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Middlekauff Mailbag: Are We Underrating Travis Kelce? Bad Organizations Wasting Stars, College Coaches to the NFL & Giants Expectations · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: I guess before it's it's a little weird because over
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Speaker 1: But I really appreciated the content filling a void that
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Speaker 1: has now gone. Now football fills that immediately for so
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Speaker 1: let's just dive right in to Vincent with the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: having him down here. People forget how good Kelsey was
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Speaker 1: in his prime. He was without a doubt, the best
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Speaker 1: tight end for five straight seasons and had eleven straight
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Speaker 1: real All Pro years. He's the only tight end with
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Speaker 1: a season with a tight end season at over fourteen
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Speaker 1: hundred yards in twenty twenty. My question is where would
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Speaker 1: you rank him all time in the skilled position list.
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Speaker 1: With the mix of stats and consistency mixed with his
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Speaker 1: all time winning I think he's obviously a top ten
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Speaker 1: weapon of all time. Only players I would put above
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Speaker 1: him are Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Walter Payton, and Barry Sanders,
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Speaker 1: even though Rice is the only player to help lead
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Speaker 1: teams the multiple championships and his better stats any time.
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Speaker 1: To me, you're a white like Barry Sanders for the
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Speaker 1: most part, played on really bad teams and it didn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily matter, right, Walter Payton, you know they won it
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Speaker 1: in eighty five, But I listen, I was born in
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Speaker 1: eighty four in October, so I don't remember that that.
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Speaker 1: You know, that was at the end kind of of
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Speaker 1: his heyday, Like the peak of his powers was the
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Speaker 1: late seventies early eighties. But you can make action as
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Speaker 1: a running back, even on crappy teams. As a wide
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Speaker 1: receiver or tight end, like Randy Moss had a ton
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Speaker 1: of success when he first got to Minnesota and they
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Speaker 1: had pretty good quarterback play, and then obviously with Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady when he had twenty three touchdowns his first year,
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Speaker 1: but on Oakland like when their team was a joke
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Speaker 1: his career, Like it's Larry Fitzgerald had some high highs,
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Speaker 1: but he had a lot of years with just crappy quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: So you are very dependent on the guy you're playing with,
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Speaker 1: Right if I Miles Garrett's been on awful touch on
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Speaker 1: awful teams who were trailing in a lot of games
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Speaker 1: and still put up a tonats because as a lineman
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Speaker 1: like I can just make things happen no matter how
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Speaker 1: good or bad my team is. So Travis Kelcey got there,
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Speaker 1: They had Alex Smith who had resurrected his career, and
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Speaker 1: then obviously got one of the great players in the
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Speaker 1: history of the league in Mahomes and Andy Reid. But
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to like diminish him, like I think
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Speaker 1: he's clearly statistically you got a factor in the championships.
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Speaker 1: Not only is he one of the best players on
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Speaker 1: championship teams, he was coming through in championship. You know,
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Speaker 1: performances in playoff games in the Super Bowl, Like, if
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Speaker 1: I just look at Travis kelce in playoff games, He's
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Speaker 1: played in a ton I bet he's got a ton
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Speaker 1: of touchdowns and catches. So in the postseason he has
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Speaker 1: twenty career postseason touchdowns and one hundred and seventy eight catches.
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Speaker 1: So he's played twenty five games, which is basically like
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Speaker 1: if we're going off the sixteen game schedule, which he
5:05
Speaker 1: played a lot of his career, it's like sixteen, it's
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Speaker 1: basically like a season and a half. He has one
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight catches and twenty touchdowns. Like, and
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Speaker 1: he's never fumbled. He fumbled one time, but they didn't
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Speaker 1: lose it. I don't remember that. He's he's a fucking monster.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's easily one of the great skill guys
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Speaker 1: in the history league. And to be that, you know,
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Speaker 1: Randy Moss is like probably arguably the most talented wide
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Speaker 1: receiver of all time. Like he's physically more gifted than
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Speaker 1: Jerry Rice, like taller, faster, But like if you put
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Speaker 1: Randy Moss, like Randy most didn't get to play with
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Speaker 1: Joe Montanam, Steve Yung his entire career. You know, he
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Speaker 1: didn't get to play with Alex Smith and Patrick Mahomes,
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Speaker 1: So it can be a little more difficult. It can
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Speaker 1: Evan to Floyd your statistics. So I it's that's where
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Speaker 1: it gets a little difficult at running back. Like you
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Speaker 1: could put Walter Payton on who's the worst team, like
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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. He's gonna make things happen. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: this year's Miami Dolphins team. So yeah, I don't think
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Speaker 1: anyone forgets. I think he just had a rough season.
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Speaker 1: It didn't go well and had some big drops and
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Speaker 1: some big moments and some big games when their season
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Speaker 1: was unraveling. But I don't think anyone forgets what a
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Speaker 1: badass player Travis Kelce was. Listen to one of your
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Speaker 1: latest pots. You have the Cowboys winning the division. Hell
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Speaker 1: to the no, they're still week at corner and pass rusher.
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Speaker 1: They're switching schemes. We do not know how good Christian
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Speaker 1: Parker will be. I've seen a lot of Fangio disciples fail.
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Speaker 1: We can make fun of Brandon Saley all we want.
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Speaker 1: He's a good defensive coordinator. Also, last year they had
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Speaker 1: about everything go right. He's a schedule historic offense. The
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Speaker 1: Eagles had a weird year, look to get much better
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Speaker 1: this year. The Giants commander sucked, yet they still only
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Speaker 1: won seven games. Also, are we sure Shottenneimer is a
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Speaker 1: good coach? Seven games and everyone was talking about him
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Speaker 1: like he's Bill Walsh Big Mike. That'd be Mike McCarthy
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Speaker 1: won seven games the year before with a much worse
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Speaker 1: offensive cast than Dak missed half the year. I know
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Speaker 1: the Eagles aren't kind of the same situation as offensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: Can't be any worse than the more on they had
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Speaker 1: last year. Well, I'll say this about the Cowboys because
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick him to win the division and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna get into it more later this week. I havena
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do some I'm gonna do something, and we'll
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Speaker 1: dive in to a one of the main reasons. I
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Speaker 1: think they can flip it around on the defensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball. And I'm gonna use a comp But
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys were historically poor last year on defense. They
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Speaker 1: had the worst pass defense in the NFL. You might
7:49
Speaker 1: want to google their first round pick this year, like
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Speaker 1: got a chance to be a game changer, and from
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Speaker 1: a pass rush standpoint, they just took you know a
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Speaker 1: guy that was very highly thought of, the UCF pass rusher,
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Speaker 1: Lawrence Things. Last name is in the first round. They
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Speaker 1: added Quentin Williams, who last time I checks a really
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Speaker 1: really good player. So their defensive line should be dramatically
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Speaker 1: improved and their offense is gonna be big time. So
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Speaker 1: I hear it like, I'm not claiming that they're this
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Speaker 1: is nineteen ninety three here. I've just I don't even
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Speaker 1: think I'm going out that far in a limb. We'll
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Speaker 1: dive into the NFC eas a little bit later, but
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Speaker 1: I hear you. You can make the arguments easily. I
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Speaker 1: can make the argument for the Eagles, like Jalen Hurt's
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Speaker 1: gonna play the Shanahan offense. That's gonna work. I don't
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Speaker 1: know about that. I had a player from the Shanahan
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Speaker 1: offense a couple of years ago tell me that he
8:42
Speaker 1: couldn't do it when we were just talking about him, Jalen.
