from Caleb William but bottom line, and he's
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  Speaker 2: the presumed number one pick.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom line, a rookie is a rookie. And yes, you
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  Speaker 3: look at CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Stroud and you say, oh, if we could land that,
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  Speaker 2: then you know we're in a special place. But then
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  Speaker 2: that's not the rule, right, that's the exception. There is
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  Speaker 2: a learning curve for rookies, no matter how good they
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  Speaker 2: are in college, when they come to the NFL. And
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  Speaker 2: so I think, you know, I hope we're not looking
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  Speaker 2: at a situation where we take take a step back
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  Speaker 2: and then you end up letting go of your head
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  Speaker 2: coach and you start making changes again, and not basically
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  Speaker 2: you're in the same cycle.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I was a fan of keeping Justin, but I
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  Speaker 2: also understand the current regime and what they felt they
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  Speaker 2: needed to do. And if you're looking at a prospect
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  Speaker 2: that you think is a generational prospect, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to do that for the future of your organization, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got the kind of the Wheels in motion. I
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  Speaker 2: understand that. I totally understand the decision, but I personally
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  Speaker 2: love Justin. I wish we would have kept them around
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  Speaker 2: for at least a couple more years to see out
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  Speaker 2: this contract and see what kind of progression we could
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  Speaker 2: have made in that division.
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  Speaker 4: Are you still attached to him now? Are you still
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  Speaker 4: going to cheer for him for Pittsburgh where you're like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna love this guy, Williams, But
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  Speaker 4: in the back of your mind, you're gonna kind of
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  Speaker 4: be staring really well, there's no reason.
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  Speaker 3: Look, he's not in my division anymore.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: If we get to February and somehow we're competing in
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  Speaker 2: the super Bowl, you know, then it's a different story
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  Speaker 2: than I'm saying take him out. But for now, he's
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's over in the AFC. He's competing right
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  Speaker 2: now with Russell Wilson for a starting job in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: which it will be very interesting to see how that
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  Speaker 2: plays out. Yeah, but yeah, man, I'm rooting for his
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  Speaker 2: success wherever he lands, and if he lands in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: I hope he does great. I hope he knocks everybody's
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  Speaker 2: socks off in that division. Another tough division, NFC North
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  Speaker 2: is stacked too, so it's gonna be difficult for the
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  Speaker 2: Steelers to find her footing. But yeah, I'm rooting for man.
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  Speaker 2: I hope he does great things.
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  Speaker 4: You're broken, just like Chad's broken. All Bears fans are broken.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that you guys love Justin Fields this much.
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  Speaker 4: He literally came and did nothing for you guys for
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  Speaker 4: about three years, and it's just excuse. We're like, well,
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  Speaker 4: the GM didn't give him the pieces or the coach
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  Speaker 4: didn't do this with him. You guys are the nicest fan.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to say what you're gonna love Williams
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  Speaker 4: just because he'll win you guys nine games and you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like, oh my god, we've won nine games.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe he won nine games where Justin Fields
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  Speaker 4: in three years he won what you had six games? Like,
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  Speaker 4: I love how much you both love and miss Justin Fields.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are both hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Wait wait a minute, wait a minute, but you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about my quarterback and the pieces around him. You look
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  Speaker 2: at your quarterback, Jalen Hurts are supposed to be like
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  Speaker 2: got paid out the wazoo. What has that guy done
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  Speaker 2: for your team. And I'm not taking anything away. These
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  Speaker 2: are talented guys. These guys are way better than I am,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to knock them at all. But
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  Speaker 2: you look at the Eagles organization, You look at the
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  Speaker 2: pieces that were put around Jalen Hurts to help him succeed,
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  Speaker 2: and the team did well. They did really well in
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  Speaker 2: that organization. You look at Chicago and what kind of
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  Speaker 2: dump they were coming out of when they when the
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  Speaker 2: new regime came in and when Poles came in. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it takes some time to get to that spot. They're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna go from three and fourteen to a playoff
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  Speaker 2: team overnight, even though they almost did this season, and
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  Speaker 2: so you give them that another year to continue to
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  Speaker 2: regress and build on what the regimes putting behind them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying justin Field is Pat Mahomes by any
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  Speaker 2: stretch of the imagination, but he's certainly a starting quarterback
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, and if you put the right pieces
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  Speaker 2: around him and stay consistent, he's a guy that can
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  Speaker 2: make plays that other people can't make and certainly a
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  Speaker 2: guy that could take this team to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And then once you get to January.
