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Patriots-Seahawks Reaction, 49ers-Rams Predictions, MIddlekauff Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on, everybody? Football is back.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I'm John. This is the 3NOW Podcast. What a win
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  Speaker 1: by the Seattle Seahawks. That was, you talk about culture.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: We'll dive into it. Drake May. devastating interceptions. But the
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  Speaker 1: one that ended the game is about as bad as
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: you're going to see. And then the injuries, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking about this. I've had a theory on
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  Speaker 1: this for a long time. We lose, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: two points. It's our players. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll dive into that. The Netflix game, which is
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  Speaker 1: happening Friday, Australia, but Thursday night for us. San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. We'll talk some other football stuff as well
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  Speaker 1: as a couple of mailbag questions. We'll have ourselves a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys know the drill at John Middlecoff. You
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  Speaker 1: and let's just talk some football. The Seattle Seahawks, with
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  Speaker 1: an all-time muscle flex, which still might be a big-picture disaster,
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  Speaker 1: but beat the New England Patriots with their backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Locke, who's done this before on primetime years ago
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  Speaker 1: when he beat the Philadelphia Eagles. We'll dive into everything here.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously Seattle, darn old A.J. Brown got injured, the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots, Drake May, a lot going on. But let's
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  Speaker 1: just start, and you guys know the drill, make sure
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  Speaker 1: a lot of more content up on the old YouTube
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  Speaker 1: page throughout the football season. But we talk about culture
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  Speaker 1: a lot in football. it's not just a buzzword. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: every coach, every franchise, all the team captains, all the
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  Speaker 1: star players, our culture, what we stand for, what it's
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  Speaker 1: like in the building, the way we're wired. And I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Every team wants to be tough and every
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  Speaker 1: team wants to be physical. The Seattle Seahawks team culture
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  Speaker 1: has kind of been consistent for 15 years. I mean, they,
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  Speaker 1: and it starts with John and the players they acquire.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously Mike now, who I was thinking tonight, if
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  Speaker 1: you did a draft, right, we talk so much about
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  Speaker 1: the offensive play callers, but the defensive play callers, most
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  Speaker 1: of them are coordinators. Flores, Fangio, you know, Sala is
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  Speaker 1: now a head coach, and so is Aaron Glenn. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of the guys, if you look around
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  Speaker 1: the league, you know, Mike McDonald became the first head
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  Speaker 1: coach to ever win a Super Bowl that also called
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  Speaker 1: the defense. Because usually that guy turns into a CEO
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  Speaker 1: head coach. He is Shanahan, McVay, you know, Andy Reid,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton on defense. If you did a draft, you
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  Speaker 1: could have any deep guy call your defense. Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: would be the universal choice. And the culture that was
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  Speaker 1: on display tonight, you lose your starting quarterback on the
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  Speaker 1: first drive of the game. I think we all think
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  Speaker 1: it when he's kind of limping off after he gets tackled.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they come back from break after the
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  Speaker 1: New England Patriots punted and Drew Locke standing there and
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  Speaker 1: he's walking to the locker room, you went, that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: And by halftime, every player knows, and I'm sure once
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  Speaker 1: they go in, reports that we'll get into Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: here in a minute, he had to go to a
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  Speaker 1: hospital to get further evaluation on his hip. I'm recording
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  Speaker 1: this at night, so who knows the information that will
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  Speaker 1: come out over the next 12, 24 hours. That's pretty scary.
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  Speaker 1: I think everyone kind of goes through their head like,
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  Speaker 1: we might not see him the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: We might not see him for another couple months. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: That's what the players are thinking. And the franchise, the team,
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  Speaker 1: the players, they never flinched. Hell, they were down 10-0
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  Speaker 1: in the third quarter. And I never felt for one
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  Speaker 1: second their effort, their play calling. I mean, offensively, you
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  Speaker 1: are kind of limited when your starting quarterback immediately goes out.
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  Speaker 1: And you have a first-time play caller who everyone's been
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  Speaker 1: talking about, 46, 47 years old, a little late to
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  Speaker 1: the game, but that's got to be pretty jolting. I
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  Speaker 1: always talk about this as a head coach. I would
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  Speaker 1: say the same thing goes for a coordinator. No one
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  Speaker 1: prepares you for that. There is no preparation in life.
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  Speaker 1: The first time on national television with probably 30, 40
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  Speaker 1: million people watching, Sam Darnold is just gone. And Drew
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  Speaker 1: Locke is, by the end of this game, I think
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  Speaker 1: we would all agree, a high-end backup. Got to be
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  Speaker 1: in the running for one of the best backups in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. I was texting with a bunch of Niner people. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones is obviously a good backup. Drew Locke has
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  Speaker 1: a better arm. So Drew Locke can make plays that
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  Speaker 1: Mac Jones just can't because he has more velocity with
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  Speaker 1: his arm when he's moving. And rolling out and throwing
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  Speaker 1: is a big part of his game. And he was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good tonight. Now there were some penalties, some delay
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  Speaker 1: of game stuff. But that's going to happen when, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Sam Darnold's been taking all the reps for
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  Speaker 1: a month. And one of the delay of games came
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  Speaker 1: on a crazy-ass scramble, which is kind of a thing
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  Speaker 1: that happens a lot in football, whether it's the starter
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  Speaker 1: or the backup. But like that to me was the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate culture win. A bunch of absolute badasses playing their
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  Speaker 1: balls off when their starting quarterback is no longer in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium. A guy that we all anointed of like,
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold hasn't just turned his career around. He's become
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  Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. When they rank him 14th on that
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  Speaker 1: Sando list, I think most people agree like that feels
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  Speaker 1: too low. And he's just gone. Game one. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady once tore his ACL game one. The New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots 2008. And they kind of held it together.
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  Speaker 1: They won 11 games. That was a weird year. They
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  Speaker 1: ended up not making the playoffs. But I'm thinking watching
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  Speaker 1: this team, even before they ended up winning, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: at one point in time, it didn't feel like they
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  Speaker 1: were going to win. Like, this is a team that's
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  Speaker 1: not going to go away. They're going to play their
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  Speaker 1: balls off on defense. They're definitely going to have the
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  Speaker 1: best scheme on defense because their defensive coordinator can dial
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  Speaker 1: up these blitzes from all angles. You got no clue
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  Speaker 1: what's coming. Even Ward didn't even play. They got random
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  Speaker 1: backups in their secondary to go along with some of
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  Speaker 1: their star players. Their defensive line, You've got to give
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots some credit. I mean, Will Campbell got absolutely
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  Speaker 1: crushed for the last, I don't know, eight, nine months.
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  Speaker 1: Looked like he played pretty well. Got to watch the tape.
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  Speaker 1: But he was holding his own. The rest of the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, Drake May wasn't just like under duress every
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  Speaker 1: single play. That was not the downfall of his night.
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  Speaker 1: So I have so much respect for everything the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks franchise did. has turned into in this second iteration.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of stood for that during Pete Carroll, and
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  Speaker 1: now they've morphed into it with Mike McDonald. Now, they're
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  Speaker 1: not winning the Super Bowl if Sam Darnold never comes back.
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  Speaker 1: I picked him to go back. I would obviously not
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  Speaker 1: expect them to go to the Super Bowl if Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold is just gone and just never returning, or even
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  Speaker 1: if he can come back way later, and who knows
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  Speaker 1: if he's ever the same. I mean, hip injuries are
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  Speaker 1: pretty scary. One of the greatest athletes in the history
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  Speaker 1: of this country, His career was ended with a bad
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  Speaker 1: hip injury, Bo Jackson. But the crazy part is, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't even look that bad. But clearly, you just never know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is football, and guys are big and fast,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, boom, it's over. So I
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  Speaker 1: have so much respect for Seattle winning that game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And their defense, making plays in the secondary carried them.
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  Speaker 1: The punter was incredible. JSN, what a stud. Price kind of,
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  Speaker 1: they just stopped giving him the ball, but he was
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  Speaker 1: awesome early in this game. Cooper Cup made, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what a catch he made over his shoulder. Made another
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  Speaker 1: big play late in the game on a first down.