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Speaker 1: That is, maybe they can. I don't know. We'll dive
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Speaker 1: deeper into the Eagles later this week. What your two
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Speaker 1: quarterback do you see making the biggest leap this upcoming year?
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Speaker 1: Ward Dart Shuck All intriguing prospects. Darton Ward getting new
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Speaker 1: coaching staffs with improved weapons, while Shuck keeps his offensive
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Speaker 1: head coach with solid weaponry around him as well. If
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Speaker 1: I had to put my money on one, it would
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Speaker 1: be Dart based on the more competent head coach and
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Speaker 1: the highest ceiling out of the three. Well, I think
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Speaker 1: there are some big question marks with the Giants in Dart.
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Speaker 1: Malik neighbors like he is. There's no guarantee that he
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Speaker 1: plays let alone. If he does, he's ever the same.
9:27
Speaker 1: That is a major major question mark with the knee situation.
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Speaker 1: So offensively, how good are they gonna be defensively? They
9:38
Speaker 1: got some pass rushers. I'm not as high on the
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Speaker 1: Giants as some just from a personnel standpoint, their play caller.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna like Dart, you're like, well,
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Speaker 1: they got Brian da Ball. Well, Dart had day Ball
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Speaker 1: last year. I know he got fired. I forget the
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Speaker 1: exact week. This is a pretty easy one for me.
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Speaker 1: If you watch Tyler shuck down the stretch physically, it's
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Speaker 1: like that's what it's supposed to look like. He has
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Speaker 1: the same coaching staff, His head coach is an offensive guy.
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Speaker 1: The they at atn They keep Kamara, they have a
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Speaker 1: good tight end. They add another wide receiver in the draft. Again,
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Speaker 1: like I'm not confident that guy's gonna be a really
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Speaker 1: good player, but you know, he definitely has some big
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Speaker 1: time physical attributes, so they got weaponry. He's not like
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Speaker 1: the other guys like Dart and Ward. They're almost like
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Speaker 1: what it could be Like cam Ward can move, he's
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Speaker 1: got a big arm, but offensively like, how good are
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Speaker 1: they gonna be? Like them and the Giants their personnel standpoint, like,
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Speaker 1: isn't that good? Like I view the Saints again another team,
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Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna pick the division. I think they're personnel
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Speaker 1: and offense pretty good. I'm pretty high on the Saints,
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Speaker 1: so I would go shuck. I think Ward and Dart
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Speaker 1: are both lucky. They get people that surrounding them, a
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Speaker 1: lot of experience, people that know what they're doing. But
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Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of question marks with
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Speaker 1: the people around both in terms of the players. This
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Speaker 1: from Connor. Do you have any tips slash advice for
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Speaker 1: first time home buyers currently in the process of searching
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Speaker 1: for and touring properties with a realtor. I was just
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Speaker 1: wondering if you had any pointers. Well, obviously everyone's situation
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Speaker 1: is different, so depending on where you live, how much
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Speaker 1: money you have for down payment, how much you're willing
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Speaker 1: to spend. Are you looking for something that's more turnkey
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Speaker 1: or something you want to fix up. There are a
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Speaker 1: million variables in the scenario of buying a house. I
11:46
Speaker 1: would say one big picture thing currently in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the summer in twenty twenty six is you got
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Speaker 1: a lot of juice. I bought a place when it
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Speaker 1: was a seller's market, and I got bent over the
12:00
Speaker 1: house I'm living in now that was much more of
12:02
Speaker 1: a buyer's market, and the price plummeted the months leading
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Speaker 1: up to it. Is why I started getting interested, because
12:08
Speaker 1: the injurant race were are so I got it for
12:11
Speaker 1: way cheaper than he was going to sell it for. Now. Granted,
12:14
Speaker 1: all these numbers are just arbitrary. It's based on comps,
12:17
Speaker 1: but it's like a lot of people are listing their
12:20
Speaker 1: homes based on what the prices used to be when
12:23
Speaker 1: everyone wanted their house. So if you're touring homes that
12:27
Speaker 1: have been on the market for a long time, like
12:31
Speaker 1: I would be low balling people right now, especially if like, hey,
12:35
Speaker 1: this house has been on the market for eight months
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Speaker 1: and the price has dropped some You know, whatever, money's
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Speaker 1: all relative. Whatever I don't know what price point you're
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Speaker 1: looking at, but certain percentages multiple times like how bad
12:47
Speaker 1: do they want to get rid of it? So I
12:50
Speaker 1: would be aggressive that way. The other thing is, you know,
12:56
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful when you get a house, especially
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Speaker 1: the first time. You're probably not buying like some mansion.
13:04
Speaker 1: You go into a house that's gonna need a little work.
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Speaker 1: Things get expensive, and they get expensive fast. So if
13:10
Speaker 1: you've been renting an apartment or something, if your ac
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Speaker 1: went down, if there was a leak, you don't have
13:15
Speaker 1: to deal with any of that when you buy a house, like,
13:18
Speaker 1: there are going to be costs. It's obviously really expensive
13:21
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna buy. You know, whatever you got to
13:24
Speaker 1: put down, your payment is much higher than it would
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Speaker 1: have been several years ago. But that's also probably the
13:30
Speaker 1: reason you end up going to get the house for
13:31
Speaker 1: cheaper than you would have three or four years ago,
13:33
Speaker 1: because the interest rates. But like, there are a lot
13:36
Speaker 1: of costs that you don't see coming that come along,
13:39
Speaker 1: and there's nothing that can prepare you for that moment
13:41
Speaker 1: when it's like you look up at your ceiling and
13:45
Speaker 1: see a waterline going and going. My roof is leaking
13:49
Speaker 1: and you if someone look at it and be like,
13:50
Speaker 1: you need a new roof, or all of a sudden
13:53
Speaker 1: your ac goes down, or all of a sudden you're plumbing.
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Speaker 1: Something happens, and that's all on you. So I would
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Speaker 1: factor that, I mean again, depending if your new build
14:05
Speaker 1: an older home, there's not You would have to give
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Speaker 1: me probably more information to give me specific advice. But
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Speaker 1: my number one take would be in again, depending on
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Speaker 1: what you're looking at, I would come in under and
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Speaker 1: I would be patient, Like, you don't need to just
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Speaker 1: rush into something unless you're getting evicted you need to
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Speaker 1: buy a house or something. But if you're not in
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Speaker 1: like a rush, this has to happen this month, I
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Speaker 1: would be patient and aggressive on being comfortable with what
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Speaker 1: you're gonna pay for it, because ultimately the profit will
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Speaker 1: be made in the price point in which you purchase
14:43
Speaker 1: it for and not what you sell it for. And again,
14:46
Speaker 1: if you have young kids and stuff, obviously that factors.