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  Speaker 2: Anything can happen, so they'll be knocking Justin Field like
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  Speaker 2: we thought he was gonna be the savior. It takes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys in a good system to make
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  Speaker 2: a franchise successful for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Six freaking Rollin Simon.
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  Speaker 4: Well say that is fair, but you dive into numbers,
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  Speaker 4: and I think Barrismons will quickly realize that Justin was
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  Speaker 4: never going to be this guy. He did wilt in
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: the fourth quarter in a lot of games for you
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: guys where you don't think back to it. But the
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: thing in the NFL me and chat talk up at
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: the time, there are legit ten really good guys. Right,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: there's thirty two quarterbacks, and any given year there are
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: ten guys who are like you know what, those ten
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  Speaker 4: are really legit, and you want one of those unicorns.
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  Speaker 4: That's the goal saying Justin Fields cannot be that unicorn.
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  Speaker 4: He might not be in that unicorn. But that's my
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  Speaker 4: whole thing with the Williams thing, where I think you guys,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're gonna quickly realize seeing when he plays
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  Speaker 4: for you how different he is. Justin Fields does have upside.
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  Speaker 4: Williams upside is so insane that that's wy I'm so
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  Speaker 4: excited for Bears fans, Like, if you get a unicorn,
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  Speaker 4: your next fifteen years are good. Like the Jalen Hurts thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's reason I have so much peace in my heart
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  Speaker 4: with Jalen Hurts is he won the Super Bowl against Spags.
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  Speaker 4: An incredible defensive coiner for the Kansas City Chiefs, and
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  Speaker 4: he had four total touchdowns and three for three hundred yards.
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  Speaker 4: Like if a Bear's quarterback did that, you guys would
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: be like me. You'd be like, I don't even care.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Last season sucked. I love how low you guys are,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I'm like, you guys are so
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: loyal to Fields. You just want a great quarterback. And
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: I just think you guys need to move on, like
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: from the the ex you used to love. You have
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: a beautiful woman right in front of you coming in
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  Speaker 4: in Winlands. I think it's gonna it's gonna change you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Respective you're gonna forget about Fields.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I hope you're right. And I'm not a scout. I
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: can't evaluate that kind of talent. Like I don't have
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: the time and I don't have the wherewithal to be
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: able to evaluate those types of things. I see, I
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: see this kid play, I see his highlight reel and
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: he looks incredible on tape. How that translates to the NFL,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. You look at fields numbers
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: at Ohio State. I mean, you could have made a
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: case for him. Who knows, you know, you just never know.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: When these guys get to the NFL. What it's a crapshoot.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: You know, the odds are he'll he'll be a good quarterback,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: but he's got to have the right system. He's got
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: to have the weapons around him, which I think Polls
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: has gone out and done a really good job this
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: offseason and adding a Keenan Allen and Gerald Effett and
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift. Thank you very much, and and I think
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: we're going to be in a place to have an
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: exciting offense in Chicago.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I did another interview recently. I was on Good Morning Football.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I said, I guarantee Caleb Williams will be the Chicago
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Bears ever first four thousand year I pastor, I guarantee it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: So I got a lot of faith in the kid.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I feel really good about him and me and I
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: can't have some love for my boy.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I respect that.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Like you light up as a fan
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking about the Bears, when you're going through
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania media rounds. How much more do you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Bears? WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I love both, man, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I love both of them. I love for wrestling, but
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  Speaker 2: I spend so much time talking about wrestling. Is I
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  Speaker 2: live and breathe and eat and sleep it. It's all
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  Speaker 2: I do. You know, Like from dawn till dusk, we
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  Speaker 2: don't have an off season. We're fifty two weeks a year.