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  Speaker 1: Even Collinsworth gave him a lot of credit. Coming back
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  Speaker 1: to the ball and getting the first down. So hat
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  Speaker 1: tip to the Seattle Seahawks. That was, that's one of
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  Speaker 1: those moments. A lot like the last time Drew Locke
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: won the game on Monday Night Football. Tough place to play, man.
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• 10:53
  Speaker 1: talented player. And he had a really good season last
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: year in the regular season. The playoffs were rough. You
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: can see it with Drake May. Throws a pretty ball,
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  Speaker 1: moves well, tough as shit, can make plays just out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere with his legs. A lot to work with
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  Speaker 1: as a young player. But he was second in MVP
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  Speaker 1: voting last year. And once you do that and you're
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: a young guy, I think a lot of people go,
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  Speaker 1: this guy could be like a top five, six quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think we need to pump the
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: brakes a little bit. Seattle's a tough place to play.
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  Speaker 1: Elite defensive coordinator. Excellent defense, even if they got some
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: backups in the secondary. If you throw a red zone
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: pick with the game on the line when a field
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  Speaker 1: goal sends it to overtime, that's something the below average
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  Speaker 1: guys do. That's an inexcusable mistake. to throw that game-ending pick.
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  Speaker 1: And the first interception he threw to Romeo Dobbs, like,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: I don't exactly look at Romeo Dobbs. I know Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: called him like a jump ball, contested catch, make plays
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  Speaker 1: in traffic. Maybe I got to go back and watch
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: some of his previous targets with Green Bay. Not really
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  Speaker 1: how I think of him. That's, I don't know, like
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  Speaker 1: Anquan Bolden, Larry Fitzgerald, DeAndre Hopkins, A.J. Brown. I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel that's Romeo Dobbs. A lot like the play that
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: he dropped the ball. That to me is more him
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  Speaker 1: crossing routes, get him the ball, let him make plays
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  Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands. Maybe my scouting report's wrong,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: but just throwing the ball up to him in double coverage,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: like that's on Drake Mayne. Now, it's not his fault
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  Speaker 1: that he dropped the ball, but then the very next play,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: like that's a routine interception for Love. He picked that
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  Speaker 1: thing off in stride, and obviously the ender. And he
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: made some nice plays throughout the game, but at one
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: point in time in the third quarter when it felt
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: like Seattle, like they were going to lose this game
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  Speaker 1: like 10-3, they were out gaining New England. It's not
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: like New England's offense was great by any means. I mean,
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: looking at the box score here, Drew Locke, 187 yards.
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  Speaker 1: He threw for more yards than Drake May. Now, Drew
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Locke gets a lot of yards on the one big
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: JSN play, but who would you say was better down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch? Who was making better decisions down the stretch?
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Drew had some penalties on delay games, which is 100%
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: going to happen to any backup quarterback thrust into action
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  Speaker 1: in any game. Not giving him a pass, but Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not holding that one like he's Sam Darnold. I
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: think we would judge Sam Darnold differently. He outplayed Drake May.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way around it. I get A.J. Brown goes out,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: but it's not like he was force-feeding A.J. Brown unlimited
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: targets when he was in the game. What did A.J.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Brown have, three catches? A.J. Brown, yeah, three catches for
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: 26 yards. But that's rough because if you said, hey,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: their offensive line's going to play really well and... Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold's going to go out the first play of the game.
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  Speaker 1: I think that immediately becomes a must-win game for New England.
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  Speaker 1: And at one point in time, when it felt like
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: New England was going to win in kind of an
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: ugly game, I was like, that's a great win for
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: New England. Me not picking them to make the playoffs,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I might have to rescind that. You get a win
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: on the road in Seattle, that's a big-time win. You're
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: just going to obviously get way more wins at home.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You're going to win some games against a shitty team.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I thought you were a 9-10 win team. Now, maybe
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: that's 11 this year. Now you're thinking like, meh. There's
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: two things going. A lot of people are going, what
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: the fuck was that, Drake? And one of their big
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: free agent moves, Romeo Dobbs, everyone's going to hate the guy.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Like Boston, Philly, New York, when you get off to
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: a terrible start in football game one in a situation
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: like this, people are just going to be down on you.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: And we'll see what A.J. Brown's injury status is, but
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: if he's MIA for a while and he's a guy
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: who's been injured before and missed a bunch of games,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: hopefully he's okay and he's got a longer week, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because you get a mini-bye playing on Wednesday. But holy moly. Like, hey, Romeo,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: we might depend on you a little. You get Henderson back, right?
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Who missed the game and they call them a practice
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  Speaker 1: squad running back who definitely is going to add more
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: of an explosive element to their offense, running the ball
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: and throwing the ball out of the backfield. But that's
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: one if you're a Patriot fan. Like, if you're a
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Seattle fan, you have so much pride. You have so much...
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: like that was, that's who we are. And if you're
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: a new England Patriot fan, you go, what, what just
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: happened to us? Your, your defense is good. Christian Gonzalez
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: is a star. Uh, the front seven is just, I mean,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: they don't have Javon curse or miles Garrett right around,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: but they're well-coached physical team. They're a good team, but
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: can I trust the quarterback against good teams and big
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: spots on the road? Uh, Can I trust Romeo Dobbs?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Is AJ Brown going to be on the field? Tough, man.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: You saw Mike Vrabel going over and talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly trying to keep his head up because I can't
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  Speaker 1: have you go into the tank September 9th. We got
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: to get this together. And I'm not acting like he's
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: some scrub or I'd write him off. But that was eye-opening.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it for a while,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: about him being some elite in the sport. The other
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: thing that I've been saying this for a while, is
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the injuries in the NFL are outrageous. And we've seen
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: guys drop like flies now for years. It is clear
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: that the way football is set up with the rules
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and the practices, that no one can build up the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: calluses in practice. No one tackles to the ground. No
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: one does anything live anymore. And nobody plays in the preseason.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So if a guy does play in the preseason, we
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: saw a lot of this like Baker Mayfield or Justin
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Herbert or Purdy. They'd play like a series. Be like, well,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: what if you went three and out? Well, a lot
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: of coaches be like, run him back in. We want
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to get a couple first downs. They wouldn't even put
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: him back in the game. So you have no game
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: ready feel for the speed of the actual tackles. Somehow
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Seattle and New England's defense is due. But the offensive guys,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: their bodies are just in positions that I think they're
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: not comfortable being in because they haven't played tackle football.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: And these two teams were the last game of the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: season in, you know, nine, eight months. I got to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: do the math on the exact February, March. You know
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: what I mean. It's been a while. And back in
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the day, and I don't even mean like the 70s
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: or the 80s, I'm talking the 2000s. You would do
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: double days in camp where you would hit and tackle,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and then guys would play in the preseason. So when
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: they get to the games, because let's face it, Sam
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Darnold and A.J. Brown, both of them felt like pretty
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: innocuous basic plays, especially Sam's. And I was texting someone
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: this tonight, like, if you think teams are cautious and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: scared the way they practice, their physicality of not getting
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: anyone injured, and then no one plays in the preseason games,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: The salary cap is only going to keep growing at
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: an exponential rate. It's going to go up 30, 50, 80, 100,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: 200 million over the course of the next 5, 6,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: 10 years, right? Guys are going to make more money
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: than ever. They're only going to keep getting richer until
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the league one day just maybe implodes. But for the
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: foreseeable future, these guys are going to get richer and richer,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: meaning these teams are going to be like, no touching anybody.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, one of the most famous plays, which I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: understand everyone does it, was the clip from Hard Knocks
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: When Mike was yelling at Hall to not even get
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: close to the quarterback. And then Sam gets tackled. Again,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: pretty normal looking tackle. But no one's ever allowed to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: touch these guys. And maybe you can just tackle two
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: freak injuries. These freak injuries are happening non-stop all the time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: And the league doesn't give a shit. They're never changing
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the rules. The NFLPA loves their off days and no...