14:48
Speaker 1: In schools, there are just so many variables thinking about
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Speaker 1: Burrow and how his career might end up mirroring Marino
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Speaker 1: because the organization stinks. What are the all time waste
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Speaker 1: of talent to come in the league, I would say this.
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Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, they were in the super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: and they were in the playoffs the following year. So
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Speaker 1: it's like, for an organization that stinks, they've been in
15:09
Speaker 1: the playoffs a lot over the last fifteen years. I
15:11
Speaker 1: watched Marvin Lewis go to the playoffs all the time.
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Speaker 1: They didn't win, but they were in there all the time.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you want an organization that stinks, if
15:21
Speaker 1: I'm defending Mike Brod, I'd be like, look at fucking
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Speaker 1: Michael Bidwell here in Arizona. Like that's an organization that stinks.
15:28
Speaker 1: I could smell it from my house right now. So
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Speaker 1: I think the Bengals. I think on paper, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be good, and if Burrow stays healthy, they could like
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Speaker 1: make a Super Bowl run. But waste of talents. I
15:41
Speaker 1: think Larry Fitzgerald. You know, can you imagine if Larry
15:45
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald would have played his whole career with just a
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Speaker 1: solid quarterback like just been with like Eli Manning. I'm
15:51
Speaker 1: not even talking like Peyton or Tom I'm just talking
15:54
Speaker 1: or Drew Brees. I'm just talking like Eli Manning or
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Speaker 1: you know, Philip Rivers. Just like that was going to
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl four or five times, really good player.
16:03
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what Larry Fitzgerald's numbers would have looked
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Speaker 1: like instead of what he had to deal with for
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Speaker 1: the majority of his career in Arizona. He would be
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Speaker 1: one and again. He still had big moments. He played
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Speaker 1: in a Super Bowl, but the majority of his career
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Speaker 1: he's playing on bad teams. Question for the Bag, just
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Speaker 1: made this bet, in my opinion, best quarterback in East Division.
16:24
Speaker 1: Here's the bet. This is divisional winners the Bills, the Bengals,
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, and the Bears. His odds are pretty good
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Speaker 1: plus basically five thousand, so he bet one hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: to win five g's. I like the Bills, I like
16:43
Speaker 1: the Bengals. I think you're gonna feel pretty good about
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. I think the only team that could win
16:50
Speaker 1: that division with the Cowboys have to be dramatically better
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Speaker 1: on defense. Again, I'm picking them, but it's more because
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get good odds. I do think the NFC North.
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Speaker 1: I think the Lions are gonna be good. I think
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Speaker 1: the Packers just aren't gonna be like scared of the Bears.
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Speaker 1: I don't hate that at all. I mean, I'm probably
17:09
Speaker 1: gonna pick the Bears as well, but I had a
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Speaker 1: pretty good bet for one hundred bucks just I think
17:15
Speaker 1: the Bills are borderline lock. If the Bengals don't win it,
17:19
Speaker 1: they've clearly had issues because that division sits wide up
17:22
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Speaker 1: on the simple fact that Cooper Flag is on Dusty
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Speaker 1: May's team for at minimum the next seven or eight
20:08
Speaker 1: years at minimum, because no one turns down two hundred
20:11
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars or whatever the max is when
20:13
Speaker 1: you're a young player. So he's going to be on
20:15
Speaker 1: the team. So it's on you to build around a
20:18
Speaker 1: young stud player in college basketball, the equivalent of Cooper
20:23
Speaker 1: Flag or you know my guy Yaxel for the Warriors
20:26
Speaker 1: who just won Summer League Player of the Year, Warriors
20:29
Speaker 1: won the Summer League championship. You have him one year.
20:34
Speaker 1: They can obviously go to the NBA whatever, but they
20:37
Speaker 1: can also just transfer somewhere else. You never know your
20:41
Speaker 1: team year two year, Like you can't even build like
20:46
Speaker 1: the Championship Knicks. All those guys played together for multiple years.
20:53
Speaker 1: I just saw Logan Mankins. He's getting inducted this year
20:56
Speaker 1: in the Fresno State Hall of Fame. Is number is
21:00
Speaker 1: gonna be retired. Logan Mankins was a freshman All American
21:03
Speaker 1: at Fresno State at a Mira posa po dunk town
21:07
Speaker 1: in the Valley. I think his GPA was like a
21:09
Speaker 1: zero point zero, so they had to prop forty nine
21:11
Speaker 1: and got him into school and then he became a star.
21:15
Speaker 1: Logan Mankins would have made so much money from the SEC.
21:21
Speaker 1: Mario Crystobaal would have been all over Logan Mankins. Miami
21:24
Speaker 1: would have paid Logan Mankins like two million dollars a
21:26
Speaker 1: year to play guard. You just can't keep any players
21:29
Speaker 1: we're in the NBA or the NFL or Major League Baseball,
21:32
Speaker 1: like your contracts, your contracts. So I think it's clearly
21:37
Speaker 1: money talk shit walks. And they gave him a raise,
21:39
Speaker 1: but you don't think Michigan would have given him a
21:41
Speaker 1: huge race. I think it's simply about, like I don't
21:44
Speaker 1: want to beg guys to stay on my team like
21:46
Speaker 1: that would fucking suck having to beg guys to we're
21:50
Speaker 1: at Michigan or we're at North Carolina, and I gotta
21:53
Speaker 1: beg you and keep upping an offer. It just it's
21:57
Speaker 1: gotta be It's not it can be fun. It cannot
22:01
Speaker 1: be fun. He had to hate hate dnil transfer portal
22:05
Speaker 1: era in the sense of, like, there's no guarantee year
22:09
Speaker 1: to year what it's gonna look like. For as great
22:11
Speaker 1: as his season was, and they hit on these guys,
22:13
Speaker 1: these transfer portal guys, it could go the other way
22:15
Speaker 1: fast on a given year. A question for the mailbag
22:18
Speaker 1: at the SPS. Anthony Kim was up for a Comeback
22:23
Speaker 1: Athlete of the Year. Well, Christian McCaffrey ended up winning it.
22:27
Speaker 1: Kim fell off the face of the earth, not just
22:30
Speaker 1: for one year but over a decade. But he was
22:33
Speaker 1: storing eate bags of eight ball like a damn shot back.
22:36
Speaker 1: He was literally rock bottom. Christian McCaffrey was arguably the
22:40
Speaker 1: best running back in the league and had a historic
22:42
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred yard fourteen TV season in twenty three. He
22:46
Speaker 1: got hurt in twenty four and then he came back
22:48
Speaker 1: healthy and had a good season. It's like, what do
22:51
Speaker 1: we expect him to do? When he's healthy, be good.