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  Speaker 2: And to be at my level, to be as successful
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  Speaker 2: as I am, you just have to constantly think about
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  Speaker 2: it and constantly process it and come up with new
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  Speaker 2: ideas and continue to grow. And so you're always talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. And you know, my wife, Becky Lynch, she
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  Speaker 2: does the same gig as me, so we're always talking
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  Speaker 2: to each other about wrestling. So for me, anytime I
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  Speaker 2: get to sit down and talk football, which is my
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  Speaker 2: kind of second love, I suppose, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, we'll take it back to wrestling for one second.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, you have a mount Rushmore moment and you
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  Speaker 1: win the title at WrestleMania thirty one this weekend, wrestle
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Media forty you defeat the Rock and Roman reigns, Which
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: would be the greater achievement what you did in thirty
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  Speaker 1: one or what you could possibly do in forty.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that's very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I think thirty one is special in its own way
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  Speaker 2: because if you look at cashing in money bank contract
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  Speaker 2: and the main event of WrestleMania and so surprising and
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  Speaker 2: so captivating and shaped the industry in its own way. Right.
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  Speaker 2: We took where the industry was, We subverted expectations and
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  Speaker 2: pushed it in an action at the time, and that's
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  Speaker 2: really we're looking to take down this guard that is
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  Speaker 2: the bloodline that's really had a byte script on our
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  Speaker 2: industry for the past few years. Now you've got the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Rock back board of director for TKO.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: We're ushering in a new era.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Got a television deal with Netflix coming up here starting
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: next year. Like it's going to be a huge change
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: and shift in our industry and we're about to usher
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: that in. And so it's almost tough to say in
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the moment which one's going to be bigger. I think
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: when you look back in retrospect, if we're able to
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  Speaker 2: do what we want to do at WrestleMania forty. It'll
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  Speaker 2: go down as one of the most historic game changing
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  Speaker 2: events in the history of our industry.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: What's left to achieve for you?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, God, you know, I don't know.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Legacy is an interesting question, right, It's like, what's your legacy?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: What's it going to be?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And I've always wanted to leave the business better than
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: where I found it. That's always been my major goal,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: contribute in ways that don't just benefit me, and so
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I think my legacy is set in stone and you
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: can always add to it. But I think when it
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: comes down to it, my goal for the future is
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to help the next generation. My time's not done yet,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: but we're certainly closer to the end than we are
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: to the beginning. I'd love to use the kind of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: latter half of my career to really help that next generation,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: be the guys who are going to be wrestling, you know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: mainovating WrestleMania fifty, WrestleMania sixty, and so on and so forth.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And I think I'm in a position now where I've
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: got so much experience over the last two decades in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: this industry, the last twelve years with WWE traveling in
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the world that I can do that that I can
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: help these guys and girls get to the next level,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: help mold what the future is going to look like.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that. I think there was a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: story in Bleacher Report earlier in the year, like in January,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that talked about how you've approached some things with more
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: humility than in the past, and have you thought a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: lot about as you've gotten older in the business bringing
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: up that next generation.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's always been something that I've wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've had a wrestling school for the last decade.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the moment that I started on the road
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: WW full time, the idea to start a wrestling school
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: in my hometown came up, and I've been at it
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: for ten years now. So I've always really prioritized it,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: but it's always been something that's kind of been on
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the back burn. I think when you're on your way up,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: it's easy to become singularly focused, right, It's easier to
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: only worry about yourself and what you need to do
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: to get to the next level. But then when you
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: get to the top, you look around and you go, well,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: there's not many, not many mountains left to climb. You know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: there's not many oceans left to swim, and when you've
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: done all that and you're by yourself, you kind of wonder, like,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you know, what's next, and is it worth it to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: kind of continue to just tread this water on your own?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And I think the answer is no. And I think
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: as you get older, you know, you start family. You know,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you start to lose relatives that are older, grandparents and
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: aunts and uncles, and you start to realize that there
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: is a fragility not just to your industry and to
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: your job and your career, but to your life. And
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: your legacy isn't really what you accomplish, but it's how
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: people remember you and how they carry on your legacy.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: And I think that's really starts to hit home the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: older you get. And like I said, when you realize
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you're getting closer to the end of your career than
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: you are to the beginning, things start to shift for
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you in that capacity.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All Right, brother, listen, you got to heal up. You
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  Speaker 1: got big events coming up this weekend, WrestleMania in Philly,
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  Speaker 1: Seth Freakin' Rollins. We appreciate you coming on the Favorites podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck this weekend, brother, Bear freaking down.
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