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: pads no training camp practices I do think it's if
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about the downfall of football if
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: every single game like who are the most famous players
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: coming into this game if you just did a top
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: five are Sam Darnold and AJ Brown one and two
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: like it's Drake May more famous than AJ Brown right
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think so not yet if you wanted to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: argue okay so it's one two three Sam, Drake, AJ,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: because AJ is definitely the third most famous player, non-quarterback
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in this game. And two of them are just lost
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: for the game. And it doesn't even feel like, God,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that never happens. It happens all the time. the NBA
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is a great example load management is a core philosophy
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: now with all these teams yet the NBA has more
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: injuries than ever and if you look back when I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: grew up on basketball the 90s and the 2000s guys
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: would play 10 straight years 75 to 80 games every
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: year and go to practice So it's like, the science,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the science, the science, all I ever fucking hear. I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: don't know. Who's a scientist? Because I'm watching this. Guys
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: are getting fucking dropping like flies every game we watch.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And you get to a point where you get to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: November and December and these primetime games and half the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: good players are gone. Like, that's a problem. I'm not
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: claiming to have some solution because they're not going to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: change the practice, but this problem is not going to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: change because the game starts... You see how hard New
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: England and Seattle were playing on defense? Those two teams
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: played on defense like every guy on defense, all 11
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: guys on both teams, their job was on the line.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They would get cut if they didn't run into the ball.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: The tackling in this game was fantastic because they had
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: two good defenses. There are a lot of good defenses
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: in the league. There are a lot of guys, even
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: on the bad teams, that will hit you hard. But
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: no one gets hit anymore. So how do you get
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: used to getting hit when you never get hit? I
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: never played in the NFL. I'm not acting like a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: tough guy here. I just know that I'm a consumer.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And I've watched football now for 30 years. And it
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: does feel that we have several years of evidence now.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It's getting worse and worse. And maybe it's Seattle. I
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: know they put in the grass field for FIFA. They
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: play on turf. Maybe it's something like that. Could the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: grass help? I don't know. But that sucked. That sucked. Okay,
• 21:33
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• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Now's the perfect time to plant. Let's grow together. Speaking
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: about growing together, the power of having a good backup
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback is worth way more than you could ever pay
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a guy making $ 3, $ 4, $ 5 million that you really like.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, this guy's our backup. Because it's always
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: cool to have a backup that you like, and then
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden your starting quarterback gets injured, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it happens all the time. Look at last year. We
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: had two. Brock Purdy and Joe Burrow got turf toe.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: It ended the Bengals' season immediately. 49ers, no issue. They
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: had a good backup. And Mac Jones on a two-year,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: $ 7 million contract. What was he worth to the 49ers?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: $ 50 million? $ 100 million? $ 100 million? I mean, won a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: bunch of games, which enabled them to be good by
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the time Purdy got back. And then they made the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: playoffs and won a game. Drew Locke, like, listen, do
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I think he could just throw multiple touchdowns every game
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and have no drop off? Of course not. There's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: reason he's the backup. But when your backup proves, because once,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, he had to be a little nervous. All
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you realize you're going in, the entire
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: game's left. And then you prove to your team that,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a team that's the defending Super Bowl champs, who's got
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: high-end players everywhere, who's got one of, if not, I mean,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: we can say this about like five wide receivers, one
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of the elite wide receivers in the league. You got
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: a new play caller, so you got a lot of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: moving parts. Everyone's kind of like, what's going on? And
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: by the end of the game, you go, Drew was
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a badass. He made a couple throws where he got hit.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And to me, it's obviously for his confidence to get
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: some momentum. But it gives the entire building confidence because
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: now all your star players on defense, they all believe
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: in the guy. Takes a little pressure off your offensive
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: coordinator that everyone probably would have been down on. Takes
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: pressure off your head coach who, let's face it, depending
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: on how long this Darnold situation, everyone would freak out.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: It's a very powerful moment. You could make the argument
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: when you win a game with your backup quarterback, if
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you're a good team. Bad teams that are out of it,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily matter. but like playoff teams. That's worth
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: like a win and a half. It's worth more than
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a win. Like that win to Seattle when Drew Locke
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: essentially played the entire game feels bigger than one game.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And it also feels like, okay, because of the way
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we're built, we can win like this. Remember Aaron Rodgers
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: when he tore the Achilles on Monday night years ago
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: for the Jets? They won that game. People forget they
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: won that game, but everyone kind of knew like this
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: is over. the thing with Seattle is like, yeah, if
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: drew lock had to start the rest of the season,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you know, our expectations probably change a little bit, but
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: like this ain't over guys. This is not over now.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It might, it might not be a Kurt Warner's or quarterback.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: We're going to win with Kurt Warner, but this is like,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: we can win 10 games. We already got one. So
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: congrats to drew lock. I love it. When backup quarterbacks
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: come in on good teams, look good, play good and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: win games. Um, What a powerful moment for kind of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Seattle to come together tonight. Let's just start because yesterday
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: in terms of this Australian game, We discussed if the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: 49ers were to win, they have acted like ambassadors over
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: there in Australia because they have been there for what
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: feels like two weeks, is the NFL will want to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: do this again because they know the teams, it's a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: copycat league, will just do exactly what the 49ers did
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: if it worked. and be over there for seven, eight days, which,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, the first couple, the players are mandated a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: day off, you know, during the work week. They become
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: ambassadors of the NFL. It's like, you know, kind of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: guerrilla marketing, a barnstorming tour. It's an easy deal for
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the NFL if this game goes well. Now, it'll be
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: fascinating to see what it looks like on television. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: heard Matt Barrows, who covers the 49ers, the field shape
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is more oval because of the sports they play on
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this field. And obviously, when you cut a football field,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I think some of the angles, the stands are going
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to be pretty far away. But I'm a big golf guy.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And Liv that just filed for bankruptcy, the one thing
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: they have to hang their hat on, really two, but
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: their biggest event by far was down in Australia. Obviously
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Australians are just an active bunch. They like sports. And
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: there have been events from a golf standpoint, obviously a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: rugby standpoint. You do big events down there, people enjoy it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And if this goes off as a quote unquote hit event,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I think they do this again next year. My guess
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: is in 2024, assuming this game goes off in terms
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of not necessarily the production and the actual game's going
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to be fine, but it feels like Australia can back
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: this event with fan interest, people around, I think a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: bunch of people. Like 50% of people attending this game
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: are from the States, you know, flying in to watch
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the Rams and the 49ers. I would imagine there's going
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of 49er fans. My guess is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: this kind of turns into a 49er home game is
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: part of it is, you know, the 49ers and their
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: barnstorming tour of being over there forever. They probably just
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: got a lot of random people that are indifferent. Like, yeah,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: root for this team. These guys seem cool. And I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: think the NFL in 2027, my guess would be whoever
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: wins the Super Bowl plays Wednesday and hosts a good opponent.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And then Thursday is like a good game. You know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: it's like Joe Burrow against Lamar Jackson. It's the Dallas
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Cowboys against the Philadelphia Eagles. It's the Green Bay Packers
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: against the Chicago Bears. It's the Bills against the Patriots. Like,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: if I was a betting man, assuming this pops on
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Netflix with the fans and it looks cool, I think
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they go back again next year. Because they didn't just
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: randomly go to this market. And if this market works,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the only time you could really do it is week
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: one because of the travel. I think they double down.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And they've shown week one. They went to Brazil. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: guess they're going to Brazil again this year. I think
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: they will go back to Australia. So my prediction right
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: now is the season opens exactly like it did this
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: year with the Super Bowl champ on Wednesday and the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Australia game on Thursday. Let's dive into the game. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: we got a lot going on. You know, big picture
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: for this matchup, you got two guys that are directly connected. Honestly,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of connections. Sean McVay worked for Kyle Shanahan.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Raheem Morris also worked on that staff for Mike Shanahan.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: He's very open. He's very close with Sean McVay. He
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: considers Kyle Shanahan one of his best friends. He was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator for Sean McVay when they won the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and now he's coaching for Kyle Shanahan. So
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the connection of these guys, they know each other extremely well.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And Kyle Shanahan had a lot of success early on
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: against Sean McVay. Sean's rattled off some wins over the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: last couple years but in their career playing each other
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in 18 games not counting the NFC championship game Kyle's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: won 11 Sean's won seven now Kyle would gladly trade
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that record to have the one game in the NFC
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: championship where Sean went on to win the win the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl but this is a matchup if you look
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: at last year like Kyle's beat Sean with Mac Jones
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: as his quarterback. It was one of the crazier wins
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: of the year. Obviously, the 49ers, by the end of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the season, got their ass kicked twice in three weeks
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: against Seattle. It might have been four because of a bye.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: But I guess it would have been three because they