22:54
Speaker 1: Both have good arguments. Just think Anthony Kim deserved it
22:57
Speaker 1: a bit more given he was away from the game
22:59
Speaker 1: for ten years, a huge unknown if you could ever
23:02
Speaker 1: play again. I didn't watch one. I didn't even know
23:05
Speaker 1: the SP's was on TV until I saw some like
23:08
Speaker 1: clips on social media to get comeback player of the
23:11
Speaker 1: Year for any player, when you're a great player, have
23:15
Speaker 1: a good season, get injured. If Joe Burrow goes on
23:20
Speaker 1: to win the like, have an MVP season, like he
23:23
Speaker 1: missed games because he injured his toe. So if Joe
23:26
Speaker 1: Burrow is just really good this year and he plays
23:28
Speaker 1: in sixteen or seventeen games and throws forty five touchdowns, like, well, yeah,
23:31
Speaker 1: they're paying him fifty five million dollars to throw forty
23:33
Speaker 1: five touchdowns. You know, the number one overall pick, Christian
23:36
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's top ten pick. They expect him to be good,
23:39
Speaker 1: and he's been good before. So I always struggle with
23:42
Speaker 1: the comeback Player of the year. If you're just a
23:44
Speaker 1: great player, you tear your knee and then you come
23:47
Speaker 1: back and you dominate. I'll give you an example. If
23:50
Speaker 1: Brandon I you he was a really good player, hurt
23:54
Speaker 1: his knee. He has fallen off the deep end. If
23:56
Speaker 1: you told me Brandon, I you came back this year
23:59
Speaker 1: and had like catches and he wanted to give him
24:01
Speaker 1: comeback Player of the Year, I wouldn't argue with you there.
24:04
Speaker 1: I thought this guy was needed to go to a
24:06
Speaker 1: mental asylum or something. But Christian McCaffrey's like, yeah, what
24:09
Speaker 1: do you think the Niners gonna handle the ball like
24:11
Speaker 1: twenty five times a game. He's Hall of Fame level player.
24:15
Speaker 1: I think the thing Anthony Kim battled against is no
24:19
Speaker 1: one takes a lift seriously, it's currently going under. So
24:22
Speaker 1: he's part of the league. Even though and I watched
24:24
Speaker 1: that night that he won in Australia and it was
24:26
Speaker 1: really cool and he beat Bryson in John Ram. I
24:29
Speaker 1: think if he had done the same thing on the
24:31
Speaker 1: PGA Tour and at that same moment where he beat
24:34
Speaker 1: like Scottie Scheffler and Rory McElroy at like the Phoenix
24:38
Speaker 1: Open or the Memorial or some big tournament, I think
24:41
Speaker 1: he probably wins it. I think playing on LIV hurt
24:45
Speaker 1: Anthony Kim. I really do so. But I hear you,
24:50
Speaker 1: I mean the guy. I mean, if you don't know
24:53
Speaker 1: who we're talking about. You can google him. He was
24:55
Speaker 1: like the star young. He went to Oklahoma, this prodigy
24:58
Speaker 1: golfer was supposed to be like a next Tiger Woods.
25:00
Speaker 1: Nike gave him a bunch of money, got to the
25:02
Speaker 1: BJ tourst won tournaments, playing on the Ryder Cup, and
25:06
Speaker 1: then he was just gone and clearly some drug issues
25:11
Speaker 1: blew his nose off, not like with the fireworks or
25:14
Speaker 1: anything like with cocaine, had some other injuries. There's a
25:18
Speaker 1: lot of unknown still, but then came back the last
25:22
Speaker 1: couple of years on live and this year won a tournament.
25:24
Speaker 1: But again it's live. I think that's the problem. I'm
25:27
Speaker 1: watching the Open, and I'm watching like all like Bryson
25:31
Speaker 1: and Rawm and those guys wearing live. It felt weird.
25:35
Speaker 1: It'd be like, I don't even know what the comparison
25:40
Speaker 1: would be, but like it's over, guys. What a bizarre
25:46
Speaker 1: moment to where the gear as the company is just
25:52
Speaker 1: in the process of folding. Read an article on ESPN
25:56
Speaker 1: today that said a hypothetical that Josh and mahomes trey
26:00
Speaker 1: value is seven first round picks. Do you think that
26:02
Speaker 1: is they're worth? Well, you're not even allowed to trade
26:05
Speaker 1: that many. So the conversation's pretty stupid because no player
26:11
Speaker 1: at that position, in their prime and the peak of
26:14
Speaker 1: their powers is getting traded. So like, what is Josh
26:19
Speaker 1: Allen's market value? Well? Just no, right, So it's like
26:25
Speaker 1: what is the value? I was gonna use someone's home
26:31
Speaker 1: as a bad example, because most human beings would be like,
26:33
Speaker 1: how much you're gonna offer me ten X? While my
26:35
Speaker 1: house is worth here are the keys? Right? I think
26:38
Speaker 1: there are some like family farms and stuff where people
26:42
Speaker 1: just will never sell. They just keep saying no. So
26:46
Speaker 1: like what is the value of this guy's farm or
26:49
Speaker 1: cattle ranch or whatever in Yellowstone, Montana? Or you know,
26:53
Speaker 1: like in some of these remote areas that people want
26:56
Speaker 1: the land and the family just keep saying no? Like
27:00
Speaker 1: what is the value of the cowboys? You say ten billion?
27:02
Speaker 1: But if Jerry says no, it's more than that. Is
27:05
Speaker 1: there a number what Jerry would sell? Would someone if
27:09
Speaker 1: they offered him thirty billion dollars? Would Jerry Jones sell?
27:12
Speaker 1: He might say no, that there is no amount of
27:14
Speaker 1: money that I would sell the cowboys for because what
27:17
Speaker 1: would I do with that money that I can't already
27:20
Speaker 1: do with just owning the Cowboys and being rich anyway,
27:23
Speaker 1: So most players in the league, right, Kyle Shanahan loves
27:30
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. If you pick up the phone right now
27:33
Speaker 1: and offer the forty nine ers two first round picks
27:35
Speaker 1: and two second round picks for Christi McCaffrey, he would
27:38
Speaker 1: have to say yes, right, he would just have to
27:41
Speaker 1: say yes. But if you did the same thing with
27:44
Speaker 1: Brock Purty, like I don't have a quarterback, I have
27:46
Speaker 1: to need him to play quarterback. So I think it
27:50
Speaker 1: positioned players. I mean, look at Miles Garrett. It's like, yeah,
27:52
Speaker 1: we'll trade Miles Garrett, give us a Jared Verse first
27:55
Speaker 1: round or second round er. He's yours. No one trades
27:59
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the peak of his powers like John Schneider,
28:02
Speaker 1: I think I'm sure would say that, Yeah, we thought
28:05
Speaker 1: Russell's trajectory is probably going the other way. Like, I
28:08
Speaker 1: don't think they're pulling that trigger in twenty seventeen. What
28:13
Speaker 1: are the realistic expectations for the Giants? If Harbaugh can
28:17
Speaker 1: get this team on the right track, I still think
28:20
Speaker 1: they're a year away. I think their front seven playing
28:25
Speaker 1: the run is more than debatable. Who's their best run
28:30
Speaker 1: defender of all the pass rushers. Cavon you know, is
28:36
Speaker 1: Abdul Carter a good run defender. He played hard in college,
28:40
Speaker 1: but last year was a disaster. He has got a
28:42
Speaker 1: chance to be way better. You know, Brian Burns an
28:45
Speaker 1: excellent pass rusher. R Vel Reese is twenty years old.