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: played them the last game of the season, then the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: 49ers beat the Eagles, then they played them again. So
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: two times in three weeks, and they got housed. I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: forget the combined score. I mean, the playoff game was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: like 50-7, and the final game was, I think, 13-3,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: but it was not that close. They got worked, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: they were undermanned, outclassed, and it was embarrassing. But that's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: what everyone thought when the 49ers went to L.A. With
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Mac Jones, I think Bosa had just been injured. Maybe
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Fred Warner had just been injured too. I can't even
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: keep up with their injuries. And they beat them. And
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: by the end of the season, that cost the ramps
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: because they had so much pressure in that game against
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Seattle when they lost it, it kind of derailed them.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Now they ended up losing to Atlanta that it wouldn't
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: have mattered anyway. But I just think that week one,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: also week one, the 49ers beat Seattle week one. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to me, Kyle Shanahan, a huge advantage the 49ers have,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: who on paper are going to have less talent. They
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: just are. And they have a lot of unknowns, right?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: George Kittle, in theory, is going to play in this game,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: coming back from the Achilles. Nick Bosa's basically, he started
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: training camp, came in great shape. Trent Williams, like, best
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: he's looked. Then all of a sudden, he couldn't practice
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: for like a month. And even now, it's like, is
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he practicing? Is he not practicing? He's limited in practice.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: You just don't know. He claims he's full go. He's
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: got this tendonitis with the knee. I mean, he's torn
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: his ACL like six times over the course of his life.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: The 49ers have a ton of question marks. But if
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: they're main core guys, like throughout the season, who knows?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, the defining, I would say, attribute of this
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: franchise right now It doesn't feel like Kyle Shanahan's success.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Even though since he's been there, by the third year
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: they went to the Super Bowl, they have been really successful.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: They've won a lot of games, a lot of playoff games,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: road playoff games. Kyle Shanahan is considered one of the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: best coaches in the league. Yet injuries are something that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: is stamped on the side of this franchise right now.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: You know, we all make fun of the substation and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: who knows what's true or not. But regardless, we just
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: know guys get hurt constantly. And I saw this tweet
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: from Eric Branch that, see, I X'd it out. Luckily,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I remembered it. That the 49ers, who just lost Alfred
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Collins yesterday to a torn knee. They drafted him last
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: year in the second round. Well, who was their first
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: round pick? Mikel Williams out of Georgia. And the 49ers
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: were bad the previous year, so they went 6-11. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: think they had the 11th pick. They were drafted high
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: in the second round. Where's he? He's on PUP because
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he tore his ACL last year. Where's their first rounder
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: from the year before? Oh, Ricky Pearsall. Where's he? Oh,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: out for the year. Torn knee. It's like, over the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: course of the season, I would be very concerned that
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: their young talent is going to be non-existent because a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: lot of the guys just are gone. Now, how good
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Alfred Collins is going to be, no one knows. He
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was coming back off an injury during training camp. But
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in that Rams game that they won, At the one-yard line,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: when it looked like the Rams were going to hammer
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: home a touchdown and win the game, what happened? Collins
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: forced a fumble from Kyron Williams and, I mean, flipped
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the game. It was a huge reason they won. So
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I just think this injury thing, it's always the elephant
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: in the room with the 49ers. Like at any moment,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you're just practicing in Australia. There's no substation in Australia,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: at least that I know of. Could be a data
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: center somewhere. Could be some sort of Wi-Fi flying around.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: You just lose a defensive tackle to a torn patella? Listen,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I feel like that happens to no one else. Clearly
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: guys get hurt in practice over the course of football.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It does feel like it happens to the 49ers more
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: often than anyone else. And the other thing is, these games...
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Are these guys going to be able to play the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: whole game? That's always the question mark. Okay, Nick Bosa, tendonitis,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: hasn't really practiced, then he plays in the game. Is
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he just playing 45, 50 snaps? Or is it one
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of those things like he played a first series, then
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: he feels weird, he can't really go? Are they full
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: go with George Kittle? Or is he just playing 30, 40%
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of the snaps? Which is more understandable coming back from
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the Achilles. Christian McCaffrey, is he just 100%? Just feed
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: him the ball? Give him 20, 25 touches? Mike Evans,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: who's battled injuries in practice. I mean, I hate doing this,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: but it's just part of the fabric of this franchise.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Not that the Rams don't have those. Miles Garrett's been
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: banged up. But I just expect when Miles Garrett plays
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: for the Rams, he'll just look like Miles Garrett. Matt
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Stafford had a back injury. And then all of a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: sudden it went away. And he played the entire season.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And he won the MVP. Devante's battled some hamstring injuries
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on right but other than
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: that like I just expect I like the 49ers in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: this game because I think it's a kitchen sink game
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I do have some big picture question marks with just
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: health and it's something that no other team feels like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: is as big of a deal every single snap and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the other thing with the 49ers like I can see
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: them winning the game And then two days later on
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a conference call, he's like, yeah, a couple things cropped
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: up with this guy, that guy, and the next guy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: You're like, what? That guy played the whole game. The
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: 49ers lead the league in that. Of a guy playing
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the entire game, he scored a touchdown, leading the game
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in tackles, and then Kyle two days later being like, yeah,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: something popped up. He's going to be touch and go
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: this week. You're like, what? He just looked incredible. Or
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, he just broke his leg. When did
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: he break his leg? The 49ers have the Bo Nix,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: that incident that happened last year when it just came
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: out of left field. You're like, what? He broke his ankle?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I saw him do the kneel down, win the game.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, just broke it. 49ers have one of
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: those like twice a month. So that's just a huge,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: huge part of this franchise that is a big issue
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: over the course of the season. They're young talent, big
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: issue over the course of the season. In a one-game scenario,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, George Kittle, Brock Purdy, Mike Evans, you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Debo Samuel, who's looked good, Fred Warner, like they can
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: win this game. And they've proven it to be under man.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: This is where these divisional games, like there are some
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: divisional games this weekend, like Washington Eagles. I think mid-season,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the Eagles win that game like eight, nine out of
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: 10 times. But week one get weird. But this divisional
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: opponent more than most, it was like Tomlin and Harbaugh.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Like they just know each other really, really well. There
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: aren't that many didn't see that coming. Now, obviously, there
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: might be a play that you didn't see coming because
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you've had the entire offseason to prepare to, you know,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: wheel and deal and practice in the film room on
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the whiteboard. But I just think this is you need
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: your star players to make plays. And I think the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: question mark is how healthy are the star players for
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the 49ers? You know, my only question mark with the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Rams is like, you're telling me like Matt Stafford, who
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is almost 40 years old, is just completely unfazed by
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: a 16, 17-hour plane ride? I understand it with a 24-year-old.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Slam a Gatorade, have a double shot of espresso. I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: heard they're fantastic in Australia. And just play the game. Like, okay,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you're young, you can bounce back. But some of the, Devontae?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: And one big thing with this travel, I talked to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a buddy who just had to go to Bali. I
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: don't even know why he was there. I thought he
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was there for work, but maybe he was there for
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a wedding. And he was telling me that he went
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: through Australia on his way home. He did that flight
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just the opposite way. And he said, I've never been
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: more thirsty in my entire life. He's like, I was
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: just begging for water the entire time trying to flag
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: people down to get a drink. And by the time
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I got off, I had felt like I just had
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: ran a marathon. I was so thirsty. And Colin mentioned
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: this on the podcast that I'm sure the Rams will
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: have like an IV station where they will force you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: to maybe take two if you're an older player. I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: don't know. But I still just think that's a major,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: major question mark that the travel thing with some of
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: their older players. But to me, the question mark with
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the Rams is like, is it really going to be
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: this easy? The whole, like, they're just the super team.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: They're just the team that no one's ever had the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: reigning MVP and the reigning defensive player on the same team.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams led the league in touchdowns. Puka has been
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league for the
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: last several years. Say what you want about him. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: don't even know half these people. It's like, streamer Zion
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: or Neon. Maybe I'm old. I got no clue who
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: that is. There are a lot of things I've noticed lately.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just, you know, I'm probably less online with
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the kid and now the football season starts. I'm more
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: kind of tunnel vision focused. Sometimes I see a story
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: about something controversial or something. I'm like, I don't even know. What?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I have to like, I can't even fall. It's like
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: when I try to, me and my wife are talking.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: like she'll tell me some Bravo story I'll tell her
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: some football story you kind of have to explain it
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: step by step That's what I feel like on some
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: of these just random stories going on. I feel like
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: that every single time I read something about Puka with
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: a streamer. I'm like, full disclosure, I got no clue
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: who this person is. I don't know their resume. So
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: judging them from the angle of like, you can't go
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: on with that guy. Who is that guy? And I
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: just don't believe that like some 62-year-old beat reporter has
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: any clue. They're like, you cannot do a podcast with
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: this guy. It's like, tell me all about this streamer
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: because you don't know anything about him. Neither do I.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a good or bad guy. We
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: don't know anything. You're just fucking Googling it. I mean,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: DeJuan loves, if you Googled it, he said he was
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: on the 49ers. So you've got to be careful about
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: doing that. But I think that's the question. They're the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl favorites. Everyone thinks they're the best team in
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the league. And this happens. I mean, this has been
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: happening with the Bills and the Ravens for like three
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: or four straight years. They're just like, they're going to
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. They are the favorites in the AFC.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, are they? I mean, are we sure?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: It's usually not how it happens. And guess what? It
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: didn't happen. So I'm just very hesitant in football. In
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: college football, if you have one of the best rosters
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and you have a good coach, you're basically guaranteed to
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: be good. But we have seen a lot of really
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: good coaches in the history of the NFL. have rough seasons. Like,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: over a 15-year span, did Saban ever have a bad year? Like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: what was his worst year? Like, 10-3? It's not like
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: he ever had a 6-6 season. Kirby Smart's head like, God,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: that just... That was not good enough. It's like, you
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: were in the second round of the playoffs. You were
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: in the Final Four. Right? So it's like, the expectations
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: at college, you're guaranteed. Like, it's really, really difficult if
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: you have... the equivalent of what the Rams have, to have,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: in NFL terms, a 9-8 season. But in the NFL,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: it happens all the time. The Ravens last year went
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: fucking 8-9. So the Chiefs, now, I think it's a
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: little different. They had been to five Super Bowls. They
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: had been to however many straight conference championship games. You
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: eventually run out of gas. But I just think that
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: whenever anyone pencils you in to be great and just
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: run through the league, and the other thing is their
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: divisions are. Kyle Shanahan, 11-7 against them. Obviously Seattle beat
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: them multiple times down the stretch. Now you can say
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the one in Seattle on Thursday night was a little fluky. True.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: But the other elephant in the room, back to the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Puka thing, it's like because of all the weird stuff
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: going on, I think he also said he ran through
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: a glass window. you know a door it's like what
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: bro yeah i've never done that not of age maybe
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: when i was like nine you know you run through
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: a screen or something but it's like what what's going
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: on he has a the amount of money these court
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: these wide receivers are getting paid like there's a lot
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: on the line for this guy and sometimes in these
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: contract years the way he plays could it get weird
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: if he gets a little dinged up uh you know
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: aaron donald didn't make this trip what does he look
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: like You just take a couple years off in your
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: mid-30s and you just come back as like the greatest
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: player of all time? I don't know. Now, in fairness,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: they weren't necessarily depending on him. If he had never
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: come back, I don't think we would talk about the
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Rams that much differently. But he does add a little
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: level of expectation. You know, is Miles Garrett expecting him
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: to be awesome? What does Trent McDuffie look like in
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: their defense? Yeah, I mean, they've had the same. Unlike,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: you know, Kyle's gone through some defensive coordinators. He's had
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: a bunch of Right? Obviously, he would have had solid,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: but he got a head coaching job, so he left.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: But he has to get Raheem Morris, who has some
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: different views on different guys. So you kind of have
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: some personnel movement at certain positions. Where, you know, he
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: was very hesitant to put Shula in the defensive coordinator
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: position because they were like best friends going back to college.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: He finally did, and it's worked really well. And he's
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: been really good. And he seems like a really high-level guy.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: So it's their cohesion on their staff. I mean, they
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: always lose some offensive guys, but it's like, whatever. Like, hey.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: The deal with Sean and Kyle, losing a LaFleur, losing
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: a Kubiak, they'll just replace him with the next version.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: My issue always for those guys on defense. Do they
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: lose a coordinator? Who do they replace him with? What's
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: his background? How good is he? Obviously Raheem has a
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: lot of experience, but he's been a head coach for
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a couple years and it didn't really go well. Everyone
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: loves the guy, but You know, I think when you
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: become a head coach, it's hard to judge you on
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: your scheme. But something was just missing with the Falcons.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: And in fairness, his general manager was awful. But I
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: think the 49ers won the game. I do. Not because
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I think over the course of the season the 49ers
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: are going to be better. They got some question marks,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: and their guys go down all the time. But in
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: game one, you know, if I would have told you,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: The 49ers, just like good teams, the way it looked
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: by the end of the year, what they did in
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: the first game against Seattle at Seattle. So this is,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I just do also believe in the playing thing. Like
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: being there forever, getting acclimated, I do think that's important.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm proven wrong. Maybe Sean's a genius. And if
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: he is, then who knows? Maybe they won't go back
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to Australia. I just mean the NFL because no team
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: will ever go before like 24 hours before. But I
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: think if I'm doing predictions on this game, brought to
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you by my friends at Polymarket, I think the 49ers
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: are a pretty live dog. I really do. And if
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: you look, you can get the 49ers to win the game.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: If you bet $ 100, you win $ 270. I mean, they're
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: a pretty big underdog in this game. I don't think
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the casual fan, like non-49er fan... It's weird. The Rams
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: are like a bigger national brand than they are a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: local brand. Right? It's... them and the Chargers are really
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: more talked about nationally than they ever are in their
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: own market. Having spent a lot of time now the
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: last couple years down in Southern California, the NFL is just,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: it's a bit like the stadium and the event is
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: a big deal, but they're breaking down the Dodgers and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the Lakers. They're talking Mark Walters. They're not breaking down
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the secondary for the Rams. Honestly, if Lincoln Riley could
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: ever get USC going, they'd be a bigger deal. Why?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: They've been there forever. USC didn't like, remember when USC
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: moved to Arizona for like seven years? No, they left.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: It's understandable. It's why the 49ers sell out when they
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: go to SoFi. Because you guys were gone forever in St. Louis.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: So I just think this game, I think it's going
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: to be a Niner home game. I think Kyle's just,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: they're all in on this game. I think it's huge.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: And I think the way Sean McVay's handled it is
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: just weird. I mean, I know it's worked in other situations,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: but going to Jacksonville, I'm sorry, it's just different than
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: going to fucking Australia. So 49ers to win the game. Yes.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: One that I like is Mike Evans' anytime touchdown. If
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you say yes at 31%, it basically pays three to one.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: So $ 100 is like $ 307. I think Mike Evans, one
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: problem the 49ers had for like a stretch of like
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: two or three years is their wide receivers were not
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: great red zone targets. Like Debo scored when he broke
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: a bunch of touchdowns or I mean broke a bunch
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: of tackles and made sweet plays. Same thing with Brandon
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Ayuk like running routes. But like Kittle was kind of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: their red zone guy. Or just like give it to
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: McCaffrey 10 times, you know, inside the 20, what thrown
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: or handed off to him. But they've never had a
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: guy that looks like him that you can just throw
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: an alley-oop to. Just throw the ball high, have him
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: high point the ball, And it's why they were very,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: very aggressive to get him. It's one thing the Rams
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: have with Devontae. He's not as tall as Mike Evans,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: but you can just throw him a fade. You can
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: throw him a 50-50 ball and just go, Devontae, make
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: a play. And he's been doing it his entire career
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: because he has great ball skills and he can high
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: point the football. It's a major skill that certain guys
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: have that separate them. When you have that great ball
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: skills and you're Mike Evans that's built like an NBA player,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: like it's... It's advantage offensive player because Richard Sherman ain't
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: walking through that door for any of these teams. Most
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: of these teams, a tall corner for them is six
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: feet tall. The other thing is 48.5 feels like a
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: lot of points to me for just a weird game.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Because whether I'm a believer in Kyle Shanahan being there forever,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: whether you're like Sean McVay's a genius for going right
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: before him, The game is still being played at 10
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: in the morning in Australia. So I could see the
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: thing being a little weird. I could see just it
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: being a little awkward for a while. And as over
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the course of the game, maybe guys poop out. Like,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: are we really getting a 28 to 20 type game?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: A 30 to 25 game? Would it shock you if
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: it's like 10-7 at halftime? So I'm hammering no on 48.5.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Because again, that just feels like. I mean, that's my
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: logic there. So I can't wait for this. I'm fascinated. Again,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: if it goes well, I got Australia happening again in 2027.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Let's get to some news. I don't want to take
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a victory lap, but I've been doing this long enough
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: that there are certain stories that you can just go,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I see where this is going. And it was clear
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: when they signed Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray was going to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: be the quarterback. He was going to be the starting
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: quarterback in Minnesota. That was a foregone conclusion the moment
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: he signed his veteran minimum contract. And the reason it
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: was that much money, obviously, is because Arizona's paying it.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm sure if he would have been no money,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: they would have given him $ 10, $ 15 million, whatever. You know,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: the bridge quarterback they did with Donald. He was going
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: to be the starter. And then it goes, if you
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: don't believe this guy's good enough to run your offense
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: because he's not going to be your starter, you don't
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: believe that. as a young player, do you feel comfortable
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: enough having him one snap away with a guy who
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: has a long list of injuries to run your offense?