28:50
Speaker 1: You lose Dexter Lawrence. Linebacker play is more than you
28:54
Speaker 1: know up in question how good that position is their DBS.
28:57
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if from Elakue Neighbors is
29:01
Speaker 1: no longer my league Neighbors. I just think they still
29:03
Speaker 1: have some personnel questions, which is not John Harbus's fault.
29:06
Speaker 1: That's a Joe Shane thing. But they definitely have some
29:11
Speaker 1: a foundation there to build on over the next couple
29:13
Speaker 1: of years. I could be wrong, maybe I'm being too
29:17
Speaker 1: negative on them, but I think they're more of a
29:22
Speaker 1: year away from being like a playoff contender than they
29:25
Speaker 1: would be this year, unless Jackson darts just like Mames,
29:29
Speaker 1: which let's just see you and play ten straight games.
29:34
Speaker 1: Dad diaries. My wife and I are on a beach
29:39
Speaker 1: in a nice area and she drops on me she
29:41
Speaker 1: wants to stop her birth control. In the next six
29:44
Speaker 1: to twelve months. I'm thirty one, she's thirty. We're from
29:48
Speaker 1: Canada and have good careers. But she's always said when
29:51
Speaker 1: I was thirty three it would happen. Now she's moved
29:54
Speaker 1: it up to thirty one. I don't know how to
29:56
Speaker 1: feel about this. We both do well financially so so
30:00
Speaker 1: we can handle that part. But I'm not ready for it.
30:02
Speaker 1: I'm just not. Everyone around me as kids just bitches
30:06
Speaker 1: about it, how their lives have changed so much, and
30:09
Speaker 1: how much of a day to day battle it is.
30:11
Speaker 1: I'm terrified. Coach me up. I feel like you keep
30:14
Speaker 1: it one hundred. What's this actually going to be like?
30:17
Speaker 1: Are my saturdays staying up in the wee hours party
30:20
Speaker 1: with the boys done? I value my freedom so much,
30:23
Speaker 1: but I eventually do want kids. I would say life
30:28
Speaker 1: pre children, you can't and I'm only six months in.
30:34
Speaker 1: It's not even a relatable way of life anymore. It's
30:39
Speaker 1: really hard now depending on you. Guys both go back
30:43
Speaker 1: to work. Do you get a nanny? Do you have
30:44
Speaker 1: family around there that can help you out? You know,
30:46
Speaker 1: like my tribe, we move to Arizona, it's just us,
30:49
Speaker 1: so it's there's no just dropping off at grandma's house
30:54
Speaker 1: for the night or the day and just get a breather.
30:57
Speaker 1: So for six months it has just been on like
31:00
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong and he gets up at four, You're up
31:04
Speaker 1: at four. He gets up throughout the night. You're up
31:06
Speaker 1: throughout the night, throughout the day. There is no you
31:10
Speaker 1: just put them in a playpen for five hours and
31:12
Speaker 1: just walk out of there. Someone has to be responsible
31:15
Speaker 1: for the child basically every minute of every day, seven
31:20
Speaker 1: days a week. There's no Sundays. I'm just gonna lay
31:23
Speaker 1: on the couch, order some door dash chill. But it's
31:27
Speaker 1: a pretty incredible thing to have, right, Like the moments
31:31
Speaker 1: you have with your child. I like I'm ready for
31:36
Speaker 1: him to be a little older, like the infant stage,
31:38
Speaker 1: like I could do without the eye and I want
31:40
Speaker 1: multiple children, but like I'm ready for them to be
31:42
Speaker 1: like one walking around have conversations like I'm my brother's
31:46
Speaker 1: kids are like six and four, and they can just
31:49
Speaker 1: they can just operate more like little human beings. But
31:53
Speaker 1: it's heart, you know. She took him to a six
31:55
Speaker 1: month checkup when I was down in LA and uh,
31:59
Speaker 1: first off, I when we were in Tahoe like a
32:03
Speaker 1: month ago, I kept saying, hey, Jack's crazy. Jack's crazy.
32:06
Speaker 1: Jack's a little terrorist. He's nuts. He's nuts. And I
32:09
Speaker 1: think my mother in law thought I was being too negative. Well,
32:13
Speaker 1: she came down when I left to La. She was
32:16
Speaker 1: here for like the last three or four days over
32:18
Speaker 1: last week, and by the end of the week she's
32:22
Speaker 1: looking at Maria like, you, guys, this is nuts. I'm like, yeah,
32:24
Speaker 1: this kid is crazy. And even the doctor when she
32:27
Speaker 1: took him in on his nine month or his six
32:29
Speaker 1: month checkups, like he's moving and acting and his energy
32:32
Speaker 1: levels much more like he's nine or ten months, which
32:35
Speaker 1: I'm kind of proud of. I would much rather have
32:37
Speaker 1: a crazier kid. You can always hey, we gotta settle
32:40
Speaker 1: down than try to give him a kick in the ass. Like,
32:42
Speaker 1: un listen, me and his mom were a little nuts,
32:45
Speaker 1: so I wasn't gonna have a normal baby. But it
32:48
Speaker 1: also like sometimes you just want to sit, like you
32:51
Speaker 1: can't even eat dinner. You're just flying food into your
32:54
Speaker 1: face in your mouth as the baby's crying, trying to
32:57
Speaker 1: entertain it. So it just changed your life. I don't
33:01
Speaker 1: know what else to describe beside it changes your life
33:05
Speaker 1: from a time standpoint, everything like it's just it's wild.
33:13
Speaker 1: Uh So I if I were you, I'm with you,
33:17
Speaker 1: I'd enjoy another year. Uh but that's you know, you
33:21
Speaker 1: do want to be on the same page as your partner.
33:25
Speaker 1: But once you have it, there ain't no looking back.
33:27
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's no like, oh, we're just made it.
33:31
Speaker 1: We're just yeah, No, it is what it is. He's
33:34
Speaker 1: he or she is there and they need your time.