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: And I kept saying, no. They don't trust J.J. McCarthy
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: to run the offense. So the moment that he wasn't
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: named the quarterback, like officially, when Kevin O'Connell came out
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: and said, Kyler Murray's our quarterback, the first thing I asked, like,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: he's not going to be the backup. Why do you
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: think they just gave Carson Wentz a couple million dollars? Everyone,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: you don't know that. What was announced today? Carson Wentz
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: is going to be the number two. This is over. Like,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: this thing is done. There is no more J.J. McCarthy
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: and the Minnesota Vikings. Honestly, new GM. So I'm not
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: acting like they should have just cut him tomorrow. But
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: keeping him around, to me, doesn't make that much sense.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: In college football, you can dedicate time to develop a
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: young quarterback. All these teams do it with some of
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: these redshirt star quarterbacks that aren't necessarily playing. You can
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: have scrimmages on Sunday with all the guys on your
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: team that don't play. Colleges do it all around the country.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: In the NFL... When the season starts, the only thing
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: that matters is who you're playing that week. And all
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: the reps go to your starting quarterback, and then the
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: reps that don't go to him go to your backup,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: who also gets the reps, so he gets reps with
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: the scout team. When does J.J. McCarthy quote-unquote develop during
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the season? He now, as the third quarterback, becomes a
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: complete afterthought. You know, with podcasts and modern media, we
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: have heard so many of these backup quarterbacks go on
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: different platforms and discuss like, hey, listen, I knew I
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to get the physical reps. I had to
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: go above and beyond. always be ready, be like a
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: coach in there. That's what the number two is saying.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: So now you get this number three who has completely
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: been lapped by an old guy who most people thought
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: he was done a couple years ago and Kyler Murray
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: who essentially got benched for Jacoby Brissett last year. Like
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: sometimes in a relationship, you just got to cut bait.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Anyone that plays the stock market, it can be hard
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: to do if you believe in the thing, but you're like,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think this thing's coming back. I'm selling. That,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: to me, is J.J. McCarthy. There is no resurrection happening
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: here in Minnesota. And unlike Baker Mayfield, and unlike Sam Darnold,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: who were in places where it's like, those guys don't
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: want to have success there. Google how many quarterbacks Cleveland
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: has had in the last 25 years. Like 75. Everyone
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: goes to the Jets and fails. Coaches and quarterbacks. People
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: go to Minnesota and thrive. Sam Darnold went there and excelled.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins had the best years of his career playing
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: in that organization. The Minnesota Vikings are probably one of
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the most successful organizations in the NFL. They like never
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: goes to the Super Bowl. They have been good the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: majority of my life. It is a well-run place, and
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: their ownership's good. This is not the Raiders the last
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: 20 years, the Jets, the Browns. This is a well-run organization.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Think just, you don't need to be some Harry Roseman
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: here to know every player in the league, but there's
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: a reason Minnesota over the last 15, 20 years has,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: they've had a ton of Pro Bowl guys at all
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: sorts of positions. Guys that play for the Vikings typically
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: play well. It's pretty rare that a guy is drafted
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: by the Vikings, can't cut it, and just goes excel
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. Not saying it hasn't happened. I'm sure you
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: can give me examples. But this is not some dysfunctional, like, yeah,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, man, just shitty situation. Had to figure it
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: out somewhere else. No, this is a place where guys
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: go and become stars. Like high-level players. Or get traded
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: to and kick ass and take names. And J.J. McCarthy
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't even belong on the field with the twos. So
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: sometimes you just got to call a spade a spade.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: I see some of this with Bryce Underwood at Michigan.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, he's only 19, 20 years old. He's
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: only a true sophomore. It's like, yeah, we get that.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: But when we watch him play, it's like, okay, freshman year,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: weird year, wasn't great. You're playing Western Michigan. No one,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: not expecting you to be, you know, Michael Vick in
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: his prime. I'm not expecting you to be MVP level
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. You know, no one's expecting, but you couldn't
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: score a touchdown until you threw a Hail Mary. Like
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: you couldn't complete passes. You couldn't function in a passing up,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: like basic stuff. Balls would skip to wide receivers. We
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: all watch enough quarterback play, college and the pro, at
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the highest levels. Then I was like, okay, there's something there.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: And I think J.J. just never showed there's something there.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Trey Lance never showed that. Anthony Richardson, it was a
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: lot like Bryce Underwood. And it's like, God, what is
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: going on here? I think Anthony Richardson was actually named
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the backup quarterback. So I give him credit. You know,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: he just... Must have done something right to prove someone,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: you know, like this is deserved. But JJ is the opposite.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: It's like, we cannot play this guy. We play this guy,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: we lose. Another thing I saw today was Brock Bowers
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: having a little cleanup on his knee. Typically, the recovery
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: is four to six. Reports are the Raiders thinks he'll
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: be back much faster. The internet was not happy because
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: I'm a first-time fantasy guy. I have my fantasy team.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I play daily fantasy. I've never played a full year fantasy,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: so I'm excited. But fantasy people are pissed because this
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: guy went really high because, by all accounts, you get cousins.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I bet he has a good year. A couple years ago,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: he had one of the great rookie years in the
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: history of the sport. So you're like, yeah, even if
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: he doesn't get it, is he going to catch 90-plus
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: balls and 10-plus touchdowns? Like, that's on the table. The
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: teams do not give a shit about your fantasy team.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Because people are like, how do we not know? Because
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: I'm even like, what's, I thought, wasn't he healthy in camp?
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: What's going on? I don't know. As of recording this,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen, did he get hurt in practice? Is
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: it something that's been lingering? But like, these teams are
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: never going to give you, you know, John Harbaugh today
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: kind of lost on a reporter. Because I think they
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: were asking him like, who's going to play? Who's going
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: to be your starter? And he's like, let's stop the
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: press conference. We are not discussing who's going to play
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: or when they're going to play or what formations they're
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: going to play in. I'm never going to tell you that. Right?
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Especially before game one. Coaches get very weird about that.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: But it's like, yeah, if they don't have to tell
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: you anything, they're not going to tell you anything. The 49ers,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the first day they practiced in Australia, did not release
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: the injury report Because while it was Wednesday there, it
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: was only Tuesday on the week. The days are different.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: But the Wednesday of their game week, it was only
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Tuesday in LA. They're like, well, if the Rams don't
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: have to do it, we're not going to do it.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: And they didn't do it. They waited an extra day
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: when the Rams put it out. They put it out.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: So I think you have to look at this stuff
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: like their livelihood, the coaches... The only thing they care about,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: and this gets back to the JJ thing, is winning
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: and losing each week. And developing the guys who are
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: playing through evaluating the film in which they play it,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: working on it in practice. But if you are a
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: third stringer, they just have no... You're irrelevant. I mean,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: you really are. And Bowers, yeah, that sucks. One thing
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: before we hit a couple mailbag questions is North Carolina.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I do think it's got to the point, I saw
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: a story today that they're not allowed to have recruits.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: You know, like LSU, they had all these elite recruits
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: at the game, which, I mean, how to be an
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: incredible experience for the recruits and their parents like yeah
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Lane I'll come I'm in like where do I sign
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Lane like it's a big deal to host recruits at
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: home games now I think they're playing Eastern Carolina or
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: you know not playing a great opponent But they're not
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: allowed to have recruits because of a violation last year,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: which is like, what? I don't follow North Carolina like
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: on a daily basis, but it's like, that's... Michael Jordan
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: playing for the Wizards is kind of irrelevant. If this
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Sixers thing with LeBron is the biggest disaster of all time,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: no one will care. But there are certain situations that
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: it's like, kind of hard to overcome, you know? Kind
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: of hard for anyone to forget. And this is creeping
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: into kind of the area where it's like, bro, Lombardi
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: resigned before the season started. Well, any level-headed person would go,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: why would he resign and give up a ton of money?
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Like almost $ 2 million. But he signs a $ 1. 5 million
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: a year contract. So that's what? $ 1. 5, $ 3, $ 4. 5 million.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: $ 1. 5 million. And it's middle of September, so he probably
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: made three of the four and a half. You're just
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: going to give up one and a half million dollars?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Or maybe two million dollars? Probably knew that he wasn't
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: beating the charges. Steve Belichick is just... I mean, he's
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: got a drug problem. I mean, he's just... Clearly. And
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Belichick just acting like nothing's wrong. It's like, Bill, this is...
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Everything that your program has become... is everything that all
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: of us that loved the guy. I admired the Patriots,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: how they operated, how Bill ran things, how cutthroat they were,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: how serious they were. Whenever you hear Brady and Edelman
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: and these guys talk about it, McCourty, you're like, I
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: knew a lot of guys that had played there because
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: of the Fresno state connections, you know, from Ryan Wendell,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Logan Mankins, James Sanders, Moses Cabrera was their strength coach
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: for like 15 years. He was when I was at
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Fresno state, uh, I know a bunch of guys that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: work there and the personnel staff. And I just like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: that place. My uncle was college roommates a long, long
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: time ago with Dante Skarniecki. Pat Hill worked for Bill Belichick.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I felt like I knew that place pretty well as
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: someone that I honestly probably couldn't have survived there. Adam
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Peters came on this podcast and gave stories like how
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: just intense that place was. And it was just kind
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: of the standard. It was what Alabama became in college football.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: It's like what John Wooden was at UCLA. It's what
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: any dynasty becomes. And then this happens? This never would
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: have been tolerated in New England. Why? Because nothing was
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: tolerated in New England. And if something happened, they just
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: moved on. And in this situation, it feels like things
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: just linger. Part of it is like it's family members.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: And Bill feels, and part of this is when you're old,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: I just don't think you're quite as nimble and as
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: aggressive and, let's face it, kind of driven. I'm not
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: saying Bill doesn't still work hard, but he doesn't feel
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: like the same human being. The guy that everyone freaked
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: out when he wasn't allowed into the Hall of Fame.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: When the Hall of Fame denied him, every human with
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: a pulse that follows football, hell, that follows sports, all agreed,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: That might be the most egregious thing we've ever seen.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Whoever was responsible for that on the ballot deserves to
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: never get a credential, never get a vote, be banned
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: from football for life. Like that was the universal agreement.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: And we never agree on anything. And now this? It's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: just sad. It's real sad. I told you guys about
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: the Bobcats yesterday. How we had some bobcats. Well, they
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: came back into my backyard with babies. I posted on Instagram.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: The mom bobcat was kind of protecting them. I tried
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: to scare her away. She didn't budge. And, yeah, kind
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: of scary situation. I thought I was going down. I ran.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: The bobcat actually kind of didn't run at me, but
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: it kind of came my way. You do not mess
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: with an apex predator and their babies. That's for damn sure. Okay.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Let's answer a couple of mailbag questions and get out
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: of here. I don't believe I've heard your thoughts on
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Dijon love. It's so dumb, but how do you feel
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: about it? I think like most people, it's funny. I mean,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: it's just, it's so insane, the videos of him running
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: around with his helmet on. I guess some way through
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, he was able, if you Googled him, it
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: said he was on the team. Like, I don't expect,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: you know, these cleat chasers to understand the going rate
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: for a practice squad player. Like, him bragging about the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: practice squad player, but he owned the Gucci stores and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: his Lamborghinis and all his homes. I... I think you underestimate...
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: I've always thought this. Like, I love documentaries on, like,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: the mob, on the cartels. It's like, sometimes I watch
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: so much stuff on criminals that it's like, if they
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: actually just put their mind to doing something above board,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: it would take a little bit longer, but they would 100%
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: be successful. Like, if Pablo Escobar was like, you know what,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: instead of running a cocaine ring... and anyone that gets
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: in my way killing them, I'm going to run a
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: financial institution. I'm going to run a company. He would
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: have been good, right? I mean, they kind of knew
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: what they were doing. Now, the mob, again, some of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: the guys in the mob, some of them would not have,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: but anyone that's watched criminal documentaries like that guy was
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: pretty smart if he just would have put his brain
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: to the right thing like Dijon Love if you were
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: spending that much effort doing something it's America's not that
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: difficult I think one of the reasons is the greatest
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: place in the world is like you don't need to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: be a bugging genius in this country to have financial
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: success which is what most, speaking for men, I think
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: aspire to have some level. Obviously, there are different levels,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: but to just get to a place where you just
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: feel good about your finances. Most of us have been
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: in positions where it's like, oh, rent's coming due pretty low.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: But once you get to a point in life which
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: you have the opportunity here, you don't need to be
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: a Harvard grad to figure it out. And I think
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: some of these guys run these scams like, I saw
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: some of the former athletes blaming the women because clearly
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: they want to date a player. We all aspire to date,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: I guess, someone cool or good-looking or successful. Whatever. Do
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I expect them to be able to wiki a guy
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, this guy's not actually on the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Niners just because he posted a video of him running some...
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I saw some other people like, look at these routes.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: They're so terrible. Do you think the random chick... who
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: wants to bang an NFL player, understands the routes on sand.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: My expectations are pretty low. But my expectations in 2026,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: or I think this happened a couple years ago, to
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: just be able to utilize the internet and figure out like, nah,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: this guy's not telling the truth. But he's a good salesman.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: And good salesmen, I know a lot of them in
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: different industries, they make a lot of money. He's just
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: selling a fake life and committed fraud. And now he's fucked.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: I've also never been in the position, dating someone, honestly
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: even thinking like, honestly most of my friends were making
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: way more money than me most of my life. Where
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: someone's like, hey man, I need 50 grand for whatever.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: I need 20 grand, I need whatever. To me that,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: someone says that, you gotta feel pretty comfortable with the human.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Especially in a relationship. Like, how long you been dating
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: this guy? And he wants what? I would say typically
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: a red flag. Unless you've been dating a long, long
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: time and you feel very comfortable. You've made reference now,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, in his liking the quote, co-eds. On the team. Well,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm actually asking this because I truly
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: don't care enough to look it up. But what do
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: you mean by that? Isn't he married? Is he not?