33:40
Speaker 1: So I I think a lot of people it's just
33:44
Speaker 1: the nature of it because I'm kind of like this,
33:47
Speaker 1: I complain like, oh, just it kind of sucks. It
33:51
Speaker 1: doesn't really suck, right, it's it's it's a bleas like
33:55
Speaker 1: I feel. I know people that have struggled having kids,
33:58
Speaker 1: people that aren't able to have Like obviously I was blessed.
34:01
Speaker 1: We didn't even have to work that hard. Within the
34:04
Speaker 1: first month, your boy was just pumping away, swimmers were
34:07
Speaker 1: swimming and boom. You know, it's kind of crazy that,
34:12
Speaker 1: you know, actually conversation for a different day. But it's
34:18
Speaker 1: it's not easy. Some days you just want to sit there,
34:20
Speaker 1: like by my nature, like I just want to sit
34:23
Speaker 1: there and watch some TV in silence. I just want
34:25
Speaker 1: to watch the game and just lay on the couch.
34:28
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen as much anymore. Luckily, for the job
34:32
Speaker 1: I have built this office. I can just football. I'm
34:35
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. But I can use the paying the
34:39
Speaker 1: bills card. You know, if I didn't have that and
34:41
Speaker 1: I was just working a normal job, I don't know
34:45
Speaker 1: what I do. But it's it's awesome. It's gonna be
34:50
Speaker 1: way cooler when they get older, but early on it's
34:53
Speaker 1: I earned a lot of respect for a lot of
34:55
Speaker 1: people that I've probably talked a lot of shit about.
34:57
Speaker 1: It can't be that hard. You guys are always fucking complaining.
34:59
Speaker 1: You can't this because a kid once they're like ten,
35:02
Speaker 1: Like the excuse is got to go out the window.
35:04
Speaker 1: But the first couple of years, yeah, not easy, not
35:09
Speaker 1: easy at all. So I'd push you back a year.
35:12
Speaker 1: If I were you, OONI I would enjoy yourself. Here's
35:16
Speaker 1: my question. Now, I know you aren't the biggest basketball
35:19
Speaker 1: guy anymore, but in my dynasty league, I have the
35:22
Speaker 1: first pick in the rookie draft that I've narrowed it
35:25
Speaker 1: down between aj De Bons and Caleb Williams. It's literally
35:28
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty. I'm really stumped on what I should do. Uh,
35:33
Speaker 1: seems like a no brainer. But all the Caleb quotes
35:35
Speaker 1: Indicatie is a massive chip on his shoulder, not the
35:37
Speaker 1: biggest fantasy football guy. So I take it. A dynasty
35:42
Speaker 1: league means you draft the guy and you have him
35:44
Speaker 1: in perpetuity. So like, if you play in this league
35:47
Speaker 1: for the next five ten years, that guy's on your team.
35:51
Speaker 1: Because if you're just playing for this upcoming season, Caleb
35:54
Speaker 1: Wilson is team's gonna suck, so he's gonna put up
35:58
Speaker 1: really good numbers where a potentially he's on a team
36:01
Speaker 1: with Anthony Davis, Trey Young like other guys that are
36:04
Speaker 1: getting touches his numbers even though you watch me that
36:07
Speaker 1: summer league, like this is a grown ass man. So
36:10
Speaker 1: if you're just looking for twenty twenty six seven season,
36:13
Speaker 1: I think Caleb's a no brainer pick. If you're looking
36:15
Speaker 1: for the next five ten years, I don't think you
36:19
Speaker 1: can go wrong with AJ either. That's a tough call.
36:23
Speaker 1: I would say this though for fantasy, isn't Carlos Boozer's
36:27
Speaker 1: kid gonna just be like twenty ten and six for
36:31
Speaker 1: the next decade. Like from a fantasy standpoint, his highs
36:35
Speaker 1: might not be as high as the other two, but
36:37
Speaker 1: it feels like he's gonna be really, really good. I'm
36:41
Speaker 1: a Vikings fan, and it seems to me that everyone
36:43
Speaker 1: has done with JJ. What do you think of this
36:45
Speaker 1: trade JJ for Anthony Richardson both verse round picks that
36:51
Speaker 1: need a new team. Don't totally hate it from the
36:55
Speaker 1: Viking standpoint, Like if you're punting on JJ and you're
36:58
Speaker 1: going with KI and Anthony Richardson's contracts up at the
37:02
Speaker 1: end of the year, so it's not like you got
37:05
Speaker 1: him on the roster for multiple years. You're building a
37:08
Speaker 1: little bit more of an offense around a guy that
37:10
Speaker 1: can move, don't totally hate it. I think Anthony Richardson's
37:15
Speaker 1: stock is it's lower than jjs, so you could argue
37:22
Speaker 1: in NBA kind of the way they would operate, you
37:27
Speaker 1: would have to attach something to Anthony Richardson for that trade.
37:32
Speaker 1: I don't hate it. My guess would be the JJ
37:35
Speaker 1: McCarthy ends up getting traded to the Chargers for like
37:38
Speaker 1: a six round pick come late August would be my guess.
37:44
Speaker 1: Question for the show, which coach is under more pressure
37:47
Speaker 1: to get their team the Lombardi Trophy the next two
37:49
Speaker 1: or three years Brady or Jesse Minter. Both guys have
37:53
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have several more years in the prime football left,
37:56
Speaker 1: as well as excellent rosters. It seems like both are
37:59
Speaker 1: certainly in the Super Bowl bus mode. Just curious to
38:03
Speaker 1: know which coach will have more pressure to get his
38:06
Speaker 1: team over the hump. And if you had to bet,
38:09
Speaker 1: would you take the Bills or the Ravens to win
38:11
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl? First, I'm gonna dive into the Bills
38:15
Speaker 1: later this year, but or excuse me, later this week
38:20
Speaker 1: in terms of that question. But if I'm gonna do
38:23
Speaker 1: a little teaser, I think it's definitely Joe Brady. I
38:26
Speaker 1: think it's I think the different variables, I think it's
38:30
Speaker 1: Joe Brady over Jesse Minter. Both those two teams, though,
38:34
Speaker 1: have been the Super Bowl favorites for like the last
38:36
Speaker 1: three years, so they have a ton of pressure on
38:40
Speaker 1: both of them. I do think what the Ravens to me,
38:45
Speaker 1: a couple questions are like is Metabouke, Like? Is he
38:49
Speaker 1: coming back? Is he gonna be Okay? I know there
38:52
Speaker 1: was some thought that he could because a couple of
38:55
Speaker 1: years ago when they had the top defense in the
38:57
Speaker 1: league with Mike McDonald. He was a muster. So that's
39:03
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a question mark for me.
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Speaker 1: it later. Thanks to zeekik. Not sure if you know this,
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Speaker 1: but the Giants have Greg Roman as the run game coordinator,
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Speaker 1: Brian Callahan as a quarterback coach, and obviously Naggy as
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Speaker 1: the coordinator. With that many former head coaches and offensive coordinators,
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Speaker 1: how do they manage that without stepping on each other toes?
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Speaker 1: Do they work together and use each other's input or
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Speaker 1: is it more of doing what Matt Naggy is running
40:41
Speaker 1: and they just build up the identity of the offense
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Speaker 1: under Naggy's vision. Well, the vision of the offense does
40:49
Speaker 1: come from Joeing, so the way he wants his offense
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Speaker 1: to look. You know, the Giants offense starts and ends
40:58
Speaker 1: with John harbaugh vision, which if you just look at
41:01
Speaker 1: the Ravens historically physical, tough players running the football, you
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Speaker 1: know he's that starts. This isn't Matt Naggi's offense. And
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Speaker 1: I've known Naggy for fifteen plus years when we work
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Speaker 1: together with them with the Philly but it's this isn't
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Speaker 1: Naggy's baby, this is John Harbaugh's baby. This is his team.
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Speaker 1: So part of you get Greg Rohman is to influence
41:25
Speaker 1: the running game with Naggie, who likes to pass it more.
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Speaker 1: I think from an ego standpoint, is this is not
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Speaker 1: exclusive to the Giants. If you go around the league,
41:39
Speaker 1: you have former coaches, you have former coordinators, you have
41:42
Speaker 1: a lot of staffs with a lot of guys who
41:45
Speaker 1: have been in prominent positions that drive range rovers and
41:48
Speaker 1: live in big homes because they've made a lot of money.
41:51
Speaker 1: And the egos. It's funny because so many of these
41:54
Speaker 1: coaches it's like the team, the team, the team. Check
41:58
Speaker 1: your ego at the door, and I'll go to the combine.
42:00
Speaker 1: No hill. Hear a story about like an O line
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Speaker 1: coach storming out of a meeting because they wouldn't listen
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Speaker 1: to them. It's like, coaches egos are every bit as
42:07
Speaker 1: big a players. You know they are. If if the
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Speaker 1: assistant coaches and I'm talking position coaches had to consistently
42:15
Speaker 1: get a mic in front of their in front of
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Speaker 1: their face like the players do, you would hear some
42:20
Speaker 1: crazy shit because they have They think very very highly
42:24
Speaker 1: of themselves, and a lot of them should. They're very
42:26
Speaker 1: good at their craft. But that's a huge part of
42:29
Speaker 1: building a staff working together. The chemistry. It's it's a
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Speaker 1: lot like honestly a team, like meaning the players, like
42:37
Speaker 1: how does the offensive line jell how's the defense of jail.
42:40
Speaker 1: How you're coaching staff jels is very important because it's
42:47
Speaker 1: pretty easy for them to have fractions. This guy thinks
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Speaker 1: we should do this. This guy thinks and listen, debate
42:52
Speaker 1: is healthy, Like I think we should do this on
42:55
Speaker 1: the right side of the offensive line. No coach, I
42:57
Speaker 1: think we should do this. I think these you know, well,
43:00
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk it out throughout the week, but egos
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Speaker 1: are pretty fragile. All these guys have a lot of
43:07
Speaker 1: self belief. A lot of them have made a lot
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Speaker 1: of money, so yeah, I mean, you just never know,
43:13
Speaker 1: you know, now, you know, Naggy's kind of trying to
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Speaker 1: put himself in a position to become a head coach.
43:19
Speaker 1: The Callahan I guess one day could become a head
43:21
Speaker 1: coach again, even though it went pretty poorly. Greg Roman's
43:25
Speaker 1: never gonna become a head coach. But that's that's why
43:29
Speaker 1: you pay the head coach. Whatever. John was, John making
43:32
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars, that's his job to part of being
43:35
Speaker 1: a head coach. And this is why we talk about
43:37
Speaker 1: it every single year. When these guys go from coordinators
43:40
Speaker 1: to becoming a head coach, it is so much different
43:43
Speaker 1: than just handling your meeting room and your unit, and
43:47
Speaker 1: you're coaching your side of the ball those position coaches,
43:50
Speaker 1: because ultimately, if a guy gets yappy, the head coach
43:53
Speaker 1: is on that guy's ass, then it's all on you
43:56
Speaker 1: to handle your entire staff, the scouting staff, and the
44:00
Speaker 1: and the players, and you got to manage up to
44:04
Speaker 1: the owner who is signing the checks. You got a
44:08
Speaker 1: lot going on, you just never know. It's why a
44:11
Speaker 1: lot of the stabs that have been together for a
44:13
Speaker 1: long time, like everyone kind of knows that role in
44:17
Speaker 1: just like any workplace, some people are just not gonna
44:19
Speaker 1: like other people. Like I can think on one hand,
44:23
Speaker 1: people I truly worked with that I fucking hated. I'm
44:27
Speaker 1: sure everyone listening have worked with people, have been in
44:30
Speaker 1: business with other people, have worked for a guy, have
44:34
Speaker 1: had fellow other you know guys whatever. You know, job,
44:38
Speaker 1: you had people in your office that you despised, but
44:43
Speaker 1: like you still gotta be a quote unquote pro and operate.
44:49
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's just all these variables come
44:52
Speaker 1: into play. Question for the pod, what do you think
44:55
Speaker 1: about the divisional winter parlay for next year? I love
44:57
Speaker 1: a good division winner parlay. I really do Jags, Broncos, Bengals, Panthers,
45:03
Speaker 1: all division winners twenty bet twenty dollars bet basically pays
45:07
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars. Never done a long team parlay like this,
45:10
Speaker 1: so it should make me cheering. I'm gonna take the Texans.
45:13
Speaker 1: They're one of my favorite bets of the year. They're
45:15
Speaker 1: bringing back everybody on defense there should be they they
45:19
Speaker 1: had David Montgomery, they got some young wide receivers to
45:23
Speaker 1: go with Nico. Their offensive line should be better. Their
45:27
Speaker 1: defense is going to be incredible. They got remember they
45:33
Speaker 1: got off to like what one were they won and four? Well,
45:36
Speaker 1: they finished twelve and five. They were one and three.
45:39
Speaker 1: They started zero three. They lost their first three games,
45:42
Speaker 1: so basically starting October, basically the second game in November,
45:49
Speaker 1: win win win, win, win, win win win win win,
45:56
Speaker 1: and then they lost to obviously the Patriots in the
45:59
Speaker 1: player CJ. Stroud didn't have a great game. I'm also
46:06
Speaker 1: gonna take the Saints probably, but the Panthers could be
46:10
Speaker 1: pretty good. Like they went eight and nine last year,
46:12
Speaker 1: they had a lot of momentum. Uh defensively, they add
46:16
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, they add Devin Lloyd, so defensively, they get
46:20
Speaker 1: a little more pop. Uh. Ted McMillan could just become
46:24
Speaker 1: like a top seven eight. He could just be like
46:27
Speaker 1: the next Mike Evans, which he might be, So don't
46:31
Speaker 1: hate it to me. That divisions hard. And you could
46:35
Speaker 1: also argue that the Jags. You know, at one point
46:38
Speaker 1: in time, the Colts were eight and two and they
46:40
Speaker 1: had the best offense in the league. So if Daniel
46:43
Speaker 1: Jones looks a little bit like you did last year,
46:45
Speaker 1: that they could be pretty good too. That division is tough,
46:49
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna lean the Texans up. Granted, I've I
46:51
Speaker 1: bet on him two straight years. Last year I picked
46:54
Speaker 1: him to be the number one overall seat and they
46:56
Speaker 1: started zero and three. We'll end on this thought. He's
47:00
Speaker 1: on college football adapting a hockey style penalty for targeting.