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: Is he dating students or something? Lane Kiffin is divorced.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: I think Layla led the charge on that one. He's
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: been divorced for a long time. When I say co-eds,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: and there was just an article, an excerpt from a
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: book coming out. It's very well known. Lane runs around.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. Single dude. Get it in, bro.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: But I when I say co-eds I just mean like
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: students on campus if you are in a college town
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: like if I if I just went out in Tempe
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Arizona all the time it's like 20 minutes away from
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: my house if I was a single guy like you
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: would eventually if you were trying start hanging out with
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: some college chicks and Where does Lane live? On college campuses.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: It was well-documented when he was at Bama. Look at
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Lane now. Skinny, good-looking, eligible bachelor, making 12 milli. Chicks
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: like that. Lane runs around. It's well-documented. An article just
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: came out. Again, based on my information, a lot of
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: stories out there. When I say co-eds, I just mean
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: young girls. Young girls. Tulane student. I'm a senior of always,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: known Darien Mintz as a dog. He got solid arm,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: looks way bigger than his size, plus he's more mobile
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: than you think. That being said, my friends and I
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: are tired of seeing our best players leave Tulane every year.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: So we came up with a retention tool we're trying
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: to sell to Tulane and other small colleges. It's called
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: the Second Half Network. It's free to student-athletes and paid
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: for by their respective schools and connects student-athletes with experienced
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: mentors in their desired fields to help them build the
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: network when they get a job after college. What do
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: you think of the idea? As a former GA, could
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: you see a program like Fresno paying $ 50, 000 to $ 100, 000
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: a year for something like this to attract recruits who
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: care about getting a job after college? I think... What
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: you're saying has value, there's no doubt about it. In
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: the pre-NIL transfer portal world, the power of going for
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: four years to a program like Tulane, like North Carolina, USC,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: you name it, any school. Whether you became Reggie Bush
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: or Tua or Joe Burrow or were just the last
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: guy on the roster and played for four or five years.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: Being part of that community, that network, was a big benefit.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: And it changed a ton of guys, a large percentage
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: of the guy's life. I played football at the University
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: of Washington for four years. The people you get to meet,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: the doors that opens, it's big time. And now, that
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: sell is irrelevant. Because Tulane, even if that sell works
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: on a guy, I go to Tulane. I might not
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: make the NFL, but I'm going to Tulane. Best school
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: that's recruiting me. Maybe they're offering me 25K. I don't
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: know how much Tulane pays in NIL. Probably not that much.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: But then I become a good player. So you're talking
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: about player retention. And then let's say it's not even LSU.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Let's say it's Kentucky. Let's say it's Kansas. Just a
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: Power 4 program calls me and offers me $ 400, 000. I
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: had a buddy, and I've told this story I think before,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: that is coaching at one of the best non-Power 4
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: programs in the country. And he lost a lineman two
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: years ago to an SEC school. And that lineman was
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: a really good player for him, all conference. And the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: SEC school gave him a two-year deal, I think at
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: like $ 400, 000 or $ 500, 000 a year. That guy doesn't even start.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: He wanted to come back, but the buyout of his
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: contract was like $ 125, 000. Well, the school that lost them
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: can't afford to buy someone out to come back, let
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: alone pay their own guys. So the reason he left
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: is because when you're 20 years old and the school's
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: a legit, you know, SEC program, it's not Bama or Georgia,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: but it's, they've been good in the past. You just,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: you're going to turn down a million dollars? So like
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: the retention thing, or I mean the network thing, it
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: sounds good in theory, but But then when people offer,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: it's just hard for these guys to turn it down.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: And that's what it becomes. Because they contact you. So
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: it sucks. You know, I don't know what to tell you.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think, as long as guys are able to
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: transfer whenever they want, there's nothing that can slow that down.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Because the other thing is, I get it at 40
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: years old. The power of a network. My wife says
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  Speaker 1: it is. forever. She's in the real estate world. Your
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: net worth is your network. Hell, I mean, definitely true
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  Speaker 1: for me. I mean, the people that changed my life,
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  Speaker 1: I talk about them all the time. I mean, shit,
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  Speaker 1: look at Colin. My network isn't, I would say, as
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  Speaker 1: vast as many, but the individuals were key cogs to
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  Speaker 1: my life. And I think most people are that way.
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  Speaker 1: And You value it when you're not an athlete, I think,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more. When you're a college football player,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're just living in the moment a little
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: bit more. In this environment. Back in the day, you weren't.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: What's your fantasy team looking like? This will be the
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  Speaker 1: one and only time we ever rattle this off. Only
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: fantasy season I've ever played. But hey, I want to
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  Speaker 1: get involved. All the producers with the volume are playing.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to fire through it. I got Burrow at quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker at running back. Mike Washington, just in case
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  Speaker 1: Gentee's banged up, as my second running back. But I
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  Speaker 1: also got another running back, I think. I got Puka Nakua.
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  Speaker 1: I had the second overall pick. Problem is, we were
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  Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara on vacation. I was running back. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't signed in. It auto-drafted. I wanted Jamar Chase. So
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  Speaker 1: I did not want Puka. I wanted Jamar Chase. I
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  Speaker 1: got Mike Evans. I got Gadsden, the tight end of
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. I got Parker Washington, DK Metcalf, Butker, Texans D,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden. I got Lloyd, their running back, because their
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  Speaker 1: other running back might be in jail. I got Debo Samuel,
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, Travis Hunter, shout out Prime on my bench.
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  Speaker 1: I like my squad. I like my squad. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: end on this. Question for the bag. I pushed back
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  Speaker 1: on you before about Jason Light, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Baker re-signing is another point in my favor. Why
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  Speaker 1: did we have to re-sign him right now when not
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  Speaker 1: only did we not get the most team-friendly deal, he
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  Speaker 1: is getting paid higher than I feel his worth and
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  Speaker 1: production can justify? But we might be in a market
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  Speaker 1: for a coach very soon. So my question is this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think a coaching candidate would prefer to have
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  Speaker 1: a pricier but established vet quarterback already on the roster?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you think, like I do, that they would
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  Speaker 1: prefer to have a clean slate? Well, one, I was
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  Speaker 1: reading today, my details could be a little off, the
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  Speaker 1: ESPN article, because I was trying to find the details
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  Speaker 1: of this contract. He definitely got a bump this year
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: because he wasn't making that much relative to the top guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's making $ 40 million this year. Over the course of
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  Speaker 1: those next three years, they guaranteed him $ 110 million. So
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  Speaker 1: if this is a gigantic disaster, guess what? They can
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  Speaker 1: get out. This isn't Deshaun Watson. Jalen Phillips, the pass
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  Speaker 1: rusher for the Panthers, got $ 80 million in free agency.
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  Speaker 1: If they had given him $ 200 million guaranteed, I would
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  Speaker 1: have been like, that's a pretty ballsy move. But he
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  Speaker 1: was playing this year no matter what. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at his level, he was definitely underpaid. So you take
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  Speaker 1: care of him. $ 40 million ain't $ 70. It's fine. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably the going rate for Baker Mayfield. In a
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  Speaker 1: perfect world, would I like to pay him $ 40 every year? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're kind of out, he got way less
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  Speaker 1: than Tua Tonga Bailoa got like three years ago in
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  Speaker 1: terms of guarantees. So now, I think if he just
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  Speaker 1: plays solid, he'll see every penny of the $ 200 million
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the next four years. But I
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  Speaker 1: think the next coach would 100%, unless he falls off
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  Speaker 1: a cliff and is a complete disaster, which I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine happening. And I don't think Jason Light would do
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  Speaker 1: that if he didn't just watch him for the last
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: month and go, he's a good player. Like, we think
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  Speaker 1: he's going to sustain this. We've already seen him. He
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  Speaker 1: can maintain what he's been as long as he's healthy,
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  Speaker 1: which is a big if for most guys. I think
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  Speaker 1: they would much rather have Baker Mayfield than, you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's say the Bucs go, let's say they have a
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  Speaker 1: bad year. What's the bad year for them? 7-10? What's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: that draft pick? 15? Like, you're not getting Dante Moore
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  Speaker 1: or Darian Mensah there. So, I think it's somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: a contingency plan that way as well. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: get in the offseason, franchise tags, large contracts, let's say
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  Speaker 1: he has a good year, then that number goes from
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  Speaker 1: $ 110 million guaranteed to like $ 190 So when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the 110 number, again, maybe I'm speaking out of turn.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I read the wrong article. If it is truly
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  Speaker 1: that number, which sometimes in the NFL it can be
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: hard to find exact numbers, I think that's a no-brainer
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: deal if you're Jason Light. Again, he's had a front
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  Speaker 1: row seat for his entire career in Tampa because he's
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: been the GM the whole time. And he's watched every
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: throw he's made over the course of the last month
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  Speaker 1: and a half. So he knows this guy really, really well.
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  Speaker 1: And it's why yesterday I said on the podcast, like,
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  Speaker 1: Baker handled this well. Handled like a pro. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to freak out. I'm not going to go nuts.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I deserve a little bit more than
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: what you guys have offered. And I think it also shows, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they were offering much. I wonder if
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: the guarantees were like $ 70, $ 80 million, which in the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: NFL at any moment you're leg could get snapped and
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: your career could end. I'm not taking the same amount
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips just got. Because that's what you'd be talking
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: once he gets to free agency. It would get a
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  Speaker 1: little more complicated. We'll end on that. Adios. The Volume.