47:03
Speaker 1: Targeting call equals defense to ten man for the remainder
47:07
Speaker 1: of the drive x amount of plays. That's never gonna happen,
47:11
Speaker 1: no chance the football. It is weird when you get
47:16
Speaker 1: the red card. He's like, I gotta play down a
47:18
Speaker 1: man at least in hockey. If I get a penalty,
47:21
Speaker 1: the guy gets to come back in like you're not.
47:24
Speaker 1: If you get the penalty in the first period, you
47:27
Speaker 1: don't play four and five the rest of the game.
47:30
Speaker 1: So if it's a two minute penalty, if it's a
47:32
Speaker 1: five minute major, is that is that what it's called.
47:35
Speaker 1: I struggled with. Even my wife looked at me during
47:38
Speaker 1: the finals. She's like, wait, they're just they don't have
47:40
Speaker 1: a guy. There's down a man. She said that to
47:42
Speaker 1: me a couple of times. I'm like, a red card
47:44
Speaker 1: means you're done. You cannot come back in the game
47:47
Speaker 1: and no one can replace you, and then you can't
47:49
Speaker 1: play in the following game. It's it seems pretty like
47:54
Speaker 1: a pretty strong penalty for something that typically when you're
47:57
Speaker 1: watching soccer doesn't feel that aggressive. College on the targeting
48:01
Speaker 1: penalty will no longer I think, kick the guy out
48:05
Speaker 1: of the game. I have to relook at that rule.
48:07
Speaker 1: They're definitely not suspending you for the next game. There's
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Speaker 1: red card debates got me thinking about football two o's
48:14
Speaker 1: know you, and how shitty it is that a lot
48:17
Speaker 1: of college kids get ejected that aren't playing in the
48:20
Speaker 1: NFL eventually, so we're then taking away a little bit
48:23
Speaker 1: of football they have left for something pretty questionable. Targeting
48:26
Speaker 1: calls my issue with targeting calls. Is we are ten
48:31
Speaker 1: years in to litigating this out of the sport. All
48:35
Speaker 1: these kids, now, since you start in peewee football, through
48:38
Speaker 1: jv and varsity and then through college, are being coached
48:41
Speaker 1: to not head hunt. I misshead hunting. It was just
48:45
Speaker 1: part of the game I grew up on. Part of
48:47
Speaker 1: the reason football there was a violent element to the
48:51
Speaker 1: sport that just no longer exists and it's never coming back.
48:56
Speaker 1: But no one when they get in these collisions, no
48:58
Speaker 1: one's trying to do it. Now. I get if you
49:01
Speaker 1: make an egregious play and you do something after the
49:04
Speaker 1: whistle or something, okay, but these are sets bang bang situations.
49:09
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, who was the guy? Was
49:12
Speaker 1: it Casey on the Steelers hit? Was it Pittman? It
49:17
Speaker 1: was Gardner Minshew. He threw a fucking hospital ball. The
49:21
Speaker 1: guy's laying out to go and the DB's just running
49:23
Speaker 1: into him and they collide and the dude gets tossed
49:25
Speaker 1: out of the game. It's like that would have got
49:28
Speaker 1: you benched twenty years ago. The pass and now the
49:32
Speaker 1: dB gets tossed out of the game, Like, what's he
49:34
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Float over you? But it is what
49:37
Speaker 1: it is, and this isn't changing anytime soon. The NFL
49:40
Speaker 1: is never gonna go to a situation where they kick
49:44
Speaker 1: they don't allow you to replace the player. I think
49:47
Speaker 1: we gotta get away from kicking people out of games.
49:50
Speaker 1: No one attends these games, No one watches these games
49:53
Speaker 1: to see someone in a bang bang play get ejected.
49:57
Speaker 1: And in the NFL, the ejections happened obviously way less
49:59
Speaker 1: than col but college just got so egregious, so fast
50:05
Speaker 1: and so aggressive with those rules that hopefully they've kind
50:09
Speaker 1: of toned it down a little bit. But the red card,
50:12
Speaker 1: at least yesterday's red card. When the dude ran into
50:15
Speaker 1: the guy on Argentina, he flew like he went like
50:19
Speaker 1: eight feet in the air and did a summersault in
50:21
Speaker 1: the air. That was an enjoyable collision to a lot
50:24
Speaker 1: of them. Which I was telling someone this today, it's
50:28
Speaker 1: probably underrated. It's hard to tell, like when you're just
50:32
Speaker 1: sitting on your couch eating popcorn watching these games, how
50:35
Speaker 1: fast some of these dudes are running, because they were
50:37
Speaker 1: all kind of running at similar speeds. We're in football,
50:41
Speaker 1: and if you're a soccer officio nado, you know like
50:44
Speaker 1: that guy's really fast. In football, you can always tell
50:47
Speaker 1: because if someone whatever catch like Tyreek Hill or you know,
50:51
Speaker 1: some fast player on offense, you know the other guy's
50:54
Speaker 1: running fast. Like when DK Metcalf hawked the dB years
50:58
Speaker 1: ago on the Cardinals, you're like K was flying in soccer.
51:01
Speaker 1: Everyone's running and they all kind of look like in
51:04
Speaker 1: sync when they're moving, so you can't really tell the
51:07
Speaker 1: speed always. I think a lot of those guys are
51:10
Speaker 1: hauling ass. I'd be fascinated to know, like what are
51:15
Speaker 1: the forty times on some of these dudes, because most
51:18
Speaker 1: of them, you know the body types. There aren't that
51:21
Speaker 1: many guys. I would imagine that weigh one hundred and
51:24
Speaker 1: eighty hundred ninety pounds. It's the average weight of a
51:27
Speaker 1: lot of these guys. Maybe there are some two hundred
51:29
Speaker 1: pound guys that are taller, but it's it's not like
51:31
Speaker 1: these guys are two hundred and forty pounds running around
51:35
Speaker 1: like even hauling on Norway. Who was he six three
51:38
Speaker 1: two ten? Was DK Metcalf two thirty six y four?
51:43
Speaker 1: He was hauling ass on that play. If you haven't
51:46
Speaker 1: seen it recently, google Dk Metcalf Arizona Cardinals interception looked
51:50
Speaker 1: like he was going ninety miles an hour like legitimately, Okay, audios,
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Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow. Everyone have a great day and
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